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Why the rush?

Side note on IIFYM (because I doubt the OP's been here long): IIFYM means you look at the basic macronutrients of food--carbs, fat, protein. Look at what your food is made of and get a balance of the three that fits your weight loss and health goals. Then you can plan your "fun" food, and make better choices for what…

Salty food makes your body retain more water. It is not some mystical bad food mojo.

I always have to start with the lower cal eating, and have tiiiny portions of my favorite high calorie foods. When/if that doesn't fill me up I play with the ratios and sides--suddenly my Mexican food goes from ground beef with tons of cheese to fajitas with chicken and tons of red bell peppers and a small amount of good,…

Oh wow, pez!

Yeah, people do all kinds of stupid--I mean "interesting"--stuff. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/06/13/human-jessica-rabbit-penny-brown_n_5491942.html

"I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing, everything is sacred." -Tom Robbins, possibly paraphrased

I pick all friends purely on armcandy status.

And So It Goes - Billy Joel

She'll find someone on the rebound.

If you've made a lot of sudden changes, look out for the all or nothing attitude. If this is too much too soon, remember you can always go back half way and build up to a larger deficit. Also, I like the food volume tricks too. I can eat way more strawberries for under 200 calories than I can cashews. Some days that's…

Leave poor planning for tape ripping to the drunk college girl crowd.

If only you could put it next to "stop beating it like you stole something."

Something is always better than nothing, but depending on your goals another form of exercise might help more. My 60+ year old mother lost weight walking to and from McDonald's every day for breakfast (3 miles total, with one of the lower calorie breakfast options). Her goal was just losing weight. Now I've been trying to…

True story. Every time I fail to fetch a beer, a tyop gets added to my posts.

Try combining the multiplication and division with sports. Look at statistics for whatever sport he's into, how they relate to the sport, and how math helps them figure out the stat. Or go practice batting and write down how many times he hits the ball, whether it goes up or down, and play with the numbers later. Compare…

No one's being self-righteous or an *kitten*. You've ruled out almost everything and said you hate getting sweaty. All that's left is walking. You have snapped back pretty meanly when told this, but with your initial criteria... yeah, all that's left is walking. You can sneak it in anywhere, it's low impact, and at least…

When my kid was two she ran out of a store while I was paying. I caught her, we had a talk about it as much at her level as I could manage, and she started to do it again another time we went out. So I said "Okay, bye!" and hid on an aisle. I could see her the whole time (yay security mirrors) and it scared the bejeebus…

Knock yourselves out. From a quick search I think this is the page for the guy who lead one of the studies. http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/#Papersavailable

I haven't read all of the comments directed to you in this thread. However with parenting, you know nothing. It's not a personal attack. It is a statement of fact. I used to think that because I dealt with my niece and nephew I knew what it would be like to be a parent. I was dead on wrong. It is the most life changing…

Nice personal attack. I'm not the reporting type, but you're really playing the odds that no one reading this is in an 8 page thread.

I don't have a non-sanctimonious sounding way to say this, so bear with me. If a toddler's throwing hot coffee at adults for attention there's probably a long buildup, and many places where the situation could have been handled better. And though the spanking made you think twice, you still snuck out. You still did…

This is the opposite of specific. I wanted to know what lesson can only be taught by spanking. Do you only learn "thou shalt not shoplift" with spanking?