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We never deviated. In the 50s there were potions that helped you gain/lose as wanted. Gain if you were too skinny, which was a real concern to women in the era of the curvy bombshell or lose if you had tipped into the chubster not bombshell category. Amphetamines in particular were heavily advertised.

Oh yeah, forgot to say, I am not a soda of any kind drinker beyond the odd can/bottle once in a while. I had orange juice on Christmas day, last time I had fruit juice was possibly in May on holiday. But fruit juice is also a sneaky one. Like smoothies, a "healthier" choice but can soon eat up the calories.

It's not about "skinny", it's about health problems that arise from being overweight. It's just a fact that there are increased risks the heavier you get. You're perfectly healthy until you're not. At 220lbs my blood pressure was borderline a problem. I am now a healthy waist size, very fit and smaller just about than I…

Yeah, I will say this, we don't have giant slushie and soda machines in our gas stations! Or petrol station as we call them. Lots of coffee machines these days though.

I think a more useful statistic would be proportion of daily items as opposed to calories. Because one coffee and muffin on your way to work/at your desk then an afternoon treat of some sort doesn't appear excessive on the face of it but add it in to the rest of someone's day where their portions are just a bit or a lot…

Oh wait. My opinion is invalid because I'm not American and the standard British diet (not a thing buzzword wise here) must of course be totally different.

On the pop thing. I can recall one person in my life who drank huge amounts of soda. And he wasn't fat. Had abs in fact. Because context. He was super active and needed the calories. His diet wasn't great overall but he would be just the thing for fitspo fodder these days. Everyone else, and I literally mean everyone,…

LOL. No, no hands.

Seems this should be required reading (with some food updates to suit modern tastes in basics). I'm really impressed with it!

If my gym is flooded with newbs I'll be most discombobulated. Mostly because my lounge is my gym. Terrible joke. Good PSA.

Congratulations! I love that you're calling pregnancy "diet break". Excuse me whilst I take a break to grow a tiny human.

I hadn't looked this up until now. Not available directly in the UK, have to buy it from you lot or your neighbours.

So by that thinking feet which have 12 inches should also be subject to the same scorn. Or Fahrenheit because they insist on not having freezing as 0 and boiling as 100 which is much more sensible. Or perhaps fluid ounces, gallons for fuel, cups for solids. I could go on and on. I prefer metric but stones and pounds are no…

Unless you live in Tassie! I have a friend in the north of Scotland who had to go outside and knock all the icicles off the side of the house lest they impale someone.

There's a few reasons I left Scotland and moved back to London a second time. Because it's always friggin' cold, even for this Scot. I know it's only a few hundred miles but it makes a mind boggling difference. Soft southerner and proud! But I will say this, it is nice to get the "big coat" out now and again. Make it worth…

Gawd bless the internet. I don't math at the best of times, certainly never if I have to remember something as complicated as that!

Have you factored in alteration time to this? Your seamstress/dressmaker will be less than delighted if at final fitting you've lost a bunch and they have to rush alter risking the dress not being ready.

The people in your life will have a skewed perspective of how you look as it is relative to their experience of you until this point. Just like ourselves, it can be hard to be objective about others and then there's always the possibility of a jealousy factor thrown in. BMI is a pretty good general aim for range ut it does…

At my peak the last few days I hit 166lbs. That's 10lbs more than my lowest a few weeks ago. I'm one of those people who bounces up 2lbs-ish when I switch to maintenance but I then don't move much. I do the continuing to physically shrink thing instead. This morning I was 4lbs under that peak and that should continue to…

Stopped logging and switched to diet break on the 18th but weight remained stable after expected 2lb maintenance bounce. Went a bit hog wild 24th/25th/26th. Topped out at 166 (lowest has been 156 but was trending 158-9 since diet break start). Started logging again yesterday, at maintenance as on diet break until new year.…

I continue daily weighing but then I can largely be dispassionate about a known scale spike. I've had a huge one after 4 days of freely eating and drinking but there's no biological way anything more than about 1lb is fat gain. So it's more amusing and interesting to see it going up and now coming back down again (2lb…

Lowered fat haggis? Blasphemy.

God I'd entirely forgot that was a thing! For the uninitiated, it's basically a variation on the WW theme, though I don't know specifics. So yeah, a slimming club which will have some sort of system for working out how much of what you can eat daily.

My ability to enable knows no bounds! I am literally "that" friend. In the last month I have had one friend buy boots, bag and jacket. Another two friends buy the same dress and a different friend again buy a jumpsuit. I shop vicariously through other people and their cash that I don't have, heh. I am excited for my boots…

I take tablets almost daily. Because cats. Though I do have a high tolerance to them as long as I don't put an unwashed finger in my eye or I'm sick. Early spring tree pollen is my kryptonite.

Oh and my mum just isn't a fan of cleaning generally beyond doing the dishes and running the vacuum round. It never really occurred to me until I lived in my own place and going back showed up how little she does (we are estranged now so no longer an issue!).

Dusting? Only when I move something and am ashamed at the gross. Like above, I do everything else but dust? No. Doesn't help I too am cursed with allergies and even when damp clothing it I sneeze like mad.

Oh and forget about temperature conversion. Celsius just makes sense. Zero is freezing, 100 is boiling. Zero is where I deploy the "big coat". Low 20s are pleasant, 30s getting touch OMFG it's hot.

Hi! Brit here. Who has kind of lost touch with what stones mean relatively, I know 9 stone is probably alright for mot people but beyond that it's all a bit grey. However, it does make sense, 14lbs in a stone. It's no different to inches in a foot, or ml in a litre. So I can see why it's broken down like that. I think it's…

Interesting. They're pretty but not a bungalow by my definition. We have so many names for houses. So many. And yes, yards are gardens. And assumptions on an international site with international users grind my gears. I am often the only one asking where someone lives in order to give them accurate advice. I next never see…