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When people pray for help/thank God for good stuff
How do you handle it? Do you join in, do you sniff and sneer, perhaps confront, or do you do what I usually do; smile vaguely and change the subject? It is easy on a forum. When you read something lalacrazy you can just ignore it. When someone looks you in the eye and thanks God for something you have to respond.…
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Lent
So, it is coming up to Easter and people are giving up stuff. Three of my tennis friends have waved off the morning tea offerings because they are giving up sweets for Lent. I asked them if they were religious and they all whispered no, but it was a good excuse to cut back on the empty calories, or words to that effect. I…
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Wrist pain doing push ups yada yada but
My daughter does taekwondo and is well-conditioned to it. For the last couple of months, though, she has experienced pain on the left side of her right wrist. I suggested she just do a plank during push ups and rest the wrist, but she insists she should just train through it. She is young and fit and any minor injury will…
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The Ashes
So, with the Ashes in the bag, shall we indulge in some mindless congratulatory posting? A Hahaha! The English batsmen have had no answer to the Australian attack. Broad has been ok but the rest of the English bowlers have been ineffectual. The less said about the fielding the better, in deference to English posters. All…
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What is your favourite quack nostrum?
Iridology, homeopathy, aromatherapy, reiki, chiropractors; which one do you love to hate?
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Rejects from the proana thread
Any more pictures of sausage dogs?
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Your first time overseas
How old were you the first time you travelled abroad without your family? I was 16, my husband had graduated so 21yo+, my daughter went on a school trip at 17. We are just about to send our 11yo off to Japan for 2 weeks and the jitters are starting. Ours, not his!
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Food packaging
Australia was the first country in the world to legislate for compulsory plain paper packaging for cigarettes. Cigarettes must only be sold in brown paper and carry the previously legislated graphic images of smoking-related diseases. Early indications are that the packaging encourages current smokers to quit and…
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Muffin top
Is it not when your pants don't fit properly?
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Is there a definitive minimum weight?
This is going to sound a bit dodgy and unsciency. Does your general person have a minimum weight? A calculation that accounts for height, weight, age, and %bodyfat? So that anything below that is deleterious to health? Does ethnicity come into it? I know BMI gives a general idea of a healthy weight, but people's muscle…
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Andy Bloody Murray
A game away. Holding my breath.
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September
Who will you vote for? The fit and rampant budgie smuggler or the roly-poly dude? Does anyone rate their pollies by their (apparent) fitness?
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Skins
I am following on from a related topic about compression clothing. I struggle with injuries to my lower legs - tendonosis in both Achilles, torn calf muscles. I am a healthy weight and above-average fitness; no Wallaby, just an average person. Anyone have an opinion as to the benefits Skins offer the average person?
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I love to play...but I like to watch...
Tennis. I love playing tennis. It is fun, it is social and it crosses the gender and age boundaries... ...but I love to watch cricket. It is such a complex game. Two teams can play 5 matches for a total of 25 match days and it can all hang on the last hour. I don't think there is another international sport like it. What…
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Girls wear certain clothes when they are looking
I have just watched an episode of Q and A (Australian panel show addressing current affairs). One of the panellists, a comedienne called Ruby Wax, just suggested that women who wear certain clothing are inviting sexual attention. That their purpose is to attract sexual attention. The clothing was not specified, but she…
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Peanut butter is junk food, isn't it?
I see all these posts from North America listing peanut butter as a healthy, calorie-dense food. I reckon some is. In Australia, **** Smith and Sanitarium is peanutty, and correspondingly expensive. The cheaper brands are cut with palm oil or bad transfats, and counts as junk food to me - high calories for not many…
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Squats make your thighs slim
Just been reading another thread on this subject. To be fair, only one poster said that squats make your thighs slim, but I have read it A LOT. I just want someone to tell me exactly how this works. Don't tell me it doesn't, don't talk about general weight loss. How do squats make my thighs slim?
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Spleling Nazis
Lots of angst out there tonight so let it out. My favourite - loosing weight.
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Teen nutrition
I have a thirteen year old boy. To imagine this boy visualise a spring onion, or maybe a straw. ][ his legs I looked up Scooby and found that just to maintain he needs 2100 kcal a day. I reckon he eats 1700. He has a moderate appetite. He has visited friend's houses and the feedback is that he eats like a sparrow. So, here…
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Syncing Polar RCX3
I have had a Fitbit and enjoyed linking it with MFP. I got a Polar HRM and GPS for my birthday (!!!) and I am having a lot of fun downloading stuff onto the Polar Personal Trainer website. I think the answer is no, but does MFP support Polar?
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Bananas
Why are they so bad for me? How come I can eat sweet potato or avocado but not bananas? As Ali G wud say, is it becoz dey is white? Or becoz dey is bent?
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Dumb Questions
It took me three weeks before I realised that mfp gives me a calorie deficit regardless of exercise, and that exercise was extra bonus oh god thank you calories. Thank you to the people who gently answered my question with no hint of exasperation, the question other posters had asked over and over and over... What was your…
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Scariest fitness terms
I have no idea what a primal diet is, but it sounds terrifying. Hunt down the neighbour's cat? Kettlebells bring up visions of ways the villagers did away with witches.
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Should I or shouldn't I?
Every day I drive past a very overweight lady walking from the station. She walks a good kilometre up from the station and over a moderate hill whilst wearing a good-sized back pack.. On the other side of the hill she catches a bus on to the university, I presume. Sometimes as I pass she has stopped for a breather on the…
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Recomp
I am a total know-nothing. I weigh +/-57 kilos, age 44, height 167cm, body fat 24.5 according to my cheapo scales from Woolies. I do about 2 hours of strength training a week only, of which an hour is on the legs in the wake of an(other) injury. I read a lot of stuff, well, I skim over a lot of stuff which I don't…
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Stuff you must never eat...
...from what I have read on here White food Fruit Carbs after 7 pm Carbs after 4 pm Food after 7pm Food Bread Corn Egg yolk I have never read anyone who said I should avoid red meat, which surprised me. I thought red meat was the food of the devil.
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Wibble wobble board
My physio has me do shallow knee bends whilst standing on this jiggly machine for 5 minutes before she starts treating my torn calf muscle. She says it was developed by the Russians for astronaut training, but that it is often used for weight loss in people with restricted mobility, including the very obese. The idea is…
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You have probably gained muscle
I have read this on this forum ever since I joined.: "I have been working out like crazy but I have not lost any weight. This is because I have been putting on muscle." Is this actually possible? Can you add to your muscle mass so that it exactly equals your fat loss? Don't you need a calorie bonus and a big old weights…
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Why bother with cardio?
I have read numerous times that weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise. I have also read that weight loss involves losing muscle mass along with the fat, which is bad. Given all that, why bother with huge amounts of huffing and puffing on the cross-trainer? Can't we just eat healthy, lift some weights and jog a couple of…
