Posts by kittyisaround

I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia - therefore, the question of "who am I" is kinda out of the picture...

Hey Marcin,

I found that it also matter what you eat first and what you drink with it (and that you drink with it).

You could try what I tried and change the things on your plate you eat first.

If I drink a glass of water/tea first, eat salad/veg (excluding potatoes) first, then filler (potatoes/rice/pasta/bread) and then the meat/fish/meat-sustitute, I actually do get full in ~20 min.

Starting with the meat or filler makes me hungry for longer. Not drinking does too. Mixing foods together is the same deal.

Also, you might want to try to actually savour the food, figuring out if this hokkaido pumpkin tastes the same as the butternut pumpkin helps to keep you focuse on the food instead of the time (or scale).

For foods that come mix naturally (stews etc), I would simply advice to have a salad/veggie sticks before and fruit afterwards, this way you are a little filled beforehand and you "have to" make room for the fruit afterwards.

Cheers!

Hey Bob,

Piece of advise here - get over it. Like everyone said, she probably knows that you have a crush on her and even if she didn't, the chances that she is into you are low, simply because they don't seem to be chemistry.

If I (I'm a girl) like a guy, I won't be friends with him for x-months and tell him how I like guys to look the total opposite of him and I surely won't call him a "friend".

If she'd be into you, she would have made it obvious to you by now.

It might not even (just) be your looks, you could be Johnny Depp and the chemistry still might not work.

Being 18 isn't so very long ago for me, and believe me, it doesn't worth running after someone who isn't interested. My now-BF for example, was in love with a girl for 10 (!) years until he realized she isn't ever going to be into him. Don't do that to yourself.

You'll meet other girls, just as awesome.

Cheers!

Original Post by susiecue:

Original Post by kittyisaround:

So I think people who are naturally heavier, simply forgot when they are full or got taught excuses somewhere ("but the food is so expensive!" / "it's delicious, I can't just waste it" / "hey we haven't hung out for a while, wanna have lunch somewhere?") and somehow, and that is really just a theory of mine, I feel like my heavier friends have more trouble keeping themselves busy, but that could have other reasons.

It's not that they "forget" when they are full.  Many of us simply don't have the right hormone balance to tell us we're full.  We have to put the right amount of food on the plate in the first place because our bodies won't give us the "I'm full" signal that you're assuming everyone gets.

Hey there - I actually do assume everyone had, at one point in their lives, the ability to realize when they are full (excluding ill people here).

When people are children, up until primary school age, they seem to know what they like and dislike (more picky eaters with age 4 than age 40) and they stop when they are full. Of course I don't know every child on the planet, but the ones I do, lose this ability (if they lose it), when they grow older only.

Maybe it is related to hormones, that would explain why very young children don't seem to have as much troubles (no puberty - no sexual hormones going overboard).

Hey,

I'm also a former skinny girl - now I'm just "normal". I started gaining weight when i was in my early 20s (mid-20s now) and I'm pretty aware why.

I also used to eat whatever, whenever but like people said before, I stopped when I was full, regardless if that meant 60% of the meal was still on the plate or the ice cream cone hardly touched. But I was active too. I would walk anywhere (I'm German, we don't get licenses with 16) and I danced a lot. I also used to forget to eat a lot when school kept me busy or I had to rush somewhere.

I gained weight because I stopped being as active and because I started eating out of boredom. Compared to my "natually bigger" friends though, I was aware of that all the way. I knew I was full and still ate because I had nothing better to do.

The downside ( or how a heavier friend of mine says: "the magic") is that now my body refuses to gain any more weight and I consequently get sick of eating too much and too fatty. That heavier friend hates me (not really  ), because I now decided that I better stop consciously overeating and just eat until i'm full again. I also simply started to do more again (hobbies etc) and my body seems to go back to it's normal size (which means underweight by BMI, but BMI isn't accurate anyway).

So I think people who are naturally heavier, simply forgot when they are full or got taught excuses somewhere ("but the food is so expensive!" / "it's delicious, I can't just waste it" / "hey we haven't hung out for a while, wanna have lunch somewhere?") and somehow, and that is really just a theory of mine, I feel like my heavier friends have more trouble keeping themselves busy, but that could have other reasons.

We are awesome! (and lucky) but kikt is right, nobodyy had expected a game like this.. I felt almost bad for the English, this second goal was harsh - but I'd like to believe that we would have won either way.

I would love to see Ghana win, just because they are fun to watch and an African team winning in Africa would be lovely.

But secretly, I wish for Germany.

Original Post by thehappyfish:

I'll wear my work pants and I'll bring any neutral shirts I have...I've been collecting nice work shirts, so I think I have beige and brown. For a while all I had was tshirts. Oops. At least I don't dress so much like a teenager anymore.

Another question...should I wear a hat or something, or is that rude? I was wondering how I could tone down my glowing head without dying it.

I don't think you have to, you did everything you could with your clothes, nobody expects you to change your hair.

But if you really want, pull your hair back in a low bun (if it is long, otherwise, just sleek it) and wear a black headband.

But really, I suggest you just go with "proper" hair, a low bun or sleeked hair and you should be fine.

^ hatamoto - you forget that she probably isn't insured for much longer then your shoulder problem. She could have seen that in case of illness or injury she needs to pay hefty amounts before she actually came into this situation.

You don't get insurance first when you actually have troubles, you get it when you are an adult. She obviously didn't think so and smoked instead of saving this money.

And the 11k per year, that's ~$920 a month. That is much but not that unusual. That's what, in Germany, freelancers pay for themselves - that's one person, not a whole family. It is the law here and somehow, people manage too.And I think the reason is that they know that it is essential by the second they turn 18. So they save for it.

And still, not everyone lives like a begger.

It is priorities in a lot of cases and probably in the example's case too.

^ Nope, but they will refer you to someone who will help you do so. Like all charities.

I worked in a charity (not the salvos) and we would refer such people to doctors who work in free clinics, the same doctors who also care for the homeless.

hk - I can also not read that the OP talks about getting into an affair. From the title "a little itch", I would say it is strictly sexual and probably a one time thing.

I simply shared my experience because she could talk to her husband/bf about it. Maybe he is even open to the idea.

It just isn't always black and white.