Meerataila Member

Say no. Get louder if you are made to repeat yourself. Get louder still if some fool tries again. By the time the neighbors can hear you, people will take the hint. It's childish, but so is pushing food on someone who doesn't want or need it.

Eggs might be fine for my energy and satiety, I'm just not eating them for ethical reasons.

Why? I've never had my doctor warn me I have a cookie deficiency. Why would I eat them just to prove I got it under control when the best foods for my health, happiness, and energy levels seem to all be in the produce section?

Love it! You look fabulous and happy!:drinker:

Still refining it: Dried garbanzo beans Bananas Blueberries Strawberries Raspberries (or blackberries maybe next time) Sweet potatoes Russet, Yukon, or baking potatoes Cashews Peanuts Almonds Sesame seeds Flax seeds Spinach Molasses Tea Coffee Red chili peppers and jalapeno peppers and/or any other kind of hot pepper…

The trick I use when I want to know about a product is to go to Amazon and check their one and two star reviews, maybe some three stars. If they all pretty much have the same complaints and there are lots of them, I don't care what the (possibly paid and fake) positive reviews say, I don't buy the product.

This made me smile. One of the best NSVs I've seen yet. Congrats!

I don't think so, and my total weight loss is over half my body weight. My feet on the other hand...I'm still trying to figure out how I lost half a shoe size when I've been a 7 1/2 since I was a teenager. Are they vanity sizing sneakers now?

:sad: That stops working when you're tall enough to handcuff!

I make sure not to break anything I don't want to clean up and/or replace. ....What?

But this thread has made me happier than I've been all day. :flowerforyou:

Scam alert right there. At first it sounded like Atkins, and I did lose a lot of weight about two years ago on old style, real Atkins (not the frozen meals and shakes and bars they sell under the name Atkins now). But Atkins specifically said exercise was required and the Atkins Diet according to him involved eating real…

All of you are just amazing! My highest recorded weight was around 245. Still trying to find a picture from that time period. Maybe not trying too hard, maybe I don't want to see it!

Yeah I wish. Alcohol munchies are beastly! Maybe I tried the wrong whiskey? Or maybe I was supposed to drink enough fast enough to pass out before the munchies hit?

You need the weight lifter crowd's help on this one. If you don't get answers in this part of the forum definitely go ask this in the fitness and exercise part of the forum. You can also use the search function. I just tried it with keywords bulk first or cut and there are tons of threads that might help you.

Same here. In fact, it's about the same as MFP calculates for my BMR. Don't get me wrong, on days when I'm especially slothy that is indeed my maintenance, but lately I manage to heft my lazy butt out of my chair enough to eat a little more!

A major energy booster for me lately is a fruit smoothie (using a blender not a juicer) with nuts and seeds and berries and bananas. It's pretty high calorie, though. You could pretty much replace your lunch with a coffee size cup of the stuff. But it definitely gets me up and going. Edit: Also a quick stroll in the…

I would wait on the exercise, get pushy on the vaccination info, and if you don't know your neighbor well I'd insist on seeing the shot records or calling his vet for them. Tell him you need them to take to your doctor or the ER because you'll be asked for them.

Nope. But I swear it really does wonders for my skin to drink that much, but only if I don't force myself to. I don't like walking around with a sloshy belly.

Sounds like they'll pay me to participate. If so, where do I sign up? If not, then I'd like to take the sneaky marketers who came up with that name and club them with a stick until they cry for their mommies.

This is the only way to eat those darn crack flakes. Which is why I don't eat them. I can't run a whole 10k yet! :sad:

I've had issues with food ever since I can remember, but I've only been as bad off as you are right now once. But I was there three years. Do whatever it takes to get out now. Enlist any help or start any activity you deem appropriate to do so, but don't procrastinate because it only gets harder as you go along.

I recommend walking around for a week or two in the house in your bikini, taking a second look every time you pass a mirror (or go all out and dance like a crazy lady in front of the mirror every time you pass it, which also burns calories and is fun besides). After awhile, your eyes stop fixating on the bits you don't…

Just because you don't currently see your body type on catwalks often doesn't mean it's not beautiful. It's just not the body type used to show off clothing. A hanger shows off clothing, too. Don't get me wrong, there are many beautiful women who are naturally lean and not curvy, but I hope you won't let one type define…

Oops. I should drink more coffee before trying reading comprehension in the morning!

:laugh: You forgot starvation mode, cleanse, detox, and Dr. Oz.

I have meal bloat, too. It doesn't help that what remains of my body fat is also congregated in my belly and has linked arms in a determined effort to resist the diet police. Right now I look six months gone.

Also catchy. But a bit too honest for their purposes.

Plan 4: Save money, get surgery later on if you want. But meanwhile, don't fret it until you lose the weight and see what you have to work with. Maybe throw ten bucks in a jar every time you lose a pound and start researching medical tourism. I hear Argentina has some of the best, least expensive cosmetic surgery in the…