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I'm the same, and have also had people expressing serious concern for my wellbeing. I'm very pale, but I'm also dark-haired, so I think it becomes even more startling for strangers to see me looking like my head is about to explode. I wish I had an answer. Cooling etc does absolutely nothing, it's just something you have…

Up North

Above. Rabbits are very capable jumpers. Mine could easily jump a 3ft wall. I never tried stopping them digging so I'm no help there.

completely untrue you'd need a whole lot more than 6 inches.

I have a staggering collection of dandelions. I should start harvesting them to produce beverages. Or perhaps buy a rabbit to eat them. Maybe a goat... Homegrown dandelion-reared mutton curry?

The other issue is RHR... I've never been massively overweight, but I have been *EXTREMELY* unfit with the majority of my "exercise" being walking to the kitchen. I would have had issues running 100yds. However, my RHR has ALWAYS been sub-60. Whilst RHR can be used as an indicator of someone's fitness level, it is not…

Aren't there lots of healthy food delivery systems in the States? Where you pay them a silly amount of money and they send you fresh, "nutritionally balanced meas" within a certain calorie count each day? Would depend on where you are I suppose, but I'm fairly certain that if you have enough disposable income to be parted…

^ this Far too much hassle.

PVA glue It's a binder. Cheaper substitute for egg whites.

My problem is that I brought up "morals" as a simple way to explain how people could possibly have more success sticking to something, those morals being an individual belief that someone has and absolutely nothing to do with 'right' or 'wrong'. But there's the issue isn't it. People strive for absolutes, black and white,…

I ignore a thread for a few days because I've said all that I wanted to, then see it has an insane amount of replies and come back to see why. First posts I see are these. Morals are INDIVIDUAL. Everybody has their own moral code which they stand by. It is influenced by society, peers, family and religion as well as ones…

She can't simply eat things at this stage. It could trigger a heart attack. It's no longer as simple as helping herself, she really needs medical help as her organs are failing. She has been trying to get help for quite some time apparently, but various doctors are refusing to help her because her weight is too low. Once…

eh? How exactly does a carrot preserve muscle? Ah, there we go. I see. Wonder what she's trying to promote here? ;) Some of the points she raises are interesting and some are known to be fairly valid... the caffeine thing with exercise for example, however I would absolutely lose to see the references for the majority of…

I saw this on the news the other day, ironically at the same time that the large thread on that plus-sized woman on the cover of People magazine was going on. At the time I thought it was much more news-worthy to be honesty, something that shows clearly the dangers of extremes of weight (in either direction). I was tempted…

At the risk of sounding horrible and potentially getting flamed... I really want to take every single one of these "I hate healthy food" people and shove them on a desert island for a month. Lets see how picky they really are... *is completely sick of seeing umpteen "texture" posts a day*

one more thing to add... I've no idea how tall you are but from your profile pic you are already fairly slim (do you *really* have 12lbs to go?) Your margin of error at your size is likely to be much smaller unless you are getting a decent amount of exercise, you aren't likely to have thousands of calories banked up to…

The problem with cheat days is some people tend to go a little overboard and indulge in everything they are consciously depriving themselves of through the week... next thing they know they have undone all of that week's deficit and are sitting scratching their heads wondering why they aren't losing weight whilst they are…

I played it with pen and paper :(

I'm confused... reward for what?

I think it's more a case of drinkers will use running as an opportunity to allow them to eat and drink ;)

Well here is a thread that demonstrated quite brilliantly the difference between fat and muscle: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10165445/fat-skinny-fat-fit-imgz#latest Pay very close attention to the "lightest" and "healthiest" photos and the difference between them, even though "lightest" is 10 lbs…

If by protein shakes you mean some supermarket rubbish or, even worse, some fad-diet based rubbish, then I can see why you don't like them. The Optimum Nutrition chocolate/strawberry Pro Complex ones taste exactly like milkshakes. Like... EXACTLY like nesquick. Pricey, but a "picky eater's" dream. As Pu_239 said, at the…

This. My recommended intake without exercise is 1330. Which is... not a lot. So when I'm feeling a bit "meh" and can't be bothered, I just think to myself whether or not I *REALLY* want to be eeking out my remaining 800 calories for the rest of the day (my breakfast is always around 500). It's also better if you have a…

Northerner here.

weighing twice a day is fairly pointless. Do it in the morning when you wake, after toilet, before clothes. Weighing every day will give you more of an accurate trend rather than a once a week snapshot

nope, it individually recognizes up to 4 separate people. After that it logs a weight as "unknown" in which case it won't track.

I use the standard Withings wifi scale. It doesn't measure BMI etc - most people agree that those measurements are fairly useless - but it does upload my weight each day to the app (and to this site), which is pretty awesome, and it also shows graphs with trends within the app. Personally I love it.

The romance dies for me when I realise that I'd want two weeks on the beach and everything would die whilst I was there.

how did you withdraw? how long did you taper for? Magnesium has a calming effect on the nervous system, that will help, but the above questions are fairly important here.

Birthdays are overrated. Happy Birthday anyway!