Posts by argylesweater

Went to the doctor... she said that it's probably my pill. Apparently the one I'm on stops your period after about half a year. I'm glad my old doctor told me that when she started me on it...

Anyway, thanks for the responses! Much less freaked now.

I used to get ear infections literally every time I had a stuffy nose and beyond-- I had tubes twice because of it!

My issue with nasal spray is that when I squirt something up my nose and it drips down my throat, I get really nauseous, sometimes to the point where it actually makes me throw up. I'm going to to try the neti pot, though, because my doctor said that it isn't like the spray at all.

Boo, it's blizzarding outside so no walk today. Thanks for your helpp!

okay this is totally off topic, but your post reminded me of a story.

a few years ago, one of my roommates came up to me with a bowl of oatmeal and asked me to try it because she thought it tasted weird, and it did-- like alcohol. well, i turns out that the water bottle she used to make it was actually filled with vodka. whoooops.

so, um, have you made sure that you actually used water to make your coffee?

no offense but it could be denial of your true size. there are plenty of people wearing the wrong sized clothing.

(hence the muffin top being so common)

thanks for all of your suggestions :)

i'm pretty terrible at keeping a fully stocked kitchen, so i don't have most of what you guys suggested, but i did have a piece of dry toast and some egg whites, which are the blandest foods i could find. i also drank about 3 bottles of water. you guys were right, i was really dehydrated and once i started drinking i couldn't stop!

i'm definitely not making it to class today, but i am starting to feel a lot better.

thanks again!

10 pounds in a month and a half is still really fast

Original Post by chris1208:

Original Post by argylesweater:

Original Post by purpleorchid89:

I hate to say this, but it's probably not a real weight loss. If you ate chips and nuts, think about it--- chips and nuts weigh much less than vegetables. Everything you eat weighs something. I think that's the reason you're lighter.

uh, what?

She's saying that she may just have less weight in food in her digestive track. (Don't know if that IS what's going on but that's what purpleorchid meant.)

Those first days of dieting when we're all so impressed with ourselves, some of the weight lost is water and some is just clearing out our colons. (The fat takes longer. ) I think that's the reason for a lot of unexplained wt fluctuation too --more or less bulk in our digestive tracts.

yeah, i know what that meant. it just makes no sense. weight loss is not about volume of food. everything, no matter how much it weighed when you ate it, will eventually come out and not contribute to loss/gain.

i ended up taking it and getting sick halfway through. the lights and noise and actually taking the test was just too much for me :( i did finish, though, and hopefully I did okay. I don't even really remember what was on it right now, much less what I wrote.

thanks for all of the suggestions.

ugh, they do this so often, it's not even shocking anymore.

you can get eyelash extensions, is that what you mean? otherwise, mascaras and products that promise longer looking lashes have been on the market forever.

as someone born with very long lashes, i can promise you that they're not as awesome to actually have as you may think. think crushing them against your sunglasses every time you blink :/

Original Post by chris1208:

You can't binge drink that often and be serious about losing weight and certainly not about being healthy. Just ask yourself whether you really want to be a fat drunk next time you go out.

that is 100% not true.

Original Post by wsamemoon:

Original Post by argylesweater:

never put your bags on the beds. easiest way to pick up hitchhiking bed bugs.

How does one look for bed bugs? Lift the mattress? Are they visible?

i've never seen them, but there were a few isolated cases in one of the building i lived in. the memo they sent out said that they're these flat, light brown bugs that are visible if you're looking for them. they're awful and terrible and apparently horrible to get rid of and a growing problem; a place doesn't have to be dirty to have them.

never get a used bed (one that you find outside, get on craigslist, etc) because once you have bedbugs, you're screwed. and like i said, if you put your luggage on an infested bed, they'll come home with you.

Original Post by jane41:

As long as we are blaming people..what about public schools? I definitely do not think they teach nutrition well enough..

or offer healthy food!

no, my doctor arrived at this number by having me breathe into a machine. i actually had my metabolism tested. 1661 seems extremely high for me to eat when my nutritionist told me not to eat more than 1300/day to lose weight. i don't think that 1510 is my bmr, based on what other people have said and on how it correlates to the numbers that cc gave me (which is my daily burn at lightly active being around 1600). there is no way that i am burning over 2000 pounds/day at my height, weight and activity level.

thank you for taking the time to comment, though. and if i am reading what you said wrong, please let me know.

my puppy is going to be 15 in a month! he's aged so well though; most people who don't know how old he is peg him at around 1 year. he's just not as fast as he used to be and can no longer endure really long walks (but he's a tiny six pounder, so long walks are triply long for him anyway). my dad also thinks he's going deaf, but i just think he has selective hearing.