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well that's good, because I'm totally English with not even a trace of Scottish blood anywhere. Well, that's what the official records seem to show anyway. The fact that nearly everyone on my mum's side of the family have red hair and look decidedly Celtic doesn't seem to figure into official records at all. And it could…

This is the kind of pie I want.

I'm British. I want steak pie. With chips. (and that's the British meaning of the word chips).

I like pi

I agree that there's nothing wrong with parents helping kids at home - that wasn't my point. My point was that teachers should not rely on this, they should teach what they're supposed to teach at school. If parents supplement education at home then that's up to them, but they shouldn't need to be teaching what teachers…

Wrong. Kids in the 1950s ate loads of calorie dense foods, they had much less obesity because they spent much more time playing outside. Studies have shown that modern kids actually eat fewer calories per day than they did in the 50s. But they spend far more time sitting on their backsides. Obesity has 2 factors - diet and…

While I agree with this general point, one of the main reasons why the USA is falling behind in literacy is because they teach with sight words/look and say type methods as the main reading method, and not synthetic phonics. Research in the UK has shown that synthetic phonics is a far superior method, requires way less…

I think the female equivalent should be LBOCAD - large bar of chocolate a day I think that ought to give any female weight lifter just the right size of calorie surplus for muscle gain with female testosterone levels. some might call this wishful thinking!! :laugh: ......... but someone should come up with a formula for…

I've had the opposite problem my whole life, i.e me being too hot when everyone else is freezing as in me wearing a t-shirt when everyone else is wearing jumpers or a coat... weight lifting builds up muscle and muscle cells are like little central heating units. Doing some kind of strength training and eating plenty of…

the first time I came into this thread, it was to say this, but then I got dragged into the thread itself. Oh well.

I did the whole on stronglifts in bare feet because I didn't have any suitable shoes for lifting. didn't do me any harm probably will get myself some kind of lifting shoe at some point...... I agree with everyone who said just get on with it. If I'd waited until I had all the right equipment, I'd never have started. I…

no kitty gifs. Just Homo erectus okay maybe a pleistocene kitty gif then....

that's cool :) and you're right :)

I didn't look at her ticker, I just looked at her picture (not fat). I posted what I did because I thought there's a chance the whole thing could have been a misunderstanding and that this should be considered before concluding that the friend was deliberately sabotaging her. I would take "I want to regain my former…

the first time I read it I understood it as wanting to gain weight. Then I realised the sentence was ambiguous and could be taken either way. The sentence really is ambiguous and the OP doesn't look fat either, so I do think it's possible that the friend could have misunderstood and thought she wanted to gain weight.…

The OP doesn't actually look fat in her picture. You look at her profile picture and tell me if you think she looks fat? I don't think she does. I certainly wouldn't describe her as a "bigger gal".... maybe it's an old picture up for motivation, or maybe it's current, I don't know. But there are plenty of people on here…

that sounds like really good progress to me... you lose fat slowly. Seems like you're expecting it all to change quickly.... the human body does not lose fat quickly.... fast weight loss is mostly not fat loss, it's water weight loss and maybe muscle and bone density loss too.... you want to lose 100% fat... that will…

I was going to say the same thing any new workout, weight training especially, can cause water retention in the muscle that can mask weight loss on the scales. You need to also observe whether you're losing inches, clothes getting looser, etc.. that kind of thing. Loss of inches is a sign of fat loss regardless of what the…

I used to live in Bahrain and think you're nuts for running that far in that kind of heat and humidity... I could barely walk to my car. I'm build for the cold though and I'm happiest exercising outdoors on a frosty day in Britain. I'm back in the UK now and currently finding indoor temperatures too hot and outdoor…

you need to be 3500 calories over and above your TDEE calories (i.e. your maintenance calories) to gain just 1lb of fat. If you ate *at* your TDEE calories (remember your calorie goal is at a deficit so you have to be over quite a bit before you get to your TDEE calorie level) then your weight will stay the same. If you're…

^^^ this espeically as there's a possibility that it was all a misunderstanding (ambiguous sentence thing that I already commented on) murderers get a trial, but on here, people who have the audacity to offer people food are hung drawn and quartered as saboteurs... I mean there are friendships at stake here, why just…

some obese people run marathons, others can barely get up the stairs. People can be obese and physically fit at the same time. And non-obese sedentary people are generally extremely unfit too, so not being obese doesn't automatically make you fit. And there's a big difference between someone who's a little bit obese and…

when I get myself a bit more financially settled (just moved 4000 km n all that) I'm going to get myself a power cage. I've even found one on Amazon that I want. It's not that expensive compared to others, and can't take enough weight, but if I ever manage to deadlift more than the recommended maximum weight (which would…

I didn't say that fat storage was vestigial. Our bodies work the same way our hunter-gatherer ancestors' bodies work, by and large, and all of what any organism inherits are the traits that helped their ancestors survive. People seem to expect their bodies to work in ways that would result in rapidly dying in an actual…

because we're descended from millions of survivors of food shortages, and the changes that our bodies make in response to a severe or prolonged food shortage are exactly the things that we *don't* want happening when we're trying to diet.... like burning muscle to reduce the body's daily energy demand and make fat stores…

She didn't simply report what other people thought... if she'd just simply reported it, then I wouldn't have batted an eyelid, frankly, because a statement such as "many people consider weight lifting to be a masculine thing" is nothing more than a statement... she provided a list of reasons why she felt the forum was…

I'll be turning 39 in a few days... can I be considered as a 40-something-in-training? no self-loathing here. I liked being 37 because its a prime number, and 36 because it's a square triangle number and also has loads and loads of factors. So 38 has been a bit of a let-down. 39 is kind of cool because it's 13x3 i.e. the…

I've had sciatica on and off for years..... sitting down all day makes it worse, exercising makes it better, however exercising with poor posture makes it worse. If it's been exacerbated by running, then I'd question whether you have bad posture, in particular the pelvis tilting forward a bit. Some exercises to improve…

Why the snarky comment about my age? She didn't simply identify that it exists... she said it was anti-women to disparage zumba etc and promote weight lifting. Sorry, but that's not sexist or anti-women at all. Just because one is traditionally considered to be feminine does not make disparaging it sexist. the assumption…

yeah I know you are supporting women's rights...... I just wanted to make you look at some of the underlying assumptions behind your statements. To really challenge sexism you have to first identify the real enemy and fight that. Also, when you look into gender stereotyping, you find that it harms men as much as it does…