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The kind of stuff that woman have always complained about is permeating men's clothing too. Last summer every short-sleeved shirt I Iiked was some new bizarre fad called "slim fit". Which almost means just add a size on to what you'd almost wear, which is pointless so far as I can see. But the other "feature" is insanely…
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No Independence weekend downunder here, but a weird couple of days. Yesterday I was sure I was coming down with a flu, and at least a couple of people said they'd been off work for at least a week and that I sounded hoarse. Great! Worse still, it was my back day which I find the most demanding of any, and I felt like c**p.…
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To me it's like... what do I believe humans have evolved to eat? Chocolate, icecream and potato chips? Or fruit, vegetables, nuts, fish etc etc? I don't mean that in a religious "let's all beat ourselves up over an icecream we just ate" way... but I think we are so adjusted to a really wacky modern way of eating that we're…
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Hi, you said "Maybe it's time to deal with the life long process of being healthy" That's the key and you can do it! Think... HEALTHY, FIT, ALIVE... a different you. Might take time, but keep having that vision! It may well be someone you have never envisioned! Lot's of cool people here to help you along the way. Do it!!!!
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Basically along the lines of Junebug, your biggest priority is the large muscle groups legs/back/chest. To some extent they will begin working shoulders/arms as well, so you finish off with those smaller muscle groups. But you must not neglect those big groups. The most typical exercises for each might be Legs - Squats or…
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Not saying it is scientifically correct, but my "gut" thoughts about fructose. Most medical sites etc recommend a daily maximum of 40gm of ADDED sugar. That's what I'm more cocerned about, and I don't believe that sensible amounts of naturally occurring sugars are bad. BUT, I subscribe to the idea that there is therefore…
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Yup. When my daughter left for university a couple of years back I could tell she was really worried about me. I was depressed, tired, feeling ill all the time. She is so much more relaxed now as she has seen the change. She's back for a week at the moment, and we went to the gym together last night. It felt really good…
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Love walking. I'm starting to get back into photography and it really makes me want to get out and explore my environment. I've got one of the world most beautiful mountains out one window (about 20 mins drive to visitor carpark), great surf beaches a kilometre away out the other window, a coastal walkway that everyone…
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Wow. My most recent change based on measurements taken at gym are alomost exactly that also! Interesting. Last 9 weeks I lost 2" off chest and 2" off waist (my two real problem areas) while losing 4.5 kg (9.9 lb)!
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That is a 55:30:15 ratio of carbs:fat:protein If you multipy the fat grams by 9, the carbs and protein by 4, then take each of those calories (688 : 378 : 188) as a percentage of their total you'll get the ratio.
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Yup, spot on. We CAN decide which we want, and there's no universal law that governs that decision... it is our choice. It's complex, takes a paradigm shift, but from my experience of dealing my own serious addictions (I have no idea how the hell I did not die as a consequence of alcoholism and to some extent drugs as a…
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"Sort of"???!!!! You're looking fantastic.
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I guess we're all very different, but I've found that the more I've got into really intense exercise the less I want or even like bad food. Recently I was having lunch with someone and the place has a particular lemon cake with rich icing that I used to love. Given it was such a rare event, I thought I'd have a piece and…
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An interesting exercise is to google Bristol stool chart and gaze at the exciting images therein... fibre is usually instrumental in putting your number twos in the number three or four category, the meaning of which you will understand when you see the chart. For me, although I don't eat much rice now, changing from white…
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Go into MyHome -> Goals -> Change Goals button -> Custom option button and it will be obvious from there. And if you're wondering about the gms/% correlation, 1 gm fat = 9 calories, 1 gm carbs = 4 calories, 1 gm protein = 4 calories. So say someone had a 2000 cal a day requirement, 20 % to be fat (400 cal), that is 400 / 9…
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weee, I think I will go on an eating binge now to test all these out. Thanks so much everyone.
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The worst for me back when I ate junk was that red sweet-and-sour sauce in Chinese takeouts. Horrific effect on me, like I'd wake up groaning and with what I guess is what chronic migraine sufferers endure. Incidentally, one day after it happened, when I was beginning to make what should have been an obvious link, by a…
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Just my unqualified opinion, based on my own experience and what I observe and discuss in the gym... the "muscle weighs more than fat" thing gets blown way out of proportion. Gaining true dense muscle mass is actually not very easy for anyone, and probably less so for a woman. If you genuinely do have 50 lb to lose, the…
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Think SMART. Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-bound. The problem with the really big goal, although it is fine as an overall vision (I'd say vision rather than goal initially) is that it is almost impossible to say... is it a realistic goal attainable in the time that you've set? Although it MAY be…
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A friend and I were discussing something recently. If I look back at high school photos circa early 70s, there are very few thin women or overly overweight kids. Everyone looks sort of "average". Your figure would be extremely typical and you could be one of the girls in our group that I might have dated in my youth. There…
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Ummm.. as a guy I can say you are very attractive and with a very nice figure. Not that what guys think is the real criteria for how women should feel about themselves, but trust me... typical men are not attracted to really thin women any more than most women want men to look like bulked up body builders. If someone is…
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My opinion for what it's worth. You've done the right thing. I'd distance till either your fiend sorts her own life or the friendship proves to have been not worth it. You're the one losing your peace about it, and friendships aren't about that. Tell you what I sense in this whole situation, and I'd bet dollars to donuts…
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Just an obstacle course? No worm eating or wrestling with great white sharks? Nah, you deserve it (really admire what you're accompishing).. hope you get in!
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I've had a mindset a bit like yours, that so long as I train hard I will bung in as many veges as I like. My overall diet in terms of quality is healthy. It has worked for the "big pounds", but I'm starting to realise that to really get into my body fat % I need to start getting precise. I've looked at a lot of opinions on…
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I'm sorry Glenn, not sure how to comfort you in your grief. It's sobering that at times we've probably all walked a fine line in terms of our state of mental health, and your biggest responsibility to yourself now is to keep mintaining the healthy things that you are doing in your own life. I'm pretty sure it's what your…
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imagymrat says "Making exercise enjoyable begins in your mind" Sometimes a switch flicks, a paradigm shift if you like, that changes our attitude from "I go to the gym" to kinda "this is my life, it is who I am and it always will be." I doubt if it's the same for everyone how that happens, but I think it's the big turning…
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This thread has had me absorbed in all kinds of thoughts and web searches for ages, curiosity. From observation I think almost everyone has some muscle group that for them simply is big (and I mean will gravitate to muscular big with exercise) and others that are are hard to develop. On my travels I was looking at various…
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Don't get discouraged. Sometimes it takes some fiddling and experimenting to see what is and isn't good for us, our particular metabolism. Hope you don't mind, I skimmed through your diary, and there were to me some standouts that for ME (but you're not me) would be bad (I mean I've figured it by experimentation.for me).…
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Yup, them danged Americans, drive on the wrong side of the road and all kinds of crazy things! I'm from New Plymouth (brrrrr), so hiya. (Come to think of it, have we converted everyone on the site to vegemite yet???)
