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If someone, even someone I really loved, had told me I needed to lose weight, I'd have probably told them to drop dead. I had to make this decision on my own and do it all on my own. I didn't even tell anyone until I had lost half the weight I wanted to. I still tell people to eat dirt when they try to give me "diet"…

Trust me on this: These kids do NOT have a problem with parents having no money. Bassoons cost an arm and a freakin' leg. You simply do not play it unless you have the money to play it. A decent student model will run you $5000, reeds are $20-30 a pop and last a few weeks at the most, I charge $30 a week for lessons, $50…

I don't know the other kids who performed. These are just once a week private lessons, not through a school or a class. It was arranged by my own childhood teacher who invited any of her former students who teach to bring their students and show off. So arranging a group project for all of us to try to be healthy is not…

I do a lot of running, walking, lifting and whatnot at my overnight job so it's not as bad as a lot of people. When I wake up around 7 I eat something that will keep me full, like a big bowl of oatmeal with fruit. At work I either bring a lean cuisine if it's going to be one of the rare nights I can actually sit and enjoy…

When I dug up new garden beds, I logged it as shoveling snow.

People who eat/drink straight out of a container of something that was bought for the whole house. If you bought your own dinner, then you go right ahead and eat it straight out of the package. Lick it if you want. Stand barefoot in it, I don't care. If we have to share that carton of milk and you drink from it, you're…

Oh I know, I'm still obese in my head.

Heee! I love working in Equine! They have so much personality! It's just hard because I work overnights/emergency shift so a lot of time they're in really bad shape when they get here. You know, they come in with a colic and torsion and just didn't make it on time. :-\

Some people noticed when I started wearing old clothes which was about 30 lbs down. Now that I'm down 30 more, random strangers in my neighborhood notice and feel the need to ask me what my secret it. It kind of freaks me out.

I went for vet tech too :-) I hate working in a small animal practice, though. I'm currently in school to be a lab animal vet.

Lab Animal Technician and Large (farm) animal technician. Glorified cage cleaner/boo-boo fixer.

A dress I bought when I was 16, that the zipper broke on in the dryer the first time I washed it. I just got the zipper fixed and it doesn't quite fit yet but it's close.

I'd just eat it. At least a smaller portion of it. Every week my roommate and I make a meal together and it's always something horrendously unhealthy (make your own pizza, taco bar, burrito mayhem, etc). I don't completely gorge myself, I log the calories, and I try to get in some extra cardio that night, but I'm still…

One of the reasons I started eating meat was because I was sick of the other vegetarians making me look bad. Another was to spite PETA.

I play dance dance revolution for exercise. It's the only thing that doesn't seem like a horrible chore.

Exactly 5'4 and losing another 31 lbs?

THIS.

Yeah woodwinds! I'm actually a concert bassoonist in two orchestras. I got loaned out of one where I'm second chair of three to a community band with no bassoon. Our concert season in the band is over and I wanted to march so they taught me cymbals and bass drum. My arms have never been so toned.

Thanks everyone! I'm not even kidding about the hair. It's been some obnoxious colour since I was 15, mostly green. As far as I'm concerned that IS my natural hair colour.

I used to think brown rice was an abomination. Now there's a half-empty 20 lb bag in my cabinet.

Thanks everyone! I loved that new year's dress. I was both happy and incredibly sad the day I realized it didn't fit. The hair is NOT something I compromise on. I've actually gone to job interviews and basically said if the hair's a problem, let's not waste each other's time. And I FEEL awesome. I can keep up with the band…

I want this on my iPod.

Like everyone else said, you should only weigh yourself once a week. I weigh myself about a dozen times a day because the fluctuations make me laugh, but I only count my monday morning weigh in.

I pretty much exclusively drink diet coke and coffee. Healthy? Probably not. Losing weight? Yup.

Oh man, I have the opposite problem. Mine are just starting to shrink after nearly 60 lbs gone and I'm so glad. I looked like I was going to topple over!

I'm also going camping this weekend. We're going to have a cooler, a cooking pot and a bbq at our disposal, and there's a place at the camp site to get ice, so I don't have to worry so much about things spoiling. My food list is apples, mangoes, avocados, cucumbers, celery, carrots, green beans, brown rice, turkey hot…

Oh yeah, definitely thinner. Especially the chin.

Wow. You lost a whole person.

Looking good! I started at the same weight but an inch shorter. I just did the same thing with my winter coat -- it wouldn't even button in January!

YEAH RUTGERS! Although I'm a Scarlet Raptor...