Posts by abbeiroad

Forum	Topic	Date	Replies

Weight Loss	A couple of questions because I'm confused.. :(	Dec 03 2007 22:14 (UTC)	3
1100cal would be fine to eat in a day it's border line but it's ok. I would eat 1000-1200 cal a day and call it good. I think if you want to keep losing do it! as long as your BMI is between 20-24 you are good.
Recipes	egg whites in brownies??	Nov 30 2007 20:22 (UTC)	3
two white for one egg, or 3 whites for two eggs
The Lounge	Is anyone from Kansas??	Nov 26 2007 21:16 (UTC)	5
hmm, I guess the answer to this one is no
The Lounge	Is anyone from Kansas??	Nov 21 2007 05:10 (UTC)	7
yea, OVERLAND PARK!
The Lounge	Food Network!!	Nov 15 2007 17:22 (UTC)	11
The woman who does semi-home made kills me, I really wish her physical harm, and I am non-violent, to the extreme. she looks like she is going to snap at any moment, and she does drink A LOT of 'cocktails' it seems. I wonder how those interact with her happy pills.
The Lounge	Food Network!!	Nov 15 2007 16:59 (UTC)	13
I think the other guy should have one the next iron chef, he was way cuter! I know, childish, but if I have to look at him now when I watch Iron Chef America I will always be thinking of that other guy and what could have been
The Lounge	Food Network!!	Nov 15 2007 15:39 (UTC)	21
I am not sure how I feel about Rachel Ray...
The Lounge	Food Network!!	Nov 15 2007 15:02 (UTC)	23
I am not sure how a feel about Paula Dean, but everything she makes is ridiculous in fat. I don't know how she isn't 500lbs seriously, it's like everything she makes gets a stick of butter and a lb of cheese at least. ....Although I do want to eat it all!
Weight Loss	5'5 and 137 lbs --- what size should i be wearing???	Nov 14 2007 16:29 (UTC)	20
I am 5'5" and 138, I wear size 7, but that's in juniors, I am 21. I would imagine then you would wear a size 8 or less in womens
Weight Loss	Find your twin on CC!	Nov 13 2007 14:41 (UTC)	1,095
I'm Anna Age: 21 Height : 5'5" SW: 162lb CW: 139lb GW : 132 I would love to here from someone about the same as me, it would really help with support!
Vegetarian	Question to all vegetarians	Nov 09 2007 21:16 (UTC)	13
I think that question is kind along the lines of people who drive high MPG cars, why don't they just walk everywhere instead and save ALL that gas and the planet. why contribute to hurting the environment at all? Aren't THEY just lazy? Why go half way toward your goal of lower emissions? Some people can only go so far with it. Milk and eggs are in almost everything, it seems. Yes it's a half commitment, you're right. But People are like this. Where do you draw the line? IF you are a committed to animals why do you eat meat...and if you don't eat meat then why do you eat eggs...then why do you drink milk....(here's where I make my point) if you don't do all that then why aren't you freeing all the animals from the commercial farms? In the Sense Vegans are “half ass”ing it, too. You are still allowing the meat trade to grow. You really have to understand that is where people draw the line. They choose to "pick their battles". One goal at a time
Foods	buying meat from local farmers to avoid animal cruelty? opinions??	Nov 09 2007 17:59 (UTC)	2
also this would be a great question on the vegetarian forum, they have a lot of good advice.
Foods	buying meat from local farmers to avoid animal cruelty? opinions??	Nov 09 2007 17:58 (UTC)	3
******************************************* Keep in mind that the hardest part about changing your life style for the better treatment of animals is the main steal fast foods and restaurants. I gave up eating meat that didn't come from farm raised(after seeing meet your meat and several other videos) and I knew for sure where it came from and was safe. I didn't have a problem with slaughter it was just the horrifying conditions the animals lived in and were subjected to) That was well and good but I haven't eaten any meat of any kind for at least 9 months, and less than 3 times in the last 4 years. What I am getting at is, the part that will actually be missed is going out for food, being McDonalds, taco bell, or fancier places. It's ruff finding things on the menu without any kind of, cause you can't eat at home EVERYDAY all the time. This is just what I had trouble with. I don't really plan on eating meat again. I just gave it up cause it was easier than finding my own meat, and then cooking it at home. The best advise I can give you is to do what you are doing, and wean yourself off it, that's what I did. Besides all the moral stuff(It made me feel like a burden had been lifted when I stoped eating meat), you become way healthier too(as long as you don't god to replace it with cheese, straight up). It's a little perk. I also think that supporting your local framers by buying thier meat instead will help on a small scale by shopping from the competitor of the evil commercial meat trade! ******************************************* **
Foods	I'm looking for some filling food ideas.	Nov 07 2007 17:40 (UTC)	3
you are doing volumetrics and didn't even know it! Pick up a book, you will love it, it takes that concept and runs with it, so you eat alot with little calories. you can find the volumetrics book for 6 dollars in the diet section of any book store and I think it's at CVS in the book section. I LOVE VOLUMETRICS, I have lost 25 lbs with it, as long as you don't expect to lose 5 pounds plus a week, you will be happy with this!
Vegetarian	Feeding a Vegan for Thanksgiving	Oct 30 2007 18:52 (UTC)	1
try out http://www.peta.org/accidentallyVegan/default .asp it's site with comercial products that are vegan friendly. It isn't recipies or anything but it will help with muchies.
Vegetarian	Are vegetarians smarter than grass?	Oct 25 2007 20:02 (UTC)	36
One of my favorites is a toasted pita half with any kind of hummus( i like it with horseradish hummus) and feta cheese both on the inside I will heat it up in the micro after that. It's good and healthy
Vegetarian	Are Vegetarians smarter?	Oct 23 2007 22:45 (UTC)	1
sorry, if that was mean. it's just three pages of amazing people. They can write but not read.
Vegetarian	Are Vegetarians smarter?	Oct 23 2007 22:45 (UTC)	2
aftonmae; why would you comment if you didn't read the article being discussed? 1. read the article 2. your comment is irrelevant, fix it. 3. IQ has nothing to do with ability to spell or common sense your welcome
Vegetarian	Are Vegetarians smarter?	Oct 18 2007 16:16 (UTC)	7
First off I posted this article because I was excited about it. I have been a vegetarian for 3 years, I read the article and I posted it for other vegetarians to read. What I don't get is that if it was multivitiams added to a diet instead of a vegetarian diet would people care as much. This is what the artical would say, for those who didn't read it the first time "Of a study of 8,000+ children, the ones with the highest IQ's were MORE LIKEY to chose to take a multi-vitamin later in life" Would those who don't take vitamins be stupid? Seriously, I was just excited to read that more intellegent people have chosent to eat the same way I do. Chillax. Seriously
Vegetarian	Are Vegetarians smarter?	Oct 17 2007 14:58 (UTC)	41
I don't really understand why some people chose to comment but not to read the articles. The articles were just saying that a group of people with higher IQs had chosen not to eat meat, not that it made you smarter. I don't think that most vegetarians are smug and maybe the reason trhawley thinks they are is because trhawley is feeling guilty for eating meat, which you shouldn't feel guilty about it or judge others for not doing it, huh?
Foods	I'm so sick of diet food!!!!!!	Sep 14 2007 18:46 (UTC)	8
I like to make my own hearty soups, also alot of canned soups are great and WAY low in calories
Foods	Cucumbers - blech!	Sep 14 2007 18:39 (UTC)	4
...that was most definately zucchini. they have mushy instides and are rubery on the outside, still yummy but you might want to cook them... Make sure next time you don't grab the wrong ones
The Lounge	i hate smokers	Jul 26 2007 15:53 (UTC)	30
the laws wouldn't stop people from smoking, it just hurts the bar. I too hate non smokers, or those who have never tried it. Some times a cigarette is worth dying for.
The Lounge	i hate smokers	Jul 25 2007 22:08 (UTC)	40
I just moved to texas and it blows the big one! unless you are in austin
The Lounge	i hate smokers	Jul 25 2007 15:46 (UTC)	54
3,600 people die each year from lung cancer who never smoked, very sad. these people could have made better choices about who they hang around (unless they are children, who aren't in bars). And cigarettes or tobacco exposure isn't needed to get lung cancer, it runs in some familys like other cancers. If you feel for the health of people who go to bars, what about the 22 times more people who are murderd by the drunken bar go-ers that get in their cars? 74,800 people are killed by people drinking at bars, do you want to stop people from drinking at bars? that would save 22 times more lives. in fact what about women who are raped by men who drug them at bars? that would save even more if no one consumed alcohol at bars! Ban one killer of the innocent why not ban a much larger killer of the innocent?
The Lounge	i hate smokers	Jul 24 2007 22:26 (UTC)	61
People are free to move off my block if they don't like my 3am marching band practice. They are free to stay home if they don't like me wandering around naked. Correct me if I am wrong, but the street belongs to the city. And the houses on your street are owned by someone so they have rights to the area. See where this comes from? The bar owner owns it. not you, you have no rigthts to the area in the bar cause you don't own it. guess who would have rights? If someone owned an apt. above that bar they own a space, if they want it smoke free they can have it. Are you saying that if you walked into a bar and you like green and 65% of the people in that bar liked green the bar owner should have to paint the walls green by law? Free establishment. Now, I think naked is ok! I am in, lets do it! but I don't want to catch you doing things infront of children to mess them up.
The Lounge	i hate smokers	Jul 24 2007 22:12 (UTC)	63
ok, so what about people who leave their houses when they are sick? if I get a cold the next morning because I was in the same restaurant as someone else who had a cold that went in the same bathroom as me and I caught it. then shouldn't we make a law about that? should I be mad at the business? I won't be able to smell, or taste, and I might have a cough or sore throat. I should demand that the city make anyone with a cough or sniffle stay inside, for my protection. Plus sick people are gross A cold is annoying too, and you could wake up the next morning feeling the same as smoking 2 packs of cigarettes or worse. You might never see that coming, you know if you are in a bar with smoke what you are doing to yourself. You put yourself in that situation. Even though I don't smoke anymore, I like the smell still, I don't think it is gross. I think removing someone else's rights because of your preferences is gross. I think smokers look cool and sexy.
The Lounge	i hate smokers	Jul 24 2007 21:48 (UTC)	71
I took some time to think about your comment, Spirochete, about the marching band, and the loud horn in the bar. The loud horn is not illegal, it is annoying. Free speech. But I believe in the control of the business owner to kick you out, or tell me to stop smoking. The marching band has to do with city streets. A bar is a private business, and also not somewhere you have to go. Everyone has to live somewhere( it is one of the necessities, food, water...). No one has to go to a bar. Back to the city. You pay taxes to a city and sort of... 'own', meaning you have say. You don't own that bar. He's a great idea, no one is stopping you from opening your own smoke free bar. If it fails then you know you are in the minority of caring about a smoky bar, so "let them eat cake" and get off smoker's backs, but if you are sure enough that most people would want the bar smoke free(majority rule) then go get a loan today, what are you waiting for? lot of money to be made. Your rights are set up this way because you have to live somewhere you don't have to drink. I am just saying, if 90% of people that go to bars don't mind the smoke then get off it. Or remember this is a free America where you don't have to take away someone's rights to get your way.
The Lounge	i hate smokers	Jul 24 2007 21:23 (UTC)	83
it comes down, to who you are going to blame. I think we are all aware of one of the first, what I like to call "self victimizer" situations. the Woman who left the drive through of McDonalds with a cup of hot coffee without a lid tucked safely between her legs, burned herself and sued McDonalds. 'But now - days after a jury here awarded $2.9 million to an 81-year-old woman scalded by McDonald's coffee - some observers say the defense was naïve. "I drink McDonald's coffee because it's hot, the hottest coffee around," says Robert Gregg, a Dallas defense attorney who consumes it during morning drives to the office. "But I've predicted for years that someone's going to win a suit, because I've spilled it on myself. And unlike the coffee I make at home, it's really hot. I mean, man, it hurts." '-http://www.vanfirm.com/mcdonalds-coffee-lawsu it.htm People are aware cigarettes are bad. What are the rights of non smokers? You are welcome to drink hot coffee, so hot you could burn yourself. You have a right to not burn yourself with coffee too. But if you know coffee is hot(cigarettes are bad), and I hope you do, don't get mad if there are places were other people can get coffee that can burn them. if you are afraid of second hand hot coffee spilling on you stay out of my coffee house and enjoy a frapachino some where else. Don't force my favorite coffee place to stop providing a place for me to enjoy coffee( or a night out) the way I want to. Let the owners choose if something should be smoke free or not God I hope that made sense.
The Lounge	i hate smokers	Jul 24 2007 21:04 (UTC)	92
My intent wasn't to come off hateful, I am sorry. Everyone has the right to work in a healthy work place. no one is forced to work in bars and only bars. Some skills translate to many jobs My friend from school was hit and killed by a drunk driver two weeks ago, he worked for a construction company, when the 'F'er murdered him. My point is that there are working hazards to every job, if you don't like it don't do it. He knew the hazards, he didn't deserve what he got, in anyway, he was a great guy. A humanitarian. But he could have found another job, part of me is angry with him for not doing that. If you are capable of working in a bar but don't like smoke, work in a restaurant, don't play victim and expect compensation, the only person responsible for you is yourself. That is America these days, ego centric. I realize this is such a touchy subject that it is almost impossible to convince anyone of anything they don't already believe. If you don't constantly question your values you will end up with an unsupported opinion or possibly something you never wanted in the first place.

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