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Hello,

Thanks you, pretty useful information here. I didn't knew many of those yet. Furthermore, I believe that many peoples didn't neither, so that contributes to everyone!

Really very fine tips, but till now my site is not accepting by google. I don't know why.

moonheart, maybe you should check if your website is having a proper site content and also, you should have at least some visitors. To continue, read the TOS before to see if u respect all the single rules!

Good luck,

Tim.

Hey everyone,Thanks for opening this topic, I myself wanted to learn some Css C and C++, but I thought about the fact that what is the point on buying a book when you could simply get it for free over internet!Great ideas thx :PTim.

Hi,''I wouldn't know, I'm already hiding in my fallout shelter.'' Ahaha, this question is kinda ridiculous, sorry to mention it. It is not like we can predict what will happen (from my point of view). It might end and might not. Personally, I'd say it won't end up just YET but when it will, it will be the fault of a general world war. Probably going to be the WW3 and atomic bombs or something atomic will destroy our planet. Probably religion wars from my opinion (like usually. Territory or religions). It is kind of a sensitive topic to talk about, but this will happen anyways one day even if it is in 1 month or 1000 years (when ever the earth is going to explode because it is too old, from a war or even pollution).For now, I go hide back in the shelter!Tim.

Hey,Speaking about image hosting. I know that we can upload some images and host it under Xisto, but are we allowed to let peoples host their images on our Xisto? I mean if I have friends and a big group of peoples in my university department wants to have a space where we can post our images of lab reports, pictures taken from different stuffs and even some personal pictures etc etc (Kinda like an image hosting, but for a private group of university). Or will this be considered as illegal because it will be like a hosting account. Because I've read the rules of the hosting and it wasn't specified anywhere that we cannot host images, but only can't host files. So I was wondering if I am allowed to do this or I just tell them post links of their pictures instead.Thanks you for answering!Tim.

Hey,From my own experience with the iPhone and all those gadgets, I don't suggeset you (like you don't want anyways) to buy the iphone, it is too expensive as monthly payments.What i really do suggest you is to buy an iPod touch 16 gig 2nd generation (can go up to 370 dollars) and then, buy a cheap cell phone. It will not consume as much battery as the iphone or other cellphones does (the high tech ones) so it will save you money and time! You can play games and do many other stuffs like web browsing with opera on the touch and call with cellphones.Good luck,Tim.

I have had 2 Playstation 2's that broke on me within the first 2 months of having them, I have kept it as good as I can keep it, can anyone tell me what is wrong here?

Hey,

that is pretty weird, sony playstation 2 should be pretty great! have you bought it used? personally, I have 5 friends using those that I know in real life and they get no problem at all. I even tried them all and they work perfectly. You might have bought them used without knowing this. Get refound and buy at a retail store that won't sell you used stuffs. Also, don't use eBay.

personally, I have pretty great experience with sony; mostly their televisions, they are so great! The image is just too amazing looks so realistic (ACL screens) I don't like plasmas

Good luck, hope next one you will buy will be much better!

Tim.

Hey,Thanks you for this helpful tutorial; I was planning on using Google ad-sense on the website that is actually under construction. That would really be helpful. Eventually, the more clicks u get and the more money Google make, the more money you win. But sometimes, you have to find the right subject to add in that will get Google(and you) lot of money :)There are some specific subjects and words that if you search in Google you make a great deal of money (and so do they), but it is just not always too obvious of what the word is (even if some are).Tim.PS. It would be pretty interesting to see somebody posting some really popular keywords that makes you win a lot with Google, but again, mostly would keep it confidential so they don't change it

Hello,Ahhh, this certainly is a waste of time. Google gets great ideas, but seems like they got on the Edge of despair kind of if you know what I mean. They try to make peoples get addicted to Google and use what ever they make at an addictive rate. Which probably happens to many.But well, just as the person above said, I will also deactivates it

Well I had fevers for 2 days already; haven't been able to eat and now on day three the tonsil pain is killing me ( they are just inflamted to the point where they both touch the little bell inside ur mouth.. They are not white or anything disgusting) I can't really talk right now so communicating with my mom who thinks I'm faking sick to not go to school isn't really an option.. Any good home remmedys you know of?

 

I've been drinking benodryl because that's the only drug I own hahha; and tried drinking hot milk but that didn't go well hahh

 

Yes I've suffered from them before. They've gotten to the point of bleeding out. Or as normal as just a morning pain. And no I will not go under surgery to remove them

Hey there,

 

I see that you've already tried hot milk and that, unfortunately, it haven't worked out too well for you. You have to get in mind that gargling with mint mouthwash and drinking plenty of liquids is beneficial to help you get rid of this. But this kind of problem might vary from individuals; warm beverages give relief from tonsillitis pain for some and numbing the pain with cold liquids works well for other type of peoples. It seems that, up to now, the warm part haven't worked too well for you, so you've got to try to drink something cold (even though I would NOT recommend, because in some cases it just gets worst, but if little quantity you might try but not an exaggerated proportion of cold liquid).

 

So you have some different solutions in there that you might try in a large interval of time if one doesn't works too well for you.

 

You could try to buy some lime; it is one of the most effective remedies to treat acute tonsillitis. Get a fresh lime and squeeze it in a glass of warm water with four teaspoons of honey and a quarter teaspoon of common salt. Note that it should be sipped slowly in such cases. (Even if hot milk turned bad for you, I really suggest you to try it hot in the first case).

 

Vegetables are also a HUGE help to treat tonsil problems; juices of carrot, beet, and cucumber, taken individually or in combination, are especially beneficial. The formula proportion recommended, when used in combination is let's say about 300 ml of carrot juice, 100 ml of beet juice, and 100 ml of cucumber juice

 

There is also the Banafsha Flowers and the Fenugreek Seeds that seemed to be effective in helping, but it is not something that is present right away in the house and I think that the previous suggestions would already help you. If not, you really should consult a doctor. Even if you might be a little bit scared of surgery, it does not mean that he will make you have one, just consult to see if it is not in a dangerous state and see what else he can offer you as a solution according to your medical folder data.

 

I hope that you will find a solution somewhere above (or below if somebody else add something beneficial)!

 

Tim.

All I would say... Information and Fire are alike. Its up to us to use it first for the good cause :-)

Hey,
That is so true; actually, information seems to be the most dangerous tool we have here, because it procures power and power is even more dangerous than money... kinda scary no?

Tim.

ok this is the problem iam a skinny guy that ppl are not too happy to have around. I am a little talkative but the thing is that iam very skiny. I dont get it i have muscles more than average and when i say i do ppl look at it and they say they are tumors as they bulge out as they are supposed to be. i kno ppl more skinny dan me dat dont get that from chicks. plus y do ppl dont like agree with wat i say amnd are mean to me

Hey there,

So first of all, you say that you are a skinny guy.Also, you say that peoples are not really happy to have you around them. Ok, so I can already see in you one of the main problem. First of all, let me slowly get to the main thing that you got to work on out.

You have to realize that peoples around are all different and usually not much nice to peoples they whether are jealous of or are annoyed of as not interested in because of some things they do not like in you.

You have also to realize that even if you might be skinny for real and muscular even if they do not approve it, there are MANY peoples that are probably skinnier than you and are liked by everyone. You must ask yourself Why that?

Well, the answer is simple. It might not be a problem really in you, you are doing all things right, but if you want to really get the chicks like you and get more socializing with different peoples, there are one important aspect that you have to take in mind: Its the trust in itself or known as self-esteem.

You got to appear to other peoples as somebody that is happy with your body and that is sure of himself. Once chicks and other peoples will realize this in you, they will want to have your presence with them. This is normal and simply human nature. Don't get discouraged by those peoples, because it is just natural they probably don't even know themselves why they are like that with you. Once they will get older, they will have completely different vision, but the part where you got to be sure of yourself is really important. This is what girls and potential future friends are looking for.

Also, if you are too much skinny, it might show that you are not in a great health, which is probably true, because being too much skinny is bad, but if you are pretty fine just skinny but not fat, thats great, because it shows your good health if you got my point.

So good luck with this, any questions for clarifications or further help, ask them!

Tim.

Hey,

Apparently,

the terrorists that recently attacked various locations in south Mumbai used digital maps from Google Earth to learn their way around, according to officials investigating the attacks.

So I think that the use of google earth might be kinda questionable.

Investigations by the Mumbai police, including the interrogation of one nabbed terrorist, suggest that the terrorists were highly trained and used technologies such as satellite phones, and global positioning systems (GPS), according to police.

Which would mean that any terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda might be using those technologies in order to organize perfectly, or nearly perfectly any attack in any country.

Google Earth has previously come in for criticism in India, including from the country’s former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
Already, in 2005, Kalam warned in a lecture that the easy availability online of detailed maps of countries from services such as Google Earth could be misused by terrorists.

(But as you can notice, some areas of google earth are not opening, most likely because of different military bases).

Indian security agencies have complained that Google Earth exposed Indian defense and other sensitive installations. Other nations, including China, have made similar complaints regarding military locations.
However the places attacked by terrorists last week did not come under the category of defense or sensitive installations. The information available to the terrorists on Google Earth about the locations they attacked is also available on printed tourism maps of Mumbai. The locations included two hotels, a restaurant, a residential complex, and a railway station.

So yes, as you can see, google earth might get into serious problems in the next few months/years. It is a really useful service to be used, but there are limits I think and some actions has to be applied.

Hey,

 

Check this out guys, the new version of Windows Live that just came out lets you add friends to your social profile. It is pretty much similar to Facebook, myspace, hi5, etc.

 

Now the only problem is that these Live invites from friends may not reaching you as the mails are getting marked as spam in Gmail. Just a false-positive but may be costing Microsoft dear for sure.

 

Check this screen shot:

 

 

 

Tim.

Hey,In general, I disagree with you, but I agree on some point of views:Agree: That megaupload could get much better and the restrictions are really limited. They got to work on it much more than they are actually. For example, their point system is way too disorganized. They should make it much easier and allow multiple download.Disagree: I find that in a broad and general plan, megaupload is a pretty good and fast website to download. I've never had any problem downloading stuffs from their website. I have their free membership, so the waiting is 25 seconds what ever the file size (not depending on size like rapidshare). The download speed is pretty descend (i live in Canada I don't know if this might play a role in it)...Furthermore, I already had access to a premium account (my friend let me use it) and it was awesome speed using the rapidshare tool called ''Mega Manager''. It really does speeds up the download speed (anyways, it did for me).So in a basis, a grade of 10, I would give it a good 8/10. From my OWN experience I am really satisfied with the FREE and the PREMIUM membership accounts.Rapidshare on the otherside, I am not satisfied with the download speed on the FREE edition, but the premium is much more better and worth it since there are many files host under this company.Tim.

Hey,Thats a pretty cool and interesting idea. This will be helping users a lot (mostly new ones I believe with new websites). Hope everything turns out fine with this!Tim.Edit: PS. the new forum look looks awesome! I like it. Some changements are always nice for the eyes mostly if you visit the website really often!

Any one know how they did this? Please post all your comments.
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Hello!

Ahhh, really nice trick, lol.

It made me laugh, seems like impossible to realize since they even moved the upper body part away from legs But well, I guess the trick that MIGHT be possible is that there are two peoples there: One in the upper part and another in the lower.
Or some kind of mechanism in the legs maybe. And a small guy in the upper part of the body. So when they cut, legs can move (somebody moves it with some remote) and the guy on top does the rest. When they put legs back (Probably magnetism process or something like that), the lower part should be kinda light, but solid so the person can propulse up (as a jump) in order to jump...

And well, sounds hard to do, but if it would be easy, everyone would do it anyways!

Good luck trying to figure out what it is hahaha

Tim.

So this morning I've been pondering this question, "What will heaven be like?" And it's not the first time I've thought about it.

I makes me sad sometimes when people say they don't want to go to heaven or are afraid to die young and "miss out" on so much.

 

I wonder how many of us are thinking that heaven is boring.

 

Well I don't claim to be able to give any details as I've never been there and have only had hints of it in this life. But I definitely can give some ideas.

 

Do you have things that you long for? All of us do, even if we try to kill our desires. Maybe you wish you had a nice new computer so you didn't have to put up with using an unreliable machine like so many of us do. Or do you wish you had financial freedom after years of worry and struggling to keep your head above water. Perhaps your greatest desire is for that perfect guy or girl or just peace in your family or marriage. There are many such things that we all yearn for.

 

Why do we have these yearnings and desires? Because deep down we are aware that there is a potential for perfection but it seems so very far away. We are left with emptiness and disappointment in its place (Romans 8:18-21). God has put in us the knowledge that perfection does exist and is supremely desirable (Ecclesiastes 3:11).

 

But where is perfection? Well, we had it, then we wrecked it (Genesis 1-3). Now it can not be found in us (Romans 3:23), only in a Holy God who sometimes seems far off. Let me give you hope:

 

It will be restored (Revelations 21:5).

 

All those longings and desires that each of us have is nothing more than a desire for what heaven is. The best experiences we have in this life are nothing more than a faint aroma of fresh chocolate chip cookies when we are famished. But heaven is the feast. We can't imagine how perfect and pleasant and fulfilling it will be because we are still only longing for the perfection which we have failed to attain. It is beyond your wildest imagination

 

So forget whether or not there will be computer games, golf, or fishing in heaven. It is a place that is supremely good. Nothing you have ever desired can compare with it.

 

Having said that, let's take as many people there as we can! The alternative is not so bright.

Hey there,

 

Personally I have something to suggest those who are now trying t imagine what will Heaven be like... it's the following:

 

Why do you think already how after death will be? Don't spend time on thinking how it will be, but spend time on the present moment, you might regret later. Enjoy your lives NOW and not think about death already it just doesn't makes really much sense...

 

Yes It is good to think about it once or twice, thats human's nature, it's normal, but is it really worth it spending time on that?

 

I am not saying that you all guys are spending your lives on thinking about this, but I am just saying that some are so scared of death and they already think how Heaven will be like and if it exists and so on. If you don't know now and nobody does, it's not like you will anytime before your death. You will know, if you believe in Heaven, in the right time. It is how it has to be otherwise everyone would know no?

 

Tim.

See, this is a prime example of why the bible is bull, its just an instrument to give hope. How can you believe in something because of faith? Faith isn't a reason, it's an excuse because you have no reason. I don't want to go to heaven even if it does exist, i dont mind dieing either because I know with death comes nothing, no worries, no problems, no pain. Why do people ffeel sorry for the dead, its the living who suffer.

Even though you don't believe in bible stuffs, it doesn't means that others do not also. You gotta give them respect if it is important for them. They got raised that way. And well it is not for the bad...

Personally, I am not really religious, but I believe in God. Thats enough for me to keep track on the right way.

 

If one would say ''Heaven exists'', and you say ''Prove it'', I would say ''Prove that it don't exist''... You see, there are nobody really can say anything. Just be a bit more respectful. It would be like insulting your mother that you respect and love a lot publicly. It is not too nice.

 

NB: It is good having your opinion, but do not start insulting it [bible] being ''bull'' and again here, I never said that I believe in those stuffs and neither I say I don't

 

I can not know how heaven must be like, that is obviously impossible, but i can imagine and even beleave/hope how heaven is like.

That's how it's supposed to be! You gotta hope for something and believe in your hopes even if others deny it! Thats the spirit

 

Am I the only one who do not like the thought of "eternity"? Because that is a very long time! I do not know if I believe in heaven, my views about things like this somehow change all the time and most often there are others who are contributing to the change.

It's a hard question... how are we supposed to know how we would feel if we experience eternity lol... It surely looks painful LOL

 

But well, some peoples believe that we have life after death and so we forget our past lives... Means it doesn't seems eternity for us anymore... It is all ethical stuffs, hard to say. But it would be hard if you are the ONLY one to have eternal life, you would see your wife children grand and grand grand children die and it would be painful yes... But I don't know, eternal life seems like you can do many stuffs and accomplish more than you can in our short laps of time..

 

Time passes so fast =( and it's our worst enemy :D

 

Tim.

Oprah Winfrey has said that she's never recieved liposuction. I don't know if this is true or not, and I don't care. But my question is, if she is so rich, why wouldnt' want to liposuction. I am just curious as to how dangerous it is because I'm expecting to get some lipo done after i have all the kids i want so I can get my body back to normal faster as I exersize. I mean, I'm going to try my hardest not to gain too much and to exersize while i'm pregnate and all, i'm just curious as to what are the dangers of it. i'm NOT pregnate or overweight btw

Hello there,

Liposuction is pretty safe. I would personally barely even call it a surgery... It is not dangerous really as long as the doctor who is doing it does it safely and do not get bacterias inside you =D

Just got to be careful who you are choosing to do it with. And it is not really hard to practice as operation, so get sure you are informed about their license if it is valid, because there are many peoples can just fake a license and then get things not done well. Get informed...

1) Valid licenses
2) Valid doctor

Good luck!

Tim.

Thank you for this post. Tim.

To go into a bit more detail: I do have type 2 diabetes, was not born with it, I was diagnosed with it in 2000.

I know diabetes type 2 could be cured by spectacular weight loss, and I did mention to my doctor about a gastric bypass, but I got a complete 'no no' story from him.

 

I recently had a blood test, everything (Liver, kidneys, Choleterol, Thyroid etc.) was normal.

One thing I must say, though, I do not trust the doctor i saw very much, I only see him when there is no other choice, he is the type of doctor who cannot even be bothered to examine you properly. When I see him, and I tell him "I have a pain here or there", or whatever, quite often, without even looking at me, he begins to tap his computer and then says, "take this or that three times a day, that should cure it", without even properly explaining what is wrong with you.

The same thing, when i told him I had problems losing weight, in spite of healthy eating and having lots of exercise, he told me a sort of *BLEEP* and bull story about "Well, you have had your body for half a century now, and it has now got used to carrying this sort of weight (I am sure it has not, otherwise i would not feel so tired and I would not have all the problems I have), so healthy eating and exercising will not make a lot of difference". So, in short, he was sort of telling me, "don't try to lose weight, it will not work anyway", I definitely refuse to accept this, and I know that I MUST lose weight in order to sort a lot of problems out, so i obviously need help, and any advice will be welcome.

I also don't know whether this is relevant or whether it has anything to do with my problem, but the weight loss seems to have started since the doctor also changed my medication. I told him I am constantly tired, and he changed my Atenolol (a beta vlocker to control adrenaline and blood pressure) from 100 mg to 50 mg (so he halved the dose). Since then my vlodd pressure has gone up a bit, but he said it was the only reason he saw for my lethargy. I wonder whether that contributes to my problem.

 

Also, I don't know where you are from, but I think the majority of doctors here in the UK are a load of rubbish, many of them either don't care, are totally incompetent, or both. And I can safely say that, having lived abroad for many years and seeing the difference of treatment I used to get there when I needed it.

 

Oh yes, I also forgot, in 2001 I developed angina pectoris, and then ended up having a heart attack (although, that is the competence of the UK doctors again, I have NEVER had an answer to my question after all those years whether I did or did not have a heart attack).

Anyway, I had an angioplasty then and a stent was put into my artery, and, touch wood, i have been all right since then.

 

I hope this gives some more information, and if you can offer further advice I would be glad to hear it.

Thank you for what you have told me so far.

By the way, I think we can eliminate ovary syndrome, as I am of the male species.

Hello,

 

Sorry for the late answer, I was busy for a while.

 

So let's see, you have used Atenolol before... no wonder they've tried to hide your ''Heart attack''...

Let me explain myself:

 

Atenolol is NOT to be used by the following peoples, so anyone who:

 

is allergic to atenolol or any ingredients of the medication

has a severely slow heart rate

has serious heart block

has congestive heart failure

has very low blood pressure

has severe peripheral arterial disorders (blockage of blood flow to limbs of body)

has a condition known as pheochromocytoma (in the absence of alpha-blockade)

has metabolic acidosis

has a condition known as right ventricular failure caused by pulmonary hypertension

has a condition known as "sick sinus syndrome"

 

Can you see the logic there? All heart related problems. So, from my point of view, Atenolol was THE medication you needed, but the secondary effects are way too risky for a person like you to be used, but they didn't took this in consideration OR it might also be due of the frequent use of this medication on a long term period of time which created those problems, so you started to have those secondary effects and be more tired and so on. So probably a severe chest pain started due to the heart blockage, which resulted in an insufficient quantity of blood and hence oxygen, which lead to a angina pectoris... Then the heart attack.

 

Which resulted the doctor to change your medication. (Well, reduce the dosage, but now, new problems started to come, because of the sudden dosage change!)... And now you have weight problem...

 

PS. When you say

I definitely refuse to accept this, and I know that I MUST lose weight in order to sort a lot of problems out,

THATS THE SPIRIT! Keep going!!!

 

O.k. so... after the angioplasty which unblocked your blocked arteries, you might have started gaining even more weight, since you were probably at rest for a huge amount of time.

 

PS. Don't forget that with age, it is normal to gain more weight; peoples who were usually thin, starts to gain too! So this might be ONE of the reasons but eventually, not THE reason, because from what you said, it should be allright...

 

Advices? Try to talk with your doctor for alternative medication and different choices you can have and look CAREFULLY the secondary effects and for who it is adapted and who CANNOT use it. It is really really and I repeat again REALLY important. Life of peoples depends on it. Many unexperimented doctors (as me, since I am still a student) made those errors which cost many lives that could been saved...

 

Good luck! If I get anything else pop-up from my mind, I will get in contact with you on this forum.

 

Tim.

Hello,

Yes, I have heard about ''The 3d engine''. I have some tutorials for you for many developing game stuffs and graphism mostly. (vectors too etc)...

So there is some cool tutorial for this one. But it is a little bit short and basic, but it is a good way to start:
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Also, you could just go to
http://www.spacesimulator.net/tutorials/index.html
For more cool tutorials. They have many. Short and simple, but useful if you are just starting learning those stuffs. You might want also visit many other sites, just Google it, there are many links.

Some other awesome sites that shows you how to use Torque and move your characters in game etc is
http://www.codesampler.com/torque.htm
A pretty useful link with screenshoots that helps you understand what you need there.

I also found some interesting blog that talks about it with codes and physics which is:
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
Its called ''ActionScript Physics Engine Tutorial: Lesson 1''
and there are many projects in there that you can even download (and lessons obviously).

Well, thats about it for now! If I find some others, Ill get you to know!

Good luck,

Tim.

Hello!Lol, thanks for the information! I was interested in trying it, but as I can see there, it is not worth at all to buy lol. I hate those kind of games that are just really bad and not worth buying; out of date. This is the principal reason why peoples just start to pirate and hack stuffs over the internet, because there are mostly of the games and softwares that are really bad and not functioning properly. Even the demo versions are terrible sometimes and again, not every company are making demo versions.I've seen screenshoots seems so so to me. Instead of making those basics games, they should not waste their money in producing those and try to spend few more years till they make something that might be worth buying it. And some awesome online racing game too would be great!Tim.

Hey,personally, when I was younger, I was always downloading many stuffs non stop, interested about hacking and all those things, which eventually bring me to websites that had infected files to download and that I got installed on my computer (old one) so I had many viruses more than 50! And many spywares and so on, but you know, as a kid, we try many stuffs. (Not talking about what you think now, no I don't watch those kind of stuffs )But yes, now, I don't have any viruses on my computer (new one) even if I am still downloading many files from sites like torrents and so on.Tim.

Have you heard about Google Knol? It's a service launcged by Google some time back to compete wikipedia.

 

check Google Knol: http://knol.google.com/k

 

Less popular yet useful service from Google

Hello!

 

I have never heard about it, thanks for the informations, looks pretty interesting.

This is eventually going to one day surpass wikipedia, since it is made by Google, or Google will even buy wikipedia, so we will see in future.

 

Eventually, it will take some time, since wikipedia was all made by their users that has some informations to add (and not always good one lol ) but the future will say the answer!

 

Tim.

Hello,This is another of those delicate questions! I will try to show up some different possible situations that might happen.First of all, think about him and you live with him in future. Do you see yourself happy? Do you see yourself complexed and shy going out with a guy 16 years old older than you? Would you be, in future, less attired by him because he will get a real old man and you still young lady? What would peoples think about you? Would you be fine with this?So taking in considerations with all those, you can find some real answer to yourself. If you have pretty opened peoples around you and you will feel and they will feel also comfortable with it, you will be fine. If not, check yourself. Do you really care about what others think about you? You live for yourself and not for others and everyone has the right of having different life and opinions no? But are you one of those persons who actually takes in considerations those stuffs?Project yourself few years later in future. You are at your parent's house, married to this man. Sitting having a good dinner with your friends there too and their husbands/wifes. How will you feel? In few years will they get used to it?So basically, one of my university teacher that is well known here in Montreal (He was/is a psychiatrist) said the following: ''succumb to temptations''So what he meant by this is that you have only one life and you can regret of not having done something you really want. But you might also regret what you've done, so its risk, but if you don't live life without risks, life is not fun!!So thats all I have to say for those comments, but I still want to add a last point there; you should be able to, if you ever start going out with him, see if he really loves you or want a ''one night sex'' and then leave u and put you on his long list of girls he make up with if you know what I mean, so be careful with this, because if it is the case, it hurts.Well thats about it!Tim.

Hello,

 

Let me begin with giving you some background information:

I am 50 years old, male.

I am 1.70 m. (5 ft 6 in) tall.

I weigh 108 kg (16.5 stone, 238 lbs).

I am diabetic and use insulin (which is not exactly good for losing weight).

 

My problem is:

I eat sensibly, which I can see by the fact that my sugar levels are normal, for eating I follow the GI (Glycaemic Index) of foods, and eat only the things which have a low GI and hence do not raise my blood sugar.

 

I work out in the gym every day and do karate twice a week.

Last year I managed to lose a lot of weight by eating the way I do now and taking regular exercise.

 

However, even though I torture myself at the gym, and my muscles clearly feel that something is happening to them, I don't see any real difference.

Worse even, when I stepped on the scales last Saturday, my weight had gone from 105 kg (16.5 stone, 231 lbs) to my current weight. That means I had put on more than half a stone (6.6 lbs to be exact) in 3 weeks time.

Surely, by living the lefestyle I do, I should not put on any weight, should I?

I know some people would argue now, "Yes, but muscle weighs more than fat", but surely, I should, apart from growing muscle, be burning fat as well, shouldn't I?

After all, my current weight is far too high for someone my height, isn't it?

 

Has anyone seen a similar problem before (or been in a similar situation)?

Or even better, is there anyone who can offer some useful advice?

Anything will be gratefully accepted.

Hi mrdee,

 

First of all, it is not normal for you to have rapid weight gain, because it does not fall into diabetes type 2 symptoms (neither the type 1).

The following are the common symptoms of diabetes which you've probably already noticed:

 

Unusual weight loss, Excessive thirst and hunger, Increased fatigue, Irritability Blurry vision and so on.

So as you can see, there is no way diabetes would be the cause of it.

So you've got to see a doctor so he can send you to a specialist and check the following: Heart, Liver, Kidney.

Actually, it is really common to have an heart failure, ovary syndrome or even a cushing syndrome. Get your tyroid checked also in case.

 

There is a strong relationship between various autoimmune diseases, especially between Type 1 diabetes, autoimmune thyroid conditions, celiacs disease, etc.

I'm not sure how strong the link is between Type 2 diabetes and hashimotos, because hashimotos can result in an underactive thyroid, which can result in weight gain. Keep your weight in check and thyroid levels (TSH) in the normal range.

 

As you can see, in a sense, this goes all against my previous statement saying that diabetes is not causing weight loss. Yes I really mean it. It does not, but with the relation with some other diseases, it can. It is a possibility to take in consideration.

 

Also, if you already did not knew, there are ways to cure Diabetes. Type 2 diabetes can be ''cured'' through weight loss and keep it stable (which is pretty hard in your situation unless of a liposuction).For Type 1 diabetes, the only known cure is an islet cell or pancreas transplant. Eventually, all those requires surgeries, so it is at your own risk! Got to consult your family doctor for this.

 

Well, I really hope this helps! Good luck.

 

Tim.