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What kind of dancing is it that you do again, Kim? I wish I could find something I love here... QoC has been doing 5:2 for a few weeks now I think, but I have the feeling she will stick to it like the rock stars of 5:2 in this group. She anyhow eats like a very disciplined sleever and 5:2 is right up her street.

I don't know Kris, but QoC is not Kris. :-)

OD -- I'm a fan of letting Queen in, I have been online friends with her for a long time and recently we met up in my town at xmastime, she's great! ETA: Not to be totally selfish about it or anything...but she's pretty nearby and is the only other American in Europe I know who's had the sleeve and is also now doing 5:2. It makes me feel so much less alone... EATA: LOL...I know The Island is officially Europe too! But it's so much further away...somehow... <3

LOL...I think that must have been my family motto too. I've had to work VERY hard as an adult to be even slightly good at choosing my battles. When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail... Haha, for some reason this totally cracked me up.

I did NOT mean to imply there is anything wrong with kissing or even sex on a 'first date'!! Sorry if I gave that impression!! I'm more saying that I've always been a bit of a cold fish and am not forced out of that mode by my hormones usually. Kinda sucks really. I live in a country where everyone kisses all the damn time, so I'm not fussed about the physical contact at all -- I just don't like it to turn sexual until *I* am ready...and I take ages to be ready LOL. Re: the frustrating husbands -- have you ever read up on undiagnosed Aspergers in adults? And what relationships with them are like? I am thinking it's more common than people might have thought it was... I have a couple of friends who've just twigged to this in their own relationships and it's helped just knowing what 'the problem' is, rather than just hitting their head on a brick wall. Loves to all.

I will be in SF Yes, this is what I do as well. I CAN NOT STAND IT. Ugh. I would love a full night's sleep. :-( Melatonin, even the smallest little molecule of it, knocks me out like a concussion and I can't wake up. Ambien gives me horrible vivid dreams that disturb me during the day. Benzos help calm my anxiety but don't make me sleep. G*ddam* menopause. =/ Dating sucks. I hate it and I'm glad I'm not doing it. I have never had a sex drive in my life, so the clam has never been in the driver's seat LOL. But I'm glad you're getting properly seen to, Florinda!! :-) I am not old enough to be truly old-fashioned for any reason, but I still am. Wouldn't kiss on first date EVER. Never slept with anyone till *months* together. SOOOO picky and hard to get -- not playing, but for reals. But *I* am the weird one here, I consider all of you quite normal and hormonally normal as well. I'm just an outlier in the weird zone.

I'm three years out next month, can't believe how time flies! The VST forum has always been my favorite... :-) Also love QoC's blog! Tiffykins is on FB and is doing great -- she had two kids back to back and now is all wee again and back in her little clothes. She's good!

Oh, I read this article the other day and I thought some of you might like it...I know I did. http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-12146/we-often-hear-that-we-should-love-ourselves-but-how-do-we-do-that.html

Oh. My. GOD. I finally did a fast day again after the hedonistic freefall of the holidays. Ended the day at 509 cals...! I must detox LOL. I think I ended up gaining a kg or two over the hols, so here's me getting back on track. Though I now have to go on a week-long work trip that includes all sorts of meetings, dinners, cocktail receptions. In the US no less, so the food will be plentiful and everywhere. I will need to be strong... xoxox

Oh I clicked on them, they are still wee -- and you all look beautiful. *sniffle*

OMG SHEILA!! You and your family look SOO lovely. I am varklempt for reals. Thanks for posting. <3 <3 <3 (K, but next time make them a LITTLE bit bigger?

LOL...my 96-year-old grandmother just had to get her gallbladder out a few months ago. Srsly. Bless 'er! ETA: It was like her 11th abdominal surgery...

{{{Kim}}} Hope all is okay!! xoxox coops, sorry you rowed with the hubs and ended up not going out. Hope you made up by now. No new news on our house, no firm ETA for move-in yet either. No 5:2ing, no nothing. HNY!

Have fun, Sheila!! Post pics of your fab self! HAPPY NEW YEAR, my 5:2 friends... <3

{{{{{Florinda}}}}} I'm so sorry for your loss. :-( Same to you, Sheila -- sorry about the wee Magnus. <3 Grief is the price we pay for love. Hugs to all. PS: I will not be fasting again till next week (week commencing 6 Jan) when I go back to work. I just gave up on anything but 16:8s as often as possible for the time being.

Hi, still here. Was at friends' for xmas and just got home -- or back to temp accommodation. Have eaten and drunk any/everything available. God only knows what my weight is like. I'm just barely coping with the stress. I need to somehow CHILL THE EFF OUT. :-( Got on my friends' scale and it was three digits and I nearly passed out, then realised it was in lbs. I have no idea what I weigh in lbs so I just didn't convert it. I will try again next week. <3 to all

{{{{{Florinda}}}}} I'm so sorry so much is terrifying and upsetting. Big hugs your way, hun. Hang in there. <3 Love and hugs, again, to all of you. Thinking of you and just preparing for xmas and the eating that will ensue. Just made pumpkin pie (gluten free) for my Boy, he loves it. GF stuffing also underway and turkey bobbing in brine. Happy xmas, all. <3

Congrats on the grandbaby!! What's she called? First day of holiday...woke up all anxious and worried about what I was forgetting. Oy. Will take me a while to unwind I imagine. I've given up on trying to track my eating or fasting for the time being, and will pick it up again big time in the New Year. I'm not one for resolutions per se, but I have never had so many xmas parties and cocktail parties and etc. in my life. It's been crazy this year. I've not been able to go to the gym since being in the temporary accommodation cos it's so much further away that it takes all my gym time to commute to work instead. I still use the Fitbit religiously, it's my lifeline I guess. In the meantime, have I gained or lost a single gram? No, I have not. LOL. I am beginning to think I weigh 70kg come hell or high water for the rest of my life. Though Coops is proving me wrong, so let's see what the new year brings... Hugs to all -- always thinking about you all. <3

Still here...sort of. I'm a Leo too, with Libra rising and Libra moon. Not sure what it means, though. :-) We also just had a huge work re-org yesterday (Happy xmas!!) and the chaos ensues...! I'm just trying to crawl to the finish line... Loves to all. <3

Sorry, I use too many acronyms LOL! FWIW = for what it's worth KWIM = know what I mean? Florinda, I have to say...if it's not an emergency medical situation (it doesn't seem to be, if you can still do insanity...?), then I would totally stay for the extra money. Take that FWIW as someone who's been the primary breadwinner for so long, I can't imagine forgoing money if it's available. And I am a worrier about finances, so there's that. xoxo

FWIW...you know the first rule of Fight Club, right? LOL... I don't think we should mention this group or even allude to it in public threads, cos it will naturally make people feel excluded, even though we have rationale etc. KWIM?

We have to define non-posters so I don't get all fret-y though, cos I have to go days at a time without posting due to work and travel. But I'm usually trying to at least read and keep up!!

Switzerland Chimera, your whole post WINS. Wow!!

Hahaha, I'm laughing at that cos it just took FOUR movers to pick our KS tempurpedic up to move it after The Flood. LOL. GO YOU!!! Thanks, Georgia -- and everyone else who said nice things to me. :-) I never post pics on the internet so that is only like the second time ever... I have to say, I was pure hell on my mom (and dad) for soooo many years. :-( I was just carrying so much pain and anger and I aimed it at them like a fire hose. No excuses, just no explanations either. Luckily, my dad and I made up before he died and my mom and I get along pretty well now. But oy, the guilt. Happy Sunday, all. Hope you don't spend it getting wound up about Monday like I do... xoxoox

CGJ -- LOVE the blue shoes with that outfit, sweet!!