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You say nothing, especially since the subject has been discussed before. What you can do is provide good example. If she cares about you, she would notice when you start losing weight. When she says something, that's the opening for you to discuss weight loss with her, to see if she's interested.

I just found a new pet peeve: people who are sick yet force themselves to go to gym and cough all over the place. Loud, wet cough. Just stay the fudge home and rest, I don't want your germs. Your workout will just prolong the condition anyway.

A man who got out of a crazy (as in institutional crazy, not fun crazy) relationship would be thankful just to get a normal woman. My two cents.

I was in my apartment getting ready to go to campus. When I turned on the TV it showed that a plane hit one of the towers. At first they treated it like any other news, but when the second tower was also hit then the media began a non-stop coverage. The first tower collapsed and my jaw was on the floor, thinking this would…

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My arms are actually bigger than before I started MFP. I didn't start measuring until recently, but several of my t-shirts and polo shirts are getting more snug in the sleeves. I am very positive that they weren't that way before.

I like it wavy, so neither strictly straight nor curly.

Penpal? This day and age? Why would anyone spend money on postage and wait a week each way to communicate?

Another first world issue. I guess getting it on in the kitchen, or on the living room carpet, or the sofa (which has no sheet) is out of the question. Heavens forbid you do it outdoors, touching nature with your bare skin is gross... I have no problem whatsoever with changing sheets every week, but it bothers me when…

Most men don't give a hill of beans about women's toes as long as they're clean and there are five on each foot.

If I don't feel hungry in the morning, I skip breakfast so I can eat late in the evening.

- Go to a bookstore and read - Ride a bicycle in the park - Exercise at the gym - Play board games with friends - Play computer games

I spend probably five minutes a day on average to track food using my iphone, it's not exactly an obsession or an impossibility. Tracking gives me freedom, because without it I would feel too uncomfortable eating food that I like. Now I just eat whatever and make sure I don't blow my caloric budget.

The effect of food on physical health can be tough to judge unless it's plain toxic. It could take years before your diet leads to a certain disease. Getting fat is not an overnight thing, even exposure to carcinogens takes a while to show up as cancer, if at all. There is evidence that high quantities of fructose may…

Correct. Your partner has a certain expectation of behavior from you. If you don't know it, then you should ask. If you know it and can't live by it, then you should tell her/him.

I've heard 'curvy' being used as a politically correct term to say 'fat', just like in the old days they say 'big boned'. Even supposedly neutral words like 'thick' and 'large' are viewed as obscene these days. Like somebody said earlier: when men say it they mean a body with relatively high proportion of hip to waist,…

That would be a very strong tea, kinda like the 1000 year egg sold at oriental markets. I don't know if I can hack it, beauty will have to wait.

Wait, I thought drinking tea makes me very pretty? I've been drinking tea for a long time and I'm still not pretty, I must be doing it wrong.

Grading is a bell curve. If we speak honestly most people would be 4,5, or 6. A few would be 8 or 2, yet even far fewer are 10 or 0. You beat the average, you should feel good about yourself instead of wondering why you're not a 10.

No, it's the universe diet you silly. There's nothing quite as nourishing as universe juice.

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It is said that a learned one can survive for months at a time on nothing but the dew of a single ginkgo leaf and the energy of the universe...

I would not get a massage after a meal. Massage increases your blood flow, which would increase sugar absorption and leads to type 2 diabetes. I read it from a blog, it must be true.

My goal weight would put me about a decade back, probably more. However, I won't actually fit into the same clothes as back then, because my body composition has changed. It will be a completely new territory for me as well.

I ate 3 (three) slices of pizza a couple of days ago, and a slice of birthday cake. They didn't put me over my daily quota, so I don't sweat it. To be fair the only other meal I ate that day was a McDonald's quarter pounder BLT, so overall I was still short by 400-something calories. I gained a pound of water weight due to…

You mean bigger people often have higher metabolism? It's somewhat true because overweight people generally have more muscle than normal people, because they have that extra weight to lug around day in and day out. They are overweight not due to 'wrong food', it's due to too much food.

Metabolism does slow down with age, about 5-10% less per decade after the 25th birthday. However, this slowdown is easily counteracted by exercise.

Here is my take: most diets work (unless it's pure scam). But, it's not sustainable in the long run, which causes people to gain back the weight they lost. I have little doubt that juicing can work, because it somewhat limits the amount of calories you ingest. Even those overpriced MLM stuff work, but the question is what…

It's very likely that MFP is overestimating your calorie burns. For a 45-minute elliptical exercise to burn about 480 calories you need to move pretty vigorously. I'd say don't eat back more than three quarters of your exercise calories if you use MFP calculation.