charlieandcarol Member

I guess the thing is that when you have a condition such as Type II diabetes you may well have the right to eat whatever you want because its your body but what about when you go blind or lose your limbs or the numerous other illness that do happen, do you also then have the right to expect others (ie your wife and family)…

It looks like some sort of electrical impedence scan which are reknown for being inaccurate or out and out wrong. Things like you level of hydration heavily affect the results. If you really want to know your body fat, get a bodypod or dexa scan. Otherwise I wouldn't bother with the other scan it is not telling you real…

That's Charlie. I am at graduate school also but not even nearly finished......sitting on your butt at a computer all day is not helpful for health, fitness or weight loss I find!!!!!

Electrolyte imbalances like hyponatraemia aren't usually diet related, thet are often due to issues with thyroid or pituitary glands or kidneys as it often comes back to hormone regulation of body functions. Hope the bloods give you some answers.

Regarding the bloated/distended abdomen. If you have any abdominal procedure laproscopically they usually fill your abdomen with carbon dioxide so that things separate and they can see clearly. Usually takes a week or two for your body to reabsorb the gas. Also post op temporary inflammation and swelling will result in…

Do you have photos of yourself throughout your weight loss, sounds like you have done an awesome job and looking at your photos laid out side by side might help you see that? This might be about your fundamental body shape, which sounds like you might be an apple. I am an apple too and my areas where I carry the weight are…

Same Christine297. I just did some googling to figure out who he is. OMG........

I've had one. The results were that my ideal body fat % meant that my ideal weight is 75kg which is 4 kg above the top weight of my BMI range. I apparently have above average muscle mass for a woman. It was very enlightening although they give you these x-ray images of the scan in which you can see your skeleton and then…

Do you remember that time during your teenage years when you were all hormonal and your body was going crazy and you felt irrationally miserable/sad/depressed/angry or whatever and you really couldn't control it and ended up frustrated and upset? That's what a couple days every month is like for me (can't speak for others)…

Are you wearing the same clothes or loosely fitting clothes. I lost 10kgs and noone noticed until I wore some better fitting clothes.

The amount of calories that machines give you are usually inaccurate and over estimate (in my experience), which doesn't matter if you don't eat them back but does if you do.

To answer the OPs question, I am overweight and vegetarian and I think it is because it is very easy to over eat things like bread, pasta and rice when you are a vego. I don't mean that carbs as such are the problem, just that you have to be diligent with making sure you get lots of veg and protein. In my case things like…

I have had Fitbit Flex for 8 months, love it, wear it everyday. Only issue I've had was that the band would sometimes come undone and just before Christmas I lost it. Fitbit replaced it for free and it arrived within 2 weeks, over the holiday period, and I am in Australia. Only reason I would get something different is to…

The stickies are at the top of each forum's list of threads

Wow you look like a skating machine! Do you do roller derby?

Me too. I was with a PT the other day and he was telling me that I wasn't doing an exercise correctly and I was too embarassed to tell him it was because my breasts were in the way!!

Its no problem to do that, just be aware that you can't reduce fat in a particular area by exercising it. It might tone it up and improve the muscle strength in that area but where you lose weight from is determined by your genetics not by which bit you exercise. Plus and elliptical is not going to make you "muscular"…

What kind of blood test did you have? One done by the naturopath or a one done by a medical pathology lab?

Based on every post you have ever written I would suggest that people should only send you a friend request if they like their friends blunt, smug, condescending and self important. No judgement here, just stating the facts. Anyone new looking for advice on nutrition, macros or exercise would be better served by joining…

I agree, sounds more like you changed and now you are judging her and making her feel not good enough. Calling her lazy when she is probably doing what you probably used to do together all the time for fun is mean. Sounds like the best thing she could do is not be in a relationship with you if you are going to be so…

I was thinking plantar fascitis too. I have had it for over 2 years. Being female and overweight are two of the risk factors. The concrete floor won't be helping and they always make my feet worse. Don't keep doing things that make it hurt, it will only get worse. Go see a podiatrist, they will help you out. The correct…

its probably not there because it isn't really exercise.......

Have a look under my discussions or recent discussions on your home page.

As above. Fit bit is only designed to estimate steps from daily activity and walking which it then estimates cals for. Any other activity it is not designed to do that for. I use my HRM for anything other than walking but if you find your numbers are accurate I guess just stick with what you are doing. I am looking forward…

I just had a look at your diary for the last 2 weeks. I think that if you aren't losing weight you are probably eating at maintenance levels. Your food logging could probably do with some tightening up and that might help. Try weighing everything you eat except liquids. You might be suprised at the difference in calories.…

If its the same as a Fitbit Flex then the software takes your weight, height, gender and age and allocates a baseline calories burned per hour. So the 1115 cals is not the cals you burned from your steps alone in the last hour, but the cals it estimates you burned from being alive since midnight, if that makes sense? As…

Hi, Until just before Christmas I had a Fitbit Flex. I found it really motivating just in terms of the steps monitoring and being able to look at it on the computer and see how active or inactive I had been for the day. I think that anyone who purchases something like the Fitbit Flex (or jawbone or whatever with no HRM)…

I got a Vivosmart for Christmas but I am taking it back. I can't get the HR monitoring function to work properly. It either doesn't pick up anything at all or it picks it up briefly but then loses it again. I did some research on the internet and it seems others have had this problem and exchanged the device two or three…

What kind of "water pill" are you taking? These can really mess around with your electrolytes and your fluid balance (and therefore your weight and not necessarily in the way you seem to want) even if you are only taking it once a week and especially if you don't clinically need the pill for things like renal failure or…

Well Done, we are a similar body shape and its inspiring to see what can be done with some determination! Thanks for posting