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Private Group
Having looked at the comments on the mini-poll in this group, I have created a secondary private group where people who feel uncomfortable discussing things in the public group, can go to discuss things. All posts in a private group are hidden and only viewable by members of the group. Anybody that wants to join the…
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Daryl
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My co-workers are trying to sabotage me
It's been lovely weather here for the last few days. This evening some of my co-workers bought ice cream cones. Now everybody in work knows that I'm counting my calories but they still went ahead and offered me one of those delicious ice cream cones anyway. :angry: I didn't want to be rude, so I accepted it and went back…
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The Walking Toy Dead?
I saw this posted on Facebook earlier. It made me smile. It was posted as "undeniable proof that Toy Story and The Walking Dead have the same plot" http://imgur.com/a/qIIsm#0 copy the link and scroll through the full album of images
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Introductions
I've created this group so people who have mental health issues can discuss things openly and freely. I'm a police officer and 10 years ago after a bad incident in work I developed Post Traumatic Stress. I was on Prozac for about 8 months and attened counselling sessions for a number of years. On a couple of occasions…
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Post Traumatic Stress (PTS/PTSD)
A bit of a long story coming up about my own experiences with PTSD. (This will probably ramble a bit but forgive me for that. Even now, it can still be difficult to write about those bad times). Background incident that caused my PTSD 10 years ago I was on motorcycle patrol. I received a call about three guys trying to…
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POLL: Public or private group
At the moment the group is public. I'm considering making it private so that only members of the group can view it. The thing about switching it to private is that new members would have to be invited rather than just joining it directly. But on the other hand, if the group is private we can be more open about what we post…
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Groups: Mental Health Issues
I created a group for people who have mental health issues to talk about their problems and offer help and assistance to each other. Having gone through PTSD myself, I am aware of the impact that mental health issues can have on our eating habits and diet. Anybody that has any mental health issues (examples: depression,…
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"Mental Health Issues Group" - Rules {MUST READ}
1. The group should remain friendly at all times, and everyone should be treated with respect. 2. Prejudicial or hateful comments against members are not permitted. 3. Threatening another member won't be tolerated and such threats will be forwarded to MFP. 4. Remember that lacking knowledge of a subject can lead to fear of…
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Negative Calorie foods
People keep claiming that celery is a negative calorie food and that it burns more calories eating it than there is in the stick of celery. In the food database it says that a Big Mac, Fries and Diet Coke is 920 calories. Celery is supposed to use 85 calories to eat but only contains 75. That means it burns 10 calories…
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A Poem - Could You Be Me
I'm just going to throw up a poem here that I wrote once. The background to it is that I started it in 2008 during a bad period in my life. I was out on sick leave from work with stress. During the same time my cousin (who was also a police officer) committed suicide. I wrote it bit by bit over the years (or rather;…
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Music for the Rapture
A few friends were discussing this whole Rapture business on Facebook this morning. It ended up as a "select your music playlist for the Rapture" discussion. My Playlist was: (1) Europe - The Final Countdown (2) Slayer - Hell Awaits (3) AC/DC - Highway to Hell (4) Murderdolls - She was a teenage zombie (5) Misfits - Astro…
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Annual Garda (Irish Police Force) Memorial Day
Today (7th May) was the annual memorial day for members of the Irish Police Force that have died in the line of duty. So in honour of all Police Officers around the world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C6sSuO_3Po&sns=fb The words to the poem that are overlayed on the video are: I have been where you fear to go, I have…
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From the newspaper: I’m injecting my eight-year-old with B
I decided to put the words "From the newspaper" at the start of the subject line of this in case anyone thought I was talking about myself. The link below is the newspaper article. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/3485305/I-give-my-girl-8-Botox-for-pageant.html A synopsis of the newspaper article. A mother is…
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Disgraceful verdict by jury
This is my big big rant. I heard today that a lovely member of society that killed a police officer in 2009 by driving a car over the Officer was found "not guilty" of the officers manslaughter by a jury. The judge told the jury that they weren't to let the fact that it was only a police officer that was killed influence…
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Almost there. 11 pounds to go
An almost side by side comparison. The "Before" photograph was taken in February 2008 at my brother's wedding. I put on about another 14 pounds after that photograph before I decided to try and lose weight. I'm now back to the weight I was about 10 years ago. Taken this evening. Edit: Ok, second attempt
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One way to stay motivated
Starting from tomorrow I have a way to keep myself motivated and also do good for others at the same time. I've organised a "sponsored weight loss" in work. I have a few others in work signed up to it who also need to loose weight. All the money we raise will be donated to the Irish Heart Foundation. I have set a realistic…
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Is my local gym just pulling a C.Y.A. (cover your a**)?
I'm not sure if this is in the right place on the forum. I tried to join my local gym recently. When they were assessing me (height, weight, etc.) they checked my blood pressure and told me that my BP was dangerously high and that they wouldn't let me join without a letter from my doctor. Now the fact that they were…
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New around here
Just saying hello. I've been using the app on my iPhone since the end of July but I've never bothered going onto this part of the website before. I've tried plenty of times to shed weight in the past but always failed. So far, just by using the iPhone app to monitor my calorie intake it has helped me loose 8 pounds over…
