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granola would have made up the bigger part of that. I'd be careful even with the choices i made wrt fruit.

wow, your husband seems to think women are obliged to have a body that he approves of. He sounds very annoying. Thick means not too clever to me.

ps, yes even on ww i wwould count potato and banana. the mfp dissuades people from eating a banana instead of two jaffa cakes. two jaffa cakes have FEWER calories. but if you're doing points then i think the banana would win.

I count them on this thing, but in my head it's the wrong way of eating. In my mind, things like red peppers, mushrooms, onions, leeks etc and the things I've always relied on to make tasty meals are free. I need to watch out for the amount of rice, garlic puree, sun dried tomato paste and cream cheese I add!! i follow a…

perhaps a little but i don't care. who wants big boobs? you can't run, you can't wear nice clothes.

ha ha, no ugly people in spain. the spanish don't do ugly. well done. I've never added anybody just because they're goodlooking. But it'd be more in the pose than the actual LOOKS. A handsome person can look modest and wholesome and down to earth or they can look like a right ol' narcissistic poseur.

i do moan about the weather here but when i was in florida years ago i was totally overwhelmed by the heat. Just rushing from house to car was a sweaty eye-searing ordeal. If you forgot your sun glasses you were blinded. You felt like a sweaty mess by 11am. My hair looked like a bichon-frisse. Ireland's 20 degrees in the…

I heard it's on a Thursday this year. The same thursday that both your kids will be sick.

Sunscreen!!!! I wish I needed that! I did used to use that other stuff, it makes you go slightly more orange in about four hours. Just to make myself look slightly less Tipp-Ex. I would love, love, love if we could put a huge glass roof over Ireland, we could extend it out over the irish sea and ask wales, and cornwall,…

i LOVE peanut butter and allow myself a civilised portion at least every second day. I wouldn't touch the rice cake because it's got such a high GI though!

I think the rule is 'no more than half your height' with the 'preferred range' being between 45% and 48%

That's TINY. my goal waist is 28" That would give me a height to waist ratio of about 46% If you're 5'7'' and you had a waist of 24", that'd give you a waist to height ratio of 35.8% and that sound VERY low to me.

Well if we're going with nail-orientated confessions, I confess that I've never ever had a 'pedi' or a 'mani' and I really couldn't care less what my nails look like. They're clean (unlike my son's ha ha). They look ok, I can type. They're not bitten. Why spend hours fiddling with your nails [puzzled face]

Well, a bit of low fat hummous is GORGEOUS with broccoli. a heaped teaspoon of low fat hummous not too high in cals and it goes a long way on a few broccoli florets.

There's no need to move on to revolution yet! I love jillian but she does keep churning out dvds. and I THINK that ripped in 30 is very similar to 30ds in its format 3:2:1 (but with another, harder level 4 to tantalise her die hard fans) I have about four jillian dvds now and I mix it up a little. i found 30ds great for…

Wow that must be so tough, to be on the receiving end of that talk. It depends how overweight you are I think. I mean, bringing a few kids into the world is a big deal, and if he's expecting you to have the body of shakira after that, in your 30s and 40s then I'd be tempted to say, off you go mate, and good luck with…

Just read your profile and I see you're in the uk. I used to live in the UK and when i was there, and doctors were free, I was much less confident about saying 'no, hang on a minute, can you actually test for that??'. But I was brought up in Ireland where doctors cost an arm and a leg and patients are clients and they want…

Well, tbh, I think 1200 is too littel a day. It's tough even making the right food choices not to go hungry. BUT,.... I don't think it's low enough to affect your fertility. You should be menstruating. I'd tell the doctor that you'd like some blood tests done. They can't tell very much from your urine I wouldn't have…

I don't know what your BMI is but judging from your photo, if it's in the high end of normal, or only a bit above normal, those pounds come off like blood out of a stone. I've been exercising for weeeeeeeks now, and very very careful with food, and I've not lost a gram.

I just added you (or sent you a request). I LOVE bread too, but now I've switched to a really easy to make home made high protein, low carb, high fibre, low fat substitute. oat bran 140gms (in the cereal aisle, near the porridge) , 310mls of skimmed milk and 2 eggs. Spin it all up with bit of baking powder and if you have…

Good for Julia Roberts imo. It seems to me that the more opportunities women have in the workplace, the closer we get to equal pay, the more childcare duties fathers take on 'as a norm'............ the MORE WORK WOMEN HAVE TO DO TO BE CONSIDERED FEMININE. We (as a gender) change our hair, our eyebrows, tint our lashes,…

That is such a myth. HARDLY any French women don't remove their underarm and leg hair. They WAX. shaving is for amateurs.

no, I wouldn't feel like chicken in the morning either! i am going to go and have a browse in the health food shop.

Bekcy Boodle, that sounds nice. That's the kind of thing I'd like to try.

I'd be morto going into a health food shop looking for some. have you tried it Aisling? you wouldn't need it after 30ds would you!? does it keep you full for hours? lots of people who aren't trying to build up muscle use it. I just want to look toned as in not wobbly.

uk size 10 or 12 depending on the shop. expensive shops, a 12. i'm 126lbs and five one and a half. THINK my bmi is about 24?

Maybe you should try BFBM, as now, you have the upper body strength and the core strength from 30ds, you can do the cardio and resistance in BFBM. I love BFBM. It's such a good cardio workout.....

Yeah, I 'mix it up' too. I've just done level 3 of the shred and then I did circuits 6&7 of BFBM.

Well, I took about 60 days doing the 30ds! as i took a while on level one before progressing. I didn't see what the rush was. NOw I do BFBM some nights, but I still go back to 30ds, I do level two and three together, or if I'm really not up to much I 'just' do level one. But there are some good ab moves in level one. I…

batalina, that is quite scary, to think of potential employers googling you and tons of stuff that relates ONLY to you coming up. luckily my name is like Margaret Cooper. NOT that, but similar, so if I google my own name, about four million pages come up. I feel protected by that, like nothing i do is ever really gonna…