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This issue isn't due to your weight - seriously, only 15 lbs. left to lose? This is due to his wanting to control you, without having to commit. Guys don't say stuff like that to women to get them to lose weight. They say it to make them feel inferior, to make them believe that no one else is going to love their body, or…

I try to keep it to just once a week. Otherwise I just get all obsessive over every little fluctuation, and that's not healthy.

Welcome, and hope you get what you need on this site! I had 200 lbs to lose when I got here, and have made some pretty good progress so far. MFP's been a great tool.

Oh, you're coming HERE? NorCal? Oh, then you're fine. Seriously, it's RIDICULOUSLY easy to find healthy food in Northern California. Granted, it's pretty easy to find crap food too, but just find a New Leaf market or Whole Foods, or the like. They're everywhere. The coastal areas are even more likely to have what you're…

People in the U.S. aren't obese because there isn't an OPTION to eat healthy here. For every fast food place, there's a health food store around the corner. Our problem is just that a lot of us make crappy choices anyway, and go for the cheap, fatty, processed crap that got us to the point where we need MFP. Then some of…

Subway, because they have a ton of healthy options compared to other places (and I may never have to make the kids lunches again!)

I asked for an 80's punk rock mix on my Pandora station, and it's playing the Bee-Gees. Staying Alive...but why?

I'm over 300, and started on a recumbent stationary bike. It's extremely helpful because it supports my back and is easy on the joints (plus I can catch my TV shows while I work out, which helps me to go longer/stop watching the clock on it).

Work out just a little more, especially aerobically, even if it's just fifteen minutes more than the usual. One extra notch up on the treadmill or bike. Just enough to feel a burn, and trigger your hunger response. At least that's what worked for me (even when I wasn't trying to get hungrier).

That's a great attitude to have. You look great, but if body dysmorphia is an issue, just focus less on looks and how others judge you on those looks, and more on how you feel. Do you feel healthy? Do you feel like you're living right? If so, then great! Congrats on all the progress you've made! (and love the gamer stat…

I have tachycardia too (Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia) and Mitral Valve Prolapse to boot - I saw a cardiologist to see how much I should be allowed to do. He gave me a limit of 30 minutes vigorous aerobics at a time. It's fine to do more than 30 minutes a day, though, if I rest in between. Your type may be different though…

I don't know about you, but the air-puffed stuff like Rice Crispies and Chex just leave me starving again an hour later. I'd go with the most filling, but mix it up once in awhile so you don't get into a diet rut. As long as your portions area reasonable, it should be fine. My personal favorites for keeping me full in…

When I was a kid, there was one night where I SWORE up and down that I'd seen him escaping up the chimney. Not the entire guy, mind you, but just a flash of red pants and black boots, whooshing up as I snuck down the hallway. I used to sleepwalk, though, and had a habit of half-dreaming when I did, which probably explains…

New clothes! (mine are getting looser now, and looking rather sackish)

A mumu. My mom got it for me, and my stepdad said before I even opened it "Now you know your mother really loves you, and meant well..." because I think he knew exactly how I'd react. It was huge, with bright orange and purple shiny polyester/satin, with wide stripes like a roach tent, but with psychedelic rainbow…

I was going to ask about weather too, because my appetite goes up when cold weather hits, as it does for many people. It's not necessarily a disorder though. There's an article about it on Web MD here: www.webmd.com/diet/features/control-your-winter-appetite Someone suggested to me drinking hot tea or decaf coffee to warm…

Carved pumpkins with the kids last night, bought a silly halloween hat (with glittery skulls on top) to wear when I greet the trick-or-treating hordes, and we're roasting pumpkin seeds tonight, just because we can.

Sushi. No matter how many of my friends like it, or how many variations I've tried, in their insistence that "You'll like THIS kind", I really don't. I'm always that one chick at the sushi bar who just orders the teriaki chicken instead.

I would ALMOST agree with Devil Wears Prada (I thought Streep was brilliant in it), except that I didn't like how they changed the ending. The movie version was just too predictable.

"Of Human Bondage". One of my absolute favorite Bette Davis movies, but the book was staggeringly dull by comparison.

I feel your pain - literally! (Although part of me is just hoping there's not a bunch of pervy dudes cruising through this post looking for big-breasted ladies to friend now). Lane Bryant has some pricey but worth it bras that are good for securing the girls well - but yeah, even with those I tend to avoid jogging.…

On the years we've hosted Thanksgiving, I've made homemade sugar-free cranberry sauce. It takes awhile to cook the berries til they pop and get the right mix of splenda (with a touch of orange juice, cinnamon and nutmeg) into it, but it's been pretty popular.

I didn't like being defined by a clique, but I guess if I had to choose one, it was the drama geeks. Wearing all black and cheap Chinese slippers (even when we didn't have shows pending), attending angsty poetry readings in late-night coffeehouses filled with clove smoke and hipster/goths, and going on for far too long…

Professional fantasty writer - enough that I could stay home to work, and have more time with the kids. Granted, I've gotten a few stories published, but never more than $50 or so a story, which is hardly enough to live on. I could also live with Choir director, voice actor, or any other sidebar art form I've dabbled in.…

I'm a bit of a Starbucks *kitten*, so I need to avoid that place whenever possible. And yeah, there ARE healthy options there, but faced with the choice of a nonfat/skinny/no whip latte and a big, frothy salted caramel mocha - well, I tend to cave. Badly. Worse when they bring out the chocolate stuff.

Eternity (CK), Vanille by L'aromarine, and if it counts, a Green Tea/Cucumber body spray from Bath & Body works. My husband goes nuts for Vanille, especially (says I smell like a cookie when I wear it).

Oh, and when I was a kid, our favorite house to stop at didn't even give candy - they gave black and orange helium balloons. I think they just bought a bulk bag of them and rented a helium tank for the night, then started inflating them just before sunset. The worst house, though I know she meant well, was the kind of…

We compromise a little. It used to be all candy (and plenty of it - our neighborhood is crazy-full of kids), but we found that it's just as cheap to go by Target and pick up tubes of glow-stick bracelets (15 for $1). I bought $20 worth of glowsticks, then a couple bags of candy (which I asked my much-taller husband to hide…

No. I gained this 200 lbs. by years of lying to myself and others, or just "looking the other way" while I ate (and expecting them to do the same). But now I want REAL change, (inside and out) so I put real totals down there. If I blow it, they know it (and so do I). Plus I think fear of being judged was really affecting…

Not as a punishment, no. But I can't get in the mood if I'm angry at someone, and I'm not about to fake it for some sake of "wifely duty" or some other such B.S. If there's something I'm mad about...I just tell him, and we try and work it out! Never go to bed angry, you know? Not that it's 100% effective, but it sure beats…