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Same here - I'm currently 38DD, Down from 44F. My bras fit amazingly well! Maybe it's true about the crazy percentage of women who wear the wrong size? Or maybe it's that too many buy pretty bras that are meant to be worn briefly and then removed? Or they buy those cheap-*kitten* lacy and useless ones instead of an actual…

Jeans. Ye gods, so restrictive and stiff and poking and digging everywhere. I haven't even owned, much less worn, a pair since about 1986, and I have no intention of changing that. Button-down shirts, for much the same reason. Anything in crap fabric or stiff cotton. Anything stiff, yuk. Unflattering and uncomfortable.…

I *love* snow and winter. I love being able to wear layers, and lovely textiles like wool and velvet. I love having a jacket instead of a purse, I love having a hat. Plus I'm a redhead under the dye, so I love NOT having red, blotchy skin. Or sunburn. Or heat exhaustion. And yes, I am that person who will happily wear…

So awesome, OP! I just got my dreaded DMV letter a few days ago. Even though I'm not done yet, I still intend to make an appointment just to get a new photo taken. I'm down to 186 from nearly 300 in the last one (even though I lied and it says 250, lol). The less-swollen face is reason enough to wait in that line for half…

I think both the difficulty making friends and the trust issues are directly related to being the misfit. I have brutal trust issues. I'm a huge extrovert (though, yes, as a direct result of always being the outcast), and while I can easily strike up a conversation with a total stranger, making actual friends is a *much*…

Glad to be of service. :wink: And on that note, I probably should have added one other thing I learned from always being the outcast, always being the freak, always being the misfit: there are plenty of others out there, too. Maybe sometimes to a much lesser or much greater degree of freakishness, but they're out there. I…

Have I ever felt like a misfit? Yes. Every single day for as long as I can remember. Every. Single. Day. I was always singled out for something or another growing up. I was the smart kid, I was the red-haired kid. I was the kid that never spoke up, but was always watching and paying attention. I was the kid who was always…

Seconded. Plus, if you had issues picking something up, you're *definitely* wearing the wrong size. Get fitted, or have someone help you measure. Try a nicer department store if you don't have a specialty bra store around, they will fit you for free. Life is so much easier in the right bra size. :) If you still need…

Industrial/EBM/Darkwave (even back when it was spelled with a Q, lol) here, does that count? From loooooooooong before any of those labels were in common usage, sadly. :laugh: I <3 Assemblage 23, Neuroticish, mesh, et cetera, all the way back to the stuff from my teens and twenties, Front 242, Peter Murphy, The Mission,…

There are plenty of us here, lol. I'm pretty sure my profile is mostly open, so feel free to have a look at what I've had to say and add me if you like (that goes for all my fellow over-40s)... I'm no expert, but I do try to post and comment as often as I can. I'm down to 192 from my starting weight of 300 (I was down to…

Yes! I also eat giant, epic salads. Always straight out of the big salad bowl! I try to get all the colors in the produce section, but my default is: purple cabbage some sort of green lettuce (whatever looks nice when I'm there) or spinach green onions celery carrots jicama raisins radicchio anything else that catches my…

Yes times a thousand. Intellectually, I know I look better. I'm down from a 28 to a 20, sometimes even an 18. My chins have all but gone. I feel great. I've gone from 277 to 199. At 5'10, 199 is pretty good. I've still got some way to go, but still. I've come a long way. I still feel like I look hideous. And that I'm ugly.…

See, it was so worth posting your success... Seriously, though, you've put a lot of work in, and you've come a long way. Enjoy your success, you've earned it. :)

A-ha! I knew some of my FL would eventually show up. I do have a small collection of fellow gingers. Why do you think I'm always plotting world domination?

Lolol. I'd've got it too... Plus even though I live in rural California these days, I'm from Colorado, so it's more or less mandatory that I watch that show. :laugh: And speaking of non-gingery relatives, I'm the only one this generation that got it. One parent of swarthy eastern european ancestry, one of mostly irish…

Ooooooh, me! Me! I'm a ginger! Complete with super pasty, easily-burned skin, green eyes, and (when I've been in the sun, or looked at the sun, or thought about the sun) freckles... These days I wash it in a goop I make myself out of powdered indigo plant, which should make it dark brown or black, but on me it just turns…

Another older, long-time gamer, checking in! Not a lot of time right now, I'm re-careering and it's coming up on finals, but I love RPGS and strategy most of all, shooters the least (I get bored with them). Mostly on Steam or Xbox. Some of my all-time favorites (aka the things that have stolen the most of my time):…

<<hugs>> It hurts, I know. I grew up being told every day that I was fat, that I was ugly, that I was stupid, that I was worthless. It wasn't until I was in my twenties and away on my own that I realized how much of a lie that all was, and how much it was about those people who told me that and not about me. Being raised…

What, never?! May I suggest suggest one of the thousands of resort (and resort-like) areas in Colorado? The Rocky Mountains are snowy and beautiful, but also dry with a high elevation, so the cold is (usually) much less cold than the same temperatures at lower elevations. I might be biased, though, since I'm from Denver.…

Am I too late to this party? Minus the handful of people I came here with (and the friends I've made here, obviously), I kept it a secret as long as I could. I still keep it as secret as I can. Let me tell you about that time I got caught jogging and then had to put up with constant jokes and haranguing about it for the…

Though I've also just learned that I can't accept friend requests via the Android app? Silly. I'll try again when I get home this afternoon... Anyone else run into this?

Ooooh, me, me, me! I feel like I've responded to this sort of topic before, lol... but I can't resist. I'm super busy lately, re-enrolled in school a while ago, and am at the full load allowed, each class with a lab. Not a whole lot of time, but currently I'm mostly re-playing Civ 5, waiting (VERY IMPATIENTLY) for The…

I'm in! I'm 41 and child-free. I knew by about the age of 12 I was just *not* interested. :) I generally accept friend requests, if they come with a note about why they were sent or where I posted that triggered it. So long as you don't mind the occasional long-winded rant, or a small bit of nerd rage, or grammatically and…

Not sure whether to be disappointed or.... Regardless, I'm only 5'10, I have to have shoes on to be 6'. Wanders off to find the other "short" people, pouting and mumbling. :cry: Lol.

Yay for you! But yes, it's incredibly annoying. I'm at the same point, I'm down over 30 pounds, and so many things don't fit. Luckily, I did save some of my favorite clothes in the 16-20 range, and most of those fit now (I was 26-28 when I started here in July). Also, I don't currently have a dress code, so it's OK if some…

Oooh, me! Me! I'm very much the science and math nerd. After twenty years as a technical illustrator (mostly in aerospace or commercial printing), I've re-enrolled in school to study mechanical engineering, does that count? Since it was asked, I did once do freelance web development, but back in the stone age when you had…

<Raises hand> Me! Gamer, check. Almost since there's been such a thing... Bookworm, more checks than can fit on this screen... Obscure hobbies, check. Math and science nerd, check. Academic overachiever, check. Glasses, freckles, and naturally red hair, check. That kid who took everything apart to see how it worked, check…

This is what I fear will happen to me. Well, maybe not *fear* per se, so much as a figure of speech. Perhaps 'expect tinged with some fatalism' would be the more precise phrase... but yah. I don't expect I will ever drop below my skinny-phase DD size, even if I wanted to. Which, yes, means if I drop below my skinniest 34…

Interesting... this would explain why, even though I've shrunk a bit all around, I've lost the most fat across my shoulders and right under my boobs. It would also make it theoretically possible to drop a cup size or two (I'm already down in band size, that whole right-under-the-boobs thing), which pleases me.

Yep. And if it's not in words, it's that one hand motion they make when describing you. Eyeroll. Even better when you're one of several in your social circles with the name Amy, and eventually you end up being called 'Big Amy' as a shortened version of 'the Amy with the big boobs' (and, of course, the fact that the other…