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I'm doing it. Part of this journey for me isn't all about weightloss. It's about finding happiness. I know being a smaller size isn't going to be the happy pill at the end of my rainbow so.. while I work on getting skinnier I'm working on other goals as well to make the end of my rainbow shine a little brighter. One of these little nuggets is to write a book. I don't expect to become famous. I'm going to be surprised if anyone reads it and doesn't look at me like I've lost my mind. I wouldn't be surprised if I don't get "Don't quit your day job" kinda comments. But I want something that I can point to and say.. I did that.
I need help on one of my latest projects. I always second guess what I have my characters do. I always ask.. is this really plausible? Would someone really do that?!?! Well I would... but I'm wierd so that doesn't really help. Not all the characters can be wierd.
So... Here are my questions..
If you were a single woman and an extremely attractive single man approached you just as you were lifting something heavy and asked if you'd like help and in response you accidently let loose with a loud deafening fart. How would you try to recover? Do you run and hide in a closet. Do you pretend nothing happened? Do you attempt to melt into a corner and suck your thumb? How do you not die from embarrassment? Is there any recovery? Could you pretend it never happened a day later?
What's the worst piece of diet advice that you've ever gotten?
Diet Calendar Entry for 13 November 2012:
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1791 kcal
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Fat: 122.21g | Prot: 110.55g | Carb: 26.04g.
Breakfast: Coffee (Brewed From Grounds), Cream (Half & Half), Egg, Breakfast Sausage, diet coke. Lunch: Bacon Ranch Salad with Grilled Chicken (with Ranch Dressing). Dinner: cream cheese, Thick and Chunky Salsa - Mild, Ground Beef (80% Lean / 20% Fat), Shredded Taco Cheese, Sour Cream, Romaine Lettuce. more...
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This reminds me of a game that I used to play with my family. Everyone sits in a circle and has a scrap of paper. You write a scenario on one side of the paper and pass it to the person next to you. Then you write how you would have responded to your scenario on the back side of the paper that your other neightbor handed to you. It usually ended up being very funny and my aunt so often wrote her response as, "I would scream and run away" that it is a family inside joke to this day. What can I say, there is not a lot to do in the middle of no where in the winter, hehe. So in answer to your first question, I would scream and run away. For the second question, I am not sure if it is "bad" advice, but I get a lot of advice from people that doesn't fit with my own WOE. My cousin is really into this intermittant fasting thing and keeps telling me how I should do it, too. I have a co-worker who is a staunch vegan and keeps trying to gross me out about eating animals.
13 Nov 12 by member: Eringiffin
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Also, I highly encourage you to keep writing. Even if the first book doesn't attract a lot of positive review, you can learn from the feedback and use it to do better in the future. I have a friend who has been writing for awhile now. He also attends workshops for writing books and getting published, etc. Even if you never decide to publish, the act of writing a book is a great creative outlet, IMO.
13 Nov 12 by member: Eringiffin
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Have no answer for your character's predicament but, as for you writing - go for it. You'll never know unless you try!
13 Nov 12 by member: BuffyBear
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You definitely have a talent for writing. The first question, there are so many ways to handle it depending on my mood, could ignore it like it never happenned and hope he does to, try to blame it on him, or make a joke about it. Dogs are great for blaming those stray farts on. The worst diet advice I have ever got is any of the TV commercials or ads for weight loss, especially the ones that say you don't have to change anything and the pound will just magically melt off. Which is exactly what I secretly hoped for for so many years.
13 Nov 12 by member: fatoldlady
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I'd melt in a puddle of embarrassment while laughing out of control, farting more; he's grin at me, we'd laugh until we cried, and have a story to tell our grandchildren about the day we met. I'd buy your book; I think you're a great writer & love reading your journals, even when I don't find time to comment or feel like I can add anything. :o)
13 Nov 12 by member: crabby Kat
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CrabbyKat....you took the words out of my mouth :S.....not really anything I can add now. Just one thing....a friend of mine was convinced she could eat what she wanted as long as it would not stay in her body too long....so she started with taking more & more laxatives, when that wasn't fast enough anymore, she started throwing up secretly :( NOT GOOD ADVICE
14 Nov 12 by member: schmetterling34
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LOL...now is the fart just loud or stinky too? As for a response on thing I think I'd say is: "Yes, and please hurry as you heard my strength is starting to sputter!!"
14 Nov 12 by member: Rubie-sue
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I would die of embarassment. For sure. In the most embarassing way possible. And worst diet advice.. hmm... to cut X Y and/or Z out of my diet completely. That just flicks the switch in my head to want to eat X Y and Z. I can't eliminate anything, need to just portion control. But that's just what doesn't work for me.
14 Nov 12 by member: Bkeller1023
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Just write a book on the joys of farming and family. You'll have everyone in stitches. There was a farming lady that wrote a book on her farming experiences that was great. It's called Bumps in your coveralls by Gisele Ireland.
14 Nov 12 by member: aggie95
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I agree with Aggie95, it's so obvious that you can write and I think a book based on your life is all you need. As for what I would do in that situation? Turn a million shades of red and turn slowly and walk as far away as I could.
14 Nov 12 by member: thynes
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you are a great writer. I think I would laugh as best I could to make a joke out of it, but being dying inside, and probably apologize. If I were trying to be really funny I'd say "Well, at least I didn't sh#t my pants...i think..."
15 Nov 12 by member: JessWhatINeeded
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