Five questions!

1) What aren't you eating anymore at all-- and why? 2) Do you go out in a swimsuit? If no, why not-- if so, what kind do you wear? 3) Where would you rather be right now? 4) If plastic surgery was both safe and free, what would you have done? 5) What is the career you secretly wish you had?

1. I don't drink regular soda anymore at all.  Too many calories. 2. Nope.  Too much skin hanging in wierd places these days. 3. On the water somewhere, preferably the ocean. 4. I'm not sure yet, but I'm pretty sure I'll need work on my waist, chest, arms and thighs when I'm down to my goal. 5. Marine Biologist.

1. I'm pretty sure that I still eat everything just not as much of it. I don't drink regular pop anymore at all. 2.  I haven't been in a swimsuit since I was 17. *sigh* But next summer I will be in one, I guarantee because I love to swim! And oh a one piece my two piece days are over. 3.  At home in bed. 4.  Oh let's see, I would get a breast reduction for sure and push them babies up to my chin. haha. And some lipo, a little cut here, a little cut there. 5.  I would be a runway models hair dresser.

oh yeah, my girls are all dejected too - get a lift there for me 2

1.  Pretty much everything......(pssst.  I'm on a diet) 2.  Yeah....complete with matching mu mu

3.  On a beach somewhere with DH

4.  Tummy, boobs and some lipo 5.  Cartoon voice

1. I stopped drinking regular soda alltogether, but that was way before I started trying to lose weight.  I hate the taste of it.  I replaced it with diet soda. I've stopped that too.  Well I do have abotu 20oz a month and I allow myself to have a Monster Lo-Carb energy drink whenever I crave one.  2. Yah, I'm a guy. No big deal I guess.  Now taking off my shirt is a different story.  Man boobs are embarrasing. 3. I'm at home, off of work. Doesn't get much better than this. 4. Stomach, Tits, Arms, love handles, back fat..etc.. 5. I'm in my dream career. It's all I ever really wanted to do.  NOw that I'm here it's not that dreamy but I still enjoy it for the most part.  I wouldn't mind being an astronaut though. Except I want to be one who actually does go into space.

YAY Shari!!!!  Loving YOU for doing sum questions. 1) What aren't you eating anymore at all-- and why? most candy bars, full blown soda, hostess susie q's.  stopped eating for the obvious reasons, AND the best part...they don't taste good to me at all. 2) Do you go out in a swimsuit? If no, why not-- if so, what kind do you wear?hell YA i wear a swimsuit - this is as hot as Death Valley here - i am cereal as oatmeal here. i am blessed with nice legs, so it makes up for the large gut.  i love the tankinis - i like to tan my gut. i have to have a wide band bottom - got a gut hanging issue. the most flattering suit i have owned = a front gathered deep purple suit one piece, but sides cut out. 3) Where would you rather be right now? on the lake, floating around drinking a light michelob 4) If plastic surgery was both safe and free, what would you have done? panni - mother's apron gut.  i think it's big enuf now, not even to goal weight to get it fixed. also my neck area - all hanging and ugly. 5) What is the career you secretly wish you had? deep down = Rock Star, Real life = Registered dietician

Forgot about me! 1) Doritos and I have parted ways--- even in 100 cal packs. I quit all soda and caffeine in february and finally can say I don't miss it. No ice cream, candy-- like Neecee, they taste gross now anyway. 2) I can't understand people who will not wear a swimsuit at all. At all? Ever? You'ze CWAZY. When I see a person at the pool swimming in a t-shirt, I think, "That poor muthafatha is not only fat, but gives way too much of a crap what other people think." Naked is good! Sun on bare arms is nice! I don't wear sleeveless shirts, though, often, because my arms are not just fat, they're freakish , and it really draws comments and upsets people. I wear a plain black Junonia Chloroban one piece. It's built like a tank, which is good, since I swim about 5X a week. It's too big already but my new ones are backordered-- I am holding it on now with a shoelace! 3) I'd rather be reading a book, poolside.

4) I wish I could have my pannus removed now too, but they will not even grant you a consult until you've maintained your weight for three months! After my loss, I'll need the panniculectomy, brachioplasty and breast reduction (I hope they can do that without implants!) None of that's vanity-- I literally have trouble moving the extra weight of these heavy areas. 5) I'd rather be a freelance illustrator or writer. Too bad the bills like to be paid, and Blue Cross isn't free.

well yeah, on the swim suit thing...ummmm, ya look big and fat in your shorts and wet tee shirt, too, bro. There is no hiding fat. And Christa, when I think of my 16 yo body in a bikini in my back yard and i thoguht i looked sooo gross, i would KILL to look like that again. Your youth is beautiful, go for it, baby!

Yea back then I thought I looked awful and ugly...but if i looked like that now...pfft. I'd be naked! No suit for me. Hahaha!