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Slow down. Walk less miles. Start low and build up your mileage. Walk every other day. Or every day alternating short and longer (not long) distances until you build up your endurance. Actually walk slower and concentrate on how you are walking. Take shorter steps. Oh and a funny one, relax. When I was training for 10km…

Yup there were a couple of SARS, MERS vaccines in the exploratory/research stages. These however were ‘shelved’ for a number of reasons. (I am more familiar with the Oxford research and they were able to move faster because of the research they had already done on the pervious viruses.) 1) By the time the vaccine was…

What kind of workouts do you do and how is your posture? Resistance work/ weight lifting will improve your overall body composition. Good posture and working on your abs will improve the way your (for want of a better term ) fat drapes on your body. Look up vacuum exercises, an all round abs workout, and, if you have poor…

Re the bolded:- Challenge Trials (purposefully vaccining then infecting) have been proposed for a couple of the vaccines. The UK proposed one for the O-AZ using younger healthy adults. It got approved by the ethics committee, but I don’t know if it went forward. It was/is due to start sometime around this month. Cheers, h.

@JustaNoob it’s not a uk thread I just think it got UK and Canada replies first because it was an off shoot of a Canadian recipe made in the USA thread. Post your jambalaya etc back in here. The more cultural variation the better. Cheers, h.

Funny story about cook books. Me and my MiL both got a similar cookbook from a, distant living, family member last year. (A non cooking person so probably liked the pictures and didn’t know that scale and cup use was different/a preference) She opened hers and sighed, said she liked the recipes but probably wouldn’t use it…

Ooh, though I’m a Mancunian living in Canada I recognize all and love most of the Scottish delights. (Dad was Aberdonian) For a OTC sponge candy in North America see if you can find a Crunchy Bar. I can buy them in our supermarkets but not sure of the continent wide availability. Lancashire hot pot Eccles cakes Chorley…

Congrats on your loss. 7lbs is a good solid number. Don’t feel cheated. Cheers, h.

Ann, we use digestive biscuits and make all kinds of no bake crusts, cakes, etc, with them when needed. They come plain, or with a milk or dark chocolate topping. Very versatile, and go great with cheese- the plain not chocolate, as they are not very sweet. Although available up in Canada I have never bought Graham…

Being from the UK but living in Canada I equate a graham cracker to a good old McVitie’s Digestive. (I don’t think the digestive is quite as sweet.) Which luckily I can get here. Cheers, h.

This is at the top of this sub forum https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10300331/most-helpful-posts-getting-started-must-reads#latest Start here. There is a similar link at the top of each sub forum. Visit each when you have time for an informative read. Some are really long, the first 2-4 pages generally…

Ok, I’m just south of Nanaimo in Victoria, we laughed at the TV news report, didn’t bother to look up the full thing on line. They are pathetic looking for a Nanaimo Bar, but interesting as a dessert bar. I would eat one and enjoy it as long as I hadn’t bought it as a Nanaimo bar. When I get those, Nanaimo Bars, it is…

Just to clarify. fl oz is for liquids, oz/lbs for solids, Imperial. ml is for liquids, grams/kg for solids, metric. It is often more precise to weigh in metric. Ie: 120g of chicken or 4.232oz of chicken. I found it useful to look up my main foods in the USDA initially and find the corresponding entry in MFP or enter it…

@ythannah, I always thought ‘middle age spread’ was an old wives tale connected to slowing down activity so putting on weight and losing muscle. It ends up there is a little truth to it after all, and science to back it up. I’m not big on the science side of things but it is related to having relatively more testosterone…

Thanks for posting that link @springlering62, I was just trying to get it in my phone. :) (I’ve been doing the vacuum for years, don’t even think of it now it is just posture driven. I still have a layer of fat, but nice and solid underneath. Pic can be seen p2 on uterus thread) The above link, general strengthening of the…

Hi @AnnPT77, was your friends growth a hemangiomablastoma? My son (Ironman triathlete) had this a couple of years ago. Initially dizzy, poor balance, etc and diagnosed as an inner ear problem. It took a trip to the emergency room and an off hand comment by the Dr for a diagnosis it is so rare. He was operated on within…

@noosh713, I think having a lower calorie need through weight, age, height, activity level, or whatever, makes it even more important to accurately weigh food instead of measuring with cups, believing labels, or guesstimating. Being old and short, and having a weight preference toward the lower end of the BMI range I would…

Are you hitting a fitness plateau or a fat loss plateau? If it is fat loss keep in mind that most trainers are not registered dietitians and often are not even allowed to give weight loss advise, except for very generalized. Use the trainer for fitness and a registered dietitian for nutrition and fat loss. Do take…

Ahh Pav, mum died the end of August. We did get to spend 2 weeks together, after my 2 week quarantine, so we were happy. It was wonderful that we, the three haitches (sisters beginning with h), were all together with mum and together to console each other afterwards. Thank you for your good thoughts. Cheers, heather. (The…

Accept losing the bet. Eating 1200 cals and getting in 1200 steps will leave you with a too low calorie intake. Low cals will lead to nutritional deficiencies, no matter how well you try to eat or supliment with vitamins etc. Nutritional deficiencies, especially as a post menopausal woman can cause a number of problems,…

I found the Hasfit short routines on YouTube great when I first began. This (below) is the one I always recommend as it is simple, full body, and effective. There are lots of other routines to choose from too. When I started I started with doing only one set of the exercises. Once I could do all 3 sets it was time to find…

Totally get what you are saying. I break my fast, have breakfast, sometime in the afternoon after being up and active for a few hours. (I do have coffee, but not a meal, when I wake) Breakfast has no need to be as soon as one is awake, it is just the first meal of the day. If the first meal is around noon we tend to call…

@pennysob have a look at this one by Hasfit. I found it a good routine to begin with as I was a complete novice at any kind of exercise. If you find it too easy Hasfit has a lot of workouts on YouTube, and on their website. At the beginning of this thread in the list of workouts there are a couple of dumbbell routines that…

Happy birthday and congrats on maintaining your jumping skills. Cheers, h. (A lifelong poor jumper)

MFP is set up for one to eat back exercise calories. You are shortchanging your nutrition and performance when you don’t. Having base cals and exercise cals means one can adjust intake dependant on movement on a daily basis if needed. If something happens and you can’t do your workout for a week, eating your base cals will…

You obviously aren’t going to change what you are doing until a problem is visible in some way. So, all I will say is please, both of you talk to your doctor, explain your weight loss plan, and ask him to monitor your health and run bloodwork checks monthly. This way any problems (and there will be) can be caught before…

I do have a Evernote list of MFP posts/stats/links/ etc, (some years old) but, to be honest, I use it more for referral than copy paste most times. I think it is much more I just don’t have it in me to give right now, especially at length. I’m learning how to be concise for the first time in my life. Also, there are way…

Ha! I was just thinking I haven’t seen you quite as active on the main sub forums for a while. Things are fine here. I had to do a mad dash to the UK for 10weeks, that included isolation on both ends, that was rather stressful. I think the outfall has been I am a little burnt out and don’t have the wherewithal to be…

So nice for you to come back and update us on your progress. You have done well losing 50lbs is no mean feat. Cheers, h.

Browse a couple of random pages on this thread, below. You will get a lot of YouTube ideas. I have subscribed to quite a few of the trainers on the tread during lockdown even though I don’t do well working out at home. I found I do best mixing and matching short routines, sorting them into a play list, then casting them to…