Chixe

Yes and if you just took the food type it would still be an insult.

"A faggot is a kind of pork meatball, a traditional dish in parts of the UK, especially Wales and the Black Country. It was originally made from unwanted off-cuts of meat. A faggot is traditionally made from pig heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together, with herbs added for flavouring and sometimes breadcrumbs. The mixture is shaped in the hand into balls, and wrapped round with 'caul' (the lining from the pig's stomach), and baked." [ wikipedia ]

See just as insulting ;)

You should try coming form the Uk. We have such historical delights as black pudding (blood sausage basically with extra ew), haggis (seriously ew ew ew), faggots (again ew) and jellied eels.... For the record I don't like them all.

Cramps can often be a sign also of dehydration. I would go with the eating something like banana - raises potassium levels - and drinking water to rehydrate. Where possible I don't use medicines that aren't natural - so also if you get regularly drink something like green tea as flushes out your body nicely.

Shamefully english (welcome to the product of the crap Uk language learning system) and only french to the level of gcse - so i can order a pan au chocolat and ask someone's age..... korean and japanese for punching and kicking thanks to martial arts.

Two years ago I was a size 26 (UK) and about 18 stone something. I then started taking chinese herbal medicine and also went onto a majority wheat, diary and gluten free diet (my husband has chrons disease and went onto this diet for that reason). I am now a size 12 (!4 if shop isn't being nice) and about 11 1/2 stone. I lost the majority of it in a year and for the last year have steadily gone from 16 to 12. I didn't monitor calories really and the chinese medicine has dealt with my weight as I had a health problem I hadn't realised was causing the weight gain. I still want to loose a few stone and get to a comfortable size 10 as this was what I was always before I put the weight on during my mid 20s.

The hardest thing I have found has been oddly enough adjusting my mind to view the smaller size - my loss was relatively quick for the majority of it and as a result I still think in the larger sizes when shopping for clothes. I admit exercise wasn't really part of the loss, but now to loose the last bit I know I have to look to exercise. I also need to tone up as loosing that amount leaves your body a bit well deflated to put it nicely. I have also cut out red meat and we eat mostly fish if any meat. We try to eat organic seasonal food when we can - I find this helps the weight loss too.

Loosing weight is a great feeling and I am still slightly appauled but pleased with the fact of how differently I get treated. I never had a weight problem before mid 20s and guess I did look at the fatter people and think they were lazy - having it happen to me really did change my perspective. I now understand how hard it can be. I feel lucky that a lot was an illness for me so I haven't had to adjust too much my food. By looking at both though I think was the key to my dramatic loss. Before I had tried to loose weight when it first started coming on and did the slim fast, starving small portions and other stupid diets. None worked - not a suprise. It's by making a change for life the weight stays off and comes off in my experience.

Greens here.

Well I have one. I guess why there are no doubts in mine is it's 8 years going on (3 married and 5 together). Also we are best friends that got together which makes a lot of difference to the relationship (least it's different from all my non-mates ones). I believe in fate since getting together as it definetly played a part in ours. It just fitted. I know I am very lucky having that as haven't had in past relationships and it was always a grass was greener thing.

Knowing way things are in our world it would go on dog food.

I am honest about it all to my husband - but I also don't really blog about our relationship. Considering he uses his g5 as a giant ipod charger and is taking his time about discovering online still - we're up to 8 years plus on the 'discovering computers' time.... gardeners don't see computers as essential it seems ;) - I'm slowly introducing him to blogging and actually trying to get him to do one with me this autumn on a different subject that I blog on now.

Being married it tends to be a joint decision on a lot of things. I see that as a partnership and we make choices using that principle. I am lucky as my husband was and is my best friend - makes asking your best friend a bit easire.

Yep that sounds like a bunny boiler moment - hide your bunnies I think and ditch those clingons. I agree with Tyme that some women think they can get away with a lot. I never had that assumption when just dating a man - titles are for engagement / marriage and for when you both decide to be exclusive dating. There seems a lot of my fellow gender that assume they have the rights to a man just by getting a drink brought - it makes me mutter and grumble. I generally find they are being hypocrits and usually dating more men themselves. Just dating doesn't give you rights to someone - that comes with time and when you both move onto the next phase - in my book anyway.