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Yup, and I'm an INFJ also :)

:flowerforyou: sorry, screwed up quote lol

Total introvert, and yet, I'm a clinic nurse and love my job. LOVE. I'm a born nurturer so it's great for me. And I can converse easily because it's all about my patient. The only break a nurse actually gets in reality is his/her lunch, and often that is taken up by a meeting, so when I get a free lunch break I am…

Bumping to read later :)

Lmao!!! Awwww poor guy, yeah soak him in a nice, warm bath with oatmeal or baking soda, etc. ^_^

I gained. With three boys (one with special needs, one terrible two and a moody preteen, no less) home around the clock it's soooo hard to find time to workout. I hurt my neck which kept me from lifting for a few weeks, and I have some weird reverse SAD where I actually get depressed every summer and it became a perfect…

Correct. I'm using my coffee table lol. And I actually only have adjustable dumbbells at the moment. Next month I'm going to get a doorway chin up/pull up bar. Shush, I'm so broke it's ridiculous. Trying to score a proper bench w/weights included and a lat pulldown off craigslist but only have around $130 to spend on one.…

Awwww thanks for running the numbers for me. Why are we getting different numbers? So odd. I wonder which set is right?

One of my good friends is a deputy sheriff and I asked him this exact question. He suggested mace as you wouldn't have to get close enough to make physical contact with the stun gun. And stay vigilant, keep music, if you listen to any, down low enough to hear what's going on around you.

Lift heavy so you gain muscle weight, the heavier you are the higher your TDEE, meaning you can eat more. That's my plan. I don't give a crap what the scale says as long as I'm losing inches and dropping jean sizes, kwim? If watching my weight go UP while my measurements and clothing sizes go DOWN, I'm a happy girl. So I…

Yeah I realized the same thing. My eating was fine before I just needed to NET higher. I am so hungry all the time that I might as well be over 6 ft tall, lol, but I'm not so I can never eat enough to be full. I think all we can do is lift heavy and put on muscle weight since being heavier will sl. increase our TDEE or do…

Awwww how fun (and busy lol)!! What a neat experience, twins - ! I've often wondered what that would be like. So similar and yet so different I suppose, like any other set of siblings, except a unique relationship having literally been together since conception. :)

My oldest is 18, next one down is almost 12. To be completely honest AP/gentle parenting gets much, much harder as they get older. I can deal with the baby and toddler years with aplomb but I struggle as they approach the teen years lol. I suppose that's normal it's just not what I expected lol. They're great kids, and I'm…

EPing IS A JOB UNTO ITSELF, I am humbled by your dedication, srsly, do not ”boooo” the amazing job you're doing. Wow. Lucky, lucky baby. Bless your heart mama. <3 Edit to fix autocorrect snafu lol

Good enough! lol Welcome! :D

THAT is beautiful. I admire that so much. I'm naturally pretty introverted but in birth I'm an intense loner, I really want to just be alone, even whispering around me is too much. So my kiddos missed out on my first (and sadly only) two VBACs. :(

Love it! I did that with my older kids, with my youngest he wouldn't eat any food that wasn't off my plate so he kind of skipped the pureed stage lol.

AWESOME! Really, why must they grow SO fast? My last baby is already 2.5....sniff. Is it too early to get excited for grandkids? lol

Nursing while wearing is something I always wanted to do but never could....sigh, lol. That crap takes some skill and you are lucky you were able to pull it off I imagine it made life a helluva lot easier sometimes lol.

We're all learning! I've been a mama for 18 years and I'm STILL learning! You're doing great! AP isn't easy, I commend you, your baby is blessed to have you. :)

We own an old TV but only for watching movies. No cable. No reception. Been television-free for 7 years now. :)

Good for you! That determination will serve you well. Cloth diapers are so cute and squishy soft, so easy to care for and so much cheaper once you get your stash built up. Plus you can sell anything you try but don't like or don't want or after your lo potty learns and recoup a lot of your cost that way. Check out…

Sad, but not at the same time huh? It's nice to reclaim your own sleeping space, for about a week, then it dawns on you that the nights of fluffy headed cozy snuggles are a thing of the past and your heart breaks a bit. Or mine does anyway, I'm a total sap over my babies though lol.

Ha! It's hard to wear my 2 yo lol, I think that window has closed for us too at this point. :')

Oh yay! I knew there had to be at least a few others around here! Sji and we're already friends! What's in your fluffy stash mama? I've run the gamut but my BG love still tops the list. Charitas yes it's the way they use every shady, selfish tactic they can to violate the WHO code that angers me and what that means to the…

I did for sure when I was on 1200 cals and living on super low nets. It was embarrassing how old my face looked after awhile. Once I started lifting weights and eating more (and gained back 8 lbs) my face filled out enough that I didn't look emaciated and the smile lines that made me look like a nasty old smoker…

OMFG I'm alone. ...wait, does that make me the proverbial ”special little snowflake” then? (shut up lol)

I suppose it's controversial but the only thing that worked for me was intermittent fasting....basically I just give myself an 8 hour window in which to eat. When I was just eating small meals all day I would get so overwhelmingly hungry I'd eventually snap and binge, plus I was angry all the time from being so constantly…

I but the Body Fortress Super Advanced whey isolate and it's only 130 calories/scoop which yields 30 g of protein. I am currently drinking the Blue Diamond Almond Breeze unsweetened. It was on a shelf not sure how or if it differs from the kind in the cooler. I got my PB2 in the health food section at a grocery store…

At nine months only Mama's milk around the clock, occasionally water or goat milk (far closer in composition to human milk than cow milk). No juice ever but no one drinks juice in this house regardless of age.