I’ve lost 15 lbs since February (and I’m a lady over 40 who has had a child, so all the metabolic cards are stacked against me) using a Fitbit ChargeHR and the LoseIt app. I just ignore the calorie “credit” LoseIt gives me from Fitbit. I stick to the same calorie budget very day, regardless of exercise.

My parents assumed I was up to way more shenanigans than I actually was. They would wink and nudge about stuff and I’d be like... it’s like you guys don’t even know me. I had plenty of friends in high school and was pretty social, they just weren’t the drinking/drugging/partying sort of friends.

Not really? I think on an intellectual level I knew there were probably some girls at my school (Catholic) who were drinking. I definitely knew a few were having sex because they got knocked up (again: Catholic). But I never heard a single thing about a single Big Partay or anything. When you go to a private school in…

I have found my people. Except we didn’t even smoke pot. Laaaaaame. But honestly? Really good times.

Well, I didn’t in high school, so there was no parental subterfuge element to my partying knowledge. But I tore it up my first couple years of college, so everything else is duh.

Pittsburgh is fabulous and has three! three! three! rivers full of glorious running water.

Yeah but being a vegetarian traveling the highways and byways of America, sometimes it’s like a shining beacon of “a meal that doesn’t consist soley of french fries.” If you don’t eat burgers or chicken nuggets, the pickings are slim when traveling in rural/exurban areas.

Yes, that’s what we had as well. They were fantastic. Never denied a claim, excellent customer service.

It got may age exactly right (40). Which almost no one does—universally people tell me I look much younger than I actually am (this is both a blessing and a curse, as a professional woman).

Unless you can get that fund up to $3000 within the first year and only ever need it once, it’s not really comparable. I’ve had a dog with cancer, I’ve had a dog with an undiagnosable ailment (possibly a brain tumor?) that caused him to stop eating and required us to take him to specialists, and that same dog snapped…

There’s a ton of pet insurance companies so you really can’t make blanket statements like that. There are some companies that are great and offer comprehensive insurance at reasoable rates and there are some companies that are little more than scams.

No Fitbit? Hmph.

I’m old.

You forgot the most important one:

In what universe is sweet corn good for a container garden? Corn needs to be grown in a fairly large quantity in order to pollinate (and also you only get 2-3 ears of corn off of one stalk).

I somehow wound up with a Vera Bradley bag (or a close knock off, idk, I don’t even know where it came from or how it got in my closet) and I literally do use it as a diaper bag. #winning

Really? I’ve been told that on these things “sedentary” means “works 8 hours a day at a desk job and walks a little to/from the bus and does normal life stuff but doesn’t go to the gym and crush it for hours.”

My dad is a professor at the university I provide support for, so I can’t refuse to deal with him when he calls me at home on a Sunday with questions. Sucks, man.

Your username really makes this comment.

I suspect this is mainly true for people with higher BMRs (read: average to above average sized men). When your BMR is 1400 calories a day, it takes a lot more than cutting soda to lose significant weight. I mean, it never hurts to cut out empty calories, but ask any woman who’s tried to lose weight what the most…