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Wow! That is such a complex form. :open_mouth:

Oh dear. Does she understand that people should warm up with reasonably light strikes at the beginning before they go all in with committed blows?

People putting the plates back randomly. Come on, putting the 25kg plates on top of the 1.25kg plates is just stupid.

I agree about the skill component. There might be people who can get something out of a treadmill or whatever, but for me it has to be a skilful activity that gives me a sense of achievement.

I suggest you step around the negative associations you have linked with inactivity, by not calling it a rest day. Cross Body Pump off the calendar, and pencil in Muscle Regeneration Period instead.

If you have a 0.25 lb slice of cake that contains 3500 calories, your weight will initially still only go up by 0.25lbs after you've eaten it. Digestion takes time, and that cake has to pass through your intestines before your body can store any of the energy as fat.

Why are people woo'ing the recommendations to seek medical advice?!

I'll take People Lying To Grow Their Online Business for €500, Alex.

Either it's on facebook or her own website? There are two groups for it on here though. https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/groups/browse/search?Search=sculpted+vegan

I thought I dropped a size with every 5% of original bodyweight lost.

I'm screwed. I'm very concerned about dementia, but... I don't want to eat mushrooms. Especially if they'll prevent dementia, actually. Think about it- that means not only will you have eaten mushrooms, you'll remember having eaten them. Ack. You know, learning additional languages is also supposed to have a protective…

Running is also a lot more fun to music or a podcast. Common issue reported by women who do feel able to run alone? They don't feel safe to run with earbuds in. I'm not going to say it's universal, but it's an issue. This isn't acceptable- how the hell can we have a society where it is only safe for some women to go…

Yep. I live in a town that isn't perfect for walking but it's not anywhere near as awful as it could be. Therefore it's possible for me to mostly walk, cycle or use public transport to get around. As far as I can tell, my non-exercise activity is pretty high due to that, and that's definitely had a positive impact on me.…

Oh, other ideas. I'm sure everyone has heard of Pokemon Go, and is aware that players end up walking about more. In the UK, there has been a bit of experimentation with a game called Beat the Street. Local residents (particularly children) get issued with key-fobs, which they can swipe on against scanners distributed…

Anyway, on topic. Let's play a game of things that could be done by our more local elected officials (but probably won't be) to make it easier for people to achieve calorie balance without trying. Proposals will reflect our own observations, for obvious reasons, and they won't be universal problems. When new suburban…

Actually, I think I'd rather have woos than discuss the Brexit débâcle on yet another forum. It's bad enough living it in real life and discussing it on all the rest of my social media.

@lemurcat12 Regarding woos, I see someone's just woo'd me for my opinion on today's events in UK politics, so... :D Either that, or they didn't pick up on my nationality and assumed my post was about current events in US politics. Either way, if they're one of the ones who woo'd Ceiswyn, I wouldn't put any value on their…

Believe me, I know. I'm watching my own government fall apart. All the most effective strategies I've ever seen suggested need top-down implementation.

If most people found shame an effective motivator to make positive changes, the majority of people would already be slim. Barring a small minority, people generally didn't aspire to be overweight or obese, and they're definitely not proud of their bodies the way they are. This includes most of the fat-positive bloggers, in…

Me too. Best-case scenario is they have a very different idea of what 'woo' means to me.

This reminds me of this article I read last week. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/truth-world-built-for-men-car-crashes

Swimming is a good workout like cardio, eh? One of these days I must find out what "cardio" is.

I worry that some naïve girl may be reading that article and wondering if a low-fibre diet will help her develop a big *kitten* for prom or whatever.

I could've happily gone my entire life without seeing anyone call constipation a backed up booty.

You're missing out. If you continued reading, you got this gem of a sentence: "Not eating enough fiber — or eating too much fiber — can leave your booty backed up." Gah.

I'm a vegan and was brought up as one- that's my normal. ;) My family used to say my childhood willingness to subsist on potatoes and nothing else was our Irish ancestry coming out. I say it was a learnt coping mechanism to survive the early years of my mother's cooking. She couldn't mess those up!

I probably could eat only potatoes for a month, but I'm not convinced I'm capable of eating so few as to lose weight.

I think the reality behind the articles in something like that. (I lasted two weeks the only and only time I tried to learn classical Greek so this is not. my. area.) Buzzfeed et al make it sound really excitingly alien of them and make it sound like they definitively saw the sky differently from us. Sadly, I'm not…

Ooh, I espy an opportunity for a tangent. Did you know that according to clickbait articles, the ancient Greeks didn't see blue? (I think it was a great deal more complex than that, in reality.)

What about the people initially motivated to make the changes who go away feeling like still-fat failures because they didn't lose quite as much as some people in the group? People who have weight to lose generally can't afford to lose self-esteem with it!