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  • here here I also am very surprised that people are equating safety reins to being the same as dog leashes (or leads as they are called here in the uk) totally not the same thing at all and I have never ever heard of any adult ever mentioning having an issue with having been in reins as a kid!!!!! Maybe if they were in them…
  • Towns are a lot smaller in Uk and as a result it is far more common I expect to walk the streets with your children in tow, School buses are not that common either so parents walk kids to school with younger ones in tow
  • They are called reins in UK and have been around for years. Nothing to do with parents being lazy, just safety really. Any child can slip a hand really quick but for parents with a walking toddler and a baby in a pram, holding hands is not that easy and most two year olds are not particularly compliant all of the time. It…
  • sounds good to me I am in
  • my first thoughts were for teddy bear too
  • thanks everyone that replied to my last post. I have been away camping this weekend (despite it being almost winter in the UK) so I am late in replying. I did attend a body pump class last Thursday for the first time ever and I am still paying the price 4 days later (going up and down steps is torture!!) Despite being very…
  • Hi, HELP PLEASE , mfp is full of wonderful advice, often very conflicting though as there really is no one size fits all etc....One of the common themes relates to calories and eat more to lose and though I agree with the principles of this, as someone over 40 with a very sedately job (and a dislike for extensive housework…
  • build in stuff with your little one too like lots of walking with the buggy or if your buggy is safe then even some running. Where I live (northern uk) they have programmes for mums with buggies that include walks through a local park with hill sprints push ups jumping jack stops and more lol If they have those it may be…
  • is it even legal for an employer to not allow toilet breaks!!!!! In the uk it would be but I don't know us law
  • why not give a mix of popular plus healthy in the lunch box. When little my kids would get salads, wholemeal sandwiches etc, home made jelly with fruit bits in there (not bad on the unhealthy scales but still cool for school) and then small snacks such as triangle cheese/a chocolate biscuit etc. I think moderation is key…
  • got the same issue myself and I keep kidding myself that I am keeping the wine within my calories but I am sure I am not counting as carefully as I should!!!! I love wine :(
  • I tested out dog walking speed, using walking my dogs and for me at least, 3 miles an hour turned out to be correct, or as correct as you can be when you think you can't really know before how many stops you will do for wees and sniffing (the dogs not me lol) I do run with the dogs too and even when walking, if they are…
  • My husband had the nickname of piggy in his late teens because he could and would eat so much but now, as well as then, he still eats huge amounts yet never really gains and weighs less than me which is not something I have told him lol. At 44 he has a little more meat on him but not so you would notice. ( he does have a…
  • I'd never noticed that tab before (face going red with embarrassment)
  • Is there a way to book mark this page in the forum as I keep losing it?
  • yesss well done. I think I am very much with you at wanting to party when the scales actually start with a 9 too lol
  • zumba is fun but I can't see it leading to bulking up muscles. I have increased the size of my calf on both legs from c25k and for me I can tell, but it is nowhere near in the league of a body builder and I expect no one but me ever notices the increase in bulk lol. I expect your friend's legs have just shaped up a little…
  • I agree with others that that is a little bit of a sweeping statement. I do agree that there are kids out there that don't want to work but these kids are often the lowest educated, the ones that schools gave up on before they finished there and you would be very unlikely to hire them anyway. The idea that kids get…
  • Beebs I would be happy if I could finish looking as slim as you do though I know it is all relative to each of us individually and it is where we want to be that counts.
  • no :( but did manage a run instead and made sensible choices at the meal so all was ok.
  • oh and I around 147 aiming for 130-135
  • well done, it is the simple ways that work the best. PS you sound just like me, in my 40s two dogs (cat recently deceased) 2.5 degrees, job married and 2 sons rather than daughters and early 20s now so past those awful teen years.
  • I have been drinking it for around 15 years so not tied into any tv programme, though I do drink it more often these days. I was a white wine drinker originally but my hubby liked red so I would have the odd glass to share a bottle with him and eventually found that i liked red and had gone off white!!!!! Just remember all…
  • going out for a meal tonight (steak night) with my hubby and grown up eldest son plus his girlfriend. I can't fit in my normal zumba class tonight so I am debating whether to go to a class an hour earlier. It will make it very tight for getting back, showered and changed but I really don't want to miss it. Also planning to…
  • I tried it recently and did not like it either. I had the sore backside too but really I just found it boring despite the blaring music and the instructor pretending we were going up hills, in races etcc Maybe I just got a bad teacher as it was a fill in the week I went but I wont be back. I am going to get on my real bike…
  • I am British and have never really gone to the pub after work!! It stems from two separate cultures, the poor working man that would go straight to the pub in dirty clothes and have a few while it was the stay at home wife's job to look after the kids (now mainly a dead culture thank goodness) and city dwellers where the…
  • Had a mild cold that has gone to my chest so won't be doing any vigorous exercise until it has gone (I learnt the hard way that pushing on makes it worse) but the sun is shining here in the uk (not warm though) so I will get out and have a nice long slow walk with one of the dogs.
  • get them tightened to fit better and fit some sort of chain in case they do fall off. Contacts good but might be a pain if you get mud in your eyes
  • hello, I am called Andrea (ignore my user name) and I am 43. I was thin in my 20s and even most of 30s but the last 4-5 years I have slowly but surely been moving higher and higher on the scales and I decided to get a grip some time last year. Despite calorie counting with limited blips and adding in much more exercise, I…
  • I'd be too exhausted to party after all of that!!!! Though it is true that it takes a family get together of some sort for me to bother doing the whole house in one short burst!
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