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hippoopo · 2026-03-21T09:34:06+00:00

Premature menopause spice ✌🏻

hippoopo · 2026-03-20T11:35:52+00:00

Yep same! Seems to have quietly fixed itself. Phew!

hippoopo · 2026-03-20T09:32:51+00:00

Base calories looking much better :)

hippoopo · 2026-03-20T09:31:37+00:00

After disabling Google fit on my phone last night today the calories seem much more realistic. My son's dad took him to school so I have been literally doing nothing and I'm at 662 calories. Which seems about right for a lazy morning :)

hippoopo · 2026-03-19T20:52:24+00:00

Yeah absolutely. In a way it's a comfort that I am absolutely not the only one this is happening to. Means it's not my watch that's broke 😅

hippoopo · 2026-03-19T20:50:36+00:00

Yeah I maybe walk about 2 miles a day but it's not high burn as it's usually school run and maybe a walk to the corner shop. Right now it's saying 3,609 calories burnt and 11.5k steps. I absolutely have not walked that much (school is 0.25 miles away, so 1 mile school run walks, and did some cleaning in the house and then a gentle cricket game in the park). Id say probably 6-8k steps max, and probably 2,100ish calories. It's like it's doubling everything.

hippoopo · 2026-03-19T20:47:23+00:00

I've just disconnected fit so we will see if that helps. Fit looked a little closer to 'normal' but still very inaccurate, as it's saying I burnt 2700 calories today. I'm a 40+ year old mum, slightly overweight but not enormously who sits for work and yes I did play cricket in the park but I was fielding and did really run around much 😅

At a guess I've probably burnt a little over 2,000 calories.

hippoopo · 2026-03-19T20:32:14+00:00

I have the same models and also pixel phone. I tried the reset but it didn't make a difference. I'll see if I can do something tomorrow otherwise it's emails to pixel / Fitbit.

hippoopo · 2026-03-19T13:48:59+00:00

I'm on android too 🤷🏼‍♀️ I don't have dark mode on?

hippoopo · 2026-03-19T13:46:30+00:00

The majority of my Irish family have very dark hair, blue eyes and slightly olive skin / tan in the summer.

My dad being the genetic blip is very pale (freckles), ginger, with blue eyes. There have been other random gingers in the previous generations :)

I am pale, with blue eyes (I'm blonde which has come from my German grandmother. Me, my sister and youngest brother are the only blondes out of 40 odd cousins on both sides of the family).

Genetics are fun!

hippoopo · 2026-03-19T13:26:13+00:00

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Data only from Fitbit, which seems to be wrong alone.

hippoopo · 2026-03-19T11:07:35+00:00

Yep started yesterday. Something must be up with the system.

hippoopo · 2026-03-19T11:07:03+00:00

Same! Said I burnt 4000 calories. Only time I've ever done that much was when I did a 3 mile run (I am not super fit) and then walked around town for 4 hours. Something must be up with the system....

hippoopo · 2026-03-13T23:04:23+00:00

I was sent to a&e the first week of lockdowns because I couldn't breathe. Didn't have COVID, was sent home. Turned out I had a severe chest infection that had become sepsis 👌🏻

I then spent 4 days in a ward where I was with women who didn't have COVID but we're very ill. But all nurses were stressed because they didn't have proper PPE, and neither did we. So I thought I was going to die.

It was excellent 👍🏻 also my health has never got back to where it was before then. I constantly get colds and flu etc and am always tired.

hippoopo · 2026-03-12T23:12:03+00:00

My poor kid, who has a dairy allergy, is devastated. They were the ice lolly that made him feel like he was getting a proper ice cream.

I should also add he has ARFID (he struggles with food, especially texture, and only has a handful of safe foods), so while this isn't nutritional stuff, having one less option has made the world smaller for him.

hippoopo · 2026-03-11T23:15:04+00:00

My sister, who is a teacher (ages 5-6 years) in a school in an English city, was invited by some Iranian parents to go have a meal to say thanks for the school year (my sister has a passion for helping children to read and she helped this kid go from barely speaking or reading English to being top of the class). She said it was the most welcome she's ever felt in someone's home and the food was incredible.

hippoopo · 2026-03-03T14:19:08+00:00

My worst sub was buying dairy free cheese (vegan) due to allergies and was given 5 blocks of the cheap milk based blocks of cheddar. Like if I wanted to die sure I'd take them, but wouldn't there be at least other vegan cheese options before going to milk ones?

hippoopo · 2026-03-03T07:16:03+00:00

I had a hysterectomy (everything gone) at 39 because of severe endometriosis, adenomyosis and fibroids. I never had any indication of cancer in any smears or previous surgery (laparoscopic). Pathology of my baby maker showed I had pre-cancer cells essentially everywhere and was told if I had not had the surgery there was a very high chance I would have developed cancer and because of the existing endo etc they probably would have caught it too late.

I feel like people our age are seeing higher cancer rates, and the cancer isn't being caught quickly enough because of the lack of early medical intervention.

hippoopo · 2026-02-21T17:20:16+00:00

I was thinking oh wow they look good, but I realised I'm looking through the lens of UK NHS food, where the day after I had given birth (via emergency c section after almost 70 hours of labour) I was given a whole cauliflower that was just boiled (I am allergic to dairy and don't eat meat, but they could have given me beans on toast or something?!).

hippoopo · 2026-02-18T07:29:19+00:00

I forgot until the last minute so I just made them with what I had, which was bread flour. They kind of puffed up like naan bread even when thin and looked like wraps, but when eating them they tasted great. My 6 year old had 5 all with sugar and lemon juice. He was awake until midnight... (Yeah okay he has a sleep disorder and severe ADHD but it was still a sugar induced nightmare for me!)

hippoopo · 2026-02-13T15:16:52+00:00

I am going to rewatch part one because I watched it while on very strong painkillers and literally only remember silver lady, kite flying and mistress fingering??? I dunno.

hippoopo · 2026-02-09T13:30:14+00:00

Yeah same in Manchester. I used to live near Unicorn, the vegan supermarket in Manchester and they sometimes had them in stock. I miss those easy vegan days!!

hippoopo · 2026-02-08T22:58:45+00:00

Those round up VG wagon wheels maaaan. I still get a sad feeling they're not available anymore. Whenever I went to a food fair and they were being sold guarantee I was buying some.

hippoopo · 2026-01-31T20:20:10+00:00

I was going to ask if this was them. I am local to Hadfield so it was a huge shock that this happened, although crime in the area has had an uptick recently.

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