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i do reward myself with food, and i'm ok with that. it is not necessarily junk food! earlier this year, i came to terms with the fact that i'm a "Live-To-Eat"-er, and i will NEVER be an "Eat-To-Live"-er, so instead of trying to do the impossible, i learned to do the best i could do with who i am. rewarding myself with food…

yay, science! and cats! =^_^= i'm a 26 year old community college student... when i'm on campus, i love to take the long way to walk everywhere, and i always take the stairs to my 3rd-floor classes! i bring my own food to avoid questionable cafe offerings!

my first thought was "how the hell does she carry heavy stuff?" (my pouch-y sisters know EXACTLY what i'm talking about!)

i know one thing -- my husband hates protruding bones! one time i was laying on my back on the bed, disrobed, and there happened to be a bit of blanket under my butt, so it kind of pushed my hip-region up -- ergo, my hip bones were sticking out MUCH more than they otherwise would. when my husband walked into the room and…

INFP hard-core. haha, and i just read this, here: http://typelogic.com/infp.html and it's freakily true of me. "INFPs never seem to lose their sense of wonder. One might say they see life through rose-colored glasses. It's as though they live at the edge of a looking-glass world where mundane objects come to life, where…

i agree to some extent with the OP: usually i reject almond milk for the reason that it doesn't have very much protein compared to soymilk. if the store is out of the unsweetened soymilk i prefer, i'll grab a carton of almond milk, but just to tide me over until the store gets more of the soymilk in. i need to take my…

sweeeeeeeet!

i think this is the only thing i've seen in this whole thread that i've coveted, so far. simply beautiful!

i have lots of casts of my teeth -- had braces for 4 years, and i saved all of my impressions!

probably no one else has a huge Alice in Wonderland collection... and if they do, i want to be their best friend! i currently have 137 copies of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There", some very old, and lots of other assorted Alice paraphernalia, from art to…

i think dress 1 is my favorite, but dress 4 is also nice. i think they're both suitable for an evening wedding :)

yes, and naked, and i take off my rings and glasses!

the BMI is somewhat junk science. they came up with it in the 1800's, based it on the weights/heights of people in a particular area, and it doesn't consider things like your frame, how much muscle you have, etc. it isn't a very accurate tool, it's just something people use to kind of lump people into categories and make…

i, too, eat ice cream. it's one of my must-have foods! sometimes if i eat too much, it makes me work out more so that i can gain back some calories to cover it!

i like truvia better -- that's actually my favorite of the various stevia sweetners available. i used to use splenda, but i didn't like the taste. truvia tastes a lot more like real sugar to me, and it's actually in little granules like sugar would be. i drink a lot of sweet iced tea, which would mean LOTS of sugar…

reportedly, scrubbing can help, because it gets blood flowing to the area and that has some kind of positive effect on it... but i don't know the specifics of how that works, and i can't attest to it myself. (for me, i've just learned to deal with it. pretty much everyone has cellulite, and i also found that it doesn't…

bump! i need to try this!

i do think it's funny that veg*ns get all kind of crap for being uppity at omnivores, because i am a vegan and i have NEVER just come out of nowhere and started ragging on someone for what they're eating, but it happens to me coming from meat-eaters ALL. THE. TIME. makes it a little hard for me to understand this…

i almost always have to eat before bed, or my hunger will actually wake me up in the middle of the night! i usually try to have some fruit or, like, some peanut butter toast or something. nothing too crazy, and usually just a little something.

i second the idea of a womens' shelter. best of luck to your friend :(

this, this, a thousand times, this! the MOST crap i've gotten for my weightloss is from a good friend of mine who has always struggled with her weight. we were weightloss buddies a few years ago, but... she got frustrated and gave up, and i kept going. now, most of the time when i see her, i usually get to hear some…

do you rub your eyes? if you do, eye-rubbing can stimulate the blood vessels so they look bigger and more pronounced and are closer to the skin. as someone else mentioned, allergies can also be a culprit. but i don't think there's any magical cure. i came out of the womb with mine -- the doctor took one look at me and told…

it knows! let me show you something: a fitbit day to show someone by ash-k, on Flickr you see that one pink spike in the 12pm hour? that's when i jogged to a class i was about to be late for! that was the most active i was that day! also, you can see that after that pink spike, there's no real activity until 2pm-ish...…

i feel great being a vegetarian (a vegan, actually). not to be gross or tmi, but... you know how awesome you feel when you take a really good crap? a lot of vegetarians report having awesome craps pretty much all the time. in general, i feel like my body works more the way it's supposed to. my skin's better, i feel icky…

i think it does pretty well -- i'm not that sedentary, i'm a student so i sit in classrooms for long periods of time, then run across campus to get to my next class, and i'm on my feet all day at work, but i think it's pretty accurate. if i've got a day off and i lay in bed all day, i don't burn too many calories. if i'm…

Careful.

just wanted to say my heart goes out to you, and i wish you the best of luck in your weightloss journey and for your family, now and in the future :)

anyone else getting banner ads for docs since looking at this thread? :laugh:

i don't log 0-calorie beverages, yellow mustard, or supplements (i'd been logging my tums that i take as a calorie supplment, but i just got so tired of it >_<)

lol, yeah, my strategy was "be vegan and buy the synthetic ones" :D completely broken-in in about a week, and i wore them all day on one of my walk-all-over-my-college-campus days the day after i got them, without complaint. none of this "wear them for a little bit and beat them with a hammer" stuff.