Support Groups - Lo Carb #34 Finding the Focus

Hey all,
Please check out the last few posts on #33.

Same stuff here, Nothing new to report.

Sue Sorry about your car. And work too. Hope all is well or getting that way

Melody, Read thru your journal entries. HUGS to you. It will and is getting better

Hey all to everyone else.

:) Good morning all...

My money problems just seem to be getting worse...things are very, very tight, and I am sick...partly mad at myself, because I should be smarter with my money...I should be trying to improve my life, and instead, I seem to keep messing it up more...all of it isn't my fault...I fell behind this summer, trying to help out LOSER, and once you are behind it is very hard to get caught up...
I will think of something...I thought about trading in my car... but I don't know if I can, and if I did if that would even help...I need a solution to all this crap going on in my life, but there doesn't seem to be a simple solution to anything anymore. I am really worried abd I need to think of how to best handle this...Any suggeations???

ran 2.5 miles last night, it felt so good to run...

Saturday was fun...I love to dance...I seem to do alot of that lately...I guess I feel like I have alot to dance about.

Sue- I am sorry about the car...they can be testy little things can't they?

Pat- Hope your day goes well... love to all...

I keep saying that i am going to sell my body but there wold be no takers!! :lol: i just keep on praying that some thing will come about. one thing that can be done is consumer credit counseling they will help get you ona budget and get your debitors to agree to less money and you pay them only not any one and they will stop the harassing phone calls. it works and it is good as long as you keep up with the payments. call them and check them out. there are some on lne ones but do not settle with any of them and DO not go through a lwayer unless you plan on geoing bankrupt.

Hi everyone.

I agree with Sue Credit people can help. Looking for free stuff to do around the town. Don't take your credit cards with you when you go out. If you do have credit cards, shop around for lower rate ones but watch the small print. Do not buy anything you don't need. Is teh bad boy paying support? If not do what needs to be done to get him to pay. He's making you miserable already so why not?

Sue how are you doing? I know you are busy. Has teh new job helped your money worries? I hope so you deserve some time w/o things to worry about. How are the kids and DH?

Pam waher are you girl? Hope things are well.

Lee, Dana and Terri Hello

Well I think I am working out today. Can you believe it?

Hello chickees!

Well I have thought of Consumer credit counseling...I may check that out. I talked to two of my creditors yesterday, and gave them a payment schedule...I did this online so hopefully they will accept it..if not I will try something else???

Workout was good last night...Mostly just walked...then did the GIN workout they had in fitness magazine...OUIE it hurt, but I liked it....really got my heart pounding...There was a boot camp workout in there as well, I am going to try it too, and then an ab and butt workout I would like to try too...It was a good issue...

Well Ladies...it's Independence Day for me! 2 months LOSER free...I am celebrating tonight by kissing the first cute guy I see :lol: I am joking...but hey it is something to celebrate! Being strong is wonderful...he himself does not look so good...I have lost weight, and I feel beautiful...he has gotten fat, and yucky looking! I love it! Yes, we have been to court about child support, but I don't know what they ordered him to pay, and I don't know if he has started paying yet, or even when I will recieve it if he has paid...I guess I need to check that out, and see what they decided...

Well ladies have an excellent Day! Pam, Lee, Terri, Dana....WHERE ARE YOU???

Well Happy Anniversary! You are a better woman, no matter how hard some things have become!!!

I saw that w/o in Fitness mag. And the seal w/o. The thing in that article that has stayed with me was something about the effort people put into things. Boy I have alot more effort that needs to be enlisted! That is my goal today. Push myself to do a few more reps!

Hello everyone!

Every step I take....
Every move I make....
Every time I bend...
I think is this the end...
I am so sore today....

Just a little song for you ladies this morning...

I am so sore! That GIn workout about killed me...and I gotta do it again tonight! :cry: But it's worth it! I am seeing results, and I am so happy...I haven't lost anymore weight, but I have definitly lost inches...these shorts I have been wearing all summer, and now I can pull them off without unbuttoning them :) I also have muscles poppin g up in my legs :D, and I have a line at the top og my stomach :smug:...Life is good.

you are right Pat, it is all about effort. Before, i was only putting half effort into my weight loss...after my break up, I have the time and the energy to change my life, and I realize just how important it is to me to get into good shape! NOt because I want another man, but because I like looking good..I like the compliments, and the attention, and the huge raise I have had in my self esteem....now I realize I am worth it, and because I am I make sure I take that 1 hour-2 hours a day for myself...because I deserve it...

If you get brave try the GIN workout...but beware...you won't be able to move the next day...

Sue...where are you???? Pam???

Pat, Have a lovely day.

I am out of school until next wednesday, but I will do my best to get to my sisters house so I can type at you girls daily!

Love ya all!

OK girls what magazine is this?? I need to go and get it!! I am headding to the store and looking right now and if i find it i wll be starting it.

I am going to endter the BFL this week (last time for this year) I have restarted my workouts but with such limited time i am using the BFL challenge as a gosl maker not all the time using the bfl workouts. i have only 30 min on the average tow orkout so i need to compact my workouts but if i use it as a goal maker then i can do it. so off i am to start

you gusy have really gotten me pumped. I have been here but just peeking in to see what is up (today is my day off and i have so much to do. i am getting a foreign exchange girl from germany starting on monday and i need to get this trashed house back in order. it has been trashed ever since mike moved in this spring and it was imaculate up till then now i was compteteing with 2 teenagers at home all day long now i have one that is running in and out and 1 that is working frequently and ruinning the other kids as able when i am not there and i am on the run al the time (hence the scarece moments for me) swim team mon - wed and sats and boy scouts on thursdays so that elaves only friday nights for me. so needless to say i am a bit scarce but i am here!! I do pop in and read daily!!

Sue, The magazine is FITNESS...but remember I warned ya, about the burning thighs!!!

I got to the store and forgot to get it!!! i will try again tomorow!!!

thanks!

Good evening chickees!

I walked my 2 miles, and still have my GIN workout to go...

LOSER drove by with his HO cousin while I was out walking with TRINI...she waved the witch...I was madder that she waved than I was that he was breaking his DVO and drove by, I did nothing though, just watched them go by....LOSERS.

Well chickees, Just dropped in to say Hi...se you tomorrow!

Melody.... how very proud I am of you!!!!!! Had she waved at me I would have laughed loudly and walked off.
I have been mostly sleeping for day's I hope that doesn't mean another years of lack of sleep! LOl
We have refinanced the house and found out we were a month ahead on house payments so I wont' have to worry about that until January! God is busy, busy , busy in our lives!
What funds we have will be squeeking over the next few months but we have certainly been through worse so no big deal. All is well and I am just beginninmg to wake up after days of sleeping most of the time. I have been put on Hormone and as I was warned my weight raised a bit so in reality it appears I have remained the same. He took me my weight loss may slow down quite a bit so I will have to work harder. Fair enough. So that is what is going on here.
Pam

Hey all!
Itis so nice to see that people have checked in!!

Not much new here. Haven't been feeling 100% in the past few weeks. I am blaming that for not working out along with the usual excuses.
Melody you are doing awesome!

Hugs to Sue and Pam
Gosh it is thurs already!

Good evening chickees...

Food was good today, water was better, but not good...today was my day off from exercise, so I took a nap. I went to the apple orchard today with my 4 year old. We had a good time.

I took Christian to karate tonight, and talked to that guy that likes me that works there. He seems really nice, but it is so hard to tell...people never are what they seem...once bitten, twice shy I guess...

Other than that, nothing new.

Tomorrow I will do the boot camp workout...
timed...situps, push ups, ...and a one mile run timed...then I will walk another mile, and do some crunches...that's the plan anyway...

You ladies have a good day tomorrow...I will try to check in...:)

I just got your message about boot camp melody

On the low carb board we are doing a month long boot camp

it is self imposed and self made goals. but it is a daily or close to it check in to get our selves back OP. i have been bad.

one thing besides bing sick and taking psudophed i finally realized that i was too low on potassium. it reccomends to take 4 tables of it in the beginning and for the first few weeks. i was wondering why i felt like my legs were hanging behind me. so up the potassium ofr a few days for me.

Hey All!

Melody, If I ahev one regret when I left my 1 st husband for my second was that I did it way too quiclky and I should have used the time to find out who I am and what I wanted in my life, So when I looked for a new relationship it was something that I wanted not what I thought I needed or should have. Take your time. You are still healing and by getting into a new relationship you can stuff some things away and not deal with them but they are still there and will have to be dealt with eventually!

You are doing awesome with the OPness!!! I think you are our OP GODDESS this week!

Hey Sue, Is it a cold or sinus? I have beeb dealing woth sinusitis all summer and I am about nuts w/it! Hope you feel better. Take care!

Hello Pam , How are you feeling? I hope all is well. I just have to say how much I love and respect your positive attitude! How is DH coping?

You all have a nice weekend

Hello Chickees!


Well I am Op, and I have worked out, and I am happy, and healthy, and have a long rainy day ahead of me...

I feel good about myself, I am happy, and I am focused on what I want...and do not want right now....I do not want another relationship...and I am trying to deal with the baggage I have left over from loser, but by being so dog gone happy, and satisfied with my life all the time it is really hard. I would just like to forget it, but I know I can not...you are right Pat, it will come out sooner or later.

I noticed my hamstrings are looking rather nice, and my jiggly butt is smaller and not so jiggly...I still have a "weigh" to go though...My boobs have gotten smaller too...not that I mind, they were too big anyway. It is wonderful, how fast your body can change when you put some effort into it. I am glad I finally got focused.

Well ladies, Have a great Friday and I will check in later!

Sue- I hope you are feeling well....Pam- I hope Lili didn't get you too wet.

Pat- Thanks for your advice, and your never ending strength!

love you guys!

Hey Pat......I did that to....... went from one Husband to another. Engagement ring in one hand divorce papers in the other. What a dummy I was!!!!! I was somgle for 8 glorious years after my 2nd divorce. I made all my own decisisons, came and went as I chose, had my own little house. Cooked when I felt like it and picked up dinner on the way home from work if I would rather. No one to answer to or for and never an arguement over what to watch on tv. I loved my life and made so many accomplishments. Friends came by when ever they liked...it was good. I had not wanted to ever marry again but God had other ideas. I like my life well enough as a married woman but I am so happy I had that time for me alone. Date when I felt like it or not. To have all the choises, make my own way, be independant, grow and grow and grow. It is a time I shall always treasure. Problems and all. I was a whole person, injured but whole inside when I married this time and God what a difference.
I have been on PremPro now for a week and my weight shot up three pounds , perhaps even four or five and the swelling!!!! Well I am not concerned I knew the old bod would have to adjust so what ever I have to do or whatever adjustments I shall have to make I will. The babies are wonderful and love the Mommy.Mommy adores them too. I look like the pied Piper when I walk out of a room.LOL All is well
Pam

Good morning all!

Well another work week is over!

ANd let me talk about the , not one, but 2 peices of cake I ahd yesterday! And now let me talk about the swelling in my fingers!

AM I ever going to learn?

Am I evergoing to learn to control the mind screwing that I do to myself?

Am I ever going to make taking care of myself a priority?

Manage stress???

Well I am in control of the choices I make. I have no one to blame but myself!

Way to go Melody! You are gaining strength everyday!

Pam, Waht new babies?

You all have a great weekend!

Pat i was right there beside you with the self flogging pizza grabed me in a weak moment then came he cookies. when i was sooo tired i could not stand and had to wait for dd2 to come home from cheerleading so i am flogging harder.

melody i am so peroud of you i am so excited

i need to go and get the fitness mag!!! today!!!

well off to clean the house it is october fest here today so i need to do some cleaning then off to the fest (plan on having a dinosaur BBQ pork sand with out the bread!!!

HELP I can not find the fitness magazine!!! you are not talking about the her fintness or which one are you talking about???

I just bought Nov fitness mag, the one that melody was talking about was Oct. ( I think )It had acouple of metabolism bursting w/o's. This month had some too. I have been getting some at the library recently.

How goes it?

This week I plan to go thru carb w/d, for the 52nd time.

The weekend is over Off to another work week.

This weds will be 10 business days for the loan application. Keep your fingers crossed! Although they said it could be 15 and monday's a holiday!

Hello all!

Have not lost any more weight...I have got to get back to eating better...

It was the october issue...if you can't find it Sue i would be happy to copy the good stuff out of mine, and mail it to you...Just PM me your address...

Thngs here are good, a little boring..,but boring is good...I don't want any drama in my life right now.

I am doing 3 miles today strength training, crunches, sit ups, push ups, alot of working out to do today...

Hip is hurting...I know I have arthritis in it...knees hurt when I run, ankles are popping and cracking...I have a Dr.'s appt on Thursday, I am going to make them Xray me.That is the only way they will know for sure I have osteo-arthritis.

Well ladies...Have a great day!

Good Morning all,
Yesterday I got word that the bank will loan us the $!
Now we will wait and see what the appraiser has to say! As teh loan is based on the #!
This might be a reality soon. ON MY GOSH!!

And let me tell you about cake cravings! DIdn't cave. But I certainly would have if it had been available!

Ate OP yesterday and got in 3 bottles of water.
Still no w/o

You all have a great day

Melody you are doing awesome!!

OH! How the OP Goddess has fallen! I just ate a CREAM FILLED DONUT!!!! UGH!!!!:o Is there no end to the madness??? \

THis week has been rough...:devil: Satan has been tempting me away from my workouts,and I am having a hard time getting back on the exercise wagon. Last night I di 100 crunches, 20 push-ups, and 20 sit-ups...no walking or running....I am such a slacker.

Tonight I will do 3 miles if it kills me!

I got online last night, and talked to most of my creditiors trying to get myself straight. I went to the Housing Authority, and the lady said I was 27th on the waiting list!!! So that is like 3 months more of waiting! I would hate to see what it was if I didn't get an emergency voucher! But that gives me time to get my bills straight and put a little money back. Life may get better after all...

Pat, CONGRATS on the loan! You are hopefully on the downhill now! I am so happy for you!:)

Sue- Where are you chickee??? How is boot camp going?

Pam- Where are you? we miss you!

I will try to check in later!;)

You the OP Goddess are no slacker. You are moving that body.

Satan has been very busy this week! The carbs I ate yesterday, UNBELEIVABLE!!
My pants are getting tight UGH!!

DH got a corneal abrasion yesterday. His eye was so scratched that I could see the dyed scratch with my naked eye! He hasn't been too bad a baby.

The apprasal happens to day. I don't know how long before the bank has the figure but it sure would be nice to know by tomorrow night.

Melody, I am sorry that the housing takes so long. What if it wasn't an emerg!But you are right it will give you some time to figure out your expences.

Sue how goes it. I miss you.
Pam you too.

I got the 3FC newsletter and they have a new lo carb section that talks about teh various plans etc. Looks pretty cool.

Well another week is almost gone. I have a long weekend.

Pat, I hope your appraisal goes well...

Things here are bettr today....I only got to WALK 2 miles yesterday...the days are definitely getting shorter. When day light savings time gets here I will have to walk directly after work or I won't get it in before sunset.


I think I have gained some fat back...I really have got to get soem diet fuel and get back on track...the diet fuel really seemed to help curb my appetite.

Well i will try to check in later...Sue, Pam...we miss you guys!!!!

Okay...Where did everyone go???

You guys are slackin on me!

I walked 3 miles yesterday.....:)

PLEASE READ MY JOURNAL ENTRY....Loser called last night. He is such a loser. I don't know why he even bothers.

I may have rheumatoid arthritis after all....again read my journal entry to read the whole story! SOrry I am short on time...I will try to check in this weekend...

Love, MEL

Well, it's quitting time, and I stop in to see if anyone has posted...and since I can hear the chirping of crickets I know no one is here...Why so quiet? Where are you at?

You guys suck!:lol:




I'm just joking...I love you guys!


Happy weekend....:)

Asleep. I have been asleep for almost two weeks straight back to the Doctor...this afternoon in fact. It may do no good but something has to be done. The dizziness and weakness has been profound! Ah well I have been through much worse at least it isn't a painful thing!!!!!! I will let you know whats up when I do or when I wake up for real. I can barely see the screen but I want you to know I am with you in spirit. Daily.
Pam

Pam, as always my prayers are with you...may you feel better soon, and hopefully your doctor's will get that worked out...

As for everyone else....WHERE ARE YOU GUYS!!! HAVE YOU ABANDONED ME?

Pat this is not like you to vanish at all....SUE??????