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Every straight man I know but one prefers long hair. I don't get it. I've gone back and forth several times in my life, and now I'm rocking a semi-pixie...oddly enough, I have never felt my hair was more feminine than now, when it's shorter than it has ever been.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I love this. :laugh:
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Ha! My signature everybody-asks-me-to-bring-it dish (pecan bars) takes two and a half POUNDS of butter. That would be 10 sticks. Disgusting to think about, but it's so freaking good...It's my evil power -- I've never made it without getting at least one marriage proposal.
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Mine is open to friends. I'm at maintenance right now, though.
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Happy birthday! :) I'm not a cake person, but my weakness is cookies -- and people are ALWAYS bringing them ino work. I just budget for them. If you can stop at a single, reasonably-sized piece, I see no reason not to indulge yourself. If you're one of those people that can't stop once you have one bite and would happily…
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I've always been a tad chubby, but emotional eating (damn PTSD) pushed me over the edge. Got fat on my first trip to Iraq, and never lost the weight. Now I'm working with a doc, learning to recognize hunger vs. emotional eating (so insidious!), and slowly decreasing the massive sugar binges that my doc calls "homemade…
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I am so impressed by the people on this site that have made such a huge change. I know the difference just 20 lbs has made in my life, and how hard it was to get my butt in gear. I got up to 165 and hung out there a while before really deciding to ACT instead of complain and think about acting. Lost about 10 lbs on my own,…
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Get your mom on MFP, too. It's easy to get so caught up in counting carbs, that you end up eating too few calories -- and when that happens, your blood sugar can spike. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get my numbers under control, and THEN I realized I was eating less than 1,000 calories a day. As soon as i started…
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Many docs stress BMI because there is some research that points to a high BMI -- regardless of whether it's muscle or not -- correlating with certain medical problems. Seems counterintuitive to me, but docs are trained o think in worst-case-scenario mentality. Personally, any doc that laughs at me is getting the boot. If…
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THIS^^^ Log everything. If you aren't logging, you may be thinking you're eating more than you are -- but you might actually STILL be under BMR. Not fueling your body adequately would explain why strength training is so hard for you.
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Not much. The skin is less taut (including my poor boobs), but my clothes fit the same, my hips didn't spread, and there's no noticeable change in fat distribution. I was at least 10 lbs overweight (155) when I got pregnant, gained 25 lbs during the pregnancy, held on to 10 of it for a year before I decided to get my act…
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I'm inbetween the two camps. I know I feel better and my body works better when I get more protein, but I also know that left to my own devices, I won't prepare a lot of protein-heavy foods (I dislike cooking most meat, I don't want most my protein coming from soy, and a girl can only eat so much cheese and yogurt). So I…
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Yes! It is the only reason I succeeded. As a single parent, between my job and my daughter, here's not a whole lot of free time. So having th lliptical in the house let me get cardio in at odd times without having to get a sitter or drive to a gym. Once I got on a roll with that, then I had a ton more energy & motivation…
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I LOVE roasted chickpeas. I've made them with chili & cumin, with balsamic vinegar, and I'm making them with curry powder next.
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I'm also a single parent working full time. I got an elliptical; that helped a lot, since it meant the ability to grab a quick workout at random times -- and it's QUIET, so no waking up the munchkin. Before she wakes up, while she's napping on weekends, after she goes to bed, while she's eating dinner -- these are all…
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Changes is weight, activity and stress can all throw your cycle off; that's totally normal. I'd call your GYN and ask if there are any warning signs you should be looking out for -- or if it's about time for your annual exam, go in person.
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Make your own! I love ice cream, so I got an ice cream maker. Tonight's recipe: 1 cup almond milk, 10 cherries, a drop of almond extract, and 3 tsp of sugar. Yields almost 2 cups of deliciousness -- cherry almond ice cream that totally satisfies my Ben & Jerry's craving for just 150 calories.
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YES. And something is obviously very wrong -- we just don't know what. So that is my rationale for avoiding pesticides and other questionable substances as much as I can realistically do. I can't hide in a hepa-filtered cave, but that doesn't mean I need to roll naked in DEET, either.
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This is a GREAT idea!
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Yeah, that would annoy me, too.
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Yoga, pilates, planks -- and doing situps on an exercise ball might provide enough cushion (depends on how your back is hurt). Supermans are good, too.
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Personally, I do look at some foods as toxic. Due to my occupation, I've already been exposed to far too many questionable substances, so yes, I'm careful about what I add to the mix, since I have no idea how long this stuff sticks around in the body, and we don't really know what it does or how it does it (other than…
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Love it! :-) Yes, ideally I could eat all-natural, 100% organic food, and some of it would taste like chocolate chip cookies and Thin Mints. Not gonna happen. So I go organic on what I can, eat clean where I can, and enjoy the rest, too. We all have things we're willing to compromise on; having an absolute mentality isn't…
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I liked having the same last name as my mom. She kept her married name until after I had graduated high school and moved out on my own. I've never been married, but if I do marry while my child is young, I won't have a different last name than her -- it'd be both of us or neither of us. I don't think it's disrespectful --…
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Wow--I never looked into it, but I just assumed England would be a bit more progressive than us on this (don't know why).
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Lower-carb toast (i.e., one half of a deli flat or bagel thin) slathered with a ton of almond butter. Or skip the standard breakfast fare and have some chicken & veggies, beef jerkey, nuts, brats...I ate a LOT of celery sticks with almond butter. Sorry; I'm no chef...my diet definitely got boring on GD. But hang in there;…
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My daughter (not quite 2 years old) eats what I eat, with a few modifications here and there because her nutrition needs are different. I do not plan on cooking separate meals for her, and I really hope I can stick to that plan (one thing I've learned about parenting is that things frequently do NOT go according to plan).…
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Yes! I've lost 20 lbs, and I swear it all came from my *kitten*. I need to build those muscles up to try to bring some butt back!!
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BTW, I just want to make one more plug to go see your doc first to rule out the bad stuff that can't be fixed by self-medicating with probiotics. Probiotics are great and all, and I know a lot of people swear by them, but it's not a cure-all. Hell, the one and only yeast "infection" I've ever had in my entire life was…
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Once I realized I wasn't getting enough calories, I went heavy on the eggs, nuts & sausage. OMG, I have never eaten more sausage in my life! I bought pre-cooked, frozen spicy brats, which were fairly easy to bring to work as lunch. I'd wrap it in half a deli flat & some spicy mustard.
