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I still cannot get over how much easier, faster, and altogether more pleasant going to the bathroom is on this diet.

Especially, since just before starting this diet, I was living with some generally constant constipation; either going only one every two days or so, or lacking any real... well, bulk, to the point that I wasn't going as much as I probably should have been, compared to how much mass I was eating.

Now, about a month after starting the bananas, my…

It's incredible what having enough carbohydrates actually does. I can't tell you how many years I couldn't even jog. Just couldn't.

Today, I burned 150cal by doing twenty minutes of intervals on the treadmill at work- 3mph, then 4, then 3, then 5 and so forth...I know to the pros that two minutes of 5mph doesn't sound like a lot- but for me, to not be out of breath within thirty seconds, and to be able to hold on for the full two minutes was just…

I've always been a big girl, even when I was small. I hit my growth spurt in sixth grade, but even before that, I was the tallest girl in my class, with the thickest legs. I wasn't the fattest kid in middle school, but I was one of the largest. I remember being eleven and noticing in an Archie comic that Veronica weighed the same I did- 110lbs. It freaked me out.

My high school weight was about 170... and this is after a severe bout with respiratory issues in the winter of my…