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New Lunch Ideas
Im looking for new lunch ideas as all I usually have is sandwiches for lunch or the odd bowl of home made soup. Occassionally being bad and going to the hot food counter in Morrisons (1 day in every 2-3 weeks so not regular). The office does have a microwave to re heat food. Im happy to make something at home, freeze it…
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Need to Change
Just had an assessment at work where they measured body fat, weight etc and it wasn't great. :( I don't think of myself as overweight as I am only 77.5kg and 1.73m in height. But my BMI was slightly overweight at 25.9, but my upper Body Fat % was 33%, however what shocked me more was my Choloestoral Levels, with the bad…
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Healthy Eating
Can someone have a look at my food diary and suggest ideas on what to improve in terms of food. You will have to go back to April last year to see more details as I have just started adding stuff to it again but the diet is similar. The main reason I ask is that I read that weight loss/exercise is 70% diet and I would like…
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Exercise Programme
Last Year I followed Fitness Coach on the Wii and while it was great I lost interest after a month or 2 of doing it. I am wanting to get fitter again and I am looking for something that I can follow and keep using. I am currently 172lbs, not much muscle. I like the idea of P90X and Insanity but I am pretty unfit at the…
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Lack of Energy / Motivation
Hi All, I admit that I haven't done much fitness related stuff in the last year but I need to get back into. The last few times I have been out in the garden and felt that it has been too much doing any of the work. Even after digging up a patch I start to feel light headed, faint and drained. I was wondering what the…
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Gardening
When I added gardening to my exercise activities only one came up, but when I put in 120mins it comes up with a value of 450 calories, which seems really high to me. Anyone got an idea of how many calories are used when gardening? Basically I cut the grass (4*2 m ), did some weeding and all in all it was about 2 hours.
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Fizzy Drinks
Well its been nearly a year and a half since I havegiven up on the fizzy drinks such as cola and sorry to say it irn bru (Scottish thing :) ) Basically I was in hospital for a week Feb 2010 due to my appendix and having tht removed followed by an infection wasnt nice. But since coming out of hospital then I have been off…
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Calorie Confusion
Im new to all this losing weight and getting in shape. On here it is recommending that I have 1690 calories per day yet when I check the UK GDA label guide online it recommends for men to have up to 2500 calories. http://www.gdalabel.org.uk/gda/gda_values.aspx Plus I read on one of the ceral boxes that it should be 2000…
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Hey
Hey all from sunny Scotland. I kind of thought it was about time I started to get fitter and shed a few lbs, not that I am largley overweight, well I dont think I am at 180lbs at 5ft 7". Looking to get down to around the 155lb mark and see where I take it from there. Mainly the weight gain has come from sitting in front of…
