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Also, if you haven't seen this, it's well worth a watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9FSZJu448

Welcome! You have made a fantastic first step coming on here. Don't be too hard on yourself, you have been through a lot. You have 6 months to wait for surgery? In six months you could actually get yourself to a point where you don't need it. Set yourself the challenge and see what happens. You will get lots of support on…

Rest days are essential for two reasons. One, it allows your muscles to repair and two, if you are in that much pain (as I was!) you won't be doing the moves effectively anyway and could injure yourself. Days 2 and 3 seem to be the worst. Jillian doesn't do those stretches at the end for long enough. I would say hold them…

You are quite brilliant! I am 42 and have just decided to start lifting, which is quite scary. You are an inspiration :flowerforyou:

Until you really know how many calories you are eating, I don't know how you can begin to formulate a plan. Your first step is to ACCURATELY log. Never mind 'I won't log if I have to work out every ingredient'. That sounds like an excuse. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing properly. You can log a meal/ recipe in…

Amazing work! You are my new inspiration - I am a similar starting weight to you and wondered if 20 pounds in three months (before I go on holiday) is possible, but now I know it's possible and more! :flowerforyou:

I actually want to hit myself for even reading this thread. I only read it because I didn't even know what 'thigh gap' meant. Now I know I feel like several points have been deducted from my IQ. I read three pages properly (hats off to the people who were as disappointed with the human race as I was!) and skimmed the rest…

You need to do something like 30 Day Shred. And actually look at pictures of normal women who lift - they are not monsters, they look amazing. When you say you 'don't want muscles' I think you are thinking of those crazy body building competitors - you really would be having to take all kinds of 'roids to get like that.…

@jamieralph Well spotted! I'm just south of St Helens but we often walk our dogs around Dream :)

If you have picked 'sedentary' (which seems apt for your job) I would log the exercise. However, I find mfp over estimates walking cals a bit so if you eat back your cals as I do, perhaps only eat back half of what it says you've earned by walking. I'm a part time dog walker (among other jobs!) but I only log half of the…

I'm near Liverpool and looking to lose 30-40. I lost ten last year but put them back on at the start of this year :grumble: Happy to add friends. I have new motivation now as I've booked a holiday to Skiathos in July:happy:

I can only see one or two people on here who medically needed to go back to eating meat. The rest went back because it was easier. I know I did when I started eating meat again. But then you see what happens on farms and in abbatoirs and it ain't pretty or easy, and you realise being a veggie is emotionally easier than…

I also like Amos, but I just looked it up and it seems in the US it is pronounced to rhyme with '*kitten*' so perhaps not....over here in England it is pronounced 'ay-moss', not 'ay-muss':laugh:

I'm not religious at all but named my boys Samuel and Joseph just because I liked the names. Neither were popular for babies in England when they were born (18 and 16 years ago) but have become more popular since. They have Welsh middle names as a lot of my family are from Wales. The other name I liked was Nathaniel…

Just wondering why you want to eat meat again? I was veggie for years, then started eating meat again but went veggie again about three years ago. With current farming methods (cruelty plus all the chemicals they pump in them plus the nasty abbatoirs) I couldn't see myself ever going back to eating meat. It would have to…

Hi :flowerforyou: Firstly, congrats on your progress. I'm going on holiday to the Greek Islands in three months and have just come back to mfp after a break in order to get a more 'beach ready' bod:laugh: . It is VERY inspiring and motivating to see what can be achieved in three months as your 'before' pics look like me…

Two four year old whippet brothers and a whippet x saluki girl who is also about 4 - we don't know her true age as she is a rescue dog. All three are fast asleep after having a big run in the dog park this morning - people always ask us if they are greyhounds when they are running together! I think if people only see…

I live near Liverpool, England and I feel comparably safe because I know that 99.9% of people are not carrying guns.Seriously, if you are carrying a gun and the other guy is carrying, you are both going to get shot, so it's not kept you safe. There's not really a scenario where you compare guns, share a joke and walk off…

In the grand old scheme of things, a cup of tea is not going to feck up your diet. The 'water' counter on here is, in my opinion, just to keep tabs so you don't dehydrate. It's not the law. It's a measure of fluids (within reason, guys, don't be drinking meths/ hippo piss/ hydrochloric acid etc), doesn't have to be pure…

Just a quick reply, but have you cut out caffeine? That was a major trigger of migraines for me, along with job stress which caused tachycardia and so contributed to migraines. The thing was, I never really drank coffee and only the occasional cola anyway so didn't think it would make a difference but it was drastic. I now…

Two whippet boys, a whippet x saluki girl, an 18 year old ginger tomcat, 3 outdoor goldfish and 4 white cloud mountain minnows that I only got two months ago and they have just had about 30 babies!

I also don't think there are 'naturally thin' people. I used to think I was one of those 'naturally thin' people as I never even thought about weight or food at all til my mid 20s, I was just really slim. I ate junk, and a lot of it and also drank alcohol a lot, especially when I was a student.. Looking back, though, the…

Thanks for sharing this - have just ordered. By far the cheapest I've seen it for, and free postage as well :)

Ugh. Truly, those arms are reptilian. Not nice.

I made some bad food choices today BUT I spent over 2 and a quarter hours walking 6 different dogs at quite a pace so I still win. Tomorrow will be three and a half hours, seven dogs. Still winning :)

Am glad to read this! I loved the show but hesitated buying the book as so many of the recipes are meat based and I'm veggie. Might get it now if veg mince works :D

You are all amazing! Very inspirational :flowerforyou:

First: WetWetWet (but doesn't count, I was forced to go to look after my younger sister!) so really was probably some 80s metal band. Last: Download Festival 2012 (Metallica, Prodigy, Black Sabbath headlining)

I'm in the UK and Pits are a banned breed here - if you are found with one you have to sign an agreement in order to keep it, following rules such as it must be muzzled in public and must be registered and neutered. If this is not signed the dog can be taken and put to sleep. The problem is, any halfwit can be called as an…

This is so true! I have friends who started out the same weight, gained the same amount, had similar delivery experiences but I got loads of stretchmarks and have 'non elastic' type skin and they haven't. I am a natural redhead and my redhead friends all seem to have this similar 'thin' skin type which pouches and has…