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"If I don't do it today, I'm not going to feel like it tomorrow either and that's what caused problems in the first place".

I have a friend whose father recently passed away from a heart attack, and she's been talking about wanting to lose weight (she's probably in the morbidly obese category, not simply a little overweight) ever since. Yet she continues to do no exercise and she's posting photos of herself buying out half the local Taco…

Reduced fat hommus BBQ Chicken - no skin, no stuffing Hass avocado Wholegrain bread roll Coke Zero Uncle Toby's Apple Delight fibre bar Yoplait Forme low fat vanilla yogurt Granny smith apple Wholemeal tortilla Tabouleh

Competitive freediving. I also do 2-3 triathlons a year and play in the local b-grade basketball comp.

I've never eaten koala, but then I've never seen anywhere that sells it. And I believe they're a protected species anyway. Kangaroo is pretty easily found in Australian grocery stores. Emu and crocodile can usually be found in "Australian outback" type restaurants. If you do find Kangaroo, just don't overcook it. It's…

Sure. Can be bought from the meat section of any major grocery store.

This got me yesterday. I also pre-plan and pre-log meals. But I got called in to attend a last minute business dinner/meeting to a place with a set menu. Ended up ~1000 calories over for the day. It happens. I'll just go for a slightly longer run today and eat a bit less to make up for it.

No. I also go to a uni gym as I'm a professor, and the place is swarming with personal trainers (usually final year/postgraduate sport and exercise science students) whose whole job is to set you up with a fitness program and keep an eye on you. In my experience, when you pay your annual uni sports membership fee, this…

I wouldn't think twice about someone who said they were doing 2 hours of exercise a day. The thing that would concern me is that they are doing it for weight loss reasons rather than fitness goal reasons. I easily do 2 hours of exercise a day and burn 2000+ calories. But by the same token, I exercise that much because I…

When you don't have that much weight to lose, even if you do put in 2 lbs a week, it will default to a lower value. I put in 2 lbs a week as well and it won't let me go below 0.5 lbs a week. It defaults to this no matter what. Because I don't actually have that much weight left to lose, and losing 2 lbs a week at this…

Galapagos Islands and Antarctica. Galapagos is epic for the wildlife. Antarctica is epic for the extreme remoteness and the fact it's so untouched. I have a long list, but these 2 are probably tops :)

Cool :) I was pretty horrible on my air when I first started diving as well, even though I was pretty fit. I think it's just a matter of relaxing, which you tend to do with some experience. I know that I used to stress out about my air and depth and everything else (which makes you use more air) and never stopped to…

I'm travelling over Christmas and will be holed up in a hotel somewhere. No idea what's going to be on the menu, but I'm looking forward to eating whatever I want. Just for the day.

I'm 5'2" and currently weigh 105 lbs (goal is 100, but if I don't lose much more I'm ok with that). I wear size 0-2 pants/jeans and a size 2-4 top depending on brand. I'm a swimmer and have swimmer's shoulders, so it means buying a size up to fit across the top unless it's sleeveless.

I'm 5'2" and started out at 141 lbs and wearing size 27-28 (US 5-6 depending on brand) jeans and am now 105 lbs and wearing size 24 jeans (US 0-2, again depends on brand). It's taken all year, but I'm almost where I want to be.

Your 5 1/2 year old (and you?) might like some low cal spaghetti. There's a product called Slim Pasta that you can get from Woolworths(I find it's shelved with all the gluten free stuff/other health foods) that is like regular spaghetti pasta, just with much lower calories. It's made from shirotaki noodles, which you'll…

I've been chased by a sea snake trying to attack my mask...It saw its reflection and thought it was another sea snake so tried to attack it. Fun times!

Just checked on that. It's not actually a whole lot different to the "scuba diving" stats. Leisurely swim for 60 mins is 288 calories, scuba diving is 344. Sounds like a good compromise :) I think my 5mm wetsuit still fits because I bought it before I put on weight, but I stupidly bought a 3mm wetsuit right before I…

lol. I'll be hauling my gear through the airport and letting someone else deal with the rest of it. Slumming it at a dedicated dive resort that has the dive shop to do all the heavy lifting work for you :) My buoyancy is fine, and my air consumption has improved exponentially since I started with more serious cardio work…

Maybe it's just an artifact of geography (I live in Australia), but I spend more on food now than I did before I started dieting. Buying fresh produce, lean meat, fresh bread etc in Western Australia isn't cheap. It's much more expensive than buying packaged and processed crap. My weekly grocery budget has probably…

Pepperoni and mushroom pizza, pumpkin pie and Red Bull

I weigh daily - after my morning gym session. It only counts on Saturdays though. I only log my weight once a week even though I check it daily. Morbid curiosity to see how my weight fluctuates depending on what I eat and how much I work out I guess.

I love me some raw salmon and avocado sushi with wasabi sauce...Eating 2 rolls for lunch fits well within my daily calorie allowance. Everything in moderation.

5'2" current weight 106, but aiming for 100. We'll see how that goes. It's becoming more difficult to lose weight now that I've got so little to go, so I'm not going to stress over it if I don't lose much more. I have my fitness back, which was my primary goal in the first place.

I finished my PhD about 6 years ago and managed to get a job before everything went to hell. But I'm advising grad students, so I can see first hand the struggles they're facing on the job market. Admittedly I am in the sciences and not the humanities, and while the job market for science graduates isn't good, it's worse…

Just be wary of the whole "further education" thing. I've got a job as a professor at a fairly big university, and I've seen students graduate with an MA or a PhD who have ended up stocking the shelves at Walmart. Seriously. While I certainly don't discourage going to grad school to get a higher qualification, please think…

Or you know...Caffeine is actually beneficial to migraine sufferers. It helps reduce the pain and minimize the frequency at which they occur. This is why many migraine medications contain caffeine. So before people keep spouting off crap about caffeine being evil and having no benefits, perhaps you might actually want to…

Thinly sliced raw smoked salmon with some light soy sauce. Or salmon and avocado sushi rolls with wasabi sauce. Hmmm. That sounds like a good idea for dinner.

Doing the whole long distance thing with my SO (currently living on different continents), and because he's working through the holidays I'm paying a fortune for flights to go visit. So he's getting ME for Christmas?

* Half a bag (60 grams) of mixed baby spinach and rocket * 100 grams of baby tomatoes cut in half * 50 grams of low fat fetta * 100 grams of grilled chicken * 30 mL warmed no fat balsamic dressing Tasty!