We also don’t know where she started, how tall she is, and how much this is worth proportionally of her total starting weight. For the record, I weigh ~155 at 5'2", which is definitely overweight based on my current body fat to lean muscle mass composition, and I am trying to lose body fat while building more lean…

I just think it’s pretty jerky of you to shit on her about the amount of time it took her to lose the weight when:

Assuming you’re a man? It’s harder for women to lose weight quickly. Metabolism’s usually pretty different. When I tried Weight Watchers, there were dudes in there losing two pounds a week mostly just from cutting soda and snacks, and I was losing half a pound to a pound cutting... a lot more stuff than that. (I was…

What about roasted veg? No spices, just a little bit of oil, then you roast things like sweet potato wedges and carrots and acorn squash. It’s a (literally) sweeter form of vegetable eating. If you want, you can budget (if you’re counting calories) a little bit of brown sugar or real maple syrup to help out on the…

In before the complete shitshow these comments are going to be.

Thanks? I mean, it’s just common sense—whole foods tend to have lower caloric amounts by the gram or cup or whatever measuring device you want to use. So you can eat more, be sated, get your vitamins, AND still likely have a caloric deficit over eating crap food. It’s a win! It’s just hard to implement for people…

Can you imagine the trauma from the digestive process of that one?

And the thing with this study is, it’s not proscribing caloric limits—but by limiting processed foods, folks are already cutting calories. Like, who can eat even 300 calories of romaine lettuce in a sitting? No one, because that’s about 30 cups of lettuce. Versus how easy is it to eat 300 calories of French fries in a…

Oh my god, girl, you look gorgeous! Get itttttt. I’m 31 and I barely use makeup, and when I do, it’s about the amount you’ve got on, maybe a tad more because I do some eyeshadow. I have a baby face and I’m just like, why spend a bazillion dollars trying to look... older? Also, I like my beauty rest in the AM, not more…

If I’m sitting there at lunchtime measuring a banana over a whopping 14-16 calories of difference between sizes, I have more issues than bananas, I think. As my RD said, no one ever got fat from eating bananas all day...

The angry gray comments seem to have entirely missed your last paragraph, bolding mine:

Yeah, frankly this person sounds like the depression is what’s turning other people off, not their weight. There are plenty of happy plus-size people out there with partners and/or good jobs. As I know personally very well, depression is more ugly than fat and not exactly a turn-on for anyone. I’d work on that one…

Guess what? You can have an eating disorder, all the psychological hell that Tam Honks was describing, and still not end up thin and physically attractive, because quite a few people don’t lose much weight when they never eat much of anything. That whole starvation mode business. Imagine the utter misery that one is!…

OMG WHY IS THIS HAPPENING I thought it was just me?!

OMG I got it yesterday and tried it last night and my lips DID NOT BLEED this AM there is hope

I mean, technically...

Yep, my only collection is golden retriever puppies. All the puppies.

I’m not dragging this comment out of the gray, but I have to say, I laughed pretty hard at this excerpt from a whiny response:

Oh, I’m way beyond washcloth territory into “my lips split open and bleed profusely in the mornings because I’ve had a death plague and breathe through my mouth at night” territory. Even thick coats of Vaseline multiple times a day aren’t helping here.

Oh and also I bought the Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask and am waiting for it to arrive from Sephora because my lips look disgustingly chapped. So I’ll do that too. And the occasional sheet mask. I’m not a monster. I just can’t handle a ton of shit.