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Barbeegrrll
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| Pearliepie- try some baking soda dissolved in water and drink it! The directions are right on the box. It always works like a miracle for me! |
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Pearliepie
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| Posted: Jun 07, 2012 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Barbeegrrll wrote: |
| Pearliepie- try some baking soda dissolved in water and drink it! The directions are right on the box. It always works like a miracle for me! |
OMG!!!!!!
You saved my night! Amazing.
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petunia_843
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| Posted: Jun 13, 2012 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| I am dieting and quitting smoking right now and I am LOSING IT. This past week, I have overeaten every day. I'm not grossly binge eating, but I'm eating like 1500, 1600, 1800 calories every day. Yesterday I had 200 grams of carbs, which is a big no no with diabetes. I am not losing any weight like this. I never realized how much of a crutch smoking was with food. If I wanted a snack, I would just smoke a cigarette and not want the snack anymore. Now there's nothing to keep me from wanting the snack and I want it. I have been overindulging in sugar free candy and no sugar added ice cream, that's for sure. I really need to get everything under control. I feel like everything is just that much harder with the quitting smoking in addition to the dieting and exercising. But I really don't want to be an addict anymore that spends 6 dollars a pack every day tearing up her lungs. Nor do I want to be overweight and out of shape any more. I feel like I've bit off more than I can chew and I'm struggling. It's been 14 days since I quit smoking. I have come close to picking up again, but the number one thing that stops me is that I like being clean from all substances - cigarettes, alcohol and drugs, and it makes me feel self righteous when I think of a friend I'm breaking up with that wallows in all of that. So yeah, the idea of feeling morally superior is keeping me smoke free at this point. That's kind of snarky and sad but it works for me. Now I just have to get my eating under control! It doesn't help that I haven't gone to the gym for 5 days due to an injury. All of this is such a mess and I am so ready not to have to deal with it anymore, which ain't gonna happen, ever. I will always have to deal with it. |
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tinyrock
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| Posted: Jun 13, 2012 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| petunia, you've been doing an amazing job changing your lifestyle to manage your diabetes, and quitting smoking on top of that is huge. Think of it as just temporarily throwing things out of whack for the greater good of not smoking anymore. I hear the first two weeks of quitting are the worst, so hopefully it will get easier for you soon. Glitter is rooting for you! |
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Kendaljay
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| Posted: Jun 13, 2012 11:16 am Post subject: |
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| petunia, Glitter is rooting for you! |
Yes, this!! :)
My mom quit smoking 7 weeks ago and this month, she has decided to give up salt which was a huuuuuge problem (like salting the spaghetti so much we couldn't eat it). If she can do it, you can too! I believe in both of you!
My vent: coworker is on personal calls all day, every day. Loud ones, arguing with her husband, her daughter, her bill collectors. We complain finally and they say they're "not going to say anything but that it will be taken care of and if it starts back up, to bare with it". WTF???
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caropop
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Ditto, ditto, Petunia!
You're doing awesome! It's not a surprise that you have bad days, but you have such a great overall attitude about all the changes that you're making that it really is a huge inspiration! Give yourself permission to have a bad day on occasion knowing that sometimes you need it and that you won't let it break you completely!
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aliwa
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| Posted: Jun 13, 2012 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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So. "teacher for whom I've lost all respect", you seriously want to fail us in this course where you believe that we haven't worked when we've been thre 12h/day the last 5 months. Well. Fuck you.
This honestly makes me want to switch study departments.
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artichoke
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You're doing an awesome job, Petunia! It took my dad forever to quit - it's hard! But you can do it.
My vent is that I should know better than to discuss anything with anyone on FB ever. Even when we're on the same side of the political spectrum, I can't seem to get my point across. Dude, 'showing' people how to cook food doesn't change the fact that they don't have access to fresh produce, don't have places to store the food where pests can't get it, etc. Poor people aren't stupid. They just don't have money. Nope, you're right. Showing them how to chop lettuce, excuse me, ORGANIC SPINACH, will totally fix the problem. I'll be over here, not knowing what I'm talking about. |
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mohawk
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dear volunteer, stop. sitting. at. my. desk. !!! you have your own desk. and when i get up from my desk, that is not an invitation for you to come and occupy my desk. this is my work environment. stop. stealing. my. space. !!!
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linty*prickles
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| caropop wrote: |
Ditto, ditto, Petunia!
You're doing awesome! It's not a surprise that you have bad days, but you have such a great overall attitude about all the changes that you're making that it really is a huge inspiration! Give yourself permission to have a bad day on occasion knowing that sometimes you need it and that you won't let it break you completely! |
I completely agree! You're doing something really, really hard, and you're doing a great job, but it still sucks, and you are allowed to feel that way sometimes.
My dad was a mega-smoker for decades (like, chain-smoked all day), and he quit when I was 7 for health reasons. He maintains that breaking his routine during the points of the day he really missed the habit was key, eg. he switched from smoking constantly while he drank his morning coffee at the kitchen table with the newspaper to drinking his coffee in front of the kitchen window while looking at birds with binoculars. It really sucked for him though -- he really loved smoking.
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greenbean
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| Posted: Jun 13, 2012 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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I want everyone to shut the fuck up about "50 Shades Of Grey".
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daysleeper
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| Posted: Jun 14, 2012 11:15 am Post subject: |
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| I want everyone to shut the fuck up about "50 Shades Of Grey". |
Ha! My friends and I passed around books with "hot parts" since we were in 6th grade. It makes me think all these people who are so "OMG!" about this book have never read some grade-A literary pron before.
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WorkAndPlay
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| Posted: Jun 14, 2012 11:43 am Post subject: |
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| I want everyone to shut the fuck up about "50 Shades Of Grey". |
Ha! My friends and I passed around books with "hot parts" since we were in 6th grade. It makes me think all these people who are so "OMG!" about this book have never read some grade-A literary pron before. |
A facebook buddy today expressed dismay that Women Inc. (a Dutch lobbying group for women's participation) is giving away copies of this "liberating" book. I believe my exact response was: "Yes, because if we would all just find a tall and brooding stranger with mommy issues and a penchant for bondage, we'd stop being such bitter hags and get with the sexytimes already." Ugh ugh, 50 shades is like the custard of pornography.
But that's not my rant. My rant is WAAH WAAH DISSERTATION FINISHING SUCKS! I thought that the writing part was bad, but the finishing part is WORSE! I don't want to be an academic if this is what my life will be like forever and ever. BLURGH! I'm not even happy about my book proposal getting accepted, because that just means I need to do more writing, WAAAAAAAH! Can I reverse my life 12 years and go to culinary school? Because at least I'm GOOD at cooking! WAAAAAH!!! *pink sparkly tears*
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artichoke
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| Posted: Jun 14, 2012 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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| daysleeper wrote: |
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| I want everyone to shut the fuck up about "50 Shades Of Grey". |
Ha! My friends and I passed around books with "hot parts" since we were in 6th grade. It makes me think all these people who are so "OMG!" about this book have never read some grade-A literary pron before. |
A facebook buddy today expressed dismay that Women Inc. (a Dutch lobbying group for women's participation) is giving away copies of this "liberating" book. I believe my exact response was: "Yes, because if we would all just find a tall and brooding stranger with mommy issues and a penchant for bondage, we'd stop being such bitter hags and get with the sexytimes already." Ugh ugh, 50 shades is like the custard of pornography.
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May I present you with this. A blog dedicated to making fun and highlighting the worst of the horrible writing. As a bookseller at Yarns and Foble, I was super happy to stumble upon it. These books are selling like hot cakes. |
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caropop
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| Posted: Jun 14, 2012 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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Ugh ugh, 50 shades is like the custard of pornography.
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I would like some custard now.
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