Posts by kckstrt

Thats a good point, but would it still apply to VERY minor infections? Its not even so big as a sinus infection.

I did a bit of research and found a few people who said antibiotics can irritate the intestine/stomach, making it feel like you are hungry.  Anyone have any experience with this? I'm wondering if maybe thats it...

I'm in Canada too (Vancouver), and I don't remember a time when I DIDN"T know what a churro was. They serve them at canucks games...I always get one!

Original Post by ashmommyof2:

Thanks, kratzer9 for educating me on what edamame is. I really feel silly. I've heard of soy beans but didn't know they were called edamame. I can honestly say, though, I've never eaten them. But I'm willing to try anything that will help me on my healthy life journey. If anyone has any edamame recipes, I'll give it a try.

Thanks again.

Ashlyn

I usually just microwave them and throw a small dash of salt on them. they are a nice easy, quick snack.

Name:Nicole
Age:21
Height: 5' 7"
Start Weight (Your February 1st Weight): 132.5
Goal Weight (by February 29): 128

1/2/09:132.5
8/2/09: 130
15/2/09: 129
22/2/09:
29/2/09:

Total weight loss: 3.5

Name:Nicole
Age:21
Height: 5' 7"
Start Weight (Your February 1st Weight): 132.5
Goal Weight (by February 29): 128

1/2/09:132.5
8/2/09: 130
15/2/09:
22/2/09:
29/2/09:

Total weight loss: 2.5 .... I think this might be a bit misleading, I had QUITE a weekend last week, and I think quite a bit of that 2.5 was water weight
due to eating out lots and drinking.  Ooops.

I tend to agree with umneydarak.  I don't think its thats peoples tastes necessarily change, though I'm sure some do have this happen.  I for one, however, still enjoy sweet things - just in smaller portions.  I think people use diet tools, such as low-cal/low-fat dressing, diet soda, and "Lean cuisine" style microwave meals, as a crutch for their entire weight loss program, neglecting to make the actual lifestyle changes required to loose weight (I can't count the number of times I've seen people in line at the movie theater, buying salty, butter loaded popcorn and a Coke Zero. I've seen people at Wendy's biggie size their meal and do the same thing).  People think these small difference in calories made by will cancel out all the other crap they are shoving into their mouth.  We all know this isn't possible...

For 50 minutes of cardio this sounds about right. Depends on your size/weight/etc, as you know.

YOu can always try this one if you aren't sure.

http://www.braydenwm.com/calburn.htm

clairesty thats AWESOME. I'm using that one.

I usually just say I'm trying to eat healthier.  If you have anything like heart disease, etc. that runs in your family, you can use that as a justification (I usually do, and people tend to question you a lot less when you are trying to avoid heart diseases versus loose weight, not that the two aren't related, but people forget that...)

Off topic, but what did you do your masters in?

I'll be finishing my poli sci degree in the next year or so (4th year at the moment) and am always interested in hearing peoples experiences and opinions of their school (assuming you are studying in Canada).

I always count my drum sessions.  I have a heart rate monitor that I've worn a few times while practicing, and have found that, due to the intensity with which I tend to play, I burn more calories/hour than my burn rate thing accounts for.   If I was just playing lightly I wouldn't bother, but since it is quite a bit more (the burn rate thing says I am burning about 80/hr, and I can burn in excess of 150/hr while drumming because of increased heart rate, flailing, etc). 

Again, it depends how intensely you are playing. I know when I gig I'm definitely burning WAY more than when I practice, and if I don't take that into account it screw with how many calories  I should be eating in order to get the 500 cal deficit, and I end up really hungry and wondering why.

Original Post by pgeorgian:

Original Post by akgal:

Since he was Canadian born - does Canada want him back? What do Canadians think should happen to him since he was born there - go into their legal system?

i doubt very much that canadians are of one mind about it. there probably plenty who don't care. but most of those who do, i think, just want the kid to get a legitimate trial. since he hasn't been accused of any crimes in canada, i doubt very much that he'd end up in our legal system, though there are those who just want to bring him home.

Canadians are indeed very split on this. Prominent Canadians, such as Lt. General Romeo Dallaire, have spoken out in favor of his repatriation.  Dallaire, for those who don't know (I'm sure he's a household name in Canada, but likely less known elsewhere), was the Force Commander of UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission for Rawanda), and spends much of his time now speaking out against the use of child soldiers (which, by definition he is/was).

I also know that Amnesty International would like to see Khadr out of Guantanamo.

I'm really not sure what Canada would do with him if they got him back. I know Harper hasn't exactly been rallying in his favor....but I was never foolish enough to expect the man to start spouting children's rights doctrine in the first place....

Yes i noticed a similar ocurence when I put on a pair of slacks for work today that used to be quite form fitting (i had bought them a couple years ago).  They are finally starting to fit properly again! very exciting

http://www.ineed2know.org/SwimSuitTypes.htm

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Dreaded-Swimsui t&id=40434

Hope that helps :D

Original Post by susiecue:

Original Post by bigbitty:

What a pity party!!! People used to try to mess with me over my weight, and I talked about them right back. I don't know what universe people are from really, where they just let people step all over them. Seriously, those little snot nosed loser kids who wanted to start something, got something when they messed with me, and I dare a skinny man or woman to come up to me and disrespect me. I DARE THEM...

I think a lot of people need to grow a pair, so to speak, stop letting people friggin traumatize you, especially ridiculous, retarded, underweight, undernourished, freaks who have 0 social skills. HAHA

I serioulsy don't understand how people can be alright with being stepped on all of their lives.

Fight for your honour.

Clearly you have never been the target of real bullying. When there are ten other kids and one of you, you don't stand a chance in a physical fight. And nobody intervenes when ten kids are going after one. Because they don't want it to turn into ten vs. two.

Bullying is in no way always physical, and to assume that emotional bullying does not cause as much (if not more) psychological damage than its physical counterpart would be extremely shortsighted. In fact I wouldn't be suprised if most people on this board are referencing instances of emotionally bullying.

I agree, some kids will find ANYTHING to tease you about and use it. I was never the "fat kid" in class, however through middle school, and particularily grade 8, I was teased horribly by several boys because I had raging acne.  In addition, I decided one day to cut my hair short, and all of a sudden I was a lesbian too (nothing against lesbians, it just wasn't true...somehow this carried into high school as well). That year emotionally crippled me more than anything else I went through between the years of 12 and 17, but I learned to stand up for myself and fight back, and I feel I am a much stronger person for it now.  I will try and put what bigbitty said into less emotional, more rational words: of course kids need to know how to defend themselves! They do, however, also need to know WHEN to defend themselves and WHEN not to, so they don't end up physically hurt. 

It just seems to me that being overly consumed with terrible things that happened to you int he past (and I emphasize terrible, since some of the stories you folks have shared seem just horrific) can't be healthy...

wow that makes WAY more sense than the number I was getting (and explains how I can loose so much weight with what I thought was less than 3500 cal deficit)