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My face is a hot mess that will not clear up. I've paid for laser treatments, taken a ton of antibiotics, used a ton of prescription face creams, tried Proactiv and Mary Kay Clear Proof, use Cetaphil daily. Nothing works at all. It's been bad for the past 3 years and gotten worse as I've lost weight.

To be thin. I really have no other reason to be honest. I just want to look at myself in the mirror and not see fat, which even after a 70lb weight loss and being in the 130s at 5'9 I still constantly see.

I drink around 2 gallons of water and day and have for years. That's why I get so confused as to why I always feel so hungry because I've always been told that drinking and chewing gum was supposed to help. The funny thing is that while binging on sugar I have SO much more energy at the gym than I do on days where I follow…

Thank all of you for your responses! :) I do exercise 5 days a week which I hope is helping with this month long binge and keeping the weight gain under control. I've gained around 10lbs and I'm trying really hard to lose it again. I ate an entire cookie cake with icing on it from the bakery on Saturday morning after I was…

I ate an entire cookie cake with icing on it from the bakery on Saturday morning after I was done with work at 7am. The ENTIRE thing. It was huge. I felt so sick after, but I couldn't stop. I also had a large cookie dough blizzard with extra cookie dough from DQ the night before and a bag of Hershey's Cookies and Creme…

That's what I always did before. I've always made sure to have low calorie options. it just seems like lately I'm drowning in stress and not sleeping and hot flashes and all I want is the real stuff and I can't stop myself. I don't understand why this is happening after almost 2 years of doing well.

I had myself on maintenance when this all started, so I switched myself back to .5lbs a week. I just feel so lost right now because I've never eaten like this before! I will try that thread though to use for accountability so thank you! I'm just glad I'm not alone in this.

Yuck! Oreo McFlurry

I work in an ER and there is CONSTANTLY cake, candy, and cookies here. I have learned to just bring my own lunch every night and when I see the free food I just walk past it. If I know I have a cushion in my calories then I will allow myself one cookie or one piece of candy or a small sliver of cake just so I don't feel…

CICO definitely works! I took a month off because I was having a lot of stress in my life and I just ate like I used to eat without paying attention to calories and I ended up gaining 4lbs. Now that I've been back on CICO for a week I've lost a pound. It works!

My mom was anorexic in her early 20s and she became that way by carrying a calorie counting book and knowing exactly how many calories she was taking in at all times. But, she was only eating like 500 calories a day. You can become obsessive about it and that can become an eating disorder although counting calories on it's…

That laying down for long periods of time KILLS your bones in the your back and shoulders. Smaller clothes are so much more cute than plus size ones! Putting on a bikini for the first time in your life is amazing. That you get massive hot flashes constantly when you are trying to sleep.

I have the same issue. This has made me completely obsessed with counting calories and weight loss. I lost 70lbs and I'm down to 131-135 and as soon as I get anywhere near 135 I panic completely and start cutting back really hard and exercising extra. I am 5'9 and want to get down to 125 because I still see fat on me…

Someone above said it seems like it was a catalyst for eating disorders and since I already have issues with that I'm a bit worried about making them worse!

If the 12 steps work then I'm all for them! I need some sort of control over my eating since its spiraling the wrong way.

I am going to try to go on Thursday to the one here. I'm nervous, but I have been having massive issues lately craving sugar and pizza and I hadn't had that problem in the 2 years prior that I've been doing this. I gained around 4lbs in 5 weeks because I had been giving in to my cravings and binging on entire dozens of…

I wish I could do outdoor exercising, but unfortunately even with 3 allergy pills a day all year round I still can't handle the pollen. I can exercise outside in winter though! I am just going to stick to my normal routine...treadmill and recumbent bike at the gym.

I'd get lots of yoga pants or sweatpants for at home. Sweatpants with strings to tie are great since you can keep making them tighter. As for shirts, I'd just go to like Goodwill and buy a bunch in different sizes and then redonate them once you're done with them. At least it's a tax write off that way!

When I first started and posted about it on the forums I was told not to.

I thought you weren't supposed to eat back your exercise calories? That's what I've been told since I started this 2 years ago.

I have been doing this for almost 2 years and I have horrific cravings all the time. All I want is sugar and pizza and I have to try REALLY hard to ignore it. I was extremely stressed this past month and allowed myself to have the first binges I have ever had during this journey and I have felt like an awful, gross person…

Yikes...that doesn't sound good! I already have an ED so I guess that might not be my best option. Do you have any other suggestions?

"awww...you look so pretty NOW!" Like I was some awful disgusting blob before?

Well that was a little passive aggressive of her! I'm wondering if people who go can get away with only going to one meeting a week or if it's like AA/NA and you need to go daily. I just need something that will stop me from eating a ton of sweets when I am overly stressed out because I never realized I did that until this…

I use the recumbent bike because a regular exercise bike kills my legs and my butt. I can also go faster on the recumbent bike which makes me feel much better and like I'm doing more.

Yes they do. It's a group in a church basement in Pittsburgh that meets on Thursday evenings. I just don't know if it's worth it to go or not.

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I don't have any neuropathy from what my testing says. I just have dysautonomia (POTS version...Postural Tachycardia Syndrome), chronic migraine, hypotension, GERD, IBS, and a few other stupid things with my reproductive system like PCOS and endometriosis. They're all connected to the dysautonomia, so it's all just one bag…

Just depends on what a person's feet looks like. Gross feet should have socks on them no matter what the gender.