HeartsintheHighlands

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  • I'm amazed by the number of people with knee problems and replacements who use and recommend a stationary bike! How on earth do you bend & bend&bend&bend your messed up knees like that? I haven't been able to use a bike since my first knee had its first arthritis pain. They just don't move that way. And the crunching...oh…
  • It struck me exactly the same way. Cheat days are for people who need to lose 20 pounds, not for people whose weight is putting their lives in danger. Or for people (like me) who need to lose 100 pounds (or more).
  • I was struck by his ignorance. True, he appears brighter than many of the others, but when he protested that he was "even making my own whole wheat bread so I won't have to eat white bread" and Dr. Now, in his patient but no b.s. way, said "For your information, whole wheat bread has the same calories as white bread," and…
  • This is not low calorie, but it beats store-bought caramel corn. While the air popper's working, I nuke about 2 T butter (for a huge bowl of popped corn), about 2 or 3 T Splenda Brown Sugar Blend, and a t. or so of sugar-free syrup. Torani Brown Sugar and Cinnamon is best, but English Toffee, Almond Roca, and others are…
  • " Wake: 6:00a Breakfast: 9:30a Lunch 1:00p Snack: 4:30p Dinner: 8-9:00p Small Snack: 11:00p Bed 11:30p Adopting this schedule kept me from cleaning out the cupboards at 10:30 every night ...." My new schedule is close to this one-- I get up about 9:00 and fall asleep about midnight. Having dinner at 9 pm is very helpful. I…
  • 63 here. I'm glad to see lots of folks around my age on MFP. I've lost some weight and although it's slower than I want, the biggest obstacle is making myself exercise. Somehow the end of the day arrives and I've conveniently forgotten to exercise. Losing weight and getting stronger is very different now than decades ago.…
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