I have a migraine too, ita, and I am frantically willing it to go, as I have a dentist's appointment at 3:00 which is going to involve the drilling and the novocaine and the glayvin. I'd cancel, but I can't get another appointment before we go on vacation, and I need to get this tooth fixed STAT.

but their defaults for caloric expenditures were way out of whack.

I've heard this from runners-- they just default to "sleeping" to keep track of their running activity with some accuracy.

If anyone is interested weight watchers is about $17/month for their online program.

yeh, fitday seemed to think I shold be loseing weight , too. I used it more to spot patterns. - like if I don't eat much before 6 , I don't seem to stop eating in the evening. and drinking anything alcoholic increases my calorie cunsumption in a big way. and on the weekends I eat more. And I eat a lot of cheese.

Oh, all kinds of sympathy to both ita and Robin. I cannot imagine going to the dentist with a migraine. Any hope you can get knocked out entirely for the appointment?

I think I will try the FitDay thing next month. I've been doing the Sonoma Diet, which is tasty food and is effective to the extent that I follow it, but has no discussion at all of calories. It's supposed to free you from the tyranny of counting stuff, or something, but it just makes me feel underinformed and unsure about substitutions.

Fitday thought it was dead. But I'm not interested in caloric expenditure. I'm more interested in the breakdown of what nutrients I am and am not getting. I want to make sure any tweaks I make to how I eat (ha! I don't think I've ever successfully tweaked my eating habits significantly except for the vegan episode) don't end up with me getting rickets or some such.

Oh, man, Robin. I'd be begging my dentist for the sleepy gas. Actually, I really want sleepy gas.

In lieu of that, I'm going to go sleep in my car, and if half an hour of that doesn't break the back of this beast, I'm going home and finishing up from there.

I've been eerily productive and detail-oriented this week, despite feeling quite crippled.

I had the same problem with fitday's whacked-out calorie counts: there's just no way I need 3000 calories a day to maintain the same weight. I've had much better luck with sparkpeople.com (especially since I'm too cheap to pay for weight watchers), and as a bonus, it doesn't have the soviet-era design that fitday had the last time I looked in over there.

3000!!! WTF?!

To be fair, I never actually tested it: if I actually managed to eat that much, I'd probably sleep through the whole next day, so it might all balance out.

I've had much better luck with sparkpeople.com

How's the shopping list feature, amych? I've found with various plans that I lvoe the idea but it's often not executed well and ends up being just as much work as starting from scratch.

bon bon, I go through periods where I get hives out of the blue. Sometimes, it's really random. Sometimes, it's when I've gotten overheated. Sometimes, it's when I'm already reacting to a pollen, or whatever. Sometimes, I can tell I'm going to get hives, and if I stay cool and don't let myself scratch, they'll subside. Benedryl is your friend.

Do you know if you had any food with MSG in it, last night? When I stopped eating stuff with MSG (it's in a lot of stuff, like some Chinese food, canned soup, dips, even stuff like Doritos and some salad dressings) in it, the random hive events seemed to happen less often.

My kids' pediatrician says sometimes hives will accompany a virus, too.