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Greetings Hatters! Snoozie, Fortunately for all, I was in Italy when my stealth period hit and it was too hot to act on any homicidal urges I might have had. Tonya, I like your frozen peas idea and ice pack ideas. I'll search for the latter under my teenager's bed. Another idea shown to me by my hairstylist who has long,…

This happened to me when I was regularly running. Two things helped. Deep breaths while being sure that my lower abs were tucked in and pinching my my scapulae together while dropping my shoulders. For me, it was a matter of my form being off.

In case anyone's wondering, the reason this 60-year-old joined the group is that she's sweating it out with the rest of you. September 2, 2012 = finito. At least I hope so.

Greetings from the Baked Apple!

clinical psychologist/harpy

The only living being in our household not named by my husband or daughter is me. He named our two 10-year-old Tonkinese cats. The slightly older is named Willow. My husband's stated purpose for choosing this name, which I learned after the fact, was to take the name out of circulation in case I decided to add another…

Economic Left/Right: -8.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.90 Closest to Gandhi and the Dalai Lama No wonder so many of my friends are people I met outside of the U.S.! Looking at my score compared to that of our likely presidential choices leaves me a bit sad.

um . . . is it ok to start July 30th?

I'm sorry to read about anyone else needing Prednisone. I have many autoimmune ailments and so I've been on it more times than I can count. When I was skinny--my lifetime state up until a few years ago--all it did was make my face look a little puffy. Ok, more than a little. People would see a "change" in me and wonder…

HI! How are you? I just saw your post. Thanks for your response. Do you know where I could find out more about standing meditation? I've done walking meditations in groups but never standing meditation. x

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There's alway me! ;-)

You can do it. I paid for my entire education and was denied non-merit financial aid at a time when merit aid was extremely limited because my father could easily have put me through school. He thought that it would be good for me to be "self-made." We agreed to disagree on this one but even years later, I believe that he…

Clinical psychology doc, here. Then two year Post-Doc. Also, five years of psychoanalytic training. Also, two year masters in related field and, of course, bachelors where I tried to major in everything! ;-)

I enjoy a glass or two of wine on occasion. Some weeks will include several occasions and some weeks will include none. While I factor in the calories, I think that my wine drinking has probably slowed my weight loss. I'm not terribly concerned about this because I'm not attempting to diet; rather, I'm trying to make a…

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Whether this test is reliable or not is something I question, but for what it's worth I am an INFP who is trying to raise an I (possibly an E) NTJ teenager. Living with her is like living with a litigator:grumble: .

I'm sixty. I was effortlessly thin for most of my life but things have changed. I tore a ligament in my knee 18 months which has made walking at times excruciating and my arthritis has worsened. I'm not sure that the two are unrelated. I now weight 152 and while I'm not sure that I want to get back to my usual 107, I know…

Hmm . . . maybe. Working out to a DVD might be a good idea for me given that my work schedule is so difficult to predict that I'm unable to get to the gym as often as I would like because of its closing hours. Mornings are hard because I'm going through menopause and enduring the insomnia that often accompanies it. i am 60…

I love Tera's Dark Chocolate Organic Whey. It is delicious and if I use it with soy or lowfat milk it tastes like a milkshake.

Sounds like flesh eating bacteria in a can... Seriously, can this really work? Doubtful!! Tell them nooooo! My thoughts exactly.

Don't give up. Some people (like me) lose weight slowly at the beginning. You're doing a good mix of cardio/weight work. Let your weight come off at its own pace and you will have a better chance of keeping it off for good.

I shouldn't post when I'm exhausted. I meant to quote someone who wrote that there was no real difference between real and fake protein and instead I quoted someone who likes chicken thighs. To set the record straight, I am a vegetarian who is clueless when it comes to chicken thighs but I do love Tera's Organic Dark…

Nah. Don't give up running! Back when I ran regularly, and eagerly--except during bitter winter months-- I got shin splints during my annual first two weeks of running. A seasoned runner told me to take Arnica Montana sublingually and it helped a lot with the pain. I subsequently found it in a gel form at a homeopathic…

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Well, let's see. I have four pets and they all have names--Willow, Stella, Clementine and Fish. Only the latter is male, creating what my husband protests is an estrogen dominant household. But back to the original question, personally, am yet to be named--at least as an adult. When I was a kid some of my friends called me…

I have the simplest one--the Polar FT1. It does everything I could want of it as long as I remember to put it on!

Ebooks except for art books. With 540 linear feet of book shelves crammed to their limits in my little apartment and two basement storage rooms full of books, my Kindle is my treasure. Last night when I couldn't sleep, I decided that I felt like reading Faulkner. I went to the Amazon site and downloaded a novel and was…