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QFT. Actually, considering how heatstroke, sunstroke, dehydration, and the overall ickiness of tropical heat (in my personal experience) I would say the sun discourages us living off it straight, without some side dishes like sunblock, shade, and ventilation. I also like bacon.

Hello! I have to say, that subject line really caught my eye. Is 'paddy-no-mates' a saying in Ireland? :)

I was that kid. I am that kid. I just typed a response to another post about 'family pressure' and I think it'd be relevant here: I've spent years being pressured by my family to lose weight....it's only recently I was brave enough to tell them, Look, the more you pressure me, the less I want to lose weight. They turned it…

I've spent years....it's only recently I was brave enough to tell them, Look, the more you pressure me, the less I want to lose weight. They turned it from something healthful I want to do to something that, if I do, is 'them' winning. Totally illogical, but it felt like that. If I lost weight, they had won something…

Hi, this recipe look intriguing! I just got gifted some smoked salmon and I was wondering what to do with it. Do you simply put everything in a blender?

What a blessing this thread is! I was just researching fruit/veggie drink options. I was trying to recreate the Naked Juice Green Machine taste, which I like, but which turns out to be unhealthy when I did research....I thought I was being so virtuous drinking it instead of fruit juice. :(

Thanks for the welcome! :)

Thamks for everyone's insights and links, I really do appreciate them. I would like to reframe my question: I AM going to take a month off, not only for fitness. Would it be better to simply do exercise in a way that I will be able to sustain when work resumes, or should I take advantage of this time to exercise multiple…

Thanks for your advice. Part of the 'month off' would be to keep myself away from restaurants, force myself to stop eating carbs, and have the time to figure out a healthy diet. Right now, just as I have no time to exercise, I have no time to cook either. But I am taking your words into consideration and debating, perhaps,…

Wow, congratulations on your weight loss! :) From one newbie to another, welcome and let's hope we both get healthy!