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I read an Anti-Microwave thread and got rid of my own!
...because the POS broke while I was nuking mozzarella wontons. No kitten, I was coincidentally reading an anti-microwave thread and the damn thing decided to give up the ghost (it's barely a year old, WTF Panasonic?). I'm actually debating getting a new one. I can't afford it for at least a week so I'm seeing this as a…
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I slipped off the wagon but held on by my fingernails
This time two years ago I was ~155lbs from my high of ~225. I was 10lb from goal and, at 32, I’d never been below 160lb since I was 12 years old. I was working out, I was eating right, I fit into clothes I’d never dreamed of. Within 3 months of 2017, my mother’s cancer took her life, my then-boyfriend developed kidney…
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Got invited to a wedding reception...
It'll be the first wedding/reception I've attended within my peer group, and only the second I've been to in my entire life. It's in late March, and it's among former coworkers so there will be a bunch of former bosses/coworkers there, as well (possibly, as we're mutual friends) an ex-boyfriend. So, naturally, I'm freaking…
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Tried zoodles for the first time, because apparently I live in 2012
I'm not giving up breads/rice/noodles/etc but I'd like to cut down a bit and experiment with veg alternatives I haven't tried because, hey, why not try something new? I was a tad hesitant about trying zoodles– I love noodles and a lot of it is due to the texture/chew/mouthfeel (I have some sensory issues with texture, I…
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Inadvertent progress shots
I am not someone who takes underwear pics in full-length mirrors to chart my progress (mainly because I don't have a full-length mirror or particularly nice underwear) but I did accidentally discover that I've charted my weight loss quite accidentally over at least the past 4 years. My two best friends from high school…
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Huh, guess I didn't fall off the wagon with as a resounding thud as feared...
March was an incredibly difficult month. I hosted a huge dinner party the 3rd, got into a fender bender the 4th, and the 6th would have been my mother's birthday (first birthday we haven't had her). On top of this, I tend to hit a low point in Spring anyway, it's a depression I can practically set my watch to. So all of…
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Vintage Cocktail Party Success!
So about a month ago I asked the board for recipes for a vintage "Mad Men"-style cocktail party. Happy to report that we held it Saturday and it was a roaring success! We eventually had about 35 people...it started at 2pm and the last guest didn't leave until after midnight. My menu finally consisted of: COLD DISHES…
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Holy Kittens, I went to the beach!
Preface to say, I am NOT a beach person and wouldn't have been even if I had never been fat. It's not necessarily the swimsuit that's the problem, it's the sun/sand/saltwater/fish-gut smell/random washed up detritus/other people aspect that I dislike. I haven't actually been to a beach in about 15 years, despite living in…
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Anyone notice stretch marks as they're LOSING weight? Or other bizarre new changes.
So I've lost ~50lbs in the last year/18 months, and a lot of it has been "sudden", as in I lost a bit of weight in drips and drabs over the years but really dedicated myself in 2017 (365 day logging streak as of today!) and lost the majority relatively recently. While I'm thrilled with my results, I was pretty astonished…
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So, I guess I HAVE lost some weight...
Every summer my two high school girlfriends and I do a weekend vacation somewhere, and we've been doing it for years. Our first one, the one that unofficially kicked off this tradition, was in Washington DC in 2012. I was roughly 215lbs. Here's me, standing in the Plexiglass vestibule of Julia Child's kitchen. Here's me…
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Recipe Request: Vintage cocktail party munchies
Every year for roughly the last 10 years, my parents have thrown a Spring get-together at their house for friends and coworkers. With the recent passing of my mother (who organized it all), I didn't know if Dad was going to continue the tradition. The other night while walking the dogs... Dad: "So I'd like to have some…
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Taking a bad week in stride
This last week has been just a tad rough. On the heels of a 3 day event at my worksite (imagine a Colonial American Renn Faire...tons of fun, but oogh, exhausting) my boyfriend was admitted to the hospital for the second time since January, he spent our first "official" Valentine's Day in surgery, and my period hit with a…
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Do you ever wish someone had "called you out" over your weight?
I was a fat kid, I will make no bones about it. It seems to have started when I was 8-9 – previous photos showed a normal, even kinda-skinny little girl. There is no trauma in my background, I was never molested, my parents were more-than-less happily married. But, I liked to eat and I just got fat. I only recall one…
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Reheating a frozen, already-cooked lasagne
My boyfriend and I had planned on having dinner tonight but due to a freak snowfall he was unable to come over as the city panicked and closed most of the roads (I live in a tiny pocket of SE Georgia, this is not something we're used to. The last comparison snowfall we had was in 1989). But, as I had already made the…
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Favorite diet/weight loss books that aren't "Diet/Weight Loss Books"
What I mean is, not books that are "how-to (Keto/Atkins/etc)" guides but books about health, diet, fat etc from people who have just lived it. Personal stories without an agenda. My standby for years– literally, before I even thought about losing weight myself– has been "Diary of a Fat Housewife" by Rosemary Green. It's…
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Presenting, the dreariest food packaging ever created
Saw this the other night...it goes beyond "bad design", more like, "soul-crushingly depressing". Grocery-brand generics look better– hell, the ultra-generic food items in Repo Man are cheerier. I hope someone is checking in with the art director and making sure he's okay. ~VL
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My mother passed away and, I've actually done pretty well
About a month ago I posted a thread about how my mother was going through end-stage cancer and I was trying not to let it derail me. Mom passed at 1:11pm the 1st of November (the 11th month). Being into symbols, numerology, and Halloween/Dios de los Muertos as our family is, I know this is exactly the time she wanted to…
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Not letting grief derail my progress. At least, I'm trying.
I really wish that I was one of those types who lost their appetite during traumatic events. I remember when my first dog died, I didn't eat for 3 days straight (I was 9 years old at the time). Now I'm 32 and my mother is going through end-stage cancer. This is not a bolt from the blue, she's been Stage IV for ~10 years.…
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NSV: Figured out how to measure recipe portion sizes! I should not be this proud.
I'd say 80% of my diet is what I cook myself as A ) I love to cook and B ) I'm one step up from qualifying for food stamps so budgeting is a fine art that sadly doesn't include as many pizza rolls as I'd like. Until tonight, although I create my recipes to the gram and knew how many servings the recipe yields, I was never…
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Catcalled on my afternoon walk
I've been steadily feeling more confident in clothing the more I lose, to the point I wore a pair of skirted leggings on my afternoon walk (I don't do pants). It's been about 15lbs since I last wore them and this time I didn't feel I needed to hike my skirt down every other step. Now it must be said, I have a severe…
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YouTube Vlogger tries a week-long fad diet. Hilarity and malnutrition ensue.
Actually, he tries several fad diets (juicing, baby food, Special K, etc) in a series. All end up pretty much how one would expect, and if you expect that to be anything other than "not very well", you're...uh, well, wrong, I guess. Mike Jeavons is one of my favorite YouTubers, and damn, the man commits to his projects. He…
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One Weird Fruit that will CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
...provided you go into anaphylaxis when you eat it, like I did! So yeah, yesterday I found out I have a severe allergic reaction to jackfruit. My supervisor brought some in and, having never tried it before, I had a piece. Well, technically I had one-and-a-half bites before my mouth, lips and tongue swole up and within a…
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"I'm in the South, I can't eat healthy!"
Can I tell you how freakin' annoying hearing that tired refrain is? It comes from both ends, folks south of the Mason-Dixon saying that "culture" prevents us from losing weight; the snideness that some people have in regards to Southern culture ("of course they can't lose weight, just look at how they eat!"). Southern…
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Recipe request: Vegan, soy/corn/gluten-free Asian cuisine?
Hola, I'm hosting a dinner party/Cards Against Humanity tournament August 2nd and one guest, whom I really want to come over because she's an excellent person, is legitimately allergic to soy, corn, wheat and dairy. It's not because it's fashionable to be "allergic" to these things, she will be seriously ill if she…
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NSV: I wore a t-shirt today
I've lived in plain black, 3/4-length scoop-neck shirts almost exclusively for the past 10 years. I own 30 identical plain black, 3/4-length scoop-neck shirts. I rotate them, naturally, because I know the old vs. new and certain dye lots/years feel different from others. I wore a t-shirt today. A somewhat tight, heather…
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Oh salt, why must you do this to me? Looking for low-sodium...sodium?
Saturday, July 22nd: "166lbs! That's the lowest I've been for 20 years! W00t!" <logs weight immediately, walks around obnoxiously proud for the rest of the day> Sunday, July 23rd: EATS ALL THE CALORIE-CONTROLLED SALTY PRODUCTS. Monday, July 24th: "171? Goddamn it." Sigh. If people can claim sugar addictions, count me in as…
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Losing weight, gaining spider veins?
Hello all, I'm about 25lb from goal and firming up pretty nicely, but one thing I've noticed is that all Hell is being played with my skin– particularly in my legs– in regards to veining. I started developing spider veins around puberty (I've had one on my thigh that I don't even remember NOT having, it's been there so…
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Tour guide: lightly active or active?
Hello! I know this question has been asked 1000 times before, but I'm slow...or at least just confused. I'm a walking tour guide who pretty regularly clocks 80-90,000 steps a week (average 12k/day). I'm trying to figure out what activity level this would equate to. I've been on "active" but, since I'm on a bit of a stall,…
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I don’t take up as much space as I used to, and it’s kind of weirding me out.
Hola, The last couple of months have been incredible for me, but at the same time hard to adjust to. I lose in stalls-and-whooshes, but this last woosh, the one that’s gotten me into the low-to-mid-170s (lowest weight range I’ve been as an adult) is somehow throwing me for a psychological loop. Ten pounds ago I still felt…
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Adjusting to your new physical space (aka, weight vertigo)
This week I hit 174lb, having started in Sept 2016 at 191, my highest recorded weight being 202. At 5'6" I still have some poundage to go before I hit my personal ideal (145-150), but, I'm the lowest weight I've been my entire adulthood and...it's kind of weird, not inhabiting the space you used to. I'm not even talking…
