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Sorry, it's an anti-drepressant, I take it for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder... Taking it involves a lot of dietry and drug conflict awareness. Foods that containe Tyramine are forbidden, these include cheeses, vegemite, chocolate, caffeine... Cold medications, painkillers... The results can be anything from sweating,…

I would love to say if you lose the weight slowly, exercise regularly, rub creams and oils into your skin, if your young, if you haven't been overweight for long, that your weight hasn't gone up and down, up and down etc etc etc that you will not have to worry about loose skin - but unfortunately it quite often comes with…

I forgot to add that my husband's cousin is a paramedic too (not sure where you live, but we are in Australia) and the freezer block in a backpack works just fine for him...

I know what you mean about perhaps being on the road and not getting back to the depot. I drive trains and during our whole shift we only get one twenty minute break at the depot and that breeak time is not generally at a time I need to eat, so I do have to carry my food with me. I have a small backpack and a freezer block…

When Iworked 12 hour night/day shifts, I kept my eating and sleeping fairly structured and would eat and sleep on night shift exactly the same as I would on day shift. For example this would be a day shift 0600 Get up and ready for work 0700 Start work 0800 Breakfast 1000 Morning snack 1300 Lunch 1530 Afternoon snack 1900…

I wish, mine are definately new stretch marks, as half way through my weight loss I had the first stage of a body lift, so all my old stretch marks were cut away...

Sadly yes, you get them from weight loss as well, kinda like god's little practical joke on people who have gained weight! The quicker you lose the more likely they are to appear. The only thing I can suggest is massage and using something like Bio Oil everyday to help reduce the liklihood and they say it should fade them…

Everybody works differently, for example, I don't eat my exercise calories back but some people always do. So it's whatever works best for you. If, like me, you don't eat back your calories then when you sign off at the end of the day sometimes it says you haven't eaten enough. The other reason why I don't eat my exercise…

Last year it was my left side while indoor sky-diving, this time it is the right side after tripping in hole in footpath and falling onto my camera. Bones all good - just clumsy owner...

hehe, I didn't believe it either - until I tried it :noway:

I only weigh in the morning before my shower. The scales will go up just by having a shower because your body will absorb water through the skin like a sponge!

I think mine is a Polar FT4... It is fantastic! I also got it off Ebay so saved lots of $$$ that way too. It has a chest strap that you wear and a watch that receives the information. At the end of each workout it will tell you - - how long your workout was - how many calories burned - how long you were working in your…

I've been to Spain and France once and they were both such beautiful, fun, wonderful countries. If this is a once in a lifetime trip then - a) you are probably going to be walking, walking, walking, dancing and walking some more and b) what do you want your memories of this trip to be? Having a wonderful time, enjoying all…

So well explained. I have a heart rate monitor with a chest strap and it really is an eye opener how doing the same exercise on different days the calories burned can be a difference of up to 250.

After being involved in a critical incident at work in March, I have now recently been diagnosed with depression and in the the last 2 weeks started on medication. I know and can understand exactly how it feels when you don't want to get up, get dressed, do anything. I could sit and stare at a spot on the wall forever if I…

Completely unrelated to your original question - as it seems to have derailed.... :grumble: :grumble: :grumble: I just want everyone on this website to remember that we are all adults who are able to make decisions about ourselves. If we ask for help on a subject, then just offer help on that topic instead of thinking that…

I think maybe you misread the post, she's not getting a lapband done.

I've had the exact same thing done in the past. If they just look and don't touch you will feel fine after not very long at all. But usually while they are there they try and clean things up a bit, in which case you will be a little more uncomfortable. Just to explain that I do understand, my appendix burst as a teenager…

I don't eat back my exercise calories, so I usually do it at the end of the day when I finish up my diary... Just to clarify, I don't go out of my way to eat them back, if I'm hungry I'll eat something extra. But my food diary is planned out 2 weeks ahead based on 1200 cals a day.

I'm so with you there!!!

I persoanlly don't track sodium, so that's neither her nor there for me. I'm most interested in calories, protein and fat. The rest of my family are all canivores so on the days I cook them a very meat orientated meal I quite often will have a frozen meal for convenience and variety. So may 2 - 3 times per week on average.…

Hee hee - means the same in Australia too!! I thought the post was about at what stage of weight loss people started having sex, nookie, bonking, special cuddles, naughties... Just have to get myself off the floor.. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile: :blushing: :blushing: :blushing: Good luck…

I used to do Bodypump all the time and mixed it up with cycling and Bodystep (at the moment I'm concentratin on Bikram Yoga so that's all I'm doing for the next couple of months as I'm participating in a challenge to go 6 days per week for 2 months). I used to get great results from it, strength increased and muscles…

If you are going out for your birthday, then don't you dare scrimp on what you eat - after all there are no calories in a once a year birthday treat :bigsmile: I guess I shall be hung, drawn and quartered for saying that, but even when we are watching what we eat, life is still for living AND ENJOYING! :drinker: :drinker:…

Yay, me too WA!! :bigsmile: Thursday is weigh day...

I haven't looked at menu, but I say if you have done so well and achieved your goal weight you should be entitled to go out for tea and enjoy yourself occassionaly. I'm not saying pig right out mindlessly on the whole menu with no regard at all. I'm saying that if you don't go out all the time, then it should be a…

I had a gastric sleeve done October 1st 2009, I had it done as a result of an ulcer, but same outcome. I lost 77 pounds in a year. My weight started to creep up over the last few months due to a stressful incident I was involved in. But apart from that and getting use to what you can and can't eat, it has all been…

By the way, feel free to poke at my diary if it helps. Just don't expect anything too exciting! And ignore water - I don't bother logging it :bigsmile:

I rotate as well. I try to use as many things that are already the right size, then it eliminates having to measure and weigh - which also stops me adding 'just that bit extra, just this once - really'... :laugh: I also plan my meals 2 weeks at a time and enter the fortnight all at once, then each day I only have to tweak…

I'm 5'7, weigh 57kg and wear an Australian size 8 jeans and a US size 4/5. When I was in the US last year I had a look at a size 0 just because I had never seen any, and I was AMAZED at how teensy it was! Now that I have seen how big (or small) they were, I cannot honestly believe the celebs who are my height and say they…