Evelyn_Gorfram Member

It depends on age, genetics, and how fast you lose the weight (slower is better). Exercise, plus making sure you don't short yourself on protein as you lose the weight, may also help.

Everybody has days when they feel fat and depressed. Bodybuilders, supermodels, people who have to carry rocks in their pockets so the wind won't blow them away... everybody. It's just a human condition thing, just like we all have days when we feel lithe and agile. You ate some junk food, you retained some water, your…

Yeah, I'm not going to start running until I can be sure nothing's going to bounce up and hit me in the eye... :o ;) :D

Oatmeal. Especially the kind made from steel-cut oats. I like to mix them with water or milk the night before, in the pan I'm going to cook them in, and let them soak in the fridge overnight. Even more fiber (and even tastier) with raisins or other dried fruit.

Um, yeah. This seems like it could be verging kind of close to, um, that thing (oh, what's the word? ...you know, it starts with 'f' and ends with 'd' and rhymes with "flawed"?).

I can sometimes head this off with: "I don't have any real secret, it's just plain old diet and exercise. I call it the 'Hard Work and Leafy Greens' Diet." Sometimes. Other times I have to just listen, and have to stop myself from sarcastically agreeing with them: "Oh, yes, of course. I've found that putting mandrake root…

You poor person! <3 It sounds like you're surrounded by a bunch of dic- ...er, rude and and inconsiderate people who seem to be expressing their own apparently substantial emotional problems by judging and criticizing you. :/

You are quite right, and I am living proof. I live on social security disability, get food stamps, and "shop" at the food bank. My disability severely limits my ability to exercise; and, honey, I have got more issues than National Geographic. And I'm losing weight. B) Would it be easier with a larger grocery budget, a…

Er? Shopping sales, buying in bulk, and cooking & preparing from scratch all save money, yes. But they don't necessarily help you lose weight. I can prepare some very low nutrient calorie-dense meals from scratch ingredients bought in bulk on sale. (...Say, how many corn fritters do you suppose I can fit in the freezer? ;)…

Right. Now just imagine them with half again as much space between toe and bow. (As if they would even come in Size 11...) But, I can get away with using the top of my refrigerator as a microwave stand, and the top of my microwave as a kitchen shelf...

No, I'm sure of it. Attached neck-roll-pillow-thingies are the spawn of Evil. (Saving my rant about the small little super-cute shoes so easily found for small little super-cute feet, and the cuteness so often gone terribly awry when that same shoe is blown up to "Titanic" size, for my own pity thread. ;) )

Sheesh: MFP has never suggested 1200 Calories/day for me. (I've always put in "sedentary," because I always have been; but I've never put in more than 1.5 lbs/week.)

Congratulations on your weight loss! :) (I'm assuming that some of that was water weight in the first week or two, and that you've slowed down to a safe and reasonable rate of weight loss.) 1. I suggest that you stop looking at videos and pictures of people with excess skin after weight loss. Those are the exceptional…

Me, too. My six-foot-tall kid younger sister loves to rest her elbow on my shoulder and announce that I'm her "little" sister. :/ My brother and father are 6'2" & 6'0", and my sisters & mom are 6'0", 5'11" & 5'10" (or were - parents have shrunk a bit). So at a "mere" 5'9" I've always been the short one in the family.…

Okay, I just discovered two things: 1) They are called "compression vests" or "compression shirts," and are available in styles way beyond the 'A'-shirt at prices lower than or comparable to supportive bras: https://underworks.com/men-compression-shirts 2) Googling "male bra" is a whole new educational adventure that I was…

FWIW, @BigTandthesquatters's profile says he's a man. I think this that means loss of sensation and other surgical risks might be less of a consideration, and body-image issues might be more of one. Supportive bras will be harder to find, too; although I believe there are some super-supportive 'A'-shirt-type things…

One thing to bear in mind is that surgery at 31 is not the same as surgery at 42. As your body passes 35 or so, it loses at lot of its "bounce-back" capability; so you may not heal nearly as fast, or as well, as you did last time. As I understand it, weight-loss surgery is a tool to help people do the things required to…

I think you may need to renegotiate the the timing of your medical leave with your employer. As others have said, even if you could lose the 20 lbs by November, the rapid weight loss could put you at risk for all sorts of problems that might prevent the surgery anyway. If your employer gives you trouble over this, perhaps…

I fall outside of your “quite a few of us.” I was not eating in restaurants very much before (maybe 1-2 times/month, and then usually fast food or grocery-store deli), and my tasty treats were the cheapest I could find on sale. Fresh, nutrient-dense foods tend to cost more than starchy foods stabilized with sugars and…

As a scientist working on an engineering project, I was once interviewed for the local newspaper. I carefully explained all the technical details of the project, and I fully believed I’d given interviewer a clear ideas of the goals and limitations of the project. Then I read the article in the paper. The general gist of it…

I find this very true. I’ve recently been a passenger on a sibling’s voyage from functioning alcoholic to non-functioning alcoholic to recovering alcoholic (it’s not a journey you want to buy a ticket for if you can avoid it). And so much of this seems analogous: - She will never not be an alcoholic, and I will never have…

^ This. You can safely lose about 20 lbs in a month if it’s your first month of dieting, if you have a lot of water weight, and if you weigh more than 300 lbs. Otherwise, it’s one of those things like driving blindfolded or going over Niagara Falls in a barrel: yeah, it’s possible, but that does’t mean it’s anywhere near…

Ditto on the ball cap (isn’t protecting glasses from rain what ball caps were invented for?). If you have an old pair of glasses that still work for you, you could also experiment with those water-shed coatings for car windshields (e. g., RainX (sp.?)), but that might mess up any other coatings (anti/glare, etc.) so you…

Please see the bolded text in my quote.

OP, I know what you mean. Most people here want to sound positive and upbeat, so we talk about our successes and things that have worked. All our glasses seem half-full, and all the eggs are sunny-side up. Plus, as least as I see them through the lens of the internet, everyone on here but me has reached their goal weight…

“Lucky is the bride the rain falls upon.” I think that’s how the old saying goes. New, possibly even better sayings, are: “Hard-working, vigilant, and successful is the woman who has achieved that figure,” And “Beautiful is the bride in that dress!” 😘

Wow. My mom probably weighed 260 or so (she’s 5’10”) when she got pregnant with my kid sister. There was plenty of room for nearly13 lbs of baby, plus about twice that much in the normal gestational accoutrements, by the time Sis was born. Very obese people get pregnant and give birth to healthy babies all the time. If…

Doh! Of course it does! (What me, chauvinistic American?)

My sister's on her third marriage, and has changed her name each time. So sprinkling raw eggs in her handbag cured cancer, unclogged arteries, helped her lose weight, and made her smarter. Talk about your miracle cure. If only her handbag didn't smell so awful. ;)

Sleeping with amethyst in my sock makes me smarter.