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		<title>Comment on Drugs Would Have Been Redundant by Helen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Squishy With Goo by Helen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s quite lovely roasted with a little salt on top. Nice in things like bolg sauce where it pads the sauce out and does take on the flavour of the meat and tomatoes. Quite delicious on pizza too. Am actually going to try a vegetarian mussaka this week that uses egg plant as it&#039;s main ingredient. If it&#039;s any good, I&#039;ll give you the recipe and maybe you can give poor old egg plant another try? :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s quite lovely roasted with a little salt on top. Nice in things like bolg sauce where it pads the sauce out and does take on the flavour of the meat and tomatoes. Quite delicious on pizza too. Am actually going to try a vegetarian mussaka this week that uses egg plant as it&#8217;s main ingredient. If it&#8217;s any good, I&#8217;ll give you the recipe and maybe you can give poor old egg plant another try? :)</p>
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		<title>Comment on I Know What Boys Like by kathy</title>
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		<dc:creator>kathy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, that was one of the depressing things about Lord of the Rings. They got all these hot, muscular actors, dressed them up in leather, issued them swords and then sent them off to do manly things...with their shirts quite firmly ON. It was so unfair. There ought to be a rule.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, that was one of the depressing things about Lord of the Rings. They got all these hot, muscular actors, dressed them up in leather, issued them swords and then sent them off to do manly things&#8230;with their shirts quite firmly ON. It was so unfair. There ought to be a rule.</p>
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		<title>Comment on I Know What Boys Like by Terr</title>
		<link>http://kathyhassinger.com/2010/09/i-know-what-boys-like/comment-page-1/#comment-69</link>
		<dc:creator>Terr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The only problem I had with the movie is that Jason Stratham never took off his shirt.   Sly took off his shirt, Mickey Rourke barely had a shirt on, but I don&#039;t recall Jason taking his shirt off.   Got to have a little eye candy for the ladies after all...lol</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only problem I had with the movie is that Jason Stratham never took off his shirt.   Sly took off his shirt, Mickey Rourke barely had a shirt on, but I don&#8217;t recall Jason taking his shirt off.   Got to have a little eye candy for the ladies after all&#8230;lol</p>
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		<title>Comment on New Flavors by Helen</title>
		<link>http://kathyhassinger.com/2010/09/new-flavors/comment-page-1/#comment-68</link>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One of the supermarkets here does the most delicious salmon in a rosemary marinade. It&#039;s my usual treat for dinner when Joe is out. Absolutely heaven if I can have it with some new potatoes. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the supermarkets here does the most delicious salmon in a rosemary marinade. It&#8217;s my usual treat for dinner when Joe is out. Absolutely heaven if I can have it with some new potatoes. :)</p>
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		<title>Comment on Redesigning Me by Terr</title>
		<link>http://kathyhassinger.com/2010/08/redesigning-me/comment-page-1/#comment-58</link>
		<dc:creator>Terr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kath, I can totally relate to your goals.  You know I am redesigning my life also.  We can be buddies also.  I would like to recommend a website for you : sparkpeople.com, I have used it for years and find it very life motivating.  My user name on sparkpeople is meremom so look me up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kath, I can totally relate to your goals.  You know I am redesigning my life also.  We can be buddies also.  I would like to recommend a website for you : sparkpeople.com, I have used it for years and find it very life motivating.  My user name on sparkpeople is meremom so look me up.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Long Weekend of Chill by Helen</title>
		<link>http://kathyhassinger.com/2010/09/long-weekend-of-chill/comment-page-1/#comment-55</link>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kathy, sounds to me like you are trying hard enough. Now you just need to keep doing what you&#039;re doing and wait. Will probably take about a month or two before you have lost enough weight to notice it in your clothes. This is a situation where little things add up. You don&#039;t want to invent yourself a regime you can&#039;t stick to. 

If you want to see progress on a finer grain scale have you thought about weighing yourself once a week? I find seeing the scales going down keeps me motivated until the real benefits start to kick in. 

The only thing you need to remember with that is the human body is a big sack of water and variations in the water can make more of a difference to your weight than the fat you&#039;re losing. You have to force yourself to be more interested in the trend than a particular data point. I found a really great excel graph for weight tracking that takes that into account. I&#039;ll have to dig it out for you. 

The other thing I remind myself when I&#039;m not seeing weight loss benefits to healthy eating is how much better I feel putting good things in my body. That&#039;s something worth having even if I can&#039;t immediately see the difference on the scales. 

Sounds like you&#039;ve had an amazingly good week! Give yourself a mental gold star for getting started and just concentrate on making the next good eating decision. The first part is always the hardest because it takes a little while for your body to catch up with the regime change. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kathy, sounds to me like you are trying hard enough. Now you just need to keep doing what you&#8217;re doing and wait. Will probably take about a month or two before you have lost enough weight to notice it in your clothes. This is a situation where little things add up. You don&#8217;t want to invent yourself a regime you can&#8217;t stick to. </p>
<p>If you want to see progress on a finer grain scale have you thought about weighing yourself once a week? I find seeing the scales going down keeps me motivated until the real benefits start to kick in. </p>
<p>The only thing you need to remember with that is the human body is a big sack of water and variations in the water can make more of a difference to your weight than the fat you&#8217;re losing. You have to force yourself to be more interested in the trend than a particular data point. I found a really great excel graph for weight tracking that takes that into account. I&#8217;ll have to dig it out for you. </p>
<p>The other thing I remind myself when I&#8217;m not seeing weight loss benefits to healthy eating is how much better I feel putting good things in my body. That&#8217;s something worth having even if I can&#8217;t immediately see the difference on the scales. </p>
<p>Sounds like you&#8217;ve had an amazingly good week! Give yourself a mental gold star for getting started and just concentrate on making the next good eating decision. The first part is always the hardest because it takes a little while for your body to catch up with the regime change. </p>
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		<title>Comment on [space] The Final Frontier by Helen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve not seen the b with a cross through before so it&#039;s not super common, at least not in the development world I belong to. :) Your chicken recipe sounds nice! I&#039;ll have to give it a go. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve not seen the b with a cross through before so it&#8217;s not super common, at least not in the development world I belong to. :) Your chicken recipe sounds nice! I&#8217;ll have to give it a go. :)</p>
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		<title>Comment on Bye-Bye Sydney by Helen</title>
		<link>http://kathyhassinger.com/2010/08/bye-bye-sydney/comment-page-1/#comment-52</link>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At least it was Sydney and not my hometown. :)</description>
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		<title>Comment on Redesigning Me by Helen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good luck Kathy! You have some great goals there! Just be patient with yourself! If you do something every day to acheive one of those things you&#039;ll be amazed how quickly it adds up. Anyway email, text or ring if you need someone to believe in you. That&#039;s one thing I can do for you when you need a bit of help in that department. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good luck Kathy! You have some great goals there! Just be patient with yourself! If you do something every day to acheive one of those things you&#8217;ll be amazed how quickly it adds up. Anyway email, text or ring if you need someone to believe in you. That&#8217;s one thing I can do for you when you need a bit of help in that department. :)</p>
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