I would absolutely meal plan if it was just me. I would also cook one big meal, maybe two, a week and eat leftovers the rest of the time. But dh hates to meal plan, and he doesn't like leftovers. Sigh. It's a good thing he helps cook or we would really have issues.

This has been my experience as well. Brotherman did one when he was little, maybe 5 or 6. I got there early the third day and saw the "teachers" - all teens, apparently with little to no training - sitting around making fun of one of the kids. On top of that, they didn't even know where my kid was. And on the way home he told me one of the other kids threw a ball at him several times even when he asked him to stop, and the teacher told him to learn to dodge. :cursing: I called the supervisor, wrote a letter, told everyone I knew, and of course he never went back.

Intermittent fasting also allows up to 500 during the fast day and still has the same beneficial effects. It can be a shorter fast as well. I am diabetic and can't do a true fast without a crash, nor can I exercise on a fast day. But with approrpiate modifications I have been very successful with IF and it has helped my blood sugar tremendously. OP - it definitely sounds like an underlying medical issue. Don't try fasting without figuring that out first. I would go to the Stanford clinic. Also if your current doctor isn't taking you seriously or believing what you and your dd are saying, ditch him. I hope you are able to find answers for your dd soon. I'm sure she is very frustrated and discouraged. :grouphug:

I only do things I enjoy for exercise. Yoga, kickboxing, martial arts, swimming. I sometimes hike with a friend or the kids. I teach some martial arts classes. I also take scheduled classes that are my "me time". I am friends with several people I take classes with which helps keep it fun. And keeps me accountable - they are expecting me to be there! I ocassionally miss a class because I'm overscheduled or tired. I think that would happen a lot more often if it wasn't something I enjoy.

Um, TPR is the last step in a very long process moving through the foster system, and one that most cases never reach. It is not needed for guardianship or for the state to place the child with someone in the foster system. I would suggest the OP immediately consult an attorney about getting guardianship.

Profiting from one's business is fine. Making enough money to cover all one's business expenses and pay oneself a reasonable or even generous salary is fine. Doing so at the expense of one's employees is not fine. Choosing to tighten budgets of an already profitable business that pays its shareholders a return that is by all accepted measures generous for no other reason than to further increase shareholder profits knowing that doing so pushes employees at the bottom of the ladder into poverty is not fine. And large businesses are most certainly doing this. My husband just left a company he had been with for 10 years because the corporation that took it over did this. He was hard pressed to find a company in his industry that doesn't do this. We are very fortunate that he was able to. While some large businesses operate on small profit margins per item, most do not, at least not on a majority of their items. Also, the morality is no different for small businesses, but the math is.

Packing light and using a carry on is not so crazy. It's packing the same amount but try to cram it all in a carry on, or worse just try to carry on a regular suitcase, that is crazy.

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The bolded is the problem. Large companies or corporations who focus on profit over everything else are one of the biggest problems in US society. (I'm not talking about small businesses.)

LibreOffice here too. We like it. It has a full suite of applications, not just word processing.

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Rarely. When it does happen it is most often from nature, occasionally from an exceptional scene in a play or movie.

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Yes. I work one day at week at a salvage grocery just down the street. We get some really good deals on stuff. Like we got a load of frozen mango chunks - my boys love them, and they are usually so expensive, but we have them for $1.25 a bag right now. I bought a ton.

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Theater. Of course, that's what my guy does most of the time. It's a time consuming hobby. There is usually a summer production, and he's taking two classes this summer as well. And of course lots of swimming and going to the park and such.

We have one. We haven't had to use it for AC, but we used it when our ceramic stovetop cracked. They had a repair person out here the next day, determined the whole top had to be replaced, then called me 2 days later to ask if I wanted to do that or get the cost of the repair back to put toward a new stove. We did that - the stove was 10 years old and the cost of the repair was over half the cost of the new stove - and we got the new stove the same week. The check arrived about the same time the stove did, actually. So I felt my claim moved pretty quickly, but it would have been several more days waiting for the part to come in if we had elected to have it repaired instead.

Yup, HIIT is the fastest way to get visible fat loss and toning. Shoot for 2-3 times a week and do your normal stuff the other days. There are plenty of good videos, or you can get a variety of apps that lay out some good HIIT routines for you. I'll be joining you - I'm going home to visit for my 20th reunion this summer. :willy_nilly:

We toast the rice in a dry pan and grind it in the spice grinder. No cooking other than the toasting.

It happens. Carry on. Of course, it has never happened to me. Nope.

In my area $40/day would be reasonable if food or money for food was also provided, but it wouldn't include lawn mowing. She needs to tell them she can't do that or that it will be extra.

Goodwill. But my husband works in a restaurant and I gave up trying to find shirts that would last in that environment years ago. Now I spend $5 per shirt and they usually last the same 6 months they did new and full price.

I'm jealous of all of you. I'm allergic to the skin of mangoes. Gives me a terrible rash, like poison ivy. I rarely get to eat fresh mango because of it. :crying:

The choices are the same. We just fall on the side of letting each woman make the choice herself and trying to help her as much as possible no matter her decision.

I didn't think they only did abortions, but I did think they offered a full range of pregnancy support. The one in my area definitely does not. I only went there looking for help for baby supplies as we were having financial struggles when I got pregnant with our birth control baby. But they were not especially interested in helping me after they found out I had already decided to have the baby. They only offered "counseling" to encourage me to keep the baby. Oh, and the counseling did require an ultrasound. By a non-licensed person, not a medical professional. Fortunately my OB had a list of places that actually offered help and support.