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"I'd jump your bones in a New York minute!" This was when I was pregnant, close to my due date.

Grunting with effort is okay as long as it isn't a kiai grunt. I have heard some guys making loud grunting as it they were rutting in bed with some bimbo, apparently just to call attention to themselves. It works, but not in a good way. But performing a Val Salva maneuver (when you hold your breath to increase…

Well, I can relate, but only from past experience. There was a time when I was young that I had a very nice body and was paid a LOT of attention by men who apparently thought that just by nature of my having a nice body I should be available to them for sex and they were hurt or angry when I wasn't. Thirty years have…

Thanks for sharing! I want to be doing that, too, in 10 years. I don't look as good as that, nor do I expect to, but I still want to be doing it and keep up my strength. Good to see someone else doing it so I know it can be done.

Well, from what I see there for today, you need to increase your protein and fat while proportionally decreasing your carb intake. Even though fresh fruit is good for you in that it has vitamins, minerals and fiber, to some degree, they all contain fructose which is directly implicated in the formation of fat. Two servings…

I can relate with the emotional content of your post and I wish I knew a solution. I eat healthy, too, but it's all too easy to eat one or two extra "goodies" making all the rest a failure, and if each day is like that or more than 3 days/week, nothing happens except frustration. And feeling crappy about myself and my…

Thanks, hon, for acknowledging where men's brains are kept. Better coming from you than me.

I appreciate the honesty and thank you for sharing your pictures. What I'm glad to see and what I can relate to just as much as the fear, shame and embarassment of having a less-than-perfect (or not even close) body is that you have decided to live your life unappologetically, finally. I see, in your pictures, what you say…

The problem may have only a little to do with your weight. The same thing happens to me, or something like it, when I do excercises that keep my foot in contact with pedals or platforms while the rest of my body moves. If you can try moving your foot in a more natural walking motion while on the machine, that could help. I…

If you haven't already, make sure you have new, high-quality running shoes. You might want to visit a podiatrist to see if orthotics could help. If your feet have problems, that affects your mechanics and everything above your feet.

I think you are a hero! When I was pregnant I was close to 200 lbs and the 30lb weight gain made me feel like I was trying to hike up hill with that much weight on my back in a pack without ever having trained for it. And that was my whole body! I can't imagine adding another whole body and trying to carry that around.…

I use powdered starter because I get reliable results with it and it keeps for a long time. I don't make yogurt often enough to keep some from the last batch. I never seem to get the yogurt as thick as store-bought and it has more calories per serving when you drain off the whey since that takes away from the volume of the…

That is a very good question, thank you for asking. I wonder the same thing. I was slim and had a very nice body 30 years ago, but I thought I was fat, even then when I was over 40 lbs lighter at that time than I am now. I have saved some of the clothes I wore then as a reminder and measurement tool. My body image is…

Well, I'm here intermittently, but I still exercise as much as I have time for. Lately my knee and heel have been bothering me making it difficult to exercise and not hurt either during or after exercise. I used to like riding my bike, but now I'm afraid my knee won't allow it. As for calories, yes, they need to be…

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I'm sick of playing games with you. Either get serious and real or get out! Wait... this didn't come out under the person I thought it was going to. I broke up with the wrong person! Damn! I might not have wanted to do that.

There were two times in my life when I didn't want to or forgot (gasp!) to eat; Once, when I was really thin from nearly starving on a nurtritious, but very low cal diet, running 5 days a week and working as a hotel maid, I felt great and wasn't thinking about food. The next time was when my ex-husband left me and my 3…

I think doing more work on the weaker side is a good idea, since the overall goal is strength. If you have a WII with a balance board and WII Fit, there is a function to measure balance distrubution and games to improve balance. I also recommend taking up belly dancing because there's nothing like it to increase your body…

After dinner, and many times the additional intake is alcohol. Not too much, but enough that it puts me over my calories by 200-300 calories.

Yes, this. My urges to binge are largely emotional; boredom, anxiety, procrastination, avoidance, anger/disappointment/disgust with myself or my behavior. Discovering those triggers needs consciousness and a willingness to be in it so you recognize it every time, see it for what it is and do something else besides eat…

I would say something is going on with him and between you that needs honest discussion. Not knowing either of you I couldn't say what's up, exactly, but you've seen some red flags. The tip-off is that a noticeable change has taken place in both your behaviors and perceptions of ordinary stuff. The business of peeing and…

Well, I'm sure now someone is going to want to get you pregnant, or at least do what that involves with you 'cause you really look hot! It may be, also, that now that you've decreased your BMI your ovaries will work better and you might not need the fertility treatments. I don't know if you have another specific problem,…

Please understand that the pictures do not represent what EVERY woman would look like at those body fat percentages. General build and muscle under the fat will change how even a higher percentage of body fat looks. I look like the 45% picture does here, but I know, objectively, that my BF% is not that high. Those photos…

This medication has pros and cons. But first, the furosemide... it's a diruetic, a "water pill," which partly explains your rapid weight loss and is often the first medication prescribed for people whose blood pressure is high to eliminate extra water from their circulation, lowering their blood pressure. That's fine for…

Interesting that next to your question to start the thread there is an ad for corsets. Ninerfbuff is correct about the fainting couches. That's what smelling salts were for, too, since they needed to be revived after being deprived of oxygen because they couldn't take a deep breath. When women wore corsets from the time…

Shaving is a waste of time, in my opinion. Other people give me a hard time and even whisper about my legs and pits not being shaved while pointing to me while they do it. If I do shave, it's not for anyone but me. I don't like the prickly stuff growing out and prefer just to leave it there and be soft. I don't buy that…

Danazol is a synthetic androgen that suppresses the effects of estrogen which is what the uterine fibroids respond to and causes their growth. It can have the result of decreased menstruation and ovulation as well as some masculinization such as increased body hair growth. It can have other side-effects such as weight gain…

The half pound loss is still a loss, and you are changing your body in a measurable way. That's a NSV (non-scale victory)! And a half-pound per week weight loss over a year would result in about 26 lbs lost.

Emotional pain is one that many of us seek to soothe with food. I agree with the others that vigorous physical activity is one of the better choices. If you go running or walking and choose a route that is isolated enough that you don't see too many people on it, you can grieve along the way, if that's what you feel like…

I don't know if you're using some kind of hormonal contraceptive, but they can produce emotional symptoms like you are describing. And if you aren't using a hormonal contraceptive, hormone fluctuations can cause that, too.