Posts by trxr4kids

Carrihound: I must admit that I didn't know what tabouli was, I looked it up though and it looks delish! Thanks I think I will try making a batch for lunch! Any tips on how to make it properly?

Mooo: I also have never tried PB and jelly on a wrap...I am not a fan of jelly or the two together, but maybe PB and a banana would work? What kind of wrap do you use? I usually get ones that are flavored like something, somehow I don't think that would be very good though lol...I have had such a hard time finding a wrap I like. I am in Canada, and can't seem to find many of the suggestions that people give on here. I reeeally like your idea of a thermos of soup or chili, I will definitely do that when winter months roll around!

These are fabulous ideas, Thanks! 

I second the fact that it is cheaper to eat unhealthy than healthy. Of course, it depends on what your eating too. I could live on Kraft Dinner and Mr.Noodle for about $20/month. In order to get the range of nutrients I need to be healthy, I need a range of foods that, on a per gram type basis, cost way more than my Mac&Cheese dinner would have.

That said, I think the obesity epidemic has alot to do with poor education on nutrition, an unwillingness to learn/take the steps to living a healthy lifestyle and just plain laziness. So many people are walking around with no hope, because they think this is the way they were meant to be, so they have no incentive to try and change so they come up with these "excuses" about how it is too expensive, too hard, don't have the time, it's not convenient, etc. The whole culture is built on "convenience". Heaven forbid we have to work hard to get something we want. If its not easy, fast and new-fangled, we don't want it, to put it bluntly. We are bombarded with ads constantly about quick fixes: lose 7 lbs in a week, lose 10 lbs fast with such-and-such pill. So people are more than willing to spend their hard-earned dollars on these expensive "remedies" to all their problems, simply because its "fast", but then they complain that healthy eating and exercise is "too expensive". Last I checked, walking was free. Then, when their "quick fix' doesn't work in a week, they give up in disgust and resign themselves to the fact that "they've tried everything, but nothing works". I mean, its not like the answer itsn't out there to be "found". Look around this site at all the people who succeeded with diet and exercise, who were willing to go in for the long haul and just do it. Holy cow! Diet and Exercise! Must be the next best ticket to your weight loss! Lets make a commercial! Oh wait, you mean it took you how long? Oh, I can't wait that long, I have a size 4 dress in my closet I need to fit in by next week...you get the idea. They don't realize that if they started today, they may not fit into the dress by next week, but maybe in a year, and so what? It will be permanent, sustainable, healthy weight loss that they will be able to then enjoy for the rest of their lives, instead of spending it unhappy about their weight and using every last fad diet to get it done quick. If they took the time and money spent on all those diets and actually just started eating healthy, a method that has been proven time and time again to WORK, they would not have to end up feeling like such a failure everytime.

It is this attitude of convenience that contributed alot to making America fat I think, as well as a general degradation of the attitude of the nation as a whole, people are now used to it and feel entitled to have everything in a timely fashion with little to no effort. Patience and plain old hard work have, unfortunately, been unceremoniously defenestrated.  

This thread is brilliant!

I definitely have an almost unhealthy obsession with office supplies. This is me in Staples: I stop in the store, look at my *cart* FULL of office supplies: pens, mini drawers to hold the pens, seven different kinds of paper - all needed for a different purpose, 14 colors of post-its, pencil crayons, erasable pencil crayons, markers for when a pencil crayon will just not do, a journal or two (I have no idea why I need so many, none of the 5 that I have are even filled - but I could still spend, literally, hours in the journal section just looking at them...sigh...) and of course: some sort of tupperware to organize it all...then I realize that this will probably all add up to about 100$ (the bad thing about office supplies - they're sooo expensive!!!!) then I have to go and put it all back. Sometimes I just have to throw it at the nearest shelf and run to the cashier (even though I feel bad then for the people who have to restock it) with only what I "desperately" need clutched in my fingers. I stand at the register and try to convince myself I don't need it and just to leave, but I'm standing there on my tip-toes wanting sooo badly to go back for it...It's worse than junk food. I don't binge on chips, I binge on office supplies! The fabulous thing is I need lots (and lots ) of office supplies for what I do, so I can usually justify having more....hehe....

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It's the little things that we never even thought about when we set out to lose weight, that thin people never have had to deal with that catch us off guard alot. Some differences I didn't even consider:

 -It's easier for me to wear high heels now, my feet don't get as sore. I think because I don't have all that extra weight bearing down on the balls of my feet, as well my feet are noticeably thinner so the straps don't dig.  

-I can feel the bones in my hips when I lay on my side....sometimes can be painful. I had to get a pillow top mattress because of this.

-None of my rings fit either, except a few I had when I was a kid. I was actually trying some on the other day and my rings I used to wear on my fingers don't even fit on my thumbs anymore!

-Thighs don't wear out of my pants anymore. I can wear skirts again without the discomfort of my thighs rubbing together (they were pretty bad - still are but they are bearable now)

-I nicked myself alot too when first trying to shave - especially the backs of my legs where those tendons are behind the knees (know which one's I mean? There are two and they stick out now so there's a hollow between them) , because I wasn't used to having a hollow there, just fat! Also the ankles got a couple really bad ones too! I'm more used to navigating around it now though. 

-I LOVE (love love love) being able to wrap my towel all the way around myself! I have this towel that I've had for quite awhile and it used to may as well be a dishtowel when I wrapped it around me. I knew when I fit into that towel that I was achieving success lol. 

- I am colder all the time now too. People used to call me "the furnace" because I was always so hot (body heat that is haha), now I have to remember to bring a sweater everywhere, so I don't freeze! In Canada this is crucial!

-Something unrelated to my body (or maybe it is haha), but still a change: men actually hit on me. Overtly and very "forwardly" about it. Nothing I ever really had to deal with before so it catches me off guard still and I still don't know how to respond without being awkward.