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Wow, I am shocked at the experiences Krissy and Canook have suffered! That is just senseless psychological abuse, and the scarring obviously runs deep. i do agree that attraction has a lot to do with charisma and confidence. I was only attracted to my own husband after he chased me for a few years, and he did some modeling…

I have no idea what it is, but if you can make it yourself, I bet you can do it for less calories

If you are breastfeeding, you definitely should no do this, and if you already lost 11 pounds since Monday, I doubt you will lose another 10 till next Monday. However, I get your motives and would go for it myself. I am with acmanna, sabotage the competition and try and lose just one more pound yourself.

Yes, go to my home > settings > diary settings. You can change meal names and add or lose some

At the gym, they have a scale that measures weight, body fat percentage but also the metabolical age of your body. I do not know the value of it, but my friend and I always compete to be the younger one. I usually lose...

Quark is probably kwark? The Dutch word for Cream cheese. In Flanders we call this platte kaas 'flat cheese'

My eightysix-year-old grandfather was diagnosed with type II diabetes around forty years ago and had to switch his regime drastically. He tells me it is a daily struggle still, but he has been maintaining a good healthy weight for years now. He only drinks black coffee, water, soup, or a hot buttermilk drink we call pap.…

There is pasteurised honey? Does that not kill the honey? All I know you should never give honey to infants under a year, and I've recently learnt that having a teaspoon of locally produced honey in winter, will help aleviate the symptoms of hay fever the next spring, as those bees make it from the pollen you are so…

Mojito's and BBQ!

I'm! And I'll start now. Cooking rice, add grated cheese, when cooled a bit more, add a can of tuna, and pineapple. A childhood favorite of my husband. Voila, That's our lunch already prepared. Our freezer got shortcircuited two weeks ago and we are waiting for the repair guy to come and fix it once the spare parts come…

Yes, the bar of soap works here too, against leg cramps. I still don't get it, but it works! We all have a bar of sunlight soap underneath our matress in our house.

On our last all-in holiday, there was also a large buffet, three times a day. My trick was to chose a desert plate to load up, and choose very carefully, because I did not allow myself to go back for seconds. I drank wine, had icecream and managed to not gain weight during that holiday. Not always easy though, as we made…

thanks for the warning! Here in grey and rainy Belgium, people still often believe that the fastest way to a tan is to get a sunburn first....

I am planning on letting myself go on my birthday. That's in January, so I hope I won't feel the need that much by then.

Be careful, I ended in hospital with strokelike symptoms when on an almost nocarb diet. Very rapid weight (and hair) loss, but I missed a few key nutrients as well. Do not do that without doctor's advice!

Good thing you did this in the morning, now you have an entire day to earn some extra calorie credit! You can come by my house and help with the cleaning!

Plus, I just realise, do you weigh 195 pounds or kilo's? I assumed kilo's because I am European. How tall are you?

Log a few days, be honest, and then review. If what you are saying is true, i'd see a doctor. Print your log and take it with you to the doctor's appointment. But really, you probably are eating and drinking more than you realise. Just log honestly, and see what it says. Report how big your glasses of milk are. 150 or 300…

Yes, it will help! And the beauty of it is: no clean eating required. Just log, be honest, consistent, and as accurate as you can. Be patiënt, and it will work. I have my goals set at less than a pound a week. I weigh in daily, my weekly and monthly report just show a lot of up and down, but in the ninety day report, you…

With TOM approaching, all bets are off! Have the wine, just to keep your sanity, I know I will

Congratulations on the wedding plans! You got this, just keep tabs of what you eat daily, no matter what!

Grrr, that chocolate cost me 80 kcals and I don't even like them that much

So Belgium wins? We'll have to celebrate tonight! With lots of food and drinks! seriously, just from what I see when stepping out the door, 1. the younger population is usually not overweight, I can only name three overweight children in my kids' primary school 2. most families eat reasonable amounts at home (e.g. I buy…

Edit: not coffeeshop, coffee as a drink. coffeeshop has an entirely different meaning in Dutch....

O, and may I add, at a BMI of 26, my environment considers me to be quite overweight, and I am being advised by relatives to slim down! I am also calling out my overweight brother myself, so perhaps we have less social tolerance for overweight people. Every woman I know starts going on an off diets from their mid twenties,…

I am a Belgian! We are not skinny, half of us is overweight, but we are not aware of it! At least that is what the newspapers are saying this week, but rescue is on the way! I guess we are getting bigger as we are slowly adopting the SAD diet. The SBD is a bread meal in the morning and the evening, and 1 hot meal at lunch,…

No, it was not 9 weeks, but 6!

Yep, did it 3 years ago, 20 pounds in 9 weeks (reached goal) on a diet I downloaded off the internet, and paid good money for. Fist two weeks were nocarb. I ended up being hospitalised with stroke-like symptoms, with a sodium and potassium deficiency. It worked, but I am not doing that again!

My two tricks to stay within 1200 kcal: get at least 800 kcals in by the afternoon to avoid overeating at night, and I drink (too much) a lot of diet coke. It makes me feel full. Those two things help me stay within 1200 kcal, (short, only slightly overweight, and very very sedentary, despite of my Insanity dvd's, my gym…

Try and keep the rest of that day as low-cal as you comfortable can, and chose wisely at the dinner. I am going on a date with my husband tonight, so I am not eating any snacks today, saving as much as i can for this evening. I am not having any of the Bread that is always served complimentary in our part of the world. And…