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I live 3 minutes from my gym...much easier for me to just drive home than haul everything I need for a shower. Not saying that's everyone at your gym, but maybe it's some of them?

I'm not TTC right now...but I'm thinking about doing it again. I most likely can't in the next year due to a variety of factors (a likely deployment being one of them), but I'm thinking about it more and more. I thought one would be all I'd want as a single parent (I had a donor IUI), but now I'm not so sure. I'm 38,…

Title 9 has some great ones, with very good descriptions, impact ratings, and reviews. I like the 3-reasons bra; it has a clasp back AND adjustable straps (wide straps like a sports bra, not like a regular bra, and they adjust with Velcro, so there's no gradual loosening/slippage), so you can get a better fit. IMO,…

With all your gadgets, you might be more picky than me (for example, I don't notice (or care about) the difference between CDs and mp3 sound quality, HD is nice but I don't look at non-HD and grimace in pain because it's fuzzy) ... but I bought a Visio LCD (walmart special -- super cheap) some 6 years ago, and it's still…

It IS hard. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather be struggling at maintenance than struggling at weight loss -- but it didn't magically become easy once I reached my (for now) goal weight. For some reason, the process of losing weight was so much more rewarding and motivating to me than the process of maintaining.

You can get pretty inexpensive adjustable weights -- I found a Gold's Gym set at WalMart that is two dumbells with plates going up to 40 lbs. So you can start lower, then add more plates. It'll only go so far, but it's cheaper than buying new dumbells every time you go up (assuming you're not doing this at the gym).

I was deployed to Prince Sultan Air Base (Saudi base w/ a Coalition compound). The whole place was silent. Chow halls are usually pretty loud, but none of the other nations' forces knew what to say to us ... Just a quiet "sorry, mate." We had a big white board of all the people we knew at the Pentagon, so we could mark…

Because they are. And whenever it happens, I can't help but wonder -- do they do that during sex, too? And of course, then I'm either desperately trying to erase the mental image or fighting off a giggle fit.

HAHAHAHAHA! :laugh: Kudos to you for at least trying to avoid creeping. :smile:

I phased myself into it. On week one, I didn't stress about going over my calories. I was about 700 calories over for the entire week. Then I set the goal of eating 100 fewer calories over per week, thinking I'd slowly reduce. I ended up cutting calories much more quickly (it started getting easier once I identified a few…

Guilty. And annoyed at the people on this thread (and elsewhere) that say you're (we're) just not trying hard enough -- no matter how hard I try, including severe ED (which is so not an option), there is no way I can ever have the body of someone whose entire body can fit in between my hip bones, with room to spare. Ain't…

If the green olives don't work... :-) Seriously, consider therapy. There are a couple ways it could help you. First, if there's an underlying cause, it may help you figure that out, which would likely decrease the dreams (that's how it worked with my PTSD-induced dreams, anyway). Second, a therapist might be able to teach…

Not quite there, but almost. I've lost most of the weight, but need to focus on building some more muscle and cutting a little more fat. Maintaining is hard! Seeing the numbers drop on the scale seems so much more rewarding/motivating than seeing them stay the same, as messed up as that is. Feel free to add me; I'd love…

Not a Texan, but living here for the next couple years...feel free to add me. :-) Congrats on getting started!

Then she's probably just got the bride crazies -- if it were me, I'd just not mention it anymore, and continue to make my plans. If she's not normally a control freak, she'll probably calm down about it after the wedding.

Next spring is fine. You'll have MONTHS in between the weddings. Her day is her day -- once the wedding is over, she needs o let the attention move on and live her life.

Andie, my DVD gets here next week, too --we can start together. :-) I'm just hoping I can keep up with it; I've heard nothing but good things about the workouts, but I have a bum back, so have to be careful.

Vera Wang. The original, not the princess spinoffs. My all-time fave.

I forgot about the YMCA--many of them also offer financial aid to those who can't afford memberships! And even if you don't want to swim laps, water workout classes are wonderful...ultra-gentle, natural resistance you can easily increase with simple tools, and being able to work out without ever heating up is a beautiful…

Talk to your doc. I don't worry about keeping mine in the "zone," because if I do that, I'm not working. I have a low resting heart rate and a high exerting heart rate, and that's always been the case, even as far back as running track & cross country as a kid. The zones are guidelines. My docs have all said it's not a…

I bought an elliptical for $200; you can find them used for even less. Very low impact, which is great for my back (injured from a car addident). Honestly, the elliptical and yoga are the main things I do, because they aggravate my back the least, and I can frequently do them even during a mild flare-up. Do you have a…

Brats & sauerkraut! Yumm.... ETA: that might SOUND like a stereotype, but I lived in Germany for 3 years and it's everywhere -- also at pretty much any open air market or festival. Delish. You could also go seasonal and do some mulled wine & sweets...also available at every christmas market. Yum!

Unfortunately, it's part of EVERYON'Es platform these days. Just depends on your perspective and what you're willing to listen to (and critically examine for fearmongering and circular logic) if you think one "side" is worse than the other. If politicians actually spoke to people as if their audience were composed of…

Pyrex 2-cup bowls. A little expensive at the start, but so worth it (and if you don't care about plastic chemicals, you can go a lot cheaper with plastic freezer storage containers, too). I have about 30 of them, and continually make big-batch meals so I have a constant rotation of soups & other dishes ready to go -- GREAT…

But the points you've been making sound like you ARE judging people by their actions -- and that a nice action is inherently suspicious because it can only have self-serving motive behind it.

Not a democrat, either. :-)

That's unfortunate. At one point, the world was "scientifically" flat and penicillin was a pesky mold that was ruining other "more important" scientific discoveries. I don't argue that the human being is largely motivated by survival, of the individual, the clan, and the species. But when survival isn't at risk, there's…

This. Sure, taking care of each other helps society as a whole, providing a better environment for all of us (can you tell I'm not a republican)? But to say that's the ONLY reason someone would be nice is pretty narrow-focused and discounts all the other motivations driving people.

Log your binges in advance (or as you're doing them) -- sometimes seeing what you're about to do in numbers helps you stop the binge in its tracks (or at least binge less).

Skipping to the end, so I'm probably repeating what other people have said, but it bears repeating. I started at 165, and seriously could not see a difference until I lost 20 lbs, and even after I could see a small difference, I still have days where I feel like I look the same. I've noticed it's worse naked; when I'm…