@LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman: P.S. I still don't have a "perfect" or "ideal" body, but damn, I love my tits, hips and ass in a big way.

The bottom line: I wasn't happy 60 pounds ago. But it wasn't just because I was big. I was on medication for blood pressure, anxiety and depression—and I was not even 30. I had sciatica a few summers ago and it was excrutiating. I was 29 and walking with a cane. I couldn't take the stairs, I was not at all flexible,…

@LLisCool: I think this is definitely how I felt, but I think I found more happiness and self-confidence not because of losing the weight and being smaller in size, but because I could feel my body getting stronger and more able. I'm more flexible, I can lift things, I can walk up stairs without being winded. THAT has…

@MrPipeline: You'll be amazed! (I sound like an infomercial.)

@heymisslayla: I'm glad I'm not the only person who applies deodorant to her bikini line!!

@outrageouschaos: No, no, this is something I need to know!

I get people telling me all the time they had no idea I weighed over 200 pounds—I simply didn't LOOK obese, even though I was, by the clinical definition. So I probably could have sailed right in and had a mani or pedi for the right cost, and sat there on their rickety-ass little chairs the whole time, doing damage.

Yay, Chelmsford! I went there a lot when I was living 21 miles away in teeny, tiny, Burnham-on-Crouch.

Number 4—I read this in "More" magazine from England it it WORKS—everytime I shave my bikini area, I immediately apply solid stick deodorant to the area afterwards. No irritation, no itchies. I do it for several days, and it really, honestly works!

@whitekidinflatbush: I love and adore the Stephanie Plum books (though since book 12 they've all gotten a little "same-y" to me).

@shadesofmediocrity: I love Pride and Prejudice; however, I've never been able to finish any other Austen novels. The Brontes? Oy vey.

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): I know. I just got a little wet, myself.

I've had actual bed bugs, when I was in London for a semester, living in a flat that had been used by other college students who also backpacked their way around Europe's hostels.

@TheBeamishSnark: My fruit bowl currently has ONE apple and ONE avocado. I am on unemployment and cannot afford much fruit in my fruitbowl (I do have some berries and grapes in the fridge, however)...and please, NO FRUIT IN MY WOMB.

@teachermama: I would think it's more of a relationship of, "OMG, WHO FORGOT TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH?!?"

@Piercedangel: Nappies oozing with baby poopsplosions!

@Casquivana: I do like "deliberately barren."

"I won't walk away from that. So rude, crude and unattractive as it was ... if you're leader, you've got to understand your community....One of the great understandings in a community is family and the relationship between mum, dads and a bucket of nappies.''

@clyderambutt: Thank you!

This is very timely, as I've been having sexy email chats with a guy from OKCupid and we're getting closer and closer to the first meeting point...and I'm a virgin. I have plenty of experience with my vibes and I know what I like and need to get off (and I've told him what I like and need, too). But still, there's…