Confession Time! ((ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT))

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  • qn4bx9pzg8aifd
    qn4bx9pzg8aifd Posts: 258 Member
    JPW1990 wrote: »
    pofoster21 wrote: »
    BTW does DH mean Dear Husband?

    Yes, and it's overused and I'm a little tired of it! DH, DD (daughter), DS (son)...you get the idea.

    It's been around for as long as there have been parenting message boards, not going away any time soon.

    Oh, I know. Just feel like it is overused. Ya know when wives are like, "I caught my DH cheating on me with his friend's wife"...NOT DH at that point!! ;)

    True... then it'd be FH, would it not...? ;)
  • ShibaEars
    ShibaEars Posts: 3,928 Member
    edited May 2015
    Tubbs216 wrote: »
    ShibaEars wrote: »
    Tubbs216 wrote: »
    I do a lot of stepping nude in front of my big bathroom mirror looking for any changes
    I do that too. I also pull my fat bits to the back to see what it would look like if I lost more weight. If I could just use bulldog clips all down my back-side and only be seen from the front, I'd probably be quite happy.

    I do all of this too. I lean back a bit so my stomach looks tauter than it is.

    hahaha, I might actually have visible abs if I clipped myself! Could you imagine being around people and constantly pivoting so they can only see you from the front?
    Hey, it worked for Flat Stanley.

    I just watched the Simpsons' episode where Homer gets gastric bypass (or something), loses a bunch of weight and then has his loose skin all clipped down the back while wooing Marge.
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    Tubbs216 wrote: »
    Francl27 wrote: »
    Tubbs216 wrote: »
    pofoster21 wrote: »
    BZAH10 wrote: »
    JPW1990 wrote: »
    I confess, I think there should be more "sugar is murder and killed my family" threads. I get such a kick out them.

    I'll be happy when Fed Up is off Netflix. Every random yahoo who half paid attention to it getting lumped in with people who've been LC for years, as if we all say the same misguided crap they're spewing because also-ran Couric told them.

    if you're looking for a good sugar-battle thread the "Four bags of Oreos" thread fits the bill!

    The oreo thread fighting is making my day.

    I confess, all the Oreo thread makes me want to do is eat Oreos.

    I started reading this one...will finish later but I have to admit I would KILL my husband (if I had one) if he came home with that stuff. I can't have stuff like that in my house at all or I will eat it all. And yes, I have no will power. But I can't say that in there...I would be eviscerated. I was happy to see the guy I can't stand from all the nasty threads is in jail. :)
    I actually felt sorry for the OP in that post. She really loves her husband and wants him to live a long, healthy life, but everyone's telling her she's a controlling b i t c h for asking what she can do to help make that happen?? And I don't care what anyone says, it's not normal behaviour to come home with that quantity of Oreos.

    Well. I bought 7 pints of Talenti gelato and um, probably $100 worth of Lindt chocolates when they were on sale. I guess it's not normal either...
    Are you diabetic and planning to eat them all over the course of the next week..?
    My dad is diabetic and sounds pretty similar to that person's husband, sans weighloss surgery... He downed a package of Pecan Sandies a few nights ago and has made himself sick enough to throw up on Starbucks frapps.
  • ShibaEars
    ShibaEars Posts: 3,928 Member
    edited May 2015
    I confess, there are some people that just will not give up on the whole "cleansing" thing and it's a little weird. I don't pretend to know everything about science and physiology, but the liver and kidneys remove toxins from the blood. I'll schedule a colonoscopy in 12 years for my first "cleanse" when I'm 50. I'm not a doctor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. And I read an article once someone wrote on the internet. And you can't post anything on the internet unless it's true. At least I think I'm funny sometimes. Carry on.

    LOL ;)

    I know what you mean...

    ...and I swear, when I read the word "cleanse" -- in the context of non-eating 'eating' ;) -- all I can think is, "diarrhea as a weight loss 'method'... hmmm..." -- which then gets the playful side of me thinking a Shakespearean 'version' thereof -- "...dehydration by any other name would 'smell' as 'sweet'..." (!) (OH, NO, IT *WOULDN'T* -- !!!) :p


    One could embark on the "Spoiled Food" 'cleanse'... just leave some dairy-based food products 'out in the sun' for a few hours (!) -- stir, 'swill', and voila! -- instant 'cleanse'...! (and possibly even of a 'bi-directional' nature! (bonus!)) ;)


    OMG... just reading about some of the specifics associated with various fad diets from years past, is certainly 'food for thought' (no pun intended)...

    { http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20695743 }


    There's the "Chew and Spit" diet --
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Fletcherism, as it was called, promoted chewing a mouthful of food until all "goodness" was extracted, then spitting out the fibrous material that was left.

    He was fairly prescriptive in how many times you had to chew different foods. Just one shallot needed to be chewed 700 times.

    It was hugely popular and had some famous followers [...]

    It got to a point where people were timed at dinner parties to make sure they were chewing enough, says Foxcroft.

    "The diet also meant only defecating once every two weeks and it was nearly odourless, described by Fletcher as smelling like 'warm biscuits'," she says.

    "Fletcher carried a sample of his own faeces around with him to illustrate this wonder."

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


    OMG, OMG, OMG...?!!!


    And then there's that *tapeworm* 'diet' (holy mother of wth...?!) --
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Not for the squeamish, in the early 1900s the tapeworm diet started to be advertised, says Foxcroft. [...]

    Dieters would swallow beef tapeworm cysts, usually in the form of a pill. The theory was that the tapeworms would reach maturity in the intestines and absorb food. This could cause weight loss, along with diarrhoea and vomiting.


    The gruesome world of parasites

    Parasitic organisms use other organisms to extract food
    The process generally harms the host, and may even kill it
    Parasites can live on the surface of the host like blood sucking fleas
    They can also live inside a host like tapeworms


    Watch the lifecycle of a parasite [...]


    Once a person reached their desired weight they then took an anti-parasitic pill which, they hoped, would kill off the tapeworms. The dieter would then have to excrete the tapeworm, which could cause abdominal and rectal complications.

    It was risky in many ways. Not only can a tapeworm grow up to 30 feet (9m) in length, they can also cause many illnesses including headaches, eye problems, meningitis, epilepsy and dementia.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


    Oh, *h%ll*, no...!!!

    Those are awful! I think I'll stick with counting calories :wink:
  • qn4bx9pzg8aifd
    qn4bx9pzg8aifd Posts: 258 Member
    Today I had some delicious Ben & Jerry's ice cream after stopping in a bookstore. I didn't find the book I was looking for (Ancillary Sword), so I ended up going home and placing an online order for three books. Can't wait to check em out!

    ALSO, a weight has been lifted off my shoulders! All of my grades have come in, except for one I was never worried about, and I am officially graduating University!! Now I can hopefully get my butt in gear and focus more on this! So relieved.

    Congratulations! :)
  • Asher_Ethan
    Asher_Ethan Posts: 2,430 Member
    I am only eating 4 eggs today so that I can pig out on Chinese food tonight as a social event...
  • bkhamill
    bkhamill Posts: 1,289 Member
    ShibaEars wrote: »
    ythannah wrote: »
    JPW1990 wrote: »
    Longish and TMI confession:

    I mentioned before that I have a phobia of walking outside because I nearly stepped in a very dead raccoon. I've been trying to work on that, so today I took my son to a park that has a playground and a very out in the open 1/2 mile jogging path circling it. It also has lots of trash cans and plenty of free plastic bags for dog walkers.

    It's hot and humid today, and those trash cans are starting to smell like that raccoon. About half way through my first lap, I started breathing through my mouth to lessen the impact when I'd approach one. An unidentified bug flew in my mouth, I couldn't cough it out, had left my water in the car, and didn't want to embarrass my son by everyone watching his mom puke in the middle of the park from walking a quarter mile. So I swallowed it. I didn't quit, either, I did the rest of my laps before coming home. And then I kept thinking about it, and started feeling a weird tickle in the back of throat, and then I convinced myself it was probably a stray bug leg, and then I started thinking that it was probably a fly, since a bee would've hurt, and flies have been crawling all over the dog poop in the garbage, and yeah, there came back breakfast and the bug. I guess the upside is I don't have to log the bug now?

    Not any closer to wanting to walk outside after this.

    *snort*

    I would've just spit out the bug. I am not a delicate spitter.

    I confess, I've swallowed more than a couple of bugs in my lifetime. It's gross, but it's a fact of life when you run outside before sunrise.

    Or biking, especially in a wooded area. Blech. Or they fuse to your eyeball (because you're too stubborn to wear sunglasses).

    I was going down a particularly steep section of single-track trail and had to pass between two trees. I got a spider web across the face - and the spider came with it! It was on my eyelid and I had my eye shut but I could see the shadow of it moving across my eyelid. I couldn't stop where I was and somehow completed the hill with my eyes shut. I couldn't get it off my face fast enough once I hit flat open ground.

    Did I mention I'm scared of spiders?

    I guess there is yet another reason why I will never be a cyclist! Can't do the spider thing, I would have killed myself trying to get it off me!
  • ShibaEars
    ShibaEars Posts: 3,928 Member
    bkhamill wrote: »
    ShibaEars wrote: »
    ythannah wrote: »
    JPW1990 wrote: »
    Longish and TMI confession:

    I mentioned before that I have a phobia of walking outside because I nearly stepped in a very dead raccoon. I've been trying to work on that, so today I took my son to a park that has a playground and a very out in the open 1/2 mile jogging path circling it. It also has lots of trash cans and plenty of free plastic bags for dog walkers.

    It's hot and humid today, and those trash cans are starting to smell like that raccoon. About half way through my first lap, I started breathing through my mouth to lessen the impact when I'd approach one. An unidentified bug flew in my mouth, I couldn't cough it out, had left my water in the car, and didn't want to embarrass my son by everyone watching his mom puke in the middle of the park from walking a quarter mile. So I swallowed it. I didn't quit, either, I did the rest of my laps before coming home. And then I kept thinking about it, and started feeling a weird tickle in the back of throat, and then I convinced myself it was probably a stray bug leg, and then I started thinking that it was probably a fly, since a bee would've hurt, and flies have been crawling all over the dog poop in the garbage, and yeah, there came back breakfast and the bug. I guess the upside is I don't have to log the bug now?

    Not any closer to wanting to walk outside after this.

    *snort*

    I would've just spit out the bug. I am not a delicate spitter.

    I confess, I've swallowed more than a couple of bugs in my lifetime. It's gross, but it's a fact of life when you run outside before sunrise.

    Or biking, especially in a wooded area. Blech. Or they fuse to your eyeball (because you're too stubborn to wear sunglasses).

    I was going down a particularly steep section of single-track trail and had to pass between two trees. I got a spider web across the face - and the spider came with it! It was on my eyelid and I had my eye shut but I could see the shadow of it moving across my eyelid. I couldn't stop where I was and somehow completed the hill with my eyes shut. I couldn't get it off my face fast enough once I hit flat open ground.

    Did I mention I'm scared of spiders?

    I guess there is yet another reason why I will never be a cyclist! Can't do the spider thing, I would have killed myself trying to get it off me!

    I don't know how I completed it. But if I had stopped I probably would've gone right over the handle bars which didn't seem fun either. I guess it might not have been that long a distance, but it seemed like it!

    You can totally be a cyclist, just let someone else lead :wink:
  • almondbutterbay
    almondbutterbay Posts: 221 Member
    Wagman63 wrote: »
    I hate it that I'm a stress eater. Work has been very hectic for the past couple of weeks and I hurt me back and can't go to the gym and walking hurts...I ate a 14 oz bag of cheese balls and I'm now at 141 lbs. Not the way to get to 200.

    I feel your feels. I've been stress eating too. Or trying not to. I'm not sure which is winning. I hope your work gets less hectic.
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    I really honestly feel bad for some of the question askers around here. Whoa, tough crowd.
  • Mpol2
    Mpol2 Posts: 442 Member


    Quiksylver, have you been typing "Giant Cucumber Man" in your browser again? I thought you were going to stop doing that?![/quote]

    Busted.... :#

    Truly, I am trying to think what I last googled. I'm pretty sure it was "Wonder Woman pic." No idea how I ended up with Giant Cucumber Man.[/quote]

    Well, you are a woman (me too) and that ad certainly is making us wonder!
  • FroggyBug
    FroggyBug Posts: 4,883 Member
    BZAH10 wrote: »
    cranor130 wrote: »
    FroggyBug wrote: »
    I'm behind right now and missed this comment! Thank you, I appreciate it :) Yesterday I was walking around in a sweater even though it was pretty hot because I was embarrassed about my arms. Today I realized that was kind of dumb. How many people look at other people and think ''That girl has some weird arms!!!"?

    Also I'm surprised by how many people think bubble tea is or sounds gross! Tapioca is delicious, I've always loved the pudding myself :tongue: I also love the texture. I admit, at first I thought I hated bubble tea when I got some in New York for the first time. I tried it again a couple years later in Montreal, a different flavor, and loved it. Now I've tried almost all of the milky varieties... now I'm craving it again.

    I'm the same way with my arms. I'm so self conscious about them that I always wear long
    sleeves. My hoodie is my security blanket and I wear it even in the summer. I roast but I just hate having people see my arms.

    I like the bubble tea too. To me it taste like gummy candies. I usually get a strawberry banana boba.

    Don't roast my friends.
    I do not like my "wing span", and it was hard to not cover up at first. A few years back, I decided this is me, I don't care what people think, and I have been "hanging out" ever since. HAPPY BARE ARMS TO ALL! Laura

    Not to criticize or be the grammar police, but without the comma I had to read this a couple times to see what you meant! Pretty funny without the comma.

    I didn't even notice that. It is funny. I do appreciate what they meant to say though.
  • girldownsouth
    girldownsouth Posts: 920 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    ShibaEars wrote: »
    ythannah wrote: »
    JPW1990 wrote: »
    Longish and TMI confession:

    I mentioned before that I have a phobia of walking outside because I nearly stepped in a very dead raccoon. I've been trying to work on that, so today I took my son to a park that has a playground and a very out in the open 1/2 mile jogging path circling it. It also has lots of trash cans and plenty of free plastic bags for dog walkers.

    It's hot and humid today, and those trash cans are starting to smell like that raccoon. About half way through my first lap, I started breathing through my mouth to lessen the impact when I'd approach one. An unidentified bug flew in my mouth, I couldn't cough it out, had left my water in the car, and didn't want to embarrass my son by everyone watching his mom puke in the middle of the park from walking a quarter mile. So I swallowed it. I didn't quit, either, I did the rest of my laps before coming home. And then I kept thinking about it, and started feeling a weird tickle in the back of throat, and then I convinced myself it was probably a stray bug leg, and then I started thinking that it was probably a fly, since a bee would've hurt, and flies have been crawling all over the dog poop in the garbage, and yeah, there came back breakfast and the bug. I guess the upside is I don't have to log the bug now?

    Not any closer to wanting to walk outside after this.

    *snort*

    I would've just spit out the bug. I am not a delicate spitter.

    I confess, I've swallowed more than a couple of bugs in my lifetime. It's gross, but it's a fact of life when you run outside before sunrise.

    Or biking, especially in a wooded area. Blech. Or they fuse to your eyeball (because you're too stubborn to wear sunglasses).

    I was going down a particularly steep section of single-track trail and had to pass between two trees. I got a spider web across the face - and the spider came with it! It was on my eyelid and I had my eye shut but I could see the shadow of it moving across my eyelid. I couldn't stop where I was and somehow completed the hill with my eyes shut. I couldn't get it off my face fast enough once I hit flat open ground.

    Did I mention I'm scared of spiders?

    Yikes. The stinkbug in the shower this morning doesn't seem half as bad anymore.

    I kept finding those little b@!$4!&$ in my hotel room in VA. Then just after I got home I found one in my house. I looked it up online to find it was a stink bug and found an article about how they haven't made it to the UK but there are fears about the effect on farming if they do. Must have snuck over in my suitcase. I was worried I was going to cause some kind of ecological disaster. I caught it and flushed it down the loo. Didn't find anymore, so hopefully was just a solo hitchhiker.

    And daddy long legs/crane flies are totally harmless aren't they? They don't bother me, just kind of hover around. Moths are what I really hate.
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    And daddy long legs/crane flies are totally harmless aren't they? They don't bother me, just kind of hover around. Moths are what I really hate.
    Yup, adult crane flies can't eat and babies eat decaying organic matter.

  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    ShibaEars wrote: »
    ythannah wrote: »
    JPW1990 wrote: »
    Longish and TMI confession:

    I mentioned before that I have a phobia of walking outside because I nearly stepped in a very dead raccoon. I've been trying to work on that, so today I took my son to a park that has a playground and a very out in the open 1/2 mile jogging path circling it. It also has lots of trash cans and plenty of free plastic bags for dog walkers.

    It's hot and humid today, and those trash cans are starting to smell like that raccoon. About half way through my first lap, I started breathing through my mouth to lessen the impact when I'd approach one. An unidentified bug flew in my mouth, I couldn't cough it out, had left my water in the car, and didn't want to embarrass my son by everyone watching his mom puke in the middle of the park from walking a quarter mile. So I swallowed it. I didn't quit, either, I did the rest of my laps before coming home. And then I kept thinking about it, and started feeling a weird tickle in the back of throat, and then I convinced myself it was probably a stray bug leg, and then I started thinking that it was probably a fly, since a bee would've hurt, and flies have been crawling all over the dog poop in the garbage, and yeah, there came back breakfast and the bug. I guess the upside is I don't have to log the bug now?

    Not any closer to wanting to walk outside after this.

    *snort*

    I would've just spit out the bug. I am not a delicate spitter.

    I confess, I've swallowed more than a couple of bugs in my lifetime. It's gross, but it's a fact of life when you run outside before sunrise.

    Or biking, especially in a wooded area. Blech. Or they fuse to your eyeball (because you're too stubborn to wear sunglasses).

    I was going down a particularly steep section of single-track trail and had to pass between two trees. I got a spider web across the face - and the spider came with it! It was on my eyelid and I had my eye shut but I could see the shadow of it moving across my eyelid. I couldn't stop where I was and somehow completed the hill with my eyes shut. I couldn't get it off my face fast enough once I hit flat open ground.

    Did I mention I'm scared of spiders?

    Yikes. The stinkbug in the shower this morning doesn't seem half as bad anymore.

    I kept finding those little b@!$4!&$ in my hotel room in VA. Then just after I got home I found one in my house. I looked it up online to find it was a stink bug and found an article about how they haven't made it to the UK but there are fears about the effect on farming if they do. Must have snuck over in my suitcase. I was worried I was going to cause some kind of ecological disaster. I caught it and flushed it down the loo. Didn't find anymore, so hopefully was just a solo hitchhiker.

    And daddy long legs/crane flies are totally harmless aren't they? They don't bother me, just kind of hover around. Moths are what I really hate.

    Haha that's pretty awesome for the bug.
  • LBuehrle8
    LBuehrle8 Posts: 4,044 Member
    pofoster21 wrote: »
    BTW does DH mean Dear Husband?

    There are so many abbreviated things on this website I have no idea what people mean half the time
  • almondbutterbay
    almondbutterbay Posts: 221 Member
    Reading the random threads on this site makes me feel like I am the only person who doesn't weigh everything they eat but still loses weight when I log. I'm terrified to weigh everything I eat cause I feel like I'll get obsessed
  • rungirl1973
    rungirl1973 Posts: 2,559 Member
    Reading the random threads on this site makes me feel like I am the only person who doesn't weigh everything they eat but still loses weight when I log. I'm terrified to weigh everything I eat cause I feel like I'll get obsessed

    You are not alone. :)
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Reading the random threads on this site makes me feel like I am the only person who doesn't weigh everything they eat but still loses weight when I log. I'm terrified to weigh everything I eat cause I feel like I'll get obsessed

    Nah I didn't at first either, but once I realized I could eat what I wanted in moderation, I needed the scale to make sure my portions were indeed reasonable... plus it was less stressful for me not to have to guess and wonder if I was really under my calories etc. But people got to do what works for them!

    Confession - I get excited on days I pee a lot because it means I will have lost weight the next day.
  • LBuehrle8
    LBuehrle8 Posts: 4,044 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    ShibaEars wrote: »
    ythannah wrote: »
    JPW1990 wrote: »
    Longish and TMI confession:

    I mentioned before that I have a phobia of walking outside because I nearly stepped in a very dead raccoon. I've been trying to work on that, so today I took my son to a park that has a playground and a very out in the open 1/2 mile jogging path circling it. It also has lots of trash cans and plenty of free plastic bags for dog walkers.

    It's hot and humid today, and those trash cans are starting to smell like that raccoon. About half way through my first lap, I started breathing through my mouth to lessen the impact when I'd approach one. An unidentified bug flew in my mouth, I couldn't cough it out, had left my water in the car, and didn't want to embarrass my son by everyone watching his mom puke in the middle of the park from walking a quarter mile. So I swallowed it. I didn't quit, either, I did the rest of my laps before coming home. And then I kept thinking about it, and started feeling a weird tickle in the back of throat, and then I convinced myself it was probably a stray bug leg, and then I started thinking that it was probably a fly, since a bee would've hurt, and flies have been crawling all over the dog poop in the garbage, and yeah, there came back breakfast and the bug. I guess the upside is I don't have to log the bug now?

    Not any closer to wanting to walk outside after this.

    *snort*

    I would've just spit out the bug. I am not a delicate spitter.

    I confess, I've swallowed more than a couple of bugs in my lifetime. It's gross, but it's a fact of life when you run outside before sunrise.

    Or biking, especially in a wooded area. Blech. Or they fuse to your eyeball (because you're too stubborn to wear sunglasses).

    I was going down a particularly steep section of single-track trail and had to pass between two trees. I got a spider web across the face - and the spider came with it! It was on my eyelid and I had my eye shut but I could see the shadow of it moving across my eyelid. I couldn't stop where I was and somehow completed the hill with my eyes shut. I couldn't get it off my face fast enough once I hit flat open ground.

    Did I mention I'm scared of spiders?

    Yikes. The stinkbug in the shower this morning doesn't seem half as bad anymore.

    I kept finding those little b@!$4!&$ in my hotel room in VA. Then just after I got home I found one in my house. I looked it up online to find it was a stink bug and found an article about how they haven't made it to the UK but there are fears about the effect on farming if they do. Must have snuck over in my suitcase. I was worried I was going to cause some kind of ecological disaster. I caught it and flushed it down the loo. Didn't find anymore, so hopefully was just a solo hitchhiker.

    And daddy long legs/crane flies are totally harmless aren't they? They don't bother me, just kind of hover around. Moths are what I really hate.

    I'd never seen or heard of stink bugs either until I moved to Virginia! Then after three years I move back to Ohio and they're here too!! Stupid bugs...and stupid VA- gorgeous state but I was not a fan of living there.
  • CarynCharB
    CarynCharB Posts: 215 Member
    Laurend224 wrote: »
    I can't do any type of jumping jacks or running without my belly smacking the top of my thighs. It's really embarrassing. Going to talk to a surgeon about a panniculectomy. Three kids and yo-yoing between 140 and 252 a few times wrecked my belly.

    DO IT! It was the best thing I've ever done for myself!
  • Tubbs216
    Tubbs216 Posts: 6,597 Member
    Reading the random threads on this site makes me feel like I am the only person who doesn't weigh everything they eat but still loses weight when I log. I'm terrified to weigh everything I eat cause I feel like I'll get obsessed

    You are not alone. :)
    I do weigh, but not obsessively. I don't check the weights of pre-packaged items, eggs etc either. Often I'll use measuring cups because near enough is good enough. I figure if I stop losing, I'll tighten up the weighing.
  • CarynCharB
    CarynCharB Posts: 215 Member
    edited May 2015
    Confession - I get excited on days I pee a lot because it means I will have lost weight the next day.[/quote]


    I like to weigh after a big poop!! :blush:
  • ythannah
    ythannah Posts: 4,371 Member
    ...and I swear, when I read the word "cleanse" -- in the context of non-eating 'eating' ;) -- all I can think is, "diarrhea as a weight loss 'method'... hmmm..." --

    Don't knock it, it works. I was on hardcore antibiotics for two weeks last summer (several days via IV) and lost 5 lbs. I swear I absorbed NOTHING during that time, everything went straight through.

    That tapeworm thing was pretty gross...
  • SoulOfRusalka
    SoulOfRusalka Posts: 1,201 Member
    I just had an amazing heirloom tomato with fresh basil and salt and now I feel like a human who's eaten fairy food and then can't go back to eating human food because it tastes like ash by comparison. I seriously don't know how I'm going to eat anything else today. It was a really, really good tomato, okay?

    Also, it makes me really uncomfortable when straight guys seem interested in me or flirt with me or anything. Not their fault (as long as they're being polite). It's really ironic. Straight guys like Absynthe who likes straight girls. Oh well.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    ythannah wrote: »
    ...and I swear, when I read the word "cleanse" -- in the context of non-eating 'eating' ;) -- all I can think is, "diarrhea as a weight loss 'method'... hmmm..." --

    Don't knock it, it works. I was on hardcore antibiotics for two weeks last summer (several days via IV) and lost 5 lbs. I swear I absorbed NOTHING during that time, everything went straight through.

    That tapeworm thing was pretty gross...

    Haha I lost 3 pounds from a stomach bug and never gained it back. Tapeworm though... ew.
  • almondbutterbay
    almondbutterbay Posts: 221 Member
    Tubbs216 wrote: »
    Reading the random threads on this site makes me feel like I am the only person who doesn't weigh everything they eat but still loses weight when I log. I'm terrified to weigh everything I eat cause I feel like I'll get obsessed

    You are not alone. :)
    I do weigh, but not obsessively. I don't check the weights of pre-packaged items, eggs etc either. Often I'll use measuring cups because near enough is good enough. I figure if I stop losing, I'll tighten up the weighing.

    Yeah I just had a panic attack because I read that thread (http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10155899/what-surprises-have-you-found-about-foods-you-didnt-realize-before-logging) and people were talking about how they were surprised to find that a serving of eggs or nuts isn't the amount of calories they thought it was. Like obviously I know that not every egg is around 70 calories but now I'm feeling the need to weigh every item I put in my mouth or to just give up -_-

    I hate when my brain gets obsessive. I've wanted to quit this site so many times but I'm terrified of gaining weight. Even though it's not like being on this site has stopped me from gaining weight in the past three years lol. #losingmymind
  • Oberon21
    Oberon21 Posts: 13,235 Member
    LBuehrle8 wrote: »
    pofoster21 wrote: »
    BTW does DH mean Dear Husband?

    There are so many abbreviated things on this website I have no idea what people mean half the time

    Ditto. I've been wondering about that one for a while figured I'd ask.
  • kellyjellybellyjelly
    kellyjellybellyjelly Posts: 9,480 Member
    I over eat & then run to the gym and Burn off 1400 calories. I NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    *hugs*
  • kellyjellybellyjelly
    kellyjellybellyjelly Posts: 9,480 Member
    m1xm0d3 wrote: »
    I over eat & then run to the gym and Burn off 1400 calories. I NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    No judgment, but I seriously doubt you are burning off 1400 calories unless you're doing a half-marathon on the treadmill or something. Gym machines, elliptical, treadmills, etc, are notoriously high on their "calories burned' that they show. I don't use their numbers, cuz there is no way I burned 700 calories on the elliptical for 40 minutes.

    Actually mine is accurate, because I am losing weight. It takes about 90 minutes to burn 1400 cal's. I work out REALLY Hard. So Yes my cal's are accurate.


    What device are you using to track your burns?

    None, I use the machines. The equipment is New. I'm on the highest level possible. I also re-check my cals on various websites to make sure its all the same.

    Aren't most of the machines mostly inaccurate? If you have some extra cash you could always buy a cheaper heart rate monitor with a chest strap for when you want to be as accurate as possible.