Here is another very personal one. My username is my last name

I need about 20% more energy every day due to have a somewhat faster metabolism. It doesn't matter what form those extra 20% come from, but soda was the most readily available. I wasn't overweight or anything before, but now that I stopped, I am. And I can't diet right now since my mother-in-law would force-feed me if I tried.

Also, due to food poisoning, I once had 2 weeks where I barely could eat at all. In those 2 weeks I lost over 20 kg and would have become dangerously underweight if my body didn't kick it out if't system soon enough

According to my last check-up, nope. I actually had slightly lower levels of insuline than normal, while with pre-diabetes it would have been elevated.

I sometimes also did just one meal a day, especially during summer (too hot to cook anyway), but as noted above, I couldn't do anything like that right now.

Most of my food intake was protein and fiber, so meat and vegetables. Soda was for a long time my only notable source of sugar or carb outside of some bread. Now I am in the Philippines and they have rice with everything, so tons of carb that I can't really avoid. 

Soda and Bread definitely have a ton of sugar though. 1 can of soda per day caps my sugar intake by a large magnitude, so if you had 2 liters, it is simply an insane amount of sugar.

Carbs aren't bad as long as it isn't too much sugar. Rice has to be decently healthy, otherwise all asians would be fat or unhealthy eh.

I suffer from depression that I did not get diagnosed for many years which led me to believe my erratic mental activity was actually normal behavior. I was 24 when someone told me that I should see a doctor because that, "funk" I was in was extreme and absolutely abnormal.

Haha...nope.  But I was part of a team of VGC users (real staff and volunteer writers) that went to E3 courtesy of VGC and we conducted interviews of developers, went to conferences, and demoed hundreds of games.  It was the Kinect/Move reveal E3, so certainly a weird time for the industry.  So much fun getting to meet the other members from VGC and hang out.  The highlight of the show for me was the entire Nintendo conference.  New Super Mario Bros Wii and Metroid: Other M were shown and Matt Cassamassina from IGN (one of the best) was just a few seats away from me.  Oh, and at the Ubisoft conference James Cameron spent forever talking about his new, as yet to be released movie, Avatar.

I'm terrified of dancing in public after an incident when I was young and went to a club. I danced so badly that the lady who asked me to dance just "danced away" from me and disappeared into the crowd.

At my wedding I was supposed to dance with my wife. Luckily the DJ's equipment malfunctioned. I acted disappointed but that freak accident may have saved my marriage!

They say "dance like no one is watching."  They suggest that no one cares enough to notice you dancing.  But then you realize that all those people are liars.  People (especially women) love to make fun of bad dancers.  It's like a past time for them.  The joy they receive from watching me attempt to act natural is akin to the joy I receive from saving the princess for the umpteenth time.

We are right to be afraid...we should be.

I have a similar problem, except that for me, it was friends and even my own mother making fun of my dancing. I now only dance when I'm with the right group of people, where everyone present gives no fucks and dances ridiculously, usually a small group of friends. That or ballroom dancing with official steps that you can learn. As such I stay far away from clubs.

At the age of 22(13 years ago) i invented new methods to secure ship transport of various goods ,mostly heavy steel and that has been adapted by one of the biggest steel companies in the world.
Like other posters i also suck at dancing mostly because i'm prob too selfaware and cringing about myself while trying to do something decent to look at.
i'm very sensitive but it is hard to show that to people cause since childhood i always needed to be the one that "protects" :p (but i cried pretty hard for my cat dieing recently and it made me depressed for 3 weeks)

Interesting point.

But wouldn't there be a fundamental contradiction in calling someone "slave to his freedom"?

The definition of being a slave is not having the choice of one's actions. I wouldn't call myself a slave to my freedom since I choose to be free and I totally can choose to work and do what everybody else do. Whereas someone that must work to pay their bills, rent, food etc, cannot choose to take the path of freedom that I walk.

But I guess in some kind of rhetorical way, you could say that I'm a slave to my freedom, but this is one slavery I don't mind