TopCat's TopFit

Hi! I bought an "Abdominal Belt Exerciser" a while ago but it took me some time to get around to try it. I have been trying it out for a month now and I definitely have the idea that it is working. In the beginning it was hard because although the instructions are very clear and precise, the little device is not working as stated. However I have now found out how to work it: the on/off knob works for turning it on and off. Once it is on you press the Mode button (the triangle) which starts a program, you press the Mode knob repeatedly to change program to get to the one you want,  and then the on/off knob works for increasing the intensity of the electric pulses. Pay attention here: the knob only goes UP in intensity, so in order to get back to a lower intensity you  have to press the third button, which turns it off, or take off the belt, and get all the way to 10, the highest intensity, after which it returns to 1. The higher intensities can be quite uncomfortable. The...

Hi! Since I posted about healthy nutrition and staying slim I have had quite a lot of comments so I decided to discuss this issue and my experiences a bit further today. A lot of people tell me they are envious of my thinness (I am not really thin, I just have very long arms and legs in comparison to my rather round body; I used to think of myself as a spider with a round body and limbs sticking in all directions) and that they want to lose weight. But then when I see what they actually do, they are not contributing to their own goal. I used to have a colleague who complained that she did not eat very much but was unable to lose the extra kgs. But whenever I saw her eating it was something very fatty. Then I used to have another colleague who was on a diet, so she would skip breakfast (BAD idea! All kind of research points to that a good breakfast is key to maintaining health and a good weight) and then of course by 11 o'clock she would start feeling faint and then she woul...

Hi! Today I had a colleague who asked me how I manage to stay so thin. It is not the first time I have had this question and I thought it might be interesting to take it up here. Obviously, staying at the same weight is a matter of balance. I probably actually go up and down a little in weight like everyone else, but I do not realize it. I have had times when I was a few kilos up or down from my current weight which is somewhere around 65 kg. At my 1.80 m this is just fine. I do not want to lose weight. I would like to add muscle. I am not the least concerned about my weight, factually. I am interested in my body fat content, not my weight in kilos. >(or lbs).  But isn't it ironic? When I put on weight it goes on to my "jellybelly" and my hips. When I lose weight (last year I was very stressed and got down to 62 kg which is too little for me) I lose it from my face and my arms and legs, and the stubborn fat on my belly and hips stays. Sigh. So now everyone ...