They're cute but they only come in what works out to 30 through 34 A through C in American sizes. Not going to work for most women.

I feel like an asshole about cleaning, only I'm a woman. Cleaning was always a cause of fighting and stress in my house growing up. My dad is handicapped and so can only really help by filing things and the like, my mom hates cleaning and only ever did non-maintenance forms of it around holiday-time, which was the…

I'm not anywhere near being a banker (I'm a grad student), but if my husband is stuck in minimum wage jobs still by the time we have kids, he wants to stay home with them instead. Since he's working part-time and I'm in grad school 60-70 hours per week, he already takes care of probably about 50% of the cooking and…

I thought it would just be that because it usually starts a day or so before, but the bleeding started too. Oh well.

Mine started a few days early. And I'm on the pill so it's really weirded me out. It's extra inconvenient considering I'm finishing up a final paper due tomorrow and this is the last class-related thing I need to do to wrap up the semester, and if it came at a normal time I could just be a slacker instead of needing…

Hugs! I'm writing a paper that's due tomorrow and dealing with period cramps as well! And it's super weird because I'm on birth control and the period usually doesn't start until like Tuesday or Wednesday of the off-week but decided to start today even though like, I haven't had any of the off pills yet. Weird. I'm…

No, not yet. My husband's job right now is seasonal, barely above minimum wage, and under 20 hrs per week. My pay is enough to cover the majority of our bills with his money going to cover what I can't, but it means I have nothing left to save after that's done and, considering we both just graduated college a year…

This is true where I am (well, a mix of people saying "soda" and people saying "coke"...at a boundary I guess). My mom has to be careful because she's allergic to Pepsi but not to Coke, somehow. I don't even understand.

My husband is teaching me what to do the way he was taught by his personal trainer friend a while back. I'm starting out with very weak arms unfortunately, but have only used the 5 lb dumbbells for my burnout set because I haven't been able to finish a full set with 15 lb dumbbells yet. Some asshole stole both the 20…

Thanks for the info- good to know. I just started adding in 3 days a week of weightlifting (I've normally just been doing cardio) and am hoping to bring down the body fat %, so if I can trust the scale to at least be self-consistent even if not accurate it should still be a good way to gauge progress. :)

Ooh, interesting. I'd heard it mentioned somewhere before but didn't know what it was, maybe in the context of like trying to make a drug to activate brown fat to burn more calories. So it's all white fat, but it's more harmful when it's located closer to the organs. Hmm. I kind of wish I had taken more bio or…

Ooh, good to know. I thought I had heard of something like there being brown fat and white fat and wasn't sure how that fit in with everything.

What kind of fat is in boobs and butt? My waist is 28 inches but my hips are 43 and my bra size is 32F, so I feel like while I have a high body fat of ~32% (according to a scale that claims to be able to calculate it, don't know how accurate those are), nearly none of it is around my midsection. My BMI is 25.2, which…

I got married this summer and we're not sure when the best time to try to have a baby is. If it happens accidentally we'll roll with it, otherwise we'll see how we feel.

Don't have kids yet, but planning to name a daughter Catherine for sure after my great-grandmother and as for boys, still debating between Erik, Isaac, and Orson. Looks like none of those is all that popular right now.

I was visiting my cousin and her mom (who was in town for Thanksgiving) and we had a lovely dinner of steak, asparagus, mushroom, and sweet potato in a town half an hour away from me and it was great.
Then I went and got myself lost somehow. How do I end up in the downtown of my city on the way back when it's a good…

Now I need to go clean all the cooking equipment and prepare a PB&J sandwich for my husband before he wakes up from his nap and has to leave to go work Black Friday at his retail job. I offered leftovers, but he said they won't go as well with Red Bull as PB&J.

This is the first time I cooked for Thanksgiving, the first Thanksgiving with my husband, and the first Thanksgiving away from my family. We don't like turkey, so I got a 4.5 lb ham. There will be leftovers for days. (not pictured- pumpkin pie)

I'm inclined to think so. But no one in real life treats me like I am other than my mom because my waist is 28 inches and my ribs are still clearly visible, which is weird for me to see people call people with visible ribs anorexic but then call people my weight or BMI fat. Just other parts got huge as I gained…

That's good to know. I want to lose some weight and I've been working on it but have been finding it hard. I haven't been gaining any more weight though, so I suppose it's not wasted effort. I feel like my family is so strange when it comes to weight, because my younger brother has a BMI of about 16.5, whereas my…