James_1954 Member

Yes, but you know, sometimes you need a lot of fish oil. There's nothing more annoying than a squeaky fish.

Fort Wayne, Indiana. Notorious for being the home of the late Fawn Liebowitz. She died in a tragic kiln explosion, don't you know.

I forgot about that! Fun, isn't it?

I pay no attention to other people's carts in line. I pay a lot of attention to the women in line. A whole lot more interesting, they are. Also, I sometimes annoy my wife by sending her texts repeating the breathless tabloid headlines. You know, like "JonBenet's Killer Finally Found!", or the latest about Brad and Angelina.

Nope. Will costs ten cents per choice. So it's cheap, but it ain't free.

Looking all over the house and garage for the bottle of concentrated wallpaper stripper that I saw just a day or two ago, and used maybe a week before that. I drive myself crazy sometimes. And it's a short drive.

For home cooking, there's lots of recipe analyzers online that will generate a "nutrition label" for you. Restaurants -- for standardized things like chains and fast food, a lot of those are in the MFP database. Otherwise, as Kimny72 says above, you pretty much have to cross your eyes, hold your thumb up to sample the…

I eat back part, but not all. Usually about half. My reason is that I don't think most methods of quantifying caloric expenditure in exercise are really all that accurate and reliable. You could probably use feelings of legitimate hunger as a guide. If you find that you're actually hungry (as opposed to bored, or having a…

Have you seen a doctor? I had PF some years ago, and went to my primary-care, who diagnosed it. She prescribed me some sort of anti-inflammatory (I can't remember now; it was just a one-time prescription) and assigned me some foot-stretching exercises. The prescription knocked the pain down right away, and I did the…

On buying an elliptical: I think that, if you're not made out of money, I'll echo pondee629 above and suggest that you're probably best off to take out a Y membership. Around here, the Y branches have lots of Precor machines that I like quite a lot. I don't know what those cost to buy, and I'm pretty sure I don't want to…

It's a measurement noise problem. If you're a lady-type person and are on MFP, let's make a guess and say that you weigh something like 140 lb. Then 1 lb is less than a per cent of your weight (0.7%, to be specific). If you're heavier, then that pound is an even smaller percentage. If you repeat weight measurements a bunch…

Wow ... it seems that 60 is the new 28. You are looking GOOD!

Cycling. Outdoors, on my road bike, on the county roads. Why? Because it's a good cardio workout, and it's fun. Also, I think I have a tiny little chance of ending my career in milliseconds, on the front bumper of someone's car. Could hurt, but still seems like a better alternative to handing in my lunch pail at age 90 or…

My workouts are early, too. My experience indicates that, regardless of what people tell me, it's OK to work out on an empty stomach. However, I don't. I make a cup of coffee, drink a couple of glasses of water, and then take the coffee and a plain banana with me and consume them on my way to the Y. Suits me pretty well;…

Interestingly enough, my body seems to be a temple, also. But all evidence suggests that mine is a cult temple to the demon Carbohydrate. Clearly, the temple must be cleansed. Hopefully, the Messiah has his whip of cords just about braided.

None. I just swallow it, stick and all. I wonder, wonder ... who-ooo-ooo-ooo-oooh -- who wrote the book of love?

Right this second: "21st Century Schizoid Man" (King Crimson, circa 1970)

Excellent ideas. Also, when watching the evil television, do it lying on the floor. When commercials come on: do some abs until they're over.

"The Servile State" -- Hilaire Belloc

Come to think of it, I choose whether to have oats or one of the others based on what I feel like adding. If I want to slice in a banana, it'll be the Cheerios or the bran flakes; if I want to toss in raisins, then oats. I suppose it's quite possible to add banana to oats, or raisins to Cheerios or bran flakes, but that…

Oats are the best cereal, I have no doubt. I need some variety, though. So, I keep some oats, some Cheerios, and some store-brand bran flakes on hand. Then I pick one as my fickle mood dictates.

My strict policy is never to add mercury to my fish. I limit it to a little salt and pepper, and maybe some lemon.

I think well of the Muscletech brand of whey protein powder, mixed with skim milk. I buy it at Sam's Club. It's about $35 for a 5-pound bag, which lasts a long time (months). I use the chocolate flavor, but there's a vanilla as well, which I haven't tried.

Totally go to cycle class! First time out, it will seem pretty challenging, but it's much easier the second time, and so on. The instructor will usually say this, but just in case she or he doesn't: don't kill yourself ... back off for a little while if you need to. I think everybody, instructor and fellow cyclists alike,…

If you can flamenco-dance for TWO hours tonight ... you're amazing! And a stone and a half ... if I remember the conversion correctly, that sounds like 21 pounds. Over a four-year period: I'm sure you're better off undoing that, but it still doesn't sound so heinous to me. Please consider yourself encouraged!

I have nothing to say about "clean" vs. not-"clean." Instead, I want to say your being hangry is very, very funny. I've been hangry before myself, but didn't have a word for it. Now I do. Thanks!

Based on results my son has had, I'd go kettlebell.

"Canadian women" and "hot women" are redundant terms, as far as I'm concerned. I'll be happy to go up there to make friends. Must be that cold weather makes the women hot, somehow.

I was going to suggest the pellet gun, but then I recall your writing that you had "tried" shooting it. Why didn't that work out? In my admittedly limited experience, no rodent can withstand the modest firepower of the .177 caliber pellet, propelled by CO2. The first hit might not do the job immediately, but there's always…

I drink it (black). In nutritional terms, it's equivalent to water. Except hotter.