Please don't feel embarrassed by the weights you listed; they were your reality and this excellent piece is about your reality. You owe no apologies for sharing your battle and the weight/numbers that you experienced with and through it.

I think there has been research on this indicating there is a genetic component, but that it's also a combination of nature and nurture that can trigger the genetic component, though a person can be more easily "triggered" if the underlying building blocks are already there. I should know about this since I am a…

I can related to this on so many levels, and it's heartbreaking.

I hate change, and the last few months, or rather year has been overwhelming. Anyone out there have any tips for dealing with change? This year has just been a rollercoaster, and I want off. I feel like the bad change has already happened; my therapist encourages me to see the opportunity in change, and my husband…

Does anyone else want to scream anytime Marie Osmand's Nutrisystem commercial comes on the TV?! I abhor this commercial more than I can even begin to say. No sustainable diet is packaged food forever (you can pry my macaroni & cheese from my cold dead hands), and her reaction to the normal version is makes me want…

She looks amazing! Love batcat!

Congrats!!! I'm happy to share pics of my cat in his costumes from the last few years. No awards here, but he's a little cutie! :)

... I feel so dirty now. :(

Farrah makes me so ill. I wish the media would just forget she exists and leave her with her career in magazines like 'Girls and Corpses'.

I think people are more pissed off because the action was done by someone who also said, "“It’s healthy that we have a break,” she says of being away from her daughter. “She has her own life and is doing her own thing, and I’m doing mine,” Farrah adds.

For some reason this just makes me sad.

I understand the fury regarding the Marine vs. soldier comment, but I think he meant "soldiers" as inclusive of all branches of the military. But, yes, in this context if he was referring to only the Marines, Marine and not soldier would have been appropriate.

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I want the Georgia O'Keeffe painting uniform for Halloween.

Most of this is actually great advice and should be directed at both sexes, not just women. I was actually coached on my pitch and tendency to finish sentences on an "up note"; the small class was compromised of both male and female students with the same problem. We do hit different "notes" so perhaps a female's up…

Not blessed in the brain department, but apparently he's blessed in the penile department as it's bigger than his three year old son's!

I don't think forcing the child to change another element of his life, perhaps the only one that is now a constant, is the answer in this situation. The child needs some sort of consistency; his family fell apart, he's shuttled between parents and now it's possible his mother is using him as a guise to extort more…

I wonder if dancing around with a Cher doll counts...

Usually former class president's are still involved in the alumni community and receive messages from the school that they are supposed to relay to their former classmates (at least that's how it works at my alma mater). This happens for reunions, homecoming, and any other event where large amounts of alumni are…

I certainly doubt they would include that verbiage in all the annual giving pledge drives and appeals for donations from alumni.