Purple Realm

Aadil - That happens to a lot of people. Fat as kids, they grow out of it once they stop actually growing. Not me. Weight loss is a mixture of mental breakdowns and good old fashioned eating disorder swinging the other way.

David - I am. I need shit like this around to pick up before I pick up a sharp object.
4 Kilos is a lot to lose in one month. I would not call that slow. It's actually a little quick. Are you in the early stages of dietary change? 'Cause it's not so unusual if that's so. So, how do you like actual coffee now?
Thankfully, I've always hated butter and also fat or anything on meat. Which is astounding really considering I was quite bigger than the photo above at one stage.
It's a good idea to enjoy the things you love from time to time. Otherwise it's just torture, and diets are a lifestyle choice, not a temporary thing.

Karen - It does take a little courage, I suppose, but honestly I'm such a far cry from that girl, it's like it's not me anymore. To be quite honest I'm more scared of below-the-neck shots of myself NOW. Even if I become a rake, I won't see that. i can't trust that I'm not a heifer.
Yes, I look so much older there. And in all of my weightier photos, even ones that are only three years ago or so. My childhood ones though, I'm so very very fat that at 13, I look 7. No exaggeration.
It was very easy to lose weight. With my thoughts being what they are now and were over the last few years it would have been harder to stay fat. And thank you, I'm feeling far better physically.

Nick - As I say to Karen, not really brave. It was braver for me to post that dress picture that I swiftly removed. Me then = not at all like me now, and that me is the one you all know and the one I have a problem with now. But hey, thanks. It's nice to know people think I look better now than then.

Clint - dead easy to joke about it now. Not at all then, even harder younger. I was a fatty fat fat. And if we delve into the psychology it's not amusing, so we forget that and just giggle and marvel. It's far more fun.
Addendum: I've missed you.

Martin - Ah, that's how I look when anyone takes a picture of me. If I'm okay with it, I'll smile to the best of my ability. Hell, over the years I've become really good at faking it; the only way you could tell is if you saw my mouth quivering at the time of shooting.
But yeah.
To me, you do seem like one of those people who was always tall and lean. Darko strikes me similarly, actually. My father and grandfather were such, as well.
Not a believer in low-carb high-fat, personally. Weight tends to come back with vengeance from what I've witnessed. I'm a a strong advocate of getting all nutrients in moderate form. Diabetes sucks, and so do thyroid issues; they can make a person either fat or skinny. Hah, I've been tasted for the fat one as a teen and the skinny one a couple years ago.
As long as health and happiness are okay then whatever goes. And I don't think your wife classifies as obese, surely? She's round, buxom, but beautiful. Not fat, or blubbery.

Darko - Hah, tiny slitty eyes due to fat
I wouldn't imagine you could have been any other way than you are, Dark. I've seen little wrinkles though, I think you've good genetics there

Kinda difficult to gain weight when you can eat nothing but two tablespoons of oats a day for 8 months, if you force it down. That loses some. The rest is good old guilt and feverishly counting nutritional values. That and the occasional bulimic stint or breakdown resulting in little food taken

Martin - Ah, I understand. I really hope she's successful - it's not nice to be in pain
I still don't know about that low-carb thing though man, your body needs carbs and stuff. But still, if it works for someone, it works!

David - Wow, that's lot of sugar it's good that you've realised it I think making small changes here and there is key to doing it sensibly. Thankfully I'm more sensible nowadays and have been educated on food a while, but unfortunately I'll always be over-sensitive about food and feel guilty when I eat. More when I eat certain things. Just don't get like that, okay?
People say that you lose taste when you smoke, and that's balls. I lost little to none from 12 years of smoking.

Kitty - Yes, that's true. I'm certainly better off now than I was then. And thank you

Karen - No, no, not at all Of course, there was an element of watching and exercise and common sense at times, but in all honesty I went too far most of those times, and I have a tendency to still do so. Other times, I was just too out of it to eat. Sometimes afraid to. No "oopsie" for you at all! You asked, I answered. I'm sorry if I seemed shirty or anything, I so didn't mean to be - just honest

Karen - I don't really binge at all anymore. Emotional eating is what made me grow rounder for the majority of my life and now I feel guilty eating anything most of the time. Anything not so good for me is eaten in very small quantities and/or counteracted by copious workouts I spend far too long assessing whether or not eating something is "allowed" I'm just so scared of going back to THAT *points to photo above* and actually I'm losing weight again successfully as a goal as I'm not happy as I am.

Clint, I'll drop you a PM or email later, actually.

Aadil - ah, that makes sense. I used to smoke twenty a day though.

Gah! My hairy eyebrows! I've worked hard to shrink those too, Missy!
You don't seem so overweight to me