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i like this gym owner! he's doing the responsible thing. my advice? if your doctor will write a note stating that s/he believes it is good & safe for you to excersise, go back and offer to sign a disclaimer that if you suffer ill health you do not hold his gym responsible. gotta respect the gym for doing this. he's giving…

's like booze, no? some people can do moderation. for others, one drink is one drink too many.

by the time i was 19 i'd started to tune out compliments. i smile, say thank you, then forget it instantly. actually, in the last year i've taken to telling people that it's all down to my diet of chocolate & chips, with my most sincere smile. everyone i work with is now convinced that i eat either cake or chocolate for…

great. now i feel mean for laughing. damn you!

ok, so maybe i was talking out of the right end after all! seems you guys who keep it on a need to know basis are having far fewer crappy experiences than those who tell everyone they know. unless you're rock solid & really don't give a damn what people say, a little self preservation secrecy seems prudent.

Don't tell everyone you're dieting. If they offer you a cookie just say you're not in the mood & don't fancy it. If you know dieting will create issues, why share it with the world?

well, yes, everyone is funny. there are fat people who are more serious, such as perdita/agnes. at the opera house a man laments that once large women with wonderful voices could play a slip of a girl, but now it is all about image & miming along. people are self conscious of their flaws. the near perfect angua feels ugly…

i love terry pratchett. yeah, i know some snobs will turn their noses up at that. but his baddies are frequently beautiful and the good guys are often flawed, ordinary looking, scarred or fat or old or jug eared. the special needs bloke is actually a hero if you let him live in his own reality instead of imposing your own,…

my physio told me that the best way to ease your back is to strengthen your front. weight hanging off the front won't help but the complication, infection & scarring risk of an op make it a big gamble. in your position, i'd try getting rock hard abs (albeit well covered abs) before i went slice & dice. but that's just me.

i think the deal is that you'll eventually get to the point where portion control & making smart choices are second nature. you get into the habit of thinking about what you're eating and how much.

the standard, blanket advice is 8 x 250 ml glasses/day, which is 2 litres, which, for my weight, is pretty much bang on the 1/2 in oz calculation. way over? if i use my google fu i get this: http://chemistry.about.com/cs/5/f/blwaterintox.htm seems that up to 15 litres a day is ok if it's spread out evenly. other than that,…

i have this problem but with me it's due to heart arrhythmia, so i've yet to find a HRM i can use. the damn things think they've lost signal when really it's just that there was no pulse for few seconds. it's a serious bummer! but, yeah, changing the batteries is a smart first move.

you piss out minerals, so you can do more harm than good by going way over the normal amount. if you're actually thirsty for way over the normal amount then you should get checked out because there are health issues which can cause that. personally, i just go by the colour of the pee. you're aiming for a pale yellow.

106/69 would be high for me for a resting rate. i've never had any health problems from it and my doc isn't concerned, but it doesn't hurt to get it checked out.

i'm horrid, it's endearing.

well i know i'm not fat, but i like to ask BFs if they think i am, just to see the look of utter panic on their faces :devil:

that's the cold, hard truth of it. people often have a wildly distorted view of what is a normal amount of food. even if you were in a coma, you would need 2500+ cals/day just to stay at 300 pounds. any fewer cals and/or any extra cals burned and you would start losing weight. sitting up, walking to the loo, typing uses…

oh the wit of suggesting assault. my sides are splitting.

unless the partner is a crazy, jealous, control freak. then they're between a rock and three hard places. do they lie, do they never have any friends of the opposite sex, do they leave, or do they live in constant conflict? personally, i'd go with conflict/leave.

it does take time to cook. but what is worth more of an investment, your favourite tv show or your health? if you have time to watch even one show a day then you have time you could better spend preparing food. set a timer and every half hour get up and stretch your legs. even if it's just walking across the room and back.…

for some third parties that could mean eye contact. i don't believe it's about what C thinks A might do, but rather it's about what A would actually do.

i can't speak for every woman here but that is, by far, the most common form of male attention i get. leering, whistling and lewd comments. if i don't want a conversation i can drink my tea at home instead of in the cafe, but i have no choice but to walk down the street. one or two unwanted conversations/month V several…

agreed. some prat yelling ''nice tits!'' at me from the scaffolding is not flattering. i'm not a lump of meat. if you really want to compliment me then you say it for my benefit, not as some bonding excercise between you and your fellow apes.

not quitting = winning :flowerforyou:

''a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step'' ...and is made up of thousands more small steps. you can do it. one step at a time.

your extra muscle mass is the only fat burner you need. please don't gamble with your health in a futile attempt to cut corners.

she shouldn't lie. but... insecure & jealous partners are a bigger relationship killer than flirting.

i don't have self esteem issues but... easier said than done! self esteem issues can be as crippling as depression, and no reasonable person expects depressives to just snap out of it. it's a work in progress. many people require therapy to get past it. i'm not saying we encourage people to wallow in it but i think we…

because people switch from 'bad' food to 'good' food. and a lot of the food they eat now is high fibre/low cal, so eating vast amounts of it makes you feel bloated. silly you!

you don't need to eat more. you just need to eat more calorie dense foods. an avocado takes up the same amount of space in as an apple.