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eablackwell said:
I didn't mean it the way all your ??? suggest. 😛 It's sad because when someone is said to be matronly, it's usually not a good connotation. maid of honor sounds better than matron of honor...I feel like I should wear a grandma dress or something 😛
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:laugh: I think of it the other way around. Like the card game "Old Maid"
 
bwstw said:
i've been trying to cut back on sugar and carbs and eat more protein, but it is soooo hard! stupid sugar and carbs. Why do you have to taste so good!
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+1!

I checked out that website Geekchick and it seems pretty sweet. You can customize pretty much everything. Do you utilize the support system that's offered?
 
The community stuff like the groups and the message boards? Nah. I kinda thought about it but I'm already on too many message boards. :blush:
 
Geekchick921 said:
But anyway... I'll share my "secret". I use quotes because I'll tell anyone. I LOVE sparkpeople.com. I use it to track my calorie intake, because I don't eat poorly, really, but I was eating way too much. They give you a meal plan but I don't follow it (you don't have to, at all, it's just a suggestion). It also let's me keep track of how much water I'm drinking, and how many grams of carbs, fat and protein I've eaten. I told them I wanted to lose ** pounds by my birthday next year (late September, then my friend's getting married in October and I'm a bridesmaid... bonus motivation), and it spat out a calorie range for my daily intake, as well as a range of grams of carbs, fat and protein I should aim for.

At first I was constantly hungry, and constantly peeing, but after a few weeks that's pretty much passed and I can tell my appetite's shrunk considerably and I'm satisfied with a lot less food. That said... I was treated to a hoagie for lunch today that I was good about and sliced in half (I'll have the other half for lunch tomorrow). I can resist, but God damn is it calling my name right now. Moderation is key, I have to remind myself. 🙂

The database of food is HUGE and you can enter your own food from the label yourself very easily, and reference it again later. Oh, and if I'm using a recipe I make at home a lot, I go to sparkrecipes.com, plug in all the ingredients, tell it how many servings it makes, hit calculate, and it gives me the nutritional info that I can put into sparkpeople that way. They've also got a database on sparkrecipes.com but I haven't used it too much. What I have used has been good, though.

The best part, is totally, absolutely, 100% free.
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I hadn't had much experience with sparkpeople, but then just yesterday I was talking to Suncrusher about foam rolling for a running issue he was having, and I searched to see if I could find a video showing him how...and the one I found was a sparkpeople one, and it was EXCELLENT. Very clear and concise and with perfect form. I was quite impressed.

bookfreak89 said:
Haven't posted regularly (in this thread) in a while. URM thread is driving me bonkers. I was going to post the longest multi-quote ever, but it'd probably break the internet :meanie:.



Congrats! :woot:


I would like to take this time to personally thank CougarAsstModMD for getting me hooked on Psych. I spent the past 2 days watching Seasons 1 and 2.
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Hahah, yay!!!!🙂 Isn't it great? Did you see my fav episode yet, American Duos?

Here is a tribute to it at 'Con....
[YOUTUBE]WVax9_OOKiY[/YOUTUBE]
BWSTW said:
There was an interesting article about how a guy ate nothing but junk food and lost weight, lowered his fat % and cholesterol levels. It was interesting.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html
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That goes against everything I learned in The Church Of Workout.

I want to try it🙂
 
Geekchick921 said:
The community stuff like the groups and the message boards? Nah. I kinda thought about it but I'm already on too many message boards. :blush:
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Yeah, I prefer the customizable stuff to the community stuff. 🙂

CougarMD said:
Hahah, yay!!!!🙂 Isn't it great? Did you see my fav episode yet, American Duos?

Here is a tribute to it at 'Con....
[YOUTUBE]WVax9_OOKiY[/YOUTUBE]
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Yeah, I saw that one. The ending was hilarious and awesome!
 
CougarMD said:
I hadn't had much experience with sparkpeople, but then just yesterday I was talking to Suncrusher about foam rolling for a running issue he was having, and I searched to see if I could find a video showing him how...and the one I found was a sparkpeople one, and it was EXCELLENT. Very clear and concise and with perfect form. I was quite impressed.


Hahah, yay!!!!🙂 Isn't it great? Did you see my fav episode yet, American Duos?

Here is a tribute to it at 'Con....
[YOUTUBE]WVax9_OOKiY[/YOUTUBE]

That goes against everything I learned in The Church Of Workout.

I want to try it 🙂
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I know! I feel so dirty even reading about it, but it would be fun to try. 😀
That vid is awesome! sigh... I love psych. The latest episode with Carey Elwes was great. I remember watching Princess Bride over and over again with my sister. What a great movie. "As you wish"
 
Longshanks said:
Next cycle? You're getting in this year.
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Aww thanks, I hope so!

CougarMD said:
Cliff I picture us both sitting on Daisy's shoulders...and the only time we agree is when we're telling her to eat chocolate.
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Haha I did have far too much tiramisu this afternoon... looks like the two of you teamed up to defeat my willpower.

Suncrusher said:
sigh this is the same situation i'm in and im so tired of being in it
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I know, you and I are unofficial app buddies, I think. Both from yuppie private schools, both doing research, etc.

bigballer27 said:
interview invite!

slow and steady wins the race...
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WOO HOO! Put where on the FB group!

Geekchick921 said:
So, I'm down 8.5 pounds in a little less than 5 weeks. 😀
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I'm jealousss... that's great work Geeks!

rafflecopter said:
Stomach flu really sucks. I've been super sick from Monday night and haven't been able to do anything else since 🙁. You'd think I'd be on here more, but sleeping has become a better hobby right now lol.
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Looks like you have the weight loss solution all us girls want: a stomach bug! 🙄 Feel better raffle!
 
Oh, all the wedding talk earlier made me think of something: how do all of you feel about prenups? I know at least a few of my sister's friends had prenups, but I don't know if they're that common outside of west LA.

Thoughts? I know you aspiring ortho boys probably want to protect your cash :meanie:
 
haha it depends on when i meet whoever it is i might marry. if its during med schoo/residency i probably wont worry too much about a prenup. if its after i'm an attending in a nice paying specialty there will be some pre wedding negotiations.
 
Longshanks said:
Yeah, spam posting everywhere. His post count just jumped up from 2, when he posted here, to 15, in the seconds it took for me to post that image.

Also when checking out that AAPS organization he mentioned... it looks like they made their website in 1996 on angelfire and haven't updated it since. Just another right-wingnut group that don't want standards to protect patients and seeking to destroy any resemblance of health care reform or any alternatives to improve the US health care system. They wish it was still 1894 and they were selling snake oil and blood letting on the streets while sipping on absinthe. No thanks.
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Improvement does NOT have to mean additional government involvement. I can't believe how many people are conditioned into thinking anything that needs fixing must inherently require more government intervention. Holy freakin' cow.

bigballer27 said:
interview invite!

slow and steady wins the race...
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Yessssss!!!!

Geekchick921 said:
So, I'm down 8.5 pounds in a little less than 5 weeks. 😀
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👍👍

CougarMD said:
WOOHOO!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!! :woot: (this is my new favorite smiley)
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It's the happiest smiley ever and thus it's awesome.

BWSTW said:
There was an interesting article about how a guy ate nothing but junk food and lost weight, lowered his fat % and cholesterol levels. It was interesting.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html
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When I lost weight the first time, that's how I did it; eat whatever I normally eat, but cut off at 1500 cal/day.
 
DaisyBuchanan said:
Oh, all the wedding talk earlier made me think of something: how do all of you feel about prenups? I know at least a few of my sister's friends had prenups, but I don't know if they're that common outside of west LA.

Thoughts? I know you aspiring ortho boys probably want to protect your cash :meanie:
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cliffhuxtableDO said:
haha it depends on when i meet whoever it is i might marry. if its during med schoo/residency i probably wont worry too much about a prenup. if its after i'm an attending in a nice paying specialty there will be some pre wedding negotiations.
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I think I like cliff's version... If someone can stick with you through the hard, poor stuff, then they're probably not diggin'. But if you hitch up after they're wooed by the fancy car, there's gonna be problems.

Really though, it's scary how many gals I've met who legitimately just want to marry rich and never work again and would probably cheat on their rich husbands and find some bs reason to get a divorce with him and take his $$$. I think marriage law is BS (it's seriously just made up by random justices as far as I can tell)
 
As to prenups, I agree with Flow and Cliff. My bf and I have talked about getting married sometime during/right after med school, so since we'd both probably (still) be pretty darn poor I doubt we'd get one.
 
why bother getting married if you're gonna get a prenup? seems dumb. save the lawyer fees.
 
I go back and forth on the prenup thing.

Half of my brain says that both parties (rich and poor) need one to protect themselves. In the immortal words of Chris Rock....
"If you make 20 million....and you have to give her 10...no big deal. You still got 10 million. But if you make 30 thousand...and your wife wants 15....you might have to kill her."


The other part of me says that you should know the person well enough not to need one.


But people evolve....and get angry.

I dunno...I doubt I will ever need to find out the answer to this question 😀
 
I've also heard that prenups make things a lot more civil during divorce proceedings. Since there's no stuff to argue over, both parties don't end up hating each other even more than when they decided to get a divorce.
 
DaisyBuchanan said:
Married people get better deals on things like health insurance and home loans, for one thing. And some people dig the whole commitment thing.
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ah yes. the pinnacle of romance... honey, we can get a family plan! let's get hitched!
 
All this talk about prenups has gotten "Golddigger" going through my head 👍
 
FlowRate said:
Improvement does NOT have to mean additional government involvement. I can't believe how many people are conditioned into thinking anything that needs fixing must inherently require more government intervention. Holy freakin' cow.
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While I personally feel government intervention was necessary, I wasn't necessarily promoting that in my statement. Their organization seems opposed to anything, unless its out of pocket expenses.

Not everything that needs improvement needs government intervention, but the health care system, which the government already subsidizes much of, is an area for the government to become more involved and take on a greater responsibility since it is a public service for the public's well-being. Government involvement is necessary because health care is not a fair and open market, and never will be even without government action. Health care isn't the restaurant industry or textiles. It doesn't work as simple as other markets.

For things which everyone should have access to and which work towards promoting the health and safety of society I'd rather have the government run entirely or be the major stakeholder (water, military, police, fire department, roads, sidewalks, sewage, parks). For things that should be a pure capitalistic adventure, such as which pen manufacturer I prefer, then I want the least amount of government involvement possible other than consumer protections in case said company uses harmful materials.
 
not yet, yo. going out tomorrow for my best friends birthday.
 
I'm stuck house-sitting tonight so I'm not going to be doing anything either =/
 
House sitting can be cool when they have good food in the house.


I have to go out for a friend's birthday....and all I want to do is stay home.
 
CougarMD said:
House sitting can be cool when they have good food in the house.


I have to go out for a friend's birthday....and all I want to do is stay home.
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lol, I don't want to sit there and pig out...let's switch 🙂
 
DaisyBuchanan said:
I know, you and I are unofficial app buddies, I think. Both from yuppie private schools, both doing research, etc.
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Our stats are really close, too. Except I'm a reapplicant and you are NOT GOING TO BE! I won't let you! You're gonna make it



Also,

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H*** f****** s***...things like that should not be allowed on the internet. Cuteness overload. Think of how much time and money has been wasted at offices as people forward these pics around and make little squee-ing noises over them

P.S. BABY OTTER!!! COUGS--BABY OTTER!!! (in a boot!!)
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does anyone smoke cigars? I am sitting here drinking wine, talking to my husband who is smoking a black and mild, wishing I had a humidor full of cigars... mmmm I miss cigars.
 
Suncrusher said:
Our stats are really close, too. Except I'm a reapplicant and you are NOT GOING TO BE! I won't let you! You're gonna make it



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H*** f****** s***...things like that should not be allowed on the internet. Cuteness overload. Think of how much time and money has been wasted at offices as people forward these pics around and make little squee-ing noises over them

P.S. BABY OTTER!!! COUGS--BABY OTTER!!! (in a boot!!)
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Awwww! those pics are totally adorable!! I even lol'd!
 
BWSTW said:
I've been trying to cut back on sugar and carbs and eat more protein, but it is soooo hard! stupid sugar and carbs. Why do you have to taste so good!
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I know, right??? I love carbs too much!

jaxasp said:
:laugh: the starcraft reference is amazing
congrats on the invite baller 👍
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I don't get it. I've been trying to get my friend to teach me about Starcraft for awhile. All I know is that there is something about Protos and Zerg and Terrans (sp?)... roaches and Marines and yeah... that's all I got.

DaisyBuchanan said:
WOO HOO! Put where on the FB group!
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FB Group??? You should invite super cool 2014ers into that group too. 😀

CougarMD said:
I go back and forth on the prenup thing.

Half of my brain says that both parties (rich and poor) need one to protect themselves. In the immortal words of Chris Rock....
"If you make 20 million....and you have to give her 10...no big deal. You still got 10 million. But if you make 30 thousand...and your wife wants 15....you might have to kill her."


The other part of me says that you should know the person well enough not to need one.


But people evolve....and get angry.

I dunno...I doubt I will ever need to find out the answer to this question 😀
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Yeah, I'm torn. I hate the idea of a pre-nup. To me, it's starting the marriage thinking that divorce is an option. It's not really an option to me and I hope it stays that way.

ktruon2 said:
might as well get used to it right 😀
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Psh, you can go out in med school. A lot, actually. I go out more now than I did in college. Which I didn't think was possible. :laugh:
 
ksmi117 said:
I know, right??? I love carbs too much!
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Pasta and bread are my biggest weaknesses. I just made alfredo for dinner. And I'm making spaghetti tomorrow night. 😳 But I make some good spaghetti. 🙂
 
CougarMD said:
A very large part of my soul wants to make this my avatar.
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I want to pick him up and love him and pet him and squeeze him and call him George. He is just too cute! 😍
 
BWSTW said:
I want to pick him up and love him and pet him and squeeze him and call him George. He is just too cute! 😍
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:laugh::laugh: I love Elmira😍 And you😉



Ok, I just called in sick to the birthday party. I finally realized that if, when you think about taking a shower, you sigh with exhaustion, it is NOT a good plan to go out to a bar.

Now I can stay home and rest before I have to work tomorrow.
 
BWSTW said:
does anyone smoke cigars? I am sitting here drinking wine, talking to my husband who is smoking a black and mild, wishing I had a humidor full of cigars... mmmm I miss cigars.
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i used to, but i have trouble justifying it now.

NO 14ers in the 15ers FB group. 😀
 
ksmi117 said:
Yeah, I'm torn. I hate the idea of a pre-nup. To me, it's starting the marriage thinking that divorce is an option. It's not really an option to me and I hope it stays that way.
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I feel the same way. Hubs and I were both pretty broke when we got married anyway, so we don't have a pre-nup.
 
The majority of marriages end in divorce (yes, I know that this statistic counts the second, third, fourth, etc. marriages of serial-spouses, but it is still around 43% for first marriages), yet at the start of a marriage, less than 1 in 10 people think their own marriage even has a chance of ending in divorce...I hate to be a downer (and I couldn't even really manage it if I wanted to, after that pig and otter), but this is just like how most people think they are above average. Odds are, you are probably not special and might wish you had a prenup if you and your spouse eventually realize you have grown apart; that way you don't risk a bitter and messy divorce and hopefully can both go on to lead happier lives. It's hard to imagine that happening if one party thinks they got screwed in the divorce and are constantly bitter and angry about it. That might not hold true for marriages where only one party wants the divorce, but still...maybe the idea of prenups ruins idealism we all have, but I'd rather have a prenup impinge a tiny bit upon the romanticism of a relationship than have a messy divorce ruin my belief in romance for the rest of my life. Feel free to disagree tho

But I love talking to really old people who have been married like 60+ years. They always just say that divorce was never even an option in their heads to begin with. And the married couples in this thread are so freaking adorable 😍


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Divorce settlement:

Spouse gets 99% of assets
Suncrusher gets the pet baby otter...yesss!
 
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Suncrusher said:
Our stats are really close, too. Except I'm a reapplicant and you are NOT GOING TO BE! I won't let you! You're gonna make it



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Haha aww SUN YOU AND I WILL GET IN THIS TIME.

This piglet in boots was my fave for 2 reasons:
1. The boots look like they were custom made for him
2. He looks so serious
2a. (Does it look like he's goose-stepping to anyone else? BAD PIGLET)
 
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