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Looking for gay male MFP weightloss pals
I started this in the LBG group that disappeared... so I'll try again :happy: I'm Kyle and I'd like to make more gay male MFP-pals to encourage and chat to. I've met a couple here already which is great and also have a great bunch of weightloss pals, but the more's the merrier :wink: I've been a bit of a bear most of my…
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You can’t detox your body. It’s a myth. So how do you get healthy?
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BBC poll: Rest of world favours Obama
I found this very interesting - not totally unsurprising, though. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20008687
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I want to see FAT people working out
Now I suppose you could take this statement in two ways: 1) I want to see folks who struggle with their weight getting more exercise == or == 2) I want to actually see a workout video or clip where fat people take part rather than these ultra-fit, super-toned PTs. While I wholeheartedly encourage #1, what I really want to…
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UK ONLY: Inspiring TV Prog on Gareth Thomas
Gareth Thomas was a celebrated Welsh Rugby Union player - a typical rugger bugger bar one thing - he was gay! He struggled with his homosexuality and finally came out in 2009. Channel 5 (in the UK) has featured Gareth Thomas' story on its My Secret Past strand and you can watch the whole 50 min programme here (sadly only…
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MBE for transgender campaigner
BBC News - April Ashley: MBE for transgender campaigner http://bbc.in/SgeieY Some additional links: http://www.april-ashley.com/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8383000/8383720.stm
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Christine Jorgensen: 60 years of sex change ops
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20544095
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kindle fire
Has anyone else bought a kindle fire? I got mine today and am very happy with it.:happy: This is my first foray into the tablet market so I've not really any benchmark, but it's been so easy to set up and use to the point that all I've really needed is a few login details. Only time will tell how useful this will be or…
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Peter Davison's original video message to Gallifrey One 2011
Peter Davison's original video message to Gallifrey One 2011 https://player.vimeo.com/video/50426039 ****************** Received this on a re-tweet from The Doctor Who Site and I thought I'd pass it on to anyone interested :happy:
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Who says women take forever to get changed?
Who says women take forever to get changed? http://youtu.be/-Ft0RjJmTSo :noway: This was from America's Got Talent... no idea how far these guys got in the competition, but I was blown away by it!:happy:
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Weight training 'reduces diabetes risk'
BBC News - Weight training 'reduces diabetes risk' http://bbc.in/Mp9AD9 This was on the BBC News website. I thought it was very interesting.
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Secret Eaters (Weds C4 8pm)
Has anyone else watched Secret Eaters tonight, Wed. on Channel 4 at 8pm? The premise of the show, hosted by Anna Richardson, is each week they look at the eating habits of people who are overweight and piling on the lbs despite their insistence that they are not over-eating. They have their subjects keep food diaries for a…
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a special kind of fat that won't go with dieting...
Oh the weird things you hear while staying at a hotel. I was sitting outside on the terrace on my own yesterday evening, having a drink, reading a book and minding my own business. On the adjacent table a group of work colleagues were sat chatting and relaxing after a day on a work course. There was this one plumpish lady…
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Inactivity 'killing as many as smoking'
BBC News - Inactivity 'killing as many as smoking' http://bbc.in/OS3rjR
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Ex-smokers 'gain more weight than thought'
BBC News - Ex-smokers 'gain more weight than thought' http://bbc.in/Le5D8z
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The second brain in our stomachs
The second brain in our stomachs Michael Mosley presents Guts: The Strange and Mysterious World of the Human Stomach on BBC Four at 21:00 BST on Thursday 12 July BBC News - The second brain in our stomachs http://bbc.in/POROAe
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Swimming Calories Calculator
I've always thought MFP's exercise database values for swimming are woefully inaccurate; it will give you a calorie burn that's about 40-50% inaccurate. I did some research and from the myriad of web calculators I found a formula that I believe provides a better guestimate based on your weight and lap times. I've created a…
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Andy Murray through to the Wimbledon Final
I just wanted to say Congratulations! to Andy Murray on being the first British male to reach a Wimbledon final in 74 very long years. I shall be watching and supporting Murray on Sunday and may the best man win!
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New BA Advert for 1012 Olympics
BA launched a new Olympics themed advert yesterday which is quite clever BUT the REALLY clever bit is you can put in any UK postcode or address (or try both) and "thanks to CGI and Google Maps", the advert will include the B777 taxiing up your road! See: http://taxi.ba.com/ :happy:
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PC Geeks - I need some advice
Hello my fellow geeky MFPeeps :happy: I used to be very tech-savvy but now I've lost my edge a bit as to what's hot and what's not in the world of computing. I've just got a new Windows 7 PC as my old XP box was slower than a giant tortoise with an arthritic hip. It's a very basic PC as I didn't want it bogged down with…
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I Woke up Gay
To all UK/Irish-based MFPeeps, there is a fascinating programme on BBC Three tonight at 21.00 BST I Woke up Gay. The programme tells the story of Chris Birch who was a 19st (266lb) very straight, beer-swilling, rugby player, who suffered a stroke after a prank went wrong and when he recovered from his brain injury he…
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Gay Marvel Superhero Plans to Tie the Knot
This popped up on my Google+ feed today. I'm not a big comic book fan, but thought it interesting nonetheless: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/05/gay-marvel-superhero-plans-to-tie-the-knot/
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Strength Training - consecutive sets or circuits?
I've been putting off doing strength training for way too long - the lure of the pool is just too strong - but today I went back up to the gym to do my strength programme. I know it needs tweaking, but I need to start somewhere and so at the moment I'm doing a programme that is a combo of free-weights and various strength…
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Disintegrating Swimming Costumes
I've been swimming again regularly since October last year and I love being back in the pool even if I can only swim breaststroke - I've never found the coordination required for freestyle/front-crawl. I'm not a particularly fast swimmer, but I can swim lap after lap and regularly do 150 x 18m length and spend about…
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The Truth About Fat (BBC2 Horizon)
Just watched a fascinating Horizon documentary on BBC2 The Truth About Fat. It looked at obesity from a scientific angle and ponder the following four studies: 1) how the hormones that make you feel hungry and full are different in fat and normal weight individuals 2) genetics may not be the be all and end all (looking at…
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DW Series 7 ... filming has begun!
Filming has begun on Series 7 and here are some links to the news stories: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_120209_01/Filming_the_New_Series http://news.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/fourteen-big-blockbuster-movie-episodes-to-come/ It certainly hints that the new series will be an hour to 1½hrs long and although…
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New PC- Calling all techies!
This it totally not diet & fitness related. We need a new PC - mine is 7 yrs old and getting slower and slower; the hubster's belongs in a museum. Neither of us are big PC users, although I'm your typical surfer and I also like looking at youTube, iPlayer etc. I also have lots of digital photos. I've seen two reasonably…
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What is it like to be asexual?
I saw this on the BBC News website and I thought it might be interesting for the group. The link's below as well as a copy of the main text. There's a link between the article and a series of programmes on BBC Three How Sex Works which has been running on consecutive nights this week and is available to UK residents via…
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Am I being over-sensitive?
OK, I saw this on another MB Topic and I was going to respond there, but thought I'd get the peer review first. This is the conversation as it rolled out... Now I, better then most perhaps, as a linguist, understand that English is a dynamic language and words change meaning over time. After all gay used to mean happy,…
