Tubbs216 Member

How long have you been eating 1200 cals? My guess is not very long. According to your profile you have quite a lot to lose, so it's going to take a while. Eat the 2000 per day, be patient and you WILL lose, and you're much more likely to stick to it, rather than binging crazily because your body is starving (which it is!)…

When we moved here from the UK my friends back home thought it was downright abusive that the school kids get sent out for recess as long as it's above -20! ETA: I have ugly extra-warm snowboots, and cuter everyday ones that look like normal boots but are waterproof and lined. We have a lot of warmer weather during the…

Yummm! I'm coming round yours for dinner.

Another nice new profile pic! You look great!

I read that as the peanut butter and chocolate chips being the salad and was about to say "I like your style!"

Yes!

NOR DO I!!

We have a BIG thunderstorm going through right now. There was a tornado around the city about an hour ago but it didn't touch down, fortunately. I moved my car into the garage and covered my plants just in time - there was hail the size of golf balls for about 5 minutes! EEek!

Um, have you had cheesecake stuffed chocolate covered strawberries?!

Starts at 0?? Update for Western Canada: -0 to -10C - Getting chilly - maybe wear a jacket out. Gloves too, if it's windy. T-shirt ok if it's still and sunny. -10 to -15C - Really should wear a jacket. Snow boots too, possibly. -15 to -20C - Ok, now it's getting a bit cold. Don't hang around too long outside. -20 to -30C -…

Hahaha! We're similar housekeepers. Sometimes we'll have a 'let's see' meal, where I'll take a tub of something reddish out of the freezer and leave it to defrost. If it's curry or chilli I'll cook some rice. If it turns out to be bolognese sauce, I'll get the spaghetti out.

It's kinda handly being bilingual isn't it?! Canada's such an uneasy mix of both systems. My husband goes nuts when he goes to Canadian Tire looking for metric bolts and they only have imperial. I'm old enough that I remember the 'new money' being brought in in the UK. It used to be a complicated and archaic system of…

My husband is definitely an over-deodorizer. Is there a 12-step program for that, or something?!

Add me to the club. I bought a couple - VERY expensive - and did not find them worth it.

Although I'm in Canada now, I had all three of my kids in the UK, but since the youngest is 14 I wondered if things had improved in that time. Sounds like not that much, although I could only have 6 months away, not a year. I'm glad that's improved. If you can possibly swing it to go back to work part-time, that is SUCH a…

Haha! People probably think this is why I cut off one of the earbuds on all my sets of headphones. It is NOT. The reasons are two-fold: 1. I'm deaf in one ear so putting that one in is pointless and 2. It stops my kids from stealing my headphones. :)

@lilaclovebird Great new profile pic - very pretty!

We watched the first few series of Dexter and bailed before it got really bad. I was always a bit weirded out by the fact that his sister in the show was his wife in real life (at the time, anyway). When I heard how bad the ending was, I felt quite pleased that I hadn't invested any more time in it! Agree about BB - I'm…

Or the Barry Manilow one about liking Pina Coladas and getting caught in the rain, which is about hooking up with a woman from the personal ads.

We have four freezers! :# One is the little side-by-side fridge combo one in the kitchen (useless for storing anything larger than a loaf of bread), one is a large upright one in the mudroom (used all the time) and one is a chest freezer in the basement - a throwback to my food biz days. I also have a fridge/freezer combo…

Thanks for the positive thoughts! The more I read, the more it sounds like this might be part of the problem, and that the doctor suspected it - hence the TSH test. We'll have an answer in a couple of weeks and then hopefully begin to move forward.

How horrible. It must be awful to feel so powerless in that situation. I'm sure you did nothing wrong - sometimes it just happens that way! It's great that on the whole he's fine.

But.. but.. isn't that what work is for? ;)

I noticed too! Yayy!!!

Instant/powdered coffee, I assume. OP, try cutting back a bit each day. Allow yourself a certain amount each day and budget when to drink them - that will help you feel more in control. Gradually cut back each day or week until you're not getting withdrawal headaches. And stop listening to the people that say Diet Coke is…

Try to make one positive choice today! It's really important to try to get out of the mindset of 'diet days' or weeks ('I made bad choices today. I'll start again on Monday. But for now, I'll eat everything in sight.') You can start again at any time (4pm on a Tuesday afternoon!)

It's great that telling work was ok. Will you get decent maternity leave? Do you plan to keep working after the baby? Yes, your name is a LIE!! You'll be 'Spammy' to me from now on!

Ooh, you're going to be easy to buy a birthday gift for then! I haven't read her books. I'll look out for them. I'm not maintaining (yet) but from what I keep reading, the bolded part is exactly what people do. They seem to see the weight loss as one part an overall wellness challenge which doesn't stop once the weight has…

I have never had Key Lime Pie. Is it at all like a lemon tart? I really love lemon tart.

Sad? I think you mean awesome! My fridge is full of old Chinese food, half eaten bits of cheese, empty orange juice cartons and a gigantic watermelon that I bought over a week ago and that nobody, inexplicably, is interested in eating. It needs a total empty and a really thorough cleaning, but I just can't bring myself to…