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......and then you have established atheletes like Lance Armstrong who finally confess to Oprah that yes they did abuse steroids to get to and hold their positions at the top of the sporting tree, a man who also was supposed to be a role model for those youngsters who aspired to be like him and didnt know he was cheating…

you know when you log your food for the day in the food diary and it shows you how much fat, protein, carbs, sodium, fibre etc you have eaten plus your calories , then it has your daily allowance underneath and then how close above or under you have matched the numbers......are those macros, then ? and if they are has MFP…

pork chops = meat = protein and a good source of iron mashed potatos = starchy vegetable and vitamin c and it wasnt cooked in oil green peas is fibre, vitamin c and one of your five a day vegetables all sound good to me and the gravy can be counted in calorie wise

Having petty crooks for parents, my father was in and out of prison spending months on the run , criss crossing the country , hiding form the police all before the age of 6 my siblings and I being dumped in and out of childrens homes in ireland when my parents thought it was easier to evade the police without 4 kids in tow…

Some of my favourite carbs for those times when youre eating carbs anyway are New York fruit and oat bagels which have 9g of carbs. I also like Danone-shape yogurts which have 8g of protein. cottage cheese and low fat cream cheese are nice. Beef , chicken and pork are good sources of protein , so are fish, eggs and hard…

Sure I have access to real food, BUT my nearest store is quite some distance from where I live and so I only go food shopping once a week. I find having slimfast shakes convenient as ive already outlined for this reason. For daytrips, for weekends, for the fact they live in a cupboard and dont go off for months, for the…

Hi there OP, I actually like Slimfast ready prepared shakes, I always keep a few chilled in the fridge and some in my car. I have a very busy lifestyle and live in a rural area, so I dont always have access to huge supermarkets and I dont own a blender, not sure why but I dont. So....... I like the fact I can grab a shake…

Dear Anne, I think youre a brave woman to bring up No4, its something that had crossed my mind also, if I found it difficult how on earth did larger people manage? Henry the 8th (yes him!) King of England back in tudor times, was so fat somebody had to wipe his bottom as he couldnt reach, hence his servant's title "Keeper…

Amen to all of that , very well written indeed, every single person on these forums with a weight issue is overweight from not exercising self control in the past when it comes to intake

Personally until you sort out the settings or use a different online weight calculator or ask your doctor or nurse next time you see them I wouldnt eat under 1500 calories a day until you have it sorted out, its very unlikely you would gain or maintain on 1500 so you should surely lose something even if its a smaller or…

once i get to my goal weight i plan on doing the 5:2 occasionally and most weeks 6:1 for the rest of my life

Thanks for that I think I will do that :) edited to add, thank you to the poster who supplied that scoobycalculator thing, ive just used it and saved it to my favourites folder it is amazing and whats more easy to use, thank you so much, it says I can eat 1500 a day so yayyy

Hi there, could somebody help me out with the maths please as im utterlyh opeless at maths and Im also anxious Im doing it wrong now too. When I joined MFP I entered my age as 53 my height at 5ft4 and my weight then was 210 (this was 4 weeks ago) MFP told me to eat 1200 calories and I would lose 1.3 pounds a week Its not…

Ive never been a great one for exercise, except for walking, but Ive recently joined a gym because of an experience I had at the hospital of all places. Id gone along to the cardiac unit to have a heart stress test. I had to get on a treadmill thing which they speeded up until youre using 85% of your heart or something for…

I plan on wearing the same stuff all the time and dont intend to buy hardly anything until i reach goal weight. At the moment in the hot weather Im wearing long t shirts, shorts and flip flops which are incredibly cheap summer items, but with autumn approaching I will be wearing my husbands long sleeved white work shirts…

You look incredible, well done

Trying to get 3 teenagers/young adults out of bed ! The 18 year old needs to go to physio in an hour ( broke his arm doing a back flip off a trampoline back in April) , he also needs to get to his college to find out his A level results which are released today ! (maybe thats why he is staying in bed) my eldest girl (22)…

I was never very good at chemistry at school and when I go shopping I dont have all day, so I try to buy food that most closely resembles natural foodstuffs. Thats easy with fresh fruit, vegetables, fish meat and eggs, the rest of my shopping list is a little more tricky. So I buy olive oil instead of corn oil, butter…

congratulations on losing 50lbs! thats a great loss and thanks for showing everybody

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Over the years my husband and I have owned & flown 2 hot air balloons. We spend some of our leisure time hiking and camping in the summer months, but mostly we attend auctions and fairs all around the country as we are both interested in antiques

Married 34 years ....I go out of my way to do nice things for him every day. I dont sweat the small stuff, dont blame or nag him when things go wrong or if he forgets something, I dont belittle him in front of others and make sure I only ever say good things about him to others even if we had a major argument, nobody else…

cooked bacon and chocolate of any kind

Morechablis, I read most of the recently posted posts on ANY topic everyday, I also post where I like, theres nothing strange about that at all ..and yes Im happily married therefore I feel that qualifies me to give my perspective on what leads to a happy marriage and modern dating styles imo of course, arent conducive to…

Big glass of water and go to bed, if Im lying there unable to sleep I get up and have another large drink and a boiled egg (70 calories and protein to curb hunger) as I dont particularly like an egg at bedtime its enough to keep me in bed most nights . Sometimes if Im feeling very hungry and do not want egg I have a cup of…

is that your best response? really? pathetic...

Well Irish stew has potatos in it, if it doesnt have potatos its not irish stew, the irish ate potatos , the chief dish of which was irish stew and they died when the potato crop failed, so Im guessing their stews were more potato than meat , as for your "stews" of course you wont die from eating cooked meat without potato…

Wikipaedia the irish potato famine, the irish population lived on potatos and the chief dish was Irish stew, whats to lol about? For anyone interested here is the recipe for traditional Irish stew Ballymaloe Irish Stew (Traditional) Ingredients: 2 lbs. lamb (necks, chops, shoulder, etc.), cut into 2-inch chunks where…

I I had a day like that on saturday. my family and I had gone along to a summer fayre in a quaint village and I matched everything they ate, my justification at the time was they can eat it and be skinny and its only one day. So we started lunchtime with a barbecued beefburger and cheese in a bread roll, followed by an ice…

Just as is plenty of people find it acceptable over a lifetime is your opinion, as you havent interviewed plenty of people you are referring to yourself and the rest is anecdotal stews arent a stew without potato, the potato thickens the stew and hence why in the irish potato famine so many people died as they couldnt make…