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Snowed In - Testing my patience
I live just outside of the Washington DC area, and have been snowed in since Thursday night of last week. I spent 3 days breaking thru the 4ft x 4ft wall of snow at the end of my driveway and I am both mentally and physically exhausted to say the least. Also my neighbor threw his back out shoveling his driveway, so I went…
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Washing DC Area - Snow shoveling
I live just outside of the Metro DC area, and yesterday between the hours of 4pm - 12am, I shoveled. And shoveled. And shoveled some more! :noway: I'm logging that as exercise, but from Googling the amount of calories burned, I'm not sure that's accurate. Each 1 hour sessions of snow shoveling says I burned 702 calories…
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20 Worst Restaurant foods in America
I read this article and it made me sick to my stomach. Some of these things I have had in the past!! No wonder restaurants don't put nutritional information on their menus!! Definitely an eye opener. Can you imagine if people were forced to keep a food diary before they left a restaurant!? :laugh:…
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Sugar - My enemy
I'm curious how others are getting their 3-5 daily servings of fruit without pegging your sugar grams? The system has allocated me 36g of sugar a day based on my calculations and everyday I'm going over with just fresh fruit I'm eating. For example: Today I had 4oz of OJ (calcium and Vit D - no pulp) and with 1/2 cup of…
