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Once, I was eating dinner on an airplane. It was 7PM when I started, but then we crossed a timezone so I ended up eating after 8. I immediately gained 5 lbs. It was horrible. ;)

Tell your would-be brother-in-law what's going on. Ask him if he really wants to spend his life with that sort of materialistic drama queen. The problem should solve itself.

That's all I wanted to hear. Snarky Chef Ramsay comment withdrawn. :) I suppose the officers COULD have just gone to the donut shop...but in the department I worked with the supervisors were pretty strict about that sort of thing. And I wasn't trying to pile on the OP...I was genuinely curious why she didn't call. I…

Oh, you talked to a few officers, huh? Good for you. I used to work as a dispatcher in a fairly large city and we'd have officers check on this sort of thing all the time. I'm done arguing with you, though. I've no time for your condescending attitude.

See my previous post. In addition to what I posted there, if they see a pattern of this behavior in an area, they could increase patrols to try and catch the guy. Perhaps he's done this to others. But if they all think like the people in this discussion seem to, "Oh, they can't do anything without the plate, why bother?"…

You know, she could describe the vehicle even if she didn't get the plate. Describe the driver maybe. Perhaps there was an officer in the area who might be able to keep his/her eyes open. You never know. Stay classy.

And why *didn't* you file a police report, exactly?

"Easy to crumble" is putting it mildly. I love the way they taste, but I'm lucky if half the bar is left intact by the time I open the packet. Those things crumble like mad.

Every time the meal timing question comes up, I have to ask: what if you're eating dinner on a plane and you cross time zones? Or what about daylight savings time? If I have to stop eating at 6PM, does that get pushed back to 7PM when we spring forward? So far, I have yet to receive a satisfactory answer, which tells me…

I have to workout on an empty stomach. If I eat before I go to the gym, it ends up looking like a scene from The Exorcist.

Just out of curiosity, were you measuring and weighing everything you ate during your previous attempts? Lots of people here say "Oh I'm eating X amount of calories and can't lose, even though I should be." Then they buy a food scale and find they were eating WAY more calories than they thought they were.

Disagree. A little hot sauce helps to enhance the inherent flavor of the food. Yeah, sure, if you DROWN it in the sauce you might have a point...but a couple drops isn't an insult to anyone. Unless you also consider salt, pepper, or any other condiment to be an insult, too.

Meal timing really only matters if you're one of these guys. Might want to avoid water, too.

Winter Carnival is usually in mid-late January when it's REALLY cold. :)

Would you rather *die*? There are so many health risks associated with being overweight and lack of exercise, that it's fair to say that not exercising will eventually kill you. That's how I look at it, anyway. Think of it not as a chore, but as fighting for your life.

Because I'm sticking strictly to "calories in vs. calories out" and several people felt the need to lecture me about what I was eating, even as I was hitting my calorie goal daily and losing every week: "Oh, that's too many carbs." "Oh, you're not eating enough vegetables." It got old in a big hurry.

Okay, so STOP doing the ab exercises, and use JUST the device for a couple months, then get back to us. That's the only way to determine whether it is actually the cause of your improvement.

No, all that will do is attract a different *kind* of perv.

Short answer: yes. Long answer: I have an intense fear of rejection and lack of self-confidence, and that was a problem before I put on my weight. (I'm sure some overpaid shrink would say that it's *why* I put on my weight, but that's neither here nor there.) The weight has certainly added to the self-confidence issues,…

Oh, a "whoosh!" I've had a couple, where my weight hasn't moved on the scale for a couple days, then all of a sudden, bam! Down 5 or 10 pounds. I personally attribute it to a crappy scale, rather than any physical process...though I do note that they tend to happen if I up my hydration...which makes me think that most of…

Never heard of it, but the name alone makes it sound kind of like a gimmick.

"Explanation: It's just that you have all these squishy parts, master. And all that water! How the constant sloshing doesn't drive you mad, I have no idea." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oduFEsoKrxQ

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Probably a heck of a lot more accurate than your home scale.

Talk to a professional and see about doing an intervention. This is *really* not something you want to try and do by yourself.

Field of Dreams. Every damn time. Also, not really a movie, but the final speech at the end of the TV series "Rescue Me"...manly tears for sure...turned to tears of laughter at the final conversation in Tommy's truck.

I second the votes for LA Fitness...the one I go to has been putting up signs on weekends advertising a $19.99 membership special, but I don't know what strings are attached.