Yeah, that's what I said. But then I had to give up my workouts completely for six months because the pain got worse during the day, and then for the surgery and recuperation. It was intensely demoralizing and I lost so much more muscle mass than I would have done if I'd taken weeks off in the first place. I'm not saying that yours is going to happen this way, but it's definitely following the same track as mine.

I just tied it to a pillow with a soft belt. You can buy splints too. I took NSAIDs because the pain was unbearable if I didn't. Like, literally, keep-me-awake unbearable without both NSAIDs and ice. I wouldn't have taken them if the pain had lessened. I hate taking meds too. Yeah, uh, the resistance exercises are not helping. Especially pull-ups because they require you to flex your arm heavily. I really think overtraining pull-ups are what did mine in in the first place. I'm several months post-surgery and I'm still not even doing push-ups. I would not do them as long as you are feeling the cubital tunnel pain. You really really need to back off while it heals, and when it restarts, go high rep low intensity for a long time. I got really good at bodyweight leg and ab exercises while fretting and fuming. I wish I had listened to this advice before mine worsened :(

No no, not lying in bed, just trying not to use the arm for heavy stuff and especially stuff that involves bending your arm all the way. Light movement and bending no more than a 90 degree angle is going to be good for it. And you should change the way you sleep. There are braces you can buy or honestly I just belted it to a pillow so I couldn't bend it unthinkingly.

It does sound a lot like mine felt. Unfortunately mine did require surgery to get better but it was a very severe case he said. That being said, here's the self-help they gave me to try first. 1) Rest. Stop doing any life activity that exacerbates it. For me I even had to quit yoga :( 2) Make sure you're not sleeping with your elbows bent. If you have to splint your arm straight, do it. 3) Make sure that you're not resting your elbow on anything, while you sit, while you drive, while you type, whatever. This compresses it further. 4) Anti-inflammatories and ice. Heat is apparently not so hot (lol) for inflamed nerves. 5) Did I mention rest?

Lemme guess, you took off your shoes and put on a stew in your crockpot and some cupcakes in the oven first?

You know, I think another big reason that low fat and low carb both work for many people is that so much of the hyper-palatable processed food that is so easy to eat large quantities of without even looking (hello potato chips, my kryptonite!) is high in both. So if you're cutting out either fat or carbs, there are just a tremendous number of foods that are off limits. Furthermore, cutting them out reduces variety, which again reduces consumption. I mean, I could live on a diet of potatoes and milk and butter as peasants did in many areas. But I would be eating because I was hungry and not because "Oh man, another potato sounds really good right about now!" One of the things that makes weight control in the modern age really hard is that, on a daily basis, we can access so many things that used to be Sunday roast dinner only, if that -- and in some places festival foods only.

I've never ever found one from the store. I've found them in ones from the farm where we found a hidden nest (growing up on a farm makes you crack the egg into a separate bowl every single time) but never ever at a store.

With a history of eating disorders I'd tend to avoid it. Even if you know it's water weight from an overindulgent day it's really hard not to fixate on that number.

Are you planning on tracking for food or tracking weight training or running or all of the above? I use a pen and paper notebook for tracking weights and I use cronometer (free website) for food.

You might check out startbodyweight.com. It's designed to be done as fullbody 3x a week but you could split it if you wanted to although I'd probably do upper, lower/core, upper, lower/core in an alternating pattern.

I do like economics/civics/current events or similar class being covered at the same time as statistics. When I taught a math for liberal arts class, one of the assignments I particularly liked was for students to find examples of statistics being (ab)used in media and critique them. I loved this assignment and I still think it's one of the most relevant.

You know, quite often I really like teaching the 8am classes. The students who sign up for them tend to be go-getters who want to git r done.

I'd look into calc for anyone who's considering an extremely competitive college or a stem major, stats for anyone else, if I had to choose.

Oh, me too.

Almost every martial arts instructor I know has a "day job" to pay the bills. But kids do a lot of maturing and even if, at 18, he still doesn't want to go to college, that doesn't mean that he's never going to go. There are a lot of 18 year olds (or 19 year olds who flunked out of college) who go work at a gas station or a fast food joint for a few years, and then later decide "Man, I wish I had gone to college" and go back. I have a lot of them in my classes and they're often some of my very best students, because they've seen what life is like without a degree. That also doesn't mean that, at 18, you need to give him a rent-free place to live with internet access and his karate fees paid. My parents made me start paying rent after I dropped out of college, and although at the time I was pissed, I understand now and am grateful.

Well damn, maize beat me to it. :D Good luck on your garden! (I wonder if there are any maize seeds) :D

Oh, and I just remembered. For anyone who does like spicier dishes, I made a minor variation of this a few weeks ago and it was delicious. http://www.womenshealthmag.com/food/spicy-cauliflower-recipe

Roasted with butter, salt, and some savory spices. Olive oil would probably work too. I use like a quarter inch in the pain but I drain it off for reuse when the carrots are cooked and/or use the pan for a yorkshire pudding. They get sorta crispy on the bottom. I slice them in half and put the flat sides down to maximize crispiness. Mashing a few carrots into mashed potatoes is pretty delicious, it adds a bit of flavor and color. This is also great for parsnips and sweet potatoes.

There's got to be someone nearby who would take them and see if anything germinates. I know my mother's one of those people; she's picked up random boxes of seeds at yard sales and seen some that had to be 20 years old (judging by dates on package) surprisingly germinate. For her it's a treasure hunt.

Roasted root vegetables as Bluegoat suggested are highly palatable. Does your family like potatoes? Although they get a bad rap, they actually have quite a bit of nutrition. A root vegetable and meat stew is also a good way to get vegetables involved as you end up with meat-flavored vegetables. Chopped cauliflower can go well in many pasta recipes such as mac and cheese. Peas also are ok but don't try broccoli there, it's gross. Don't forget about frozen vegetables -- they're often superior to all but the best of fresh and definitely superior to manky fresh vegetables.

I have a toaster oven. I mostly use it to do things like cheese toast, hamburger toast (lightly toasted bread, spread with hamburger and then baked until done), or toasted cheesy potatoes (baked potatoes, split and toasted with chopped cheese). I got rid of my pop-up toaster because I didn't need both appliances. That being said, it's not essential and I could easily do without it, but it is useful for some things.

I think the culture of the "food trough restaurant" and getting your money's worth being realized as getting the maximum calories for the minimum price, really is a big part of it. I include most fast food restaurants in this as well. In places where there's more emphasis on enjoying something small but exquisite, it tends not to be as much of a problem. Please note that I do understand that if you're living on a shoestring budget and at the grocery, it is a totally valid way to shop. The problem is that once you're off that shoestring and still in that mindset, it really, really packs on the pounds. And if you've been brutally poor and gotten though it, and survived, and made it to a reasonable income, and so raise your kids without being brutally poor but still with that mindset, we get the familial tendency to obesity that is so easily observed at many of these places.

Are you buying very fresh eggs? The eggs from my mother's farm need to be aged for a week before boiling or it's going to be very challenging to peel them.

I've seen some people do really well on a high carb diet. here's an interesting study with different diets fed to different strains of rats -- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/no-one-fits-all-healthy-diet-exists

This happens to a lot of freshmen I teach. They confuse having to work at a subject with not being good at it; this is particularly true for students who are used to being able to coast with little effort and still understand well. They don't understand that no matter how smart you are, and how good at math, eventually you're going to run into a class where you have to actually do some work, and frankly, the later it is, the more painful the meeting is.