Huh. I just joined online weightwatchers on Monday. I bought the kit so I have the booklet with the points plus system. I also bought a scale (I haven't had one in a while) - both kit and scale arrived tonight. Well, today - but I just got home.
I have a friend who did gastric bypass surgery and really remade her lifestyle in that first year to include alot more exercise and alot more thought about what she eats. This is important because when you get that done you've destroyed part of your digestive system and need to pay close attention to your intake to make sure you're getting the nutrients you need. That was a while ago - she really discovered that she loves to run and feels down when she can't. But right now she is still rehabbing from an Achilles tendon injury so cannot run and has put some (but not nearly all) the weight back on. So she is joining (rejoining) WW to get back on track.
I am finding the hyponatremia conversation very interesting and educating. Thanks to everyone.
Oh and about that guitar... well I was at Costco, and they had a 3/4 size electric guitar there. So despite the good advice to start with an acoustic, I picked it up. I figure they have a very generous return policy so if I bought it now I could still shop around and see if I could find an acoustic that we liked better.
For Chicagoistas: Weekend forecast: 4-7 inches of snow (eta: the heaviest snows are supposed to northwest of the city.)
Fun! Or, you know, not.
Weekend forecast: 4-7 inches of snow
I don't know how I feel about that.
I've been trying to catch up ...
in re the nativity sets, at least with the ones made out of food, you can eat the evidence.
And Nilly, congratulations! For your sake I hope that this once Pi r'nt squared!
I don't know if surgery counts.
Sadly, it can go both ways.
A client of mine, who weighed more than 300 lbs. (I actually chose my client couch to accommodate her when I opened my private practice.) She subsequently lost more than 150 lbs over about 18 months. The last time I saw her, she'd gained it all back and added a drinking problem to the mix.
More fun with setting things on fire, ostensibly for science
Last week, we carefully observed the interaction between fire and steel wool. Much important data was gathered. I think we all learned something. Now, it's time to progress our research. Up next: What happens when you use a laser to ignite a piece of paper that's been suspended inside a clear balloon? The slow-motion replay is really the key in this experiment. Don't miss it.
Has this been posted?
Cookie Monster's Host SNL Host Audition Proves Muppets Own the Internet
Ok, so at this point, it's fair to say that the Muppets own the internet. This year alone, Sesame Street has released (or been remixed and homaged in) a slew of videos online that have caught fire. And they've struck again, this time positioning Cookie Monster as a viable candidate to host Saturday Night Live, a la Betty White, whose career was single-handedly revived by Facebook, where a similar campaign now lives for the sweet-toothed muppet.
Cookie Monster's "audition tape" for SNL proves, once again, that the grown-ups at Sesame Workshop provide some of the funniest and gimmick-free material to rise to the top of the heap when it comes to online video. In this video alone, we see spoofs on Macgruber, Lady Gaga, and altogether the most legendary sketch show in the history of television. That takes balls. Big, blue felt balls.
For weight loss, I found this with googling; [link] Honestly I think most people gain back all the weight they lose, unless they make real lifestyle changes along the eating less/moving more spectrum. Changes which they adopt for good. I ALWAYS gain back weight when I eat what I think of as a "normal" diet. It's not me, it's that my idea of normal is just not good for me. Too much food, too much sugar, too many carbs.
