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  1. dorothyrd

    So will you get the shot?

    We get written up for over 13 hours sick time a quarter, so no martyrs here, just necessary. they gave us hand sanitizer though, yippee. I got the regular shot, probably won't get the H1N1 shot. Got a type A type flu about 6 years ago and it went into pneumonia. Took me 3 months and two...
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    Mom ordered to stop babysitting friends' kids!

    When my son was young, my neighbor and I had this type of arrangement. Her two kids would come over at 7 and play until 8, because she had to get to work. I took them to school. She got off early enough to pick them up after school. We were neighbors, the kids were friends, it worked out...
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    Just walked my second 5K

    Including me! LOL! I have never done a walking race before. I was second in the 40-49 race, and my family laughed at my mug. I was quite a bit slower than Kathryn at 41:20, but still faster than I ever walked when I "practiced". I as a matter fact did see walkers doing little run steps...
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    Biggest Loser 9/22

    I think it needs to be put into prospective. I need to lose 10 pounds, so I would lose maybe 1 pound, they are much larger people, so I think that is why the loss is so great. Plus, what else do they have to do, but focus on weight loss.
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    One Body Part a Week...mental block

    When I did STS, I did work legs twice, doing upper, then lower, then upper, then lower, and that worked really well for me. On Meso 3, I did the heavy work the first leg day and the plyo the second leg day, and loved that.
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    Personal trainers-online ceu's from Human Kinetics?

    HK is one of leading publishers of kinesiology books. They are based in the town I work, and I know the CEO and several people who work there. It seems like a great business and high quality, so I bet the courses are very worthwhile.
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    Periods

    You might be losing some bodyfat, and adding muscle. Bodyfat carries extra estrogen, estrogen is the trigger for FSH and LH to be release and start the process which ends in your period. So you might have lightened your estrogen, and it may take your body a bit to adjust to your new levels...
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    Periods

    I actually can have this problem from not having my body weight dip too low(never ever happened to me, I was born overweight I think). But if I work out extra hard, or if I get sick, it can cause me to skip. It would do no harm to have this checked out, and if you are at a low weight, you...
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    Pizza Shop Must Pay for Employee Weight Loss Surgery

    Ever watch the movie Burn After Reading?
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    knitting perception in our society

    I taught myself to knit when I graduated from college. I had not found a job yet, so had some extra time and used it to knit.
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    As the economy gets worse......

    All the people around here who are in my industry(IT) that were laid off still don't have jobs, so I don't see a lot better here. I think they are telling us a story on that one. We always have lived frugally, don't keep credit card debt, low car loans, drive cars until they cannot be driven...
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    I have overtraining syndrome :(

    Clarissa, go get a full work-out with a doctor and I would ask for a therapist recommendation. Ask around and see if there is anyone around that specifically deals with this type of thing. Think of it as something that you can eventually learn from and since you are a PT, help others with...
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    Cool fitness pics of women-all sizes/sports

    Just like we love different breeds of dogs and cats, we should be accepting of different shapes that we come in, instead of so critical of ourselves and others. Think about all the wonderful things are bodies are capable of!
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    Talk to me about road bikes and road biking....

    My OCR3 is a woman's bike, and what a difference it makes riding a bike made for a woman. The bike I had before I got in 1980, and they just looked at your leg length. With this one, the handle bar neck could be changed around depending on what you are comfortable with, and other things as...
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    Talk to me about road bikes and road biking....

    I have a women's Giant OCR3 and I really like it a lot. Cost me 800.00 2 years ago, but it is a really nice bike that I can ride for years and years. Very light, very fast.
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    kid advice

    I live in a small town. I let both my kids start biking and walking in 3rd grade. The school is a little over half mile away. They both survived, now being 16 and 21. BTW, by the time they get to middle school they want to be carted around again, and I said too bad, so sad. I used to walk...
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    Profits Before Patients - A PBS Interview w/Bill Moyers

    Laura, I think my PDF had 1018 pages and is probably what you are looking for.
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    Profits Before Patients - A PBS Interview w/Bill Moyers

    They will take items from this, so don't discount it. Also, it will cost money, don't discount that either. What Obama should do is go back and start looking at the plans and insist on removing the really controversial stuff, focus on getting people who are not insured, insured, focus on the...
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    Profits Before Patients - A PBS Interview w/Bill Moyers

    "• Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care treatments cost. How many people know the total cost of their last doctor's visit and how that total breaks down? What other goods or services do we buy without knowing how much they will cost us? I do think he has a...
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    Profits Before Patients - A PBS Interview w/Bill Moyers

    Impact on deficit http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/104xx/doc10464/hr3200.pdf There is more information here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:H.R.3200:
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