crys_todd Member

Insurance fraud

My consistent pre bed and morning routine is the same: brush teeth, brush hair, and my skin care routine.

Your shirt quite literally made me laugh out loud. Where did you buy this? My father is fond of the Gasden flag and sci fi. I think I know what to get him for his birthday now!

Took a pic to show my friend how my hair came out after using a curling wand for the first time. Love the waves...hate the fact that I burned myself twice in the process.

Random friend of a friend: Normally I have a "no fat chicks" rule but your face is pretty enough that I could reconsider. Me: Oh, how nice. Unfortunately my "no asseholes" rule is firm, so sounds like we aren't meant to be.

290 to 168 in a year and a half. I still have 18 to lose but I'm really happy with the change so far.

I struggle with this all the time. My husband says he wants eat healthier but is really a meat and potato lover. He only has a handful of veggies he will eat by themselves but I've found he will eat almost anything if I can incorporate it in a recipe. I often lighten up familiar to him recipes. Lasagna is a favorite. I use…

Mayo is mine too. I don't understand the mayo obsession and why it comes default on everything! Also liquid calories like soda and juice. They do nothing to fill me up and I'm just as happy with water or ice tea.

Are you on the extended release version? That made a world off difference for me. I almost quit taking it too so my doctor switched me to the ER and the side effects were much more tolerable. Also start off with 500mg just once a day. Take that for a couple of weeks before adding in the second dose. The first few months I…

I do 95% of the meal prep and cooking for my husband, 4 year old, and one year old. We all eat the same food every night, I just occasionally modify to meet my goals. Family meals are important to me and I won't short order cook to everyone's tastes. My kids are actually great eaters. It's my husband who is the pickier…

I got irrationally angry once at McDonalds. I was driving a long distance through the middle of nowhere for work and got very thirsty. I stopped at McDonalds and ordered a large Diet Coke. I drive away and took a phone call and distractedly started chugging the thing because I was so thirsty. It wasn't until I had finished…

I had AN too when I was first diagnosed with PCOS. Metformin, lower carb diet, and weight loss made it disappear. I had my hair up at work recently and a coworker commented on how lovely she thought my skin was. It made me laugh inside thinking about how embarrassed I used to feel about my dark neck.

It would be better if the message was that you can pursue health at any size. Encouraging chronically obese people to care about their bodies regardless of the number on the scale can't be a bad thing. It would be great if the movement encouraged healthy nutrient rich diets with physical activity and self care. Surely the…

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My MIL always greets me with "You are losing weight!" I've been with my husband 10 years and she always has. Even when I was rapidly gaining her greeting was, "You're losing weight!" No. No, I've actually gained weight. "Well you look lovely!" I never got offended because she was genuinely being kind but it is sad to me…

I can't lie. That tiny glass of wine makes me want to cry.

I'd add a tablespoon of butter too since most restaurants butter their buns.

I think medical doctors really should refrain from making blanket statements like that ever. When I was very first diagnosed I was told I'd never have children as my ovaries were so cystic and I was completely amenorrhic. I'm nursing my 13 month old as I type this. Not to say it wasnt difficult and it required a lot of…

PCOS is a syndrome and like all syndromes it is a collection of symptoms that will effect each person differently. Some people will have more severe cases then others. Not all women with PCOS are fat and in some it contributes heavily. Hell, not all women with PCOS even have ovarian cysts. It can testosterone or estrogen…

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Since Katy Perry assaults my ear drums on an almost daily basis in going with that one.

Pregnancy and subsequent breastfeeding. I packed on the pounds both times. You would think I would have learned the first time but noooooooo.

I have PCOS and I've been on 2,000mg of Met off and on for years. I lost 160 lbs the first time I took it. I stopped taking it while I was pregnant and nursing my two children and I just started taking it again when my youngest mostly weaned. I had gained back 100 lbs over the last 4 years that I've been off it. Since…

64. You mentally calculate the approximate calorie and carb count of everything you see other people eat. 63. You are known as a calorie wizard amoung friends and family because you know the approximate calorie count of everything.

I've been diagnosed with PCOS for close to 10 years now. The best thing that ever worked for me was Metformin and a lower carb diet (~100g/day). Weight loss comes so much faster and easier with that combo. Plus it regulates my cycle and gets rid of the dark skin around my neck. It's very much worth it to request the MD…

Non-fat dairy of any sort is never worth it (milk, yogurt, cheese, cottage cheese). I'd rather have 1 oz of delicious full fat cheese than 1 lb of the non fat stuff. Usually the calorie savings aren't even that much anyway. Apples have way more calories than I first thought and sweet potatoes have way less. An actual half…

I leave a buffer of 100-ish calories everyday to account for licking peanut butter off my finger or a stolen bite of my husband's ice cream or tasting food as a cook. I love to cook and get creative in the kitchen and I never use recipes so tasting my food as I cook is imperative if I want the final product to taste worth…

I weigh discreetly in my house. I try not to let my almost 4 year old daughter see me doing it because I want her relationship with food to be much more healthy and intuitive than mine ever was. That and my husband thinks it's bananas and pokes fun. He's fond of saying that Walter White was less precise with his wares than…

Yes! So much yes. I gained more weight in the 6 months after my son was born than I did during my pregnancy. He was a terrible sleeper as a newborn and I couldn't nap during the day with my 3 year old at home too. Chronic sleep deprivation and nursing hunger are no joke. Once he started sleeping, I started losing.