david_swinstead Member

I love how you disguuised your face, even though we can all see it in your profile photo :) Also .. good work on the loss.

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Yea definitely get the reduced salt ones. Otherwise they're all good :)

I suppose anything is possible, so it could be the oats. It could also be small martians nesting in your stomach. But more sensibly, it's almost certainly neither of them. Seriously, go see your doctor.

1) Ive been ill ever since I started drinking green tea and Im starting to wonder if its connected 2) Trying to reconcile my monthly finances and the £3 discrepancy is really doing my head in 3) Discovering that a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter in the kitchen at work can sort me out for breakfast all week. Cool!…

Doesn't sound to me like a job I would class as sedentary, which is even more reason why you need to make sure you're eating enough calories. Sorry but I have to disagree with everyone on this thread who is saying that if you feel full then it's ok. No it isn't! You need to keep your calorie intake at the right levels or…

Basically you've gone overboard in your quest to eat healthy. your meals are so "healthy" that they are unhealthy. Sounds weird right? But its true. You need to learn not to fear calories. This next bit is really important: Less is not always better. You know what the number one reason is that people on here plateau and…

Nuts! And especially in peanut butter form :D

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Wow, what a response. Thanks guys for all the feedback. Although there's a hell of a lot of info in here that I shall have a proper sift through when I get home this evening, it seems pretty clear that the main bit of advice everyone agrees upon is that there's no way I can do both while I'm losing 2lbs per week, eating…

Also, if I weigh myself tomorrow and I've lost weight (the weight of the blood), can I count that, or is that cheating?

Must admit it's been a few days since Ive seen anything about muscle weight more than fat (or not), what's goign on? Is this typical "February" syndrome, when all the resolutionists have left us?

Thats why you should use tissues, not a towel. And after every machine you bin the tissue and get some more from the dispenser.

Its a workout DVD fro Jillian Michaels, the 30 day shred. Really pretty intense, and if you do it every day for 30 days (which is the idea) the results can be amazing.

You will have the "newbie effect" on your arms, meaning your strength will initially increase very quickly.

Maybe you're overthinking it? It's fruit. Just eat it.

FWIW my scales weighed me in at 16 stone, 8.25 lbs this morning. I logged 16 stone 8 (232lbs) and I didn't feel guilty about chopping off the 0.25lbs.

Well exercise is all relative to you. An amount that is a lot for some people, would be just getting warmed up for others, and most people are somewhere in the massive void in between the two. So it's hard to judge what is or isn't a good amount of exercise. But whatever your activity level, walking for a whole hour is a…

Decimals of a lb really aren't worth bothering with in my opinion. If you weigh yourself in lbs, either round the decimal up/down, or just chop it off altogether and ignore it (equivalent to rounding down).

Your scales will be giving you the weight in stones and lbs. So if they show 10 - 7 then you weigh 10 stones and 7 lbs. But this is *not* the same as 10.7 stone, so if you put 10.7stone into a calculator you will get the wrong answer. 10 stone and 7lb is 10.5 stone, not 10.7 stone. Our UK system of using stones and lbs is…

May 1st is going to be a happy day for the guys of MFP!

Now that's more like it!

Yep this is Rachel McLish and Iris Kyle, both Ms Olympia winners (in fact Irish has won it every year for ages now). BUT not a fair comparison really, as Rachel was competing in the 80s when Ms Olympia was basically a Fitness or Figure competition. Nowadays it's taken more seriously as a pro bodybuilding event because the…

Easy - fruit! When I get to work I sit down at my desk and chow down on a couple of apples with my morning protein shake. I know that I really ought to eat more for breakfast but like the OP Im always in a hurry so need something I can eat with ZERO preparation.

She can't help it. Haven't you ever met anyone Scottish? ;)

While there is some truth in what some people have said, that you should be taking measurements, it's also not likely that you've done everything right and still gained a whole 5lbs, because to imply that it's 5lbs of muscle (which seems to be what people are implying, when they say you should measure inches not lbs), well…

Even the last bit? Cause that would confuse me.

Letting him chase you is never a bad idea, but you wont try if he doesnt even have a clue that you're interested. Flirt a little, let him know you brought your trunks to the pool party, then back off and see if he responds.

Err .. rebump?

When I had a similar moment, my epiphany wasn't the realisation that I could eat half of it, my epiphany was realising how many calories (and carbs) are in tortilla wraps. Way more than I expected! After I cut them out of my lunchtime and replaced them with a tin of heinz big soup for lunch instead, I saved almost half of…