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All the basic recipes here are great.... but you should take the time to learn to cook... it doesn't have to be fancy. you'll enjoy healthy food more. Save up some money and look into local cooking classes. My mom used to take them from our local city (junior) college. It was like one night a week. But cooking is becoming…

Think about it the opposite way... if you have loose stools (diarrhea) you eat ABC/BRAT Apples-Bananas-Cereal(non whole grain) or Bananas-Apples-Rice(white)-Toast(white). Pick whichever acronym you can remember. So if you're constipated.... AVOID these foods. Eat plums, prunes, pears, berries of all kinds to loosen things…

LOVE THIS!!!

In a former life (now i'm a stay at home mom) I had and used my UCLA computer science and electrical engineering degree. We have PCs in our house. Assuming you are doing basic web stuff, and maybe some office suite things, that's really all you need. A MAC will do fine, but you'll spend twice as much. There is also less…

bump for later. i love this

carbs are carbs, but more importantly calories are calories. in terms of weight loss (not general health) it doesnt matter what form the calories come in. it's input vs ouput. that's it. dont stress. fruit is good.

Never heard of it. Sounds good, and like the 10 calorie Dr. Pepper "for men" my husband likes. As for the hysteria surrounding soda and artificial sweeteners... ugh. i too have oceanfront property in Kansas to sell. yes, caramel coloring is thought to be carcinogenic, the cans are lined with BPA, and the phosphoric acid in…

I wouldn't sweat it. i maybe drink one glass of water in a day. the rest of my liquid is *gasp* diet soda, occasionally crystal light, and some almond milk. the rest of the liquid i consume comes from my food: juicy apples, grapes, cucumbers.... you get teh idea. If you aren't dehydrated. dont' sweat it :-) you'll find…

ok. i remember the starving years. I bought a $99 special on walmart., 6 or 7 years ago... it was called hot cross buns (it was a crazy weird thing, kind of like a inline skating motion w/ arms). It was a complete waste of money (really noisy, uncomfortable for my knee and totally useless), back when we didn't really have…

I have this one (AUDIOSTRIDER 990 PRO NEW FOR 2012). we got it early december. my husband has had to grease the tracks 2 or 3 times already. it's not perfect, but it feels solid (I'm 5'8", started at 185) and had all the features (moving incline, arms, rear flywheel) that i wanted from the nice precors from when i used to…

Ok, if I get one, do i wear it all the time? or only when i workout? How exactly does it work for calories and stuff?

bump so someone reads this if they need it

While guessing rather than measuring is sure to be a problem, volume measurement of non-liquids is not as exact as determining mass. Think about it this way, if you measure out 1 cup of flake cereal from the top of the box where most of the flakes are large and intact there will be lots of empty space in your measuring…

me too. i've got two, my youngest is about to turn one in a few weeks, my goal was to get back to my pre-preg weight by her birthday. i'm 6 lbs away now, so I dont think i'll make it (i'm 1 lb/wk kinda girl, and i'm ok with that). That said, I have a girlfriend who just had her second like 4 weeks ago and she already looks…

I too love mine... a handy hint is to lightly wrap in plastic wrap before doing raw meat... that way if a little drips while you're putting it on the plate, it's not a big deal to clean up. (Thanks Alton Brown (Good Eats, food network)) for turning me onto the scale and how much better it is for getting amounts of stuff…

because it's not crappy outside (like where i live now), we are outside all the time... it's sun, fresh air, movement and happy looking weather (oh, and a bit of smog, I don't trust air I can't see)

I too used to eat too much in the evening, so cutting off food at 7 really worked for me. i'm good at following hard and fast rules, but not so much if there is give and take. I ate partially from boredom, and partially from the "snack-ies / hand-ies" I like to have something for my hands to do if I watch TV or something.…

no idea. maybe give it a few more days and see what's happening? did you change the make-up of your diet? are you retaining water because it's about to be that time of the month? did you work out extra hard and you have muscle inflammation? but mostly i'm responding to BUMP so someone who has an idea can respond. GL

:-( Its all about portion control... I'd say eat 1/2 of what most people are eating and you should be ok. while skipping the obvious bad options (if there are options). As for food you can bring, I don't think you'd find that enjoyable to be eating your little atkins' bar while everyone else around you eats the "normal…

I count the "high" ones. i dont really bother with lettuce or things that are goign to be less than 10 calories. but an apple (baseball sized) will be abotu 90 calories. Tropical fruits are especially high in calories. We eat lots of bell peppers in our house too, i usually just "sneak" them in by adding an extra 1/10th of…

ok then. i take it back. sounds ok. dont know anything about it, so i'll bow out.

non scale victory... :-) you'll get there wiht all the crazy acronyms. just do a search for acronymns and see what you find

I've never done a "cleanse" of any kind because my doc said they are all bad. it's like giving yourself food poisoning for a week (or however long it lasts). it's not good for you GI, you'll lose good bacteria. You'll gain most of the initial "loss" back because it's mostly water (you'll get dehydrated). Just go with the…

This ^ I have the same problem. i'll be complaining to my husband next weekend. But yes, it will go away, so just stay off the scale for a few days and keep logging and working out. *edit: I have ghiradelli 86% dark chocolate on hand for those days. 64 calories a square. i get one each night when i'm grumpy. even if they…

basic costco memberships are now $55/year, so that may not be in your budget. if you know someone with a membership, tag along. we get almost all our produce / meat there. not everything at costco is a good deal but their produce is 99/100 the best deal and the best quality. you can usually get 2 lbs of blueberries for the…

i think the genre is sports and fitness on streaming.

bump! I was just going to ask this too. I looked for the Brazil Butt Lift video that someone else had mentioned, and was hoping to find it on netflix, but not so much. Is there anything good out there (cardio)? especially for someone who's not very coordinated?

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Eat the forbidden fruit... but make it yourself. i've finally learned (after watchign lots of diners / drive-ins and dives on Food network), the secret to the perfect burger. Don't screw with it. Get some nice 90/10 chuck, handle it just enough to form it into a patty. season well with salt and pepper. let it hang out on…

for the same reason I dont have a facebook / myspace / twitter / etc account (and i have no profile picture or info). I dont think all that info needs to be out there for the world to see. There's a ton of data out there to be "mined", it really is called data mining in the nerd world. I know, i'm one of them. my eating…