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Weight Loss	130/120 Club?	May 10 2007 01:05 (UTC)	4,871
Stokes, WAY TO GO! I am so proud of you! We're not twins anymore....I'm still sitting at 119 but have been working SO much that the gym is the last thing on my list. Sad...but true.... ::sighs::
Weight Loss	weight loss supplements	Apr 28 2007 02:18 (UTC)	3
LIPO 6 IS HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE. I took it for 3 days, was SO shaky, my heart was pounding out of my chest, I could not breathe. I was SO scared that I flushed the rest of the $60 bottle! If you have ANY thyroid, heart, or blood pressure problems, PLEASE do NOT take this.
Health & Support	LACK of sex drive	Apr 28 2007 02:13 (UTC)
THANK GOD that you posted this, because I was actually going to ask if anyone else felt similarly. Because I'm a pharmacist I won't bore you with the details, but trust me, when you don't eat enough cals/fat, you cannot make cholesterol and cannot make estrogen or progesterone, which get you ready... But I am stuck in the same rut. I work 10+ hours daily, try to work out at least 1+ hour, spend 2+ hours in the car, hate myself the whole time, and then TRY to get in the mood. Last night my bf joked that I am asexual...so when I got home from work tonight I started balling because he is so right currently...he is such a hottie and sex is the LAST thing on my mind. It's almost annoying to me....and this is VERY sad. I would very much appreciate anyone's advice before my current situation gets any worse.
Fitness	Brides-to-be Roll Call	Apr 28 2007 01:22 (UTC)
P.S. I do not look HALF as well as I should for spending half of my life there. Damn genetics!
Fitness	Brides-to-be Roll Call	Apr 28 2007 01:21 (UTC)	1
Okay I am NOT a bride to be....but I do have a really stupid question...were any of you "too" fitness crazed before? I am starting to think that a reason my bf of way too long has NOT asked me to marry him...he says I'm married to the gym.
Weight Loss	How long?	Apr 28 2007 01:19 (UTC)	4
That depends on a lot....at what weight are you currently? Are you looking to burn fat or put on muscle? How is your diet? If you don' t have a lot to lose then it may take awhile...if you do have a lot to lost (ie BMI <30) then it should come off faster. Either way....GOOD LUCK!!! ;-)
Weight Loss	Dieting and Marriage, oh my!	Apr 21 2007 01:22 (UTC)	1
I think that we all, overall, offer you all of our prayers and support. Marriage is NOT for the faint of heart, it scares the shit out of me, but if you had the cojones to get into it in the first place then I trust you are big enough to stick with it. As Dr. Laura says, there are only 3 reasons to leave a marriage: addiction, abuse, or adultery....(my dad taught me that, by the way)... Will pray for you and your wife.
Weight Loss	Find your twin on CC!	Apr 21 2007 01:18 (UTC)	2,172
Stokesreagan.... Email me pics if you have them! I have a muscular small frame...!!! I'd love to stay motivated with you. ALW
Health & Support	My NOT so open Confession (... bulemia)	Apr 20 2007 02:13 (UTC)	32
Bulimia is an evil, evil disease that is often the manifestation of another underlying mental disturbance. I have been battling it for 13 years and just got up the courage to go to the psychiatrist...my first appt is Monday. I BEG YOU, absolutely BEG YOU, to go to the doctor TOMORROW. You do not want to live in secrecy, shame, disgust, hate, regret, fear, lies, and loathing like I have. It has made my life fucking miserable. PLEASE, I beg and pray for you, PLEASE seek treatment. No one will judge you, no one will blame you. People will be proud that you came forward. You must know that you have to WANT to stop, and this is going to take a LONG time. But you can do it...we can all get through this together...with the help of God, our MDs, our pharmacists, our families, we can do this.
Weight Loss	Find your twin on CC!	Apr 20 2007 01:56 (UTC)	2,188
I am SO late on this.... Ht: 61 in. Wt: 119-122 right now. Waist: 27 in Arms/Legs/Back/Shoulders: More muscular than the average girl....;-) My twin MUST be self defeating so that we can work on this together!
Weight Loss	Dieting and Marriage, oh my!	Apr 19 2007 00:21 (UTC)	18
First of all, runninnc you just made me break down into tears as I'm typing this. My boyfriend and I have this fight almost weekly, and it goes something like this: I complain that we never see each other, yet when we are off, I go to the gym because I "have to." When we go to restaurants, I always get salad with chicken or fish or whatever and refuse ice cream. He HATES this, saying I am so abnormal. He wants me to be "a normal eater"; what he does not understand is that I do not have a metabolism like his that's an inferno greater than the depths of hell. He constantly says that my obsession with food and exercise is going to ruin our relatoinship...and I thought it was total bullshit until I read your post. You have made me VERY scared that this is a possibility (no offense, it is a good thing). I know that I, personally, control my diet and exercise because I feel so very out of control out of many other aspects of my life. I work 60+ hours a week, my family sucks, my friends all moved away, etc. I am very lost and very lonely and am reaching out for whatever I can control. Is this similar to your wife? As for her criticism of you, I would not mean it in a harmful manner, as if she is doing to you what I do to my boyfriend she is reflecting....and man is she jealous of what you can eat. I despise that he can eat Cheetos, ice ceam, candy, etc, and not gain an ounce. Now as for his artieries....I'm sure he'll be downing the aspirin and Crestor long before I will, but alas...currently the situation sucks. I will pray that you are able to communicate as my boyfriend and I cannot. I will pray that you give her her space and she gives you yours, because if she's like me, this is not something out of which she is going to grow. GOOD LUCK.
Motivation	Why Cant I just be "Normal" about food?	Apr 18 2007 01:32 (UTC)
Oh my God counting food is an absolute SICK obsession of mine and I am still, by no means, thin. I'm 5'0 and with a 27" waist and tonight when I looked in the mirror I actually broke down in tears. I have issues, I know this. But at the center of it all is this sick obsession (orthexia) with eating only healthy foods....that is, in the presence of others until I binge and purge like I did tonight (instead of going to the gym...isn't it sick that, since I knew my boyfriend wouldn't be home, that I skipped the one thing I love to turn to the one thing that is slowly killing me?) I am so, so, so thankful that there are people that can empathize with me. I have prayed so hard for God to take this away from me...but I suppose I'm just not ready to give it up yet.
Motivation	Friday weigh in club - AKA the Pedicure Group	Apr 18 2007 01:25 (UTC)	42
I'd really like to get in on this....maybe it will help me from stop giving 100% in the kitchen....;-)
Health & Support	Recovering is so hard. (anorexia, please share recovery ideas)	Mar 28 2007 20:06 (UTC)	3
The biggest thing that has helped me (recovering bulimic) is going to therapy. I'm 25 and have been bulimic since I was 13. I was never an inpatient, although there are many times I should have been, because for some reason I was always able to cover it up. I tried to get well so many times on my own, which is INSANITY. I finally broke down an called a local treatment facility and got in touch with an eating disorder specialist. After a lot of just talk, we are also working on cognitive (behavioral/habit therapy) and I am taking topiramate. I'm a pharmacist so I am comfortable speaking about medications in anorexia. Unfortunatley meds have proven to help in my case much moreso than in AN. SSRIs (ie fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), citalopram (Celexa), sertraline (Zoloft)) have been studied, but the results are not overwhelming. I would honestly stick with counseling as well as your own motivation. There are MANY free or low cost clinics in most major cities that are so understanding and willing to help. It takes SO long to recover....and if you're like me it will not be an easy process. I still hate myself after all of this time, unfortunatley, but that's an issue on which I have to work. I will pray for you, GOOD LUCK! ALW

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