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Fitness band or health problem?
Ok so I'm a little scared right now! Looked up on the fitness band app when I got home to see how many steps I'd done today as I always do. My heart rate said my lowest was 40bpm see that lots of times but apparently at 9:20am it was 193bpm! Now at that time I was just sat with a group of y11s doing some maths. At no point…
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Anyone else have stomach acid reflux issues?
I'm really struggling food wise with this. I've had indigestion issues since I was a kid but recently it got far worse. The feeling of a lump in my throat making me gag, burning throat, feeling bloated. The doctors prescribed Lansoprazole for a month which did take a while to work but did make a big difference as the…
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Looking for similar ladies for motivation
I'm a thirty odd year old mum to two, one of which is a teenage pain in the backside! I work full time, have a home full of pets and a rather unsupportive partner who happily buys me large bags of haribos and crisps. I'm not a workout kind of person, I walk quite a bit with the dogs but that's about it. I've tried several…
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I need a 30 day shred buddy
I've had the 30 day shred DVD for a while but keep hiding it away. I'm going to give it a go from tomorrow and I feel like I need at least 1 person to do it at the same time so that I'm not just answerable to myself! I'm going to take before photos as motivation and continue to log on mfp. I will be starting at the…
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Building a wall (literally) calorie burn?
So today's task is to build a wall, a small wall. Will probably take me 2 - 3 hours. Although this will require some carrying of bricks and and hand mixing of cement it also requires some sitting on the floor hitting them level. What would I log this as? I'm not sure general gardening would work? It looks too many…
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Hitting rock bottom
I weighed myself this morning with a view of starting again. I hate the way I look, clothes look awful, I look awful. I feel bad for feeling awful because there are so many people out there that are bigger than me and struggling. I feel bad because I haven't done anything about it and I know it's all self pity because it's…
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Weight confusion
I need some help please. I weighed in this morning at 177.4lbs which converts to 12.67 stones. I put the lbs into wlr and it says 12 stone 9.4. What am a doing wrong? Thanks
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I didn't realise I was so unfit
My weight has been around the same for the last year. I am sick of being fat but I find it so hard to stick to the calorie allowance each day. The only way it works is if I eat exercise calories, or some of them anyway. Today I was really geared up for the 30 day shred ......I managed 7 minutes and couldn't continue. Last…
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Alternatives to crisps
I love crisps. You can keep the chocolate and cake I don't care but the crisps are mine! On that note they are killing g my calorie intake and therefore preventing my 5 day intake , I'm on 1200 a day. I know I can buy lower calorie crisps but I'm looking for a healthier alternative that won't leave me craving the crisps! I…
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Why do my feet hurt?
I had a touch of this before but since starting to exercise I have some really bad pain in my feet. It's only for the first few minutes of getting up, I can't put my feet flat to the floor because it's too painful. By the time I've hobbled downstairs and walked through to the kitchen they are fine again and I don't have…
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285 calories left for 2 days....
If I'm to stay within my weekly goal, it's been a bad week! My question is....if I exercise can I eat the exercise calories and still stay within my weekly goal or do I need to stick with the 285 regardless because I can't see me sticking to that at all! Or maybe exercise and just eat half? What would you recommend I do?…
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Lunch time is ruining it, need some ideas.
The first thing is plan is dinner and then breakfast is usually low calorie because breakfast doesn't bother me but I lose it at lunchtimes. I can never think of anything nice to have that doesn't involve eating 500 calories! I really need some ideas of what to have. I like hot food rather than cold It needs to be quick to…
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Meal list for the week ahead - food inspiration
I see a lot of posts on here looking for inspiration for meals as I do myself so as I plan my meals a week ahead (helps with the cost of shopping) I thought I'd post a list of what I have planned for the following week. Sometimes I just have an idea of how to make something and use that idea rather than use a given recipe…
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Why don't my cakes rise?
I don't eat cake but my daughter likes to bake and no matter what recipe we use, the cakes don't rise. The oven is gas and gets to the temperature it should do so what are we doing wrong? I could never get Yorkshire puddings to rise in it either until someone suggested using an extra egg and now they rise fine, will this…
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Belly fat - just need a moan
I have always had a pretty flat stomach and the weight has always appeared on my face, chest, hips and legs. Over the last year I have put on weight and developed belly fat. Now I know that you can't lose weight from specific areas and that eventually it will go as I lose but it's really annoying me! I have a little roll…
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In need of some similar friends
I only have a few MFP friends and have found them very supportive, one or two in particular however some don't post very often and I feel that I need some constant friends that I can share my journey with. I am heading towards 36 years old, have children and work in school. I am 5'4 and have two stone to lose. I try to…
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Where did I go wrong?
Weigh in day today and I am totally gutted that I haven't lost a thing, not even 0.1lb, nothing. OK so I haven't stuck to the calories religiously but I've looked at what my maintenance calories would be and most of the time I don't come near it. So my maintenance calories are 2040. My current goal is 1200. Monday and…
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The most stupid excuses
I'm having a real personal battle in my head right now. I know that exercise works for me and I have plenty of time as I am off of work for 6 weeks. Here are today's stupid excuses my head has come up with, does anyone else have such daft excuses not to exercise? I will take the dogs on a long walk today - I can't because…
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Interesting calorie entry.
Not sure what's happened but apparently my 80g of roast pork is 21,200 calories :o leaving my day -20,823.
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Really struggling
I have never really battled with my weight. I was a size 6/8 teenager and even when I was pregnant with my second child in my 20's I was wearing size 10 jeans.I did have one slip around the age of 14 when I went up to a size 12 but after a few months it was back off again. My children's father I believe was the start of it…
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Why can't I do this?
I keep starting and restarting and now I just feel like giving up :( . I make a great start every day, logging everything and trying to make good choices but as soon as dinner is over it all falls apart. My brain is telling me that I am being deprived of 'nice' food. I don't eat biscuits but suddenly I crave them, I don't…
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Logging a homemade quiche
I always make my own quiche and in the past have just found a similar shop bought quiche to log but I'd really like to know the accurate calorie intake of my own. I know I can create my own recipe and add all the ingredients but it's always a large quiche as people like to take their own sized slice from it. Because of…
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Using the stair case as a stepper
Money is tight and space restricting so buying exercise equipment is generally out, although a do own an elliptical bike thing. I have read that instead of buying an actual stepping machine I can burn just as many calories and tone legs and thighs just by using the stairs, so stepping up and down one step rotating the…
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Hello again...restarting.
I have used MFP before very recently but I found that my past with MFP was holding me back and actually making me feel really fed up having being a member for such a long time, not really sticking to it and not making any progress. Because of this ( and the fact that you can't actually start again from scratch with your…
