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Thanks, SHboss! That all makes perfect sense and I must admit I guessed some of it--if "rep" meant repetition. And I guess the machines that resisted me will have somewhere an indication of the equivalent weight. In fact I noticed some numbers that didn't mean anything to me at the time. Bet those were it! I do know that…

She's in a fight to the death with her rivals.

Hi again, Kiffypooh. I visited Sparkrecipes.com and signed up. I loved the free recipe nutrient calculator. In five minutes it did what had taken me a couple of hours reading labels and calculating the various conversion factors. Thanks for the pointer. Great site. I also liked the first of their daily E-mails, which was…

Kiffypooh (or may I call you Catherine?) I must visit sparkrecipes as that sounds like a very useful service. I managed to get all the information together for the caramel custard pudding but it was not easy. I ended up making a table in which I entered all the individual nutrient figures for the different ingredients and…

After I wrote that I noticed you are only 1lb away from your goal. Nice work, well done!

And if you have high blood pressure, as I do, it is even more important to watch your sodium levels. Unfortunately I have only recently become interested in nutrients, and wouldn't have spotted this, not knowing whether 0.2 or 2000 is an appropriate value for a sodium content. <wry grin> So thank you for raising it. I will…

I was impressed by all the recommendations for Jillian Michaels and Googled for her and found her site. It looked good, but when I read the privacy policy (does anyone ever read those all the way through? well I did) I was horrified to find that it says they will reveal my personal information to any vendor or service…

Hmmm. "Do it yourself?" That makes sense. Thank you both. It was my wife who made the pudding so I'll ask her to list what she used and then see if I can find out what the nutrients are for each of the ingredients. But doesn't the cooking affect nutrients? I know if you use wine in cooking a stew, for instance, none of the…

Welcome! I'm pretty new here, too, and am only just finding my way around. If you can't measure it, you can't control it. I knew this, but I've never been interested in counting calories nor the different amounts of nutrients in various foods, so when I noticed I was overweight I felt depressed that I would never be able…

Well, this may be the reason I'm almost always over the sugar consumption target. It's been bugging me, as I don't feel I am a heavy sugar user--I do use a teaspoon of maple syrup on my oatmeal and I have two minicubes of sugar (one gram each) in my morning coffee but apart from that NOTHING. No chocolate, no sweets... and…

Hi, Snookeroo, I used to visit my mother every year, but she passed away 15 years ago. My most recent visit was on our honeymoon two years ago. We had great weather most of the time, which is rare for England. Beautiful country, dreadful climate.

Hi, Steffi. We are just coming up to the cherry blossom and the weather forecasters are saying the Cherry Blossom Front will hit Tokyo on about March 22. Can hardly wait. Last year we moved into our new condominium, and the gardens have several impressive cherry trees. If they survived the transplanting, we should have a…

Japan's a love-it-or-hate-it kind of place. I love it, of course, as you can guess by the fact I've been here over 40 years. What brought you to Japan, Dom_m? Here on hoiliday? Given good weather you can have a really good time here... Did you catch the cherry blossoms? You were here at about the right time.

Thanks, that's very helpful. My gym is a strenuous bicycle ride away (although it's downhill most of the way back, which is nice when I'm tired. Wheeee!), but when the weather is bad I don't make it. The swimming pool is at the same place, but there is a much closer swimming pool I can go, so it would mostly be the weight…

Hi, Crunchytxmama! Unfortunately here in Japan there doesn't seem to be anything like the Silver Sneakers program, which sounds ideal. I'll Google for it and see if I can learn enough about it to try it on my own or with advice from the young people who are available at the municipal gym I intend to use.

Thanks for the suggestions. An introductory session is compulsory at this gym before they let you touch anything. I've had guidance from a doctor on some leg exercises I need to do following a sever foot infection that I got a year ago, and that wasted a lot of leg muscle. Someone said that reps should be done as slowly as…

Thanks for this suggestion. Well, I'm visiting my doctor for BP meds today, and will certainly ask. But my experience of doctors here in Japan is that they all say "Why ask me? Just be sensible and don't try to do too much all at once." Fat lot of help that is. Anyway, I'll certainly ask. The gym I am thinking of using is…

Thank you, Betty! So we call it MFP. I'll go along with that. May you make it all the way to your ideal weight AND KEEP IT. I have never in my life watched calories, and it's quite fascinating to find the contents of all the different things I've been eating. My wife is apparently giving me a very healthy and well-balanced…