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| Fitness | Walkers, stop being so snobby! | May 09 2012 18:31 (UTC) |
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When I have my earbuds in, I don't usually say hello. I sometimes do the friendly nod thing though, or compliment dogs. However, when I have my ear buds in, I might be running from zombies XD. |
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| The Lounge | Tax loophole costs billions | May 08 2012 20:40 (UTC) |
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I worked as a waitress for a few months. The problem is that the min. wage for waitstaff here is 2.13 an hour. The work is incredibly intense, and not always consistent from week to week, and the hours terrible. I came out of that job with a whole lot more respect for servers in general, and usually tip in cash when I have it. Everyone will use a legal loophole if given the opportunity - if it's legal, I don't see an issue with using it. We don't have kids, so you better believe we take advantage of every legal tax break possible. Friends of ours with kids get HUGE breaks. We have never fudged a tax return (because, really, why risk it?) but we do serious research on what we can and can't take off on taxes each year. |
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| Calorie Count | "Snack" and "Other" - what is the difference? | May 07 2012 12:52 (UTC) |
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I use 'other' for stuff like splenda packets in my coffee, vitamins and supplements and anything that is not really.. food? My 'other' category is pretty short. |
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| Weight Loss | Eating less than ideal foods in order to attain a small deficit? | May 02 2012 12:11 (UTC) |
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Have you tried talking to the kitchen people to see if they can occasionally do a meat and cheese free marinara pasta sauce? or can you get pasta with no sauce and put veggies on it? Maybe they'd be open to getting you some more options. |
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| Health & Support | Celiac Disease/Low Calorie/Starvation Mode?? | May 02 2012 12:08 (UTC) |
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Get allergy tested. Besides my husband being gluten intolerant, he is ALSO actually, physically allergic to wheat - he can't have wheat in shampoos, soaps or lotions, etc. He can't be in some restaurants that bake their own bread, and going inside pizza places are right out. It's possible you have another allergy that is setting you off - have you tried benedryl or another such drug? You also might be getting wheat in places you don't expect to - soy sauce has wheat. Even if you want to avoid processed foods, you still should be able to get plenty of calories - we use corn based pasta, cheap at Trader Joe's, eat tons of fruit and veggies, salads, etc. If you can't do allergy testing, you might want to try an elimination diet, but if you do, you might want to run less until you are sure you can get enough calories. |
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| The Lounge | How would you take this comment? | Apr 30 2012 21:01 (UTC) |
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I have an alternate suggest for why he told his friends that you had a panic attack. HE WAS LYING, and wanted to take the heat off himself and blame you. Instead of telling them you and he already had plans, oh well, the real reason is 'you' had a panic attack.
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| Weight Gain | How many cals should I be eating..? | Apr 28 2012 13:55 (UTC) |
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She's 15, she needs way, way more to just maintain, 1500 is the minimum to lose weight at someone her age. |
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| The Lounge | For the ladies: long-term birth control pill use | Apr 28 2012 13:53 (UTC) |
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If you want to continue taking BC for a few more years, I really recommend the Mirena IUD. I've had it for nearly five years now, and have few or no periods. The hormones stay in just one area, and I haven't had issues with it like I did with depo - no weight gain, no hair loss, etc. |
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| Health & Support | 3000 calories too much? | Apr 24 2012 21:23 (UTC) |
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Okay, I hate to say it, but I don't see 2500 calories in that log of yours, unless those are really big servings. Each fruit item would be around 100 calories, almond milk is very low calorie. I'm seeing MAYBE 500 calories for breakfast, but I'm betting not. I'm not seeing where this is adding up to anywhere near 2500 calories. Are you sure you're getting enough? |
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| Fitness | Songs to Run to | Apr 20 2012 00:03 (UTC) |
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hmm.. maybe you can help me find something. I"m looking for the remix of "Wiggle It" but I can only find the 90's one on itunes. They play it in step class and it's bugging the snot of me that I can't find it. I have a lot of Lady Gaga and Weird Al on my iphone.. take from that what you will XD
*makes a note to purchase 'blow" and possibly "dirty dancer' |
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| Health & Support | can someone help please? | Apr 18 2012 23:07 (UTC) |
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3 pounds in one day is very very unhealthy and it's unrealistic. I hate to break it to you, but that is mostly water weight - it's the fact there's no food in your body, nothing in your colon. Very little of it is actual fat. You will 'gain' some weight by putting food in your body, but it won't be fat. Just tell yourself that. YOU MUST EAT. |
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| Health & Support | can someone help please? | Apr 18 2012 23:00 (UTC) |
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Your doctor is a dick. You must eat. You must, you must, you must. You need food to LIVE. Even if you can't get help right away, one thing you absolutely must do right this second is eat. Get a jar of peanut butter and take a big spoonful out. Wait a bit. Eat a slice of bread. Drink some juice, eat a pop-tart. Whatever you have in the house, you MUST EAT SOMETHING. This is not how you diet. What you are doing right now is doing damage to your body. The correct way to diet by eating less than you normally do on a given day (and I'm not talking about this last week). This is how everyone else on this site does it - you still eat all types of food you want, just less of it. There are people here who have commented that they eat over 2,000 calories and are losing weight while eating that much. You must eat at least 1,500 a day for someone your age, just to live. Add in 4 hours of exercise, and you probably should be eating more like 2,500 calories a day, which is a lot of food. Or, do yourself a huge favor and just stop dieting until you know how to do it right. Do your exercise if you want, but you HAVE TO EAT. You are not doing it right, right now. You don't have to tell your friends or family NOW, but it should be very SOON. Get your strength up, and figure out who you can talk to. There are free hotlines out there that you can call too. |
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| Health & Support | can someone help please? | Apr 18 2012 13:24 (UTC) |
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Do you have any family members you trust enough to talk to about this? Does your school have any counseling resources that could help? |
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| Health & Support | can someone help please? | Apr 18 2012 13:21 (UTC) |
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HOly ****, girl, you have to eat! that's how your body survives! you will literally die if you don't start eating soon. Food fuels your organs, brain and muscles. Your body is eating muscles rather than fat, taking away from your heart and other lean muscle tissue. You aren't just losing fat, you're losing important tissues. You have GOT to get help of some sort, or you will actually starve to death. Just because you aren't hungry doesn't mean you shouldn't eat. |
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| Weight Loss | venting...looking for answers...could it be Mirena? | Apr 16 2012 20:27 (UTC) |
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Keeping in mind that I was coming off Depo shots, and getting a Mirena, I had a very heavy period that lasted about 2 weeks and change, and a sort of regular period after that for probably 2 more months. I'd say it was around four months total before my periods reduced to 2 days, and yeah, it was probably 6 months before they nearly completely disappeared. Before the Depo shots, my periods were average - 3-4 days, not too much pain or discomfort and pretty regular. I very rarely had a 'bad' period that completely incapacitated me, but it did happen at least once. The longest period I've had since Mirena typically last around 8 hours for me - and it's very light, but usually I don't even get one at all. I had some cramping a couple days ago that also only lasted about half a day, but previously, nothing. |
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| Weight Loss | venting...looking for answers...could it be Mirena? | Apr 16 2012 19:53 (UTC) |
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Hi there! fellow Mirena user here. I've had mine for about 4 years now, and it has not caused me problems with weight loss or gain. My body went through some adjustments at the beginning, but believe me when I saw the near total lack of periods later is worth any water retention you might be experiencing now. When I was on Depo, I did gain weight, but it came off again through work and diet. |
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| Foods | Gluten-Free Help | Apr 11 2012 14:01 (UTC) |
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Wife of Wheat allergic husband :) Couple of things - read all labels - things you wouldn't thing would have wheat in them, sometimes do. Soy sauce is a prime example. We only buy tamari. I don't know if anyone told you, but you also have to avoid rye, barley and usually oats. The problem with oats, even GF labeled oats is that they can grow next to or in the same fields as wheat, and they can pick up some wheat gluten in small amounts. They're also 'gluten-y' my husband can't tolerate them. Beer has wheat/gluten too, but most spirits have been distilled to the point where the grain has broken down so much that it doesn't matter - vanilla extract is almost always gluten-free. I've heard from some that they have had reactions with Amy's gluten-free, since they are made near their other non-gluten free products. We eat a lot of rice/stir-fry dishes, corn pasta spaghetti, roasted veggies. Some lunch meats contain wheat, and some otherwise wheat-free products are made on machinery that also make wheat products. Trader Joe's has been a source for great GF/wheat free products that my husband can eat freely. Almond flour is a godsend. It's my favorite of all GF flours, and you can use it to crust fish or chicken to pan fry, and it's delicious. Get some GF beer, and you can beer batter fish with potato starch and spices. Most store-made broths are not to be trusted. Many canned soups contain wheat as well. San-J makes a line of many gluten-free soy saucse and other great asian inspired sauces that are safe. |
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| Fitness | Zombies, Run! | Apr 10 2012 20:58 (UTC) |
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You have to turn on the app when you start out - select one of the missions and press 'start mission' and the voice will give you an intro that lasts about 2 minutes. every 5 minutes or around (between song(s) on your playlist, it won't interrupt in the middle of a song), the voice will come back with commentary or further instructions, but for the most part, it's all story and if he commands you to 'RUN!" you can ignore it and just continue to walk. I leave the hordes 'off' for now, so if they're off, they can't eat you and stop your mission. If you take just a short walk, you can pause and resume your mission any time. If you get eaten by zombies, you can restart from the section you were eaten in, so if you get to the last stage and die, you can restart from the next-to-last-stage. The iphone accelerometer (Sp???) can tell how fast you're going, even on a treadmill, I haven't tried cheating and just shaking the phone hard to get away from zombies, but I suspect it would work on a treadmill. Otherwise, it uses your GPS information to put zombies behind you. you have to increase your speed, by whatever speed you are currently going, for 1 minute, to escape zombies. |
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| Fitness | body pump | Apr 10 2012 19:46 (UTC) |
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Get a bar, 2-5 lbs weights, 2-2.5 weights and an extra set of 2.5 weights if you haven't been lifting before. The extra set you can slide onto the ends of the bar without removing the clamp and sliding them on then replacing the clamp, if you feel like you can handle more weight. Start at the lowest weight first and get your form right. Next class you can increase your weights if you feel like it. If you can't secure a place in front and keep a good visual on the instructor, keep an eye out for someone else who looks like they know what they're doing. Use the mirrors and watch your form. Squats are very easy to do wrong. Good luck and have fun :) |
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| Fitness | Zombies, Run! | Apr 10 2012 19:41 (UTC) |
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I bought this last week, and I have definitely been out walking more often. I'm very very pleased with this app. I discovered that you can turn the sound all the way off, clip it to your pants and go nuts in step class, and you can still finish missions. Once missions are done, you can still pick supplies up. Went for a 100 minute long walk this morning and came back with my pack chock full of supplies. Somehow, I carried 5 axes and a sword back to camp, along with 3 radios, 5 cell phones, 1 tool box, 9 pairs of underwear and a pair of trousers (insert Pinkie Pie shrug) Sadly, I have been eaten by zombies 2 of 3 times that I turned the hordes on, so I usually leave them 'off'. The first time, I was out running, and I'm pretty sure I turned INTO the damn group of zombies instead of away. The second time, I'm not sure, but they caught up to me really freaking fast. Ate my brains. Damn. I haven't tried this on a treadmill yet, partly for fear that zombies will have me sprint into running like a crazy person and alarm nearby gym-people. I can confirm that this also works just fine at a walking pace, but I usually listen to the British accented guy when he yells at me to run/sprint for safety/package/shiny bit/whatever. |
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