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Personally, I'd pick up where you left off - or maybe do a couple extra days of Level 3 and finish it out that way. I've tried a couple times to finish the shred without stopping and it's just not happening...life keeps getting in the way. I'm going to do the rest of this week (until Friday) on Level 2 and then bump it up…

"Come What May" from Moulin Rouge - 2 of my parents' friends from their church played and sang. (If we did it over, I'd just use the recording! :laugh: ) Our first dance was Elvis - "Can't help Falling in love" (or whatever it's really called.) It's the only song I can get DH to slow dance to. Married 5 years - oh, wow - a…

This: http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008/08/cocount-beef-crockpot-recipe.html My house already smelled SO good when I left for work this morning...can't wait to get home! (I left out the butter and the coriander, because I didn't have either one. Couldn't find coriander in the grocery store, and the butter didn't seem to…

Nice! Congrats!

Way to go! I'm still not on board w/ the liking to cook thing, but I'm awfully impressed by people who do! :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Where to get them: Amazon.com Marketplace, eBay, Half Price Books, local library, streaming netflix, garage sales. What to get: I'm sure there will be a kazillion different suggestions. I like Jillian Michaels from The Biggest Loser. 30 Day Shred only takes about 20 min/day (25 if you count warmup/cool down). The Burn…

I love my job. I schedule appointments and direct phone calls/take messages for 20 different primary care and specialty clinics. Each phone call is different, some patients are more polite than others, but at the end of the day I feel like I've really helped the people I've spoken to during the day. It's especially cool…

Fight Club is my all time favorite. Brilliant. Just...uttterly brilliant. Dogma and Pulp Fiction are the other members of my cinematic Holy Trinity. Star Wars and The Matrix are the other 2 in my top 5.

Just a thought about sending kids to school when they're sick...sometimes school is where kids get their meals for the day - breakfast and lunch. Mom and/or dad might be out of work, homeless, in a shelter. Sometimes Mom or Dad (think single-parent families here) have to work or they don't get paid, and they can't afford…

I just got lost in the crockpot 365 website. ME! The hater of all things cooking! :D But yeah. I'm definitely gonna have to try some of those. (http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/ if you missed it.)

I eat pretty much the same thing for lunch every day and I don't think it's really hindered my progress at all. If I had to strive for something different every day, I'd probably give up - food prep is SO not my thing. When I get tired of Lean Pockets, I switch to soup or Lean Cuisines. :D As long as you're getting the…

ETA: I didn't mean to sound abrupt there. I just think that celebrations that involve food are always going to be part of our lives, and it's really not always going to be reasonable to not eat, bring our own food, etc. Sometimes it is, and then it's a good idea to plan that way, but BBQ and birthday cake is really…

You aren't going to blow a whole week's worth on one night. I'd go, take reasonable portions of what looks really yummy to you, and enjoy it. Including cake if you really like cake.

Welcome and best of luck to you!

I plan on getting a workout in every day, but I don't kick myself if it doesn't happen. This weekend, for example, I probably won't be spending any quality time with Jillian. :D I just know that I feel better on days that I work out, and I know I sleep better. Plus, I eat differently when I work out because I eat back my…

This. Get it in your current size and have it altered. Don't buy something that doesn't fit now. That's no fun.

I log it as 30 min because i do some cardio and extra warmup stuff during the intro while the DVD is "warming up" and while she's talking at me. :) It's definitely a tough workout, but it works!

This made me chuckle. I'd probably do the same thing! ;) I log as I go. I am not nearly organized enough to log ahead of time and have nothing but unbounded respect and admiration for those who do it. [I have to admit I was absolutely baffled by one of my MFP friends who is in a time zone a couple hours ahead of me - she…

Wisconsin all the way! (Yes, we have our own accent. Truly.) If I'm around someone speaking w/ a different accent, though, I pick up on it really easy - and unconsciously.

I'm so very sorry to hear this. My thoughts are with you.

This happens to me quite often. If your weight is "stuck" for a while, you'll get advice here to zig zag your calories, or increase them from 1200. It works!

I don't cook, so maybe this is a really silly question...but what is a half moon of zucchini?

when you put "Bump" in a post it sort of saves it under 'My Topics' for you, so you can find it later. Like a bookmark.

Here's one I just did last week: 2 pieces of chicken (leg & thigh, skin on & bone in). You could use chicken breasts if you want - DH likes dark meat better. 1 can Aldi's pineapple chunks 2 tablespoons brown sugar (and honestly I could have skipped these) 1 big sweet potato, cut into pieces (big chunks.) Good things about…

LM Montgomery. I first read Anne of Green Gables when I was 8 or 9 and have gone through I don't know how many copies of that and several of her other books. I'm reading the Anne series from the beginning again now. They're just beautifully written, full of wholesomeness and love. Sounds pretty cheesy, but read them.…

*hugs*. It's not lame. It's gotta be a shock. I was a gymnast for a few years (not GREAT or anything, but I was athletic), and it still surprises me once in a while that I can't do a backbend or the splits, let alone a friggin' cartwheel. But - you know where you are now. You know it's going to take work to get better,…

I didn't think I could imagine my life without them either, but that's not the life I got, you know? :wink: And I have 4 nephews and a niece as well as the kids/grandkids of coworkers that I get to fawn over. We have a greyhound. His name is Earl. I've got a couple pics posted of him on my profile.

DH and I tried for a couple of years...gave up. It was too heartbreaking, to be honest. There's no specific medical explanation. I think I'm in the "acceptance" stage, more or less - some days more, some days less. I have two great stepsons and we have a really cool dog, and I love our life together, so - Dunno if I'm…

This got long. But... Why did/do I want to do this? 1) to see if I could a) lose weight in a healthy, sane manner (as opposed to the wacked out eating disorder stuff I did in the past) 2) to see if I could stick to it 3) to see if I could work out more often than I didn't work out 4) because I HATED being overweight. I…

Best of luck to you on your journey! A lot of people set mini goals - 10/20 pounds by X date, for example. It kind of breaks things up into manageable pieces, I think. *shrug* Something to think about, but it sure sounds like you're on the right track!