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I have to be the dissenting opinion here. While I thought "Despicable Me" was cute and had some laugh out loud moments for my 5-yr-old, I thought some of the other recent kids movies were better. We all loved "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Shrek 4", with HTTYD being the best movie I've seen...

King Arthur Flour has a book called "Whole Grain Baking", but it's really a baking book, not using whole grains in salads, for example. I use a lot of whole grains so if there is a specific grain you're thinking about, I'll try to come up with a recipe. In general, I always use brown rice...

KB dvd's are notoriously high-priced. AOS does occasionally have sales. Stalk their site for a sale if you really want that offering. Of the KB dvd's I have (nothing from AOS), I like Lauren Brooks the best. Also, some psuedo KB dvd's can offer a satisfying, less expensive workout: the...

Also, make sure your knife is REALLY sharp and hone it before going after the onion.

BBL is also more of a core workout if done as a system. Even the cardio workout, Cardio Axe, works my core really well if I focus on moving my hips. I only have Tonique 1, but it has more of a dread factor than BBL which has no dread factor at all, except for the ab workout which has a really...

While I think the Green Valley area is probably perfectly safe, I kind of curious how you chose that area to target. It seems like a suburban place where families are watching the Saturday morning soccer match together, not necessarily the most fun place for a single person. Is it a place...

The average American is now so fat that a healthy weight person appears thinner than they really are. You should just say something like that and be done with it!

I'm in Evergreen which is the mountain suburb just west of Denver. It's beautiful up here and I love it, but I'm not sure it's the very best place for a single person unless you're really into the mountains. It does have a small town feel where you see people you know just about everywhere you...

You should definitely warm-up before doing your 1RM testing. It's been awhile since I did it, but you might consider mixing it in with a cardio workout, stopping every couple of minutes to do a test. I think I did all the one starred exercises one day, the two stars another, etc. I only...

Here's what I did in a similar situation (basement over essentially concrete floor). I got the little foamy blocks from the dance floor company recommended on Cathe forums. I also bought their surfacing "dance mat" product which turned out to be pretty expensive because of the shipping. If I...

Ryka has one of those shoes now. It's called the "Reform" and costs $110. Someone should try it and report back!

The problem with conventional oats is they tend to be rotated in fields with wheat, barley and rye. So if last season they grew wheat, and this season oats, chances are there will be some stray wheat in with the oats. Plus, oats tend to be stored and processed in facilities that also handle...

I'm in Evergreen. Bad news is we're supposed to have more snow this weekend! Enough already.

London is so easy to navigate. Really, don't worry about that. The Tube is dead easy. No worries at all. You can get a pass and your transportation is done. When we visit London we normally do a historical site in the morning (stuff like the Tower, British Museum), shopping in the...

No one has suggested Gail Vaz-Oxlade yet, probably because she's Canadian and not as well known here. She has a show called "Til Debt Do Us Part" that runs on CNBC if you get cable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Til_Debt_Do_Us_Part A lot of the couples on her show have overspending...

If you're up for this, give it a try: eliminate gluten, alcohol, caffeine, sugar and animal products (eat vegan) for 21 days. I tried this and only made it 2 weeks, but it gave me good results in those 2 weeks. I did allow green tea instead of no caffeine, but green tea is great for you...

We used one of those alarm things on my older DD when she was 7. I think she had just gotten in the habit of going in her pull-up. So we used it for a couple of nights. It scared her pretty bad when it went off, but it worked. Either DH or I slept in the same room with her for about a week...

I've not personally tried Shakology, but have followed discussions in the past where the general consensus has been "who would pay that much for a protein drink?". I've been able to find stores, Whole Foods is one, that sell single serving sizes of different brands to check out before taking...

From my reading, most of the "experts" agree that most women should take fish oil and vitamin D. Many also agree that a multi is good, so I just take one of those, too. On days when I drink a protein shake I skip my multi since the one I use has a lot of vitamins in it. Personally, I also use...

I have the basic set, too. Bum-Bum is quite different from anything I have. Workout moves quickly from one thing to the next so it gets a lot done in 30 minutes. Bum-Bum live and rapido are not premixes, but completely different workouts. High and Tight is essentially floorwork...