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I'm trying to decide where to opt outside. If we get more rain there will start to be waterfalls. Maybe we'll keep it simple and take the kids biking. The 4 year old is really proud of being able to ride a two wheeler.

I feel like that sometimes, but not constantly. That's definitely something to chat wth your doctor about. I also have a vitamin D and iron insufficiency, and those can cause similar symptoms. I've been between 100 and 125 mcg ever since I was diagnosed as a teenager. My doc is switching me from 125 to 112, and it'll be…

I don't really know what normal feels like, either. :) I thought I was just finally getting that energy burst everyone talks about from weight loss. I thought the nervous chattiness and jitters were just too much caffeine. I am hoping that this feeling where I'm not hungry at all but want to eat everything in sight is…

I might splurge on a cute pair of snow/ski pants now that I can fit into regular sizes. Or a rooftop cargo box, but that's not exciting.

My grandmother died of pneumonia secondary to flu, and my husband's grandfather died from the flu. I've met one person with GBS, and she contracted it after having the flu.

No, but you should have seen the docent struggling to be honest while downplaying it-"the biologists say they're unexpected and not native to this rainforest habitat." (Read: native SF cockroaches)

Cockroaches at the California Academy of Sciences because I was there today and saw about a dozen in the rainforest exhibit...and they weren't part of the exhibit. Ew.

Thanks! I was a pretty picky eater as a kid, and I've mostly gotten over my pickiness now. My goal is to give every veggie a chance, but I haven't tried spaghetti squash in 30 years after my mom's first unfortunate experiment. Someone told her it would taste just like spaghetti and her picky 10 year old would love it.…

Just a side question: what veggies do you eat with your oatmeal? I'm looking for veggies that I'll like at breakfast. And does the spaghetti squash blend smoothly, or is it still a bit stringy?

Thanks, you're right. The medical group I go to uses single-dose preservative-free flu vaccines, and I thought that was all that was used in the US now, but didn't check my facts before posting.

Yes, my children and I get the flu shot every year, both to protect ourselves and the people in our communities. To the poster who was worried about egg, mercury, and chrome door handles: Some people who are egg-allergic can tolerate the flu shot. When my son was egg-allergic his pediatrician and I agreed that getting the…

Calling 880 part of the PCH is a heck of a stretch, but it would be worth taking hwy 1 along the coast one direction and 880 the other way so you can see both Half Moon Bay/the coast-side of SF as well as San Jose and Oakland/Berkeley. OP, taking hwy 84 across the SF peninsula would be a good side trip. It's a gorgeous…

I'm 5'3" and have lost about 30 pounds so far eating around 1,750/day. I don't do much deliberate exercise (yet), but I do consider myself lightly active. I spend my days chasing a 4 year old and working at his preschool (so chasing lots of 4 year olds). I am happily losing about .5 pound per week. Every time I restricted…

Pelvic ultrasounds aren't exactly fun, but they're not worse than Pap smears. They don't use any kind of radiation, so they don't have any of the (small) risks associated with CTs or mammograms. Abdominal ultrasounds are easier and less, er, intimate, but you end up with medical lube on your stomach instead of up your…

My dad and my sister both have t2 diabetes, and I had gestational diabetes twice. I want to avoid prediabetes and t2 as long as possible.

Not McDonalds, but my mother really and truly believed that chicken Kiev (breaded/fried chicken with at least 2T of butter in the center) is healthier than beef stew "because it's chicken."

OP, I don't think anyone has explained what they mean by "net" calories, and I think that's where the disconnect is. You're eating 1,200 calories/day, and that's how much you're grossing, like your salary. MFP's formula (and the WHO, CDC, and a whole host of other health organizations) recommend that you net no fewer than…

Yep! I'm the same height and have lost almost 30 pounds so far eating 1,750 calories net. (But I started out much heavier than you and am also more active, so 1,570 may be more appropriate for you.)

I'm a beginning skier, and this year I want to be able to get up from a fall without having to unlatch my skis. The instructor last year was trying to teach me, and kept carefully not saying that it was more difficult because of my fat. Also, I've stalled lately but only have 5 pounds to go to be overweight. I started this…

I feel like I'm not shy-I just actually am that empty and have nothing interesting to say.

My family are the people ruining the Bay Area.

In 3 years you'll be 40 whether you've worked on getting healthier or not. :) Might as well be an *kitten* kicking 40.

Ghost Story by Peter Straub and Playful Parenting by Lawrence Cohen. I've been meaning to read Ghost Story ever since I readThe Talisman by King and Straub as a kid, but Straub was too difficult for me then. I've also been on an Agatha Christie kick lately, and just finished the first Poirot and the first two Marple…

To be fair to Gale, I'm a little surprised at the Telegraph posting such crap. That level of writing is usually Daily Mail territory.

No, because a very quick google search shows me that the quoted "researcher" Denis Henshaw is known as a quack, and pretty much every researcher except him thinks that the increase is due to better detection and early treatment. I mean, he claims that part of the increase in childhood cancer rates over the last 20 years is…

Yes and no. I'm still very Midwestern in ways I don't notice until my kid points it out. But I'm not raising my kids in the religion I was raised in. My family traditions mostly involve having years-long fights with siblings, and I really like my sibling so I guess I stink at that tradition.

This. And it depends on your culture/family. I have friends who didn't realize they were LGBT until their 30's because they had been told their whole lives that being LGBT was a bad lifestyle choice.

Kat, it's inadequate to say, but I'm so sorry for your losses. I second tfisher's suggestion for a support system. Your local hospital might have a stillbirth support group, or your ob might know of one nearby. Talking to others who have experienced your same heartbreak might help. As for weight loss, I've started lots of…

I was very confused when my Australian coworker asked me to pick up some pot plants to decorate the tables at a work lunch. And she was horrified the first time I asked her for a napkin.

My closest grocery store Nob Hill apparently got the memo about shopping the perimeter, and put all the most expensive things around the edge. From the entrance all the way around: Sandwich shop Deli Bakery Prepackaged meat Butcher Dairy Paper goods Frozen food Cards and balloons