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  • I wasn't even on this site when this thread started, heh... but I like my sig quote about always doing my very best: Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. One lick and you suck forever. ~ PJ O'Rourke and a couple more I like are: Smart kids answer questions. Gifted kids ask them. ~unknown Weebles wobble but they don't fall…
  • Can you use your gym membership money to get real help with your life-threatening eating disorder? Online healthy eating buddies may not be nearly enough for such a serious situation. Take it from an ex-eating disordered person, you can take it too far and never get another chance.
  • When I was looking at that pic of you and your boys, something got in my eye...
  • Right on my first week of rehab, I was in the process of switching from metoprolol, a beta blocker. It had a very similar effect on my heartbeat as the verapamil, but it turned my extremities red and then blue and then purple and then black! So I had to switch to a calcium channel blocker. Quite a few docs thought I had…
  • My resting heart rate is about 52, can you tell from that what my target should be?
  • I wonder if it was combination/book rest model. You are going to have to hold your own book and *gasp* magazines up to where you can see them now... I hope you're happy with that... not that you'll be home reading much because you'll have to go out quite a bit for dancing and socializing to... you know... get the word out…
  • Fantastic ideas, thanks everyone... blows my mind how many great responses any question I ask gets and how quick I get them too! MFPers are the BEST talk about great support, second to none.
  • Mine's open too - thanks for the great thread, I will definitely be peeking through as many as I can to get ideas myself. I love my current diet and it seems to be working so far, but I think I may run into a plateau sooner or later along the long journey and I'll need to change it up then, so this is great. I know for…
  • Great job and best wishes from nearby (Vancouver Island) Great example for those kiddies!
  • I like that - when a MFPer crosses over into ONEderland, an angel gets it's wings - I just love that... there is nothing quite like ONEderland for those that haven't lived there in a while, me included. I can't wait to get back myself and stay! It's always sunny and happy in ONEderland! (Even if it isn't, at least if it's…
  • I checked your profile and the pics are there - and by-the-way WOW! You look FANTASTIC. True inspiration, you are the best looking grandmother I've ever seen... 5 kids and 14 grandchildren? You are going to have a hard time convincing people of THAT when they see how wonderful you look. Again... WOW! You are one person I…
  • The first thing that came to my mind (before reading the replies too!) was Steve Buscemi, so another point for Team Buscemi!
  • Been eating it half my life. Fav prep is cut in half length wise, face down with a little water on a plate and covered with the big plastic cover thingie in the microwave for 9m 30sec (I get large ones) and then turn it over when I take it out, fluff up the innards with a pair of forks and toss right in the shell with a…
  • A recumbent exercise bike might be nice for your knee... and of course making sure the seat adjustment is right for your leg length is probably even more important than usual, although it's always important to have that set so your leg doesn't fully extend and hurt your knee. I wear a nice warming leg brace on my knees if…
  • I've been having similar feelings about the machines at cardiac rehab (where I go for my workouts) same type of thing - machines and programs that used to be too hard I can no breeze through, or at least finish... IF I keep calm and focus on relaxing. If I panic and think it's going to be too hard I start to get all…
  • Great attitude and great work so far, I can tell you're going to make it and not suffer too much along the way by doing it smartly, well done.
  • I love the way you are building it up slowly and carefully - you won't overdo it and get hurt and quit that way! Very smart!!
  • Onederland is a place I can't wait to live again... it's very scenic and the weather is nice and sunny. Congrats!
  • Wow Nurse Betty (lol) you look wonderful and a lot younger than you say you are too! Keep up the great work! I love nurses - I spend a fair bit of time under their care and get verklempt thinking about how much love and attention they give every day on the job. You deserve the best my dear!
  • I like this thread! I probably wouldn't do a whole thread just on my own NSV but adding to a group one is a lot easier! Today I posted a pic of me online (in my profile) and I DIDN'T photoshop it to death, I just took it and posted it, all I did was crop it and that's it. I'm an accomplished photoshopper so this is a huge…
  • I knew exactly what this NSV was just from the title... This "little" thing is one of my pet big things to notice too. It's the little modesty type things that sometimes mean the most. If you even consider to answer your door in a towel, you must live in some kind of nice neighborhood, I'll say that much! Way to go, such a…
  • Wow - what a transformation. Do you notice how the world treats you differently now much? Probably went from see-thru invisible to someone that turns heads, gets talked to... like a PERSON instead of just some thing that blocks the light. I'm wanting to go from near the same to Size M also - and I am not sure how I will…
  • On days I work out, I usually have a TBS of Maranatha Almond Butter (or half regular and half chocolate almond) on each piece of whole grain toast (Cobs Country Grain - amazing stuff) Once in a while I put a half spoon of each on a big spoon and top with almonds or walnuts for an extremely yummy crunch treat. So if I work…
  • Thanks girls - I will get the new cross trainers this week - you're right - it will make my workouts so much easier and more comfortable and might even avoid an injury since my current shoes are too big and my feet are swimming around a little bit in them, so I just don't feel that secure. You're right about wearing them…
  • I just want to say thanks to everyone who does share their journals and their journey online with everyone. I do actually get ideas from time to time reading them. Quite a few are not eating how I want to, but even then I still find it interesting to see the kazillion different ways people can arrive at roughly the same…
  • Did you like the diet? Yes I loved it, read the book, followed the diet TO THE LETTER, and even got the blood work done so I could prove what I was doing wasn't hurting me. My triglycerides went down as well as a bunch of other indicators. My docs were happy. How long did you stick with it? About 18 months How much weight…
  • You look like your own kid... a few other people posted they thought the exact same thing... WOW AMAZING! You're the most inspirational and cute person I think I've ever seen with before/after pics. Wish I could see your profile (how you did it) but I'm new and I am not sure how it works... but I had to say it... WOW!
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