MrsPixelbark Member

Amazon sell PB2. :) I've not tried it myself, so I don't have a clue how good it is mind!

They're little circles of thin cake topped with orange marmalade, and then the entire thing is coated in chocolate. They're good- but a bit like 'once you've had one- you can't help but have another' good! :) Ashlinmarie - I'll send you a message!

Another Uk'er here. Happy to send almost anything out! I'm also after something particular from the states if anyone would like to swap. (Peanut butter M+M's if anyone was curious! They're stupidly expensive over here.)

I think Anvil's provided you with quite a bit of solid reading there! But, to answer your question, once a week. Anymore than that and I start getting paranoid about the general ups and downs of the week.

I'm surprised your scale doesn't work properly: my salter scale is my first set of scales to 'accurately' weigh me in at the same amount as the doctor's scales. Anyhoo, mine's a digital set. If I were you, I'd just continue using your scales and just accept that you will be within 10% either way weight wise. I don't think…

I'm going to second the lady to say just keep it out of the house - not forever, just until you feel your a little stronger. Christmas last year we had a yard of Jaffa cakes in the house- they lasted five minutes between me and my other half- this year we still have 3/4 of the yard left (and not eaten by me I may add).…

Mileage this week: Wednesday- 5 miles Thursday- 7.25 miles Saturday- 3.1 miles Sunday- 4.8 miles Total miles this week: 20 miles Total miles so far this month: 20 Total miles trying for this month: 60

What I would say is ignore your time for the mile for now, and train for distance. I started training for a half marathon a few months back: when I was comfortable running 5k (using C25K), I slowly upped my mileage until I was comfortable running 10k. From there, I just upped my miles every week- 12k, 14k, 16k etc until I…

Firstly, muscle doesn't weigh more than fat, it's just more compact than fat. So for the same volume of fat/muscle, muscle would weigh more. Also, you don't tend to put on muscle on a calorie deficit. What you do however put on is water weight when starting a new exercise program, which is what I suspect is happening here.…

Whilst not as strict as yours, when I'm at college I find I have strict eating times and it does help keep me a bit more in line. It's regimented by classes, but if I know I'm going to eat at X time it does mentally prepare me a bit more to spread food over a day. Now I'm currently off on holiday I either find that I have…

I've always used runkeeper and it's not lost me once. It's free- and has a nice website where you can look over your run afterwards. :)

I don't mind paying if it's a solid machine: that measuring jug certainly sounds handy- the less washing up, the better. ;) I hadn't realised some brands advertise as being able to crush ice: I'll go have a good scout around amazon now. Thank you very much!

I would feel that this is more a question you should be posing at your Doctor. Had you said I was X age minus the hip replacement I'd have said go for it- we have a few older people in our running club (a few quite a bit older than you) and they run as well (if not better) than everybody else at the club! Age isn't a…

I could find mine as well when I was larger. I know you think all your fat is in targeted areas right now, but you will get smaller nearly everywhere. :) I know you don't believe me, I wouldn't have either if someone had told me, I had myself PINNED at a size 12-14 for life (as did my Mum), but here I am now at an 8-10,…

Maximum to put yourself at a healthy weight, or maximum before you slip into underweight? Also, as much as you say you have very wide shoulders now be prepared to reevaluate your body in 20kg's or sos time. Myself and my Mum didn't ever think in a million years that I'd get down to the size I am now due to being very broad…

I update my ticker no matter what it says- and although I've only gone up by .4 of a pound I've still inputted that. Remember, your weight ticker is yours, you can lie to it all you like, but at the end of the day your diary here (as much as it is sometimes public) is there to keep only YOU accountable. It doesn't matter…

Cake. :( I knew it wasn't good- but it nearly killed me when I found out my favourite slice of carrot cake was totting in at around 600 calories (for about 100g). I know it's logical that it's sky high, but I can eat five packets of mini chedders for the same calorie price of a slice of my beloved carrot cake.

What about bread? A slice of toast easily adds up to 100 calories- and if you need a few more, a slather of chocolate spread/jam will add anywhere between 50-100. Peanut butter/nutella would be the logical answer here, but as you have a housemate with a nut allergy then you'll have to work around it. :) If you're on a…

For something slightly more processed: Dairylea extra light triangles (20) Meringues- a nest is around the 50-70 calories dependent on where you got it from Popcorn (I really love the metcalfe's packets myself- 220 calories for a very large packet of popcorn covered in chocolate) - if you can get airpopped popcorn (or…

To say this week had not gone to plan would be an understatement. My kind Mother dearest decided to pass a fluey bug around the entire household which has had us all neigh on bed ridden since Christmas day. However, I did go out yesterday and today- I'd have liked to end this year with a bit more of a bang, but I'll take…

Honestly- I put my weight down to being silly whilst being a teen: I wasn't having an overly easy time of school and I slowly started eating more. I met the Mr when I was 17, and as he was quite bad at overindulging, I picked up the habit. Things only got worse for a number of years as life got rougher and rougher for the…

Count me in again please! Can you pop me down for 60 miles please? It's exams for the next few weeks, so I don't want to push a target too high this month.

As Nguk said, everyone is different. Personally, I can't run on an empty stomach, but nor can I run straight after eating something: I find an hour to an hour and a half between eating and running is a nice happy medium for me. If I run straight after eating I feel a bit like a lead balloon, but unless I'm only doing a…

I like to use it anywhere I'd normally use cheese for melting, so for example... On a cheese melt sandwich, with ravioli/pasta, on top of meat balls, on a homemade pizza instead of cheese, used it to make mac and cheese the other day, with chilli and in soups. Not overly keen on the stuff just spread on crackers myself.

You literally chop up a ripe banana (key here is ripe banana- the riper it is, the sweeter your ice cream will be), freeze it, and then blend it (add a tiny splash of milk if you're struggleing to get it started)- it blends out to soft serve consistency. If you like it more 'solid' than that, pop it back into the freezer…

I would be tempted (for now) to eliminate anything trigger worthy from your fridge/cupboards/freezer. Just get rid of it- and in it's place bag up more healthy portioned control snacks (so a bag of 100 calories worth of dried fruit/carrot sticks/nuts- if you want a chocolate fix, hot chocolate (like options) are fab- for…

Fab, thank you!

I'm in much the same boat as you. I didn't tell myself to lose any weight last year, nor the year before- and I won't be this year. Rather, one of my resolutions this year is to be fully utilizing my new pull up bar by the end of the year. I figure if I can use that properly this time next year, plus follow up with my…

I'll give this a shot! Just signed up for the European group, named Pixel on there though- hope that's ok! :)

From the UK (from Derbyshire myself- so not far from you), and I'm a big geek! :D Not a Mum though. One day!