Jessamin Member

Because we evolved the intellect to make and use those weapons. If you take away those objects we'll find a stick, sharpen it, and have a new weapon. Like, do you think we just won the animal lottery and got these weapons handed down from the sky to us? Come on, now.

Pretty sure you're wrong but okay.

I also find the thought of eating an unwashed, dirt-covered carrot mortifying. Better not eat anything ever.

Please don't compare the animal rights movement to the feminist movement, it's offensive. Also, out of curiosity, what are you doing outside of complaining on the internet to help animals?

How did I know this was going to be the most obnoxious thread on the boards?

He's here!

Started at 365, at 194 and aiming for 120 - 145 pounds. I was crazy strict for a year. Exercised an hour and a half a day for a while there and ensured a defecit AT ALL COSTS. I've totally mellowed out now but still keep a balanced diet and regular exercise. I'll get there eventually.

Yes, I am sure. There's plenty of belly and thigh left to go!! :D That kitty is Barnacle and he is near impossible to take a picture with, let alone a nice one. Here are some vaguely successful ones, though:

Of course you may! I probably should have popped that in there somewhere. I am juuuust a tiny bit under 5'5".

Thank y'all!! Ooo - I like it too! I got it at Postie Plus, it's a brand called Who's Henri? I am not sure if it's around any more, I bought it a while ago.

Woo! I didn't miss the post! Wowzers, I never quite realized how far you'd come. You have done a magnificent job and I am awfully inspired by what you've accomplished. :**

Before (365 pounds/165 kilograms): During (270 pounds/120 kilograms): After (198 pounds/89.5 kilograms): 60-ish pounds left to gooo!

Yes.

I just super-duper love it when people think that the fact that something is their opinion magically makes it impossible for it to be absurd or challenged. I think the manner with which you're approaching this is monstrously self-important and the way you're behaving towards people is ridiculous. My opinion. Get over it.

What self-important monstrosities. Good grief.

FRY. Stephen Fry, verbose king of all things snark!

Stephen knows best, y'all.

Hi there! I'm thinking you'll probably see this faster than in the vet techs group. If you are ever uncomfortable with the state of your animal you should contact the vet. You're obviously not happy with how the initial vet is responding so I'd say for the sake of your own psyche, see another vet. What's the worst that can…

Eheh - thank you! I am a bit of a cheater in that respect. My Mother hoarded vintage clothes for her entire life. Seriously, she has a shipping container, a two-room shed and our 8-bedroom house pretty much full of suitcases full of clothes. I steal pretty much any of them that fit me. That's where most of the good stuff…

Hawkes Bay lady all up in here. :3

Nothing like a bit of sexism and internalized misogyny in the late afternoon. Stop that.

I was 365 and have lost 155 this year, aiming for 220. It's not unrealistic. I think the most important thing I learned was that I WAS going to bugger it up every once in a while, you just have to dust yourself off and accept the consequences and keep going.

I'm Jessamin and usually go by Jessie which is hard to bugger up, really. But when I go by Jessamin I get Jasmine or Jez-man quite a lot. I wouldn't think it would be that hard. Jess. Uh. Min.

Stuff in my veins.

I usually inform them that my butt-bone hurts and I'm cold most of the time, but that seems to bum 'em out. :I

154 pounds since February. Another 70 or so to go. I got sick of being young and fat. I got sick of not going to parties and not having boyfriends and not being able to buy pretty clothes. Comparatively pretty petty compared to other stories on here, but it's how it went.

Thank you everybody. ;-; It's been since about February. I started MFP about two months later. I guess the biggest thing I found was to forgive yourself for buggering it up once in a while. Also: Zumba rules. The usual, now. It started when I needed gut surgery and they made me lose weight. Figured it'd be dumb to gain it…

I guess it's a New Zealand accent for the most part, but SO OFTEN people ask me if I'm from the US because I sound like it. I don't really know what that's about, but I guess it's a NZ/US hybrid.

Nothing! We cancelled Christmas because we're all adults and broke and it's a little bit awesome. I got my dogs some toys and the cats some fancy treats and one of them got some dental treatment (I guess it counts as a Christmas present).

Also: the OP is free to say what she likes and other members are free to tell her why that is stupid. That's the wondrous nature of opinion. Why you're happy for her to say what she likes but are also happy to make other people shut theirs down is beyond me.