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Discussions

Any Londoners out there
want to be friends, to share the ups and downs of dieting with ????? feel free to add me ??? :laugh: and of course anyone else from anywhere else who wants to chat now and again :happy:
People
are starting to say they can notice my weightloss in certain places and I've lost 22 pounds, but the tape measure is not moving ... how is that possible?? my clothes are loser, how can I not be losing inches??? I think I might have a dodgy tape measure lol
is it true that ...
for the first 20 minutes of running you only burn off glucose or something or other .. so on a 30 minute run, you're only really doing fat burning / cardio / strength for 10 minutes ??? :huh:
habits
I always used to have masses of sugar in my tea and coffee - then many, many years ago I stopped the sugar in my tea and would never dream of having it now. So, still had sugar in my coffee until about 6 weeks ago when I gave it up, cos was just having toooo mnay of them on a daily basis - just treated myself on the odd…
Tea and coffee
Anyone out there big tea and coffee drinkers ... I count mine in my 1200 cal a day allowance and they are killing me, coming in at 200 calories per day :-(( but they are my comfort and stop me from eating, when I need something hot and comforting ... I can ask for suggestions, but I know what you are all gonna say - drink…
Max & Min Heart Rate
How do you find out what your max and min heart rates are... I find I can work out for an hour and only 7 minutes of that might be fat burning as I still need to lose weight I'd like to stay in the fat burning zone longer and less in the fitness zone until I@ve lost all my weight then I'll happily stay in the fitness zone…
Race for Life - Cancer Research
Hi all my MFP friends ..I am running the 5k race for life on saturday 21st May at Regents Park in aid of Cancern research and in memory of my cousin Darren who died from cancer a few years ago at the very tender age of 33 .. please dig deep and give generously to this very worthy cause. & wish me luck, Im definitely going…
Need help - about ready to throw the towel in
I need your help people - I've been gaining / losing the same four pounds for the last six weeks - Im pretty sure I am doing everything right, Im watching my carbs, my sodium, my sat fats, Im drinkig loads 70 oz a day, Im not retaining water, Im exercising every day, eating my exercise cals back bar a couple of hundred I…
last 10 pounds
ok, so Im on my last ten pounds, and it's gonna be slow going I can tell... Im 11.1 and want to be 10.4 .... If I lower my expected weight loss to 1/2 pound a week, do you think that will be better for me as it seems to have stalled a bit - means eating a bit more obviously, am already struggling to eat exercise calories,…
Exercise cals
I started doing it the 'proper' way recently, eating healthily, exercising and eating the exercise cals .. my question is this, I try and leave at least 200 cals to account for any overcalculation in what food is costing me - what this means is my net calories are still only adding up to around the 900 / 1000 mark .... can…
FRUIT
Seems like I really cannot eat too much fruit or my sugars just go way over :ohwell:
HRMs
does it matter if you wear a mans HRM or a womans HRM .. the mens ones are always such better colours !!
HRM Recos
I'm thinking of buying a new HRM today - my one has finally given up the ghost and is not registering heart rate properly - my polar which I think is an F7 or something like that is outdated now and need a new one, from having my one I only really need it to register all my deatils ie height weight etc and tell me how many…
Eating properly, food pyramids, exercise calories etc, etc,
Braindump ..... :flowerforyou: OK this is really tough, so today have tried for the first time ever to eat all my exercise calories and eat according to the food pyramid, so good healthy foods ... when I completed my food diary today, I was supposed to eat 1678, I've managed 1500 .. but my projected weight loss for the…
Dinner
afternoon all .. I've got 800 calories for dinner and need some suggestions please .... thank you :bigsmile: PS nothing too high in carbs please
so today is the day ....
I've lost about 20 pound but am stuck and have been for a little while - so Im going to try for the first time and do it yuor way lol ... so today is a new day. I've re-calculated my calories, added in my weekly exercise calories, the deficit is there for all to see, so now I'm going to eat my base calories and my exercise…
eating exercise calories AGAIN AGAIN, I KNOW, I KNOW !!!
I've never eaten my exercise calories and in fact try and keep under the 1200 I am allowed, but I'm on a plateua .. can it really, really help me to eat more and eat the exercise calories, I just cannot see me losing weight eating 2,000 calories a day or more - that's how I put it on eating that much .. I have heard all…
A Day off ???
HI All .. happy Friday :bigsmile: I'm contemplating a day off dieting, I've been super strict since I start on 27th December and lost 20 pounds, Im thinking a day off this Sunday might actually do me good, I do not think I have gone over on my calorie count once in fact I have been well under every day .. wot do you think?…
Lessons learned - feeling phylosophical lol
I just thought I'd recount an experience I had the other day ... I cycle to work and stop at red lights, it just so happened on this day that I shared my ride with 3 people, who basically did the same route as me .. I don't know these people by the way, me, another woman and a man. I, as I said, stop at the red lights, the…
UK - Longer Days
Can't believe how beautiful it is tonight in London - 4:53 and it's still relatively light - usually dark by now, it's great, means spring is not too far away :bigsmile: :drinker: :heart: :flowerforyou: :smokin: :love: :tongue: :happy: :laugh: :wink:
slendertone and the like
not sure if this is the right forum for this but ... slendertone and the like .. do they really work or are they a waste of money .. answers on a postcard please. I'd buy one if I thought they worked ..... :laugh: txx:laugh:
Oven Roast Vegetables
I've just gone to put in oven roast veggies and they are coming up really high in calories .. like 250 for 1/2 cup .. I'm suprised, I would have thought they were low in calories .... is that correct?? Tx
Sodium
Now, I've dieted on and off since I was 16 and I'm now 43 and really never heard muchy about sodium, until I came on here and people are saying that once they took notice of how much sodium they were eating the weight fell off. I've never taken any notice of sodium and I've no idea where it comes from. Can someone tell me…
<<<<sigh>>>>>
Here I am again .. after taking 18 months to lose 6 stone (on Atkins) and keeping it off for 18 months, I meet the man of my dreams :flowerforyou: , he takes me out to dinner :tongue: a lot and makes me eat, he takes me out drinking a lot :drinker: and makes me drink, and doesn't seem fussed whether I'm fat or…