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  1. Paisley

    Weight loss options

    Exercise is good, but I think it's overrated for weight loss. Low-carb protein bars, like Kind bars, nuts (in moderation), deviled eggs, leftovers, cheese, low-carb ice cream, homemade low-carb cookies, and a lunch meat and cheese sandwich with lettuce in place of bread are my favorite snacks...
  2. Paisley

    Weight loss options

    Viola, here's how a low-carb eater might look at it: small whole wheat, low-carb tortilla: 4g net carb (total carbs minus fiber), 0 fat, 3g protein sardines: 0 carb, 23g protein, 11g fat Greek yogurt (brands vary): 6g carb (all sugar), 0 fat, 15g protein 1 tablespoon honey 17g carb (all...
  3. Paisley

    Weight loss options

    Viola, I'm not a paleo eater, but I'm only spending $13 a month more on groceries than I was before I started a low-carb diet. (Fat is filling.) The Primal Blueprint Cookbook has dozens of recipes you could have any time of the day--eggs or carbs for breakfast is just convention. As for carb...
  4. Paisley

    Weight loss options

    The paleo diet (caveman diet) may be the best diet there is, since it's our natural diet. I've read Brian Fagan's book on the Ice Age--any others you'd recommend? You make a good point: you can put on weight with natural foods like fruit. The one big thing that motivates me to limit carbs...
  5. Paisley

    Weight loss options

    Betty (that's my mom's name, BTW), glad to hear you have a plan that works for you, and I'm happy to hear that fighting the sugar monster helped you with ME (chronic fatigue syndrome, correct?). That must have been like getting your life back. I mostly eat minimally processed foods, too, but...
  7. Paisley

    Back to School

    Here in the U.S., a lot of states (maybe all) have laws requiring a degree to be a PE (professional engineer), CPA (certified public accountant), and I'm sure, to get certifications in quite a few other professions. To my way of thinking, those certifications should be open to anyone who has the...
  8. Paisley

    Does anyone else have difficulty sharing a bed?

    Yes! My dog used to get on the bed, then off the bed, then on, then off. I finally started telling her to get down whenever she got on, but she's always on the bed when I wake up. When the alarm goes off, she puts her nose under my hand to let me know it's time to pet her. However, I've been...
  9. Paisley

    Back to School

    I have a mechanical engineering degree and never found any of those $100,000 a year jobs I keep hearing about. [huh] Without a scholarship and the GI Bill, I'd have been out a heck of a lot of money. As for back-to-school time, I'm enjoying the cooler temperatures.
  10. Paisley

    The Accursed "Boomerangers"

    Same here (I was in college) except that it was a very, very demoralizing experience the entire time. The constant criticism, my mother's high maintenance personality, and their treating me like I was ten years old and retarded, even though I was a military veteran and a mechanical engineering...
  11. Paisley

    Bed Bugs and Safe Collecting

    There are people who never take the plastic covers off their lamp shades (my parents, for instance). Maybe they're on to a good idea--just keep the plastic covers on everything. ;)
  13. Paisley

    Bed Bugs and Safe Collecting

    I don't think there's any known case of HIV being transmitted via bug bites.
  14. Paisley

    Bed Bugs and Safe Collecting

    From the Thermapure site, Several sources (Usinger 1966, Gulmahamad 2002, Quarles 2007) report that adults and nymphs die within 15 minutes at temperatures greater than 113ºF and 60 minutes to kill eggs. Raising room temperatures above the thermal death point and maintaining that temperature...
  15. Paisley

    Bed Bugs and Safe Collecting

    For a second there, I thought this was a thread about collecting strongboxes. If I were buying something that might have bedbugs or their eggs, I suppose I'd put the item in quarantine, like a sealed bag or box, long enough for any bugs to hatch and die. Or just fumigate it.
  16. Paisley

    Considering going for the chop??

    I have a chubby face too, and have never been happy with a short haircut. Women who look great with those pixie cuts, like Halle Berry, Julie Andrews, and Audrey Hepburn, all have small, delicate features. Having looked at your photos, I think a shoulder-length or longer style with bangs...
  17. Paisley

    Anyone else ever feel like this?

    QFT. What's the saying--fake it until you make it?
  19. Paisley

    Weight loss options

    Mav, I'm pleased you've found my posts interesting. I agree with you about the allergies and heartburn going away, along with several other niggling health problems in my case. In fact, I originally started a low-carb diet to get off of acid blockers. I agree that fruit is overrated. Yes, it...
  20. Paisley

    shopping rant

    Have you tried a consignment store? They have a good selection of near-new clothes for one-third retail price and often, the owner works there. The only time I was ever ignored was in one run by the Junior League.
  21. Paisley

    What are we missing...?

    Some things never change "A hundred authors compile to get their bread, and twenty fools extract, criticize, apologize, and satirize these compilations to get bread also, because they have no profession." -Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary under Authors, 1764
  22. Paisley

    What are we missing...?

    There's not a little of this in print media as well, sad to say. However, I've seen bloggers without money or clout, just brains and 'net connection, challenge some of these messages. It can take some persistent searching and good luck to find them. As for people with nothing in particular to...
  23. Paisley

    What are we missing...?

    Something that combines the sublime and the ridiculous.

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