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Fruit juice woo rant
So I need a sanity check. i love freshly squeezed fruit juice. But everything I read about it is panic about the amount of sugar in a glass of apple juice, for instance, vs an apple. "Avoid fruit juice" and so on. I usually tend to avoid health websites etc as they're full of woo and I like common sense, but I also like to…
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Shoulder flexibility and horrible hamstrings
So I'm looking for tips on what i should be doing to improve shoulder flexibility and my tight tight hamstrings. The last year has been the first time in my life I've done any kind of exercise and at first I had no goals or idea what I was doing. Now I do pole classes 3 times a week, pilates and zumba once a week each.…
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First real test of maintenance
Had surgery yesterday (yay for new boobs- weight loss had caused a "2 teabags hanging on a washing line" situation) I expect to gain some back, swelling etc while I'm healing, plus majorly curtailed exercise for next while I'm not worrying much about logging etc this week, although I'm finding I'm still eating more or less…
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Trying to improve nutrition
Looking back over my diary I've gotten into the habit of eating the same stuff over and over, and seems like I could do better on varying my diet. Could probably do better on getting enough protein. Not a vegetarian, but just don't like meat much. Also just realised I'm not getting as many vegetables as I'd thought. It's…
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Unrelated: tracking really does help you "keep track"
My own experience has shown that our memories fail us when it comes to our own behaviour, especially over time. Tracking here, and with my nerdy spreadsheet, has shown me that I need the data to have a proper picture of what's going on. Otherwise it's very vague, like - oh, I'm sure I ate all the cake once last week…
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Is this maintenance?
I mean, I think it probably is? I do weigh daily and use trending apps to see the overall trend, but still tend to look too much at the daily / weekly up and down fluctuations of 100/200g here and there and wonder if that means it's "really up" or "really down". In other words, "have I stopped losing", "does today's low…
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Water weight gain after injury
So I had a nasty fall off the pole this week and have strained / sprained ligaments in my back, along with a sprained hand and lovely bruised legs. Also a broken window but we won't talk about that. In the 4 days since, I've seen a much bigger fluctuation upwards than usual day to day changes which are usually a couple of…
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It was the coffee granules all along
So my goal right now is to gain a bit of weight or at least maintain, or at the very least figure out what my maintenance range is. I'm not actively trying to change anything, just watching what effect my current eating is having, so can figure out where to next. According to what I've been logging and weighing, I should…
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Unintended weight loss
Hi all. I'm a 39 year old woman with an underactive thyroid. My weight has been steady for years - in May 2017 I weighed 68kg - somewhat overweight. I'm 160cm tall. My thyroid has never really been adequately medicated. My eating habits my entire life have been shocking: while I have always favoured healthy food, mostly,…
