Posts by justvikiv

I'm on day 9 of the Master Cleanse right now. I started it initially because I have really bad food cravings and annoying problems with binging. I'd like to just wipe the slate clean, have a clean happy body and start practicing temperance and creating new food habits when I come off of the fast.

Stanley Burroughs is the guy who invented the cleanse and I highly, highly recommend you read HIS book before beginning, and then follow it word for word through out (you can download it in pdf version for free). If you have weight to lose and you don't lose it during the fast, you probably have too much maple syrup. I use a 2:1 ratio of lemon juice to maple syrup and I've lost at a rate of 2 lbs per day since the beginning. I'm also chugging water every time I remember. My tongue is coated very thickly and I have to scrape it every day. If I breathe too hard I'll peel the paint off the walls... but other than that my experience of the MC so far has been pretty positive. I would recommend it to others so long as they were willing to take the time and effort to do it right.

Original Post by schnooder:

Original Post by justvikiv:

Not everyone cares about your best friend.

i never said they did. iraq doesnt need to be brought up in everything.

 I wasn't bringing up Iraq, I was pointing out something I found funny about a statement I found ignorant. Unfortunately humor doesn't bleed through onto these forums unless you type LOLLLL, HaHa!!, lmao, or something along those lines to point out the seemingly obvious.

Boo.

Binge and purge are terms used in medical settings. Some ideas of "binging" are very subjective, like when an anorexic person says their binge consisted of whole bags of carrots and celery... technically it isn't correct but the feelings are often the same as someone who suffers from Compulsive Over Eating, and so you will hear the term "binge" used this way in medical settings too. Of course it is the professional's job to educate the patient on the proper use of the term, and help them with their recovery. And CC isn't a medical setting by any means but it is the internet and you will see a lot of people misusing words, ALL the time. I'd say get used to it.

"I'm saying it is now socially acceptable to use the words, but are often used in correlation to bad/ negative feelings/attitudes/actions."

Yeah... that's pretty much how it works with binging and purging. A lot of time, binge is used to describe the feelings that go a long with over eating or losing control, instead of the actual amount of food consumed during said binge. I do, however, understand shadow's frustration. I have suffered from COE and Bulimia, and my binges were rarely less than 5000 cals, in one sitting no less.

I'm with you kiddiegirl. I found having a dieting buddy was actually detrimental to my weight loss - personally, I wouldn't do it again. Like one other poster said above, be honest. I would just let her know I wasn't interested in being accountable to anyone other than myself, which is true. It's your diet, and it's not her business if you don't want it to be.

I know I would hate the extra pressure (I am plenty hard on myself), and it's just in my personality to completely rebel against what other people want me to do.

Kiddiegirl, just tell her what you told us, sugar coat if you must. And good luck on your solo weight loss!   ;)

" Yeah baby
When it comes to females
Cosmo ain't got nothin to do with my selection
36-24-36
Only if she's 5'3""

Sir Mix-A-Lot makes quite the eloquent point in "Baby got back".

Also interesting how "rappers" have changed their ideals in the women they exploit over the past decades. (Nelly vs. Sir-Mix-A-Lot, etc.)

I used to drink a sugar free redbull everyday for months. It was great for me because I didn't like coffee at the time and it gave me energy to stay tuned into my classes which were extra early and extra boring. But the thing about energy drinks is they make you feel energized for a few hours and then you crash. Everyday after school I'd pass out for hours, then wake up, exercise, do homework and struggle to get back to sleep for a couple more hours before repeating the whole cycle again. After a while my sleep schedule was shot to hell, my energy was down, and my enthusiasm suffered.

I'm not against redbull. But the amount of caffeine in one can IS outrageous, much stronger than one cup of coffee or one cup of tea. It also gave me heart palpitations, so be careful. I still drink the stuff, but only once in a while now. 

Was I the only one who was revolted by the hypocrisy of the authors? They advocate all kinds of strict guidelines, dishing out insults and other people's research to explain why you suck if you don't follow them, then said at the end "but don't be surprised if you see us stuffing our faces or chugging beer bongs". They said similar stuff throughout the book that gave the impression they don't live by their own standards.

Then they admitted they wrote this book because they didn't want "real jobs". So, ultimately, they got rich for being catty, judgmental, and childish, while citing other people's hard work to back up insulting opinions. Skinny bitch reads like a lazy, foul-mouthed eighth grade book report.

I couldn't get over how "pro-ana" the whole thing seemed either. I had an eating disorder, and I've talked to lots of girls with eating disorders, and these girls sound just like them. (Some anorexics use veganism as an attempt to disguise their habits or avoid eating in public, orthorexics feel superior because they fixate on eating only healthy foods, and almost all of the eating disordered people I've met cut others down just like the authors of Skinny Bitch did). When they advocated fasting for weight loss, I died a little inside.

Some parts of the book were funny. A few lines even made me chuckle. But by the end of the book, their commentary was more annoying and much less entertaining - stupid things like "ugh" and "that just makes us sick" placed after research that almost made them sound credible.

This book is overrated. 

Sun, you are a TRUE inspiration. Congratulations on coming so far, and *cheers* to the success I know you will continue to have!!! Lots of love and *hugs*,

Viki