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I did a zip code search and got everyone in the US. That filter doesn't work. .I don't think there's anything wrong with looking for locals. May find a walking buddy or gym buddy.

My grandmother is an obsessive book buyer and can't resist a sale. She used to have a bunch of really unusual books that had nothing to do with her life. One I remember as a kid was "The Secret Lives of Fat People" by Mildred Klingman. The parts I remember were basically about all of these people who lost hundreds of…

My health insurance makes everyone go in and take a bunch of tests and we have to get weighed. If we are in the healthy range, we get a chunk of cash to pay for things that we usually have to pay for (like things below the deductible) If we are overweight we get slightly less money. If we are obese, we get nothing. I am…

I think all diet sodas except Fresca taste terrible. I think the citrus in the grapefruit juice kills the aspertame flavor. Fresca is rarely available in fountains at restaurants here, so I'm always excited when I see it. Overall though, I'd rather have one or two sugar filled sodas a month than drink diet sodas daily.…

I got through about half of this thread and decided I had to post. I'll read more later. I'm a big geek. I am speaking this year at GenCon (best four days of gaming!) in Indianapolis this August. I love all kinds of gaming -- mostly Euro board games like Carcassone and Catan. I also played WoW for years but quit when my…

I just saw a familiar face on a post and I realized that I knew it because she was a friend of mine. I haven't seen her active in a while but I didn't think of it. When I clicked on her it asked me to request a friendship or whatever. She DELETED me! I think... Or maybe she was familiar from posting on the boards a lot and…

OK, my FL friends.. you are NOT stirring up enough drama! You guys all seem to be eating healthy diets and are not spamming my feed. What's wrong with you? Get interesting, dammit! I delete inactive people. I figure if they want to be my friend when they come back they can find me. So far, I haven't gotten very personal…

I have the flex because I never have to take it off. I know I'd toss the One in the washing machine. I just know it.

When you go to a restaurant or someone's house you can't take your scale. I asked a few weeks ago for the simplest way to figure out the calories for a serving of soup I made. I was told to weigh each ingredient and count all those calories then weigh the whole thing and count all of the calories up by grams. Then take a…

I remember being a kid and doing the musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" In the script, they made lots of jokes about the "secretary spread". I guess women would start off their secretarial jobs very thin and the longer they sat all day typing, the more they spread out and gained weight. I didn't get…

10 pounds in three and a half weeks! Woohoo! I've never lost weight before except right after I gave birth. And when I lose 5 more pounds, I'll be the weight I was when I gave birth in the first place. It's sad to look at pics from your ninth month of pregnancy and think...wow.. If I could be that thin again!

My biggest is to log everything, even if I don't log too accurately. This keeps me always mindful of what I'm eating. I used to open a box of crackers in the morning and eat 1-2 at a time here and there all day long until the box was gone. I was taking in an extra 500-1000 calories every day and barely noticed!

My name is Kyle. I'm 42 years old and a stay at home mom in indianapolis. Before that, I worked in a public library with teenagers. I have a three year old daughter. I'm a scifi fantasy geek and play lots of computer games. I have been thin all my life until recently. I stared gaining weight when I moved from San Francisco…

My grandfather had a false young image of himself. He said sometimes he'd get startled when he looked in the mirror because he FELT 25. He felt young and healthy and got shocked there was some old guy looking in the mirror at him. He was never senile. He was just incredibly fit and active up until his 80s and part of his…

I'm all kinds of messed up. I didn't gain weight until very recently, so I still feel like a thin person. It's not until I look at pics of me that I get that I'm big. This was a big obstacle to weight loss for me. I didn't "feel" fat until I got to the point where I couldn't easily tie my shoes and stuff like that. In my…

My husband seems to think that water aerobics is too girly for him. We go to the gym at the same time a lot though. He will do whatever it is he does while I'm in the water aerobics class. Thank goodness our Y has child care service.

I'm apple shaped and morbidly obese. If you look at my pics you can see me in a bathing suit, looking like I have a beach ball for a torso. I wear lots of elastic pants to pull up over my gut. Then I wear longish shirts to hide the fact that I have Urkel pants.

I recommend the book Cooking for Dummies. It doesn't just give recipes. Each chapter has a different cooking technique and then you learn how to use it with a few recipes. Lists of recipes are ok, but if you have no idea how to sauté or deglaze, or whatever terms you might run into, this is great help.

Does anyone think you could put it in meatloaf?

Thanks everyone who gave some good ideas. I will try them ... Esp the steel cut oats. http://www.mrbreakfast.com/article.asp?articleid=27 This is a quick list why oatmeal is good for you. Even if it's not good for you. I don't care. We have loads of it in the house and I cook it all the time. I want a way I can eat it, ok?…

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Luckily for me I have a terrible memory for promises like that. I just get excited when I see the number and think .. Yay! Someday I will weigh that much! Five weeks later I'll not way that much, but I'm sure I'll still look at the number and say ..yay!

Ugh.. macrobiotic. My parents were on that when I was a kid. I remember lots of kelp and pickled plums. Ulp.

The only diet II've ever been on was the CHIP (Complete Health Improvement Plan) It's not a weight loss diet but a diet to get diabetics and heart patients off meds. I went on it because my parents paid for it.(Its one of those programs you pay for and then go to 12 sessions once a week to learn all this stuff and then you…

This is terrible. I worked with this woman for over a year. She lost over 100 pounds on the religious Weigh Down diet. I did not notice at all until someone pointed it out to me. Some people are lousy noticers and may not ever see it.

I thought a lot more people would have my problem, but it doesn't seem to be that way. I looked up what it could be. Turns out that it's most likely too high in zinc. I take a zinc supplement to stave off colds. The shakes are high in zinc. Too much zinc can make you really sick. So if you're taking these shakes, do not…

I was 95 pounds in high school. I'm now 240. I will never be 95 again unless I lose a limb or two. I don't care. I didn't totally hit puberty til about 25. I will never be the buttless wonder who starred in Young and the Breastless again and that makes me happy.

I don't know if this counts because I just barely started, but I went out to buy a new bra the other day because my old one was too big. That in itself was exciting, but the thing that thrilled me was when I asked the clerk at the store -- "Just out of curiosity, am I a 2x or a 3x size, in your opinion?" She said that I…

I've never been one for cosplay, but I'm an avid gamer and go to a few conventions a year, with GenCon being the biggest one. I love to see con geeks here! Keep up the great work

I decided to try a few different brands because I'm going into a nonsurgical bariatric program in July and liquid diets are an option if you are my size. Errr I had a problem with all of them. After an hour or so of drinking one, I'd feel slightly ill and end up on the toilet for an hour having a miserable time. I don't…