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I had a nice Indian take out and a glass of wine this evening. It's hard to estimate exactly how over I am, but I guess around 700 calories over for the day -I weighed the rice and naan, and mainly had grilled tandoori meat and seafood, but still well over with the booze. (And much fuller than I would expect to be... A…

I have the flex and have been wearing it for over a year and a half now. I'm not obsessive about the number of steps or exercise (my knees are too shot to be too obsessive!) but it allows me to look at a week and say "wow you have been sitting around on your backside too much this week, get up and be more active!". The new…

Unfortunately no, if you want to maintain your weight loss...(I, at least can dream of seriously ridiculous amounts of ice cream and pizza!). The trick with maintaining at goal weight is not treating weight loss as "a diet" followed by "eat All The Things" but by treating it as a permanent life style change. Which is why I…

Eat less, move a bit more. So basically calories in, calories out. I can maintain my weight very easily at about 8-10 kgs over where I'd like it to be (which is still about 10 kg above an ideal weight!) without thinking about it-my diet is reasonably healthy, I eat lots of fruit and vegetables, not too much takeout or eat…

I have the reverse problem -when my rheumatoid arthritis is active I drop weight without trying-while it feels like I'm eating normally, and I'm certainly moving less, I just don't have the energy or inclination to either prepare food or eat it when I'm sore and suffering from that total awful lethargy that the active…

I'd watch that handful of nuts. Weigh them-a handful of nuts can easily be a really big handful of calories without noticing. And are you weighing the calorie dense foods in your salads-rice in particular. Chapattis can be very variable in calorie load, depending on size- there's a fair amount of calories in lentils per…

The easiest way is to have good genetics which aid an elastic skintone. I am extraordinarily fortunate-I have a lousy skin care routine, spend a fair amount of time outside in the Australian sun , although I do use a high protection factor sunblock, and I am remarkably unwrinkled for someone who is over fifty. At the…

I've no idea if I'm salt sensitive-one of the aims of this tracking exercise I am doing at the moment is to see if I am. I know that my hypertension is not particularly sensitive to diet and exercise as I got down to recommended body weight and a pretty low percentage body fat with heavy (and I mean heavy!) weight lifting…

Hi, I have had hypertension since my last pregnancy 13 years ago- my blood pressure went up from 125/75 to 170/95 in the last month of the pregnancy and never came down much again. I tried diet and exercise -I managed to get my weight down 15 kg and kept it there for several years, but eventually the GP suggested that I…

It's one of the scary things about tracking macro nutrients, just how much hidden sodium there is in things. I've been tracking for the last week, making very little change in my diet, just reducing snacks, and seeing where calories and sodium are coming from. I hadn't realized quite how much processed meat I was eating,…

I suspect it's partly because very large folks are often trying to lose weight for health rather than appearance, so just getting down to a level where you (me!) are no longer clinically obese and are merely overweight will have huge health gains. Certainly that's my first goal. If I can get anyway near the healthy weight…