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super pretty blonde hair!

nice handprints :laugh: no, you're super adorable!

Yep, totally would. I've been mostly naked on stage a couple times before (competing in the "best chest" competition at Rocky Horror :drinker: ) Striping in front of a bunch of strangers was really fun actually. I love my body and have no problem showing it off. I've posed for friends in photography classes before, I…

I had a similar conversation with an old friend who hadn't seen me in quite some time, via facebook (meaning, she hadn't seen the 50+ lbs I had put on that I've now lost a good chunk of) She made a comment that she thought it was really really sad that I was trying to lose weight because I had always been "so confident and…

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Only "funny" books I like (but in this case LOVE) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'm reading Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - has some of the most amazing prose! and is so poka dotted with allusions that it keeps me hunting after of great works. I'm looking forward to reading his piece The Enchanter - supposedly it's about a thousand times more disturbing. I'm hoping it's brilliant.

What I don't understand, and this is coming from a size 16 girl (former size 20), is why everyone is up in arms about A&F "hating" fat people, but no one claims a company like Lane Bryant, Torrid, or Big & Tall stores "hate" skinny people. I don't fit in A&F, even if I could, I probably wouldn't because I don't…

10% is really quite low for your daily fat intake, especially because you're a girl. I've read a handful of studies (which of course, I now am having an impossible time trying to find a quote - nice job, self) That when women diet they shouldn't drop their fat intake too low (but healthy fats of course, nuts, avocados, the…

There's a ton of yummy desserts that call for only the yolks

Months ago I read something about that Ashley Madison ad. The model featured is a fairly prominent plus size model and that picture was taken during one of her first photo shoots. Due to her inexperience in the modeling world she didn't fully understand the contract and signed it anyways - which gave the photo company…

My way of going about it isn't exactly the same, but if I want something sweet, I make it worth the calories. I'm go to the bakery for a to-die-for cupcake, or splurge at my favorite chocolate shop....what I've tried to limit is the almost daily cheap candy bar (or two.....sometimes three) I was eating before.

TOTAL TEN!

weighing in daily makes me absolutely crazy, even sneaking a mid week weigh in can really throw me off my positive thinking track. I try to weigh in about once a week though (to sound at least slightly intelligent, I read somewhere that people who weigh-in on a fairly regular basis tend to weigh less than people who…

8 :)

9 super cute

This was totally me last summer! I wanted to run and just COULD NOT do it. So I did exactly what you've been doing, I started walking, and as the summer drew on I could walk farther and farther, until I could walk 10 miles in a day!!!!! Then, when I was walking I would just add little spurts of jogging in with it. At first…

I'm with you. I prefer a solo workout. However, I have a friend that really needs my encouragement to go to the gym and wants me to text her whenever I'm going and she comes and meets me. I'm willing to be that support to her because she needs/wants it, but that being said....I don't tell her every single time I go

At work I once accidently referred to a customer as "Hon" because I was super busy and just needed to acknowledge her, let her know I saw she had a problem and would be with her as soon as I could. I said something along the lines of, "One second, Hon, let me finish with him and I'll be right with you" Boy oh boy did I…

Do sheep count? TNP has been at least half naked on stage before

OMG! I don't know why I found that response so funny, but it actually made me spit my coffee out I laughed so hard!!!!!! :laugh:

^^^^^^^ I wrote this a couple hours ago I have a new NSV: I went to the gym today and ran an impromptu 5K!!!!!! I had no idea that I could do that!!!!! I'm so freakin' proud of myself!!!!!

I WANT to go to the gym today. That's pretty rare. I also did the mile long walk to the bus today without getting all huffy or out of breath - yay me

To look as sexy as I feel :love:

I second that insects are a part of nature and it's, what I would consider a flaw in our mass food production system, that people have begun to see signs of insects as a con instead of a pro. We would rather have our apples sprayed with toxic insecticides (most of with can penetrate the skin of a fruit - so washing them…

1700 to 1500, great results

sorry, size 9, guess I'll just have to keep them :laugh: (aren't they FIERCE!!!!!)

WELL, they fit me when I was 240lbs....but 5'5". But hey, if micro minis are your thing I bet you could make it work :laugh:

I'm studying to be a Silversmith :love:

Well, my goal weight is 160, at only 5'5" thats still a little over weight but gosh dang do I look sexy at that weight! I've been thinner and don't like the way I look smaller than stat. That being said, my start weight on this site was somewhere north of 240. I love being bigger, but not THAT big. BBW for life! :heart: