MidsummerNightsDream

Stevie Nicks when I was younger, now Sharon Stone

It's a teachable moment and tomorrow is a new day in which you get to begin again. Don't starve yourself though, just look at it as a teachable moment.

I don't like explaining to people who ask me if I am losing weight how I am losing it. IRL I am very private and I am not at all comfortable talking about myself, so questions about my losing weight make me very uncomfortable.

I have a scale from Costco, and I keep it as accurate as possible by weighing myself at the infusion center every week when I am there with my husband who is on chemo. I weigh fully clothed and with shoes, and when I get back home weigh on my scale to see they are the same. My scale is not digital and there have been times…

I stopped eating processed foods in 2004, and have pretty much really eliminated them from my diet. It is a definity lifestyle change for the better.

I love to cook and cooking has been something I have enjoyed doing for friends and family my entire adult life. However, right now it just is not possible for me to feel motivated to cook due the stress of my husband's cancer and visiting nurses and hospice. The stress has lead me to cut my list of things to do. and food…

I would get my 6 year olf an ipad in a heartbeat. My children are adults now so this is really not relevant to me, but I would get a grandchild one too. I have seen, first hand, what a 3 1/2 year old can do with an ipad and I am so impressed. Yes, the games etc., are there, but so is a great learning experience outside of…

Alcohol counts. A lot. If your friend is drinking as much as you say, suffering from blackouts he most likely has a serious drinking problem, and looking for excuses the justify that it is OK for him to drink because he read online that alcohol calories don't count, and we all know that everything we read online is true…

I lost a lot of weight in 2004-05, and have maintained the loss all this time until last year when, due to a medical condition, had to give up my swimming routine 3x/week and gained weight. I do still walk 3 miles 3x/week, but can no longer swim. I think losing this activity and not replacing it with another lead to my…

Approach it as an oversight and ask your cousin directly. Let him/her know you are so happy for the couple, etc.

I use my phone and love it.

I have not even taken a beginning picture, nor did I take beginning measurements. After reading through this thread I am going to take measurements, and a picture. It never even occured to me to take a picture or measurements of myself beginning this last week. I do costuming (Victorian, Regency, Edwardian, Steampunk) and…

I am the complete opposite and the brand is important to me as I am somewhat of a jeans snob. No excuses, I am what I am. I grew up an equestrian and wore Levi's in the barn, and still do. However out in public I like expensive jeans. Paige are my favorite as the way they do the back pockets makes me #1) look like I have a…

2004. -150+/- lbs. Feel free to friend me. This will be interesting for me, and in fact I am quite surprised I clicked to read this thread. I don't talk about having has gastric bypass, in fact the only person that even knows I had the surgery, outside of the medical team, is my husband. My children, who were both away at…

I don't know if this really classifies as mean to me anymore, but at the time it certainly seemed mean. A younger sister and I were visiting family in Alabama and my aunt was wanting to take some family pictures so we stood up with everyone, and she comes up to me and pulls me out of the picture telling me I am to fat and…

I am 55, and haven't been overweight until this year when I had to stop swimming due to swimmers ear, and I gained 20 lbs. I hate that I have gained this much weight and want it off now. I joined MPF to hold myself accountable and hopefully meeet some new friends to lose weight with. I not only need support, but want to…

Ben Harper, Waiting on an Angel My son sang this at my nephews memorial service and the entire room was sobbing

Mary J. Blige, The Living Proof

Breaking Bad Homeland Dexter True Blood Criminal Minds The Big Bang Theroy (because I married a rocket scientist :) Downton Abbey Mad Men BBC Jane Austen Series

Human Centipede I get chills and feel creepy just thinking about it.

I grew up in Ventura, but left for Berkeley to attend the university after graduating from Buena High School. After 30 years I am no longer in Berkeley now either :( Seattle is not Berkeley, and my motto is you can take the girl out of Berkeley, but you can never take berkeley out of the girl.

Today is a new day and should be treated as such. Your body needs food in order to give you the stamina and energy you need to get through the stay, and starving it will not accomplish that need. Start over again today. I have an eating disorder--I have been through treatment(s) including a feeding tube, and am healthy now…

I had my first baby when I was 22, and my husband and I were both in grad school. I was 26 when the second was born. I am 55 now, and from Seattle, WA.

5'7 160 lbs Bust: 38 Waist: 31 Hips: 32 I have a rectangular shape and the numbers aren't that different , give or take, from when I weigh 135 lbs. I don't seem to really lose inches which is odd now that I think about it, and can still wear the size 29 jeans.