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If you have Best Buy in BC, they might have it there. I'm in Toronto and I saw 30 Day Shred on sale at my local Best Buy (for cheap, too - like $10 or $15). If not there, maybe Future Shop, or HMV?

I love this casserole which is based on zucchini and potato! http://www.dailyunadventuresincooking.com/2009/10/zucchini-kugel-casserole-recipe.html/

:) This is great!! I think it ties into the fact, too, that lots of people (sadly) have body image issues and feel self-conscious about themselves... so I really think fewer people are "judging" others when they are worrying about how they look on their own!

So I passed my qualifying exam for my PhD program and now have time to make the trek over to the campus gym for some weights! Hooray!!! Today was a loose Stage 1, Workout A, Workout 1 day, but mostly it was to explore the gym and figure out where things are. I have to say... I miss my old gym!! I had no idea how good I had…

In the end it's up to you what the most beneficial way for you to weigh is! :) If you're finding daily/more-than-daily weighing is affecting your mood, it might be helpful to switch to weekly weigh-ins. Personally I weigh once per day, in the morning (without clothes on, and after using the washroom). I record my weight in…

:) This thread definitely exceeded my expectations!! I was fully expecting at least a few people calling us daily weighers "obsessive," since that seems to be the normal course of things, but I'm pleasantly surprised. I think the moral here is that you should weigh as often as you're comfortable with. If you weigh every…

You answered your own question in asking it, I think. Here are the key things: 1) You weighed at a different time: your weight will fluctuate on order of (I'm guesstimating here) 2-4 lbs during a given day. Bodies are dynamic things, and your weight will depend on lots of variables, including how much you've had to eat,…

As the other posters have mentioned, it's important to weigh yourself around the same time each day, preferably in the morning, after you've used the bathroom but before you've eaten breakfast. Even then, your weight will fluctuate on a day-to-day basis - which makes sense because our bodies are pretty variable machines,…

Ohhh big time. For years I convinced myself I was 150 lbs and that was okay... then I came to grips with the fact that I was 160, but that was okay too, as long as it wasn't over 170! I avoided scales like the plague because "what I didn't know couldn't hurt me", though occasionally when I stepped on one to see it said…

^^^ This! Find a place where you can buy coffee beans in your area - they are bound to have lots of flavoured coffee, like french vanilla, hazelnut, irish cream, etc. You can buy the flavoured beans, and then maybe add some skim milk. I actually drink my coffee black most of the time, and one of my favourite ways to…

Hopefully you end up with a good place! :) Moving is totally overwhelming - I hate it!! Definitely feel free to message me, especially if you have bus route questions... I haven't been on ALL of them, but I've been on my fair share! I used to live on the 32 Windermere route for 3 years... which was AWFUL. It stopped at 6pm…

I'm not in London anymore, but I did my undergrad and master's at UWO, so I lived in the city for 6 years. Not sure where you are coming from - if it's a small city/town, you may find you'll like London a fair bit. If it's from a bigger city, London may leave a lot to be desired, haha. It's hard to get around by foot,…

Mine's been acting up too. T hough... I am on the pill, and I went to a conference out of town and stupidly forgot to bring my pills, so I missed two in the middle of my cycle. Now, missing one or two pills isn't good, but I've NEVER had it affect me like it did last month! I started spotting after I missed the first one,…

I switch back and forth between vanilla light soy milk and almond milk. The almond milk has fewer calories (you mean I can drink a whole cup for 60 calories?!?! Deal!), but the soy milk has more protein (which I try to get more of). The soy milk I find a bit sweeter so I use it in lattes and cereal, and the almond milk is…

Wake up every morning and listen to that Sir Mixalot song... "I like big butts and I cannot lie!" ...I seriously sometimes sing that song in my head when I get "bummed out" by my rather large behind. I've actually gotten loads of compliments (even when I was 20 lbs heavier than now) about my butt, by way skinnier girls…

Goodness, I'd be a mess if I didn't let myself have treats every now and again (er, and by that I mean nearly every day). The question is, do you want this to be a plan you can stick with for the rest of your life? If I couldn't have marshmallows and birthday cake and chocolate and beer, well... I think I'd drop this site…

There's absolutely nothing, NOTHING wrong with weighing once a day, or more than once a day if you're a super curious person... provided the number on the scale doesn't send you into a sobbing frenzy or ruin your day. I weigh at least once a day in the mornings, sometimes more just to see (I'm a curious person). I record…

Hahaha YES!!! I thought about making things with more egg whites (like two egg whites, one egg for an omelet, or whatever), but I actually could not bear the thought of throwing the yolks out! So I just eat the whole thing. The yolk is also my favourite part anyways. :)

It definitely depends on what you're measuring, like tbrown1025 said. Suppose you took your tablespoon and filled it with marshmallow. That tablespoon of marshmallow might weigh, say, 3 grams. But what if you took the tablespoon and filled it with peanut butter? The peanut butter is much denser than the marshmallow, so it…

Depending on what you're making, you can use something like black beans (if you have a food processor or blender). This recipe was amazing: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/black-bean-brownies/Detail.aspx Couldn't taste the black beans at all. Fooled my partner, who just said, "mmmmm great brownies dear!". :laugh: I suppose…

Which came first, the cheese or the elementary particle? :laugh:

Ok, this makes me want to do one of these! That looks like a LOT of fun! And you yourself are looking amazing!!!

Someone on the forums here suggested adding an egg to oatmeal, and holy crap it is actually delicious (I cook mine most of the way with water first, then temper the egg a bit and add it in, then finish microwaving). I add cinnamon, sometimes vanilla soy or almond milk, a little pure maple syrup or brown sugar, and some…

I have an iPod touch and like it well enough, but I got it at the time because I wanted portable interwebz. Well, lo and behold, less than a year later I caved and got a smartphone, rendering most of the features on the touch redundant. So... if you are considering a touch, just think about whether or not you might get a…

I weigh most of my food. Especially cheese. Holy crap, cheese is a hard food to judge! It's to the point now where I am pretty good at eyeballing a 13g serving of cheddar, but when I first started, I'd have cut a 25g block off and said it was 15g, for sure. I can totally understand how some people who are prone to…

The Catelli Healthy Harvest penne serving size is 3/4 cups or 85g, which works out to 3 oz (oz is a silly unit of measurement, I think, but let's roll with it!), for a little over 300 calories. The other brand that people have been recommending is a 2 oz serving for about 200 calories. If you reduce the Catelli serving…

In the condo building I live in, it's actually impossible to access the stairs from the ground floor, unless you are leaving the building - so no one can actually take the stairs up! I live on the 4th floor (though it's called the 5th floor because apparently 4 is bad luck in Chinese culture), and would love to take the…

You look incredible!! :) Thanks for being such an inspiration!

Asparagus with some olive oil and garlic grilled in tinfoil Veggie burgers (home made or store bought)...caramelize some onions in advance for a topping! Throw a sweet potato on the top rack and iet it roast. Mmmm. Make new marinades for your salmon or chicken and make skewers out of them, with veg like coloured peppers,…

Holy moly you are looking smokin'!!! You have been, and continue to be, a total inspiration to me!