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| Weight Loss | 10 things you need to know about losing weight | May 29 2009 11:18 (UTC) |
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fantastic programme - I still can't get over the experiment with the soup!! (although we always knew soup was a good low-cal option, now we know it also keeps you filled up as well!!)
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| Foods | Foods that keep you feeling fuller.... | May 28 2009 10:24 (UTC) |
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Soup is where it's at!!! Programme on British TV last night, did an experiment with Army Cadets. They were all fed a lunch of Chicken, vegetables and rice with a glass of water. All exactly the same calories. But half of them were given it liquidised as a soup, they then tested their stomachs after 2 hours and 4 hours to see how full they were. The non-soup team had significantly emptier stomachs after 2 hours and after 4 hours were completely empty and 'hungry'. The soup-team were still full after 2 hours and not completely empty after 4 hours - but they'd eaten the same things!! Amazing!
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| Weight Loss | Weight loss question? | Jan 04 2008 14:52 (UTC) |
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You should be OK to eat back the calories you burn at the gym (ie 1600 if you burn 400). Try it for a few weeks, and see if you still lose 1 or 2lbs a week Good luck! |
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| The Lounge | meeeow meow meeeeow! help | Aug 06 2007 13:24 (UTC) |
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| Aw - chatty cats are the best, they're just communicating with you in the same way they see you communicating with humans. I read something once that said cats don't understand doors, that's why they create such a fuss about them. In my old place we didn't have a cat flat and Cilla used to spend ours crying on one side of the door, to have it opened for her and then 2 minutes later crying to get in - apparently she just didn't get why she couldn't have free access. She's find with doors now, just so long as we don't shut them. And mostly I sleep through her chat in the middle of the night. |
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| Weight Loss | looking for my 'twins'- or close to it- for motivation/support F35, 5'5 and 180lbs | Aug 03 2007 15:35 (UTC) |
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| Hi guys, better late than never but can I join your gang please? I don't often frequent the boards, and spend more time in the journals so have friended you all - hope that's OK (and hope that some of you are journal posters!). About me, I'm 36 (and soooo not happy bout that!), 5ft6 and 180. My starting weight was 216 so feel like I've achieved something - but my problem is keeping it going, more and more lapses are slipping into my diet now. |
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| Weight Loss | Question about the weekends.. | Aug 03 2007 15:15 (UTC) |
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| If you think when you get home (when you've had a drink or two, so it's not easy to concentrate) about all the food you've eaten that day you can convince yourself that youre not hungry at all. After-all it's not a real hunger, it's a false-hunger brought on by alcohol. I'm not sure that makes sense as I've written it, but if you can get your head round the 'false-hunger' thing it should stop you snacking on junk late at night. |
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| The Lounge | Im a binge drinker as opposed to a binge eater | Aug 02 2007 17:52 (UTC) |
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| Oh yeah, I love a drink but am limiting it to weekends to help with the weightloss - only problem is my weekends have been a little too good recently (beer-good) and it's stopping all progress :-( | |||
| Weight Loss | :( I can never get myself to stop | Aug 02 2007 17:47 (UTC) |
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| i totally agree with platinum about not buying the stuff in the first place OR if you absolutely can't live without it, get it in pre-packaged portion sizes so you have your single portion then leave it alone. Tried Skinny Cow stick-bars? Brilliant!! |
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| Weight Loss | What is the biggest obstacle standing between you and your goal? | Aug 02 2007 17:29 (UTC) |
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| my motivation that goes up and down like a yo-yo. I also find myself slipping into the attitude of "I'm doing so well, I'm allowed another treat" - like twice a day!!! |
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| Weight Loss | Starvation Mode/weight gain | Aug 02 2007 17:26 (UTC) |
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| If you type 'starvation mode' into the white box above and search the forums - you'll find all the many hundreds of thousands of threads on this very topic.......... | |||
| Weight Loss | can i lose 11 lbs in 1 month for the prom? | Jul 27 2007 13:56 (UTC) |
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| Well you're not eating enough for sure - what's happened to lunch? You need to keep yourself topped up with energy during the day ESPECIALLY if you're excercising 3 times a week. Go up to 1200 cals a day and spread them throughout the day rather than just one big meal at night and you'll feel better for it and you'll definitely lose the weight. Whether it's 8lbs or 11lb, it's worth doing it healthily as you're more likely to keep it off |
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| Weight Loss | "Eat any/everything you want one day out of the week" diet? | Jul 27 2007 13:41 (UTC) |
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| i tend to look at my cheat days as maintenance days - it's meant to stop me from going way over-board with quantities - its a tricky balancing act though. |
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| Fitness | swimming over running... | Jul 10 2007 14:26 (UTC) |
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| Hiya, My main exercise has always been swimming I love it and am using to going big distances (even when I was much heavier than I am now). My boyfriends main exercise is running, he loves it and runs marathons for fun. We both feel at our fittest though when we're doing each other's main exercise - go figure! Think it's to do with what you're used to doing and mixing it up a bit, a bit of variety is a good thing! |
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| The Lounge | My Anniversary..... and I don't care | Jul 10 2007 13:47 (UTC) |
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| You've got two different messages going on here........ 1. I want the single life back 2. I'd rather be with this new bloke than my husband You can't have both, sounds like you're using the new fella as an excuse to get out of the marriage when you don't need an excuse!! If you want out, tell him and do it but don't fall into the trap of getting hitched to another chap who could be another short-term fix. |
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| The Lounge | Belly Button Piercing | Jul 02 2007 16:48 (UTC) |
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| It hurts, course it does but it's not gonna kill you. Take an energy bar or something with you cos you'll get a sugar-crash right after from the pain-anticipation. I didn't get an infection and just soaked using an egg-cup of warm sea-salt water every day - I still have it, still love it! |
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| Fitness | How Important Is Stretching? | Jul 02 2007 16:41 (UTC) |
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| Always stretch after a workout! Warm up slowly as well and put some stretches in early after the first gentle 5/10 minutes. If you develop the same stretching routine and do it again at the end of your workout you'll see how much further you can take the stretch too. I was always taught that if you're only going to do one or the other - you're better off skipping the workout than the stretches. |
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| Fitness | How effective is the elliptical | Jul 02 2007 16:22 (UTC) |
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| I'm just migrating off the Eliptical and onto the treadmill and can tell you the workout is MUCH harder on the treadmill but it's more stressful if you're not v fit. I would recommend getting your fitness going on the Eliptical (don't you use your arms on it? How do you read?!), or using it to warm up and then going for short distances on the treadmill as well. |
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| Motivation | Its been one year since I registered | Jun 29 2007 15:12 (UTC) |
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| Congratulations, that must feel fantastic!! | |||
| Weight Loss | could this be accurate | Jun 29 2007 13:16 (UTC) |
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| Isn't it better to assume your activity level is lower and then log everything you do? You'll get a more accurate burn rate, and won't over do the cals on the days when you skip out the excercise. (so jealous of that amount of calories - I'd love it if mine was 3000+!!!) |
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| Fitness | If you dont eat protien after you work out... | Jun 28 2007 16:25 (UTC) |
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| I don't see how it's totally pointless. I'm no expert but I understand that the protein helps to rebuild and tissue damage and recover the muscles - so it's BETTER if you do (but won't kill you if you don't) |
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| Weight Loss | is this healty? | Jun 28 2007 15:47 (UTC) |
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| I don't see how you find the time to eat with that schedule - do you actually work/go to school? | |||
| Weight Loss | grr to people who I work with | Jun 28 2007 15:45 (UTC) |
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| Aw, I used to work at a company that did the whole biscuit thing, the cupboards were stocked with whatever you felt like snacking on - which made for a nice homely atmosphere but OMG not good for trying to lose any lbs!!!! | |||
| Motivation | Please tell me slow and steady works! | Jun 26 2007 19:07 (UTC) |
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| It works, I've been at it since January and am down 33lbs - the first week was hard though because you're obsessing about food and feeling hungry. It gets easier, I promise! |
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| The Lounge | A question - what is a traditonal dish from your area? | Jun 21 2007 15:48 (UTC) |
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| <LOL at off-topic English words!> I'm from Lancashire, our most famous dish is Lancashire Hot Pot (as served at the Rovers Return), its minced beef, onions and potatos cooked in gravy, topped with slices of potato and baked to a golden brown - served with pickled red-cabbage. Total comfort food. Follow that with an Eccles Cake, which is a squashed ball of currants, wrapped in pastry and sprinkled with sugar. |
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| Weight Loss | What is 1 thing that you believe really helps with your weight loss? | Jun 21 2007 09:51 (UTC) |
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| Soup - I'm hooked on soup every lunchtime. I know that whatever soup I pick (and I have a different one everyday), it never takes me over my calorie limit and leaves me feeling full. (just stay away from the creamy ones) |
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| Weight Loss | party in work tomorrow - HELP | Jun 13 2007 16:56 (UTC) |
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| Hi fattypuff, A couple of sausages on sticks would be OK to go on top of your salad wouldn't they? It's protein and reasonably low fat (if they're the frankfurter kind - if they're M&S hmm, not so sure!) KC |
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| The Lounge | i was insulted by a member of staff - /i felt i was insulted by a member of staff | Jun 06 2007 16:42 (UTC) |
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| I would be offended too fattypuff. If Kate Moss had been sat in your seat - would have said the same thing? |
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| Foods | experiences with Olestra (or lays light/ruffles light chips 0% fat) | Jun 04 2007 17:00 (UTC) |
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| Yep Olestra is banned in the UK (and probably EEC) as an unsafe food product - I saw the TV programmes about Anal Leakage - you don't really want to eat that stuff!! | |||
| Foods | Need to know how to fix an olive oil based salad dressing. | Jun 04 2007 16:59 (UTC) |
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| I tend to use the same amount of oil as the vinegar (one tablespoon of each to serve 2 people). Try adding half a teaspoon of mustard and half a teaspoon of honey as well (this'll need mixing seperately before adding into the salad). Lovely! |
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| Foods | soup!! | Jun 04 2007 16:56 (UTC) |
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| I'm a soup addict, and so long as you avoid the creamy or overly meaty ones they're REALLY good for you and fill you up too!! |
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