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The most current medical treatment is metformin, to increase insulin sensitivity and thus normalize many of the related hormones. (This has the added bonus that recent studies hint at anti-cancer effects for metformin, too!) It may help you lose some weight, and it's definitely helped make my cycles more regular and less…

And why isn't this thread pinned at the start if the Fitbit section, the way every other device has a pinned thread there?

Is it just me, or is anyone else's Ionic needing to recharge a whole lot more often since the last update?

Hmm, isn't it about time they pinned this thread to the top of the page with the threads for all the other devices?

I usually have the opposite problem, I'll check my watch, do fifty steps, and then check, and it will have only added twenty steps. Do you have it on your dominant or non-dominant wrist?

I need a clock face that shows seconds, so I can get patients' HR and RR, so that kind of limits me on options there. The one I chose has a line for weather, but at first it was always wrong and now it just doesn't display anything, just "loading..." perpetually. But, it's a great clock face that meets all my needs!

I *want* the calories to reflect how active I've been, I just want to be able to plan ahead. It makes a lot more sense to me to have a minimum number of calories I *know* I can eat, and then to be able to eat extra based on what extra calories are burned by exercising. If I plan on a 2000 calorie day, and then the program…

Yeah, but if I were home sick in bed all day I probably wouldn't be worrying about eating and calories anyway. For 99.9% of my life, this works well.

Haven't had the chance to play with the functions much yet, only taken it in the pool once and I forgot to tell it when I was done. Coach is one I'm interested in figuring out, too!

I hate the negative calories! If you set MFP to think you're Active and you don't burn enough calories to meet that criteria, it records negative calories, which makes planning meals a real bear. Set MFP to consider you Sedentary, then it'll only add calories to the total you can eat for the day, not take them away.…

I got one for Christmas! Had a lot of trouble getting it to connect to anything, but it seems to have sorted itself out now. I'm looking forward to trying it in the pool, which is the main reason I wanted it. :-)

Been off MFP for a while, looks like this board went into hibernation. Still, just had to say....I loved Jodie Whittaker's grin and "Oh, brilliant!" I'll miss Peter Capaldi terribly, but I can't wait to see the new Doctor in action!

Nothing like using your GPSr to know exactly how far you've walked. I try not to do park-n-grabs, unless I can walk to them from further away.

I recently got back into geocaching when I visited San Diego and discovered how many caches there were out there. I made myself a rule, long ago, that any geocache within walking distance of home must be walked to. Then I did the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer a few times, and my definition of "walking distance" grew…

From the book "Hey, Remember Fat Glenda?" I can recall a couple of good ones.... "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels!" "A moment on the lips, forever on the hips!" And, there are definitely days when I have need of the opposite message, to all those who are critical and hateful or worse yet, think they're somehow helping…

I generally don't mind Clara, although there were times they seemed to be repeating themselves with her storylines last season. A lot of the problems were in the execution rather than the ideas or her portrayal of them. Looking forward to next season soon!

MuseCon is coming up, and I'll be going to TeslaCon and WindyCon later. It really seems to help to bring stuff along that's healthy, but it's really got to be the sort of thing you can stick in a pocket, pouch, or bag so that it's handy when you need it, because sometimes it's so hard to pull yourself away from the fun to…

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing Capaldi's introduction tonight! (Any UK MFP users, no spoilers until USA has seen it too!) I want to go see it in the theater at midnight tonight, since I have a meeting at 7pm that will make me miss the episode on BBC America. I expect he'll be a very different tone than the boys…

Studies show that there are legitimate changes in the hormones which control appetite and metabolism after gastric bypass surgery. The metabolism is higher, and ghrelin, which stimulates appetite, is reduced significantly. It is *not* simply having a smaller stomach means you can't eat much at once, and evidence is against…

Check out the book "Born to Run," which goes into the mechanics and evolution of the bipedal runner. There's also some fascinating info on ultramarathons and other people who run for extremely long distances. I was amused to learn that a typical "ultramarathon" of fifty miles is about ten miles *shorter* than the Breast…

I'm in Chicagoland (so as of next year Komen won't be an option any more, anyway). I thought about doing one in San Diego, but there's so many hills! I'm used to everything being flat enough to only need one gear on your bicycle. ;-) The original 3-Day *was* Avon, but then they split up and Avon went to two days. I do like…

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I know where you're coming from. I went to the university to get an underwater body fat percent evaluation, and I just *had* to ask what the highest percent they'd seen was. Don't know how I'd have felt if I'd been it, but I wasn't, I forget what it was but it was over fifty. I'm already down 22 to 27 pounds, depending on…

A fellow vet uses a cream called LMX4, which is a local anesthetic that's rapidly absorbed into the skin. She uses it for exotic critters for blood draws, but she put some on before her last tattoo and said she didn't feel a thing. YMMV, and I don't know how readily available it is, whether you'd need your doctor to write…

I'm sort of in the same boat. I know I read and loved the original trilogy, but I don't remember if I ever got through the newer ones. Likewise with the Incarnations of Immortality, which was a later variant on mixing fantasy and science fiction in the same series. I read the original series, but never got around to the…

I used to have hair long enough I could braid it and still sit on the braid. (For those of you with hair too short to know, braiding it shortens it considerably.) It's always been dead straight, although four or five times I spent an entire Saturday getting it all done up in spiral wraps and permed curly, which looked…

I usually get a 6" 9-grain turkey double-meat with a ton of spinach and a couple of rings of tomato. The sodium count is 1360 mg. Not the best, for sure, but not 2500 mg either. When I go to the web site and put that in without the double-meat, it comes out only 820 mg. We're not going to eat healthy by exaggerating the…

Finally saw the Christmas special! I have not seen all of the reboot episodes, in fact the percent is embarrassingly low. But I must say, I do see potential for a relationship *if* they keep it on the same grounds it started on -- with Clara the casual aggressor, and the Doctor, for once, being the one who follows along…

I saw this on FB, and the next day was in a furniture store looking for that sort of cabinet. I actually do have a shelves-in-the-door cabinet, but it's too short to be a TARDIS.

I got started without a GPSr at all....I looked up caches on geocaching.com, the clicked the Google Maps link and zoomed in close. Found my first several there, then a local cacher sold me a very basic GPSr for a cheap price. When I bought my Colorado (a much nicer GPSr), I put the very basic one in a geocaching-themed…