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No, it's not tacky.... Otherwise you wouldn't have people celebrating their 25th anniversaries with parties and such. If you include registry information on the invites, THAT'S tacky.

Don't freak out. It's quite common (estimated to be 10% of all women), and can be quite manageable. Treatment: there are pretty much two drug treatment options for PCOS (afaik, anyway... others may have used other medications) * Metformin to treat insulin resistance (and often is enough to generate a regular monthly cycle)…

Cafeteria food is vile. My niece refused to eat school lunches after a classmate at her table found a roach in his pizza. Still alive. Check out momables.com for healthy lunch and snack ideas that your kid will actuakky want.

Feel free to add me. I'm a SAHM with a two year old boy and a two and a half month old baby girl.

Turbo Fire seems to be Turbo Jam on steroids. I'd suggest that she start out with TJ if TF is too much. And if that's still too much, slow it down if your player lets you. My husband started out doing TJ at half speed (played on our computer), and worked his way up to full speed.

Lower resting heart rate, and lower blood pressure. (Not quite treatable low, but still low.) And, yeah, I'm presently a whole pound overweight. Yeah, I'd find that 33 calories a minute is insane.

Just FYI, I have a HRM. I don't consider myself to be particularly fit. I still burn around 10 cal/min doing Turbo Jam, and roughly 5 cal/min hiking. "shrugs" My husband, who is far larger than me and far less fit, burns about double what I do simply because he's about double my size.

Educate yourself, then. Practice a natural childbirthing method to help prepare you for it, like Hypnobabies or the Bradley Method. Good luck. But don't be so set on having a natural birth that you're willing to risk your baby for it. We were bound and determined to have a VBAC for our daughter. She was going to be our…

It's done in the UK by folks who have enough money. Victoria Beckham had it done when she had her kids in England. They call it a "mummy tuck." I wanted to have it done here in Canada, but they won't. And the reason? Because I have this stupid flap of skin that I didn't get rid of before I had my last child. (And it's…

I'm in Canada, so the cost thing isn't an issue (yay, universal health care!), but I've had three children. My first was born in the States through vaginal birth. My second was born in Canada through c-section because I had polyhydramnios and he just floated in there like a cork. No descending at all. My third was also…

Just got some Body Fortress over the weekend for the husband. He's okay with it, but I think it tastes vile. It has this weird coconut flavorish thing to it. Yuck. I like coconut, but not that stuff.

I'm confused. Maybe it's because I'm wearing European bras, but 34F=34DDD. Anyway, if you want cuter bras, then you'll need specialty stores. Get properly fitted, because they are far from cheap... and while my pretty bras are supportive, I'm not about to ruin them by doing kickboxing or hiking through the woods. For my…

I quit gradually over a few months and had my last partial smoke in May 2009. Here's a blog post that I wrote for how to get it done without cold turkey or nicotine substitutes: http://motherhoodlooms.com/2011/10/how-i-quit-smoking/

I'm a 34F. I don't lose weight from boobs. (I'm okay with that, though, because I like them. Maybe because I didn't get them until I had my first kid.) I just saw Miracole's post and agree with EVERYTHING that she said. Boobs are awesome. Flaunt them. And definitely go to a specialty store. Oh, and to help avoid the…

Tell them that you're working on your health. Or just tell them that you're not super hungry and only have half portions. Or there's my method: every Sunday, we have dinner at my in-laws' house. Sometimes dinner is something reasonable like a chicken ceasar salad. Other times, it's burgers that are around 300 calories…

Her missing home has nothing to do with you. (Trust me on this one. I'm from Florida and married to a Canadian man and living in British Columbia. I miss my family, friends, and Florida like crazy... but it has nothing to do with how much I love my husband.)

The OP did. I'd say that they are not a great idea if a person has an ED because it's an extreme nutrition solution being suggested to someone who will take that extreme far beyond the recommendation. The eat straight anything for any amount of time? Just think about it for a minute. For a healthy person, perhaps, but the…

Er, ad hominem literally translates to "to the person." You were not personally attacked, as you were not called insane. Your IDEA was attacked. As for me, I'll stick with food and decided yesterday that the way I was going to lose weight was through cleaner, lower carb eating. (PCOS holds on to weight with a carb rich…

Baby wakes up around 5:30 am for a feed. While she feeds, I drink a glass or two of water and read MFP success stories for motivation. Get her down, and then start working out until 7:15-7:45 am. Wake the husband up at 7:20 unless a kid starts complaining while I'm working out. Then he gets to do it. Post workout, I go…

It's going to be difficult for anyone to give you any firm advice without seeing your diary, but that being said... Are you losing inches? Are you eating too many carbs?

Heh. I look at think, "Yeah, I'd do me." ;-)

You look incredible! Thanks for the morning inspiration. :-)

I weigh and measure daily so that I can spot trends that cause fluctuations, stalling in weight, and loss. For instance, I've had some pretty big deficits lately, and my weight either increased a bit or stalled. Yesterday, I managed to eat back my calories... and the scale started to go down again. If I repeat this again…

I hate these kinds of things. I'm all about free will. It's why I got ticked off over the Happy Meal toy ban... and the suggestion to outlaw circumcision with absolutely no exceptions for religious reasons, etc. I'm not a huge fan of the nanny state thing... even though I don't order 32 ounce soft drinks.

*gags* I have never gotten the finishing food off of my kid's plate. He's two. He backwashes in drinks, will sometimes use hands instead of utensils, etc. Plus, he often indicates that he is done by deciding that it's a good time to share his food with the puppies. It's just icky to me to eat off of my kid's plate. Of…

Mom of 3 here. Your friend is making excuses. If anything, children are MORE of a reason to eat better because you're providing an example. Birthday parties are a cop out. Just because you eat one piece of cake at an event doesn't mean that you have to doom yourself to a life of eating crap. Just like having children is an…

I'm in my last week of the Burn phase, so June will be the Push month for me. :-) I'm doing a CLX/Turbo Jam hybrid, though, and working out significantly more than 30-45 minutes per day.

I weigh, measure and log every morning nude, after going to the washroom and before getting dressed and feeding my human alarm clock. I expect fluctuations, but focus on trends.

Yup, we do. Just not sugar free, unfortunately. :-(

It's an estimate. If you want to be truly accurate, then get a heart rate monitor. I used the site for the first couple of weeks. Just this weekend, I dug out my HRM and started using it. For Turbo Jam, it was over by about 60 calories. For the taking the dogs/kids out for walks through the woods, it was under by about 60…