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Motivation	Unrealistic deadline...........	Sep 26 2010 14:49 (UTC)	18
Original Post by mymaybabies: I am new to the site today, i have joined because i have a incredibly hard task ahead of me....I am getting married on the 23rd october (4 weeks i think) and my dress is a size 16 and it doesnt fit. I am a size 20 to be honest (yuck). I carry it very well and dress for my size, but when my mum offered to buy my dress i had it in my head i would lose weight to be a size 16 for the big day....but i havent....im stil the same. I have told my mum that it zips up (which it doesnt) but i want to lose some so i feel more comfortable in the dress.......oh poo.....she keeps asking to see me in it and i keep making excuses or avoiding the issue.....any ideas on how i can lose 2 dress sizes in 4 weeks (bearing in mind i have a 2 year old and a 5 year old and work as a carer) so fasting is not an option...i would rather buy a new dress than pass out from malnutrition on my wedding day lol thanks for reading Can you get it taken out? A friend gave me my dress at a size 12. I'm a 16 and the seamstress was able to take it out enough so it fits. Another option is get it altered to have a corset lace up in the back instead of a zipper, if that would be possible for your dress. I'm not sure there's any healthy way to lose that fast. I for one don't lose sizes until I hit around 25-30 pounds down, which takes 5-6 months.
The Lounge	Wedding Costs	Feb 20 2010 13:58 (UTC)	16
Right now rough estimates are looking like around $10K. however, this is including airfare, hotel, transportion, two fancy meals, etc for 16 people because we want to get married in Vegas (mainly so his friends can come as they live in LA and its neutral territory). I am expecting some people to pay their own way (like my parents for example) but others if I want them there, then I have to pay to get them there. That is ok with me. Airfare and hotel for us, the actual wedding, dress, tux, and the two fancy meals come to about $4,500, very roughly.
The Lounge	IRS Gripe!!	Feb 13 2010 16:46 (UTC)	1
Original Post by dnrothx: E-file is your friend. Use it next time. You cant efile the home buyers tax credit. I m about to go through the same thing. You have to send in the actual form with documentation. I am hoping that I can get it direct deposited. I don't want my 8K check floating around someplace. Especially going to the house we're now renting with who knows who living it after us.
Weight Loss	Goodbye night snacking, it was fun	Feb 06 2010 23:51 (UTC)	2
Original Post by carrihound: Original Post by stevejl: Original Post by carrihound: i take a screenshot of my daily account page showing my eat meter & burn meter. i save that in a file on my computer and that is my daily record of my deficit - after it's recorded, i'd have to change it if i ate anything else, so i don't want to eat anything if for no other reason than to avoid the hassle of updating that file. If you want to take that a simple step further, and you're using Windows, try right-mousing on the file in Windows Explorer and look for the option to make it your Desktop background. This will make it the default until the next day when you repeat the process. but wouldn't that delete the previous day's screenshot every day? i keep them in a powerpoint file (with a shortcut on my desktop for quick access), so each day has a slide of its own and i have a long term record of each day's deficit. I put everything into excel - cals in, cals out (calculated using the same formula CC does using minutes and cals burned), weight, daily deficit, weekly def, etc. Ive got almost two years of data with charts and whatnot. Of course missing some here and there when I haven't counted. I have a chart that shows over months and months my cals in and out, so I can visually see a deficit. I get annoyed at the days that are over! But thats a little easy to change :)
The Lounge	Close calls!	Feb 03 2010 00:44 (UTC)	2
this isnt anything compared to yalls! I've seen some pretty nasty car wrecks, I drive about 25K miles per year. I've been very very lucky with my fairly minor rear-end wrecks (they hit me! boo). Anyways, when I was 12 I had really really bad asthma from having a nasty lung infection (found that out later). That day I stayed home from school because I couldnt breath. By the time my mom got home from work my face was blue and I was starting to see the "passing out stars" from lack of oxygen. Its like slowly being suffocated. Mom took me to the docs and he immediately called an ambulence. The EMS lady had to slap me to keep me awake or I, apparently, may not have come back. My blood oxygen level was around 75% or so...should be near 100%. It was scary :( Spent a week in the hospital.
Weight Loss	Have your taste buds changed since you started improving your diet?	Jul 18 2009 17:10 (UTC)	15
Im on the other side of the fence, my taste buds NEVER change. Its very unfortunate and makes it very very hard to stay on track, especially since I'm an emotional eater also. I can diet for months on end with no breaks but my tastes never change and I don't get the sick feeling when I eat badly either. Im jealous of yall :(
The Lounge	Can i get your opinion?	Jun 03 2009 01:12 (UTC)	16
very thin perhaps bordering on too skinny. it really really depends on how your body is constructed.
Foods	What is your FAVORITE sushi?	Jun 01 2009 01:49 (UTC)	3
Original Post by summerlovin13: hmm ive always wanted to try sushi but idk where to start....ive had plain seaweed and its nasty in myopinnion...but i like tuna and salmon alot and any kind of veggie and im not too particular about the sauce...have a good suggestion for me? i started with the more americanized rolls (california, bagel, philly, etc) then moved on to like the rainbow roll and just fish rolls without the extras, then to the sushi (fish and rice) and sashimi (just fish). If you want to go straight for the good stuff, start off with white tuna or yellowtail. IMO those are less fishy than say the mackrel. Salmon is fantastic if its super super fresh and sliced thin. my favorites are yellowtail, salmon, and fatty tuna (toro). I usually would get a couple of each with a rainbow roll. SO likes it all too but is a bigger fan of the giant deep fried rolls with like 10000 ingredients :D Actually I just love the entire menu.
Foods	dessert	Jun 01 2009 00:38 (UTC)	1
do you like cherries? http://verysmallanna.com/2009/05/when-life-gi ves-you-cherries/ I made a half batch (4 servings) its around 207/serving if you use skim milk.
Foods	Salad- General calories	May 30 2009 22:17 (UTC)	2
are you saying you would take all that stuff off? a house salad depends on the dressing, but normally with just the lettuce and tomatoes it would be probably less than 100. Add cals for dressing, croutons, cheese, whatever else. The entree salads are different. Based on calorie info from other restarants, 700-1800 depending on the salad. It varies, a lot.
Weight Loss	sharing food with roommates	May 30 2009 16:33 (UTC)	3
when i lived with a roomy, we shared basic stuff (milk bread flour eggs, etc) and had our own other stuff. We had our own seperate shelves in the kitchen (she was darn near a foot taller, so she got the high shelves haha). We also cooked for each other maybe 3X a week.
Health & Support	Replacing food obsessions with a hobby	May 25 2009 16:12 (UTC)	8
Cross stitching keeps me from eating if thats what you mean :)
The Lounge	body piercings club!	May 24 2009 21:28 (UTC)	30
I did have my eyebrow done years ago, but it got nasty, tried to push out, and I had to take it out. I've got five holes in each ear, nothing fancy though. Stupid adult government job inhibiting me...haha. I can no longer have the purple hair either :( Pretty sure if I ever lose weight ill get a belly ring....just wont look good on my flab at the moment haha
Weight Loss	does anyone know?	May 17 2009 16:26 (UTC)	5
It shouldnt be too terribly difficult to reset the alarm on your phone when it goes off?
Recipes	I think this is an oops	May 10 2009 00:26 (UTC)	4
it also doesnt have bread it in? If the person that submited it is anything like me, the person adds the bread (the cals for it I mean, log it seperate) in afterwards because of certain issues with products not being in the database and whatnot... I think that every recipe people input is put into the recipe database...so I take the ones I use with a grain of salt...I input mine weird and really hope nobody follows them and would be super pissed if all my weird ones were deleted.
Weight Loss	It's so EXPENSIVE to eat healthy. Mac n cheese - $0.99, blueberries - $5.99	May 10 2009 00:20 (UTC)	16
falling - you do know thats stealing right? Basically switching the price tags to make it cheaper....had a friend that went to jail for that...
The Lounge	To go gray or not to go gray, that is the question...	May 08 2009 17:48 (UTC)	13
is your hair fairly short or is it longer? If its longer, maybe try to cut it a bit so its not like...whoa what are you doing with those silver roots...I hope that made sense That for me would be the worst part, not going gray but trying to grow it out....I would imagine youd look awfully funny there for awhile...two tone..or would it be tri tone with the brown/gray then full on brown...
Foods	So what foods smell better than they taste?	Apr 25 2009 16:34 (UTC)	24
oh I forgot about cinnamon rolls. There are cinabons in the Dallas Love Field airport....makes the entire southwest terminal smell like cinabon....but they never taste that great.... I drool the entire time I'm in there...
Foods	So what foods smell better than they taste?	Apr 24 2009 18:54 (UTC)	31
browning beef...smells good, tastes ok but not as good as it smells
Fitness	Question about super high heart rate when exercising???	Apr 22 2009 01:00 (UTC)	6
I have a heart rate monitor and figured out that my resting heart rate as well as my rate when I'm active are very high comparatively. I had the full gamut of heart tests done....nothing wrong with me! SO thats just how I am, maybe you're the same way.

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