Posts by octo-luv

I personally like myself. Took me awhile to realize this, but I would actually like myself as a friend. Sure I have my good points & bad, but I'm comfortable with myself as a person. I'm sure there are folks out there who would not want themselves as friends.

Original Post by awestendorf:

That's what I figured...whew! 

i should've known anyway since you did the program. at first i was like, what??? but anyway so everyone agrees lossfat, give it a go and you'll love it. cosgrove is the king of fatloss.

Original Post by awestendorf:

I do think the program would be beneficial given your goal of fat loss.  

I don't know, stage 2 surely burned a few things away on me. And Cosgrove's hierarchy of fatloss states 1st nutrtion, then 3 days of lifting, etc.

And scale movement is overrated especially since you are really not that heavy.

Original Post by dnrothx:

If you don't take charge of your world, the world runs right over you.

 Ah the quote of the day. Although its still a bit early.

I won't get into whether you were wrong here or there. But I do know from hard experience to try to not let people you work with (& even more so people that you don't really like), too seriously.  Think of it as a practice in learning to let small things go.

Original Post by 71179:

As the years go by and as I'm getting older I find more and more and younger people being aggrevated and mad about things.... things that won't bring the end of the world for sure!  Why so much anger? Please don't take it personally but go do some volunteer work for your neighborhood, or help a friend, or meet one, or go for a run or to the gym, maybe read a great book, cook for your family... find peace with your self!!  And like my great boss sais:  GET EXCITED!!!!!!

ha, i find so many older people doing the same.

Original Post by figurethefat:

My neighbors tried for months to get their Adjustable Rate Mortgage modified!  Now they have to sell their place because it just never happened and next year their payments increase two fold.

I don't think it's so much a question of too many people about to lose their homes as the banks don't seem to give a damn about getting back to people and helping them.  Heartless banks!  They are stupid.

Great! Thanks for answering though. But really she doesn't care at this point, she just wants to know the best & right thing to do.

Ugh don't start me on the banks, even the ones here. We have our own little situation here, as we bought our apartment on the last few months of the boom here in Ireland. It sickens me to hear about how apartments closer to town & more space are less than half of what we paid. The bigger banks are being a little more forgiving in Ireland, but the people that are in real trouble are the ones who have some sort of 3rd party mortgage (or something like that). They are like my mother & I feel for them.

Original Post by melkor:

It's not going to harm you, but from everything I've seen and read it's not going to be particularly helpful either - the excess protein either gets excreted or it's converted to glucose though gluconeogenesis. It's kinda pointless to eat protein your body converts to carbs for you when you can just have the carbs directly in my view, particularly when you're leading an active lifestyle that depends a lot on carbs to fuel your exercise, neh?

 

There are also theories that if you have too much protein your body starts to use protein as its main energy source. Which you don't want. I have not looked into this too much as I have a hard enough time getting mine tho. Perhaps Mr. Melkor could shed some light on this.

So if this isn't universal healthcare like they have in the rest of the western world, why are we even comparing or bringing them up then.

Or just use a little of a very strong flavoured cheese. That's what I do, so I still get my cheese cravings but with less.  But I like strong cheeses too.

Original Post by kathygator:

Dunno. Is Canada being bankrupted by their healthcare system? Just because it would be the government's responsibility to control fraud, waste and abuse, doesn't neccessarily mean they'd fail at it.

It does kind of make you wonder what is going on with Canada. Since Canada is probably the closest sisterly country to us (even tho really they are part of the common wealth & still the queen's subjects ).  Some EU countries are using more privatization than before (but before anyone gets excited they are mainly non-profit). I have not looked into this too much just heresay from a good few EU peeps & a few little readings here and there.  Everyone wants to discuss healthcare with me all of a sudden.

i know white people get crap too, that isn't fair, i never said it was. but one of your questions was about why its ok for a person to rag on about their race and why it may not be too cool for a different person of a different race to say the same. its like the family thing. allydan i think said it best. and again all contextual. im not saying its fair to call you a nazi (im assuming you are german descent) but you wouldn't take it as bad as an actual german would just because of the context their personal association/experience.

Original Post by crazydiamondchrysalis:

FTR... I think it is hilarious when anybody calls me cracker. Even meanly.. or maybe especially meanly.

Original Post by amethystgirl:

Original Post by melkor:

It's not the case that their workouts and gear doesn't do anything at all, that would be too easy to detect as fraud-

So what do these things do? Besides provide endless entertainment?

uh yeah when i first heard about those shake weights (actually on those darn google ads on here) i thought of something else, but it was in a different shape