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How long does unopened wine "keep"?
Having some friends over this afternoon, and I'm eyeing a couple bottles of wine of indeterminant age in my cupboard. It hasn't been stored properly (as in it's been standing upright instead of angled or on the sides). I'm pretty sure they may be as old as 2 years. I'm thinking to pick up a couple of bottles today instead…
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Has anyone ever ordered glasses online?
Hello everyone! I've gotten away without needing corrective lenses for most of my life, but now that I have 50-year-old eyes, I have to bite the bullet. I went for an eye exam and found out that one eye in particular needs all kinds of help, poor thing, and the other eye is pretty good, but just getting old & farsighted.…
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Beyond starting over
Ugh - so I crawled back here after a 4 year absence. You know what's hard about starting over? Having to lose weight to get back to a point that you used to consider unacceptably over weight. In my mind, for the past few years, I've thought of myself as "around 220 pounds." A few times I've weighed myself and when I got to…
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crept into the fitness room finally
So this is HUGE for me. We have a little gym at our office. Lots of people use it. I've only been in it once, and that was during my tour on my first day of work. Last week I brought my running shoes into the office. Today I brought some workout clothes. This afternoon, I crept down to the gym. I changed my clothes, and I…
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Disappointment for shrinking Jews everywhere
Latke alert! So I spend an entire day cooking latkes up for the week of Chanukah. Today is the day (for non-Jews, Chanukah is really early this year.) I like to freeze them and then bake them a little in the oven before serving them later. And we're hosting a Chanukah party next weekend. Anyway, of course, one must…
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Changes in energy level?
Anyone want to throw me a motivational bone and tell me how much more energy they have after losing some weight? How about mental clarity? Ambition? Inclination? I feel that at this weight I've lost a lot of my energy and oomph. I'm hoping to get some of that back as I drop some pounds. In fact, the idea of it is pretty…
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Encouragement for the totally out of shape beginners!
Hi all! This is my first post in the Fitness & Exercise section! You'll probably laugh me right out of this section, but oh well! I can't believe how out of shape I'd become. Well, I've never been actually in shape - I've always drifted somewhere between lethargic and inert. And it became worse when I gradually began to…
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Needy me! Anyone else?
I was gone for about 2 and a half months, didn't post, and wasn't doing very well in the weight loss dept. Was I hiding from here because I was off the wagon? Or was I off the wagon because I wasn't coming in here? Now that I'm back "on," I feel like I need to come in here and read everyone's posts in order to get through…
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Disappeared before Xmas
Well, hi everyone! The holidays happened, and then we went to Mexico and we ate Mexico, and now we're back home, wondering why none of our clothes fit. People at my office started South Beach, and DH looked at me and said "Well, we'd better do this too." So about 3 weeks ago, we started South Beach. We've been doing pretty…
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Crawling back in after the holidays
Hey all! Been out of the country, did some eating, didn't do much moving, clothes are all tight again. I'm looking at the up side here. If I hadn't lost a few pounds before the holidays, I'd be up even more right this minute. I'm figuring my hard work before the holidays helped offset some of the gains. I don't even know…
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blyeah, what have I done???
I was so happy this morning when I weighed myself & saw that I had dropped a pound. For some reason at lunch though, I just felt rebellious and mean, and I waltzed past the salads and sensible foods, and said "Meh!" to them. Instead, I ate a 4-pack Reese's peanut butter cup thingy, a snack-sized bag of potato chips, and a…
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Bullet Express
So I ordered the Bullet Express from the infomercial. It arrived yesterday! (Not to be confused with the Magic Bullet - I have one of those too. (blush). The Bullet Express came with a juicer. So last night after I assembled it, I pretty much emptied the contents of our vegetable bin into the thing and we all had fresh…
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Turns out I'm an "anger" eater
I used to discount all the advice given to us about "emotional eating." When I'm sad, I don't feel like eating. I don't even feel like eating when I'm depressed. I ignored all the advice about getting to the root of your feelings that lead you to eat. I figured I don't need to get to the root of the feelings. I know what…
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I'm such a big baby.
So last night I got into my daughter's Halloween candy. Didn't do TOO much damage, but still . . . And I weighed myself this morning to find that I haven't budged in a week. I already complained about this in another thread. Anyway, I was feeling pouty and sorry for myself here at the office, so I ended up eating one of…
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What about Splenda?
I just read the thread about aspartame and how it contributes to migraines, the tendency to put on belly fat, etc. I don't consume much, if any, aspartame, but I do like to put some splenda in my fruit smoothies. Usually fruit is too "tart" for me - it's just a taste thing, it's been like that all my life. I've never…
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Well, here we go!
Hi everyone! I just started in here today. Of course, this will only be my 500th attempt at weight loss - and like the last 499 times, I'll probably be successful at first, then get lazy & go back to the old ways. But now it's critical - my feet are shot, I'm walking with a cane, I get winded just thinking strenuously, and…
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Seems like a lot of calories, but I'm hungry!
Greetings all! For those of you whom I haven't met yet, I started MFP just this past week. I have my weight loss settings to allow for a 2.5 pound loss a month. I know that isn't much. But I want the weight to come off slowly and I want the weight loss to STICK this time. So I figure as long as the direction on the scales…
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Motivation and mixed feelings
There's a chance I might be able to get home to see my family this Christmas. They live about 2,000 miles away. Right now, we're not in a position for all 3 of us to fly (husband, daughter, myself) so my husband suggested just my daughter & I go. My family is very happy. My sister (who is registered here as Big Sister but…
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Well, I made an honest woman out of myself
When I first signed up at MFP several days ago, I didn't even want to weigh myself for a starting weight, so I guessed it at 220. A couple days later, I weighed myself, and found that I was 223. So I revised my starting weight. Yesterday, I weighed myself and had dropped a pound. I was happy about that. This morning, I…
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Threw my back out on Day 3
It's like the Universe said "Ah HA!! So you think you're going to get into shape, 'eh?" Somehow when I was out on my walk this morning, not doing anything out of the ordinary, my back went "Twang!!!" and now I can't stand up straight, get comfortable, or do much of anything. I'm trying not to console myself with food, and…
