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I'm in the UK so wouldn't have access to vacuum thingies. I just batch cook whenever possible. It means we eat better when watching the kcals. We choose nice recipes we may have avoided as there are only 2 of us. We then freeze back 2 - 4 meals of the 'leftovers'. So lasgane, curry, chilli, stews, leftover roast meat and…

Target: I bunged my stats into a BMI thingy, made that my official target. Reality: Laughed my posh shoes off when I read the number. I am fully aware I will never make that target, so will stop worrying about weight when I get into size 12 clothing.

They must be, they are talking about pants.... I mean, they aren't all men and even those that are wouldn't discuss their undies quite so openly, would they? And sizes in US are one size smaller, so their size 14 is a 16 here. So maybe they aren't so much smaller than us :) We need a recognisable code that we could all…

I was managing OK, I just scrabbled round in the bags under the bed and pulled out something from the thinner pile. But I have just washed them all and split them into 2 piles - take in or turn into something else and take to the carboot or a charity shop. I missed out on some of the nice things as they are summery stuff…

Like Darren says! I always say I have a perfect six pack - it is just hiding under a couple of inches of fat. If it wasn't perfect I would have a very, very strange posture, not too sure where my head would be, halfway down my back probably! As liooba says, there is no one answer. It entirely depends on your body…

Sorry, should really have been a bit more complete with that, shouldn't I? :) Tone, or tonus, is the tension in muscles that is there even when you are not actively using the muscles. If you poke a muscle you are not deliberately using it will still feel a little bit firm, it is still doing a job and all skeletal muscles…

Muscle tone has a scientific meaning - like others it got stolen by the 'bro science brigade'.

I'm another who is an ex instructor - fitness and boxercise mainly. I know what you mean about missing the movement more than hating the wait. Your post shingles pain will react one of two ways to increasing exercise and weight loss, you know that I am guessing. If you want a happy story to reassure you... I had a client…

Any exercise shoes should be changed after about 400 miles. I changed my aerobic boots after that, my training shoes, runners and now my walkers. All get binned at about 400 miles. OK, some of them are so very nice still that I wear them as ordinary shoes. But not for training. I know the manufacturers set the mileage low…

Hodgie, you shoulda stuck with eating cake.

Go in.... you'll probably find someone who makes you feel really good about the decision. You'll love it. I had to become a Boxercise instructor to get any boxing instruction, no gyms round here. My favourite workout is on my heavy bag :)

How will testing your metabolism stop you putting weight back on?

And Shatner's Bassoon is wholly responsible for the glabjous refraction of the humours.

:) I had images of the most amazingly restricted plates of food, raw veggies and a selection of fruit :-)

Are they really the only sources of fat in your diet?

Saturated fats are only 'bad' if you eat too much of them, same applies to the 'good' fats too. You MUST have enough fat (any fat) in your diet or you won't take in vitamins ADE and K. Reducing saturated fats in a normal, balanced diet is simple to do avoiding everyday products but eliminating it is hard without changing…

Relax. You belly holds your fat. You have worked the muscles and gained muscle mass yet your body has not given up that fat store. SO now you have fat and muscle and your belly looks flat but big. Keep going. When it is ready your body will utilise that store of fat and you will lose some of the belly size. Just make sure…

Still here? Goody! DatMurse... how long would you acknowledge a diet has to be in order to be sustainable? Is sustainability really a good goal? Think WW and their business ethos regarding return customers.... I set myself a long slow loss target. I cannot count calories, restrict every day etc, mind set and a…

Having been the day manager in a similar situation I too entered a class and removed 'the perps'. One wrote a stinking letter to Head Office saying that I had been rude, peremptory and embarrassing. She also pointed out that the rule had never been enforced before... she was very angry. Head Office wrote back explaining…

I've warned you before. MsP.... stop making sense. You'll get a reputation!

Kind of? I wasn't referring to their sneaking GMOs into countries that have banned them. I was referring to their proposal to trademark fruit and veg seeds so that they can sue anyone who sells them. They listed thousands of everyday crops. They were not previously protected as no-one had ever considered it - not specially…

Worry more about Monsanto.... they are far more dangerous than any GMO on its own!

Thank goodness it is the weekend. I can hang around and read more about the hibernating sweet spot that orbits the Sun :)

I have had it since about 1986, when it was lovingly called Yuppy Flu. I have had periods of absolute 0 movement. Periods of energy when I was a full time aerobics instructor. Periods of great weight gain, when I was also diagnosed with anaemia. I am now just about able to maintain the right amount of stress relief and…

It's a pity he is so lazy in his presentation. Much of what he says is true, e.g. the exercise thing, but as he presents it is utter hollyhocks. He simply doesn't explain what he means, just says 'this is so' and moves on. How is anyone supposed to pick out the opinionated tut from the current scientific viewpoint? I…

And galettes aren't shortbread anythings, they are either a form of crepe or a flaky pastry, rustic flan/tart. Chocolate is Spanish/Latinate word and foodstuff Sorbet is a French food, perhaps, but a Persian word Macarons is more Italian in etymology But the original point stands. The French made a big deal about their…

But there are some satisfying fight backs - like the school that totally boycotted the McDs that opened up directly opposite its gates. The school had a renewed call for traditional French food and the kids chose, liver and kidneys over a burger :)

Because, in English, it always had a negative connotation, used to describe slaves and has never had a different meaning. In all guises it is perjorative - there is no other meaning, when applied to a person. You don't think there has been a newly invented word for black in Latinate countries, do you? German ploughman is…

You need to read it back. It is not about opposing growth but accepting change happens slowly and each end of the timescale should be able to live with it. No one subculture should ever have the veto over anything. That is how our previously hegemonic society existed. You decry that but seem to want to squash me and people…

You're not listening. A portion of society uses gay to mean happy. It has not disappeared. And the second point from tatonka was that your insistence that those of us still using it must bow down to the pressure from a subculture that has suborned a word may equate to the modern use of the N word. It is politically…