Stacia, thank you for this. Because of this thread, I'm going to give the book a 2nd try. :D I tried to read it a few months ago and couldn't get into it. I'm trying again. It'll be a while before the movie gets here, I'm sure.

That's very interesting. Thank you for sharing. So sorry about your fil. :grouphug:

Thank you all. I think I'll just stick with these fabulous boards and brilliant suggestions. :D Plus, WTM book & Cathy Duffy.

I wish that worked for me. Exercise no longer helps me in the weight loss department. Yes, it helps tone and lose inches, but not pounds. Not what counts at the doctor's office or for insurance companies. Exercise helped me until my mid-30s, now, the more exercise - the more rigorous and the longer the session - the more of an adverse effect on my weight loss. I have lots and lots of info on this. Exercise if fabulous for all the health benefits, but not for my weight loss anyway. :confused: Exercise makes you hungrier, causing you to eat more – Maybe not immediately, but eventually. Burn more calories and the odds are very good that we’ll consume more as well. I know that when I exercise very intensely and for more than 45 minutes or so, my appetite can be insatiable. For lots of people, when exercise is bumped up considerably, appetite is also increased. "The most powerful determinant of your dietary intake is your energy expenditure," says Steven Gortmaker, who heads Harvard's Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity. "If you're more physically active, you're going to get hungry and eat more." Gortmaker, who has studied childhood obesity, is even suspicious of the playgrounds at fast-food restaurants. "Why would they build those?" he asks. "I know it sounds kind of like conspiracy theory, but you have to think, if a kid plays five minutes and burns 50 calories, he might then go inside and consume 500 calories or even 1,000." Gortmaker and Sonneville found in their 18-month study of 538 students that when kids start to exercise, they end up eating more — not just a little more, but an average of 100 calories more than they had just burned. Exercise does not burn that many calories. Couple that fact with being hungrier and you may eat more calories than you burned. Exercise does help burn calories -- you just can't eat more because of it. To demonstrate the calorie intake versus exercise principle: Elliptical training for 44 minutes/500 kcal burned = 1 Honey Bran Raisin Muffin from Dunkin Donuts Kickboxing for 25 minutes and 272 kcal burned = Grande Starbucks latte with whole milk Jogging for 60 minutes and 470 kcal burned = 1 slice (1/6 of cake) of Sara Lee Cheesecake, chocolate swirl NY style Pilates for 30 minutes and 119 kcal burned = 5 pieces of hard candy To burn sufficient calories to lose one pound of body fat, you might: Briskly walk a total of 35 miles Swim moderately fast for 6 hours Dance for 12 hours Play about 12.5 hours of golf, carrying your own clubs Jog for about 29 miles At the same time, you would need to monitor your eating habits to ensure that you are not increasing your calorie-intake in line with your increased exercise! And we all know that it’s much easier to eat 1000 calories than it is to burn 1000 calories! If you're looking to control your weight, exercise is the least efficient way to do it. You'd have to run for hours to keep the cookies you ate from adding to your waistline. “Overexercise—for a variety of reasons—actually makes it harder to lose weight. Overly strenuous exercise—especially combined with insufficient sleep, unrelenting stress, and poor eating habits—can push your body into survival mode, raising your level of the stress hormone cortisol. Cortisol’s job is to boost energy levels by any means necessary. If these levels stay high for too long, cortisol starts breaking down the cells in nerves, muscles, and bones, converting them into energy. In the short term, it’s a rush. In the long-term, it’s debilitating. Cortisol has another job: storing energy where the body can get at it quickly. And guess where that is? In the most accessible place, biologically—belly fat. Ongoing high levels of cortisol lead to weight gain, fatigue, nervousness, and possibly osteoporosis (loss of bone mass).†I have lots and lots more info, but don't wish to overwhelm here. Here's just one of many links.

Thank you all so much. If I get any, I might get this one.

Me too! :lol:

Really liked your review. Love your blog. :)

I finished Let the Great World Spin last night. I'm really not good at book reviews and am not going to even attempt one. ;) I ended up liking it a lot and would probably give it 4 out 5 stars. There were parts that just dragged on a bit, but what I loved was that there was true closure. As some of you may know, I'm very big on endings in books and movies. No, they don't need to ride off in the sunset and end up happily ever after, although that would be nice :lol:, but just some sort of closure, please! Is that asking for too much. This book had nice closure. Stacia, I might read Dancer sometime in the future. Off to look at your blog after these boards. :D

Love that song. :)

Funny in Farsi - love, love, love this :D Food Rules Five People You Meet in Heaven Forgotten Garden - my least favorite of all these, but okay nonetheless

Grenada makes fabulous dark chocolate and I'm quite sure it's Fair Trade.

I prefer homeschool books that are very specific - the type that tell me which program to use, which book is good, nothing too general. Thank you. The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling Teens Homeschooling: The Teen Years The High School Handbook Just in case you need to know: 1. We prefer secular curriculum - we are religious, just not Christian 2. We're not newbies to homeschooling - been homeschooling all along :)

Thank you for reassuring me about Let the Great World Spin. Will read your review later. I love your blog. I need to visit it more often. :) The other two books you mentioned are on my wish list. :) Added it to my wish list. I was a child living in Wales in the 70s and I had a pair of David Cassidy dungarees that everyone used to tease me about - picture of David Cassidy on them. :) I hardly knew who he was, but my older siblings and all the teens around me obviously did.

I wish this were true for me. It never is. :confused: Adding more fuel to my already-deprived body just makes me gain more. Eating the same measly amount seems to make me plateau. Eating more makes me gain. Even a teeny tiny bit more. The only way I can lose, if at all, is to eat even less. :glare: And it gets harder with age. Every decade, I need to eat less. I'm sure that in a few years' time, I'll be going on the Jennifer Aniston diet -3 small jars of baby food a day.

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Congratulations!!! :D

Always. I give about 10% of my grocery bill.

Just got this from FB and you can use an additional "10off" and they have free shipping! :D

I'm about 3/4 of the way through Let the Great World Spin. Normally, I know if I like a book by this stage. This is one of those rare times when I really can't tell if I'm going to like it or not. Endings are everything to me. Sometimes the book is dragging on for me a bit. Other times, I enjoy it more. Depends whom the chapter is about.

You are most welcome. Thinking of you and hope that all is well. :grouphug:

since someone PM'd me and asked to start a thread. I don't have much info on Bladder Cancer. This is all I have. I highly recommend The Anti-Cancer Book. This article is by him. He recommends cruciferous veggies for this type of cancer.

Thank you. I love stuff like that. :)

I've never tried any of them and probably won't unless if they go super-cheap. I have nothing against most of them. I just have too many DVDs and too little time to do the ones I already have. I really don't like Chalane Johnson. I wouldn't mind getting BBL, Debbie Siebers, or Yoga Booty Ballet ... Those are the only ones that interest me. Sorry I'm not much help. I know that many here love the Beachbody stuff. Bumping so that they can hopefully post also.

I have heard this a few times. I hope I have time to post all my tips later.

Yep. European magazines talk about it much more freely. They advertise all sorts of devices for it. Americans tend to be rather uncomfortable with such stuff. :glare: Very interesting. Never heard of it. I have lots of info, but it's really unorganized and not at all the way I like it. Until then, my dear online friend has this.