eloise, I call myself uglyfatslob, because that is exactly what I am. I'm disgusted with myself. Being fat wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that I have such a huge upper body that must be carried around on two skinny legs. My older brother is also fat, not as fat as I am, about 5 ft 7 in and 580 pounds, but he looks younger than I do, although he is 10 years older, because he has a nice bushy head of hair, and his weight is more evenly distributed so he has a big fat butt, and short fat legs, big round hips, and his upper body is not quite as big as his lower body. He's more pear shaped. His health is better. He does not have type 2 diabetes as I do, and his blood pressure is normal, and his cholesterol is not too high, so his health is still good, but he says that he would like to lose some weight anyway. Compared to me, he is a lot better looking. In fact, he has a girl friend who is beautiful, and they plan to get married. She refers to my brother as a BHM, Big Handsome Man, or a BBM Big Beautiful Man, she's what you would call an FA, or Fat Admirer. Of course, even though he would like to lose some weight, he does seem to be a lot happier with himself, than I am with myself, and I'm thankful that he does not put me down because of my looks. He does not like it when I call myself ugly and disgusting. But the truth is, I am! He looks good in clothes. He does complain that he has to pay so damn much for a pair of pants, but he can wear his super large pants up around his waist, and his pants cover his big butt, and he can tuck in his shirts. So, although he's very fat, he can look really good in decent cloths. But for me, I can't wear anything worth a damn. I can't tuck my shirt in. My shirts won't cover my bellybutton, and I can't keep my pant up. My pant keep sliding half way down on my small butt, so I walk around exposing my bellybutton and butt crack. I look awful in clothes. My skinny legs are real hairy, I probably have more hair on my legs than I have on my head. My belly hang down over my lower groin, and I sweat a lot down there. I smell bad. Down below I give of a heavy, kind of sweet, musky body odor. PU!!! My love handles hang down over my narrow hips, and the fat on my lower beck goes out further than my small butt. I think I look ridicules with my arms being so much fatter than my skinny hairy legs. The only good thing that has happened to me, is that because of my head being bald on top, I look much older, so I can go into any liquor store to buy beer, and they don't ask me to show any ID because I do look old enough to buy beer, even though I'm only 18. I look older than 21 because of my bald head. So, when I'm feeling depressed, I just go into a liquor store to buy beer. I tried going into a bar to drink, but everybody there complained about my body odor and I was asked to leave. Yes, I am an ugly disgusting fat slob, and I hate myself. I wish I could be more like my older brother, even though is is also very fat, I would love to be like him because he is so much better looking, and in better health, and he does not smell bad like me!

Coral, if you do it, you can eat like you do as long as you pretty much are stable now. HOWEVER, I found that my appetite actually increases when I start to work out. I've always been able to build muscle quickly and with that the metabolism increases..I just get lazy..or sick and stop and then it's hard to get back on that wagon!!! I also will gain a few pounds a few weeks into begining to work out too..because of the muscle gain. I always have to remember it's not fat..it's muscle when the scale goes up a few pounds. LOL But the tape measure can go tighter. So like Stacy has found, her weight goal, may not be as important as her size and fit. So don't be discouraged if the scale doesn't tick down. Take some measurements and check them every week or two.

Though these pics are not of my heels, they look like my dry, cracked heels looked most of the time. My heels also got deep cracks at times. I soaked, pumiced, cremed for years. They'd improve with diligence, but never got completely clear. Guess what? Fungus. Pure and simple fungus. My doctor told me to apply an OTC topical for athletes foot, if that didn't work she'd prescribe something that would. One OTC tube later, my fungus was completely gone. I have had nice heels for three years - I think! - winter and summer, no fussing or pumicing or soaking. You might consider trying it. Pretty cheap if it works, and I'm betting it will. ETA: Nuts! I can't get the pics to load. Sorry about that. I'll keep trying.

Wow! I had a feeling I should have gotten a couple more of those - now I know it! One thing I like about these is that they dont have wax on the canes. I looked at them a bit ago and am already seeing little leaves start to come out. I saw some potted type body bags at Sam's yesterday - they had that wax on the canes, so thinking these at Walmart are going to be pretty good roses. Thanks for the comment on Royal America - will definitely go get more!