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Hi. Is this group active?
Just rejoined after a long absence. There are 93.5kg of me of which 18.5kg really need to go. Although if I can convert some of them into muscle I might relent and allow them to stick around.
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% body fat, muscle mass and the rest. What's the science?
So my new scales tell me that my body fat is 37% and my muscle mass is 31% which implies 31kg and 27kg respectfully. That leaves another 32% or 27kg unidentified - which I assume is my brain (not much there), skin, intestines, and all the half-digested pork pies etc etc contained in the latter. So here is my question. If i…
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How much body fat to lose? measurements don't make sense
I don't thing the measurements and targets I've been given add up - literally. Can anybody explain? I'm currently about 85 kg and I'm told I should be about 65 kg for my height, to get to an acceptable BMI. So that's 20 kg weight loss. I'm also told (from a machine that I was wired up to yesterday) that about 27% of my…
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Below 40 inches.
My waist is now below the magic 40 inches. I'm 39 - down from 42 three months ago. The weight isnt coming off very quickly but I'm pleased about the inches
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Daily blood sugar fluctuations
I have mild diabetes - not on any medications and keeping it under control (I think!) with diet and exercise. But I do test my blood sugar most mornings when i wake up. What I can't do is explain the daily fluctuations in terms of what I ate the day before - there seems to be no relationship, either in terms of amount or…
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Calories in fruit - doesnt make sense
Hi - according to my diary, yesterday I had some fruit salald which contained 14g of sugar and 18 g of carbs, and a banana which contained 14g of sugar and 23g of carb - so fairly similar. And the calories in each were similar - 70 for the fruit salad and 90 for the banana. Makes sense. BUT i also had some grapes which…
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Flabby skin
I've only just started out, but am worried that when i have got my weight down i will have lots of loose skin hanging off me. Is there anything i should be doing now to make this less of a problem? Or should i just worry about one thing at a time and get the weight off?
