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BMI 25.8 - back to normal
I just re-calculated my BMI on this calculator http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/BMI/bmicalc.htm. I know BMI has it's critics, but never mind - the point is less the number, more the distance travelled. I started out here in November 2012 with a BMI of 32.2. Now, 3 stone 2lbs later (that's 44lbs) I'm back down to…
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Hello to pre-menopausal 50ish women, 5'3" or so, +/- 133lbs
I'm only a few pounds away now - maybe two or three months more (I've dropped my goals to ½lb a week). Just starting to plan ahead and try to have a strategy to maintain my weight at 9 ½ stone. I'm wondering what sort of calorie intake women similar to me are maintaining at? I'm about 5'3",(ed) I'll be 51 in April,…
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Ann Patchett
I'm currently reading Run, by Ann Patchett. Bel Canto is one of my all time favourite books, and I also loved the Magician's Assistant. Any more Ann Patchett fans?
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Buckwheat Kasha
Does anyone know how to cook buckwheat kasha properly? I used to buy it from a Ukranian sandwich shop in Hull and there's a Russian Community Association who always serve it at cultural events, and I adore it! (not sure it's a good idea for me to know how to cook it properly because I could cheerfully eat pounds of it at a…
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What's your avatar all about?
Why did you pick that picture? If it's a picture of you, why that one? If it's not a picture of you, what is it and why that one? Do you change your avatar often? ETA sorry, should explain mine shouldn't I :blushing: I just like the pic! I've spent years hating photos of myself. My husband took this one in September, and…
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Drinking tea makes you a harlot!
I'm doomed, doomed! :drinker: http://historyofloveblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/can-drinking-tea-turn-you-into-a-*kitten*/
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Tis the season to start making Christmas cake
I'm about to make mine. One of my friends has already made hers. But I didn't know, you don't have Christmas cake over the water do you? Is it just us Brits who make Christmas cake? Here's mine from last year: You start making it about now, because you have to soak the fruit in brandy, then store the cake for a few weeks,…
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wanting to eat something V being hungry
One thing I've noticed, since logging and tracking my food and watching my calories, is that I'm not as hungry as much of the time as I would once have thought I was! For example, now, I'm sitting here (supposedly working) bit bored, bit anxious about it, feeling fidgety and restless - and one thing that keeps coming into…
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What is Thanksgiving?
We don't celebrate it in the UK, but obviously we know of it through American TV and films. I always thought about it as being a uniquely American festival, but I gather it's marked in other countries too? So aside from being a time when families gather and enjoy a big turkey dinner to give thanks for the bounty of the…
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My eyes are bigger than my belly! Another NSV!
Tried on a pair of UK12 Jeans today - just to see how far off I am. I picked them off the rail, and looked at them with the doubts snowballing in my head! They looked so tiny! My brain rejected any notion of these tiny jeans going on me at all - I was convinced I wouldn't even be able to pull them up. I nearly just put…
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Never mind the calories just for a moment...
Home made cardamom spiced plum jam - look at this: equal parts stoned chopped plums and granulated sugar, 12 cardamom pods and a little bit of water. Well, I don't have to eat it! I'll decorate the jars and give them as Christmas presents :happy:
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Pears
Our pear tree is groaning under the weight of all the fruit! I don't know what variety they are but they're big - one pear can easily be a pound or two! They ripen suddenly and don't keep very long at all sadly! Most end up on the compost. You can only make so many pear crumbles - and I already make jars and jars of my…
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NSV: These Boots Were Made For Wearing
My criteria for choosing boots used to be: Do they suit me? *irrelevant Do they go with my clothes? *if they go on, they do! Do I like them? *tough Can I afford them? *if they fit, you'll have to! Do they go on? *Yes - buy them and be grateful. *No - move on never mind how much you like them and think they'd suit you. I've…
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milk substitutes
Over in the Team UK group where we're all shivering in the cold wet autumn and dreaming of comfort food, we have been talking about hot chocolate, and my vegan sister used to make it with various vegan substitutes like soya milk and oatley and rice milk - so I just wondered, what are the best milk substitutes in your…
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Adjusting clothes
I can't afford to replace all my clothes as they get too big, so I've been getting out the scissors and the sewing machine. But I'm not a skilled dressmaker or tailor so it's a simple case of darts in waistbands, and straight seams. Anybody else been adjusting their clothes? Any tips or ideas? PS I'd find it really helpful…
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The Incredible Spice Men
Anybody been watching The Incredible Spice Men? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03930tw/The_Incredible_Spice_Men_East_Sussex/ Bad bad show. Makes me hungry, and makes my mouth water. I want to make all the puddings and put lots of tasty spices in them. And then eat them. :grumble:
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TDEE calculators
I've tried a few, they give wildly different numbers - for example I just got 5 numbers ranging from 1773 to 2139! Thats 366 difference - virtually a plate of food! Is there a reliable method of calculating TDEE? Is one of the many online calculators better? Or is it just trial and error - I could go with the average of my…
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If you're thinking you can't do this...
don't know if this will work but someone shared this video on facebook about this US vet, disabled by too many parachute jumps who overcame the impossible and lost 140lbs and got his life back. You think you can't do it? Think again! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=558762040847662
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The Golden Years
I'm pleased to be friends with everyone who wants to be friends with me - but I'd particularly like to make contact with women around 50 years old like me. I lost 2 stone between November and beginning July, but I've sort of got stuck now at 11 stone. I need to lose a bit more than one more stone to be at a healthy BMI…
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Get out of your comfort zone
You don't have to look far to see comments from people along the lines of "I'd like to do this if I felt better about myself and had the courage" I was on holiday last week and spent one day on a hot beach, under a parasol, reading and sleeping (formerly my idea of hell, and I'd do anything to avoid it because I felt fat,…
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Fish
I was veggie for about 25 years but have gone back to eating meat and fish now. I like fish but could really do with some ideas (ed) since I don't really have much experience of cooking fish - and preferably using sustainable fish varieties. I'm getting bored (and feel guilty) of baking salmon fillets in foil, or making…
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I've an overwhelming urge to go and eat some Murray Mints
Genius! Inspiring! Andy Murray, Wimbledon Champion 2013!!!! :smile:
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NSV of the day: Tightening my belt (in more ways than one!)
Latest NSV (that's Non-Scales Victory if, like me last week, you're staring baffled at the initials wondering what on earth it means) Here's my "new" belt - I had to buy a new belt when my old belt got too big and I couldn't add more holes because of the decoration. See the marks where I've been wearing it? The third hole…
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Why should my friend join MFP?
I have a friend, who's commented on how well I've done a couple of times. She thinks she can't lose weight and keep it off, she's tried all the diets, she's not sure, it looks complicated, struggling with the diet head and all the hangups, etc etc etc. I'm saying to her, Give it a go, what have you got to lose? So tell me…
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Tips for changing eating habits
I'm wondering what useful tips people can share about how they've changed eating habits to help shed the lbs. For example, I know I used to binge on biscuits because I'd get them from the kitchen, and eat them en route to the front room, so when I got there they'd gone, and I'd go back for more. So now I take one biscuit,…
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Things that feel wonderful and keep you going
It's slow progress, shedding years and years of flab. The pounds take their time slipping away, and it can feel like I'll never get there. But already I notice things like: The way my clothes feel, they hang gently instead of straining over my flab. I feel the fabric move against my skin when I move instead of just riding…
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New Member
I'm Jane, in East Yorks. I downloaded the app on my android about 6 months ago, and have lost a stone and a half! And more excitingly, I've dropped a dress size! So in fact, I've thrown off about 10 years as I haven't been this size for that long, and I wasn't this shape then! Another stone and a half to go! But it feels…
