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  • If you are willing to make the investment up front for strength training, I am a huge fan of the TRX. It seems a little pricy for what is basically a set of fancy web straps (although cheap knock-offs are out there) but you can do pretty much any exercise you can do with weights or on a machine, using your body weight for…
  • That's wonderful. I haven't seen one anywhere in years. I actually wouldn't mind finding an old one and just using it for bacon fat.
  • My mom used to keep a big grease can with a strainer lid (embossed with the word "Grease" on the side even) on top of the stove. Any thing she fried in, whether it was bacon grease or Crisco went back in and was recycled after every fried meal (unless it was fish, because that made the grease taste fishy). Ah, the South in…
  • I don't strain, since I keep it in the fridge anyway. I pour it hot into a tempered glass jelly jar.
  • I weigh-in daily as it keeps me accountable and helps me stay motivated to avoid "cheat days". Once a week (for me, YMMV) meant I would then binge on weigh-in day (and then sometimes the next) with the self-justification that I had a week to make up for it, and tended to either not lose or gain weight back. During the 5…
  • This one? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3164042/Majority-people-pile-pounds-never-lose-them.html OK, as a medical provider (PA), and one who used to work specifically in preventative medicine and wellness, it's a terrible article as those numbers (only one in 210 obese men and one in 124 obese women achieving…
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