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Superman stops bullets with his burly chest. Magneto catches them mid-air and hurls them back at you. But all this lady needs is her belly.

Samantha Lynn Frazier was vacationing in Atlantic City, New Jersey – her first mistake – when she was shot outside a bar at 1:30AM on Saturday.

So, how did the Florida resident survive? Military grade ballistic resistant skin-alloy called “loves handles,” or belly fat to civilians.

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I’m 21 years old and I know weigh 210 pounds and am 5′6. Pretty much my whole life I thought I was fat. My mom had an eating disorder for many years and she’s obsessed with working out and eating the bare minimum now. My dad has struggled a little with weight but he’s a very busy business man and can’t find the time to always go to the gym. Nobody in my family is obese, weight has never been a huge issue.

My parents always told me I needed to workout, so therefore I always thought I was big. I didn’t choose the best foods to eat when I was young, but I never over ate. I was active in basketball and baseball, then P.E. in jr.high. Then during and after high school I started to party, and stopped doing sports, etc. I still was not fat. Looking back at pictures during that time, makes me so sad. I went to hawaii about 3 years ago with my family and I was so miserable there bcuz I felt like I had never been this fat and I didnt want to walk around in a bathing suit. I look at those pictures now and I kick myself big time for not flaunting what I had bcuz I had a good body, no one ever told me.

So throughout the years, I kept gradually gaining weight. I’ve developed a habit of craving food at night time. I’ve turned into a closet eater. I will go buy snacks and then hide them in my room until everyone goes to bed, then I bring them out and eat them. I don’t eat in excess in front of my family. I feel too embarrassed. I was in a bad emotionally abuse relationship from summer 2007 until pretty recently and that, according to my mom, is when I really started putting on weight. He made me feel like he could have any girl he wants, that he didn’t need me. He had a way of yelling and making me feel so ugly and worthless. But I never left. He was an alcoholic and I felt the want and need to be there to try and help him. I know it wasn’t my position and you can’t help someone that doesn’t want to help themselves. I wanted to be the first girl in his life to actually make a difference.

As the months passed, the fights progressed. He eventually started breaking things in the house (we lived together), he called me every bad name in the book, and then he started calling me fat. That was the killer for me. ANYTHING but that. I started feeling so ashamed of myself, embarassed to ever eat infront of him. I feel like I started putting on the pounds when I was with him because he beat my self esteem down so bad that I had a whole in my heart and my head. I think I turned to food because I’m not interested in drinking (my mom is also has an alcohol problem, so it turns me off), I want nothing to do with drugs, and what else is there? I didn’t know what to do for comfort or for an escape. I suppose food did that for me.

Now days, I struggle to go to the gym. I’m a member at the women only gym, Curves. Its an absolutely great program and you really have no excuse to not go. This is my 3rd time signing up, I’ve quit every other time. I usually have a good 2 weeks of eating smaller portions and better foods, drinking 4 bottles of water a day, then something always happens or a switch goes off in my brain and I stop all of it. And that is what I do NOT understand what so ever. I know that I need to lose weight, I know what I need to do, WHY can’t I do it?

I wanted to tell my whole story on here just so everyone could get a better perspective about my life and issues. I’ve never told anyone my weight or my life, so I thought maybe this could turn into a positive thing. I would love to get advice on how to help myself, motivate myself, anything at all.

Thank you very much for reading

Excessive weight gain during the first trimester of pregnancy appears to significantly increase the risk of gestational diabetes, according to a study published Monday in Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Los Angeles Times reports…

researchers from the Toronto Western research Institute noted a higher prevalence of arthritis and arthritis-attributable activity limitations (AAL) in the U.S. versus the Canadian population. The authors attribute the higher prevalence of arthritis and AAL to a greater level of obesity and physical inactivity in Americans, particularly women…

Severely obese teenagers in Scotland are to be offered obesity medicine and gastric band surgery as part of a new range of possible treatment options to reduce weight. SIGN , who develop clinical guidelines in Scotland, have recommended new guidelines on managing obesity and have set out a new range of treatments to manage and reduce obesity in children and young people…

Recently, the Obama administration called for a total ban on candy and soda in the nation’s schools. States are beginning to impose “sin taxes” on fat and sugar to dissuade people from eating junk food. Pricing strategies may well be a key to changing behavior, but others favor subsidies over punitive taxes, as a way to encourage people to eat fruits and vegetables and whole grains…

i always thought if you excerise hard everyday you can eat whatever you want because you will work it right off. well that maynot be true………

hi i am 30yrs. old with one child. i been exercising consistently for about 4yrs. i do agree sometimes change is good. However, i used to weigh 230lbs and i am little under 5′10. i workout and i have been for about 4yrs now. i had got down to 170 to 175. i have been running about 4mi a day because running is the quickest way to lose weight and its better than being indoors on treadmill. sometimes depending on the time i have available i will run 2 – 3mi. or 6mi. but most of time its 4mi. everyday during the week.

every winter i tend to pick up weight and this winter i am having more of a problem of getting my weight back down under 180. now it flunctuates from 185 to 190. i do understand during the winter it gets cold for us in the south so i don’t run as hard as i would during the summer and plus you sweat more in the summer. my mom tells me i should change my diet during the winter and then when the summer comes around i can go back to just eating what i want. some people say that you cannot eat what you want and expect to lose weight but apparently i have been with no problem.

i really think i am gaining weight because of the change in weather and not being able to exercise as hard as i would like as during the summer. i kind of like to run because i feel that whatever i eat i can run it off and plus it keeps the metabolism up. i hoping that this summer as gets hotter and i continue to run that my weight will reduce back if not i am going to be very disappointed. people say i should change up my workout routine, which i do. i do taebo often on days that its either raining, cold or if i am just tired. primarily i always thought that running or jogging would be the most effective and quickest way to take off the weight and keep it off. also it makes your calves look AWESOME in heels.

I’m open for some advice. what is the problem is it just me or will i be gaining my weight back. i never want to be overweight again thats why i can run everyday. for the last few years i had not had a problem with keeping my weight between 170-175 sometimes 180 during the holidays but now i have increased to 185-190 and i still try to excerise whether its running my 4mi. or doing my taebo everyday..

please some advice. i want my ideal weight back regardless if i am tall and big boned lol….

Sometimes, often times in fact, there’s truth behind an old wives’ tale.

Take the idea that eating slowly can aid weight loss. We’ve all heard the advice, and now here’s the science.

A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endrocrinology and Metabolism discovered that when participants ate an ice cream over the course of 30 minutes, they had higher levels of gut hormones that trigger satiety, than those who ate the ice cream in 5 minutes.

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Hi,

I am a 20-year old female university student and I have always been athletic. When I entered university at 18, I weighed 145 lbs (height: 5′10”). I now weigh 160. I know that everyone will blame that on the “freshman 15″, but as a biochemistry major I am very conscious of nutrition and rarely eat junk food.

However, I have noticed that my days are much longer now because I am busier. On a typical day, I wake up at 7 and I’m on campus by 9. I stay there until around 6, when I come home for dinner. I then head to the library until 12 or 1. I found that when I was sleeping for 8 or 9 hours every night eating three meals each day was sufficient, but now I’m finding that at 1 am before I go to bed, it’s been 7 hours since I ate dinner and I’m starving!

I need help devising a plan that will help me lose 15 pounds, preferably in 8-10 weeks, that will allow me to eat enough meals during the day to feel full.

Also, note that I work out five days/week, and this consists of 20 minutes on the treadmill and a 5 km jog (usually takes me 28-32 mins) and an ab workout if I have time (full disclosure: I usually don’t).

Here’s what I ate today:
Breakfast (7am): oatmeal, cup of orange juice
Lunch (2 pm): salad
Dinner (6 pm): 1 cup of pasta with tomato sauce and ground beef
grilled vegetables, 1 bottle of water
Snacks: 0 fat yogourt and a banana (8 pm),
2 apples (12.45 am…technically not the same day but whatever),
3 “fruit to go” bars, 8 almonds (the bag was done), 1 small green tea (black) (3 pm),

Please help me figure out how to eat only three meals/day as this worked best to maintain optimum weight for me before, but still feel full for the entire day!

Thanks so much,
A

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