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"We struck down evil with the mighty sword of teamwork and the hammer of not bickering." William H Macy in Mystery Men

I've never had an endorphin rush from exercise until I started going to spin class a couple of years ago. It feels fantastic, and sure keeps me going back. It's weirdly powerful, sometimes I feel like I'm going to cry.

I think that's a very smart question. I'm not sure I can help you, but I will make an observation. I don't think this is something that can happen right away just because you decide you are "worth it". You have to practice, and remind yourself constantly that you're worth it. I think it's very gradual and takes a lot of…

I have heard it put this way - treat yourself like a guest in your own life. I know I have fallen down in this regard when I am expecting company and have to clean my apartment top to bottom. The challenge for me is to keep my home company clean all the time. I have gotten good and cooking nice meals for myself, and buying…

The community center near me has a women's only night in their weight room once a week, so I'm going there to get comfortable in the weight room. Once I know what I'm doing and am comfortable with all the weights, I'm moving in at my regular gym.

I actually kind of enjoy entering my recipes and seeing how they come out. I try to make it a bit of a game and see if I can guestimate from the recipe. I don't enter every ingredient, though. If a recipe serving 4 people has 2 tbsp soy sauce, 3 cloves of garlic and a tsp of grated ginger, for instance, I don't really…

Exactly this. I love them, and they are great stuffed with some kind of yummy protein heavy food. Enjoy them!

I don't know if anyone else suggested this, but bacon brittle is actually delicious and is fun for an event like this. If you want you can also throw in some cashews. http://www.food.com/recipe/bacon-brittle-366128

I used to have a yoga teacher who said "you feel it where you feel it." When I first started going to spin classes my goal was to get to the end of the class without collapsing, so I did that a few times. Then I realized I could push a little harder at the beginning and did that for a while, and have continued to…

I love a lot of these movies, especially the Evil Dead ones. They Live, starring Rowdy Roddy Piper fighting aliens over magic sunglasses. So good. Directed by John Carpenter. Classic B.

I'm tired, so please bear with me while I try to articulate what I want to say here. I really feel bad for everyone who is overweight, for any reason. I don't think we can assess what reasons are "legitimate" any more than we can know why a person is overweight just by looking at them. No one is happy being overweight, and…

Thank for this. She knows how proud I am! When she started running her husband and daughter were not supportive, they thought "here we go again." Now, after two years, her husband is changing his diet and is going to the gym with her and my niece is starting to run as well. She has struggled so hard to get here, and now is…

I'll take ten for you. But that's my max.

I know you really want me to be wrong, and maybe I am. It's just my opinion. I don't want to fight with you, but I will tell you about my sister. We did the same activity growing up - we both figure skated nearly 30 hours a week. She was very heavy from early childhood and I was always thin. We ate the same food, the…

I'm jealous of everyone who has seen The Cure live. Just realized I left a wicked concert off my list - Mumford and Sons in a small venue, very early on. Such a great night!

Agree with all the sashimi people. Add a seaweed salad, some edamame and miso soup, and voila! Delicious and nutritious. A restaurant near me does chopped salmon and tuna sashimi on half an avocado with some kind of crazy delicious sauce, it's my new favourite thing to eat. ps it probably won't kill you to eat a few pieces…

The biggest challenge for me is sauces. If I have something on a plate with sauce or gravy, I hate it when it touches any other food. Gravy is the easiest because I can make potatoes into a little volcano and put the gravy inside. Salads are the hardest if there isn't a separate salad plate. I have a friend who is…

Where are all these people who are active and eat healthily but are overweight? You mean like all of the obese baseball players, olympic athletes, tennis players, marathon runners, swimmers, ice skaters, bike racers, etc? [/quote] If this is what I conveyed then I wasn't very clear. The idea that there is a tendency to…

[/quote] The problem with this idea is that you inherit your genes from your parents, who inherited them from your grandparents, etc. You don't inherit your genes from your friends, neighbors, people who like the same sports teams, people who live in your state or country, etc etc. If it were genetic, it would require that…

I like to travel by myself. In the spring i went to Vietnam and Cambodia, and wound up kayaking in Halong Bay and doing a homestay in a H'mong village where they gave me a herbal bath in a bamboo barrel. Climbing in was hard, but climbing out was a trick. I've also camped in the Arctic. I like to make quilts and cover them…

The only thing that makes people qualified to go to a gym is paying the membership, and you are paying for your membership like everybody else. My ipod really helps me drown out what is going on around me, and it is loaded with music that makes me feel good no matter what comes up. And you might feel a little more…

Oh my god they **** out his name. Which was D ick.

Ha! Seriously. I saw them many times, every time they played in Vancouver. A highlight was the time Country **** Montana danced on my table at a small club, but Country **** and The Petting Zoo with Mojo Nixon was also memorable.

This is a weird range of music, but The Ramones, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings (unbelievable live), Neko Case, Daniel Lanois, The Beatfarmers, Paul Kelly. All created a live experience that can't be replicated in their recorded music.

I'm one of these people as well, I completely lose my appetite when I'm sick. And I live alone, so making food seems like more trouble than it's worth. It's never more than a few days, so I just enjoy feeling empty for a while and keep my fluids up.

In spite of the way this thread imploded, I find the idea that weight might be genetically determined is actually hopeful. Firstly, I think a genetic tendency isn't necessarily determination. It's like being geneticially predisposed to heart disease or cancer - it doesn't mean you have to get these illnesses, it's just a…

One of the weird things about telling people that we're trying to lose weight is that it somehow instantly turns them into an expert. They judge every single thing we put into our mouths, and look at every bite rather than a whole day or week or the results we're getting. And men tend to be suppportive in a different way…

Some nutritionists advise not to eat more than one or two servings of fruit a day, and to make sure the rest of your 10 servings of produce comes from veg.

I did one once under the guide of a naturopath and nutritionist. It was pretty restricted with a particular goal, and I felt really good at the end of it. It excluded all of the following: alcohol, artificial sweetener, sugar, wheat, yeast, anything fermented, any kind of meat (fish was allowed), dairy, vinegars, citrus,…

It's 7:30 here, have been feeling dizzy and lightheaded all day due to some weird inner ear thing. Ordered a gluten free pizza with an icky soggy crust, but I haven't eaten in 3 days so anything woud have tasted good! I think you could put mozzarella and fresh garlic on shoe leather and it would still be tasty.