Yeah unfortunately though tea is almost the only drink that I...drink. The caffeine in tea doesn't seem to affect me the way the caffeine in Coke does. Mmmmm...spaghetti.

You were up before me! Now how do you like that, huh? Hopefully you did better with your diet than I did last night. No one's perfect, including me. Last night I over ate and ate too much and paid a price for it. I'm not sure if I ate out of spite or out of anger, but it wasn't out of hunger. I spent yesterday afternoon making Italian sausages, my own sauce and spaghetti, only to find out that the person I was making it (a relative) for wasn't going to be by after all. At least I managed to temper my disappointment and saved her some for tomorrow when she will be coming over. I hope things work out with that storage unit (I have similar issues with the one I'd been paying for), and I sincerely hope you and Rob have a terrific day! Cheers

Oh, and for the record, you aren't fat. I know; I'm fat. There's an old saying, "Takes one to know one." Well, since I'm fat I know fat, and you ain't it, Danielle. But I can understand wanting to keep fit and maybe tone up a bit. I do a (very) little yoga & (more) tai chi to help ease my nerves and decompress, try to swim when I can (the best thing ever--you get breath control plus something akin to tai chi in the water, so you have the movements plus resistance & rep training--I am biased though). Heavy lifting or really strenuous activity are out for me, but there are other routes to take. Hope the day goes smooth for you & Rob--cheers

Not a worry. It occurred to me when you mentioned being told not to eat after six, chances were that your trainer was basing that on the "normal" time folks go to bed, and after seeing how late you were editing your pages or answering messages, it seemed likely that there was a bit of a mix-up. The important things are to stop eating a few hours before you go to bed, and that you try and go to bed at about the same time so you can get up about the same time and establish that rhythm that allows for REM sleep which is where your body does most of its healing, after after working out and tearing down your muscles and burning off fat, your body needs time to decompress, clean out your cells and rebuild your muscles. BTW, I'm a tea drinker, too, and I've been told not to drink tea after noon (yeah, like that's gonna stop me, but I do switch to water usually by 2), so you might want to ease off tea or anything with caffeine probably around 5PM so that you're not so hyped up when you want to go to bed. Have a great day! Oh, and I saw the coming soon marquee at FTVGirls to this site--all I can say is "Ay, Caramba!" this place is going to get hopping and fast!

Thanks for telling me that....I normally go to sleep around 1 AM so I will stop eating around 8. I don't drink that much soda mostly tea (I am a southern girl).

No worries, eh? And no one's perfect, although some are closer than others! Seriously though, Edward makes a good point about sodas. I forget if it was last year or earlier this year my doctor had mentioned something about a study that had just come out that seemed to show a correlation between soda & weight, I think having to do with slowing metabolism. And, that study showed no difference between diet or regular soda. It doesn't make much difference to me since soda's something I avoid (I'm a water & tea drinker, with some 100% juice), but reading Edward's message brought it to mind. For what its worth, a lot of it is just self-discipline, so I, and I'm sure others (i.e., Why You--I saw he left a post somewhere in here to the same effect as I), will keep reminding you about your diet from time to time. There was one other thing that got me thinking--you're more of a night owl than I, so the whole thing about not eating after 6 might not be right for you. I'm in bed usually by 10 or 11, and up shortly after 6AM, so I try not to eat much after 6 or 7PM; if you go to bed more like 12!M or 1AM and get up more like 11AM, then eating even as late as say 8 or 9 might still work for you--you just want to try to leave somewhere around 4 hours between your last meal & bedtime, that way you maximize the time you have to digest & burn off some of those calories. Anyway gotta dash, so have a good day & good night. See ya on the flip side (whatever that means--got it from Wolfman Jack many, many years ago--Arrr-ooooo!).

Oh God that was to cute. Thanks for the reminder...but I kinda blew it last night. I was out until about 10:30 PM and when I got home I was really hungry. Well instead of eating something small like a piece of fruit I ate two pieces of fruit, a sandwich, and a 100 calorie pack of Goldfish. I guess the only good thing about eating that late is that it was all fairly healthy food. I think this is going to be way harder than working out... maybe I'll just go to the gym more.

This is your friendly reminder: Please, stop eating big meals after 6PM. Unless you're getting a good workout after 6, it just goes to your tummy & thighs and sabotages your fitness routine & health. And speaking of Sabotage, that was a really cool Beasty Boys song back in the day! Fill up at breakfast with whole grain cereal, get some protein in you a couple hours later, and then wind down with a light dinner. Have a great day!

I've never tried moose either. If I had to guess, I'd assume its something like venison which I used to eat growing up (I loved venison sausage!). I assume elk must taste similar, too (yet another of those meats the butcher has). I was a vegetarian for several years (which wasn't hard since I had trouble eating meat when I was little), but "was seduced by and succumbed to" a Philly cheese-steak one day (insert Homer Simpson-esque hungry sound here). The weird thing was that I generally do better eating a balance of veggies, cereals & meats than I did as a vegetarian. Besides, since I wear leather, even buffalo or deer-hide moccasins sometimes, I should at least try to make sure more of the animal goes to a good use than is wasted. More of growing up in Colorado, maybe, plus the influence of some American Indian friends from long ago.

I've never tried moose or buffalo. Probably to wild tasting for me.