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I take a multivitamin, red krill oil, calcium supplement with vit D, and probiotic every day. I don't notice any difference in hunger or satiety.

But that's what's so confusing.. IF you're so much in love, wouldn't you BUY A FREAKING TICKET and go meet this person? My ticket to Africa was just $748 round trip. If you have thousands and thousands to send this person who is supposedly the LOVE of your life, then why you can't fork over 700 bucks and a few days of your…

I am currently living in a third world country.... I really REALLY miss my first world problem of having to wait for red traffic lights. The "close your eyes and accelerate" method that the taxi drivers use here is NOT working for me. I also miss the problem of having 30 seconds of hard work of having to change the laundry…

Tex-mex style flour tortillas that I make. It's absolute TORTURE to make them and not be able to eat any (I can't have wheat due to autoimmune conditions). ZOMG, I just made some tonight.... they were so thick and puffy and tender and I gave my poor husband the stink eye during the entire meal as I endured my tiny, flat…

HOW? I mean HOW do you develop a relationship with someone and "marry" them without verifying their identity? I was watching Dr Phil, and there are people on there who fell in love and sent tens of thousands of dollars without even seeing the person on webcam. HUH? I mean I actually DID marry an African man I met online. I…

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When I was on an online dating site I had a guy who claimed to be from a few states away. I noticed right away from his writing that English was not his first language. claimed to be from Portugal. hmm.. ok. I chatted with him through IM but was really skeptical. He wouldn't video chat which raised huge red flags. (and…

I once ordered a $2.22 filet o fish and fries at McDonalds on my way home from work.. 26 miles later I stopped at a SECOND McDonalds and ordered another one.. WITH an apple pie. On no less than a dozen occasions I bought a box of Drake's cakes Yodles or Devil Dogs at the grocery store and ate the entire box before my…

A plus size 1X is typically a size larger than a misses size XL. A plus size 16W is usually similar to a misses size 18 in the waist measurement. Of course as we all know sizes may vary from store to store and from brand to brand. Your best bet is to look up the size charts online and see what the measurements are for the…

Some people tolerate excess fat better than others. BOTH of my obese grandmothers (one was morbidly obese) died in their 90's of causes unrelated to their obesity. I am 236 pounds but have no other risk factors. No family history of heart disease. Never smoked. I exercise regularly and have for many years. I have very low…

I had mine out 10 years ago with emergency surgery while I was at a weight of over 300 pounds. My gallbladder was gangrene and was in pieces so the doctor had to really fish around in there to make sure he got it all.. and he had to scrape rotten gallbladder remains and infection off of my liver. Fortunately, despite my…

Woo hoo Janice, you're almost there! I have 37 more pounds to go before I reach ONEderland. Yup, sometimes it feels like it will never happen, but then I remember that there was a time when I thought I'd never get below 300! Right now, because I'm living abroad and have a REALLY hard time with the food here and counting…

Gain weight so you have some fat to harvest. Go to the plastic surgeon. He will harvest the fat through liposuction, clean it, then inject it into your face.

OF COURSE THEY DO! And I prefer a millionaire with a full head of hair...But since there was a lack of millionaires with perfect hair perusing me, I had to settle for my husband.

I use the terms fat or obese though I prefer fat. It's just a physical descriptor like tall, short, skinny, fair, dark, etc. I HATE it when people will say things like "oh don't say that about yourself, you're not fat" UH YES I AM and it is not a negative thing to say so. Now if someone is using "fat" as an insult that's a…

Find a friendly, helpful, knowledgeable bicycle shop and take it from there.

I do just under a gallon of whole milk with a cup of fat-free powdered milk added though if I don't have any powdered milk, I'll just use the whole milk, adding the powdered milk just makes it richer. Heat until frothy. Cool until it passes the pinky test (super super clean pinky only.. you don't want to add any harmful…

I do half 2% milk and half water with a piece of cinnamon stick in it.. Boil it.. Then stir in a spoon of nescafe and 3 splendas... Sometimes half a scoop of vanilla protein powder instead of two of the splendas.

I use high quality FRESH (only from the most recent harvest) evoo for salads and to make all of those good Leventine foods like hummus, ful, and baba ganush. Back when I could eat bread, I'd just take some fresh baked lebanese bread and dip it in olive oil mixed with thyme and sumac ZOMG.. Delish. I use half regular(less…

I would have done what was in MY BEST INTEREST and not put everyone else's WANTS ahead of my NEEDS. I wouldn't be so concerned with what people thought of me. So happy I finally woke up and started living my life this way.. .better late than never!

I have also taken phentermine. I took it when I was in my 20s at a time when I had already been exercising quite heavily for several months and seeing almost no results. (yeah, my problem has ALWAYS been mostly in the kitchen, I actually enjoy physical activity). It definitely worked for me at controlling my appetite. So…

I'm 5'5" and I would want to be 5'5"!

Cow butter... occasionally sheep butter.. camel butter is available here but I have never tried it because I hear it gives you the trots.

This label hit me HARD. When I realized I was not just morbidly obese, but SUPER morbidly obese. I cried. I was in the category with people who are bed bound. I was in the same category as people who have to have portions of a wall removed to get them out of the house. I was in the same category as people who can no longer…

The absolute fastest I can complete a mile is 16 minutes. My normal pace for walking is 21 minutes. I'm a slow poke.. always have been.

short for macrronutrient. Protein/Fat/Carbohydrate. Many of us try to fit foods into both our CALORIE allotment and our macro allotment. So depending on what else I'm eating in any given day, a food like granola, might fit into my calories for the day, but it might not fit into my macros because I might need something with…

I eat half an avocado a day when I can get them. Right now there are none at any local markets in my area so I'm suffering.

I have had weight loss surgery so a small portion of (homemade healthy) granola fits into my calories and macros nicely especially at times when I'm out for a long day of cycling or hiking.. BEFORE my surgery a 1/3 cup serving would have been a joke. I would have wanted the whole bag. If you enjoy enjoy eating a small…

Pfft, I don't think these are accurate. I am medium framed for sure. I have very small bones in my hands and narrow shoulders, average ribcage.... At my heaviest my wrist was 7.5" which put me in the "large frame" category.. DUH.. my wrists are FAT just like the rest of me so of course I'm going to have larger wrists. My…

I'd be perfectly happy with a pretty face and an "average" body. I worry sometimes that while I'm working toward obtaining my "average" body that I'm going to lose my chubby cute youthful face in the process.