newnormal2010

I was 14 when Charles and Diana got married (No, I didn't remember that -- I had to look it up!), and I was very into it. This time around, I'm not interested at all. I suspect that the current 14 year olds are, though! :laugh:

I just made it last week. It's the best feeling! (Well, I guess getting to "healthy" will be even better, but I'm enjoying this for now!) :happy:

Don't see yourself or your weightloss "journey" as having failed because of a bad day (or two or ten). Everyone falls of the wagon. The important thing is to get back on. Similarly, don't throw in the towel on the whole day because you went crazy at one meal or had a snack binge. You don't have to wait for tomorrow to…

Yay you! I'm so glad you've decided to do this. I sincerely hope that you will find it helpful. If you choose to share how things are going, you'll find lots of supportive interest. But if you want to keep that private, people will respect that, too. I'm very glad that you shared your decision to seek help, though -- I've…

If your college, like most, has a counseling center, I strongly urge you to make an appointment with someone there. Your student fees pay for this service, so it's a waste not to use it when it would be useful to you. There will be people there who are to some degree experts in body-image and eating disorders, and I think…

Personally, I think the "pat on the back" message should be more along the lines of "Sandy completed her food diary and was within her target range." I hate the fact that I can go over by one calorie and lose the good feedback, but I can go under by an unhealthy amount without losing that feedback. On the other hand, if…

Have you read the book, "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves"? I think it's the funniest book I've ever read, and it's about punctuation mistakes! I started reading it when I was sick, and I had to put it down because I kept laughing so hard that I would start having a coughing fit. :laugh:

Then there's this one, as told by my 96-year-old great aunt to my 11-year-old son: A man gets onto a bus on a hot afternoon and sits down next to a nun. He sighs and says, "T.G.I.F. Thank God it's Friday!" The nun shakes her head at him and says, "S.H.I.T." As his eyes widen in shock, she goes on, "Sorry, Honey, it's…

A guy goes out drinking with his buddies. The next morning he wakes up, fully dressed, in his own bed. He's hung over and his face hurts. He crawls out of bed and looks in the mirror, to see that he has a huge black eye. He makes his way out to the kitchen, where he finds his favorite breakfast on the table with a flower…

Personally, I think fat-free cream cheese is an abomination, although the low-fat version is OK. Another possibility might be low- or non-fat ricotta. I say this because silken tofu is sometimes used as a substitute for ricotta in vegan recipes for such things as lasagna and manicotti. So it stands to reason that you could…

What a great idea! I sent our leftovers to my son's school party. (We live in a very odd town that doesn't do trick-or-treat on weekends, so we were handing out candy at the door last Thursday, and I could send the leftovers to school on Friday.) But now I'm tempted to go snatch up some of those half-price leftovers and…

One day won't ruin everything. As long as you pick yourself up and get back on track, this is just a bump in the road. The fact that you actually figured out how much you ate instead of hiding from it is, I think, a very good sign. You're being honest with yourself, which is both difficult and essential. I'm not sure I…

This is crazy! In fact, it's so crazy that I didn't believe it. But I googled it and there's the story! :noway: I don't live in NY, but I live at the very north edge of PA, and most of the time if I go out for more than pizza, it's to a restaurant in NY. As you said, there are many foods that simply cannot be prepared…

I agree! We went to Disney (3 adults, 1 child, 1 baby) several years ago. After eating lunch there once, we bought a cheap, styrofoam cooler at a local grocery store and packed lunches. At Disney, there are some pretty nice sit-down restaurants for dinner. These were, we felt, worth spending money on. Lunches weren't! We…

That's my anniversary! I got married October 15, 1994. It's a great time of year for a wedding! :drinker:

I'm with you! I've lost 17.5 lbs, and I can't see a difference anywhere! No one's asked me if I've lost weight, yet, either. :ohwell: I keep hoping that there will come a day when all of a sudden it shows! :wink:

Did you properly CITE the information you got from the SITE about SIGHT and hearing? (I teach history of math and have to grade student papers. More of them mix up site/cite than site/sight...)

I think I remember from the last summer Olympics that they said Michael Phelps eats over 5000 calories a day when he's training hard or competing. At that level of training, they obviously can't afford not to eat their exercise calories! :laugh:

Just curious: How did someone here figure these out, since Applebee's doesn't provide the information?

When my oldest (now 10) was that age, he loved broccoli -- as long as he could have it with rapsberry vinaigrette! (He would even ask for that at restaurants!) My little guy is more typical -- he likes carrot sticks with ranch dressing. Both boys also liked frozen peas, but only straight out of the freezer! For years I…

The Skinny Cow "truffle" ice cream bars -- they come in at least 3 flavors, I think -- are 100 calories and *way* more satisfying than a typical 100-cal pack of anything! I love sweets and hate feeling deprived, but one of these at the end of the day is really satisfying. Knowing that I want to have one, I keep in mind for…

The Moosewood cookbook collection (from the Moosewood restaurant in Ithaca, NY -- pretty famous among vegetarians) has a good number of quinoa recipes, which I'm probably not supposed to post here. :grumble: You do have to read their recipes carefully -- they can sometimes be high in fat from cheese, etc. We made one the…

Bumping to try later (or sooner!).

Heck, you can do it with your mother! :laugh:

Snopes says that the UPS thing is false, too -- they can't ship anything to Haiti right now because of the condition of the roads and the fact that no routine traffic is going into the airport. The company is making a major donation to relief efforts, though. There's no mention of the need (or not) for phone-bank…

How far north and east? I'm in North-central PA, just a little west of BInghamton, NY. I'm so close to the NY line that I could walk there, even in the lovely weather we have this time of year!