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Everyone of us started out being chunky/shapeless/fat/thin whatever and derpy with exercises. My matial arts teacher said to us "if you don't look stupid the first two years you are doing this, you're doing it wrong". What he meant is that we were all new once, and we will all be new at something again in our life. People…

A fancy Alexander McQueen dress. I started saving already. The dress will be a big splurge for me. Most of my clothes are thrifted. I don't ever plan on getting married. I'm calling it my Sweet 16/Prom/wedding dress splurge since we didn't have the money for the first two growing up anyways. God I love pretty dresses.

Isn't riding exercise? lol. I know nothing about horses. It's hard being a student! Back in the stone age when I was one I'd combine tasks with my exercises. Squats when I washed dishes. Lunges when I swept. I needed to read a book for class? Book on tape when I ran, made a mental note of which chapters to make notes on…

Can I get an invite?

Yes it is! For me anyways. When I eat more than 1900 mgs of sodium. I'm highly sensitive to salt apparently lol. Today I ate a lot of spicy pork rinds while staying in my macro range. I'm at 4300 mgs of sodium right now. I fully expect to be at least 4lbs heavier tomorrow morning, then spend the next 4 days peeing a lot.…

"Keep doing those kicks. I know you're not tired because you are still standing. Your body is more capable than your brain is telling you" My Sifu.

Oh god. Now I'm going to to be eying the doctors I work with when they come back from radiology with doughnuts. I shall never crave a radiology doughnut again. All I can picture now is that they are covered in beta particles lol

When I started, the first six months I told people I was "eliminating gluten" from my diet since it was trendy and that would get them to leave me alone lmao. People started noticing after about 30 lbs. I still didn't see it. At my 45 lb mark I posted a before/after facepic (my profile pic) on FB and outed myself. I lost…

Definitely not doomed! I've been diagnosed for 7 years now. I managed to lose 55lbs at my worst (I'm not great with taking my medication...New years resolution be a better patient). I barely lost any last year but that's because I wasn't really watching what I ate. Most of last year for me was about exercise. When I stick…

Yeah! Pull up twins! I'm going slower than half marathon. My 10K training group starts this weekend. Spring is the half marathon training group. (skipping summer because heat + me = nope) and will do the full marathon training in the Fall. It's fun to do it in a group. Twice a week we all meet up to warm up and run…

I had this exact same issue! What really helped me was taking up Martial arts, weight lifting, and carrying a tazer around (not always legal depending on where you live, not sure about Australia). Did the weights and martial arts make the harassment stop? Not really, but they make me feel like a strong bad *kitten*. I know…

It's not about the weight loss/caffeine/toxins/whatever with me. I gave it up 60 days ago for political reasons. Mostly the manufacturing pollution, the treatment of workers in developing nations, and how shady the executives act getting involved in politics in these countries. It's my own little protest. But I live in an…

I agree with above. I work in graduate medical education. Our doctors get a 2 hour 'lecture' on nutrition and nothing else unless then go into a specialty after they graduate. And 99.9% of those specialties don't actually require extra nutrition training. The newer classes being brought in are trying to change that, but…

Word. But people be wary of your doctor and advocate for yourself. My doctor told me I was healthy. I Googled the lab results and according to national current guidelines my fasting blood sugar was in the high end of pre-diabetes and I had low Thyroid levels. After seeing two other doctors I had to finally go to a specific…

Man. I really want you to twerk out of the kitchen while singing beyonce. And a pity that she is larger than you. I'm not recommending you do this, because that would make me an awful person. This is merely a story. I had a similar situation with my sister when I was a teen and she was a teen many moons ago. It got bad.…

I have no scientific evidence on this. I only know that, because of constant logging on this site, I have discovered that i am really sensitive to sodium. If I have more than 1500 MG a day, I will go up 4-7 pounds over night and it takes me a few days of low sodium eating to pee it all out, so to speak. It's not actual fat…

I'm so sorry for your loss. I have chronic depression that hits me in waves, had it my entire life. I think of it like living with diabetes. There are medications I can take and things I can do to ease the symptoms. First, everything in Teeny tiny baby steps. Seriously. If you can't get out of bed early to work out, start…

Did you check your sodium level? I realized that I'm ultra sensitive to sodium. Going above 1800 or so mg's for me means 3-4 lbs of water weight that I spend the next week pee-ing out. I get more sensitive to it when I do extensive cardio. I have no idea why. My entire family has high blood pressure regardless of what size…

There is a documentary called "Two Weeks in Hell" about the Green Berets, then a series called "Surviving the Cut" which has an episode about several of the elite forces groups. Very hardcore, and very impressive. Then candidates, even the ones that end up not making the cut, were all amazing.

I never comment on weight loss unless someone specifically mentions what they have been doing for it. because I don't want to be that *kitten* that tells someone they are looking good and losing weight only to have them tell me they have been really sick. The same reason why i don't mention pregnancy until an official…

I must work with your co-workers as well lol. I find that it helps if I make it about money and not about losing weight. My standard is, "Nope. I'm saving up for a big trip/shoes/bag/whatever generic thing they like talking about that will distract them from what I'm eating". Honest? not really, but sometimes a small lie…

HAHAHA! yeah. Growing up in my family, my nickname was "The Mouth" and it wasn't because of what I ate. I was always fat, but they did a good job of teaching me to use quick wit and words to defend myself against bullies. A combination of luck and being a smart a** probably saved me from a lot of bullying.

It may not work for you, (and doesn't always for for me lol) but I use two main forms of distracting myself when I am emotionally triggered and feel the need to comfort eat. I either take a long walk with the dog until it passes, or I grab a book and settle in (hard to eat when your hands are full of book, and I tend to…

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I think I've been very lucky. or I look really mean, because most of my life no one has said anything in ear shot of me. The one time someone did i was walking through a park and some Hispanic men started catcalling me in Spanish. I was getting ready to give them what-for when a guy walked by and said in Spanish, "no, no…

The women about 25-30lbs in. But i started at 270 with a large frame, so I didn't even notice until he first 20 was gone. The men, they are still too afraid to say anything lol.

I've been fat all my life, and I've hated it all my life. But I just accepted it as something I had no control over. When I turned thirty I knew I wanted to change, but I knew I wasn't ready for it. I had too many other issues going on I wanted to take care of first, like my self esteem, grieving for my childhood, learning…

My sweet Daisy needs two very long walks a day plus play time or my shoes suffer lol. Beagles get bored easily. She also very much enjoys licking my face whenever I am doing crunches or situps. Mostly though, when I'm feeling down and don't want to move, it just takes a look from her to know that her happiness and health…

This. So very much of this. But on the plus side my skin has never looked better. I think cutting dairy out did that for me. I don't have a diet that specifically cuts out Dairy, but cheese is the only dairy I really eat, and I love it so much that it's near impossible to only have one serving, or I'd just rather use those…

I can relate. Same two diagnosis. I can only tell you what works for me. Besides the cognitive therapy which helped me to recognize my triggers and early onset warning signs, I have worked to log everything I eat, and not apologize if I go over. Logging it as I eat it when I am in a depressive state helps me to be more…