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Diet pills? hmm. Your choice, but what happens when you stop taking them? Kind of in the realm of 'dieting is temporary' thinking... which, for me, it isn't. For me, it's a lifetime. I will diet more days than not for the rest of my life. First, to get rid of the weight and then to keep it off. If I want this, then thats…

Everyone's different. Anything that requires me to do the same thing twice without being strapped to a machine is doomed to failure. Golf...tennis...basically any sport involving a stick of some sort. And dancing? Haven't done that in 30 years. I stick to weights and cardio and leave the fun stuff to the fully coordinated.…

First off, I drink Diet C several times a week - probably 5. I know it's bad for me and I know why. However, I am addicted to it and I too use it to avoid sweets, which is even more of a problem for me. It is the lesser of two evils, but believe me. Both are truly evil for those of us with excess adipose tissue. As I…

Recovery from anorexia and bulemia are not the focus of this group. You need to seek the assistance of your health care team while you are recovering and be honest with them about what you've been doing. Hollycat :flowerforyou:

I've done dieting the wrong way with the wrong attitude for decades. I finally figured out I cannot look at it as a temporary thing, but as something I need to do for the rest of my life. Ironically, accepting that I will be dieting more days than not for the rest of my life was a revelation. I'd always looked at dieting…

Diet more days than you don't for the rest of your life and you'll be doing it...getting and keeping it off! Don't worry about the days you don't diet. They're just going to happen. Accept it. There's no sense in letting them make mincemeat of the days you do diet. Lose the leggings. You''re ready. :wink: Hollycat…

Just my current state of mind: I'm in this for life. It doesn't matter to me how long it takes to lose the weight. I just know I'm going to lose it. If I look at dieting as a temporary thing, then that's what the weight loss will be. Temporary. :cry: So...I choose to diet more days than not. To keep my net calories between…

Hollycat is a tea totaller. Did the 'party like a mad woman' thing in my early 20's, then decided I just wasn't cut out for it. Don't miss it a bit. I've had maybe half a drink once a year for the past 25 years...although there was one Christmas where I made my own Baileys... Hollycat :flowerforyou:

"I am fat because I ate too much - and exercised too little....... that is the reality of it - the moment I started managing my portions and got my butt of the couch I started shedding the weight! Frankly blaming it on anything else is not being truthful about the real underlying problem that needed to be addressed...."…

If you have a food dehydrator, try making cucumber or zucchini chips. Or...you could bake zucchini 'chips'. Slice thin and long and bake until brown around the edges. Yum. Hollycat :flowerforyou:

Just read something by Jon Benson. He recommends focused relaxation...i.e. listening to meditative music or something like that, a couple times a day. STRESS can put and keep you in a plateau...stressing about the plateau can keep you there... Relax...breathe....take time out for you...unplug the phone, don't answer the…

You are a visual reminder that they are not dealing with their own obesity. It is painful to them, so they will try and find fault in order to dismiss what you are doing as not applicable to them. It is also something that you really do not need to deal with or confront. It is clearly their 'stuff'. You need to be strong…

Dad just wants to see you. Go out with him, on the condition he's buying and order light. Find out where you're going and look at their nutritional guide online and decide ahead what you'll get. When he complains that you've 'only' ordered soup and salad, just say, "Be glad I'm a cheap date, Dad. I was going to order the…

When my daughter was little, she loved what I called "Bunny Wraps". Basically, it's anything you would normally put in a sandwich, wrapped in a Romaine Lettuce leaf...closed with a toothpick. Usually tuna or egg salad made with FF mayo, add a little diced celery or scallion. Keeps the calories down and gets that good green…

You are probably losing fat and gaining muscle at the same time...net result 0 pounds lost. This is a GOOD thing! Keep at it! All of a sudden, woosh! you'll be down a couple pounds! Hang in there! Hollycat :flowerforyou:

Live. Burn it off tomorrow. Or...today. Hollycat :flowerforyou:

Congrats dude! Way to go! What a feeling that must be! Of course, I'm so weird, I'm wondering how you like having chickens? :embarassed: Been thinking about it myself... Hollycat :flowerforyou:

9/10 times my cravings are for sweets. Once, maybe twice a year, I crave steak. The rest of the time....you guessed it. To satisfy those cravings, I make sure I have chocolate almost every day. That way, the cravings never get completely out of control. Light Hot Chocolate almost every evening and sometimes a VitaMuffin…

Ditto! to JenJenly... Snotty women like that are one of the reasons being fat has made me so bitter. It's not BEING fat, it's the comments and superior attitude judgements others make about it. Like my body is ANY of their business. Next time you're in the gym, you smack that witch for me! Hollycat :explode:

She's afraid she's losing you and that you are not finding her attractive and might start looking elsewhere...she is blaming herself and taking it out on you as a self-fulfilling prophecy. She needs some serious reassurance..... Hollycat :cry:

Sniff....sniff.....I smell a competitive, jealous woman! :laugh: Pretty soon, she'll be bringing in a cake! :devil: Hollycat :flowerforyou:

You get more flies with honey! Hollycat :flowerforyou:

My two bits: I keep my TSH between 0.5 and 1.5 and take 125 mcg of natural, dessicated thyroid [synthroid made my hair fall out]. I take calcium and exercise to avoid osteoporosis and keep my doctor happy. If your TSH is above 2, you might be undermedicated. The scale they use is fairly conservative [to avoid liability, I…

I'm not saying yay or nay. With over 100 pounds to lose, I've seriously considered it myself. I'll just tell you where I'm at right now. I'm at acceptance. Acceptance that I will be on a diet for the rest of my life. Definition of diet for me is: to actively diet more days than not. To ensure my calories burned exceeds my…

So sorry to hear of your loss. Pets are family and their love is unconditional. When I think about the ones I've lost there is nothing in my memory of them that is negative, so I tend to miss them and think about them more than the people I've lost. Our Hollycat was with us for 18 years, thus my moniker. She was a delight…

Feeding a family of four is not an easy challenge sometimes when the paycheck just doesn't stretch to the 2 weeks it's supposed to...when I get into the overdraft, I start thinking about making a huge pot of homemade chicken soup [which you can freeze in portions]. FF chicken stock carrots - diced celery - diced onion…

My God! I like your style! Even though I despise this overused saying... "YOU GO GIRL!" Hollycat :flowerforyou:

I recommend you spend a LOT of time reading the forum. What the other more diplomatic posters are not saying :blushing: is I think you'll find the general concensus here is that 1200 net calories a day is as low as you really want to go, otherwise you run the risk of doing some rather negative things to your…

I'm careful not to go below 1200 NET. If I exercise on what is supposed to be a 1200 calorie day, I eat my exercise calories back and sometimes a little more to bring it up to 1400 NET. I am losing pretty steadily, and although it's only 7.6 pounds, so far, this is the 'steadiest' I've ever lost. I'm going to keep cycling…