its best to just have the chocolate milk, which contains much needed calcium!

Um Yes and No. In that order.

LOL! My daughter with CP lives in the water. She cannot really keep herself afloat in the deep end but she is all over the shallow end like a fish.

Sounds awesome to me!

sounds good to me

I walk 2 miles a day. I live 1.1 miles from my mother in law and I walk to see her then walk home. Except when its raining...which it hasn't in a loooong time! Lol

That's a great tip. You can also add some sliced citrus like lemon or orange to flavor water so it's not so boring.

LOL! I add frozen fruit to my glass of wine.. does that count

I LOVE to swim, but I have no where to do it. Also my children are small enough that I can't do it safely without swapping supervision duty with somebody else. Since I am a single parent, that makes it really tough. I used to swim for hours a day when it was warm enough, now I am lucky to swim 10 times in one summer.

Wine has a lot of health benefits, as long as it's in moderation

there is that new flavor thing called MIO that my husband has been using, that is pretty good. I prefer ice water, so I always keep some in the freezer

Yes Tim, yes I would.

no problem! Welcome!

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Even better, go for some Ovaltine, you can buy it in chocolate and it really is very tasty with hardly any sugar, on top of that you not only get the nutrients from the milk, but also the nutrients provided by the ovaltine itself!

I got my first crop in the mail today....

I know you... you'll really do it too! Just don't nag. Okay?

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Just make sure you don't OVERDO it w/ the weighing. They say it's actually better for weight loss to weigh yourself LESS, believe it or not. I think we get too caught up on the numbers. Sometimes, the weight is redistributing - becoming muscle & not fat, so we might look waaaaaaaay better and have lost a couple dress sizes or whatever, but not necessarily have lost what seems like a proportionate amount of weight. Also, we all hit plateaus during weight loss where the lbs will come off slooooow as hell, but, eventually, things pick back up again - just like with any other endeavour. I, personally, having a history of eating disorders, am not terribly fond of scales b/c I end up obsessing over the numbers & compulsively weighing myself 80 million times a day, but I don't think it's a bad thing for most people. I just think we do it too often, at times. I think the recommended amount of times to weigh yourself is once or twice a week, max. don't quote me on that though. anyway, regardless, i'll be happy to smack you upside the head when you forget to buy one as long as you'll do the same for me when i forget to make the dr's appts i've been meaning to make for weeks.

If I spank you for 10 minutes, how many calories does that burn?

Same here, we all have new bikes and plan to go riding with the kids more often. There is a nice set of ponds close by with bike/hiking trails all around them.

good idea, I should pick some ovaltine up

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