Oh man the George Foreman part sounds awesome... I love homemade burritos. Don’t forget eggs and beans, if you want to stretch the burritos a bit farther.

If you haven’t considered already, you should look into getting an immersion blender. They are perfect for making creamy soups. Once your veggies are cooked and your broth is added, just stick that thing in and let it rip. I always found that making creamy soups was a bit of a pain because you either have to let the…

I think it completely depends on both the event and on the attendees. If it is meant to be “a dinner”, then maybe it’s weird to not eat (you could always just get an appetizer or cup of soup), or maybe your friends don’t care. If you are just ‘going out after work’, then I don’t think it’s weird at all if you eat…

This is what I was going to suggest. I’ve never been able to do them with flexed wrists. But this way works great. As an added benefit, it requires you to ‘sit’ into your squat because you have to keep your upper body fairly upright or you will lose the bar, so it helps you keep good form.

I personally eat hard taco shells on occasion, and quite enjoy them. I think this hack is pretty useful.

I’ve done this with corn tortillas and had success. They don’t come out as beautiful as store-bought ones, but I’m far more likely to have corn tortillas on hand than taco shells, and I don’t mind the way these turn out.

Is anyone else bothered by the way he is holding those veggies. I always thought it was best to keep your fingernails out front so that if you accidentally catch one, you don’t lose a finger tip. The way he was holding those veggies made me cringe.

Also, you can cut celery far quicker using the back end of the blade,…

I second this. I’m always surprised at how I seem to make progress on the weeks that I don’t even go to the gym (as long as I don’t do it too often). I think that’s my body playing catch-up.

I think then you would have to compare how much life you could get out of $X in repairs vs. Spending the $X on a replacement car, which isn't such an easy thing to estimate.

Yes. I don’t think you will often find that your repair costs exceed the cost of car payments on a brand new car. But if we are talking about a ‘new’ used car for $15,000, then it may make sense to stop pouring money into your clunker.

I think you are reading this wrong. It says “are annual repair costs greater than car payments”, not assuming you have both. It's saying that if you can spend $1500 per year on your current car, but you would end up spending $3,000 on car payments with a new one, you should keep the new one.

“The worst thing you can do is overanalyze your workout.”

I do. I try to just pay for everything with a credit card, and then once a month, I’ll go through and enter it all in on a spreadsheet. I have one tab for all of the data, with about a dozen categories (income, rent, food, utilities, and other basic ordinary expenses, as well as extraordinary such as travel, major car…

Note that the article doesn’t say that paying off ANY debt is a better ROI than investing. Only that credit card debt is almost guaranteed to have a better ROI than any practical investment.

“Investing and paying off debt have the same effect on your net worth: they make it go up. Some debt might not cost you as much…

I would say no carbs are ‘bad’. It’s all in how you use them. Plenty of athletes use ‘bad’ carbs to replenish glycogen stores after a hard workout, because they are more quickly digested and processed than, say, brown rice or quinoa. Now I’m not saying they should necessarily be eaten as a regular part of your diet,…

I’ll have to give this a try. I’ve found over the years that I do not learn well just from reading a book cover to cover or following instructions word-for-word. I learn by coming up with questions and then seeking answers to them. So reading a non-fiction book cover to cover has never been that useful for me. This…

Dick, I think that's a solid answer. And to LuckyMc44, Logan Yott and Moon, that is just what I was wondering. Thank you guys for the responses!

" I can tell you that while I don't worry so much about my looks anymore..."

That's exactly what I was wondering. I think you are absolutely right that people should exercise to be healthy, not to be happier, but I was also curious whether people who are less than content with their physical appearance can actually…

Not at all. I'm referring only to those people that this paragraph seems to refer to:

" Being perfectly content saves up an astounding amount of mental energy. Gone are the worries, doubts and obsessions about diet, weight and all other issues pertaining to reaching your goal. The itch is gone. No need to scratch it anymore."