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Yeah, family comments can cut way deeper than any one else's. When I was about 10 or so years old, my dad, who I didn't see very often, said it was good that I thinned out a little because I "looked like a barrel before". :noway:

Just to freak my aunt out, while we were shopping in various stores, I loudly whined "the medicine isn't working! My uvula still itches!" I knew how much she hated hearing "uvula". It was a day well spent.

My aunt's husband was in an accident a couple weeks ago. The other day we were talking about it and she mentioned how unhappy her husband was when he woke up because of the foley catheter. She said, "when I saw it, I couldn't believe how big it was!" For about a half of a second, I kept the roaring laughter in. After that,…

My honey's family has the opposite problem. Their second toes are shorter than their big and 3rd toes. I jokingly call him a freak, which is amusingly hypocritical because I was born with the cartilage of my right ear folded up in my ear canal. The doc pulled it out of the canal and my ear flopped like a puppy's for a…

I guess I would label them as two different exercises. A half hour of slow paced walking (you could probably add your grocery shopping time to this) and then cardio for the amount of time it took for you to get home.

I hate anything that's not furry and cute--you ever seen a zoomed in pic of a butterfly's face?! They're gross and terrifying. We live by a river and our yard becomes coverd in frogs. We had one that got in the house and was most of the way way up my livingroom wall. I left it there until my honey got home from work,…

I was going to write the same thing Sanya said. Prior to going on meds for hypothyroidism, it felt like I lived in a vat of molasses. Everything took way more energy than it should--both thoughts and actions. I was tired, and therefore crabby, all the time.

I grabbed a pair of underwear out of my drawer without paying much attention to them last night. I showered, got dressed, and went to the bar. When i got home, my jeans were driving me crazy, so I just pulled them off--this is one perk to being childless. After a few minutes, my honey started laughing at me because my…

Our local library used a little known ordinance to take me to court over failing to return library books. It landed me--for reasons that I still can't sort out--in traffic court. I was up after a few drunk drivers, so the judge was in a fiiiine mood by the time it was my turn. Best. frackin. day. ever. :grumble:

I admit: * I loved New Kids on the Block when I was in grade school. I even had a framed poster of them that I hung over my bed. * My first celebrity crush was Paul McCartney. This would have been in first grade, so circa 1987. He had a feathered mullet. It was hhhhhot. * I cut open, looked, and then resealed Christmas…

:laugh: Recently, I've heard this from three different people! I'd never before had anyone say they were freaked out by cotton/cotton balls/cotton swabs. On Easter, my eventual-BIL talked about cotton having a sounds (I know what he means; it creaks) and that it freaks him out. My coworker, a week later, said that when she…

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When I worked days (years ago), I'd put on Lifetime Television and listen to Golden Girls while I was getting ready. About 15 mintues before I'd need to leave, Golden Girls would be over and Denise Austin's show would come on. :grumble: I'd turn the TV off just to avoid the torture on my ear drums.

All kinds of hot, Lorina! You look great and I love the kilt.

For me, it's anything with Denise Austin. Truthfully, it has nothing to do with her exercise routine. It's her voice. It's like nails on a chalk board for me. *shudder*

Eat foods higher in fiber and protein. Those stay in your system longer than other foods and will help keep you from feeling hungry as often. When you do feel the need to snack, if you like baby carrots, 30 of them are about 100 calories. A couple stalks of celery is 10 calories. Even if you go over your calorie goal by…

Pjfmaui is right, your honesty helps others. I'm going though the pre-op program for GB and I thought I was the only one on this board who even considered it. *hug* Is there a post-op program where you had it done? I doubt that you're the only one struggling. The surgeon/team that handled your surgery in the first place…

I carry it around my middle, though my hips/butt run a close second. Honestly, I can deal with that. What I really HATE is the fat I have in my upper arms. I have the arms of my 80 year old grandmother (think chubby flying squirrel "wings"). Most of the time, even if it is super warm out, I won't wear tank tops because of…

I agree with everyone about finding a tattoo artist to talk with about your ideas. Most of my ink started out as images in my head and my artist helped me get the design on paper, tweak it, and make the final product even better than I'd hoped. If you go this route, you should expect to have to wait a bit for the design to…

Sorry to hear you're going through this! I work in an ER and I've seen more than one person come in with gallbladder issues. I always feel bad for them. YourFriendBecky is right that low calorie diets can cause or aggravate gallbladder issues. A friend had to have her GB removed because she was dieting too aggressively and…

I read vampire romance novels almost exclusively. Classics and non-fic bore me. I hate when my coworkers ask me what I'm reading. They always make this face. ---> :huh: Also, I sing out loud when I have my headphones on. I feel sorry for my neighbors.

Sugar isn't the only part of a cookie that has calories--chocolate, butter, peanut butter, nuts, etc. ETA to say "Bah, I accidentally double posted!"

Sugar isn't the only part of a cookie that has calories--chocolate, butter, peanut butter, nuts, etc.

A friend of mine lost 50 pounds. She decided it mostly came from her chest, because she went from D+ (heh, she was a bigger D, not quite a DD) to a B. She was not happy. :noway:

Heh, I was just thinking something along those lines. I heard a rumor that everyone has a collar bone. I'm hoping to be able to prove that's true eventually.

A friend of mine lost about 50 pounds a few years ago. She started eating more healthy and pounds sort of fell off. After the weight was gone, I think she was still 140 pounds. At 5'1", that's still considered overweight. Her family freaked out and told her she needed to stop losing weight because she was getting too thin…

I was just thinking the same thing. I usually put a little of the dark choclate almond milk on my ice cream as an alternative to chocolate syrup. Ice cream made from it could only be better than as a topping!

I had a friend in a similar situation. She identified as a lesbian and thought she might like guys too. Her problem with figuring it out was that she didn't want to, for lack of a better way to phrase it, lose her credibility with the other lesbians in town. Hate to alienate the limited pool of datable women in this…

WebMD has an article called "Low-Calorie Cocktails", which may help you when you go out with friends. I'm not sure if we're allowed to post links on here. Doing a seach on their website should get you to the article. There's a lot of interesting info, including: So just how many calories are in your favorite cocktail?…

Thanks, everyone! These ideas are very helpful and give me a place to start researching what would be best.