I had never had a belly until about 3 years ago. I am active most of the day, and don't over-eat, but it's still there. I do have a sweet tooth, but felt I did enough activities to burn off the calories. THEN, I went to my doctor and asked him about it - he says it's normal and unless I starve myself, it won't budge - it's deep tissue fat, and I should learn to live with it. I know about clothes not fitting - for me, everything is shifting and moving to my knees - I've lost any 'shape' I worked to keep and now just adjust my clothing to fit - a tuck here, a dart there. I have weighed 120 pounds for many years and a size 4 or 6, or medium in clothes, but they have to be re-worked to fit me right. When there is no more room to rework a garmet, I toss it and go buy another that DOES fit.

K- I know many forums limit their edit time. It makes sense to me because I have seen situations where people substantially change their post after they get responses and then the rest of the comments in the thread make no sense. Could it be that you can't edit your post because the edit window has passed? Edited to add - It's been a while and I can still change my post. So, never mind :)

Don't know. I came late to the party about the transfer. I was WonByHerWits on the old GW. I had created a houzz account as DYHGarden, not realizing the two were merging. Since WonByHerWits (the registered name of my late, great greyhound) is no longer here, I'm okay with DYHGarden.

From Tech Crunch, January 29: Pull quote, emphasis mine. A source hints to us there could be more layoffs coming, as the company looks to get into the black ahead of a potential IPO. “The company aims to slash costs in order to be profitable before going public,” the source said. Houzz has built a $4 billion business on the back of a platform and marketplace that lets you plan and execute home improvement projects. But as the startup gears up for its next phase of growth, it is also going through some growing pains. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed the company this month laid off around 110 people in the U.K. and Germany, along with an additional 70 in its U.S. home market in Q4 of last year. “We restructured our international marketplace workforce, primarily in our U.K. and Berlin offices, so that we can double down on the areas that will have the greatest impact for Houzz,” a spokesperson told TechCrunch. “It’s always difficult to go through a restructure at growth stages given the impact on people’s lives. We value and appreciate all of our employees and will do everything we can to retain them. We are introducing as many new opportunities as possible in other parts of the business so that those affected can apply and transition to other positions. For those who will leave Houzz, we are offering a separation package and providing any help we can as they look for a new opportunity. Houzz’s business is strong and we continue to hire and scale teams across our international and U.S. offices.” Houzz has 1,800 employees, meaning that these two tranches of layoffs account for approximately 10 percent of the company. The spokesperson added that Houzz has been hiring in Q4 in other areas — some 300 people in all — although she did not specify in which department or region. Houzz is also not providing much information about which departments have been impacted by the layoffs or what happens next, but details posted on social media point to at least one entire international department getting eliminated. “Purchased items from you in the UK. For the second time one of my orders was canceled. I emailed your offices + tried to call only to find the phone had been disconnected. I tweeted @HouzzUK yesterday & rcv’d a message that all staff had been made redundant,” one customer noted on Twitter. A source hints to us there could be more layoffs coming, as the company looks to get into the black ahead of a potential IPO. “The company aims to slash costs in order to be profitable before going public,” the source said. https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/houzz-layoffs/ Houzz does still have the resources to censor the Sophie topic when last someone asked in the middle of another thread about why some have her name/issue in our moniker.