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Thank you for this. Over ten years ago I lost about 30 lbs doing 4 hours of Kung Fu every week, plus having a teaching job that kept me on my feet all day. I wasn't looking to lose weight actually, the martial arts was something I tried as an activity, and ended up really loving. I moved to teach out of country for a…

It's not better if it's a GIANT tax bill you weren't expecting. I changed jobs in 2012 (not by choice; company was bought, department laid off), had a side teaching job that was taxed, and freelance income, with itemized personal business expenses. Also own a home, and pay mortgage interest, which is supposed to get…

It really depends on the region, things in general are cheaper in the Midwest, but the average salary also tends to be lower. We toured several daycares, and it was shocking to us how similar the pricing was (only varying by $15-20/week) but the quality difference between them was enormous. Obviously, if the market…

Being pregnant means a LOT of Type 2 >_> Just getting to Type 3 is a real accomplishment.

Wow, that is some cheap daycare! The place we've chosen here in Columbus will be $800/month, and that's going only 3 days a week. I think the only way we could have managed 500 would have been choosing a small in-home daycare, and we didn't happen to find any we were totally comfortable with.

Thank you!! :) We're due in May, coming up fast now!

What about an example of two working adults with a kid in daycare? That'll be very relevant to my situation in about...oh 10 weeks or so.

Thank you for this article, really well-written and inspiring. I was never obese, but I was definitely overweight in high school and college. I hated sports and exercise in general, the only thing I could make myself do was marching band because I love to play music and I got to hang out with my friends all the time.…

I have to say, that's the first I've heard of too much ginger being a miscarriage risk (which seems to be true of a number of herbs, especially if steeped into tea form rather than eaten in a meal), but thankfully I never had large quantities of ginger, and since I'm not a fan of it anyway once morning sickness…

I miss it too, in my case I developed GERD, so anything acidic, especially citrus, is out for the most part :( Grapefruit is one of my favorite things in the world, so I has a sad. Stupid stomach.

For morning sickness I found organic ginger ale from Trader Joe's, which has actual ginger rather than the flavored syrup in the kind from the regular grocery store, helped quite a bit, but it was best to let it go a bit flat first. I tried ginger tea and it unfortunately just didn't do that much for me. I actually…

These are all good tips, but often just aren't feasible for a lot of people. For myself, I'm now 34 and expecting my first child, and while I did a lot of saving in my 20's, it was mostly towards the end of those 10 years when for a time, I had no social life whatsoever. When you just sit in your apartment and chat…

Huh, interesting, I had different, definitely digestive, symptoms of intolerance (I do get mild migraines but from atmosphere pressure rather than anything food-related), it took me close to a year to figure out that the problem was lactose. I didn't want to give up dairy so I also tried large amounts of yogurt and…

Yogurts in general though are pretty low in lactose. I'm lactose intolerant now and I take a Lactaid before eating yogurt as a precaution, but I've forgotten to take it before and had virtually no ill effects from yogurt. I also don't need Lactaid with most cheeses, which is nice.

I loved cow's milk (1% or skim generally) until starting about two years ago, it no longer loved me. I didn't want to have to constantly take Lactaid (though I do for ice cream and cream-based soups and such where I know milk was used) so I started trying alternatives. Something about soy milk upsets my stomach as…

I'm a little surprised cloudy vs. clear urine wasn't addressed here. Cloudy urine can also indicate excess protein, as well as a possible infection like a UTI, and is something to watch out for if you're pregnant (which I currently am). BTW, UTI antibiotics will turn your pee a dark orange (had one in high school).

I grew up in Cincinnati and so grew up loving Greater's (especially the caramel, OMG), but when I moved to Columbus and tried Jeni's...I'm sorry, there was no going back. Don't get me wrong, I still love Greaters (I mean, come on, it's ice cream, what's not to love?) but Jeni's is even creamier (which personally I…

Husband and I are animator/video people so we actually just paid our videographer for the raw footage and edited the final thing ourselves and made a set of Blu-rays (with a nice big still photo gallery) for just ourselves and our parents (since they're the only ones that really cared about it besides us). Obviously…