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Wow...the wonders of the world are suddenly revealed to me...btw, this donut that I'm eating right now is pretty delicious.

Exactly. Someone who doesn't respect you enough to say something out of love and concern rather than poke fun isn't someone you wanna be with. Why spend your only life with someone who's going to treat you like that? Love yourself, the lack of respect isn't going to get better, if you just lose weight and don't address the…

You don't. Coming from someone who needed to continue to eat junk while reducing calories just to be a little successful, and sometimes still need to, it's not your place to say anything at all. Keep doing your thing, some people have a much harder life than you and you do not know anyone else's struggles, so saying…

I turn off the lights in my house, I blast fun music and dance wildly so that I am not tempted to judge my wild flailing. ^_^

This is a very important statement.

I have not given up ANY foods. I just eat less of it, like you're supposed to.

This is the worst load of crap. If ANYONE thinks they have a right to shame the foods I eat, they better know everything about me and the stuff I'm going through or the things I need to do in order to get through each day without giving up on life. Who the **** are you to say that people need to shame others to keep them…

Same!

I don't understand why you're trying to lose weight when you're also trying to get a "ripped body with abbs". In my opinion, upping calories and change up your strength training plan. I don't understand not doing back and chest on the same day either. You're really not going to be building new muscle when you're at a…

LOL! It's NOT more socially acceptable to be bigger. I don't know where you're getting your intel from, but it's clearly flawed.

um...nope.

Most of my dresses are bodycon dresses. They are cute, form fitting in the right areas to show off curves. Love them. I wear them with leggings of course. ^_^

5'10" and currently 1200 goal.

Uhhh...good for you? I guess that makes you the best person. Congrats. O_o

My leggings collection is my most favorite out of my clothing. I have such a huge variety of them, with awesome and random weird prints on them. I wear them A LOT, but typically I wear them under short mini skirts. That would be the most common outfit piece I wear. I've worn them as pants and the world didn't end, so I…

I think you misunderstood my original question. I apologize if it wasn't completely clearly written, my brain has been in a funny place lately. I think the answers given were perfect examples of what I was trying to get across.

Thank you everyone for such amazing answers!

Yes, exactly! When I lived in Europe, everything was so decadent, gorgeous and delicious. This is what I miss, I know there are some ways to make this, or maybe smaller servings of sauces, creams and make them all delicious, yet making it lower in calories. I KNOW it's possible!

To track the calories per serving, I'm guessing that you input each individual ingredient and weigh each serving? This is a wonderful equation, Thank you again.

These are such beautiful suggestions, I really appreciate it! They sound so elegant and yet, very calorie reasonable!

LOVELY! Thank you, you understand the fine cooking I am looking for! Beautiful!

There are ways to alter meals to make them still very decadent, yet lower in calories. This post is not asking for everyday meals. I think I'm having trouble communicating what I'm looking for, if someone understands what I'm asking for and is able to describe it better than I am, please speak up.

I'm looking for more decadent, rich meals. The ones on that page are not decadent or rich, I just see regular low calorie meals. When I say decadent, I mean truly gorgeous, rich, beautiful meals, not just low calorie home made meals.

It's truly annoying when being polite is mistaken for flirting/hitting on.

Not my Chipotle, they just like to give us less Chipotle, but I clearly need and want more Chipotle.

My ring finger went from a 9.5 to a 6.5, so yea...now I get told that I have skinny fingers, skinny hands and skinny wrists. It's kinda nice. ^_^

I'm not good with switching up technology, hence why I was probably the last person to have a cell phone (I used my pager for the longest time), I only got my first MP3 player in 2008 (I'd lug my cd walkman and my clam case of cd's), I didn't have an internet phone until the beginning of this year, don't even get me…

I can eat anything I want...as long as I moderate the portion size. I don't believe in completely eliminating anything from my diet, unless I don't like it.

Thanks for sharing this! I dunno if the person who you were responding to found it useful but I do! Thanks! :)

I don't know how that would make you a bad mom, unless you just left your kid at home alone by himself while you went to the gym. In that case I'd agree, otherwise, it's good for you to work out!