dhakiyya Member

miscalculating your calories is probably the main reason. a lot of people use too high an activity factor, you have to do quite a lot of activity daily to really be "moderately active" - I tend to calculate my TDEE as lightly active, even though I work out, because I spend a lot of time sitting down. I find that my real…

boiled eggs, only 75 cals per egg and chock full of protein and makes a filling snack. And while some people still frown upon the cholesterol in egg yolk, it's the healthy kind and studies have shown that it doesn't cause increased cholesterol levels (although if you have high cholesterol already it's best to check with a…

One of the first ways your body responds to not eating enough, is to make you think about food all the time. So if you're constantly thinking about food, the first question you need to ask, is are you eating enough? That's not just about enough calories, it's about enough protein, vitamins, minerals, health fat, etc too.

Then walk. Walk everywhere. Walk up and down stairs. When I lived in the UK I used to walk everywhere to save on bus fare and petrol. I also stayed thin. Then I moved to the Arabian Gulf where it's way too hot to walk anywhere, and got fat. Don't let anyone tell you walking is not good exercise, it is. Walking + portion…

ask him where he got his degree in nutrition and physiology, and if he says he doesn't have one, tell him he's not qualified to say what you *have to* do in order to lose weight... I think advice like this comes from the beliefs that people tell themselves... they've convinced themselves that it's the only way they can…

If he's got 100+ lbs to lose then yes it will be easier for him to lose them, and still have room for treats like pizza. That's just how it is, the more you have to lose, the easier it is to lose. Maybe you see him eating his treat food because he wants to eat it and be sociable, while the rest of the time he's being more…

Thank you for this, it's very useful. I got my girls (aged 2 and 6) some of those plastic dumbbells that you fill with water, but they play with them empty, so there's no risk of injury. And they're pink too, which is both my girls' favourite colour. (Yes, I've found a use for small pink dumbbells that are too light for…

If you don't know the child or the family, you don't know what issues they are dealing with. Autistic kids look the same as other kids, so do kids with all kinds of other neurological problems or other invisible handicaps. I post on a forum where there are a lot of families with SEN kids, and they are not only faced with…

In this study, what measure did they use to determine obesity? Body fat percentage or BMI? If they used BMI then some of these metabolically fit obese people may not actually have been obese according to their body fat percentage. I'd like to see the actual journal article of this study so I can get the answer to this…

This race is fantastic, GB v USA showdown: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ewj5DzXWn7U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> (in case the embed thing doesn't work here's the link: http://youtu.be/ewj5DzXWn7U )

If you calculate your calories with an activity factor for sitting on your backside all day, and then you do a lot of cleaning, you could log it, as it's more exercise than sitting on your backside, although you'd have to do an awful lot of cleaning before you'd be in danger of making your deficit too big if you don't eat…

Thank you :) This is really useful to know. I'll watch out for the not-so-legit 2nd time excuses....

Here's the You Tube channel for the paralympics: http://www.youtube.com/user/ParalympicSportTV?feature=watch for anyone who can't watch it on TV. Here are the highlights, but if you go to the channel you can download hours worth of coverage at a time. day 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlHlJVs__bs&feature=plcp day 2:…

British expat here, currently living in Saudi about to move to Bahrain

this video is not working or not available in your territory, please check again later on :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad: I'm going to check the various channels on the satellite, someone around here (gulf/mid east) must be showing it. Maybe some of it's going to be uploaded on you tube.

I don't watch the paralympics as an act of charity or to show that I care, I watch it because the athletes are awesome, and also it's different from able bodied sports. Wheelchair racing is not like running, just as cycling is not like either running or wheelchair racing, and some able bodied people play wheelchair etc…

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My advice is to not tell them so much about your weight loss activities. I think you're right about taking a scientific approach to it, i.e. see what works and if it's working keep going and if it stops working analyse what's going on and change something. That's what I try to do too. Maybe just don't tell them about it.…

I personally don't use chocolate flavoured protein powder, but I've read on other health and fitness forums that mixing chocolate protein powder, low fat yoghurt and maybe some artificial sweetener, makes a low calorie chocolate alternative. Not tried it myself as I said, but I've seen a few recipes for this kind of thing.…

if you are weighing/measuring raw, so long as you are using the values for raw, then it doesn't matter. If you're weighing/measuring cooked, so long as you're using the values for cooked, it doesn't matter. The number of calories and macronutrients don't usually change with cooking, but the weight of the food does, so it…

vanilla flavoured protein powder + frozen fruit + milk/yoghurt/laban type dairy product = tastes like ice cream

An australopithecine or a Homo habilis. Actually I'd like my own personal safari park and I'd have a whole bunch of them (so they don't get lonely)

I'm from the UK and my husband's from the USA. We have conversations like this: him: *knocks on bathroom door* Are you in the tub? me: no, I'm in the bath. The ice cream is in the tub in the freezer. me: do you like my new jumper? him: that's not a jumper, that's a sweater. This is a jumper: *jumps up and down* him:…

That's hardly overweight for someone who's very athletic. Lots of athletes are overweight according to BMI when their body fat percentage is in the healthy range. Does your sister know her body fat percentage? Unless *that's* in the overweight or obese range then she is healthy and not overweight. If she wants to be ripped…

Thank you :) those are great :)

It's not crazy at all. Fat is an essential nutrient, plus it contains fat soluble vitamins. Lack of any nutrient in the diet leads to cravings for it, it's a survival mechanism to prevent malnutrition. So if you cut out fat, you end up craving it. If you get enough healthy fat/essential fatty acids and fat soluble…

I lose my appetite sometimes due to depression/anxiety/ptsd. Not eating when this happened made me get fat, because after days/weeks of that I'd feel better then feel really hungry and overeat. Tackling this undereating has been the main thing that's helped me to lose all the excess fat, which was stored around my waist…

MFP is set for *adults* (under 18s not allowed) because children are still growing and it's totally not safe for kids to be following diet plans intended for adults. Children need extra calories to grow that adults do not need, and a diet that's too restrictive can stunt their growth. Do you know how many calories is too…

This. This is a far more common mistake than people realise. It's very easy to overfill volume measurements, but a gram is a gram.

It's already been defined on the thread a few times. Yes you will get people with bigger pelvises and rib cages than others, and also people where the girth of the bones are wider. If two women have the same healthy body fat percentage but one is 4 inches bigger around the chest (as in the rib cage, not the breasts) then…