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There is nothing wrong with being single. I'm 43 and very happily single.

I have a few people who think that keeping track of what I eat is obsessive and over the top. I tell those people that I got fat by not keeping track and let them know how much weight I've lost since I've become more health conscious.

I started mid/late January, not because it was a new years resolution, but because it just happened to be the right time to make a life change. I had no expectations as to how much weight I would have lost by now so I'm happy with my successes. I've recently found it difficult to stay within my limits and am considering…

I just renewed my license a few weeks ago, I told them my actual weight, very proud of the fact that I've lost, she asked me what my goal weight was and entered that instead lol.

Not so much shrunk as deflated. They were deflated before I gained weight though because I got so inflated while I was nursing.

I think every situation is unique and I believe it's unfair to judge someone without knowing the circumstances. I never used one, but as a single parent of 3 kids, 2 with special needs, 1 of whom had very high needs behavior issues it might have reduced my stress levels a bit. When my kids were growing up, the issues I…

I agree with this. I've battled depression for all of my adult life (whether I knew I was or not). I'm 42 now and it is finally under control. Don't ever give up on yourself, you are worth it. We all are, that's why we're here. :flowerforyou:

Quit July 25 2008 with help from the patch. My motivation was that a family member had been diagnosed with emphysema and when I googled it, I didn't like what I read. I was most definitely heading down that path. I was a heavy smoker, with an extremely strong addiction, smoked from 1.5-3 packs per day. I even smoked…

I have no desire to "rock a bikini", my goal is to improve my health because the way I was going I was going to end up with weight related issues. Be proud of your stripes, I'm proud of mine!

love these ideas, must try!

Losing weight isn't an exact science. All you can do is continue eating healthy and doing exercise. Sometimes the scale will show small losses, and sometimes it will show bigger losses even with similar workouts, no 2 people can expect to get the same results. Try looking at long term successes (even small ones) instead of…

I'm not 20 but my daughter is and I have a son in his mid twenties and two other sons in their late teens. I still have lots of life to experience and I'd like to be around to experience it. Matter of fact, the biggest thing that motivated me was the thought of never getting to meet my children's children. There is more to…

I'm a single mom of teenage boys. I'm very honest and up front with my kids, I asked my boys (they're a year apart so I had the discussion between the 3 of us) if that was something they had heard of or had done, at first they didn't answer I told them that it was normal behavior, nothing to be ashamed of, every man does…

Depends on who I'm talking to, if it's my children, it would be "be there for your children no matter what, even if that means giving them tough love". My parents (god forbid), "thank you for everything you gave me and taught me". Or purplepookie "poke". :drinker: :flowerforyou:

I made a lifestyle change after a night of tears and fearing that I would never get the opportunity to meet any grandchildren my kids may have. My oldest child is 20 and she doesn't plan to start having children until her late 20s. When I started this I didn't think I had any medical issues, at that time I wasn't aware of…

A public health nurse told me that when you stop smoking your body needs less food because it is able to use more of what you take in. Made sense to me, I ate the same after I quit smoking as I did before, but after I quit I put on about 80 lbs.

Fantastic! Soon you'll be doing 4! A journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step. :flowerforyou:

You need to decide if you want to be with him more than you want to be married to him. I was in the same situation 20 years ago, when I started making wedding plans he didn't want to participate. I soon realized I wanted to be married more than he did. I moved on, got married, had kids, got divorced. He never married but…

I eat whatever I want. I also make modifications to eating things I hadn't planned to eat, the biggest one being that I eat a smaller portion of it. I refuse to eliminate anything because if I did I'd feel deprived, and once I felt that way I'd just throw the whole lifestyle change out the window. A few extra calories here…

One day is not worth worrying about. We all have days where we fall off the wagon and the next day we climb back on, it's all part of learning to make better choices. It becomes a problem when you decide that one bad day has ruined all the good ones and you just give up. The worst that has most likely happened is that you…

I've had a brief peek at the blog and from what I've seen it's a great read that I intend to finish when I have a little more time. Welcome to MFP, and congratulations on your successes to date!

There are definitely days that I will exercise a little longer in order to make up for an overage or to allow myself more calories for one more snack. There's nothing wrong with that. I do it often. Just last week, however, every day I kept having this feeling that I was being deprived. This was not the same as doing an…

must try this, with and without banana

I hate prepaid credit cards. They are not reloadable, not only do they charge an activation fee at time of purchase, but they also charge a fee if you make more than the allowable number of transactions, you cannot use the entire balance if you don't use it all up in one transaction, then after a period of time (usually a…

My dr recommends senokot. It doesn't make you go, it just makes it easier to go.

I'm still a big girl so I wear a 46DDD, that's a canadian sizing system so I have no idea what that translates into internationally. I appreciate all the suggestions, still welcome to more, and I don't care what the contraption is as long as it works to keep the girls down and comfortable. Oh, I have to pay $60 for a bra…

omg that's hot LMAO

I wouldn't go to the gym if I were sick, but there's nothing wrong with going for a walk or exercising at home.

Speaking as a french woman I can assure you it's all crap. Sex is also a better cardio exercise for men than it is women. Don't get me wrong, I like being an active participant, its just I've always felt men have to exert more energy than women when it comes to sex.

That's fantastic!