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Omg, thanks for posting that!!!

I carry pepper spray with me regardless when I'm out running or walking. It doesn't matter where or who you are, it's just better to be safe than sorry. In my opinion, I'd get pepper spray just to protect yourself, period, regardless of what or who might be attacking. I wouldn't spray an animal just because they are…

My youngest has autism and my starting weight when I got pregnant was lower than with my second child. Though I was considered obese at the time at 5'4" and 180 pounds.

This is exactly what I was going to say. In a study I once read, coffee is an Americans main source of antioxidants. So *shrug* drink coffee and enjoy!!

I had: Breakfast: 2 hard boiled eggs, and scoop of vanilla protein powder and 1/2 cup of unsweetened yogurt Snack: 28g of Almonds Lunch: 10 jelly beans, but we were having an early dinner at the in-laws. Dinner: Turkey Breast, a big salad with snap beans and green peppers, and a small fruit salad Snack P.M.: Very small…

I've wanted to get a lotus flower on my wrist. It represents rebirth and enlightenment which would be appropriate for the journey one takes to lose weight.

I log my weight losses, usually after three days of losing I'll jump up a little bit, maybe a pound, but within a couple of days my weight is dropping off again, and I log once it goes below my last lowest. Now if I was consistently gaining, I wouldn't do it this way, but since I know I'm eating healthy and the fluctuation…

I think our issue here is that many of us work really far from home. I drive on average 20+miles a day and that's usually just taking my kids to school. We live in a different school district than they attend. My husband drives around 145 miles a day to work and goes through a tank of gas every other day. So around $50…

Our gas in MI jumped from 3.65 to 4.15 in one day, now its back down, (lol) to 3.89, but we can't walk anywhere here. The stores are on busy dangerous roads and my husband drives 72 miles one way to work. These prices are just killing us. Sometimes I really wish that I lived in a small community that you can walk to stores…

That is awesome!!! What a huge difference and congrats!! Maybe I should get one of those belts....hmmm.

I'm in!! If I lose 10 lbs I will officially not be obese anymore, omg that will be for the first time in my adult life! Almost makes me want to cry!

Congrats on your weight loss, and I'm sorry to hear about your dog :(

That's just sad...I cannot believe how some people treat others. We should all remember what we came from and how hard it is to lose weight, and an encouraging word does not take that long to type.

This...you definitely need an A1C test. That's the basis, you also should have a complete blood work done to check cholesterol, etc. I'm not going to comment on you taking insulin on your own, but I wouldn't combine that with the metformin, another cheap medication is glipizide that stimulates the pancreas. My doctor…

If you have good insurance Victoza is amazing, but expensive without it. It slows food digestion, I believe how fast it leaves the stomach and how fast it travels through the digestive track, so it slows how fast sugar enters your blood stream. This is the only med I'm on and I have '0' side effects from it. My last A1C…

I'm poor and my insurance isn't accepted by a lot of offices. He is one of the best drs. in it. The thing that is good about him is that if I present him with a problem and he doesn't know much about it he is willing to learn and he will often do some research so that the next time i see him he has more info. I can keep my…

Hi everyone, I'm Ericka, 32 years old, mother of 3, and married for 15 years. I was diagnosed June 2011 as type 2 with an A1C of 10.9. It was very shocking for me. I was originally put on metformin but it made me really sick, then the doctor switched me to 1.8mg of Victoza and glipizide ER 10mg. At the beginning of March…

Thank you! :)

Hummus and veggies is an excellent snack and the sugar free jello is also a good one. Myself, 60+ carbs at a meal and my sugar just soars (I'm controlled through diet also), so a snack for me needs to be max 15grams of carbs. Hmmm, Angel food cake is a great idea that another poster had, and there are sugar free angel food…

I don't really care what other people look like at the gym, and me personally, I make sure all my makeup is off my face before I go. I don't want it smearing all over my towel as I'm mopping my face off for the hundredth time. I usually have to take off my glasses too because those are dripping. If I leave that gym without…

Lol, I used to be one of those. But honestly all I have to do is open my mouth and people's eyes glaze over. What is this you say about dungeons and gear lvl's? Your mage what? Dps huh? Or when I want to play this song I love from Daft Punk, and people just don't understand, lol. Sigh, if only I had Nerd Rage.

I was diagnosed with diabetes at 31....sigh. Neither of my parents have it because they've never been morbidly obese, but my grandma does and she's had part of her foot amputated, had cataract surgery, and is now on dialysis. She also hasn't had feeling in her lower legs in 20+ years, I don't want to be like that, nor do I…

I know someone here in Michigan that just had this procedure performed, on belly and arms, and it was covered by insurance. She lost under 100lbs too. Just depends I guess, or maybe the insurance companies are so happy that we won't be costing them millions in doctor visits and therapies later in life that they gladly pay…

I weighed over 280lbs at one time, and I have three children. I can tell you that I already have excess skin, on my stomach, arms and thighs, and I don't think it will go back. When I was pregnant I got a TON of stretch marks on my stomach and its never been the same, lol. But my doctor did tell me if I lose the weight and…

Berries are the best fruits to eat especially the strawberries and blackberries, blueberries are good too but slightly higher in sugar content. Bananas are okay if you only eat 1/2 of a small one, or if your sugar is low you can eat a whole one. Oh another trick with bananas....the greener they are the lower the sugar…

I'm diabetic, diagnosed last June. You can add me and take a peek at my diary if you'd like. I'm off all meds except Victoza, and I believe that one is soon to follow the others.

Omg, that is hilarious...I think I should start using that one!

I've been asked a few times lately, especially since I'm a diabetic and off all but one of my meds. I tell them simply that I'm eating healthy and exercising, no secret charms or potions here. Some of the classic responses I get are, oh I don't like to eat that kind of stuff, or I'm allergic to this or that, and the…

I miss being warm...like most on here, I'm freezing all the time. I miss being anonymous, lol. I really don't like being noticed. Now on the bra front, mine went up a size when the band size went down, lol. 42DD to 38DDD, guess the girls are staying for a bit longer.

I'm diabetic, so the grains are limited in my diet, but my favs are: quaker weight control oatmeal blueberries strawberries fish chicken snap beans and omg, I'm a cottage cheese fanatic!!