Posts by jibrille

This probably isn't the thread for this since it's OT though somewhat related to a past topic along similar lines.

To the OP, you seem to be pro Hillary and believe in general women are less apt to be involved in scandals like this. My question for you is, how do you support someone who seems okay with her husband cheating on her as long as he helps with her political aspirations? I would have far more respect for her if she had dumped him. It's not like Lewinsky was the only woman. I would think women who stay with men like this would be despised by feminists. I'm far from a feminist but I have the self respect to never stay with a guy who cheated/s on me.

It's why I hate when people start going on how this is a victimless crime. I'm sure Spitzer's wife and children feel that way. I hope she leaves him and takes him for all he's worth.

Why do people keep having to ask what Obama's plans are? Look at his freaking website. I don't have to be a supporter of his to make myself better informed on what his stances are. There's a freaking downloadable PDF you can read that goes issue by issue through his stances and what he wants to do. To try to claim there's nothing behind his "Change" campaign is just showing ignorance and unwillingness to do any research. Sadly, at least half his supporters probably haven't looked over the thing even though in the end, only a fraction of his ideas for change will ever go through.

Either way, I'll be much happier if Obama or McCain ends up with the presidency over Clinton. At this point anything can seem like a step up from Bush. The one thing I really care about is a fiscal conservative government and Bush is bleeding money out of the country right now. Romney wouldn't have been much better. Obama isn't much less of a socialist than Hillary though and that frame of mind tends to lead to an overspending government. Sadly, the one extremely liberal preference I have is not supported or completely avoided by making it a state issue by each candidate.

How are electorial votes set in place based on state population any different than if you let the popular vote decide? And I mean that no matter how the state votes, your vote should matter. As it stands, if you're a minority democrat or republican in an extremely red or blue state, your vote doesn't matter. I even know a lot of democrats who don't bother voting because they know New York will go with the democratic candidate. If there was no state level winner gets all, a popular vote gives more incentive for each person to use their right to vote and gets rid of this swing state nonsense that should not exist in the first place.

I was at 151.2 this morning. Oddly enough I've probably been eating more lately though I wasn't under eating before. However, I started doing physical therapy for my shoulder so I'm still doing a very small work out on days I don't usually go to the gym which might account for the faster loosing. I just started totm so I'm guessing I'm going to sit at this weight for the rest of the week.

Also, I started buying stuff like Luna bars over my Special K bars. There's more calories but there's a lot more nutritional value to all those calories.

By homemade style do you mean from scratch? I'd just add up all the different ingredients and sauces to figure it out. It's much more accurate than using estimated calories from a site and hoping they're using the same amount of each ingredient.

I had one while in CT a few weeks ago. I knew it wasn't good for the diet but it was well worth going over my calorie limit. Had a frozen sour apple one. mmmmmm

You know, it feels really good after you've been at a plateau for several weeks to start dropping the weight again. I'm down about 2 pounds this week after having only lost about 2 pounds the last 3 weeks. Plus I'm now in size 8 pants and medium tops fit me perfectly. Time to take out some of the clothes I had gotten too large for and rotate them back into my wardrobe.

It's really not that hard to dye your own hair and quite inexpensive. I had mine done by a professional only 2 times. The 2nd time it destroyed the highlighted hair. So I started doing it myself at the age of 14. I can dye my own hair ten times over for what a single professional dye job cost. And I've done all sorts of things. For about 3 years I was dying the underneath black and the top light auburn. But it seems everyone does that these days so I stopped. I've got blonde dye at home but I'm not sure what exactly I want to do yet. It's actually amazing how healthy your hair feels when you add color to it. Unfortunately, lightening it is often pretty harsh on it.

I assume everyone here gets haircuts every now and then and once in awhile changes their style?

Well, dying my own hair is a hell of a lot cheaper than paying the $35 for a haircut (yes, I can get cheaper cuts but I've learned that you get what you pay for) every few months.

I've always understood that generally the weight gain people have after quitting smoking is because they replace their habit with more food. Especially people who smoke a pack a day. Many replace that time they would spend smoking by eating something. I would think if you not allow yourself that and instead go with chewing gum, you shouldn't have that much a difficulty. If you're at 1200 calories, you should still be burning around 1800 calories with little effort. The weight loss may be slower but you won't suddenly start gaining without that extra 200 calories burned from smoking.

I think it really depends on your personality. I find if I don't count calories I'll actually be prone to not eat enough. Before I found this site, I was probably only allowing myself around 900 calories a day. When I started putting in the numbers, I realized how little I was letting myself eat. Sometimes I won't enter in what I ate until the end of the day and realize I have to eat some more. Other days I think I've had way too many calories and am actually surprised to find myself maybe 400 calories over my calorie goal even when I over assume my portion sizes.

Original Post by tadpole185:

Original Post by jibrille:

It's really the same in calories but because it's whipped there's more air per tb compared to regular cream cheese.

True, but it feels like you're eating more, and the texture is improved! Imagine eating a handful of corn kernels in the Pop Secret bag and compare that to eating a bag of popped popcorn. Same calories, but which would you choose?

I guess I'd have to say I'm weird and I actually enjoy chewing on the unpopped kernels when I eat popcorn. But I do agree that the whipped cream cheese has a nicer consistency. I can go either way but for now, I'm trying to keep cream cheese (and especially bagels) out of my diet. I only have them every now and then when I have to get up at 4 am for work and have a 12 hr day in the field so I know I'll burn off the calories.