KatyRu Member

I am a vegan. :smile:

I'm 5'4" and starting over at around 228 (starting weight was 240, profile picture closer to 180). :) Feel free to add me!

Hey! Anyone feel free to add me. I recently (as in, today) came out to my friends and coworkers as bi, though to be more specific, I'm asexual and panromantic. I just decided that, since coming out was hard enough for me (I'm 21, JUST barely coming out), I'd stick to terms I wouldn't have to explain to everyone.

I'm 5'3", and I've never really seen myself thin, so I'm not really sure what my "frame" is. SW: 240-245 CW: 203 GW: 135 I plan on getting to 135 and seeing where I go from there. I really love heavy lifting, so my focus is more on how I look/feel, how my clothes fit, etc., than on the number on the scale. I'm hoping to…

I'm honestly pretty amused by the black coffee responses. I work at Starbucks, and it's definitely an incredibly common order, more common than most people think. The only thing that makes the barista maybe LOOK thrown off is that, instead of writing a cup and putting it in a line of other cups, the barista taking your…

Yes, I'm terrible about eating when I'm depressed. That's why I fell completely off the wagon this summer after losing 25 pounds.

I think around 13-14 pounds. I lost weight in a very unhealthy way for about 3 months in high school. I even had a PE teacher I hadn't had in a year stop me in the hallway and ask if I was eating. To lose it, I had a bag of baked Cheetos for lunch, a can of green beans and 3 pieces of lunch meat for dinner, and then worked…

I drink so much water, I have no need to substitute, but that's because I take allergy pills that make my throat really dry. :) I work at a Starbucks so you'd think I'd get my fair share of coffee too, but I actually gave up drinking coffee on a daily basis and I feel much better for it. I do drink it occasionally, but I…

One of my least favorite objections to tattoos is "but what will they look like when you're older/what will you think of them when you're older?" Well.....when I'm older with grandkids to love on and bodily breakdown to worry about, etc., I honestly don't think that my old wrinkly tattoo will be at the top of my…

I am...just started recently. I am going to talk to a doctor about Metformin soon, as I do have PCOS. I've been married for a year and a half, and my husband and I have agreed that now is about right for us. With PCOS, I worry about waiting too long. Feel free to add me and follow the struggle! I work at a Starbucks and am…

Thank-you all for your responses. It's still slow going, but I'm working on it. I've been working a LOT lately (I work at a Starbucks inside of a Target, so I'm constantly moving), so my exercise isn't where I'm struggling as much. On my days off, I still make sure I exercise. On my working days, I do some strength type…

I'm 20 (ALMOST 21 sort of) and 5'3". I started at 240 pounds, and now I'm down to 195. I've still got another 60+ pounds to go, but this last week has been terrible for me! I'm hoping to do better now that college stress is over for the summer. Feel free to add me. :)

Did you read the post? She said she doesn't mind, but that she knows HE feels uncomfortable. There's a difference. As for losing weight, I would also recommend he join this site and just start tracking.

Mmmm, coffee. I'm used to drinking coffee in a variety of different ways, as I work at a Starbucks...One thing I will NOT do is use anything less than whole milk or any sugar free syrups. Not because of the taste, but because of all the modifications and fake things that must be put in. Gross. I know that the REAL,…

This, plus I'd also recommend checking whether you have the dominant hand setting on the correct hand. If you're concerned with registering too many hand movements (a few extra steps due to hand movement is not a huge deal, however, as I notice a very large underestimation with my flex--it'll miss around 10 steps for every…

I'm so sorry to hear about your brother. :heart: I can say that I've learned this lesson as well. Finding out my dad had cancer was so hard. I gained probably 40 pounds after his diagnosis. I've since lost that weight + 5 (I found out 2 1/2 years ago). Somewhere along the way, I learned an important lesson. I had just…

I got a "most likely." At the time, I was on birth control and was told that any kind of hormone tests would be inaccurate. I DO actually have bloodwork which points to PCOS, though, and I've also had ultrasounds which revealed small cysts on my ovaries. Last I had bloodwork, I was told that my blood sugar etc. pointed to…

Mine isn't terrible, I think...but pretty much, I use one of those creams and then I keep up through plucking for a few weeks to make sure it doesn't get terrible. I don't like plucking the hairs right in the center of my upper lip, though, so it's when those become more visible that I use the cream again. I used to just…

Just speaking from experience, I've lost a size around every 10-20 pounds. I fit into my size 16 jeans again at 205-210 pounds, and I'm now very comfortably (and a bit loosely) in size 14 pants at 195. At my lowest above-14-years-old weight, I was 145ish in a size 8, and when I gained weight that first time I was, at a…

Also, if you're going to put it that way, treating migraines is pretty much just a side effect as well. But Topamax is wonderful for debilitating migraines. So should those taking it for migraines stop taking it?

It wasn't! Lol, that probably contributed largely to my weight loss after I started the pills...I just wish there had been a warning, I guess! I took a drink of Dr Pepper, per the norm at the time, and thought it was the most disgusting thing ever. I still don't drink soda to this day, even though I decided over a year ago…

May I ask what the name of the pills is? I once lost 45 pounds in around 3 months without really trying on pills I was taking for migraines (that were also used to treat seizures). If they're the same pills, I wouldn't recommend them solely for weight loss. They made me grumpy and, if you like soda at all, you won't after…

Depends on the work-out.... :) If I'm doing Cardio, I LOVE Roar - Katy Perry Like a Champion - Selena Gomez I generally hate that kind of music though. So when I'm lifting, I listen to lots of Pierce the Veil and Chiodos. :X

The answers to your questions are all in my original post, but I'll make it clearer I guess. :) I weigh/measure, and log everything I eat. I'll even overestimate calories for things like Starbucks, because I know (from experience working there) that baristas sometimes estimate/add an extra half-pump, etc. I log every…

THIS is 100% accurate. The forums drive me crazy. I still open them though when I want a good laugh, or to get my mind off of my OWN problems! I'm the same way! Misspellings just annoy me like no other. One of my professors (who also happens to be my advisor) always pokes fun at me in class because I once corrected what he…

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Read a few later posts please (or reread this one). :) I said that a SIMPLE calorie deficit doesn't work for everyone. I also later stated that a calorie deficit IS required, but some need to actually watch their macros in the process. All I was getting at. Thanks for misreading. Never said it made us "special," lol, just…

Okay, cool. Never said you wouldn't. I ACTUALLY said that if the OP was healthy with no underlying conditions, then he/she is probably counting wrong. I'm pretty sure that's not saying the whole deficit concept is BS.