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Dynamo: Adopting your style of eating should help me not be so afraid of fills. I have been telling myself that I've been eating slowly and chewing extremely well, but I am sure I have not been diligent when I have an episode. I hadn't thought too much about it, but now that you mention it, I'll bet I've been talking too much, and too quickly when I have a PB. All good tips! Thanks.

Green you seem to be a very intelligent, quick-witted, lovely woman. Therefore if you really believe that your former male co-workers thought of you as one of them, and offered to share their pornographic material with you because you were just another guy, you are seriously in denial. And denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Well la-dee-freakin' da! You must be feeling a little better Green, you're getting feisty! What I'm wondering is... will you adopt me??

Well being a short little stob of a girl, I have stumpy legs. Always had a very wasp like figure, pre obesity, but the legs... stumps. Hardly any ankles so as you'd notice. Most men like good legs with nice ankles. They don't really notice tiny waists. Big boobs, yes. Great legs, yes. Nice Booty, yes. But the booty isn't even all that important if you have great legs. And blond hair. Tho I have to admit that... I had big butt and I cannot lie. Those other brothers can't deny... they got "sprung"! They could have written that song with me in mind. :heh: Woo-hoo!

What a lovely, fond memory! I've only grown to like fish since the band. Before that, it was an occasional thing that I felt that I MUST do. Now I have actually learned to enjoy it. But I've never been pampered like Green, in any case.

OMG!!! Kat I had a popcorn popper just like that my first year living in a dorm at college! You could smell popcorn all over the whole floor when I would pop it and here came all the neighbors and it would wind up in a great bull session - usually about boys and sex!! What great memories! Btw, we didn't have co-ed dorms yet - that started the following year. You can't imagine what all you can heat in one of those things. Soup, chili, etc. Quite the popular item for a dorm room. Wonder what ever happened to that. I probably burned out the bottom at some point. Between that and my roomie's stereo, we had the true crash pad that year. :notagree

Well I have to say that I too think that there is a time and place for some pornography in healthy relationships. Since I've gained so much weight I am too uncomfortable in my own skin to enjoy seeing a slender, healthy nude chick in the same room with me (on the bedroom TV). So I avoid it like the plague. But I used to get inspired whether I planned to or not when it was on. The DH knew me too well. Sneaky rascal. :bandit If he put it on in spite of how I felt about it, I would feel really dejected and angry. If he holed up in a room with it to avoid having sex with me, I would want to run away with someone who appreciated me. That may sound selfish to some of you, but I didn't sign up for anything less than a 50-50 relationship. We both compromise - not just one of us. And neither of us winds up being a martyr and resenting the other. I have to confess that we've been married for 36 years though. It wasn't always that way. And it really did take a lot of work over the years. But if you seriously love each other, it is well worth the effort.

You two don't know how lucky you are. Thin, stringy, perfectly straight, mousey hair is the pits. At least you can fluff yours up, put it in a band and pretend like you planned it. I'm not thin enough for a comb over, but I'm afraid someday I will be. I had a good friend in Fla. who was that thin. She wasn't old or unhealthy so I don't know why it was so thin and fine, but she made me feel like I had a lot of hair. That's why I hung out with her...:heh: Not really. She was very cool. I have always noticed that people with curly want straight and people with straight want curly. :faint:

Ha! I used to be so addicted to popcorn that I went to the movies, any movies, just for the popcorn. You just can't make it like that at home. I've even thought about getting a theater popper for the home. But that would definitely be just so wrong on so many levels. Since I've scaled back on the eating, now I actually discriminate about which movies I see and I don't get a large container of popcorn. I do get a medium though, no butter, and if the particular theater doesn't have good popcorn I actually manage to sit through a movie without eating or drinking. Unbelievable! I'm curious... am I the only movie goer who has been sold a bag of green, moldy tasting popcorn? When drive-ins were the rage, it was not uncommon. Gag, wretch. :speechles (Egad. I sure dated myself there, didn't I! :paranoid ) P.S. I don't pay much attention to what the little icons are labeled, I just go for how they look. I love this guy: Isn't he :glasses new?

Good Chiropatric info, Pam. I've never used one, but have friends who believe in them almost religiously. Finding a great one is the trick! My girls are too big too, Boo Boo. But not to the point of wreaking havoc on my neck and back. I can't imagine having to put up with the pain of it all. :cry Green I'll never forget when I was at a party with a new boyfriend once and the topic of discussion was the "pencil test" and who in the room could pass. I was totally mortified. Fortunately for my self-esteem I was deemed to be able to pass, but it was such a terrible feeling to have people talking about our anatomy like that so I suggested we find a ruler and figure out which guy had the biggest johnson. The girls giggled and said, YES! And the guys changed the subject and started talking about sports betting. PIGS! (I have never felt comfortable in a sports bra, even when participating in sports. There must be a trick to finding the proper fit or is it the material that makes them comfortable?)

A 4-hour erection can be fun, but 6 or 8 hours, huh-uh go directly to the emergency room. I'm pretty sure the treatment isn't conventional, but without it, you're going to think a case of "blue balls" is child's play. :paranoid Pardon the innappropriate expression here.

L8BloomR: Yes I can eat unlimited quantities of popcorn too!! What's up with that? But I have to say that I'm in a habit of having my own bag. We just don't enjoy sharing with one person having to hold it just a certain way that is convenient to the other person and all that. Just give us both our own bags and we'll be set. I have no clue what that smiley face means... I just thought the face was appropriate. (Hurts - ow!?) If anyone can tell us what Huytsao means, we'd be grateful. :phanvan Phanvan, anyone? Something to do with a VW Bus airconditioner?

nume130: I am thrilled for you. I hope you've found someone really good who will truly listen and help you figure out where you're going and how you're going to get there! I am very proud of you for taking charge of your life. We're not victims unless we allow ourselve to be. I have a feeling that you are headed down a road to happiness and fulfillment. Please keep us posted. We really care about you.

L8BloomR: See there, we could have gone to the movies and had a very good time together. Do you eat popcorn? :guess jqpublic: I quit watching, pretty much. You should try it. That awful knot in your stomach just goes away without all the gut-wrenching garbage thrown at us everyday. :huytsao Mom: I'll lurk here waiting for Edie's answer too. I'm pretty sure she climbed Mount Everest to get it off. Right now that's the only thing that makes sense to me. :straight

Carol: Why is it I've always had those revelations AFTER I eat the cookies/cereal, instead of right before? I'm really lucky in that after a certain time in the evening I don't eat. Of course why should I since I've spent my whole day focused on food. I am sure that if most of us didn't have intimacy issues with our significant others, we wouldn't be battling the weight thing as much. Of course it's always, "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" (In my case it would be the loaded omelet, oozing with cheese.) I have just decided that what we're all wishing for and hoping for and can't understand why we don't have it, is unconditional love. We want our spouses to love us whether we weigh 800 lbs or 100 lbs. When we got our first Min. Schnauzer, Maggie, my DH loved her so much that when my daughter asked me oneday, "Mom, if you could be anyone you want to be, who would you be?" I unhesitatingly answered, "Maggie". My heart goes out to you darlin'.

They're probably just as nutritious as a pus cake. Oooh wait a minute, I think I'm grossed out!! :speechles

Yep, we bought the "Little Red Book of Sales" and gave it to our SIL who just got into sales recently. It is a good little handbook - contains many of the really tried and true approaches and ways to handle various scenarios. I am looking forward to getting "Killer Instinct" - sounds like one the DH would enjoy. Also, I haven't read "The Secret" yet. My DD says it's great and that it really helped motivate her into working out everyday. She's a size 4 but needed to firm up some. She already looks fantastic. No more thigh cellulite and now has nicely defined upper arms. She actually weighs a little more than when she started but looks thinner and healthier. That's inspiration to read the book, I just keep forgetting to get it from her. I didn't see the Oprah show when the author was on.

Well I thought I'd had enough of Bruce Willis until I saw his latest. I actually enjoyed it more than The Bourne Ultimatum and I enjoyed that quite a bit. It was the camera work. I guess I haven't played enough video games or something. Bourne was more believable, but Die Hard (15, is it?) was really fun. Anybody seen either of them? Metal you crack me up too!!! :bounce:

Poor DynamoMini! I feel your pain, big time. I opted out of a fill today because I have had so many of those episodes in the past month. You never know what is going to set you off. One day you can eat something and the next day you can't. Have you found that you can be having a meal and everything is fine and then you feel the pressure start building and continue to build until you have a PB episode - even though you stopped eating the second you noticed something? I mean you don't even know that you're in trouble until it's too late. I think I'm going to have to use a baby spoon to remind myself how small my bites need to be. Let's hope we both get to the point where we are happy for the restriction, and not experiencing the pain! :phanvan

You Win!!

Janet- FANTASTIC!!!!!!! That is just fantastic! Woo-hoo! :whoo: I am so glad you got it done, got the results and are energized! We try not to worry about those things, but it is impossible not to. I am very happy for you.

Kat I totally agree!!

Hey ya'll I feel very sorry for this girl. She's obviously a product of her upbringing and exposure to all kinds of messages she gets from every direction about how bad you are if you're fat. She is a person who is right now struggling with self-esteem issues. If she stays on this track, she's going to crash big time. But I don't really blame her for trying to find an easy way out of compulsive eating. That's what prompted me to get the band. I didn't think I could do it on my own either. I'll bet this is just the start of a trend in youngsters in America. I'll bet there are lots of parents who want perfect children so much that they'll gladly put them under the knife. What a message to our kids!

I agree with lepez. Here's a whole thread about it. Whoever thunk it up should get a raise. It took me a long time to understand that Huey Lewis wasn't singing, "Hit the B Square" :nervous

When you perform an exorcism on a twinkie, does the white stuff ooze out so you can get to it without fouling up the taste with that awful yellow cake?