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*excitedly searches for this fabled bacon beast*

aw, shucks. :smooched: All the love on this thread is gonna inflate my ego to the point where I'll be airborne soon.

jiggle can be hot too, girl. Embrace it. You're not doing it right till your butt cheeks smack together!

Thanks girls! :flowerforyou: I've lost gigs before cause management thought I was "too heavy". Eff them. I'm on here to get leaner, not necessarily smaller. T&A all the way! I'd be devastated if I lost them, they're my best friends! :drinker:

on another note, am I the only one that has an overwhelming urge to run my tongue along a well-chiseled set of abs every time I see them? did I just say that? :blushing:

I love myself in all my cleavage-y, bootylicious glory, and I parade around in rhinestones and shimmy my hips even before my weight-loss. So there.

this thread's just full of all kinds of delicious. Keep it coming fellas....keep it coming

The thought of drinking a cup of coffee when I'm thirsty makes me cringe.

it still blows my mind that there are people who don't normally drink water. It's water! The most life-giving, basic thing that we are biologically designed to consume, have done so for centuries and consume all over the world. It's the best thirst quencher there is, I know I don't reach for a big glass of juice or whatnot…

gotta chime in on the whole makeup in the gym business. 1. *putting on makeup* to go to the gym = silly 2. going to the gym with makeup because you *go there straight from work/other event where you were wearing makeup* = totally ok I am guilty of 2. and that in no way shape means i'm there to impress, pick up guys or…

re: the hair thing, I know someone that was an ardent HCG disciple (even worked for them), lost 50 lbs or so on it, and it RUINED her hair. I mean ruined. She had shoulder length hair and you could see her scalp it was so fine. Oh yeah, and then she started gaining back all the weight. He has since left HCG. I haven't…

I have a dance studio in my home, and I close the door when I rehearse. Noodle (my manx) is waiting at the door without fail every time I'm done rehearsing and open the door. He loves "stretchy time". He comes in and stretches with me, rubs himself all over me, and gets all tangled up in my (very long) hair when I'm lying…

THIS

please, for the love of god check out what I wrote above. please.

Ok here's the thing folks -- it's not as simple as that. First off, let me state the following: I have a Ph.D. in cancer biology and chemical engineering. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow (basically the same thing as residency for MD's) and research prostate cancer (the belly dancing is my side job!). My graduate…

grunting because they're genuinely working hard = hot grunting to show off = obnoxious as hell.

@Ruz: 32?

That's amazing, you look like a different person!

Most belly dancers have a substance abuse habit, and that substance is belly dance costumes!!! Professional costumes run about $400 and up, and I'm like a damn magpie -- I see something sparkly and shiny and I MUST HAVE IT. I've told myself I'm not buying another one until I've lost 15lbs. Every 15 lbs, I will reward…

I have NEVER EVER in my life worn shorts. Ever. I'll be 30 in one week. I want to look good in shorts for the first time in my life.

Your language about "fully accepting" someone troubles me, perhaps it was just an unfortunate choice of words on your part. Loving someone so much that you want to understand them better and make them happy doesn't mean you're not accepting them. Also, I don't know how long you've been in your current relationship, but it…

@songbyrd (we were bordering on quote abuse there) "I don't assume he has that capability...I just waited and saw. He went to his mental man-cave initially and came out when he was ready. Had he lacked it, my trying to force it wouldn't have helped at all anyway." I've been waiting and seeing for 5 years. Then I've tried…

You're presuming he actually spills his guts in therapy. He doesn't. He has no opinion or emotions in therapy. The therapist has to drag them out of him, and when she does it's like an epiphany for him. Like "wow, I didn't realize I felt this way". Also, your example is completely irrelevant. You are presuming that your SO…

This all wasn't an issue when we lived in a place with 2 bathrooms -- he can do whatever the heck he wants in his bathroom. Now we're in a 1 bathroom apartment...yikes! We're moving though, and he can have his man-bathroom again. Conversely, he won't have to deal with my hair everywhere. I have very long hair, and it gets…

please see my post above. *edit* I think your confusion stems from the fact that you've misinterpreted what I've been saying and read things into my posts that I did not say. Perhaps I did the same If I did, please elaborate.

I really don't understand how expecting a woman to sit back quietly to accommodate her husband isn't sexist. If I'm misunderstanding something here please tell me, because that's how I interpreted it. Yes, men and women *are* different. That's my whole point. The key is to not just shrug your shoulders at that and "get…

I think this also relates to how the male brain is wired. Men are programmed to think serially -- one task, after the next, after the next. They focus on one thing at a time and do it well. Women think in parallel. We multitask and can focus on many things at once. Byproduct of evolution I guess. Pausing the DVD is a great…

"I didn't say nagging, I said tugging" - okay, semantics. "how is it unreasonable that he doesn't have an opinion?" Buying a house is a big deal. It is something that will affect our lives in a major way. This is something he needs to have an opinion on. Very different from something trivial like chunky v. smooth peanut…

Who said that we are constantly nagging? How is it unreasonable to want my husband's opinion on the PURCHASE OF OUR HOME? And it *is* sexist to tell a woman to "wait and be ready until her husband is ready to talk to her." That's not respecting each other's differences. Did you read what I said? I said that the key was to…

I have heard this logic before, and understand where you're coming from. However the way I see it, the toilet seat is there for a reason. It is designed to be down. Not to mention that every time you flush, all that fecal material gets aerosolized (is that even a word? lol) if you don't put the lid down, and goes all over…