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Marks and Spencers. I'm a 34/36 DD/E/F now. It's a pain, but for some reason I find UK brands do a much better job than US ones at having a bigger size range, particularly in that weird larger cup/smallish band zone. And cheaper. And not ALL hideous beige. Anyway my go to is Marks and Spencers US store, or Woolworths when…

God yes. I was supposed to be in fieldwork and currently stuck home and going crazy wondering if and when that's going to come back and what the impact on ever graduating will be. Its helped to get some long walks into my routine - when we were in full lockdown I'd make myself just go around the neighbourhood once a day,…

Lol yes this! Got back into knitting lately and it would be great to use less yarn, and also to be able to wrap projects more quickly.

I've lived in temperate and tropical climates and latitudes and gained and lost weight in both regardless. It's probably just a change in what you're eating - less 'standardized' foods, new foods, more difficult to measure and track everything, and I would guess there's some calories sneaking in where you're not expecting…

I gained ('gained') 4 kg (about 10lb) between last night and this morning - drank a small bottle of water in between, didn't eat anything, weighing myself on the probably wonky scale in this tiny hotel gym. Fluctuations are weird, scales are weird, don't worry about it. It's all about the long term trend - weeks, not days.

Me too! Have...some amount to lose, but starting with 35 lb as a goal for the end of the year.

Back in the pool after fieldwork all summer - did 20 slow breaststroke laps, and got in a little over 10k steps (not on purpose, bus was early this morning and I missed it so just walked in to work, plus a couple of errands got there pretty easy.)

I generally budget roughly 300 a month for myself (in an expensive coastal city). I'm careful with my grocery shopping - picking out cheaper stores, etc, but do include a fair amount of eating out - nothing fancy, but getting a coffee most morning, grabbing a burrito for lunch a few times a week, a drink on the weekend,…

Cup of blueberries, cup of cottage cheese with some herbs, coffee with creamer (I prefer milk but we're out :-()

This is so real - I travel an increasing amount for work and I hate having to lug about a suitcase, and I hated that I was stuffing things in and having to drag around an extra tote bag when I was back last week. Like, smaller clothes are tiny. I want to be able to do even my two-week field trips with, like, a duffel bag…

Snow peas...I dunno how I never discovered these before. The grocery next to my place here has them really cheap. I just buy like a pound on my way home if I'm near end of my calories and snack on it all evening. Less than 200 cals usually, I love them and they're surprisingly good on the macro and nutrient front.

Honestly, not giving that much of an f...I travel a lot internationally and eat out a lot in random places that are not gonna be in the database, live alone and have an irregular job and no routine whatsoever, don't have a food scale, etc. I've accepted just searching the database, finding a bunch of stuff that kinda-maybe…

Not sure if this is petty or just mildly self-destructive - I had a weird and confusing and suggestive crush on a guy I met super-randomly while traveling years ago. Nothing ever happened but we had lots of drama. We reconnected slightly less randomly a few months back and are sort of in each others lives again. Things are…

Lol, its me vs Foucault at the moment... Congrats on getting it done! That's huge. Back on topic... Yeah, I don't know how to balance it - I feel like a recurring motif I see here on the forums for people who like go all in and make these huge changes and now run their own yoga studios...whereas, I'm, like - I've got my…

That's me! I'm a PhD student, love my research, love my teaching, love getting into it in an all-consuming, this-is-my-life kind of way...but do find that it seems to be kind of a tradeoff where I can be really fully passionate about Just The One Thing at a time. And sometimes that's my body, and sometimes its not. That…

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Totally understand this - I've never been under about 190 pounds since my mid teens. One of my big motivators at this point, not I'm back to 190 after a weight gain in the past few years, is just curiosity. I know what my body is like while I fluctuate back and forth over these 30 pounds, as I've been doing for 15 years.…

I used to read a lot, but since now I read so much for work, I've become a fan of tv to turn my brain off at the end of the day. And sometimes - like once a year - I'll go on a video game tear where all - and I mean ALL - I want to do for a week is play Dragon Age or something. I've come to kind of like it, it seems to be…

Sadly, I do work in a university and 'huh, I wonder if anyone has done any work on that', is my catnip...I haven't read closely through these, but a place to get started looking for relevant studies: http://www.mikkihebl.com/uploads/9/0/2/3/90238177/15c.pdf This looks like a good place to start - summary chapter of…

I'm 5'5, about 190, and a 10/11 in Jeans. L/XL in buttoned tops (boooobs) and anything from an S to an XL in t-shirts, sweaters, etc. I've also been wearing exclusively skirts for like a month because I need to buy new jeans and its a headscratcher, and the skirts are less sensitive to weight (and wear out less), though a…

"I'm wearing a skirt and my underwear are absolutely falling off. I guess I'll change into the gym stuff I keep in my office drawer."

I love dark chocolate and if I'm feeling really lazy about cooking, will replace a meal with a small bar - it feels decadent and indulgent (a whole chocolate bar!) but isn't really that many calories. I do love it and find it really satisfying, which perhaps is why it feels filling and kills my need for more food (this is…

Mix of things - I gained weight in highschool when I got more depressed and socially isolated. My parents both have issues with their weight and went through a lot of self-loathing and various fad diets attempts, but also maintained a big culture of lots of food, lots of eating in the house (although usually fairly healthy…

Like 30-40 days or so to start to notice differences, and very pronounced by 60 - just going from 215 to 195lb (I'm 5ft5) clothes started feeling notably looser, various regular walks went easier, chub rub almost entirely gone, bones feel more protruding, etc. It goes pretty fast. Sometimes I feel like I'm just persuading…

Dude the Oklahoma story is excellent. 3 month relationship is excellent. Forget the weddings and crap, go do more of that. Eventually you'll meet the one that will marry you if it turns out you're both into that, but that will just be icing on the cake at that point.

This really reminds me of one of my better friends - who is not just a very handsome, but also very charming guy - smart, interesting successful career, sweet and goofy in the right amount, masculine and strong in the right amount - he's probably never worried a day in his life about his appearance or confidence or…

Good thread! I technically have a roommate, but we barely see each other and are totally food-independent. (If anything, I leave baked goods around for him, never the other way around.) So that's been a big change for me in the past few months and made this a lot easier. I work on a big college campus, have to walk a lot,…

yeah, all that...I was invited to a working brunch yesterday, and we all ate lots and it was delicious, and I was fine enjoying it and not really counting and just assuming this would just be a cheat day and those happen. What I really aggrieved me about myself though was that when everyone was done eating and we moved the…

I'm an F and they're still mostly padded. Why, for the love of god?

I've gone up too - from something like 36/38 DD/E*, to (tight) 34F/G. The 34G bra is fitting with less cup spillage over the last 10 pounds lost (lets be honest, I have one bra that I actually wear at any given moment) but now that's starting to worry me in regard to boob deflation. They've not really changed more than a…