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The only time I've ever noticed anyone's cart was when an incredibly stoned couple in line ahead of me unloaded literally $100 worth of Funyuns, Doritos, Slim Jims and snack cakes. It was kinda hilarious. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when they sobered up and realized what they bought.

When I was a kid we forgot a SEALED package of lunch ham (Oscar Mayer or similar) in a cooler and put the cooler away. Some few weeks later we opened the cooler and found the SEALED, UNOPENED package in it. It was by then a sealed plastic ball of tapeworms. It's been 16 years and I still can't touch precooked ham.

I'm pretty sure Cabot brand cheddar is lactose free and that cheese is amazing.

Take underpants/swimsuit progress photos so you can compare them month to month, you have a lot to lose so you're probably losing all over and just don't realize it yet. It's easy to think that some part of you is still disproportionately huge if you don't have actual pictures to compare your progress.

All of the reviews I've read sound revolting. I would rather eat real pasta than indigestible yam goo anyways.

Having someone who never knew I was fat betch at me for being able to eat "whatever I want". When I get that comment I will know I have made it. :drinker:

I really don't think the police will care that you saw a truck in a parking lot. That said, if something feels off, leave. You don't have to excuse yourself for being wary.

But what about my wheat belly?!

Once you get over barfing/exhaustion EXERCISE. I avoided the gym for a good chunk of my second trimester and I was starting to feel really run down and tired and achy and just generally crappy, having trouble sleeping, having trouble rolling over in bed, etc. I thought it was just because of baby getting bigger. Nope. It…

Srsly.

People panic seeing weight gain after a sodium heavy day and come freak out all over the forums. I personally don't care.

"No thanks, I'm saving room for (lunch/dinner/dessert)!" and "Ohhh, too bad, I just ate (x) and I'm stuffed, but thank you!" work pretty good with the type of people that get offended over you rejecting their snacks.

There are TONS of potential migraine triggers in foods, but I've never heard of sodium being one of them. Caffeine, bananas, red dye, wheat, gluten, MSG, textured vegetable protein (TVP) and dairy are some of the common ones I know of but there are dozens more. Could be one, could be many, could be none.

My husband is obese according to BMI and he has a 34 waist. So. No. I don't put a ton of faith in BMI.

I couldn't do a single bodyweight squat at 274 without falling over. Seriously. Just keep on working and maintaining that muscle, as more fat comes off your squats will skyrocket! :smile:

If I was ashamed of my larger self I wouldn't let anyone see the pictures.

Yup.

Extra helpings, cheese on top, more dressings and sauces.

Yup, just water. It will start going back down soon, just keep kicking *kitten*! :smile:

I don't think shaming is productive at all. Shame and desperation make people buy into stupid fad starvation diets so restrictive they give up and gain their weight back and then some. Shame skews your relationship with food so that starving is righteous and the inevitable binging that follows brings on such self-loathing…

Trans fats (code words "partially hydrogenated") may be in prepackaged foods that say 0g trans fat as long as they have <0.5g per serving. So check the ingredients list! Everything else is a ok

I eat and drink total junk once in a while, but I really don't crave it any more.

Get out of the smith machine!!!

I dropped my weight to 95lb being pregnant but pre-preggo I was at 175.

You can't spot reduce, just keep losing weight.

I'm still lifting weights at 33.5 weeks, the first trimester was by far the worst. :( I had to drop my cardio drastically and do bodyweight stuff only for a good while to cope with the exhaustion.

My great-great-great grandmother's wedding dress.

Some people keep their boobs, some people lose their boobs, almost everyone loses at least SOME of their boobs. You'll just have to see what happens and decide whether losing your boobs is worth it to you. There is no way to keep them intentionally (although chest exercises will make whatever is left look "perkier") and…

This, and you can use a large spoon to scoop out the halves in a whole piece once you cut the avocado in half. I cut them in half, whack the stone out with a knife, and then scoop out each half in a whole piece. Digging out a bunch of chunks would drive me nuts. I put tomatillo salsa verde and lime juice on mine. Nnnghh

I started at about your weight and I lost scale pounds more slowly when I started doing more weight lifting, but I noticed a much big difference in my appearance! Cardio just kind of gradually shrank me all over but kept me fat-shaped, but when I switched to lifting weights I started looking much different.