Posts by flybee

Thanks for the replies.  I usually get between 24 and 28 grams of fibre per day.  I eat a lot of fruit, as well as a lot of lentils and other legumes. 

I love cooking and I make a great variety of different meals, almost always from scratch, not too much processed stuff. 

I checked my macronutrients for the past few days - there are days where the split probably isn't the best: 18% protein, 24% fat, the rest carbs, but there are some days where it is close to 1/3 of each.  The Burn calculator says I need 1600 calories on a sedentary day, to maintain.  I eat about 1300 every day (give or take 200) and I work out for about 35 to 45 minutes (running 10k/hour pace) 4 to 5 times per week.  The only thing I have done very differently is to push myself while working out and eat less!  I have always heard that working out is good for regularity.  I have been doing this for just under 4 weeks and I have lost 7 lbs. 

Could be a coincidence, I guess.  My work has been a little stressful lately, my house is a mess (because I always have a headache)...

Also I am 130 lbs, 5'3" and 31.  So no 2000 - 2300 calorie a day allowances for me!

Carrot and chickpea salad -- mix grated carrots with chickpeas, lime juice, salt, pepper, optional ground cumin and/or raisins.

"Greek" chickpea salad -- right after cooking, mix hot chickpeas with bottled vinaigrette.  When cool, add chopped tomato, cucumber, red pepper, red onion, olives and feta.

Try du puy lentils - harder to find, but tastier.  I cook them separately and mix them into brown rice and smoked turkey sausage jambalaya.  (I am a recipe-free cook, so I don't have a recipe, I adapted one from recipe-zaar)

Why not serve smaller portions?  (Ok, I know why, but let me dream) Imagine the waste!  Imagine if the quality was better and the portions smaller? Or if the restaurant paid its suppliers more for the raw ingredients so the farmers wouldn't have to raise their livestock in appalling conditions?  And paid the dishwashers  a liveable wage so they, too could afford high quality foods for their families. 

Don't get me started on this kind of out of control consumption.

Let the 9000 calorie a day varsity athlete fill up on bread-basket refills.  I really don't think the average diner should have to subsidize that kind of consumption. 

This is a neat thread.

I'm a teacher and I have a huge desk -- actually 2 pushed together. I have tons of cool things on my desk that I rotate as they get 'old':

a paperweight with a real scorpion inside, a monkey made out of a coconut, one of those things made of tiny nails that makes a 'sculpture' when you put your hand in it, a plastic action figure of one of the monsters from "Where the Wild Things Are", a brass lamp shaped like a leopard from India (it is anatomically correct which amuses the kids once they notice)

And then there's the clutter - I shove stacks of papers into folders without necessarily organizing them, I have a few baskets of workbooks and journals that need marking, piles of books.

My second desk drawer is the best -- it is full of "prizes" and "rewards" -- from bouncy balls to stickers to mini gel pens. 

One of the stricter administrators mentionned during an evaluation that my classroom "looked like there was a lot going on in there" implying that it is messy, but I think a classroom should have a lot going on in it!  Anyway, I have become more skilled at hiding my mess since then. It is amazing what you can do with folders and plastic bins.

Twice a year, ok, but every week?  The people get less interesting.

This is just one voice, but when I did it, it ripped not only hair, but skin, and it bled and it took a long time to heal.  It really hurt for a long time b/c my underwear kept rubbing on the skin-less parts.  Ouch.

Isn't Fern the name of the little girl in Charlotte's Web?  Definitely pre-hippy and a lovely character.

When the time comes, I would love my kids' names to have references to nice children's books.

Saving the world for a longer time is just too hard! 

I can think of a few more substantial events, but they never get the star treatment like Earth Hour.  There is International Buy Nothing Day (late november), and Canadian Car Free Day (late sept, I think).  I don't think the former will be too heavily pushed this year, given the current economic environment.

 I kind of think Earth Hour is so successful because people are trying to recapture that fuzzy, community feeling that a lot of neighborhoods experienced during the blackout in August a few years ago (Eastern Canada and US).

I agree with you, for the most part.

I couldn't believe it last year when I read that a fancy hotel in Toronto had filled its pool with a zillion floating candles for a special candle-light pool-side cocktail hour (or something like that).  What do you think has a greater impact on the earth -- manufacturing and shipping all those candles that would have not ordinarily been used, or minimally lighting a pool room that would most likely be closed otherwise?  And this hotel gets a huge spread in the Sunday paper and gets to feel all virtuous.  (I would not be surprised if all those candles ended up in a landfill the next week.)

But, hearing the reduction in energy use might help show people that their actions do make a difference, albeit a small one. 

Congratulations on your amazing accomplishment.  Let the emotions surrounding your accomplishment carry you through the hard parts -- you are your own inspiration!