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I quit smoking in March of this year and took up baking.....whoa!!!! I was NEVER small but I was also NEVER this big. I knew I had gained a little weight during the summer but it wasn't until it got cold and I went to put on my jeans that I realized the true extent of what I had done making cakes pies and cookies every night! :embarassed:

My biggest problem according to my Drs is that I don't eat enough....this makes some sense to me but try telling that to a non medical healthy person just for grins and giggles...their look is priceless. A fat person MUST eat allllllll day long and never entertain the thought of a fruit or vegetable right?!?! Well I can certainly say in my case that is definitely wrong! The Drs say that my body goes into "starvation mode" due to me not eating and that every calorie I do intake is held onto for fear of me not eating again...I can see it but still.

To be quite honest I am food ignorant. We are southern....AKA Rice and milk gravy goes with everything and for some reason the rice has butter added to it while cooking THEN the gravy on top :noway: I was taught to cook adding bacon grease or butter to everything that didn't fight back. I know what supposedly is good and what is bad for you but the whole eat 6 small meals a day going from 1 meal a day is for lack of a better word exhausting! I feel like I am eating all day long now for real!!! I know people say for example eat whatever whatever whatever but I need a more structured regime than that I NEED for someone to tell me at 8 eat whatever at 10 or 11 or whenever I am supposed to eat again eat this! I am trying to get a doctor to refer me to a nutritionist but they keep dragging their feet!

Wow....anyway this was supposed to be a quick hello and I just went into a whole other thing....if only talking was great exercise!