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I cook. In fact, I'd say I don't prepare. I like to look at cookbooks & watch cooking shows for inpriation and ideas, but I never follow a recipe-- except when baking. That's why I loathe baking & love cooking-- cooking is a fun, creative experience, following a recipe is boring. It's like painting, versus painting by…

I don't believe in feeling guilty for eating something. Unless you're a cannibal, or something to that effect, I just have never had that attitude, and I find it unhealthy, I think. The point of cheat meals, to me, is like the "point" of going to the (indoor) pool with my kids this afternoon, in a few minutes. To have fun.…

Oh, I hope I'm being obtuse and you were joking? :) Honestly, no, it doesn't work like that. Some people drop weight easily by BFing, though you have to remember you're real, real likely to gain a lot in the pregnancy leading up to it, of course. Not to mention you could be someone like me, who gets to the "10-20 lbs above…

Honest question-- why would it matter if you're logging it, or if you change your activity setting? *I don't believe that anyone said to log it as cardio exercise, I said very early to log it in the food log, and a few others have since suggested the same. Though I'm just not sure why it would matter what form taking off…

I don't think anyone can say an accurate exact number per day, because obviously everyone will vary by their own body, and their babies. But what you're toying with is the only nutrition the OP's baby is going to get. Do you want to play it safe on that? Or do you want to make sure she loses as much weight, fast as…

Agree with the other posters! I am definitely on the bandwagon that it doesn't behoove me to record everyday activities, but when BFing or pregnant, that's a different story. You need to make sure your baby gets enough / the right nutrients. IMO, it's not actually the time to "diet," but it's always the right time to keep…

This is what I think: Yep! I'm sure this would be true of my friends. But, I guess I have gone through the years surrounding myself with kind & good people, not jerks. So it entirely matters, I suppose. Are your friends a bunch of a-holes? I mean, seriously, if they are truly sabatojing you and truly don't want you to a.…

It's really not a question that's real wise to ask, unless you're willing to hear all the answers. And even then, well, I wouldn't recommend a bunch of threads like this. Back to topic, though, you're looking good, great job! Keep up the hard work, and if you're looking to lose more, I wish you the best of luck with it, &…

You really have to find the right one for you, there is so much variance. A few years back, I paid $25ish / month at 24 Hour Fitness for me (& my kids were an extra $10/month for childcare, or something to that effect). Great deal, if that's what fits into your lifestyle. Mine didn't have a track, but there were…

It's funny how many people apparently love seeing road kill... LOL I never would have thought. I guess my answer is the opposite, when I get out of my neighborhood and run in the surrounding countryside, I love to see turkeys, geese hawks, deer, etc. I much prefer the beauty of them alive.

there I totally agree. and this is why, despite an earlier poster's suggestion that we snip posts when quoting, I like to leave it all there.... The quotes above came about after a few posters (i believe you? Not positive) called another poster selfish for choosing not to BF, right? Not about delaying feeding, different…

If she wasn't on the floor in a Target, I'd really agree with you guys. I mean, I'm shopping for clothes, and you're sitting on the floor there in the section? How can that be appropriate? I would never have said anything to the mother, but believe me, I would be confused, at best. Also, just... you can't tell me that a…

I am sooooooo selfish, then. LOL But my 3 girls are happy, smart, growing well, no complaints. :) So I think I'll continue not being a martyr, because my goal is good kids, not impressing self-righteous strangers on the internet.

I love running at night or at dusk, and when I can see in the windows around the neighborhood, get house color/design ideas. (Wait, does that sound creepy? LOL). Now that I've had to get used to a treadmill when weather doesn't permit outdoor running, I especially appreciate everything I can see when I get to run outside.

Wow. I went out with my girlfriends for dinner and drinks tonight, left my baby (& older kids) with my husband. Know why? Because I wanted to. It was a "WANT," not even a "NEED!" What a selfish b** of a mom I must be. LOL Oh, but I BF for 7 years in a row (over the course of 3 kids). Does that make me good enough in some…

I agree with you about toilets. What stemmed this wasn't about a restroom, though, it was a mom not wanting to go to a changing room, and instead wanting to sit on the floor in the aisle at Target, nursing. I don't think you should have to hide, but I don't think it does anyone any good to plop down on the floor of Target…

My 3 children have nursed for between 1.5 & just over 3 years each, and I can't put a specific answer to those questions... I think like most of life, use your discretion. My babies nursed for a long time by our standards, but they never needed to nurse in public past 6 months or so, at the latest. That's the age they…

Do you really feel that way, though? How do you feel about it when other people apply that logic to you? For instance, say I'm a health nut, and I make homemade soup for dinner many nights. But YOU open a can of soup one night. So I call you "ridiculous and selfish." Because you COULD have made the perfect choice ("the…

I do think that if thise were true, this topic wouldn't be heated. In one sense, the breasts of mammals exist for feeding young, of course. In another sense-- look around the mammilian world. Humans have breasts that swell at maturity, and stay large our whole adult life, while other mammals have breasts that only swell…

I would like to agree in principle, but that's the road to a "you are pulling me out of context!" claim!

Frugalmomsrock, I would disagree with your sentiment that moms never "flop it all out." I do think they are rare, though. I think the amount of people who "flop it all out" is probably roughly the same as the amount of people who would have a problem with a mom discreetly nursing in public. I BF my 3 children in public all…

100% with you, then, Improvised. I think that is the easy answer to the whole issue, honestly.

100% with you, then, Improvised. I think that is the easy answer to the whole issue, honestly.

Is floor in the middle of Target considered so sanitary? So much more so sanitary than the changing room, that you'd rather sit on the floor there to nurse, than in a chair in changing area? I'm with you guys on the bathroom. I never fed my kids there. But I'd take a seat in any room (other than the restroom LOL) over the…

I've done the same, with the help of a Moby-wrap, and never gotten so much as an eyelash-bat... So I'm pretty skilled as well. :) But again, that gal I mentioned earlier, the Peta of BFing, always got dirty looks doing it, in the same area, IMO because it was about the political statement for her, so she had to make sure…

Here's what is strange, that you care so much! Why is it an issue to you if SHE makes a different life choice than you do? Honestly, this kind of thing, and the comments that "well, it's feeding formula that makes ME uncomfortable," that turns me off of "lactivation" SO hard-core. Can you try to encourage the thing you…

Would you really, though? I guess here's what I mean-- your baby cries, you'd immediately sit down whereever you happened to be, and feed him... ? You happen to be in the aisle at Target, you happen to be crossing the street, wherever, sit THERE, NOW, and feed. No one does that. I wouldn't go to the changing room to HIDE,…

Duplicate.

This story didn't happen on an airplane. It was in the middle of the floor in the clothes section at Target. On an airplane, your seat is clearly the best place to sit and nurse, and I'd whole-heartedly agree that anyone who gets upset is silly. In the middle of the Target aisle? That's not something you do because you…

She was joking! Right? No one would say that in seriousness, tell me.