rotill Member

The profile pic? A year. But the other picture on the profile, the one that shows me is a couple of weeks old ;-)

You aren't stuck behind the deck all the time, only one quarter of the time. Out of 10 days - 240 hours - you're stuck behind the desk for 60 hours. Now, you should be sleeping 80 hours, so that takes 140 hours out of your day. It leaves 100 hours for healthy food and excersize. Treat the desk days as rest days, and work…

This is a very difficult and delicate balance, and it's an important reason for you to not crash diet and frenetically work out in order to lose weight; but to change your lifestyle to a healthy one permanently, one that is sustainable over time, and one you can feel safe to see your children follow. Our children learn…

It is a road of ups and downs. Since the thyroid gland no longer responds naturally, being perfectly balanced will tend to be a temporary state - then you need to balance the medication again. For me, what works the best is regular but light cardio for more energy (I basically use my bike to get around, rather than taking…

Personally, I can't like the after-taste of sugar substitutes in diet coke. I walk around with the taste in my mouth for hours afterwards. The good thing with that is that I happily drink water rather than suffering that weird chemical taste over everything else I eat. Have you tried having just a little bit of lemon or…

It's just bodies. As long as you're not engaging in specifically sexualised acts or displaying yourself with deliberative provocative intent, it's the eyes of the beholders that make naked bodies sordid, perverted, indecent or offensive. Of course, it's not nice to walk around nude in a stranger's household if you know…

I have had hypothyroidism for 26 years. I discovered it when I didn't lose weight after my first pregnancy. It was a struggle, but 12 years ago I started to eat food with a low glycemic index. That helped me lose 25 pounds over two years, and maintain it for almost 10 years. Then some more changes made me gain half of that…

Distance to work is a delicate balance. Too short, and I am always on call, too far and I spend too much of the day commuting. As it is I spend 20 minutes on my bike, each direction. It runs on fat and saves me money.

Make sure your diet has lots of slow carbs: that means whole grain everything, beans, legumes and vegetables. Don't drink juice or soda, if you really want some orange, eat the fruit. Or eat some berries, they are good for you. Unless you are eating too little, food with low GI will help you get a more even blood-sugar.…

I use Pilates, it strengthens the core muscles and gives me a pretty good work-out. Also: Walk on soft and uneven surfaces, like in the forest or in the field. You want to get away from the asphalt, and walk where you need to use your core to adjust your steps.

Back problems, knee problems. Not finding clothes I like. Feet hurt! Retaining too much water. Now that I am down to a normal BMI I feel a lot more like myself - the woman I grew up as. It makes me feel stronger and younger.

1 dl cognac is 225 calories, while 1 dl dry white wine is 80 calories. The only reason why you might get less calories from cognac, is that you normally drink smaller amounts than of wine. But as you see, you can drink almost three times as much wine as cognac, before you get to the same amount of calories.

We work in different countries at the moment, and since we just spent a long easter vacation together, we didn't meet this week-end. But he also didn't get online, didn't phone, didn't email, didn't text, and didn't let either of our kids know where he was either. Considering the weather where he is, I am not pissed off, I…

Here's what I do, but there's a caveat - I am gluten intolerant, so avoiding the cakes isn't really THAT hard: If I don't have any calories to go, I eat a light dinner - something with vegetables and protein, and no fat. Sometimes I just drink a protein shake. Then I log it and live with it. This means I can track, at the…

Sure, it's made on whole grain with some added fiber. It will make you feel full, but no quick blood-sugar rush for you.

Let's go Mayan instead! Human sacrifice, chocolate and loads of gold jewelry.

If you have tried everything and logged calories and it didn't work, then I recommend you talk to your doctor. You may have other issues which keep you from processing food properly, a very slow metabolism or food allergies that makes you bloat and retain water rather than loosing. If that is so, you may need to go very…

Seriously, what are you people looking at when you are out and about? Is ****-spotting a sport over there? Here skinny jeans are the best kind of jeans if you don't want your trousers stuck in the bike-chain. Considering the high number of bikers out and about at all times of the day and night, those skinny jeans make…

Good for you, finding a good doctor! I was lucky, and my original doctor did a very good job making sure she knew as much about me as possible - but that was 27 years ago. The next doctors were decent, but it was all easy - the meds stayed balanced for 24 years! A few years ago things tarted to get weird though, and the…

As people say: Just drop the bread. It's fairly easy to make things with baking soda and naturally gluten-free flour though. This means that bisquits, waffles, cookies and pancakes are still within reach. Rice, corn and oats are naturally gluten free, and breakfast can easily be changed from bread to oatmeal, for instance.…

A lot less alcohol, nuts and cheese. Reduced amounts of chocolate. More fish. Watching the salt and the starches carefully. But mainly: Getting back to using the scale regularly, and logging. Both of those activities help me tracking what the quality of food I eat does to me, and helps me pinpoint what gives bad reactions…

Attraction isn't always about weight, even if that may be how it is expressed. 1: You blew him off, avoided the run with him. 2: When you did come in, you settled on the couch to eat - in your words, slumped on the couch with your meal. 3: The last 18 months you have been extremely busy, and have changed both behaviour and…

Is her strength and stamina improving? If so, no reason to worry. As her body gets used to work-outs, she will be less and less sore. After two years of increasingly intense work-outs, I now only get sore when I do something new, or if I have been away from it for several weeks, and even then the soreness passes quicker…

Unless it's really specific, it's not hard to cater to a wide variety of diets. Making a dinner menu lactose and gluten free is very easy. By keeping vegetables and meat apart, it's easy to replace meat or fish with another vegetable course. Once a dinner is lactose free and the meat served seperately, keeping eggs out of…

It's a very good tool to track not just the quantity, but also the quality of what she is eating. If she just can't gain weight, she may need to be very aware of the quality of her food, to avoid eating junk which just aggravates her metabolism and her body in general.

It all depends on where you are at and what you can do, as well as what your goal is. I like to hike, walking in the mountains off the prepared roads, which is hard, demanding and fun. I have to work up to it every spring, starting with slow strolls in the neighbourhood, then to the lower peaks, in order to go from 0 -…

First: he deserves to be with a girl who loves him. Next: you deserve a boyfriend who doesn't make you feel guilty, and doesn't use your feelings of guilt to manipulate you into a relationship. If he will become a bitter and cynical person who hates women if you leave him, imagine what will happen when he realises what he…

I have hit my goal, but now I need to learn to maintain. I don't want to gain much, and I don't want to gain - lose - gain - lose more than a few pounds up and down. That means I need to figure out how maintainance works. After that I'll just watch the weight, and then get back to tracking if there's a notable change.

Another vote for this. The orange will give you fiber which helps you feel full longer, while the juice just gives you high blood sugar. (Which is the main reason to avoid sugar if you're trying to lose weight. High blood sugar tends to lead to very low blood sugar, which makes you feel hungry quickly.)

My boobs are so small now! I was so used to this voluptous body, in and out in geenrous curves in all the right places (and a little at the wrong ones.) Now my breasts sag and my butt is wrinkled, and I feel invisible and small rather than tall, slim and awesome. But in a year I will have built a whole new wardrobe.…