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The first step is admitting we have a problem. The second step is taking 1/3 of our Reese's Bells out of our kids' stockings, claiming we heard a report about chocolate poisoning and were willing to take one for the team by self-testing.

You can! Have fun today, hon!

Oh, I thought the point was: the OP literally HATES running, she even leads the thread with that, plus she has asthma so hey, should she get out and running? If so...how? If not, how can she get lean and healthy in some other fashion? And that has been answered (pretty well, IMO). So...you're welcome, :) and merry…

Disclaimer: I didn't read the thread. What follows may well be repetitive and vaguely annoying because of that factor. Okay, so...doesn't appetite get stimulated by eating? I remember reading that somewhere, but I can't remember whether it was in a medical journal or in Cracked Magazine or on the back of my hand jotted…

That sounds so good. We're starting a tradition we've wanted to but didn't really put into place until this year: Chinese food for Christmas Eve. I'll log it but I only have Chinese like once a year (for whatever reason) so I can not wait! Christmas Day is the taco truck. Yes, we Southern Californians are just…

Come to my house. Santa already brought and has stored three different varieties (or should I say shapes? They're all the same thing) of Reese's. Trees, cups and...something. The stockings will be stuffed with a total lack of care this Christmas!!

All right, so just no. Even if by 2000 total over maintenance (v. over your loss goal calorie amount) you could not have even gained one lb. :) Merry Christmas!

It isn't 6 lbs. of actual fat. Trust me. In two days? 3500 X 6 calories above maintenance? There is just no way. I'd bet my lower intestine it is a combination of water and just physically the weight of the actual food. Maybe you kept a pound. See where you are three or four days from now.

I hope Jesus was crazy about Reese's Peanut Butter Trees and Holiday Twinkies, then.

Hey. I have been using dumbbells, HIIT or just strength training, 20, 40 and 45-minute sessions currently per week, low weight but to exhaustion most of the time, have had to bump up the weight once already and am ready to bump up again. I am getting resistance bands for Christmas but may also just buy a one-up heavier…

I usually have dessert every day and it often as not is a totally non-glamorous, kid-like dessert (Three Musketeers, for instance) so a few cookies within my calorie goals, or chocolates or whatever, are totally fine. It's all the same stuff, really, just in holiday flavors. Plus a few things I was never that crazy about…

WHY did you out us on that one...

That's what I thought, too.

Need a hug?

Isn't "hug" for when someone is feeling bad? Whether in a genuinely felt or sarcastic ("Aww, need a cookie?") way? And I agree with those saying they would not have imagined "woo" meaning anything other than baloney, broscience, oh please, tin foil hat & crystals, etc.

Awesome, thanks.

Well hello there, have we met?

No way...I knew I was doing this wrong. I'll put my socks back on now.

I go back all the time. Fidelity obviously isn't my thing.

Usually black but sometimes I will get two sugar free flavor shots. 5 cals. I don't think their syrups contain Splenda but don't hold me to that. I would assume it's maltitol or something.

Do you already have exercise configured into your settings?

Yup... OP, decide on your correct exercise based on: 1. What your doctor says you can do, with your meds current and a rescue inhaler on hand if necessary. 2. What you are naturally drawn to. Do you like swimming? Lifting? Something else? 3. What you can modify to make harder as you become stronger. 4. What is affordable…

If you're inside the house, unless you are Lestat or Louis (or Superman) you are not getting to that darting child before the car hits. I don't care how fastly-effective a runner you are. Idea: how about using YOUR VOICE in that situation? Just a thought. I guess I should concede the pool thing, I mean if I had a dime for…

Thanks so much, everyone. I appreciate the help.

My lazy-azz little son spends as much time as he can get away with lying on the couch with his Game Pad gnawing candy canes. He is by far the fastest runner in our entire family and in fact is faster than most of his friends. (When he can be bribed or threatened into doing it...) Most of those friends are in a sport -…

What the hell kind of super sonic hearing do you have that you (alone) are going to hear a child's head bob under pool water from a quarter mile away? I don't picture a person involved in such a rescue - it sounds more like an episode of Lassie. As for the burning building, again, SHORT distances unless you are vertically…

Exactly. That's a good point. This all made me think of something...when my middle son was two years old our friends had moved and they invited us to their son's birthday party. They DIDN'T tell us there was a pool...which was bizarre. Something got lost in the translation and everybody showed up without swim trunks. And…

I can't believe you would have to be a runner v. someone who, say, incorporates aerobics and has some strength in order to get several yards to a swimming pool to save a child. Or to run out of an alley. I'm not trying to be a jerk. Just saying, I can't see that one "should" run just in case s/he needs to get out of the…

I absolutely, positively hate running and always have. I was not an overweight child at all and I was healthy but I hated it then and I hate it now. I hate bouncing up and down and I hate my feet hitting the pavement and I hate the panting and the whole business. My vision isn't great, I have odd vision...stuff even with…

Thanks! Well, this is some good news, anyway.