Glad I went with my gut
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I looked at more than a few cases for our new Kindle Fire and read countless reviews.  Then I looked at Marware's video.

IMO, this case has three things going for it.

-It's well made.
-It's lightweight.
-It's fairly inexpensive.

The stand function works very well and yes, a flat surface is best but my wife has been able to use it while on the bed.
The Fire hasn't been dropped yet so I can't speak to that type of protection but I can tell you that the edges of the Fire are
extremely well protected by the case.  I like the fact that the strap built into the case can keep the cover open or closed.
Oh and the other thing I wanted in a case was complete access to the screen and all screen functions. Check.

This case delivers and am very pleased with my purchase.
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The hardest thing I have done for myself in a very long time, but worth the effort and commitment. I eased into the diet and have been sticking to Joe's philosophy for about 6 weeks. I have lost 10 lbs just with the diet change and not yet increasing exercise. My next goal is to increase exercise and see what happens. I won't minimize the commitment in time for shopping & food prep. It is a lifestyle change. You will know if you are ready for it after the first 3 days, which were tough. I truly thought I had the flu the first two days! I even made an appointment with my Doctor, who was happy with my choice. He assured me I didn't have the flu and it would pass, which it did. It gets easier each day. I have supplemented with juice purchased from a recommended company to help me say on track, which has been a great decision for me. I feel better than I have in years. The recipes are easy to follow & so far delicious. There have been a few juice combos that I didn't care for, so I just don't make those.
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I bought this book with high hopes of losing weight -- I had read that having "good" bacteria in your gut could help you lose weight, so I thought this was worth trying.  I have had severe chronic daily ibs-d for twenty years, and suspected that I also had developed SIBO, so I had been avoiding antibiotics for a few years and taking massive quantities of OTC probiotics in an attempt to heal my gut with no results whatsoever.  I had long since given up seeing doctors, as none could help me, and I had decided this was just something I would have to live with for the rest of my life, and I had bottles of immodium in my purse, my desk at work, and took immodium every morning upon waking just to be able to get out the door to go to work.  One of the first things that caught my eye when reading this book was the author's recommendation to drink milk kefir.  So while at my local Whole Foods one day, I noticed they had a sale on milk kefir and I bought six bottles, intending to drink it every morning to see what happened.  I didn't lose any weight, but to my surprise, within a couple of weeks, my ibs-d was completely gone.  By surprise, I mean I had no idea what had cleared up my ibs, but I suspected it was the kefir, so  I began doing more research on milk kefir and learned that a lot of people have cleared up serious gastrointestinal problems by drinking it (IBS, Crohn's Disease, IBD, Colitis, etc.).  I learned that you can culture it yourself at home, so I now I culture not only raw goat milk kefir but also water kefir, and I am a member of an awesome culture sharing group on Facebook!  So far I have not lost any weight.  But the improvement in my gut health has me so excited, seriously, I never thought I would ever be "normal" again, but now I am -- and I haven't taken immodium in months!

Whenever i do research on the internet to further my knowledge, I find this book referenced again and again.  So I am sure there is a lot of good advice in here, however, I find the book rather tedious to read -- the author recommends a lot of supplements without really explaining the science behind them.  He also includes lists of "menus" and "recipes" that are rather exotic and require foods that are difficult to find in my area.  He also starts out with a Phase I elimination diet, that eliminates dairy, and since I will never NOT drink mk daily again, phase I is not an option for me.  Then he adds foods back in Phase 2 & 3, but he never actually lists all the foods you can have or can't have in the final phase, you have to try to tease them out from the first two phases.  I wish he had included simple lists of what you can and cannot eat, I find it much easier to devise my own menus and recipes based on the foods I am allowed and foods I can find in my local store, than trying to piece together what I can eat by looking at menus and recipes..  That said, I plan to sit down one day and try to figure out what I can eat and make my own list, because i am sure this author is on the right track.  My focus now is not so much on losing weight, but on protecting, nurturing and increasing this newly planted rain forest within me!
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i usually don't buy pants, clothes online because of fit concerns but i took a chance and it worked out great!
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No matter what your beliefs are on psychic abilities this book is a good source of inner calm and self belief.  As I started reading it I was snickering at the authors playback of his experiences. It sounded a bit too fairyland to me. I dislike that part of myself but it was there and I admit it. I had little hope for this book at 10% at 25% I was feeling good. Yes, I was wrong. This is a book about learning to trust yourself, to believe in your feelings not to let outside sources push you away from you.
The exercises all point you towards you, trusted the you that can get lost in this modern fast world. They are relaxing and really enjoyable. I found them to be meditative and deeply satisfying. I, little miss skeptic, even started to open up to feelings that I haven't had since I was a child. Are they psychic ? I don't know that that really matters, they made a difference in how I felt about myself in the world. I had a lighter step, a brighter heart and a more genuine belief in my direction in life.
I'm glad I stepped out of my normal reads and picked this one up. I was going to quit this one early in, being judgmental almost ruined a good experience. Do I believe I'm Psychic ? Ha, that is for me to keep with me. It changed me for the better. Give it a shot, if you walk away with only feeling more relaxed you have benefited greatly.
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I bought this book when I hit a stall in my weight loss process. I thought it would only last a couple of days, but I was stalled way longer than that, and knew I had to change something, but wasn't sure what, since I had already eliminated a lot of obvious culprits.

I asked my trainer for ideas. She suggested that I experiment with eating 'raw'. I was skeptical about this, but I told her I would look into it, and that's how I found this book.

The best part of this book for me is that it explains why we should eat raw, with enough technical information that I understood but not with so much jargon that I was lost - it explained the benefits of raw eating to me in a way that even my trainer wasn't getting across (and I'm loaning this one to her in a few days).

I have loved the recipes I have gotten started with, which is also very important, of course! We will see in a few days whether I'm through the weight-loss stall, but I can tell you for sure that I feel much better after eating a meal eating this way - I highly recommend this book!
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I was vver happy with it and I had to cut it down but now I know tth difference.
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Thanks for simplifying and making getting started with juicing easy for me. I don't feel nearly as overwhelmed now that I gone through this book!
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I have heard of juicing for many years and have friends who do it. But from what I read in the book I thought I would give it a try, I even went so far as to get organic stuff.  Was able to get a juicer at a garage sale for a couple of bucks so there was no big investment.  From just a short time of juicing I feel so much better.  I'm glad Kevin said again what I already had heard.  This time from his book it really hit home.
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I was a little bit skeptical of this book; I have tried before to "eat whatever I want"  without success; but I have also tried so many diets. I wanted to get out of the diet cycle, as I felt like I was doing more harm to myself mentally and physically.  As I read this book, I realized that I do know how to eat healthy; I just let external factors tell me that I am not doing it right. And in a way, it's easier to just follow a diet plan-until I "cheat" and feel guilty.

What I liked about this book is the information the doctor gives around nutrition and exercise.  The doctor is not saying you HAVE  to do anything; in order to make food choices, however, it is good to know what's available to you and what is going on inside of your body when you make those choices.

Before I spent hours obsessing about what I was going to eat-sometimes it would take me 2 days to plan meals because I didn't want to go off whatever diet I was on. When I wasn't planning, I was constantly thinking about food.

The book is a good beginning for those who may want to know about eating healthfully without dieting as well as for those people (like me) who are chronic dieters. This book is a great guide to re-focusing on what's important: my own sense of self, being healthy and taking care of the body I was born with no matter the size.
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Gave me more features to consider as I determine whether or not a piece should go home with me.  Gives you more assurance when your 'gut feeling' has a basis in fact.
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I am a fairly healthy eater (VERY healthy compared to some), but I have always had trouble with my sweet tooth and my carb cravings. I don't eat candy, I don't consume processed or packaged food on a regular basis, but when confronted with a brownie in the middle of the afternoon it will be hard for me to say no.

After a recent foray into green smoothies, I found that increasing the amount of raw greens I consume seems to virtually eliminate my cravings for sweet or starchy foods. Having made the "conversion" to green smoothies and being already a sprouting and superfood enthusiast, the next logical step was looking further into raw foods. Since I have been trying to lose weight for some time (unsuccessfully, because of low thyroid function), Ani's book seemed like the perfect intro.

I read the book cover-to-cover and shopped for the first 3-4 days before starting. However, just on the first day, two things became apparent to me:
1. the majority of the soups in the book are a disappointment (with the Spicy Bok Choi Soup taking it one step further to absolutely disgusting - I hate wasting food, but I could only shoke down about 1 cup before I tossed the rest)
2. I really, really hate cold foods in the evening

Based on the above and on Ani's encouragement to not fixate on being perfect but make the best we can and fit the plan to our needs (the girl blows her horn a little often but she is definitely charming and encouraging!), I decided to pick and choose which recipes to use throughout the day and do raw until dinner, when I'd have a mix of raw and cooked foods.

That's when the unexpected happened. Because I didn't feel limited or constricted by the plan's schedule and the scheduled recipes and such, I found myself fully embracing the idea that I could, indeed, feel satisfied on a meal that involved only raw fruits and veggies (and sometimes a handful of nuts), and in a few days this had COMPLETELY CHANGED MY EATING BEHAVIOR. I found myself consuming a large green smoothie for breakfast, then more of it or a green juice mid-morning, then a large salad for lunch. A salad. I have NEVER, ever been one of those people who can be happy with a salad, let alone one that didn't include any eggs or chicken or tuna in it. More juice or another smoothie or some raw veggies in the afternoon, and then a dinner of salad, steamed veggies and some lentil soup, or some baked fish.

Let me tell you, after years of yo-yo dieting I would never have expected to be able to eat this way without feeling incredibly deprived and having to sit on my hands not to reach into the freezer and grab an ice cream. Saying that I am pleasantly surprised doesn't really cover it.

I don't weigh myself because it makes me obsess, but I can tell you that I have definitely lost inches! After only 1 week, my clothes fit much better, and my skin is softer and clearer than I have seen it in a while.

So thank you Ani for the intro, and for the AMAZING smoothie recipes!!
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I have wanted to get into flipping houses for quite some time. But do to my lack of knowledge, I was fearful of getting starte. After reading Quick Flips & Fast Cash, I now feel I have all the information I need to be successful. Futhermore, I feel sense of comfidence. Thank you, Betty H.
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I was not sure if my first job as an RN was a bad fit or just me--- after reading this book, I determined it was not me!!!  Resigned during orientation and am now going in a new career direction out of Med Surg into Public Health.  This book was very reassuring and gave me the courage to start a new path.  Helped greatly in my analysis.  P.S. Listen to yourself and get this as a guide.  The hospital I resigned from is now using this book in orientation.
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I knew what was buying, and overall I'm happy with the outcome. Thanks for you honesty
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I was nervous about taking my test.  However, reviewing the information in this book has given me confidence that I will do well.
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Surprisingly easy to follow, cravings have basically stopped, I feel much better. My metabolism feels a lot better, probably thanks to a more stabilized functioning of the pancreas and insuline secretion. The nce thing of this book is there is something to look forward to every week.