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Well my 10-year old daughter thinks I'm strange for eating cheddar cheese with graham crackers and milk....I'm sure that's not the strangest combo ever but I like it. When I was a teenager, my favorite "silly sandwich" (whenever I could get away with it when my parents weren't looking) was peanut butter and brown sugar ---…

Banana Nut Crunch -- all time favorite!! But small box/big price = don't get it very often so other pre-weight loss favorites are Honey Bunches of Oats or Just Bunches, Total, Crispix. However, since getting serious about weight loss I have discovered Fiber One cereals and Kashi. I am NOT and never have been a fan of…

Well, when I got serious about losing weight (114 lbs) and started actively trying back in May rather than generally abstaining from grazing, avoiding snacking, etc. and casually hoping that something miraculous would happen, I was thinking 3 lbs. a week would meet my goal by Christmas according to my calculations. It was…

Fake posters huh?? I don't think so....I think someone got a stand-in to re-enact my middle brother's wedding. Somehow he managed to drop the ring down the front of her dress in the middle of the wedding and they spent some time trying to discreetly stall and get it out without letting anyone know what had happened or…

I wish my scale was right -- it told me I lost 30 some pounds overnight a few days ago and isn't going back to normal--and it just recently got new batteries so it's not that. Oh if only it were so and I could believe what it was telling me!! But I'd be happy with 150-something by Thanksgiving which was about 8 pounds…

If you have internet connection, you can do fitness videos from YouTube. I like the Fitness Blender ones but there are others if those don't fit your style. You can download them to your computer with Freecorder and play them on iTunes. As far as food goes, it may seem that junk food is cheaper --but get raw ingredients,…

Yes, I do this and most of the time I follow it unless something comes up to change it which isn't always or even often. I pretty much stick to it because then I know what I am putting in before one bite crosses my lips so there's no chance of going over. I have to be organized about this if it's going to work for me. The…

It only bothers me when it's the only thing they can think of or want to talk to me about especially with those certain people who know from a lifetime of experience judge my value as a human being on how much I weigh and how "cute" and "fashionable" I am (something that has never concerned me much as long as I am clean,…

You ought to have told them you were their worst nightmare come to life! :o) OK --didn't capture which post I was replying to so this is for the "Chargeback" costume poster.

I've kids in my class just wear their normal street clothes and claim to be some character from one book or other that just wears regular clothes. Well --- MAYBE --- but I think they just forgot about dress up day-- or didn't want to or couldn't afford a costume-- and are making up creative stories on the spot to try to…

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Mine would live off of PBJ sandwiches if I let him so that's an easy one for us! :o) ha ha He also likes baby carrots...if I don't watch him, he'll eat a whole bag in one sitting! :o)

Personally, I'd rather have some people say nothing than to obsess over it and find it impossible to talk to me about anything else as if that's the only thing going on in my life right now or even the most important thing or that I am in anyway defined as a human being in the essentials of who I am only or even largely by…

I used to make those "I can't afford to...." excuses and it's true. I literally do not have any discretionary funds for gym or swim center memberships, exercise classes and diet "programs." I do not have Starbucks everyday --or really at all. We VERY rarely go out to eat. Every bit that comes in goes to pay rent &…

Yes, I do make a list of what to have for dinner, as well as flexible quick breakfast and lunch options. I use that to make my shopping list. That way if I am trying any new recipes, I can enter them into the recipe calculator for quick calculations on how it will affect my numbers for the day or make any adjustments to…

I once had a sleaze bag pull out his wanker at a bus stop as a way of hitting on me. He seemed to think that would convince me to go to the cheap, dirtbag motel across the street for a little impromptu entertainment. SO NOT!! I left immediately! That one's got to take top billing. But we've had some doozies for neighbors…

OK -- dating myself here but The Cosby Show, the one with the Huxtables not any of the other incarnations that have gone by the same name but are not the same. Especially the earlier seasons. Cosby just CRACKS ME UP!!

Being pain free in my knees and ankles!

One word...FIBER! And four more...probiotic and prebiotic foods. I was having bloating and gastrointestinal issues a few months back because of the pain meds my doctor has me on for my knee. The new one he tried made the knee pain exponentially WORSE and gave me a rash so that was a no go. As an alternative, I started…

For any piece of health advice out there, if you want to go looking for it, you can find SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE to tell you that following it spells certain doom, destruction and death of anything good for you....with a bunch of hearsay, pseudo-science and made up nonsense to back them up. Ha ha!! If I worried about everything…

Thanks! I was trying to get that to work but you beat me to it! :o)

Try HotChalk: http://lessonplanspage.com/ OR http://www.eslpartyland.com/esl-lesson-plans-online http://www.uen.org/k12educator/corelessonplans.shtml http://www.atozteacherstuff.com OR google "Lesson Plan ideas about _______________" or "Classroom Ideas for teaching _________________" I come up with quite a bit that way.…

Well, I don't know what your standard food stock looks like to know what constitutes "all kinds of new stuff to buy" but I saw this quick low-calorie lunch list on another post and have tried several recipes and found them yummily delicious :o). Can't hurt to take a look and see if anything fits into your standard…

When we had to bug bomb the house and then take out every single dish, pot, silverware and utensil in the house and wash it, scrub out the cupboards and put it all back -- heck yeah, I so counted that!! Didn't have time for much else exercise those two days and I sweated so that makes it count in my book. My normal,…

I've noticed that even if I have a substantial protein in a decent portion at EVERY meal, I have a hard time getting up to what the chart at the bottom of my diary tells me is my goal. Fat and carbs -- no problem, even have to watch it there cause I can run out quickly before I get to a decent calorie level. BUT that being…

I aim for between 12 and 1400 because that's what works for me and keeps the weight coming off in steady, small increments. Listening to all the unsolicited advice you get, albeit usually from well meaning people-be it about babies or weight loss is a sure path to insanity and self-doubt. I learned with my first born to…

Well, yes I do but I suppose it depends on what you mean by "anything you want." I eat what I want, but what I want is healthy, home cooked food in moderate portions (from family recipes and healthy foodie recipes I find online) with the occasional treat. If what YOU want is potato chips and cookies and chocolate 24/7, I…

I'd have to say that my LEAST favorite is most ANY fitness video. Fitness Blenders are the only ones I've ever found that don't just make me want to punch the model in the nose after about 30 seconds with all that perky, perfect body "act like you like it" load of smelly things!! As to favorites...I think "favorite" is too…

I wish they had a calorie chart like on the fitness tab where it shows you where you are both daily and weekly in meeting your minutes/calorie burn goals. I was just thinking about this today and looking to see if there was a place that showed how your calories were balancing out for the week because I was slightly over…