Abigailj
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He looks great. Grace is looking very fetching too
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Finally you are here together
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Deer No-R
Yew iz inn trubul foor flurtink.
Mownar
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I'm really pleased this has been exposed but I can't say I am suprised by it. A few years ago, one of ours was being vaccinated by a new vet, who commented that greyhounds had often been used when she was at vet college.
I think some people will try to justify it by saying that they are providing a service, and asking what would happen to the unwanted dogs if they didn't put them down. Fair question I suppose, but regardless of that this situation still demonstrates that there is surplus of greyhounds caused by the racing industry and these dogs are not living a luxury retirement at home on a big settee.
Personally I can't understand why the NGRC are 'flabbergasted'. Where do they think all of these unwanted dogs go?
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Someone on money saving expert buys it from Ebay for £18 a bag inc delivery (you have to order two bags at a time).
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Yes we have. It does loosen the plaque and makes it easier to pick off their teeth. The first time we used it we didn't rate it at all, but then someone recommended we give a chewy/bone in order to help the plaque come off.
Within a couple of weeks of starting it I was able to sit and pick it off their teeth easily using just my finger nail. Sounds gross but I love it
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Wendy you have done really well... and everyone should enjoy themselves at Christmas!
I have not been doing very well this week. I have alot of extra work on and not much time for myself... hence no running for 10 days now and no gym either. I have been making the effort to take good lunches to work but I've been more hungry than usual and still ended up going downstairs for an extra snack. Not alot of time to cook in the evening this past week either so eating some bad things.
Only 2 1/2 weeks til Sport Relief 3 miles and 3 1/2 weeks til snowboarding.
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Sue
Hugo was such a star. Here he is marching for the greyhounds
Roar-ee says he is 'verreee graytful thatt Hewgow marchd four im ann iz relayshunz'. 
I was ever so chuffed to hold him whilst you nipped to the loo Sue. He spent the whole time looking for you though. At least that is what I thought he was doing at the time, but now it seems he was perhaps just trying to get back to the cafe
Sleep tight little man
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You sound fine to me anyway Abigail
Ta. Yeah I look ok. I'm really unfit though.
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even more upsetting as one of them has been telling me directly that I looking really good and the weight loss was really showing
Next time they say that to your face, perhaps you could tell them what you overheard? (Watch them go bright red and try and get out of that one).
You have always looked good Sam. Some people just have nothing better to do or have to snipe about other people because they aren't really happy with themselves.
I might ditch my body fat ticker. I'm bored of it now. The scales here just keep telling me I am the same. How can someone do weights, running, ice skating etc every week (about 5 sessions in total) and not decrease their body fat? I weight 8st 7 now so I have not gained weight. Why would eating less bad fat and doing alot of fat burning exercise cause me to lose no fat and apparently gain no muscle????
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Everything about me is apparently the same (according to the lloyds scales of doom/mystery/randomness) but I feel different and I think I look different too. Wierd.
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Well done diet and/or exercise people
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Everything about me stayed the same this week. I have done more exercise but also been guilty of visiting the choc machine at lunchtimes.
Well done everyone
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Well done Mrs B
Your stomach will be empty as the food will have been broken down, your body changes food into energy and you are also burning carbs to convert to CO2 which you breathe out. Water is also lost through your skin which then evaporates. (I didn't know all that, I had to google)
5 - 6lbs still seems alot though. I can understand the food being broken down but it hasn't all gone entirely yet has it ( sorry if TMI but I weigh myself before the loo
) The burning of carbs in sleep I can understand also but it would take someone of my size 24hrs to burn 1350 calories when resting so over night sleep is only going to be about 400 at most. Wierd. Fascinating but wierd. Well done Mrs B
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'Tis quite normal, with all the food, drink, etc you put inside your body in a day. That's why I always weigh myself first thing in the morning.
Yes that makes sense but what happens to it all over night? I guess I will lose water whilst sleeping but other than that I dont see what is so different about my body when I get up next morning?
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I was always unsure of BMI, does anyone find the fat% scales/hand held things any good? I was thinking of gettign soething like that cos I am very muscular from all the horsey stuff I do and I think I would look ill if I weighed 9stone which is about the middle of my healthy weight according to BMI.
I used to like the ones that I used to use at the gym a couple of years ago. They were posh ones made by Tanita
We have a cheapy pair from Lloyds pharmacy and I'm not convinced by them to be honest. Get on it one minute and I am 25 summat. Get on em again 2 mins later and I am 27 summat (once again testing them out cos it seems wrong).I guess it is just that the accuracy of the result can vary by a couple of % each time... which isn't much use to me since I'm only trying to make a small change of around 5%. On a Thursday night when I take my proper measurement it really is hard to tell if my exercise has made any difference.
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Mefinks me scales are wrong
They claim I've lost 6 pounds in a day 
I shall take my weight with a pinch of salt until I buy some new ones 
Mine vary by 5 - 6 pounds per day. I will be 8 5ish in the morning and 8 10ish by bedtime. I don't usually weigh myself that often
I have been over the past week or so cos I was suspicious about the scales. 'How could I change that much over night?' I thought. So I kept doing it and sure enough my weight does vary by 5 -6 pounds. Every morning I weight 5- 6 pounds less than I did when I went to bed (I haven't been wetting the bed I promise ) -
Way i look at it, we all know what size/shape we want to be, and a healthy smaller size while still keeping in proportion is in my opinion better than being the right mark on some chart.
These BMI ranges etc are too generic and don't take into account body shape or skeletal frame. Whoever devised BMI probably needs shooting
My OH agrees with you
He thinks BMI is a load of rubbish and he doesn't use it with his athletes. -
Kind of.
"A man would normally be expected to have a higher BMI than a woman of the same height, because men tend to have more muscle than women (women naturally have more fat) and muscle weighs more per square inch than fat. For the same reason a slim, muscular woman will have a higher BMI (i.e. weigh more) than a slim, not very muscular woman of the same height."
It gets very subjective.
If there was every a basic "sports nutrition" course run locally, I'd love to do it - I've become very interested in the subject in the last couple of years.
That's another thing that you can get conflicting info about. Some books say that muscle weighs more than fat and others say it weighs about the same. (I wish they would just decide one way or the other)
If the difference in BMI is likely to be of significance I wonder why they don't have seperate guidelines for males and females, like they do with body fat?
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"Women tend to believe they look their best at values between 20 to 22 and men are usually satisfied with a BMI of 23 to 25. If your BMI is between 20 – 24.9, your life expectancy is longer than average. You don't need to lose weight.
If your BMI is between 20 and 25, you are not considered overweight by most people. But if your BMI is 25 or more, that's not good. But you knew that already."
Taken from "Running4Women" (but I'm sure I've read it somewhere else first).
Oh I see. They think they look better that way. Sorry I thought you meant it was actually a recommendation that women should be lower than men.
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BMI is a "helpful guide" if you've no idea where to aim for, but at the end of the day it's how you feel that's important.
However I believe that "they" think that men can be nearer the 25 mark, and females have to be further down the scale - more 20-22-ish.
I can't find any seperate parameters for men and women. I did find three different sets of general guidelines (below), though they are almost identical.
From a weight loss site:
What Your BMI Calculation Means
Under 18.5* Underweight
18.5* - 25 Healthy Weight
25 - 30 Overweight
30 - 40 Obese
Over 40 Severely obese
* There are two different ranges for healthy BMI put forward by different, but respected, sources. The British Nutrition Foundation, for example, gives 20-25 as healthy range and less than 20 as underweight. The Food Standards Agency's BMI calculator gives 18.5-25 as healthy and less than 18.5 as underweight.
And from NHS Direct
The BMI weight ranges, as set out by the World Health Organisation (WHO), are outlined below.
If your BMI is less than 18.4, you're underweight for your height.
If your BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9, you're an ideal weight for your height.
If your BMI is between 25 and 29.9, you're over the ideal weight for your height.
If your BMI is between 30 and 39.9, you're obese.
If your BMI is over 40, you're very obese.
It varies for some people, such as certain athletes who may weigh more than average but still be 'healthy'. For example, a big rugby player may be fit and very muscular but the regular BMI calculator doesn't take into consideration the fact that person's 'excess weight' isn't excess at all... it is muscle that they have because of the type of sport that they play... anyway I digress
The body fat % ranges are very different for men and women (and also depends on age). The chart here in the Running Made Easy book says that healthy body fat for women is:
Age 20 - 39 21 - 33%
Age 40 - 59 23 - 34%
Age 60 - 79 24 - 36%
And blokes...
9 - 20%
12 - 22%
14 - 25%
The chart that used to be up at the gym used to be different to that. I remember because I was about 18% and that was within the healthy range displayed at the time.
Anyway will stop going on about it now (sorry but I find it dead interesting).
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Thanks for explaining, I didn't know that
That's ok
I've spent 8 years with someone who uses this kind of stuff/info every day. That's the only reason I know the difference between some of these bits and bobs. -
Is it?
Yes
BMI is a weight/ height ratio, an approximation of a healthy weight range depending on your height. I am measuring my body fat %. I want to know how much of my body is made up of fat and I want to reduce this slightly to a healthier amount (mostly by exercising so that I have more muscle tone).
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Yes that probably is fine (it depends on your height) If you want to check it there is a calculator here and instructions about how to work it out manually if you want to BBC Site
What confused you?
Sorry, haven't explained myself very well and can't edit the post above.
A healthy BMI is roughly within the range of 19 - 25
What I mean is if you want to check your BMI you can use the info on that linky there. You will need to know your height and weight in order to work it out.
A New Diet Thread For 2008
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Well done everyone. 
My body fat is just yoyoing up and down 25% - 28%. It was 25.1% last week. Dunno what it is now. I'm bored of measuring it. It never makes any sense. I think our scales are cr@p and I wish the gym would bring back the Tanita's.
I randomly lost 3lbs last week (having 3 lunchtime meetings with no veggie food provided probably had summat to do with it).
Fitness goals took a dive a couple of weeks ago when OH had a back problem and I lost my running partner (not running in the dark alone). He has been weight training me in the house 3 times a week though so better than nothing.
Yeah so I'm just up and down up and down anyway.