Posts by poohb

Thanks for your responses!  I like the idea of the anti-cellulite massage... though I never had such a painful massage!  This is encouraging - I'm going to try the towel thing & work through the pain...

... until I look like I was thrown from a moving vehicle?

:)

I'm a mother of a 3 month old.  (Not to mention my 8 yo, 6 yo, & 3 yo!)  I'm nursing, and with my other kids I did so until they stopped being interested!  Maybe that happened sooner before since I was working (pumping at work) & now I'm home & only give bottles infrequently.

Anyway, before baby I was fluctuating in the 147 area.  Now I'm a whopping 172!!!  I can't believe I put on 25 lbs of FAT during my pregnancy!  I'm overwhelmed with the though of trying to reach my goal of 130.

My stats:

32 years old
5'4"
171.8 lbs as of this morning
goal of 130 lbs

MY BIGGEST QUESTION:  How many cals do you think I should be adding per day for nursing?  If CC says I should aim for 1400 cals a day, is 300 the magic number people use for nursing?  Should I aim for 1700?  I heard it could be anywhere between 200 & 500 so I dunno.

Good luck all!

Can't help you with that one, 'hon, but I wanted to tell you what an inspiration your pictures are to me.  I feel a little less hopeless & helpless.  How have you lost all that weight?  Is it mostly the exercise?  How do you stay so motivated?

I'm a medical biller.  I just started so I can't give you lots of tips, but I was looking into on-line courses that were a few weeks long.  They recommended learning billing first, which you can work with, & to add coding as well once you knew how to bill.  I ended up training for a few days with a biller my husband (a doc) already knew though.  I will try to find the website that I was looking at since they say they help in placement for work.  Apparently, to make a decent amount doing this, you might want to sign on with more than 1 office.

Here is the website.  Again, I didn't end up using it, but it looked really good.

I might not have helped at all since it's about billing, not coding, but I can't imagine needing 2 years of education for coding either.

Good luck!

It can definitely happen if the body goes into "starvation mode" where it kinda realizes it's not getting enough calories so instead of burning existing fat, it conserves energy by slowing down the metabolism.

If you have the patience, this is a great article that explains it very well.

Skip down to the "Why is she not Losing Weight" section - it's about a page length down.

I was exempt from pre-calc but didn't really remember my stuff so suffered unprepared through calc1 & calc2 in grades & ego as I was always best in math in HS.

I do not remember a thing.

And I have no idea what I would want to do if I could start over.  Bleh. 

Oh, GH, like you I think I was just reacting to someone's opinion that women's shaving practices are uneccessary!  But you're right, any hair that was never shaved is soft... but not necessarily smooth &, you know, mmm, you know... as nice as if it was waxed.