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Yeah it sounds more like she was venting about her cousin. Maybe she has some hostility toward her for some reason. I really dont think it sounds like she meant to imply that your body was ugly. I wouldnt take it so personally. Sounds more like the typical rivalry that happens in a lot of families. I know it happens in my…

Mine is for freezers. I have been looking for a chest freezer lately to hold lots of low calorie Popsicles.

I noticed in a week a small change, then at the 2 week mark the pants I bought on day 1 fell down to my knees when I was walking. That would be the moment I REALLY knew there was a change (because I had proof). Ummmm I think that was about 5lbs.

I dislike them intensely. Then again I have a surgically altered spine so it is a little different for me. Also it reminds me of work. At work I frequently have to move very heavy items (like boxed gas grills and boxed swimming pools), and I frequently have to stack 45lb bags of things. Not to mention loading customers…

Toaster strudel is a million times better than poptarts. For starters, it doesnt have the texture of crumbly cardboard. Also, you get to choose how much icing you want. I dislike all forms of icing so this is a big deal to me. I prefer the boston cream toaster strudel to the fruity kind. The fruity kind is too sweet and…

I avoid these places except for cheat days. Smoothies can range in calories from 150 to 700 and you cannot always tell the difference without a sheet.

Hmmm am I the only one who prefers those 100 calorie no sugar added Klondike bars to skinny cow? I also love those 40 calorie fudgsicles. Skinny cow is expensive. I refuse to pay 6 buck for ice cream unless its filled with girl scout cookies. Sometimes when I hit 1000 calories I like to eat 5 Klondike bars for the rest of…

Just finished day one. I don't know if I can do as many as day 30 in just 30 days without extra calories to build muscle. I might get up to day 15

Milk agar jelly. Sometimes with normal milk and sometimes its almond breeze or rice milk. It makes smoothies much smoother. It also helps make them more filling. Strawberries, banana, blueberries, spinach, greek yogurt, and splenda

Having to shell out money for new (thrift store) clothes every 2 weeks when I drop 5lbs. I am going through clothes like no tomorrow. Of course not all things can be bought used. Dont even get me started on the prices for new underwear. Its highway robbery. And I have to replace them all in a month when they are so loose…

Maybe start with some beef soup with a few slivers of steak in it?

What you mean on purpose? I just do this naturally. Its the weekly calorie goal that matters. I lose on average 2lbs every week. I dont think I have ever had a week where I didnt lose at least a pound.

Every extra pound causes my chronic pain to be worse. Less weight=less pain

I was fat. The extra weight made my chronic pain worse. I was fat. I did not really need another reason.

Nope, I still bring banana bread. Its the kind from the back of the splenda package. Or sometimes I bring carrots and ranch dip. Same old stuff that I always brought

I was severely underweight once upon a time, and I still had chipmunk cheeks. Ive heard that there are some laser treatments that help, but I never had any done.

Well before fitness tests at school I used to wear weights on my ankles for a week or so before the test. Then at the very moment of the test I would take them off and I seemed to fly through the air going much faster than I could have before. If it was for a job I would prolly step it up to being leg weights and weights…

I don't really bother rewarding myself. After 20lbs, losing weight seems a given and rather same old same old. It now seems like just an eventuality that I will be thin again. I do not feel the need to reward an eventuality. I will jot have to buy many new clothes because I still have clothes from when I was thin.

I cook a whole container of them so 12-18 eggs. Then I write HB on the carton and store them in there, in their shells, for like a week. They go in with cold water, then when it boils I turn off the fire, and by the time the water cools the eggs are perfectly done. Sometimes I put food coloring in the cooking water so they…

Um you wont gain unless you go over your calories, or sometimes you can gain water from having more salt than usual. Um, I did go over my calories a couple times but its balanced by the days I went way under them.

I only track calories. I am losing about 2lbs a week. I eat between 1200 and 1600 calories a day depending on what I felt like eating that day. I usually start the day with a green smoothie, then I eat whatever I feel like eating for the rest of the day. I do the smoothie because it keeps me full for a long time and…

What is a plank row? Edit, never mind I'm sure youtube knows the answer to what it is

Normal people seem to get carb cravings, but I get meat cravings. I want lots of meat, all the time. Also milk. I frequently have to fight off the urge to drink milk. I dont drink calories on my diet so its frustrating. Its bbq season so my beef cravings are out of control. I need that charcoal grilled steak goodness, and…

Its almost exactly 2lbs a week. I never got the big initial weight loss other people got their first week. For some reason mine has been steady from the first week. I was actually shocked this last week when I somehow lost 3lbs.

I got a new job in march. 2 weeks later the pants I bought that fit perfectly when purchased were so big that they literally fell down to my knees while walking. 8 weeks later and even the belt I bought to hold up the pants is getting too big. I have to keep tightening it more and more so the end bit now sticks out well…

Well, aside from always having a weird look on my face in still shots, its important to know that there have been studies that show that one of the reasons we dislike photos of ourselves is because they are not mirror images. They are how others see us, and not the way we are used to seeing ourselves. One day try using…

Hmmmm does it actually tan you or what? If it tans you then I will know to avoid it at all costs. I do not tan. I only freckle. I really hate freckles. I also hate the idea of going into any kind of cancer booth. If its just normal red tinted lights then I guess its ok.

9pm? Thats when I eat dinner. Im not even done with dinner and its nearly midnight. Ive still got hundreds of calories to go. If you are hungry, eat. If you are not, dont bother unless you feel like you will wake up later from hunger. As far as weight loss, the weekly calories are more important than the daily ones. So if…

Im confused. What is your definition of perfect? Perfect as in weight comes off every week even when you sleep all day? Perfect as in perfect nutrition where you get every single vitamin you need? My current "diet" allows me to consistently lose every single week. I eat between 1200-1600 calories a day. I have never not…

Well, during this past xmas season I went through a period where I drank heavily a few times a week. I was drinking for a few different reasons. The first 5 drinks were to kill my physical pain. The other 5+ I believe were emotional drinks. I went to the doctor and got real medicine for my pain so I wouldnt have an excuse…