FWIW, my weight loss was a combo of weight training, high protein/low carbs (got rid of the grains, but lots of veggies though!) and I took my base metabolism and daily caloric needs to maintain that (~2500 cals) and lopped off 1000 cals...oh, and the LBS diet helped a lot, just wasn't hungry much 210 down to 175-ish.
As far as stbx...
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Figured I'd be chopped liver compared to a woman that worships him and gives him everything he wants, how he wants it and when he wants it.
That gets boring after the newness wears off...seriously. (And what is the deal with chopped liver, btw...? The best pates are basically that, and are they tasty!...
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have noticed that he finally seemed to start coming around and communicating better after I offered alot of praise and encouragment in the things he had been doing...and it was authentic.
Inside a lot men is a little boy who needs feeding every now and then...and words of affirmation is the LL food. But don't women also want/need that as well (especially with the day to day things)? My hit or miss in that area was number 1 or 2 of W's list...I think all of us humans could do better in that area, personally.
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In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
210 down to 175-ish.
