Confession Time! ((ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGEMENT))
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Mmm, crunchy!quiksylver296 wrote: »
I can't remember if I've shared this one before, but it's one of my favourite stories so I tell it whenever I get the chance. When my daughter was a newborn, I'd just changed her and her umbilical cord stump had come off (for the uninitiated, at birth they clamp the cord, but there's a little bit left, which over the next week or so shrivels and eventually turns black and drops off, leaving a nice, neat belly button). I went 'Ew', put it aside and immediately forgot about it. Fast forward an hour or so, husband and I eating toasted currant buns, he picks up a stray currant and is about to eat it. Yes, of course it was the cord stump! And to this day I regret that I stopped him from eating it because it would be a so much better story then.
HAHAHAHA that's funny. And gross
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Susieq_1994 wrote: »As promised, pictures of my baby! I hope they show properly.
This was her the day I brought her home. Smaller than the palm of my hand!
Growing...
These are comparison shots about two months apart, next to the same (mini) laptop.
I know, too many pictures... But she's just too cute not to share?
Can. Not. Handle. The. Cuteness. OH GOD, I am dying from cuteness overload!0 -
mysticlizard wrote: »When I was 12 or 13 my best school friend told me you can summon devil by looking in the mirror and calling his name 3 times, then she started to call... I was in tears begging her to stop after she said it for the second time. I was petrified!
At 50 I still don't look into a mirror in the dark, I am to afraid.
I have never been able to actually say "Bloody Mary" three times in front of the mirror. I mean, the odds of something actually happening are pretty slim, but why take the chance?!0 -
Caught up to here.
I developed a cat allergy as an adult, so no kitties for me. I do have a dog (rescued from an older lady who couldn't keep him with her smaller dogs.) She called him Bobo. We shortened it to Bo, which we decided means Big Oaf, which is what we usually call him.
He thinks he's a lap dog:
This afternoon, I fell asleep on the couch (after a 36 mile bike ride). About 20 minutes later, Bo woke me up, for no other reason than he didn't think I needed to be sleeping on his couch!
He is beautiful!
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Today's confession:
About once a month I hit the Bulk Barn and buy spices and nuts and candy.....then I come home and weigh all the nuts (26g) and candy (50g).....while doing this, I eat at least two or three servings.....0 -
Our town had a "town wide garage sale" today, and my mom wanted to go. I said I would go but said I didn't really like garage sales as I feel like I'm buying other people's garbage. Turns out, I like garage sales. I got a few cool things
I bought some Breyer's Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream a few weeks ago, and was disappointed by the strange texture. Last night I discovered that nowhere on the container does it say the words "ice cream". They call it a "Frozen Dessert". This ticks me off to no end.
After going to the garage sales today I proceeded to sit in my backyard and have several drinks while enjoying the sunshine. Sadly this meant I was hung over by 7 pm
(and I'm not even going to try logging it) 0 -
mysticlizard wrote: »When I was 12 or 13 my best school friend told me you can summon devil by looking in the mirror and calling his name 3 times, then she started to call... I was in tears begging her to stop after she said it for the second time. I was petrified!
At 50 I still don't look into a mirror in the dark, I am to afraid.
I have never been able to actually say "Bloody Mary" three times in front of the mirror. I mean, the odds of something actually happening are pretty slim, but why take the chance?!
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I hid a pint of Ben & Jerry's Hazed & Confused by putting it an empty bag of frozen vegetables. My kids...husband...looked right past it as I secretly worked on it. Took me about four days to polish it off and I couldn't decide what was more satisfying. The ice cream itself Or having ice cream JUST FOR ME safely, closely, stored in my freezer and no one pestering me to let them have some! Issues, hu? Layed out for you there, clear as can be!
OMG You are a GENIUS! How have I never thought of this?0 -
I bought a colouring book for grown ups and pencil crayons last night, and spent a good hour colouring when I got home. Yes, I'm 30 years old. No, I'm not ashamed.0
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Our town had a "town wide garage sale" today, and my mom wanted to go. I said I would go but said I didn't really like garage sales as I feel like I'm buying other people's garbage. Turns out, I like garage sales. I got a few cool things
I bought some Breyer's Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream a few weeks ago, and was disappointed by the strange texture. Last night I discovered that nowhere on the container does it say the words "ice cream". They call it a "Frozen Dessert". This ticks me off to no end.
After going to the garage sales today I proceeded to sit in my backyard and have several drinks while enjoying the sunshine. Sadly this meant I was hung over by 7 pm (and I'm not even going to try logging it)
I did the same thing yesterday! Day drinking is my favorite!0 -
pearso21123 wrote: »I hid a pint of Ben & Jerry's Hazed & Confused by putting it an empty bag of frozen vegetables. My kids...husband...looked right past it as I secretly worked on it. Took me about four days to polish it off and I couldn't decide what was more satisfying. The ice cream itself Or having ice cream JUST FOR ME safely, closely, stored in my freezer and no one pestering me to let them have some! Issues, hu? Layed out for you there, clear as can be!
OMG You are a GENIUS! How have I never thought of this?[/quote
I agree! What a brilliant idea. I can't wait to try it out.0 -
I have never been able to actually say "Bloody Mary" three times in front of the mirror. I mean, the odds of something actually happening are pretty slim, but why take the chance?!
NONONONO. I won't even think it! That or Candyman. I've been scarred for life.
Edit: when I get my own place I would like a Dachshund named Colin (Black Adder if anyone gets the joke)
Dachshunds are the best! We have a mini named Charlie.
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If I "blow" a day, I always stuff myself (literally) and SWEAR that I will get back on track the following day. Well, I have done that everyday for the past month and have gained all the weight back that I had lost previously. Now I have to lose the 15 pounds all over again. :-( I wish there was some way I could change this mindset (in that if I exceed the amount of "allotted" calories per day that I stuff myself the rest of the day)?! Anyway, that is my confession!0
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I have never been able to actually say "Bloody Mary" three times in front of the mirror. I mean, the odds of something actually happening are pretty slim, but why take the chance?!
NONONONO. I won't even think it! That or Candyman. I've been scarred for life.
Edit: when I get my own place I would like a Dachshund named Colin (Black Adder if anyone gets the joke)
Dachshunds are the best! We have a mini named Charlie.
Dachshunds really are the best!! We and a standard size, short hair named Pacey. Sadly, we had to say goodbye to him last summer after 15.5 years. He was my first "child". I absolutely love dogs(and all animals) but always swore I could never get another for fear of just always comparing the new dog to him.. 
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I bought a colouring book for grown ups and pencil crayons last night, and spent a good hour colouring when I got home. Yes, I'm 30 years old. No, I'm not ashamed.
Coloring is awesome! I LOVE coloring with my son and get sad when he is ready to move on to playing with something else. Maybe I'll pick up and adult coloring book of my own!
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I bought a colouring book for grown ups and pencil crayons last night, and spent a good hour colouring when I got home. Yes, I'm 30 years old. No, I'm not ashamed.
Totally me... And I don't have an adult coloring book. I have the only coloring book I could find in this country: "The Boys' Jumbo Coloring Book".
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pearso21123 wrote: »
I've also seen the suggestion of eating at the maintenance for your goal weight (which you'd get from calculating your TDEE then, rather than your current weight). You can then custom set your goals for that number of calories. In theory you should very slowly lose until reaching goal.raelynnsmama52512 wrote: »
Is that just setting MFP to maintain or do you do any calculating? I think I'm going to try that for a bit so I can get a grip on things.girldownsouth wrote: »raelynnsmama52512 wrote: »I've fallen off big time lately, and now I'm confused on how to get back. I've looked at the TDEE method but I'm so confused on that, but I can't do the 1200 MFP keeps setting for me. I really don't want to put up a new post about it but may just have to...
What I've started doing since getting back on track is set my calories to maintenance. Sometimes I'm under by a lot, sometimes a little (or none) but I quite like doing it this way. Makes it more flexible, and sometimes I'm less likely to anack
I'm now 12lbs from my goal and considering doing this if I start to struggle, or even just for a little break.
raelynnsmama - let me know if you need help with the numbers figuring. I have a fairly good grasp on how it all works.
I'm still catching up, but wanted to comment on this. My doctor actually recommended eating 10 calories for every pound you want to weigh, so if you want to weigh 135 pounds you eat 1350 calories. You should slowly lose weight until you hit your goal. I have yet to try this method but I thought it was an interesting suggestion, and one I'd never heard before.
Not really true. I already weigh around 135 pounds, and 1350 is a fairly large deficit for me even at this weight. And if someone very petite wanted to weigh around 95 pounds, they'd be eating less than 1000 calories! It's a "quick way" of deciding a deficit, but has no basis in science that I know of... And if a really heavy person were to decide their deficit in that way, they'd be eating way too little to sustain themselves at their size. Just my two cents.
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Pretty sure I went over my calorie allowance yesterday but I'm not sure by how many. It was home cooked foods for the most part.
To my surprise I lost .6 lbs when I weighed myself this morning. I didn't log anything yesterday0 -
I drank far too much last night and now I'm hungover. Today may well feature McDonald's and/or pizza...0
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So, we made it to page 666! Shall we do some spooky or evil confessions?! Or should we not take this thread down that road? I'm headed to the gym so I'll miss it if we do. I'll have to log back on later to see what happens!
I watched The Exorcist when I was 14 and a freshman in high school at a sleepover and 15 years later I STILL have vivid nightmare. I've never watched it again and I probably never will! I couldn't sleep for months after watching it
I confess to be a great coward when it comes to horror movies - anything with ghosts, aliens and other supernatural evil beings scares me to death! I don't like watching these as I find myself too afraid to get up to use toilet during the night and I have to have all lights on around the house... even then if I go downstairs to the kitchen for anything and my husband is upstairs, I run back upstairs as quick as I can looking over my shoulder.
At the same time I can watch serial killers, murderers,etc without any issues at all
I'm exactly like you!! I watched the Japanese version of The Ring and The Grudge (Ju On) and I still have nightmares about them as vividly as I did before!! I don't like looking at televisions when they are switched off either because I'm afraid I'll see a spectre with its head covered pointing at something in the reflection. I swear I will throw that damn tv down the garbage chute!!
However, I LOVE horror movies and I make it point to watch almost EVERY horror movie that comes out. It must be the age but I don't do torture porn (every "horror" movie is torture porn these days..) as I'm a traditionalist I only watch supernatural.0 -
So, I've totally stopped visiting other forums/threads besides this thread and the Gelato and Ice Cream group.0
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So, we made it to page 666! Shall we do some spooky or evil confessions?! Or should we not take this thread down that road? I'm headed to the gym so I'll miss it if we do. I'll have to log back on later to see what happens!
I watched The Exorcist when I was 14 and a freshman in high school at a sleepover and 15 years later I STILL have vivid nightmare. I've never watched it again and I probably never will! I couldn't sleep for months after watching it
I confess to be a great coward when it comes to horror movies - anything with ghosts, aliens and other supernatural evil beings scares me to death! I don't like watching these as I find myself too afraid to get up to use toilet during the night and I have to have all lights on around the house... even then if I go downstairs to the kitchen for anything and my husband is upstairs, I run back upstairs as quick as I can looking over my shoulder.
At the same time I can watch serial killers, murderers,etc without any issues at all
I'm exactly like you!! I watched the Japanese version of The Ring and The Grudge (Ju On) and I still have nightmares about them as vividly as I did before!! I don't like looking at televisions when they are switched off either because I'm afraid I'll see a spectre with its head covered pointing at something in the reflection. I swear I will throw that damn tv down the garbage chute!!
However, I LOVE horror movies and I make it point to watch almost EVERY horror movie that comes out. It must be the age but I don't do torture porn (every "horror" movie is torture porn these days..) as I'm a traditionalist I only watch supernatural.
I love supernatural too! Possibly one of the few that doesn't freak me out to be honest.0 -
pearso21123 wrote: »
I've also seen the suggestion of eating at the maintenance for your goal weight (which you'd get from calculating your TDEE then, rather than your current weight). You can then custom set your goals for that number of calories. In theory you should very slowly lose until reaching goal.raelynnsmama52512 wrote: »
Is that just setting MFP to maintain or do you do any calculating? I think I'm going to try that for a bit so I can get a grip on things.girldownsouth wrote: »raelynnsmama52512 wrote: »I've fallen off big time lately, and now I'm confused on how to get back. I've looked at the TDEE method but I'm so confused on that, but I can't do the 1200 MFP keeps setting for me. I really don't want to put up a new post about it but may just have to...
What I've started doing since getting back on track is set my calories to maintenance. Sometimes I'm under by a lot, sometimes a little (or none) but I quite like doing it this way. Makes it more flexible, and sometimes I'm less likely to anack
I'm now 12lbs from my goal and considering doing this if I start to struggle, or even just for a little break.
raelynnsmama - let me know if you need help with the numbers figuring. I have a fairly good grasp on how it all works.
I'm still catching up, but wanted to comment on this. My doctor actually recommended eating 10 calories for every pound you want to weigh, so if you want to weigh 135 pounds you eat 1350 calories. You should slowly lose weight until you hit your goal. I have yet to try this method but I thought it was an interesting suggestion, and one I'd never heard before.
That's why doctor shouldn't give advice on nutrition. I'd probably be so hangry I'd be killing people on so little food.
So I was hungry again yesterday and went over again (surprise, surprise) and today we're having that potluck picnic. My confession is that I'm kinda glad they totally messed up the app as I haven't figured out how to see how many calories over you are for the week with the new one. It's probably not very pretty.0 -
krissyreminisce wrote: »krissyreminisce wrote: »How do you guys reconcile cheat days? I'm pretty much being encouraged on all sides to calm down for a least a day or a weekend with the logging and strict eating and have a cheat meal or two. But having my cals in the red is something I don't particularly enjoy seeing and have only done it once since starting (It was last weekend and I was running a half marathon the next day which is usually a guaranteed 950-1100 kcals burned). But I can't get past myself.
Do you just log it and move on? Or do you not log it and move on? I haven't had any of my favorites in a long time because of this anxiety.
I try to keep a weekly deficit. But honestly I didn't have many cheat meals while I was actively losing, because it was counter productive. Typically I try to fit what I like in my calories (and again, look at the weekly deficit, not daily).
I log everything though, even if it's just quick calories.
I'd say don't stress over it, not healthy, doesn't change anything. I've seen some people say eat to your maintenance level for a day or week (or your goal maintenance). Maybe that would lower your stress. (Edited because sleepy-fingers here posted before I was done typing.)
Ah, see, I am at maintenance. I don't have any more weight to lose. I actually, probably, need to gain weight. But fear and anxiety, those two jerks, are pretty loud.
Thanks, though! I'm going to try it out, probably this weekend.krissyreminisce wrote: »krissyreminisce wrote: »How do you guys reconcile cheat days? I'm pretty much being encouraged on all sides to calm down for a least a day or a weekend with the logging and strict eating and have a cheat meal or two. But having my cals in the red is something I don't particularly enjoy seeing and have only done it once since starting (It was last weekend and I was running a half marathon the next day which is usually a guaranteed 950-1100 kcals burned). But I can't get past myself.
Do you just log it and move on? Or do you not log it and move on? I haven't had any of my favorites in a long time because of this anxiety.
I try to keep a weekly deficit. But honestly I didn't have many cheat meals while I was actively losing, because it was counter productive. Typically I try to fit what I like in my calories (and again, look at the weekly deficit, not daily).
I log everything though, even if it's just quick calories.
I'd say don't stress over it, not healthy, doesn't change anything. I've seen some people say eat to your maintenance level for a day or week (or your goal maintenance). Maybe that would lower your stress. (Edited because sleepy-fingers here posted before I was done typing.)
Ah, see, I am at maintenance. I don't have any more weight to lose. I actually, probably, need to gain weight. But fear and anxiety, those two jerks, are pretty loud.
Thanks, though! I'm going to try it out, probably this weekend.
I'm at maintenance too as I had reached my goal weight a while ago and yes I could stand to gain some weight too. But honestly after the length of time and effort taken to build a habit and a lifestyle change it's hard to just treat the change as a switch you can flip and just suddenly start eating more or 'letting go' so to speak, especially with the discipline part.
I get anxious too when it goes into red, or when I miss a workout - in fact I had a foot injury that left me out of action for one week and it was just torture having to force myself to not exercise or find ways to exercise as I had been warned that it may make the injury worse and leave me out of action for a further 6-8 weeks as a result. 6-8 weeks without my daily exercise would be hell on earth.
What I've been trying to do actively these days is to be more conscientious of my triggers to these anxieties because such behaviour, when spiralled out of control, can turn into an eating disorder really quickly. I want my lifestyle change to be about health, wellness and fitness and not a crazy calorie counting control fest.
So I've been actively trying to allow myself to be disciplined during the week, and then incorporate "bad" or "fattening" foods during the weekends without seeing red to remember how much I used to enjoy it. I'm a little worried that my absolute love of food is slowly dampening in favour of the attitude of "It's okay, I'll enjoy it next week." while nursing an absolute obsession with collecting recipes and cooking big delicious calorific feasts for my family. Almost like vicariously enjoying food through others without eating it.
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thegrimmycrew wrote: »my guilty pleasure? I keep a jar of peanut M&Ms next to my rack. Grab 10 as I watch tv. Learned that if I eat what I crave...in strict moderation Im golden..keeps binge eating away...happens if I'm not on point when I drink..oh..yeah...I like 3 pints o Guiness on the weekends...and a couple of Irish Car Bombs..n smoking a cigar...then ridin my zx10 along the coastline balls out on the way home...already lost a testacle on a high speed accident....that is totally another story!
That must be quite a story!0 -
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I blew off everything I was going to do yesterday to knit. Finished one project, now I'm itching to start the next one. Going to try to force myself to get stuff done first...but I don't wanna.0
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I am also a coward of scary movies. I can't even watch zombie apocalypse stuff. The other night I was actually having a dream about a zombie apocalypse and I forced myself to wake up because I was panicking so much.0
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