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I'd have a shellfish buffet and a whole bunch of avocado because I'm deathly allergic to both but used to love them before they tried to kill me. I'll be dead before I hit the chair!

I can't afford a gym membership either so my working out is all at home until summertime when I can go on bike rides or walks outdoors. At home I have a bunch of weights, DVD's and a treadmill. Weights I buy the individual plates and add them to my bars as needed. I have done P90X a few times so having the dumbbell bars…

Wow, that would really stink! Do they have the ability to Skype or anything like that? Then at least they could visit with friends and family and see them. I think I'd find that helpful if it were me. Maybe find out if there are things you can bring them? New toy for the little one, books, magazines, etc for the grown up.…

I have tortilla chips and we had Taco Soup which I usually eat them with. I didn't. I have room for the calories and everything, I just didn't want them. I don't know what's wrong with me!

I compost it or give it to my chickens. I can blend the cores into my smoothies but I have found the seeds can leave a bitter after taste. It's not good to get too many apple seeds because they contain cyanide. In small doses your body can break it down no problem but it's not something you're going to want to consume…

I haven't tried them but I was planning my garden the other day and was thinking about planting some. I usually hide them in soups but thought the fries might be worth a shot.

I'm not a doctor but if you have questions about becoming a pediatrician why don't you talk to one local to you? If you call their office and explain what you want the receptionist can ask the doctor if they have time to either meet with you or email back and forth with you. I'm sure you'd be able to find at least one that…

Oh the fruit reminded me that every year when our apple tree produces we dehydrate apples. Some of them I do plain and some I toss in a cinnamon sugar mixture and dehydrate that way. We love snacking on them! They're also good broken into little pieces and put into oatmeal, pancakes, muffins, trail mix, etc. If you…

I have one but mostly I use it to dehydrated stuff from the garden that I want to use later or for my son's backpacking trips. I dehydrate leftover dinner food and package it up for him so he can just add boiling water to it on the trail. It's made his Boy Scout excursions so much easier since he's gluten free and his…

I have anisocoria which means my pupils are two different sizes. I only discovered this fact about myself a few years ago when I had a cluster headache come on and my vision was doing weird things. I was looking in the mirror and noticed the difference. When you have sparkly weirdness in your vision and then notice your…

We're gluten free so I'm safe! :)

If you have no recourse there you might try googling rehab exercises for your specific condition. There are all kinds of exercises online so I'm sure you could find some helpful things. If you look specifically for your condition you should get some direction on what to do and not to do. Just be very careful and if you…

I break off the biggest part of the stem and stuff the rest into my vitamix raw. It blends up just fine. I also like collard greens, spinach, bok choy or swiss chard. So many greens to choose from! You can apparently do dandelion greens from your yard but I haven't gotten that brave (desperate?) yet.

Fresh pineapple is like eating candy! Chocolate covered *insert fruit here* smoothie: 100 grams greens (spinach, kale, etc), frozen fruit (150 grams blueberries, 100 grams frozen strawberries or cherries), half of a square of unsweetened baking chocolate, stevia, 1 tablespoon Torani Dark Chocolate sauce, water and ice to…

I was kind of hoping to figure that out based on this thread. :tongue:

Some I've done this week: Chocolate Covered Blueberry: 100 grams spinach or collard greens (or whatever but those are the two I've used this week) 150 grams blueberries 14 gr (1/2 square) unsweetened dark chocolate 1 TBS Torani dark chocolate sauce (optional) ice and Stevia if needed. It was so yummy I had it twice this…

I read up some on this topic the other day and found that while the grasses are safe they have to be harvested before the plants go to seed. The problem with this type of thing is the high risk of cross contamination. The grasses have to be harvested before a certain period of time or you're contaminated. The grasses have…

Do they have any physical therapists over there that you could get referred to? A quick internet search shows that most often if you don't require surgery they begin rehab exercises once the pain eases. It seems like doing nothing with it for 1-2 years would be bad for muscle atrophy. My husband had a shoulder injury (not…

I've been eating quinoa for years and I'm certainly no vegetarian! It's all my fault!

Hasn't she ever watched the Magic School Bus muscle episode?! Sheesh! Even Miss Frizzle knows better than your son's gym teacher! I think it's this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHgVeY0Rlh4

That is awesome! You are awesome! Great job and looking good!

I have this yoga DVD and have found it to be super helpful! He explains things well, doesn't have any spiritual content and goes slow and methodically. I am not a fan of yoga (don't like doing it) but his I can do and I feel so good after! I also have his upper back and neck DVD and love it just as much. Yoga, whether…

Number five must be a doozy because I don't eat 1-4 and I'm still working on that fat magically dropping off!

I think I'm at 742 but I have friends in my list that have more.

I was wasting time on Pinterest when I came across this smoothie recipe and thought you might like it: http://kristensraw.com/blog/2010/05/28/acute-bronchitis-update-raw-vegan-shake-recipe/ Bronchial Health Shake Recipe by Kristen Suzanne of KristensRaw.com Yield 4 cups 1 1/2 cups water 2 frozen bananas 1 cup frozen…

Granite Falls here! Only a couple of you will have any idea where that is. :)

Green smoothies are tasty and good for you. The nutrition varies by what you put in there but you could certainly pack it with high vitamin c fruits. Nourishing your body with healthy food will strengthen your immune system. Some good probiotics will help and stay away from sugar.

I think if you don't like it, don't make yourself eat it! I could only eat regular yogurt with granola, fruit or nuts in it because I would gag over the texture so I didn't eat much yogurt. Then I tried greek and the thicker texture works for me so I enjoy it much more often. There are plenty of other ways to get protein…

It sounds right. I put 30 grams in my smoothies and it's 200 calories! Painful to log but they're really good for you. Walnuts are a great source of omega 3's and for someone who doesn't eat much fish that's a good thing!

Vegetable subterfuge for most things and make yourself eat a little bit here and there on their own. I love vegetables but my husband is not a fan. Over the years I've snuck them into so many things he has no idea how many he's eaten! But I also present them in dishes where they are the main part or I present them solo.…