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Incredible and such a difference but you know what? I doesn't matter one jot what we think. What's important is that this is doing you good and you keep doing it not for that ignorant woman on the plane, or that person with snide comments behind your back, not even for us on MFP, do it for you. Do it for you because the…

You can never have too many friends!

Wish I could say I'm 40 or 41 ... I'm 60 in a few weeks. :sad: I don't have huge losses to make ... for me it's more about loosing the acquired belly fat and feeling fitter and gaining some knowledgeable like minded friends.

If you have an obstruction when that appointment arrives you would not have had a BM for a month. I'd say you would be lucky if you made it to that appointment. There is not a doctor on this planet that would knowingly ask you to wait a month for a bowel movement. Ring back tomorrow, give them the full story and get it…

I got to the overweight position that I am in because I used to get up in the morning and have a cup of tea then go to work and eat nothing until I returned home at 6 or 7pm ... I still wasn't hungry and could easily have 'listened' to my body but my head knew that I needed fuel so I ate. Thirty minutes after eating I felt…

You can never have too many friends ... add away if you wish. I never refuse anyone.

Thanks for all of your comments and points guys and gals. I know that BMI and BF% are different and I didn't suggest that I thought they were. It was just that Dr said I had BMI 28 which I know is not accurate so I asked about measuring BF% accurately! I will look online and see what is going on ... unfortunately I need to…

You are implying that I am stupid enough to believe that this is true? If I were serious I would have posted it in the diet and exercise forum. Take it how it it intended ... A bit of humour to start a day!

Well according to my birth certificate I am 52 but I can tell you that I am really 18 with an additional 34 years experience. I have always said that you know when you are getting old because you get to a point when you got your mind together enough to accept that your body is falling apart. My body has slowed down but it…

Hi Steph ... there is a limit to the amount of exercise that you can increase to. As I eluded to in an earlier post, the more you exercise the better you body gets at it so you end up increasing exercise but burning very little extra. Imagine you decide you want to run a marathon next year and you try to run 26 miles this…

I agree. Advice is good but lets keep it civil. We can be forceful and direct without insulting.

It is true that SOMETIMES you need to decrease calories to lose weight and true that SOMETIMES you need to increase calories to lose weight. By increasing the number of calories slightly, 100 - 200 per day means that your body has to work slightly harder to process the extra food so you metabolism increases to obtain the…

Thanks guys. A lot for me to think about there and a lot of things to try. I will try to find a sports shop that will fit me up but , mainly because I have never looked for one, I am not aware of shops that give that kind of service here in England. English shops are not as good on the service as other countries seem to…

Lol shut up you!

Thanks, I appreciate this. Just to clarify, the most intense pain is coming from the lower part of my leg. Literally the bottom most part of my tibia. The knees and upper part is fine. I would almost say that it could be coming from the ankle joint itself.

Thanks guys. A lot for me to think about. Just to answer some of your questions. I haven't engaged in any type of running or jogging for some 30 years, except beating my wife in a mile run 5 years ago. I jog on a walk/cycle way that is Tarmac surfaced. The trainers I have we're supposed to be for running and not cross…

Hi, that sounds great but I am not sure that I can afford that level of professionism! I am currently not working. Thanks for the thought though.

I wear trainers when I jog ... Only wear the shoes when I walk

lol ... This was the start of my healthy living plan way before xmas and the first post I put up here and was basically told to stop whinging and accept responsibility by a MFP member. I have been to the doctor several times over the last couple of years. First time ... nothing they could do because I was under 50! Second…

Thanks Brandy. Bekz ... Where on Earth did you get a resting rate of 45-50? My resting is 75-80! God I really need to get fit. Thanks for the link. Will look at it.

try this site. after exercise take your own pulse, count beats over a minute and fill in the details of your weight etc and it will tell you how many calories you burned. http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx

Oooops! I was just about to make some for lunch. Lol

You got me on another one! I'm wretching at the thought!

Not a long list for me. I love food. Celery ... Ewwww! Broad beans (fava beans I think my USA friends call them) ... Makes me gag Butter beans (Lima beans I think my USA friends call them) ... As above

Hi ... I started this healthy living programme, (I refuse to call it diet because diets always sound negative) on new years day. I am male, 5ft 8in, weight at start 192lb and had my calorie set at 1200 daily. I do some exercise, not a lot, and have lost, as of this morning, about 16lb. I am always (virtually always) inside…

I've been out everyday this week but keep forget to log it here! Not sure about today yet :( I pulled a muscle in my leg stretching and over did it! I will get out and walk something but can't promise 30 mins.

Hi Katie ... My FT7 is settling in nicely. It has the chest strap which is nice and comfortable and you forget it's there after a while. The watch part looks stylish and appears to work well. I have no idea how accurate it is compared to MFP but I can tell you that it records very different calorie burn figures. I would…

Apologies if I confused you. I was trying to say that we don't know enough of the situation or circumstances around what constitutes playing hard to get and we don't know what the circumstances of the relationship is like. As it turns out I am in support of you saying no and was not playing hard to gt because I have since…

Guys ... And girl ... Everyone is making some pretty huge assumptions here. We don't know what the OP means by hard to get! Saying know to a ride home that is a few minutes walk is not playing hard to get. Also, this is yet another incident that cannot be justifiably resolved because no one but the two in question were…

I will chase that thread later. Thanks