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Was wondering if anyone else figured their weight loss in a funny way? For instance.....I've lost 44 pounds since January......that is equivalent to 14.5 cans of Crisco shortening OR 176 sticks of butter!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I thought of mine in terms of a large 50lbs bag of dog food.

1 and 1/2 of those huge bags...

I was shopping at the time and thought "damn!"

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Dog food sounds good! I have a big dog, and we get the 50lb bags, I can't even carry them!! I have to get fiance to empty them into a tub for me so I can scopp it out. If I lose 3 of those dog food bags.. wowser.

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I read somewhere that a lb of fat is the same volumn as a pound of butter, so I kind of imagine how much butter I've lost, lol. Sacks of potatoes, or cat food, as well.

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Velveeta cheese. It looks and feels like fat. I have lost 30 large boxes of Velveeta cheese.< /div>

Love the Velveeta cheese idea....maybe it will make me not like it so much if I can think of it as fat instead of creamy cheese!!!!

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Dog food sounds good! I have a big dog, and we get the 50lb bags, I can't even carry them!! I have to get fiance to empty them into a tub for me so I can scopp it out. If I lose 3 of those dog food bags.. wowser.

Wouldn't it be great if we could pour the fat out like dog food!!

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You know, I've never been a big fan of Velveeta cheese. I don't like or dislike it. But I bought a box when I started losing weight just so when I start getting frustrated I can hold it and imagine how many of them I have lost. Potatoes don't do it for me. I'm not that kind of lumpy. :) I buy little bags of dog food since only one of my dogs will eat dog food and he weighs 3 lbs. But the cheese, it looks and feels like fat. I'm -30 large boxes now. For some reason it just really hits home with me.

What kind of dog do you have that weighs 3#?? We have two yorkies 5# and 8#. Sure am glad I can still pick them up after surgery!!

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That means I've lost 22 boxes of Velveeta! I'm loving this.....your dog is 1.5 boxes of cheese, mine is 45 boxes of Velveeta!! Misty is a 90 pound black lab....sounds like we feed her a lot but we live on a farm, she's always finding something to chow down on!

Can you imagine stacking up 22 boxes of Velveeta, 176 sticks of butter or 4 bags of potatoes and carrying them around all day? No wonder my knees and feet are feeling better!

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So far, maybe a bag and a half of the large size kitty litter. LOL

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We're in the middle of a cold spell....it's rained all day and is ending up with big fat flakes of snow. Will have to wait till things dry up a bit and I'll try to get a good picture. Then the trick will be to figure out how to get it in the e-mail...it's about time I put a ticker and my info. in anyway!

I'm loving this....have went all around the kitchen/house trying to figure everything into lost weight. So far none of my new ideas have been better than the ones already mentioned!

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