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Where I totally understand what you are saying about being in IT (that's what my dad did in a hospital for years). It is much easier for a hospital to just say everyone rather than saying..."ok exclude IT, maintenance, etc."

I know I had the choice before I took it and guess what I took it anyway. When I got the job I asked about the flu shot and they said it would be required this year. And guess what I still took it. It's not a violation and like she said she could get out of it with a DR. note or whatever. But honestly it's not that a big a…

I think it's great that some people can be successful on WW. But personally I think about WW just like Jenny Craig and all the other "programs"....I shouldn't have to pay anybody any amount of anything to lose weight!!! I joined MFP because it was FREE and simple enough for me to understand and I don't have to pay to eat…

I say yes. i get bored drinking plain water so I often add mio (well the great value brand) to my water and I still count it as water. But as far as counting sodas as water and that kind of thing I don't do it.

I work in a hospital as well. A Catholic hospital at that. This year they are requiring the flu shot. But you know what was required of me to start my job? A drug test (by blood not urine), a breathalizer (yes to check if I have been drinking), they do labs to check for any recent vaccines and if you aren't up to date on…

Just make sure you always have your willpower in control of it. My boyfriend used to drink one or two beers a night and over time it turned into 4-5 and so on. Then one night he tells me his is going to a friends house after work (he gets off at 11pm) to work on his truck. I wake up at 4am home alone...again at 5...again…

some friends and i were talking about going out as super heros (comic characters) for halloween and I saw a lot of cute costumes for spiderwoman, wonder woman, and there was one from batman...ivy or something like that....which that one could be super easy to modify normal running gear with.

ice it, elevate it, take some ibuprofen to help with swelling. keep an eye on it and head to the dr. it is better to go to the dr over something little and piddly than not go and find out you have broken or torn something and wind up with worse damage.

I have heard a ton of people suggest that if you really want to run or if you have problems to go to a store to get properly fitted for shoes. I had a friend who did this just last weekend and she said they spent about 45 min measuring her which included her walking around and things of that nature and found shoes to fit…

Did u just get out and run? I am not a runner at all and fear I will hate it if I do that. So I decided to try couch to 5k. It has you do interval training for 9 weeks but you can go at your own pace and repeat days/weeks if you want to. I just recently had my gall bladder removed and tried to get into c25k too soon and…

I am an EKG tech at a hospital and work 2nd shift. So about 95% of the EKG's are done by the day shift so I have on average 7 to do over 8 hours and it takes all of 5 minutes to do each one. But I chose my activity level to be sedentary and wear a pedometer, I take the stairs when I don't have my EKG machine with me and…

Congrats on your NSV! I had heard of this quite a bit. Unfortunately for me it seems that the more weight I lose they crankier/B****ier I get around that time of the month. Which uber sucks for my boyfriend. Strange thing is I don't remember being that cranky before I even gained the weight!!!

I am the same way! In the last couple of weeks I have found this new weird obsession with pepper jack cheese...I dont even like peppers!!! Not even bell peppers!! I also have a hard time cutting back on the amount of ranch dressing I use. But what makes it hard for me to stay motivated is that my boyfriend has no interest…

I love your story! As a matter of fact I will share mine! My parents have started seriously bike riding. Just recently my dad entered into a 67 mile ride (dislocated his shoulder half way through and still kept going) and 2 weeks later did a 30 mile ride. My mom did 30 miles both rides. Well in preparing for these they…

I post things and get 0 response sometimes too...but I just let it go. I try to be supportive of my friends on here but some of them don't reciprocate (sp?) so it makes it hard for me to keep wanting to support them if they don't support me. But again oh well. I luckily have the support of my boyfriend and most definitely…

Well she did mention there was a bike in the raffle. I am pretty sure that when I was a kid I would much rather a bike or whatever cool gadgets there were than candy. So yea I would go trick or treating to trade in my candy. Every halloween I had candy left over from the year before. I just liked to get dressed up and be…

when I was a little girl (like younger than 5) I thought Reba McEntire had a song called "July" (my birth month)....nope I was wrong...very wrong...its "You Lie"

No problem! That's the only solution I could come up with.

of course it counts!!! I think it's kind of funny that when i had only lost 4 lbs I was getting a lot of comments....now that I have lost 20 no one seems to notice :ohwell:

I know a few people who have had it done. One of them even helps educate people who are interested. But from what I understand (at least with this program) you have to see a psychologist and you also have to prove you can change eating habits. That's actually how I found out about MFP is because a friend of mine wanted to…

I gained every bit of my weight after meeting my bf. We have been together just over a year. He eats/drinks whatever he wants, sits on his butt at home as soon as he gets home from work (doesn't even help me clean the house actually) and so on. So it's really easy to fall into that trap. After gaining my 20+ lbs I decided…

here's food for thought....maybe the people at the gym (since they are athletic) will understand weights (even if you lift small amounts like me) help tone and build muscle and will understand thats why you are there!?!?

Thats what I do only I'm not smart enough to figure out excel even tho I have a graphic design degree :ohwell: :grumble:

youtube could help to explain how to do things. Just search youtube like you would google. Also you could use dvd's like previously mentioned or if you have pinterest account I see a lot of exercise ideas on there.

I have a gym membership but its a 30 min drive to the gym. I work 3-11 so I would have to go before work. So my excuse was "I don't want to have to haul my clothes, shoes, shower stuff, towel, hair dryer, straightener, etc. to the gym and get ready for work there." Then my parents bought a stationary bike, eliptical, and…

thats awesome! Although it does stink when you shrink out of your favorite pair! LOL

I just started it today. But since I recently had surgery I may just be repeating day 1 for a while just so I don't over do and hurt myself. I think it's a great way to get into running. If you are interested in doing c25k add me and we can help keep each other accountable to do it! Even if we repeat days or weeks because…

I'd like to hear some answers too. I went to ****'s Sporting Goods last week for new running shoes. For starters I have a women's size 10 foot so it's hard enough to find shoes! But I only got to try on one pair of under armor shoes since that's all that was in stock. And I had to jump to a size 11 which was a bit too big…

I do the exact same thing since not all of my walking for the day is done at once. But what I do is when I go to log it I guess an amount of time until the calories burned matches or is as close as it can get.

Yea my mom is a nurse and I usually ask her these questions but thats kind of hard today seein that she is in the air headed to Ireland! LOL But I also work at the hospital as an EKG tech so I don't to a whole lot as far as lifting, etc. But sometimes I do have to help patients from a chair to bed or whatever. I am just so…