I just lost 10% of my body weight (17 lbs) and am working on another 10 lbs or so. I am now 152 lbs and 5'4', so not a skinny thing, but I definitely feel better. I going to the doctor today to see if my blood pressure has dropped, one of the reasons for the weight loss. On a more shallow note, I really wanted to lose the weight because I was freaking tired of hating how I looked in or out of clothes, and as a consequence ignoring my body all the time. Fighting body image demons was just taking up way too much of my psychic energy.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Spike's Bitches 28: For the Safety of Puppies...and Christmas!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Scrappy - Feb 17, 2006 7:13:24 am PST #9725 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Stephanie - Feb 17, 2006 7:14:12 am PST #9726 of 10001
Trust my rage
I breastfed exclusively for 6 months, but I'm still 6 lbs over my pre-pregnancy weight. Very frustrating!
P.M. Marc - Feb 17, 2006 7:15:11 am PST #9727 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
So, any way I can nurse a kid without, you know, having one?
Yes, but not especially effectively (google adoption and breastfeeding), so I don't know that you'd get the 500 calorie a day burnoff from it. Also, pumping sucks. Literally, too.
SuziQ - Feb 17, 2006 7:26:05 am PST #9728 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Yeeeehaw.
Just saw a guy who works in our DC office. I haven't seen him in about 4 years, though we have worked together for about 10. He got all squeeee over the way I look - weight loss, hair cut. Nice ego boost.
Now I have a big ole grin on my face.
Aims - Feb 17, 2006 7:51:11 am PST #9729 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Signs that Bitches has warped you and you spend too much time on the internets:
I HAD A DIRTY DREAM ABOUT DAN LAURIA!
I am so unclean.
Steph L. - Feb 17, 2006 7:53:40 am PST #9730 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I would mock you, but I have no idea who he is.
brenda m - Feb 17, 2006 7:54:07 am PST #9731 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
HAHAHAHAHA!
sumi - Feb 17, 2006 7:54:42 am PST #9732 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Was he the Dad on Wonder Years?
§ ita § - Feb 17, 2006 8:00:47 am PST #9733 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Let's just say he's no Hugh Laurie.
Aims - Feb 17, 2006 8:03:12 am PST #9734 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Yes, the dad on TWY. sigh