GuruOnAMountain Member

I'm from North Lanarkshire, too, and am also at Glasgow Uni. Nice to meet you. :)

Great work! I have so much respect for anyone that can run any distance at all!

I joined a long time ago but only started seriously using this at the end of November. I lost 4 lbs, I think, just to put it all back on over Christmas (although I'd sorta suspected this might happen but I suppose at least it wasn't 4 lbs on top of the weight I already was at the start! I then seriously started this in…

What about looking around and seeing if there are any other insurance brokers who either don't charge at all for overweight people (although this might be hard to find) or doesn't charge as much as the other broker?

Glasgow here ;)

Hey, I'm at the same point almost. I've also lost 17lbs but I'm doing a PhD right now and as it's coming up to annual review time for me the last few weeks have been rough time-wise. Add me as a friend if you want and we can help each other through our little lull. I always find having someone else that I don't want to…

Oh, I'm definitely guilty of 'fat talk'! Interesting article.

In Scotland, most kids go to nursery or playgroup (although nursery seems to be more common these days, although when I was a pipsqueak I went to playgroup) usually round about the age of 3. They then start primary school at 4 or 5 (depending on what date their birthday falls) and will stay there until they go to High…

I don't have a kid but my sister is a primary school teacher and a Sunday school teacher and she has some great ones! She was teaching her Sunday school class about parables and at the end of the lesson she asked, "so who remembers what a parable is?" and one wee boy said, "Its somebody who eats other people.".…

You saw him watching TV? I hope he happens to live near you or something and you're not stalking him! Lol. Don't sweat the small stuff, gurlie. It could be that: 1. He is going to call you but is trying to play it cool and act all uninterested instead of looking over-keen. 2. It could be that the age difference put him…

I would maybe have some sympathy with the woman if she worked nights and needed to sleep during the day but I doubt that's the case and she sounds totally unreasonable! I can understand that you jumping about on squeaky floorboards above her might be pretty annoying but for 40 minutes a day at reasonable times? I really…

TOM can lead to water retention, or so I've heard. I used to go for weekly weigh-ins at my local gym and the woman who ran them used to tell us to not come to the weigh in if we had our TOM or had just got to the end of it as our weight would probably be higher because of water retention.

I think a bit of pre-planning might help. Plan your meals in advance, put them in your diary so you know what you have to play with and leave a little bit for treats or cravings if you can. Leftovers don't need to be thrown out or eaten straightaway....you can keep them for the next day.

My fitness has improved so much! I totally push it at my exercise classes now. My feet hurt less and I generally have more energy and can get up out of bed earlier.

I have the exact same problem! I have it worse in one foot than the other and when I did the wet feet on paper test, it appeared that the foot with the worst pain was very flat footed, so I think that is what is causing it. I have noticed a big improvement in the pain since I lost weight, though.

Everyone is different. For any exercise it depends on factors such as your body weight (if you do an hours workout weighing 12 stone and then do it again when you weigh 10 stone, you'll burn less when you're lighter); exercise intensity (how hard you push yourself) etc. The most accurate way to measure calories burned is…

Still here.....from North Lanarkshire. :)

User name: GuruOnAMountain Current weight: 153 Age: 26 Biggest temptation: Chocolate

Thanks for the advice, I'll look into it. :)

I've been struggling with running on and off for years but found a good park near me last night that is quiet but fairly well lit and near a main road so nice and safe so I can run there at night, so might start trying again. Went a run there last night a bit unplanned. I'm guessing that it might be about 0.8 of a kilmetre…

Well after being too paranoid/shy/not attracted to any of the men that were attracted to me etc. etc., I got to the grand old age of 25 and still hadn't had my first kiss (which made me feel like a total reject!). Lol. Unfortunately, my first kiss ended up being pretty rubbish after that long wait. Don't get me wrong, the…

I was really lucky that in my church there were quite a few retired men who had been joiners etc. in the past and my mum paid a group of them to make me a doll's house. It was awesome! Was 100 times nicer than any of the plastic crap that you could buy in the shops....it was really a work of art. My mum would take me to a…

When I first started out on my weight loss journey (without MFP) I was in a similar situation. Lost a little weight and was doing tonnes of exercise but didn't lose any more after that. I think, though, that coming on here made me really aware of things (like sometimes, you think you're being quite healthy with what you're…

Also, just to throw in a curveball here. I was feeling really sick (although not actually being sick) for about a week not that long ago. When it had been going on for a while, I tried to work out if I'd changed anything radically in my diet recently and realised that I'd been eating Truvia on my breakfast cereal every…

Really? I'm in the West of Scotland, too, and have never yet found any fellow Scot who likes to see a tourist in a kilt! Lol.

You're looking great so don't let yourself feel down. You've achieved great things!

I find it the same. I have been doing cardio at least 3 times a week for the past 5 years approximately and take a pretty tough cardio class (Les Mills Body Attack) and particularly recently, as I've lost the weight, I really push it at that class. Like give it everything the whole class through. I've always struggled with…

I've never been a member but my sister was at one point. I used to sometimes go along with her if we were going out shopping or whatever and just sit in and watch her workout before we went to the shops. I don't know if it was just her Curves because we live in a small town but it was tiny. Actually looked more like…

Great words and so true!

I've never been to either (I'm in the UK and can't afford the air fare) but I've been to Disney in Paris and thought it was wonderful! And I've heard Disney in the USA is 100 times better. I guess it depends on your daughter, though. Is she still quite 'little girl-ish' for a 12 year old or is she already rapidly…