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Regarding the momma guilt... looking after yourself physically means you'll have more energy for other things (fitter people don't get tired so easily), and hopefully also means being in better health in old age, which will mean being there for your kids for longer, less likely to have health issues that impact on their…

this is pretty similar to me. I'm a single mum with 2 kids and a demanding full time job. There's no way I can find time to go to the gym, so instead I've treated myself to a barbell (expecting delivery this week ***excited***) and I'm going to buy a power cage and bench too in due course. I walk to work and walk the kids…

If my sister in law gave me clothes I'd be fine with that, and wouldn't think anything bad about it, I'd probably be thankful, or if they didn't fit or whatever, I'd pass them on to someone else or the charity shop. My family tend to pass clothes and household stuff around from person to person anyway, so maybe it depends…

is shiny the new word for someone with ADHD? I hate it. (yes I do have inattentive ADHD so my opinion does count). I hate most labels though, so take my opinion in that context. if you are moving more because you have ADHD then your TDEE may be a little bit higher than the estimates, due to more NEAT (non-exercise…

if unicorns existed, neanderthals would have hunted and eaten them

yeah lol I like that :) I would have made the punchline be connected to the scarily high rate of fractures in neanderthal male skeletons and the fact that they had to kill large mammals with close range thrusting spears before they could eat. This is my "neanderthal problems" blog post:…

Palaeolithic people probably didn't wear loin cloths. Lower palaeolithic people would have gone naked. Middle palaeolithc people had clothing but it almost certainly was mainly functional, probably was decorative to some extent but it's unlikely they had modern ideas about modesty, and a loincloth is completely pointless…

Not true here's an article about a cancerous tumor found in a neanderthal skeleton dating back to 120,000 years ago: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0064539 also, the main reason why there was *less* cancer in palaeolithic times is that a lot of people didn't live long enough to get cancer.…

maybe they know more about the gym than you realise, and their comments about why they think it's not a good place to work out comes from that prior knowledge (such as the lack of squat racks, the lunk alarm, how they market their gyms), and it has nothing to do with your comment that you felt comfortable there...

^^^^^^^^^ this is so true and extremely wise advice

having seen all the marketing for Planet Fitness, I'll never go there, because their marketing makes me feel like I'd be totally unwelcome and unwanted there. This is the main reason people hate on planet fitness... they make serious weightlifters and pretty much anyone who's serious about exercise feel unwelcome. Also,…

^^^ this

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I missed the apple fritter thread I actually would like to know what post got flagged... just out of curiosity really. And did I really say something that was out of order, or was the other person being oversensitive.

there's no way on the new forums to easily find your earlier posts

I've got one. Is there any way to find out what post I got it for? I'm always polite to everyone, no idea why I'd have an abuse flag :'(

I'm 5'1" and lose weight on 1800 cals/day - I have a large frame and a high lean body mass for my height though... but that probably only gives me 100 or so extra calories, so you should be able to do that.... do a bit more physical activity if it helps. my TDEE is around 2100 cals/day when doing weight lifting 2-3x per…

^^^^ this and also: aim for slow and steady weight loss, it doesn't matter how long it takes to get there, what matters is staying there once you do get there. Set your goal to lose weight at 1lb/week if you have a lot to lose or 0.5lb if you only have a little to lose. Try to hit your calorie goal as close as you can,…

if your eating habits haven't changed then the explanation is probably that you're less active than you were before. Rather than cutting foods out, it'd be better to eat the same as you did before, but be more active... do some kind of active hobby or exercise class or something, plus do stuff like taking the lift instead…

obsessing about food can be a direct response to eating too little... check your calories, if you're trying to do too big a deficit then a smaller deficit may be the answer.

pasta with pizza flavoured sauce. basically it's pasta with a bolognaise style sauce, but I put the same veggies the kids like on pizza on it, and top it with a little grated cheese. And you can put finely chopped veggies in it too, like spinach. My kids hate the texture of spinach, but finely chopped in something strong…

berries and insects

if you're doing the TDEE minus a percentage method, using an activity factor, then you're not supposed to eat back exercise calories. Exercise calories are factored in when you calculate your TDEE with the activity factor (the activity factor is your exercise calories) if you're using MFP numbers, then you should eat back…

That is the problem, because where do you draw the line in all this? We're animals, i.e. we have to eat other organisms to survive. The idea of breatharianism is a very nice one, just living directly off sunlight and air......... BUT animals haven't evolved the ability to photosynthesise in 600 million years so a few nut…

Plants are living things too. They are alive and they are sensitive. They respond to changes in the environment... they have feelings. They can detect damage to themselves and respond to it. There comes a point at which we just have to accept that we are animals and as such incapable of photosynthesising, and therefore…

I agree. The myth that the vegan diet is healthier originates from ethical vegans, along with quite a few other myths such as that gorillas are vegans and humans evolved as herbivores. The supposed health benefits from the vegan diet come from studies that show correlations, i.e. that vegans and vegetarians get less cancer…

you can ethically source milk and eggs though. You're not killing things when you eat milk or eggs. Okay, I know some of the farming practices in procuring milk and eggs harm the animals, but that's not a foregone conclusion... organic free-range eggs and milk that come from happy chickens and happy cows is a possibility.…

I agree.... that definitely seems geared up for my generation.... they're all the muppet characters I watched growing up, and also they're behaving like adult stereotypes

it's what you get if you cross a neanderthal with a cro-magnon. Because I'm obsessed with the palaeolithic era, and having studied palaeoanthropology I have observed that my below the neck body proportions and the back of my head are more neanderthal than cro-magnon, yet I have a vertical forehead and pointy chin. plus…

starvation mode the way it's described by most people who use the term is a complete myth the human body does have survival responses that result in a slowing of the metabolism (adaptive thermogenesis) and slowing of the rate that fat is burned, in response to long term insufficient calorie intake; these responses evolved…