Posts by orangecls

thanks for the smiles!  that's good stuff!

of course, i can't wait of the clothes.  of course, i'd love to wear a bikini or a slutty halloween costume.  but i've got to agree with the girls who say boy-related things.  i love being picked up.  i don't even let anyone try!  lol.  and as terrible as it sounds, i'm back in my hometown and occassionally i'll run into one of those "mean girls" that were super pretty and thin back in the day.  some were awful to me.  i'd like to be thinner than them :D  or at least not be the same girl they used to make fun of.  it's not really about them, it's about me in my skin. 

Original Post by sulfyr:

Original Post by orangecls:

where can i find whey protein powder?

A lot of places carry it... Most stores with a pharmacy section.
Shopper's Drugmart, Walmart... Health food stores and even some bulk food stores (Bulk Barn for the win)

 Thank you!  I'll get right on that :D

Are you getting any professional help?  I know it's soooo hard to stop these behaviors without getting to the root of it.  It's not about dieting or food usually.  I got on Welbutrin and it helps.  It's anti-anxiety and I read somewhere (can't remember where, sorry) but it's also supposed to help with binge-eating disorder.  It used to actually be a diet pill and some people use it to quit smoking.  LOL, miracle drug in my eyes! 

It also helps to load your "binge cabinet" (if ya have one) with healthier, lower-guilt foods.  Popcorn, healthier crackers, grapes, etc.

I feel genuinely terrible for those that actually suffer the disorder.  Food is something we need to survive, and an unhealthy battle with it is a daily struggle (don't we all kinda sympathize with this some days?!).  I have friends who suffer both disorders, one or the other or a combination of both.  I've lived with a girl who suffers from anorexia and her perceptions were just out of whack.  It affected every level of her life.  I have another friend who has completely destroyed her teeth and throat from excessive daily purging.  They feel so helpless, and there's really nothing you can do to substantially help them.  It's terrible.

I can't stand that some people aspire to have an eating disorder or fakes it.  I think it minimalizes the disorder.  Someone fakes it, you're their friend, and suddenly you think you understand everyone.  An eating disorder is like any other disorder.  Some people say they're depressed, eat a carton of ice cream, and are back at work the next day.  Some have to be hospitalized.  It's a sliding scale.  There's variations for everyone.     

I don't blame someone having anxiety as their fault.  They can't just "calm down" in the way someone suffering from anorexia can just "eat a sandwich."  Maybe society is somewhat to blame in some cases, but I think it's all a matter of external stressors and an internal predisposition.

Good for you, Judy!  Isn't it fabulous when hard work pays off?! 

CC rawks my world, too!

oh darn!  so i can't have six 500 days and then a 6000 day?!  oh man!  i don't think i could survive under 1200!  even with a weekly range, i still think it'd be pretty difficult without a daily minimum and maximum.  i always have to have at least a 200 calorie slider!

I keep some of them.  Sometimes the emotional attachment is to the garment, not the size.  When I'd gone from an 18 to about an 8, I took an old pair of work slacks and made a "slack dress" out of them.  It was the best feeling ever. But I love sewing.  I take my old sentimental clothes and make new ones that are more fitted and flattering.

But as far as keeping the clear up there sizes, get rid of the ones you don't really care for.  I keep a size up just in case I don't want to be strangled by my clothes for a day with water weight or whatever.  My work clothes are almost all baggy because I just prefer them that way.   But I kept too high of a safety net, and gained back 20 pounds.  I could, 'cuz I had clothes that let me.  Once I'm out of them this time, I never want to get back in!

If you're addicted to the caffeine, it might help the first few days along to pop some Excedrin.  It has caffeine in it.  No pain worse than caffeine withdrawl!  It's also easier to ween off a pill than a habit of soda.

I've quit several times, but I always go back.  I just love soda too gosh-darn much.  And the only studies I've read about how diet soda makes you fat, is because the sweetners tend to make you crave more sweet.  Doesn't bother me much.  I've got my sugar-free jello on call!  Plus, soda, coffee, jello, and pudding are really the only daily sweetners I use.  At this point, I'd rather have an egg-white omelet than a candy bar.  So I think even the sugar-crave thing is a little whack.

wow that's insanely interesting!  no wonder i'm so thin!  er... wait.  it must be one of those things that your body gets used to.  lol.  no, but really, thanks for posting that. 

good idea!  i don't think it's really all that unhealthy as a motivation tool.  you hear about all kinds of people with magazine stacks and things like that.  just don't use red beads :D

I definately gained weight when I quit smoking.  I read some where that smoking on average burns about 250 calories a day.  Non-smokers get a speeded-up, jittery feeling when the smoke, so I would think it would have some speeding-up qualities.  I wish I could remember where I read that.  In the beginning I tried to cut that extra 250 calories but I couldn't diet and quit smoking at the same time and ended up gaining 12 pounds in a month.  I'd take weight gain over the coughing and addiction and cost (financially and physically) any day though! 

Good luck!  I'm sure if you can lose that much weight, you can have the self-control and will power to quit smoking!

i'm 55 pounds down from my heaviest and i've only lost a cup size.  i think small chests make your entire body look slimmer.  i'm a proud member of the itty-bitty-titty-committee!  i can hug closer, lay on my tummy, run without knocking myself out, and i plan on having the perkiest breasts in the nursing home!  you play the hand you're dealt, you may as well like it!

all that said, yeah.  i'd go with the chest exercises too.

almond milk, fiber one, more veggies than you can shake a stick at, cottage cheese (used to make me gag and now i craaaaave it), sugar free jello and jello pudding, wasn't a soup person before and now i eat soup almost every day for a snack, salmon (!), lots more eggs and omeletes, mushrooms almost every day.  i'm trying to remember what i ate *before* calorie counting, lol.  oh yeah, just empty carbs and candy ;-)

i feel this post!  my man is trying to *gain* weight because he recently started to take adderrol and accidentally lost 60 pounds.  to add to this, he didn't know me at my largest (45 lbs ago) so he thinks i look great and isn't very supportive of me trying to lose more.

as far as i'm concerned though, we all have the things we struggle with.  i'm thankful that it's only my weight!  it's the only thing that i'm like "please, just be supportive the best you can" and "eat your mcdonalds in your car before you come in!"