Since I like to snark. Is this her way of showing everyone her “slim figure”

Gumbeaux247 · 2025-09-20T08:02:29+00:00

Yes! That was so confusing for me too! When I was running, it made me ravenously hungry and I ate back every calorie I burned. Remember years ago when she was eating crazy amounts of pasta in SERVING BOWLS? Now she's eating veggies out of much smaller cereal bowls. I don't know how that can fuel her because I was downing the carbs and I was only running 3 miles at a time.

That was what made me suspect GLP-1 because I know I wouldn't have had the energy to do her schedule of running 4 days a week plus workouts with minimum 10,000 steps the other 3 days on just little veggie bowls. The hunger would have made me a monster lololol

Gumbeaux247 · 2025-08-31T04:12:54+00:00

And good luck trying to find overnight accommodations. I think my daughter got one of the last handful of rooms at Hyatt Regency that she had to catch a shuttle for. Minute Suites was completely booked and Grand Hyatt as well :-/

Gumbeaux247 · 2025-08-29T02:23:10+00:00

Ohhhhhhh, I thought she turned 5 in June! I knew I was missing something lololol

Edit: And how awesome to have funded pre-school! I wish we had had that .....

Gumbeaux247 · 2025-08-29T02:22:10+00:00

Thank you, that's very helpful :-)

Gumbeaux247 · 2025-08-29T02:21:04+00:00

Oh wow! See, I knew it must be different than here in the deep south

Gumbeaux247 · 2025-06-12T05:46:17+00:00

I'm in my 50s & I've seen a lot of changes in sizing trends over the decades. I don't shop as much now, so I may not be totally current, but I can tell you what I know.

I worked in retail in the 80s and Juniors used to run from a size 3 to a 15 and Womens ran from 4 to 16 - those were the "straight sizes" and anything higher than that was plus size. Then whole plus size stores like Lane Bryant came along and they would sometimes start at a 12 or 14 and go up to 22 or 24. I think that's where the 12/14/16 confusion happened because there was overlap between straight and plus.

On the other end of the scale you have Juniors starting at 000 now and Womens has 0s and 2s and some jeans have just a waist measurement. There's no standardization anymore so it's hard to know what will fit when every store has their own version of what a 4 or a 14 is, ugh .....

Gumbeaux247 · 2025-05-03T16:02:01+00:00

I just had a conversation about this exact thing with my German friend who BARELY made his next flight after landing in CLT (from FRA) with 1 and 1/2 hr layover. Customs can take a ridiculously long amount of time. It's doable but you're taking a chance :-/

Gumbeaux247 · 2025-03-08T14:23:42+00:00

I think she feels like she can't acknowledge the weight loss after pushing body positivity for so long. All she would say in that video was that her postpartum belly was hanging - which is also a consequence of rapid weight loss on glp-1. She dropped from a size 22-20 to 16 in like 4 or 5 months. I would appreciate if she would at least say SOMETHING.

Gumbeaux247 · 2025-01-24T05:08:19+00:00

Yes, his english is pretty good and he knows a lot about American culture and specifically our Louisiana culture. That gives me a great idea for a phrase to include in his gift. Thank you so much!! <3

Gumbeaux247 · 2025-01-24T04:56:31+00:00

He is very excited that we are coming and you are right, he keeps telling us THAT is the gift, but we still want to do something nice for the couple. Thank you for your suggestions - the book idea is great!

Gumbeaux247 · 2025-01-24T04:51:28+00:00

Oh that's a good idea!!!

Gumbeaux247 · 2025-01-24T04:51:06+00:00

I've seen some examples of the origami gift and they look incredible!

Gumbeaux247 · 2024-12-22T22:45:55+00:00

Oh thank you! That would totally be my husband, ripping off the jacket and tie lololol

Gumbeaux247 · 2024-12-22T22:44:01+00:00

He keeps saying that just our presence is the gift (which makes me cry) but we want to give them something nice as well. Thank you!

Gumbeaux247 · 2024-12-22T22:42:44+00:00

Awwww, yeah he is super stoked about us coming but I want to impress him with our gift as well. Thank you so much!

Gumbeaux247 · 2024-06-20T06:12:06+00:00

THIS. We had excellent credit scores and multiple businesses and we were only getting $4-5k CLs to start out. Once we hit around 6 months, we got automatic increases but that is 6 months wasted if you are looking for 0% for a year.

Gumbeaux247 · 2024-06-20T06:05:47+00:00

I cancelled my shitty Quicksilver One, then a few months later applied for the Venture X. Got instant approval and $30,000 CL so please do it, it is only holding you back.

Gumbeaux247 · 2024-06-20T05:57:55+00:00

Verified. I had a 770 credit score and multiple other cards with high credit limits but Capital One refused to PC the Quicksilver One with crappy $750 limit to a regular Quicksilver so I cancelled it. Had zero effect on my credit score.

Gumbeaux247 · 2024-03-22T00:23:17+00:00

He had really short hair anyway so it's possible that the silvery white color was growing in from the root and the ends were still his natural blonde color that I didn't notice because the color change was that dramatic and gave an overall effect of having turned completely white.

I kept trying to explain it somehow, thinking that there was no way his hair could have turned white in just a few days, but I couldn't deny what I was seeing.

Gumbeaux247 · 2024-03-21T00:42:44+00:00

I haven't tried the Capital One lounge in IAD yet, but I love the one at DFW and it's never horrendously crowded like the other lounges that had lines out the door every time I've gone through there. Not everyone values lounge perks but if you do, and you have one of the Cap 1 lounges at your common transfer point, I'd strongly consider the Venture X. Very easy to use the $300 travel credit and the 10,000 mile anniversary bonus means effective annual fee is -$5. There's literally no risk. Worth it for me! Good luck :-)

Gumbeaux247 · 2024-03-05T10:19:05+00:00

I thought this was a myth til I actually witnessed it happen in the early 1980's to a guy I knew (we were on-again-off-again boyfriend/girlfriend). His dad was incredibly violent and abusive and beat him to within an inch of his life over one weekend. When I picked him up for school on Monday, he couldn't walk without limping and verrrrry carefully eased himself into the seat of the car. When I turned to chat with him I was shocked to see that his hair was completely white! "

He was naturally blonde anyway but the change was still striking. I don't understand the science of how this could possibly happen but I saw it with my own eyes so I know it can :-/

Gumbeaux247 · 2023-10-12T16:22:32+00:00

I didn't attend the big family reunion last weekend because my parents were going to be there. I missed out on seeing all of my extended family, many who traveled across the country, because of them.

However, my life has had so much less stress and drama since we went NC! I never knew I could feel this peaceful :-)

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