this is a sign you are really on your journey to becoming a true fatty! keep up the good work.

yes, there have been a bunch of meet-ups in the past. as the city is slowly thawing out, we need to have another soon!

first challenge: picking a location. centrally downtown, east end, west end, etc.? then, a venue and a date/time.

gta folks - speak out! is there interest? when? where?

i would tend to agree, i am not at all interested in a.i. content. some people like it, so i would understand why the site's management might not want to ban it outright.

i would ask that there be a requirement to tag it, though, so that it can be filtered out by we users who want to avoid it.

did you try... the chat room?

i don't see anything overtly scammy about this.

you have a blank profile and no activity on the site, so it's hard to tell what happened here. and i can't see any context about the other person.

who initiated this exchange?

there are some great stories in the story section that chronicle people's real experiences - they are some of my favorites! definitely would be interested!

i was really fit until i was about 40, before i started gaining. looking back, when i but on my first 100 lbs, i really was living large - booze, eating like crazy. and then the pandemic hit, i wasn't exercising at all and eating all day long out of boredom. so eventually i got to the point where i'd tripled in size!

but i had no health issues, and i chalked that up to my having been so fit and athletic for so many years prior.

well, a couple of years ago, my luck ran out. all of my blood work results went bad, my blood pressure shot up... i think it was just the combination of my lifestyle catching up and my age.

after some lifestyle changes i am back to being healthy again. i lost some weight, but am starting to put some of that back on again now, hopefully in a more healthy way so i can keep going!

these are two pieces of advice which are really important and i would recommend from my experience: wear your backpack properly (high and tight) and do some exercises to strengthen your core without burning unnecessary calories.

i would also recommend looking into some stretches for the lower back, or even some yoga. this helped me a lot. i should probably do more of it now! lol

what a perfect response! i love it!

great points, i don't entirely disagree, but maybe your vision of "community" is different than theirs. certainly they have a "verified creator" status that allows users to flog their wares/sites, etc. so they do openly embrace it. i've personally reported non-verified creators who were flogging/begging, and the feabie admins did a good, quick job of removing them. (ff admins are far superior - that is true!)

personally, i have found community on feabie. there is a group of friends there that i've now known for several years. we have even had some in-person gatherings. one of feabie's best features is that you can curate your own experience in who you follow, establishing a personal news feed which filters out all the noise of that "endless stream" of social media noise in the global news feed.

ff is great. feabie is fine, too. they're different. they both suggest you will find a date. sure, maybe you will. i hope you do, if that is what you're looking for! my partner found me on wooplus - a site for which i have read many, many negative things. but it worked for us! and the odds were probably against that, too. and yes, i interacted with some questionable folks there before em, but in those situations i just politely excuse myself from the interaction and move along.