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The BMI gives a pretty broad range of weights for HEALTH for ordinary people, not bodybuilders. It's not about what looks good, it's a about the range of weight within which you can be considered healthy. This goes down to an extremely low body fat percentage that many people would find unattractive - but the point is, BMI…
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Actually, looking again at the OP, I don't think this is about the kids at all. I think it's about your being sick and tired of coming second to your husband in terms of career and life and choice of location. In your situation, I'd be wanting to assert my personal needs a lot more firmly than you have been. It's time to…
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Where does looking after yourself become selfish? When the impact on others is unreasonable. Is it unreasonable to move house and move your children away from their friends? It depends whether that will ultimately solve the problem, or whether the problem is one that you'll be taking with you. So send them to a different…
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Open your diary. Basically, if someone is eating 1800 calories of crap, they're going to be hungry a lot of the time. It's impossible to advise someone about why they might be feeling hungry if you can't see what they're eating and in what quantities.
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You need friends who have a more adult idea of what constitutes "fun". Raiding the sweetshop (literally or metaphorically) might be the height of fun when you're ten years old, but most people move on from there and develop slightly more sophisticated and interesting pleasures in life than cramming large quantities of…
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Dietetic? If you're worried about lemon juice in water being DIURETIC to anything other than an irrelevantly theoretically amount, it's not. Nor is tea. Just drink the water with lemon juice in. Or diet coke if you really can't drink anything sensible. The main thing is, not to try quenching your thirst with really stupid…
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No. There are no easy fixes or we'd have told you about them. What you need to do is to lose weight slowly and steadily, see how you look when you're finally at target weight, make decisions about whether surgery is warranted or not at that point. Right now, worry about your dealing with your weight and your eating habits…
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People on here ask questions, other people answer answer them. Sometimes, you have a choice between the right answer and the "nice" answer. If you "keep your mouth shut" when faced with an answer that is not "nice" then members might get a pile of replies that are dangerous to their health. It's not always easy to give the…
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Aww.. it's lovely that your husband is so romantic. :smile: We both know that you don't look the same, but while you might be feeling emotional about it right now, when you've lost the weight which you WILL do, you're going to be absolutely delighted that you've got a "before" photo to look back on! The hardest part is…
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Lose weight steadily and slowly and as your body fat percentage lowers, the double chin will go too. Depending on the speed of weight loss and your age, the skin might shrink also. If not you'll need plastic surgery. Whether the loose skin shrinks or not, look at it this way, it's far better in terms of health, lifestyle…
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According to you I'm not short. I'm 4' 10"
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You forgot to also mention the potentially deadly levels of perfectly natural cyanide, which is found naturally in bitter almond kernels, which are often ingested mistakenly for their "health" benefits.
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Chicken. Egg. Discuss... Put it this way, make everyone in your family smoke 40 a day, in return we'll all eat an egg yolk every day. How many generations of lung cancer and emphysema do you think it will it take for you to change your mind?
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Yeah, I detox and cleanse every day!!! I was born with a liver, it was designed for detoxing and over 45 years later is still doing a superb job. YLMV* *Your Liver Might Vary As for cleansing, I have a fabulous 12kW shower which I'm very happy with. :smile:
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Here's a tip, whatever you do end up BBQing, also throw some courgettes on the grill. I think you call them zuccini in America. Just slice them lengthways into four chunks, give them a good grilling, and what starts as a dull and fairly unpleasantly flobbledy dobbledy vegetable ends up as being filling and utterly…
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*sigh* Yet another please that, as a woman, will be denied to me. FML. :bigsmile:
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I doubt I could move 304lb an inch, yet along drag it around for 30 minutes. That is some SERIOUS exercise she's been doing! As she loses weight, she's likely to find that to continue eating as much as she does at present, and still lose weight, she'll have to do a LOT more exercise. Or, she'll have to eat a lot less,…
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Just stop fretting and go buy a Polar FT4. Great balance between features and price. Reliable well known brand. Easy to set up, has a chest strap, as accurate as a non-medical equipment HRM can be.
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Wow there are a lot of really fragile women out there. Grow a set! If I get fat, I want someone to tell me, not in a nasty way, but if your partner can't make you think twice about your lifestyle choices when you're just a bit overweight, you're going to end up massively obese and not only will the subject, but also YOU…
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My precious cargo is ME! Doesn't get more precious than that... EDITED TO ADD Back in the days of phones with buttons, if I was on an empty road, II used to text things like "delayed eta 1200" while driving, because I could put the message together by touch alone, Would never do it these days with smartphones! \mrbrt
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She's not the one to blame. You're NOT going out with him, why on earth shouldn't she meet him? And why, at a point when she's just setting foot back into the world of dating, should she let you into details of her private life? He sounds like a real p*ssy. Instead of coming running to you and "confessing" that he's agreed…
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Thank you for making me literally laugh out loud and perking up a tough evening. I am totally stealing that line! :bigsmile:
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If you don't like fat free creamers, and can't drink coffee without creamers, your choice is simple. 1. Waste good food calories on coffee with creamer. 2. Stop drinking coffee. Your call. It was a road to Damascus moment for me when I finally realised that I can't have what I want and still be healthy. What I did when I…
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Unless you set your goal as "Stay the same weight" you didn't go over on your allocated calories so you DO have a calorie deficit. If your goal was set at 2lb a week, you have a 1000 calorie a day deficit if you eat all the calories this site allocates to you. While it's great that you're running for the benefits to…
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While "starving" yourself would be dumb, bear in mind the 1200 net figure is for an average woman, and while you're not as short as me (4' 10") you're not exactly average either. I wouldn't be concerned in the slightest if you're eating at least 1200 a day and netting 1100. If your weight loss is slowing, it's most likely…
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Exactly. There's a difference between thighs touching and thighs being squooshed so tightly together that they destroy any clothing that's unfortunate to get between them!
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Left something on the floor? Clearly he doesn't want it, put it in a black bin liner and leave it outside the back door. Next time he doesn't wash up, cook a fabulous meal, and sit down and make it clear that you're enjoying every wonderful morsel. When he asks where his meal is, tell him "You didn't fulfil your deal, I'm…
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I'm 4' 10" which in some ways totally sucks. For instance, my maintenance calories are 1460 a day, which is far less than a lot of people eat to lose 2lb a week. Plus, if I eat 1200 a day and don't do any major exercise, I can expect to lose around well under half a pound a week. The thing to keep hold of in all this doom…
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I'm an engineer, the majority of my working week is spent checking that civil engineering works are compliant in terms of both specification and health & safety. I have to say that this sort of problem has always been very rare for me, even 30 years ago, when female engineers were as rare as hens teeth. The "secret" is to…
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Get heated, you lose. Be cool and professional. Suggest that perhaps he needs time to think about the issue, and tell him you will call him back in several hours when he has had time to consider a suitable response.
