charlieandcarol Member

Sounds like you need to go see a decent cardiologist.....

I am always surprised by how judgmental people are of those who go down the surgery path, like those who don't are morally superior, everyone has to make the decision they believe is the best for them. The key to self improvement, I would have thought in any area is surely to focus on your self, your goals, your…

As I recall, but I am not 100% certain, you didn't have to eat exercise points or weekly points if you didn't want to but there was a limit to how many exercise points you could count in a week, 10 seems to be the number I remember but like I said, not certain.

Bonking has a whole other meaning in Australia.......

Hi, I am not in your situation but just wanted to wish you and your husband well.

You might need to check the blue tooth on your galaxy and whether it is the right kind to talk to the Fitbit. My sister got a garmin device and had trouble, turns out there are two kinds of blue tooth (one older, one newer) and her garmin needed the one her galaxy didn't have. Not sure if the same with the fitbit? Also as…

Definitely try to give up the smoking regardless of what ops you might have but especially if you do have an op. Smoking leads to reduced blood flow and oxygen supply, neither of which you want for your already struggling joints or if you have surgery. Easy for me to say I guess since stress of it all is probably why you…

There was a documentary on the BBC about a government program trying to help obese primary school children in the UK. It was amazing in that these kids were morbidly obese, many of them twice the weight or more they should be, their eyes getting closed up from their chubby round faces, crying as they describe to the child…

You are not the only one :) the general advice seems to be to divert yourself to something else but I find it hard to do. The something else being going for a walk or whatever.

Here in Australia the serving size on a package, eg cereal, muesli (granola) bar etc has been getting manipulated by the companies that produce them, largely in the downsized direction for two reasons. One is that they are giving you less product but charging the same in the case of stuff like biscuits and muesli bars and…

PF never gets better quickly unfortunately, can take up to 18 months. And the more you hammer it with long runs, probably the longer it will take. I got good orthotics from the podiatrist, wore the correct runners (I pronate and that was part of the problem), lost some weight and I think the most important thing is that I…

Lots of good thoughts above. Another thing to think about is your body shape (genetically determined). If female is a normal body weight they might be pear shaped or apple shaped or whatever, ie their body tends to store fat in their bottom or hips (pear), or tends to store in tummy and arms (apples). Once you put on…

If you were sure that the device was accurately measuring your HR during exercise I would go with those numbers but my sister has a Charge HR and finds that it is really inconsistent with monitoring her HR during exercise that pushes her HR above 120. She has checked it against her Polar HRM and the Charge is usually…

If you weigh daily you have to accept the fluctuations. If you know you are eating within cals then you know its not real weight gain. Maybe using something like trendweight might be helpful if you aren't already? It gives you a trend line on a graph which kind of smooths out the fluctuations and shows if you are heading…

Hi, I am no expert but I had a look at your diary and I noticed that there are a lot of whole number weights and a few things in cups and couple things I am wondering if you picked something from the database that sounded like what you were eating but weren't exactly what you were eating? Just made me think you aren't…

I have similar thought processes/habits. One is couch+evening+TV=cravings=overeating. Another is major study deadline+procrastination+anxiety about procrastinating=cravings=overeating. Sometimes its like a worm chewing away in my brain and ruins a whole day of good work. I never feel better afterwards but that doesn't seem…

Ha you beat me to it... Baked beans good for your heart Baked beans make you fart The more you fart the better you feel So eat baked beans for every meal!

I am Australian and grew up on a sheep farm and I have to ask you, do you seriously believe there is no factory farming in Australia? Had a look at the Australian Pig and Poultry industry lately? And I am pretty sure those factory feeding lots aren't much fun for the cattle being "finished off" either. And OP I agree with…

You are horribly misinformed. I worked in ICU for a long time and saw plenty of people die from gall bladder "attacks" and their associated complications. Sometimes it was their first and only attack.

That's because it is pretty hard to market rapeseed oil and margarine made from rapeseed oil, hence Canola.

There are only 3 countries in the world that aren't officially metric......

Well Done!

I am just finishing a 12wbt round. I did one about 2 years ago. The amount of calories per day has gone up, depending on what you chose and the requirement to burn 500 cals a day is gone. There are a few more different exercise plans, some that are a bit more lower key....if that helps....

Have you done some research on how to train for running distance? If you want to run a 10 km race you don't go out and run 10km everyday until the race, same goes for longer distances. You generally do a mix of intervals, hills and endurance of varying time or distance durations. Marathon runners don't run a marathon every…

I have a flex and find it seems reasonably accurate. I don't tend to eat back calories it gives me though unless I am hungry. I think that until you are as accurate as you can be with your food logging its more likely that the food logging is the problem not the fitbit. I guess once you are weighing all your food and are…

Hi, To answer your question re outweigh your calorie deficit. If, for example, you set your goal loss on mfp of 1 pound a week which means you need a deficit of 3500 cals for the week. You eat your cals needed to achieve this (say like in your case it is 1200 cals per day) for 5 days but on the weekend your "blow out" adds…

I think that mfp has a default minimum net of 1200 calories for women. So whatever the height or weight of someone, if the weight loss goal they choose would put them below 1200, they still get 1200. I am quite overweight with a maintenance of about 2200 without exercise, which I think would be about the same for a lot of…

Lots of women believe this but as far as I am aware no properly conducted clinical trials have ever shown it to be true.

Pathology blood tests don't tell you anything about the volume of your blood, only how much of a particular component per a a particular volume unit (decl, ml ect depending on the test) or as a percentage. Blood volume is usually kept withing a range by your body depending upon hydration, hormonal fluctuations, trauma,…

If I eat less than 2 hours before I exercise or run I get horrible indigestion, a stitch, have a rubbish run and often can't finish the run.