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I find nail polishes, hands or feet, pointless - and long, multiply coloured nails to me just look utterly impractical, as well as unhygienic - I can't help thinking of just how much grime such scoops will collect over a day *shudder*. I certainly don't understand why anyone would want to cultivate the sort of talon which…

I'm totally baffled about why it's a great idea to take a doggie box of left over food home: do you go out for a meal, or for two, is it really the same pleasant foodie experience reheated at home the next day? I don't find it so with leftovers of our own cooking (and I cook good tasty dishes from fresh ingredients), nor…

I can't understand why habitual snackers would feel sorry for those whose cultures don't include snacking - they're used to their way of doing things, it's normal for them. I also grew up, in the UK, in the 1970s and 80s, of mixed German/English parentage, and we also didn't have snacks, at least not til we were teenagers…

if you set your MFP to maintenance, that makes things that little bit easier: I'm at the next again stage, having reached target at the end of last year, I did set mine to that, but also found I was still trying to keep just under calories each day, and did continue to lose weight. At work they started saying, too much: I…

Orlistat - people learn which are the fatty foods, avoid those and end up more than compensating for the reduced fat by increasing carb and protein intake, which is why it's not all that effective. Sibutramine, and the others like it - risk of heart rate and blood pressure going up, and since carrying too much weight puts…

Skinny is an ugly word, and here gets used either by the overweight to belittle those who are slim, or to mean underweight. I don't like "fit" either, because it implies fit for some sort of purpose - and if we're meaning someone who exercises, well, not all slim people do, so not all slim folks also look physically fit.…

If you exercise carbs are what you will need to fuel that. They don't make you any fatter or sicker than any other source of energy does, calorie for calorie. I use about 400 calories, five days a week, on cycling or running, and after exercise it's carb I'll take to re-load my muscle glycogen stores. I don't get the…

At the stage you're at - at least two rest days a week. I ached dreadfully after exercise and also learned to stretch muscles gently aftewards...and then, as the exercise got more intense and more frequent, also to use a foam roller to help me massage the knots out. To give you an idea - I went from doing absolutely…

"two nations divided by a common language".... I suspect some of the replies the OP has got are also likely to be culturally determined, and therefore less useful.... It really depends on the area you can run in - but, I've run alone in nicer and really not so very nice districts in my home city, and have also never had…

doesn't anybody on here do up to date weights and measures? height 174.5cm (or 5ft 8 3/4 on the imperial measuring stick at work) weight started at 85kg (which was 13 1/2 stone in imperial - multiply the stones by 14 for pounds, I can't think in those at all) current weight = target weight, 65kg (10 1/4 stone) decided what…

I have a male friend who weighs about the same as me: his daily calorie "allowance" for weight maintenance is higher than mine, because he'll have a greater proportion of muscle to fat, so basal metabolic rate is higher. However - if we go for a 10k run, I use more calories doing it than he does. HIs more muscular body,…

One thing to bear in mind is whether it's taste or texture which bothers you: so many folks haven't a clue how to cook vegetables properly, and boil them to death in too much water, making them taste of...well, water really.... So to get vegetables to taste good, don't dilute them! I will cook carrots very slowly in their…

Photos didn't help.... Going up two dress sizes in half a year made it worse.... Being breathless on little cycle rides, on walking even on the flat.... Thighs chafing whilst walking.... Then having a medical scare, and thinking, had I had to have aggressive treatment for something nasty, I'd not be fit enough to cope. It…

One thing I used to find really annoying when I was not trying to sort out fitness and weight, was people making a big virtue of their exercise, so I do try very hard not to draw attention to what I'm doing, but there are times when it becomes very obvious - and then, yes, I get "you're obsessed". However - the same folks…

boot 'puter wait wait waiiiiit (cos 'puter is, of course, naff, whatever else would work fund??) log into the three programmes I need to use for work waiiiiiiiit hover over items in the work queue, prioritise what's there, and start phoning, with a sigh.....

I don't have an armbandy thing for my phone yet, so hold the phone in one hand, at the moment generally contained within a ziplock sandwich bag, and my bunch of keys in the other. Not great, but I suppose holding something in each hand balances me up a bit...... The armband for phone idea is on my christmas wish-list, and…

Very childish indeed to laugh at that - as others have said, it's not laughing at Hitler (who was indeed not someone to be laughed at) - it's laughing at a bloke on public transport because of how he looks. Shameful, and not worthy to be called humorous. Comments about oversensitivity also are simply an attempt to belittle…

Please qualify the term "diabetes" - it's misleading to say diabetes can be cured with dietary adjustment - it's true that insulin resistance (type 2 diabetes) will improve with weight control and dietary adjustment, but the autoimmune sort, the one needing insulin immediately at diagnosis, can't be, and it's dangerous to…

Taking thyroid replacement therapy isn't like taking a medicine which is trying to fix a "gone wrong" bit of you- it's just replacing what you're not managing to make yourself. Yes, we use iodine to make thyroid hormone, and in some areas there isn't enough dietary iodine available, but in general, those with underactive…

I'd understood that what matters with carbohydrate is how complex the structure of the particular molecule is: sugar, sucrose, has only two units, glucose one, fructose one - they are the sweetest of the carbs, and are pretty much "ready to go" - they get into the system quick, and therefore make a big spike of sugar in…