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It's like that old French saying about proper ripeness: "You must stay up all night to eat a pear an avocado."

I think the OP maybe more had in mind someone providing a link to some site like "mexican_dental_tourism_reviews.com" or maybe even "MexiYelp." (Neither of the above are real sites.) ((AFAIK, anyway))

Good for you! I hope all the opossums and raccoons around the garbage cans at 3:00 AM stood up and gave you a round of applause for your victory over the Frozen Dairy Menace. ;)

I am so sorry if I seemed to be minimizing your stress. My intention was just the opposite, but I think maybe I blew it there... :'( When my mom left my dad, we (us kids too) lost our entire religious community. My father was a bigwig in church circles, and everybody sided with him. It hurt like hell. May I ask why you're…

Last spring, I found the perfect faux-wrap dress to wear to my nephew's wedding. But instead of elegantly draping my curves, it stretched over them like a lumpy sausage casing. I took it to my mom's house while my sisters were visiting, and my older sister looked great in it. :/ So then, I found a great skirt and an…

LOL - I was surprised and very impressed that, after several days of relapse, OP still has half a carton of ice cream left! :D

You've had a lot going on. Rating your last six months according to the Holmes and Rahe stress scale, (and remembering that good things are stressful, too) you've got: 73 points - Divorce 31 points - Major mortgage (assuming you took one for the new condo) 25 points - Change in living conditions (rented condo) 25 points -…

(I guess you Edited To Add the bolded after I posted my initial response.) Thank you. I accept your invitation. (aside to anyone who hasn't already guessed: Rant Follows.) *Kitten* yeah, I'm offended. Sure, this is a diet forum, but it's meant to be a helpful and supportive one. It is not meant to be a place where someone…

Yes, I got the same things as @collectingblues got.

The thing is, "You would have to roll me down the street," is a touchy phrase. It's an insensitive and insulting thing to say, right up there with: "Shoot me if I ever look like that." No one said that all 5'4 women should be around 170 pounds. They said that the average American woman is 5 feet 4 inches and weighs 168.5…

Um, you're like, aware that some of the people reading this probably are 5'4" women who might currently weigh that much or even more, right? And that, especially given that they're here to address their weight-related problems, your last remark might seem kind of tactless? I realize that this thread is about…

This retractions don't necessarily mean that Wansink's conclusions are incorrect, just that he has not proven them to be correct. For instance, his conclusion "If you shop when you're hungry, you'll buy more high-calorie snack foods," may well be entirely valid and true. I even think I've observed it in operation on my own…

He threw out his original pencil-&paper research results? That's about the zeroeth rule of scientific research: Keep All Original Research Results Forever. Either this guy is lying, or he's a really bad scientist, or both. I think the fact that a lot of his research sounds like common sense helped it to be so widely…

Thanks. No, that's from my own Numbers spreadsheet I worked up. The rate-of-loss prediction from the Happy Scale app sounds cool though.

QFT. Off with their heads!

Thanks for posting this. I weigh myself every day, but have been using Sunday as my "official weekly weigh-in day." The half-pound I lost this week is based on my ten-day moving average: the average of all my weights today and the nine days preceding today, subtracted from the average of all my weights from last Sunday and…

Thanks. I was eating 1950 Cal/day; and, after adding 50 more, am now eating 2000 Cal/day. I'm 5'9", 300 lbs, and about as sedentary as it gets.

TRIAL period. I meant "trial period"! And I didn't catch it before the edit window ended... Dag Nab It! :# B)

Could you maybe "make a deal" with your fears, something like: "Okay, I'm going to track my food for the next six weeks or five pounds, whichever comes first.No commitment beyond then, it's just sort of dipping my toes in the water. After six weeks or five pounds, I'll stop and take a look at how I feel and how I'm doing.…

I resent the vegetables. They are demanding little drama queens. They protest canning by turning into metallically-tinged slime, and freezing by turning into pale mush. No, they say, if you want us tasty, we must be fresh. "Fresh" means they must be fetched home from the store, properly stored in the fridge, washed,…

FWIW, I think @candycanebec's belly button doesn't look "frowny" as such - to me, it looks like a flying saucer. :)

Cool! I wish I'd thought of that! :)

What I do is: - Budget extra calories for that day, either by banking calories, or just saying that I'm going to eat at maintenance that day. (It tends not to work for me to say that, for just this one day, I'm just going to eat whatever: it turns out that I can eat a lot of "whatever.") Of course, this depends both on how…

Mentally, the biggest change I've made is just logging my food. Writing it down lets me see what I am doing, and gives my inner voice the chance to say things like: "Seriously? Boxed mac-&-cheese for all three meals? Could we, like, maybe sneak in a vegetable somewhere?," and I wind up making better choices. A huge thing…

What made me think of "rat terrier" was mostly this one expression that ratties can get, that says "Oh, please, please be serious about this; because I want nothing so much as to grab hold of that thing you're holding out so I can rip it to shreds." With the ratties, the "thing" in question usually a dog toy, or something…

^ This. Absolutely this.

That's interesting. I looked it up and apparently it's also helpful for restless leg syndrome, which is sometimes a big problem for me. I'll give it try. :)

Thanks. My aunt once told my sister to drink the juice remaining in a pickle-less pickle jar, as a joke; and my sister out-joked her by pretending to take her seriously and draining the jar; much to my aunt's chagrin until she realized that my sister had done it just to put her on the spot over her own joke. The point…

So, you're saying that we should add green tea leaves, tumeric, ACV, and hot sauce to our grapefruit-and-cabbage soup, right? ;) (We won't lose weight unless we're also in a calorie deficit, but at least the soup would taste like something....)

Me, I'm a rat terrier online. (offline I am, of course, stunningly beautiful in all respects)