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Never had to do it myself, but I've seen my grandma pluck a chicken. She must have killed it because it was alive when she bought it. I don't see live chickens being sold in places like Chinatown for at least 15 or 20 years now. Guess they must have banned it. Anyway, one of the most amazing scenes I've come across is in…

European portions are smaller than American. Also, you will find less artificial stuff in it (their food is much more regulated than ours (at least the more western European countries). Their farmers markets are cheaper. Depends on where you'll be. In France? I wouldn't miss going to a pastry shop, OMG, OMG they are sooooo…

Sucking on the bones, not a problem. Wait, that didn't come out right. :laugh:

I think I'm feeling ill now.:sick:

Here's one way to get organic chicken without paying too much for it. Look for a college that teaches (what do they call it, husbandry?) dairy and farm techniques. At our community college, not only do we have cows, we have chickens. They sell organic eggs every Wednesday and every once in a while, organic chickens (I…

I often have pain in my arches because I have high arches, and shoes sometimes don't give me support like they should. Also, I wear very high heals to dance (it comes with the territory for Tango). So when I need to make them feel better, I: 1) massage them (or better yet, get someone else to massage them) 2) roll some…

I really want to run today, but yesterday, after my kick boxing class, and after I got home and took my shoes off, I noticed that my right foot hurt when I walk. Don't know the name of the bone, but it's in the middle, on top connected to either or both the middle and second toe. Should I run, I really, really want to?…

My nephews and nieces are older than you. You're at the beginning of the ride. Enjoy it.:drinker:

At this rate, I won't lose 20 lbs by Christmas. I'll be lucky if I lose 5. In fact, at the beginning of this week, I had gained all the weight since I started. So I can't tell if I'm really losing weight (all 1 1/2 lbs for the month:noway: ) or I'm just looking at natural water/TOM gains and losses and I've really done…

I just received my Polar F6 today! Can't wait to try it out tomorrow. We'll see if the machines at the gym are anywhere accurate for me. Intern, huh? That means you're pretty young, right? That also means that you're experienced on EBay or Craig's list? Personally, I don't trust them. But my nephews and nieces shop there…

Slimming mom, you look great in that picture. Now, when I'm really angry at someone, I go to the gym and work it off. Some how my workouts are really good when I'm angry. You don't have to have a gym to do that. As suggested, you can go for a walk (or a run). Sometimes, when I'm so angry, running hard was the only thing…

I try very hard not to wake to an alarm. I believe in waking when my body says it's ready to wake. So usually, I don't do early exercising. But, when the school year starts again, I may not be able to do this.

There's a chat room?

I've never been in a situation where I get sick of a food because that's all that I can eat. I have gotten sick of food that was bad. For example, my parents are pretty old, and they've lost all sense of taste and smell (or just sense). So they keep everything (I need to go into their refrigerator to clean it out, or…

I'm with you there. Cooking chicken with the bone in provides more flavor to the meat. Also, if you roast a whole chicken, you can then take the bones left over, and make chicken soup (double duty, and saves money, and you control what goes into the soup). But I understand there are differences. I grew up in a culture that…

72 ounces and counting. Hey not fair, it's only 1:00 in PST.:laugh:

When I think vinegar on fries, I think Britain's Fish and Chips.

They are no worse than anything else that is deep fried. But, the operative phrase is "deep fried."

I didn't see this thread until after I came back from exercising. 56 down, 44 to go.

I'm on "week 6" of Couch to 5k, although it took me a long time to get here. The first part wasn't hard, but moving from two 10 min runs to one 25 min run was hard for me. It's different for everyone. Music that drives you is very important. Also, if I don't take my protein shake 45+min before I run, I probably won't have…

In terms of office (and other acquaintances), since they are not good friends, when someone makes a comment and you don't want to engage in (for example, a negative comment about themselves), just smile (as your answer). What they are doing is more about themselves than about you. But misery loves company, and you don't…

Thanks everyone, I do feel better. I was just a little worried. We hadn't seen these friends for three months, so just this week when they got back from Europe, we are doing three things together (dim sum this last Thursday, Trout and raw oysters yesterday, and going to the soccor game (Go Barcelona!) today). I'm going to…

I use to pass out all the time when I drank an alcoholic beverage. It had to do with being allergic to certain kinds of alcohol (it got worse when I was in a closed space with lots of people, I think it had to do with less oxygen). I passed out on half a Corona once. It had nothing to do with not being full, and it had…

You can. You can count mowing the lawn (which I did a couple of days ago), gardening, etc. Just walking in the mall, you probably didn't get your heart rate up much, so you need to be careful about how you count it.

My calves and thighs seem like they belong to two different people. I agree with what's been said, running (cardio) is very nice for the legs. I've been running for a little while, and my calves look great (I actually got a compliment from a stranger off the street on my calves. The thighs on the other hand are massive (in…

But, they haven't auditioned for the performance classes yet. So that's still up for grabs. For example, many community colleges have musical performances in the Fall. Call the division (usually music is in the Humanities and Performing Arts Division, but different colleges categorize differently) to see when auditions…

Yay you!

There's all kinds of dancing you can get back into. Community Colleges have auditions for their musicals (it's open to the public but you may have to sign up for the class though) if you want to get back into performing. Then there's social dance. I do Argentine Tango, and if you have your own partner, you don't have to…

Great idea. Another use for my rice cooker which is about 40 years old.

Thanks. It was frustrating, but if I can get there, so can you.