BlisterLamb Member

Bacardio! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

My husband is from North Carolina, but I'm used to it now. When I was younger I was engaged to a guy who had grown up in Chile and I adored his accent. We own an Allstate Agency and our tech support is in Ireland. It is all I can do not to giggle the whole time I'm talking to those guys. I love their accents. The last time…

Well what do you know? I have this but didn't know it was a thing. I had Bells Palsy a few years ago and when I recovered, I found that I was sensitive to noise. Loud TV, music, snoring, crowded places, etc., makes me feel really agitated, like I'm going to crawl out of my skin. I had never been that way before the Bells…

While I certainly do not discount your efforts in terms of your success, I would think twice before lowering your meds. I've been on a 5 year plateau followed by a steady gain of 25 pounds and all during that time I was biking around 100 miles a week, running a 5K once a month during the season, hiking, ballroom dancing,…

Must be what happened to my ostriches. When I raised ostrich, the babies would sometimes drink a LOT of water then they would stagger around and fall over like they were drunk. It usually passed in a half hour or so. Ever seen a drunken ostrich? Its a hoot!

^^^^ This is too cute! I'm running a Halloween 5K as an angel. Only because I already have the wings and halo. The costume that goes with it is too long, so I'm wearing a white tutu and a white shirt.

Jethro is a Great Pyrenees Jessie is a Black Lab Bungee is a poodle/terrorist..i mean terrier mix

WHen I was 15 we had a Japanese exchange student. She stayed with us for a year. The year after she went home, I went and spent the summer with her and her family. I tried pretty much everything while I was there and it was all pretty good, except for the Rotary Club dinner in my honor. I was seated at one of those little…

You crack me up!

When I lost over 100 pounds, I did it by only eliminating "white" food. Sugar, white flour, white rice, white bread and white potatoes. I switched to whole grains and stevia. Other than that, I ate pretty much what I wanted and lost 106 pounds. But I've since been diagnosed with Hashimoto's, which causes me to have trouble…

Because of my Hashimoto's I carry more fat than I would like. I've busted my *kitten* to get to a size 12 and haven't been able to get any more off for 5 years. Even now that I am diagnosed and on meds. But I eat right and I work out. hard I do metric century rides, paddle board, run 5K's, lift weights, etc. I have a lot…

I lost slowly and my skin stayed pretty tight. My massage guy says I have very elastic skin. I guess thats a good thing?

I've had a vitamix for about 10 years and I just bought a blendtec. They both work pretty much the same, but the blendtec is easier to get stuff out of. I never used the vitamix as a food processor because the stuff I was processing would get under the blades and it was hard to get out. Its narrow at the bottom. Blendtec…

I've had the problem for the last 5 years. Sometimes calories in/calories out doesn't make a difference if you have an underlying medical problem. I lost over 100 pounds and then plateaued for 5 YEARS! I stopped losing and eventually started gaining, WHILE EATING AT A DEFICIT. It seemed my body was doing the impossible. I…

Kim...thank you. That was a very sweet post. Live4more...First thing the doc did was the saliva test and a blood test. My hormones were a little screwed up. He's treating me for that as well. Thank you for the suggestion though. A lot of doctors aren't that thorough. It took me three before I found this one.

a chia seed

I used to work in radio. I was a dj on a couple different radio stations. Talked my way into it with no experience to start with. Just a good phone voice. I did ti for a couple years till the novelty wore off. And my husband and I make the news pretty regularly. We are very active and its gotten to be a joke, but somehow,…

Why do they call them apartments when they're all stuck together?

I just happened to post the whole thing earlier today. And its so long, I don't want to take up your whole thread. You can see it here if you like. Janet http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/755749-i-am-going-to-quit

Thank you all for the positive reinforcement. It has taken me a while to wrap my head around the idea that maybe this is just it and maintaining it is ok. I don't need to look like a fitness model. There are so many people on here who are my age or older who have reached their goals and are at their ideal weight and…

That's not even the whole thing. Most of that was before I was 40.

Currently own an Allstate agency. Its not my favorite, but it was sort of decided for me. My husband wanted an agency. We met 26 years ago when he was a Marine and I was a Farmers Insurance agent. He was a client. For some odd reason he's always wanted to have an agency after he got out of the marines. Best Job: We owned…

What day is this?

What an *kitten*! You dodged a bullet on that one!

Thinking I ruptured a disk in my back while leaning over looking at cd's in WalMart and ending up on the floor. It took two people to get my 285 pound body into one of those motorized carts and out to my mom's car. I had to crawl into my house and up onto my couch to wait for my husband to come home. And I had to crawl…

People always ask how I did it. "Wow! You've lost so much weight. How did you do it?" I always say, "Diet and Excersise (duh)" and they look so disappointed that I want to say, "Nah, just pullin your leg. The fat fairies came and took it away during the night while I slept."

Disobedient Character in a children's book.

Determined..you look skeptical

Like Jessica Rabbit? Got to be going for irony!

I have a thyroid problem and my doctor has me stay under 50 net carbs a day. That fiber becomes really important at that point. I subtract my total fiber intake from my total carb intake and the total is my net carbs for the day.