Weight Watchers - In It For The Long Run #5

WELCOME TO "IN IT FOR THE LONG RUN".

We're still the same bunch of folks who posted in: "COUNTDOWN TO 250 AND BEYOND" but we chose a new name. We started with more than 100 lbs to lose and are doing our best to attain healthy bodies through weight loss and exercise.

Most of us are using Weight Watchers to help us along this road but we welcome anyone who is trying to successfully change to a healthy lifestyle.

Got a lot to lose? Pull up your keyboard and join us for fun, support,advice and just plain talk. We love to "see" new faces so jump right in.

j-ann

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Hi Ladies :wave:

I've got a miserable cold. All I want to do is sleep and breathe. :)
It's the breathing that's the hardest.

I'm trying to stay OP. Thank God for Splenda. I can have hot, SWEET tea and not blow a lot of pts. on sugar. I really love sweet tea when I have a sore throat.

Looks like it's going to be a quiet, on the mend (I hope) weekend for me.

WELCOME Karen! Glad you found us!

Hello, hello!

Today was shopping in preparation for tonight's wild dryer repair program. LOL!

Points are good - dinner is ham, scalloped (fat free) potatoes, green beans and biscuits. Yum!

I can't recall if I posted when we bought our water cooler. It was a storage auction find (I'm thinking of it now because we leave shortly for another storage auction) - $10 and I won it. It works beautifully - and its made a BIG difference to my water consumption. Being able to just walk into the kitchen and freshly dispense cold mineral water - ooo-la-la. Our well water was usually pretty good - but it can't beat this for ease and taste. I'd lusted after a water cooler ever since we'd had to give up our lease in FL when we moved ... and I'm so glad to have one back in my life again.

Today is storage auctions, cheap and quick taco bell food - (Steak tacos - 5 pts each) - then chicken enchiladas (with FF cream cheese, low fat cheddar, chicken, FF corn tortillas - I wanna know how they make those, salsa, etc).

I hope your weekends are FAB!

This morning is an early one - or it feels that way since the seasons changed - our Mass still meets at 8 am right now; beginning in November its 9.30, I think. Its all dark out side and I'm wearing my first cold-weather outfit of the season. Its a plain long kilt wrap skirt by Liz Claiborne (size 16 - but its snug and wouldn't work if it was a seamed instead of wrap, I think), with a soft black sweater (also Liz) (and, to boast on my bargain hunting skills - all bought new in June for $11 total). I look cute and warm. *grin* (Even if I do say so myself).

We'll do our usual Sunday ritualistic breakfast at *gasp* Taco Bell - I buy the Sunday paper and we spread out on two tables so we can all dig in and enjoy. No one touches the coupons before mom - and everything is good.

Happy Sunday!

Hi all I've been looking around and thought I would introduce myself. This is my first posting. Not quite sure what to say right now but I hope to be around for a while and get some support and incouragement from all of you. I am on the WW program but seem to be going back and forth for some time now. I really need a push (or shove would be fine too) to move forward. Would like to take off a few more pounds before Christmas. Would love to hear from anybody who just wants to talk. Thanks for listening.

Hiya, Determinedthistime!

Its hard to stay focused - I think I'm the Queen of Lack of Focus, really. I try to take one day, one bite, one moment at a time. If I forget my goal - better health, easier breathing, hot fashions - I remember before too long (a walk too far and I'm out of breath, a stabbing pain when I kneel, the pants that are too snug). I reward myself often with new clothing, new yarn, new books. And I remember that, no matter where the scale moves, if I'm eating healthier foods, I'm doing a good thing for my body.

Hi Jen, Welcome Determinedthistime,

I'm feeling a bit better. Kind of wish this cold had included a sore throat. Might have helped me get back on program.

I need to have a long talk with myself about my weight issues. I'm slipping rather badly and can't seem to find my incentive to stick to it. :cry:

Somebody needs to remind me to JOURNAL!!! No, I need to REMIND MYSELF TO JOURNAL! That's the only way I'll keep myself honest and OP. I think I'm going to drop the weights program at the Y. I'll work at home but, right now, I can't get interested in lifting 3 or 4 times a week. I will keep up my swimming and aquajogging tho.

No more time to whine ..... Gotta get back to work.

Oh yea look..... new Smiles:
:bravo: :drill: :sssh: :balloons:

Hi guys and thanks for the words. I've had a pretty good day today, far too busy to eat (or over-eat I should say) Maybe that's the trick stay busy and occupied. I went on an outing with my little boy tonight to a farm on the side of a mountain and they had a trail up to a tree maze so as much as I didn't want to do it if felt so good to get the exercise. I need to keep doing more of that kind of stuff. Anyway I guess I should go for now it was really nice to hear from you and hope to again real soon Thanks again for the words.

Hi, my friends. I haven't posted here for a while because I've been on different diets. First I went on Atkins and lost a couple of pounds. Then I heard about the Fat Flush Plan, bought the book and tried it for a couple of months. I lost about 8 pounds but it's really, REALLY strict. There's a support group for FFP at ivillage.com that I was going to and lots of the people on the plan are doing really well but I'm afraid I just don't have the will (or the "won't" power to stick it out. There are certain principles that seem to help me that I will continue. One of them is drinking lots of very diluted cranberry juice ...the unsweetened kind. I also will continue to take Oil of Evening Primrose and ground flaxseed as well as flaxseed oil. They seemed to make my complexion nice and moist. Right now I just don't know what to do. I know I have to stay low carb because of my diabetes but lately I've been binging on those mini chocolate bars (bought for Hallowe'en, hehehe). Trying desperately to get off this binge and fighting a miserable cold at the same time.
Anyhow, sorry I haven't been here for a while and then I had to hunt to find you what with your name change and all. Nice to see you all again.

Linda!!! - How nice to see you again. :-) We live so far out in the woods that no trick-or-treaters will come to us - so I live without my excuse for mini-chocolate-bars. It helps! Where I'm going to have problems is after taking the girls in to town for the Hallowe'en fest and coming home to watch horror movies while weighed down with bags of goodies. I'm thinking that if I cut off my left leg now, I can eat as much as I want and still maintain... ;)

(Just a brief hello this morning - more later, or tomorrow!)

Hello Ladies,

Figured that I have been lurking long enough so today I thought I would actually post. Looking for some online support and since I have about 100# to loose, I thought I would join in. I am doing weight watchers and doing it at home so I could certainly use the daily support of this online board. I have joined WW before, but because of a changing job schedule and having two kids in college and another at a private high school, I should just save the money and try this by myself. Am looking forward to meeting all you and getting to know you!

OMG LINDA, HI!!!!! :wave: :wave:

We've missed you. I almost PM'd you to see how you were but the I decided that you'd come back when you were ready. Any way any of us can help .... you just ask! We're still plugging along. I'm getting over a cold. So far today, for the first time in ages I'm still OP and it's after lunch. :crossed: I'm shooting for a really good day. It's about time too.

CHATTY: Good to meet you. You're more than welcome here.

JEN: Hi, Don't you dare :nono: cut off your leg. :) It'll make an icky mess and you'll spend your time cleaning up the mess rather than eating the goodies anyway.

Gotta get back to work,

Hi everyone just want to say a quick hello to everyone. I have to run my youngest daughter to her "Sparks" group. (That's the first step for girl guide for those of you who don't know) I have had a couple of good days I think I was looking at the Journal pages and found this web site "myvirtualmodel.com" that really got me all excited. You can plug in your features and everything and it will show you how you would look at any weight. That has keep me really focused (for now anyways). I have been sooooo busy too which helps. Well the daughter is in the van waiting for me so I guess that's all for now. Take care everyone and until next time.

Exhauted today. Unexpectedly we spent from 5 am until 5.20 pm on the road - lots of poor food choices, lots of exercise walking the various shopping venues. Now I have to make Hallowe'en costumes - just checking in to say, "hi!"

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My cold's back again. Just when I thought it was gone. :(

One of my housemates is off to Virginia for the weekend. I'm glad it looks like the crazies have been captured. We've been giving her all these directions eg: buy gas in PA, no stopping til you get to your friends house, no dining out near an interstate, etc. Hopefully things will be returning to normal.

This leaves me home alone for the weekend. I'm going to cook up a turkey breast roll. We have these wonderful FRESH ones from a local naturally raised, turkey farm. I have all kinds of fresh califlower and broccoli to cook up and I'll do up some brown rice. That should take care of most of my meals for the weekend. MMMMM Good!

JEN: Take it easy today sounds like yesterday was a toughie. SOOO .... are we going to get to see a picture of the costumes? Last year's were adorable.

DETERMINEDTHISTIME: (We've gotta find a way to shorten your name) :lol: I've heard about virtualmodel but haven't visited there yet. I will one of these days tho.

Back to work now but I'm taking tomorrow off.

Have a healthy, happy OP day,

Well you can call me Dawna if you like I know determinedthistime is long but it is really what I'd like to think of myself. This time I am determined. Today was a good day. I went to weigh in at lunch time and was down 4 lbs, and I would like to thank all of you. Really you guys had alot to do with it. I love the online thing maybe this is just what I needed. Thanks again.
Jen- what kind of costumes are you making. I am dressing my twins up (there 6yrs) as Elvis and Marilyn Munro. The older one (she's 10) is a cheerleader. I am just about finished (that has to happen this weekend) they need their costumes for Monday that's when the parties start.
J-ann sorry to here about your cold comming back. Hopefully you can shake it - get lots of rest and drink lots of water that always helps me.
Well I guess I should get going another night out. This time a have a baby shower for two of the girls at work. Maybe tomorrow I can relax afterwork.
Take care all and talk to you later.
Dawna

Hello!

I'm recovered from my walk and have finished one costume (a milk maid, circa 1600) and still have the other (a high born lady, circa 1780) to go. It should be done tonight - then pictures sometime this weekend. Yea, I'll share. *g* I'm going dressed up in my Sari (the kids wanted me to make an historical costume for me as well but I just couldn't see where the time would come form).

I hope you're feeling better, J-ann!

And Dawna, the kids costumes sound just ADORABLE!

Hi everyone. Just a short note just got home from work and I need to relax tonight. I feel I have been going non-stop I guess I have with all the overtime I've put in and again on Sat and Sun. Oh well it will be nice to have some extra days off. Anyway how is everyone doing? Take care and talk to you later. Dawna

Thought I would check in. Have had a couple of stressful days and have not really gotten in all my water or exercise, but hopefully this weekend, I will get my butt back in gear. It is cold, damp and rainy here in Indiana, so I have opted out of the football game tonight for my daughter's school. DH and DD went, so I have some quiet time at home and will join them for the post game mortem in a few hours.
Jen...your costumes sound wonderful. Surely these are not for trick or treat, are they? Sound much to complicated for that.
Dawna....I remember when my kids were small enough to dress up for trick or treat. It was always such a blast. Now I get to enjoy the neighbor kids and all my neices and nephews. Enjoy it now, it seems you blink and your kids are all grown up!
Anyone up for a Thanksgiving challenge? I would like to loose 5-10# before that time. Anyone interested? We could maybe post a new thread. Just an idea to help get myself motivated!
Have a great weekend....Chatty

Hiya, guys!

Here's my girls in their costumes:

http://www.jenanne.com/10126halloween.jpg

These are for a fall harvest festival held every year near here at Lake Junaluska.

Today was a shopping day - flea markets and the Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair. Wonderful, truly!

Happy weekend to you all!

Hi Chatty. Well you can count me in to your challenge. By the way when is your Thanksgiving - near the end of November right? It sound like a good goal to aim for.
Jen your costumes are fabulous - WOW - and your kids are too. What is a Animal Fiber Fair? sounds interesting
Gotta go - off to work again. will this never end ( I'm waiting for my ship to come in) Any way take care all and have a wonderful Sunday.
Dawna

Hi, I'm new to this thread, but I"m in the same boat as everyone here pretty much. At the beginning of my weight loss journey I had 123 pounds to lose. Now I've lost 21 of those pesky pounds and am still feeling strong...except for last nights binge. :( Anyway, glad to see everyone here, and hope to become a regular poster on this thread!
Have a great day!

Morning ladies!!!!!

JEN: Love the costumes. The kids are sure growing up. Did you find any new yarns at the fair??

CHATTY: The Thanksgiving Challenge is a great idea. :cp: I'll try for 5 lbs myself. (of course this means I'll have to WI and see how much damage I've done the past few weeks.) :dizzy:

KIRA: WELCOME 21 lbs. :bravo: That's more than 1/5 of 100 lbs. You go girl. :cp: :cp:

DETERMINEDTHISTIME: Dawna, Thanksgiving down here is Thurs. 28 Nov. Gives us one month for the Challenge.

TERRI: WHERE ARE YOU? WE MISS YOU!

Thanks for the welcome. Great costumes!

Hi everyone - Welcome Kira. How is everyone today. I just got back from the first Halloween party and Elvis was a big hit - the bath tub is black now from washing out the black hair spray. Oh well he enjoyed himself, now he's eating all the candy he got tonight - hope I can get him to bed tonight. I am just finishing up the cheerleader costume and I think that's it except for the baking I need for the rest of the parties. Anyway back to the challenge I'm in as I said before I'll aim for 10 lbs that way the Christmas out fit for the work parties should only look better right. Well I'm off and hope everyone has a good night and talk to you later. Dawna

Good morning ladies!


I'm here! I'm alive! I just went through a phase of being disenchanted with posting, with WW, with same old same old. I just get tired of thinking this all the time and getting nowhere. My focus is so darn fragile and my resolve is just plain weak. I've been pondering why, if I want to lose weight, why do I sabotage myself so much? What am I hanging onto besides fat? Trying to Dr. Phil myself.

I have noticed that when I journal and plan and really keep within my points the best, I'm not exercising. When I get the exercising going right, I allow myself to eat too much and journalling and planning fall by the wayside. Hmmmmm. :?:

Anyway, cardio exercise is out for at least a month; probably the rest of the winter. I finally went to the doctor about my hip - why does it hurt sometimes, why does it feel like its out of place sometimes, etc. She took lots of x-rays and thank goodness I hadn't gone to a chiropracter because I have an old fracture in my hip. Who knows when this happened but the ligament was torn so hard at one time it pulled off a piece of bone. You'd think you'd remember something like that but it could have been months or years ago. I've put off the doctor for so long now I can't remember when this really started. :o So no walking, no biking (weather sucks anyhoos), no videos. :mad:

My goal for between now and Thanksgiving is to start WW anew. Back to journalling, back to saying NO to the food and getting a grip on snacking and portion sizes. I can still do hand weight exercises and situp type things. But I won't even count those in as exercise points.

The weather here truly is miserable. Its been cold and wet for more than a week now. No sunshine at all!! That means - dogs in the house all the time. :eek: Big Bear tore his knee out again and had unexpected surgery about a week ago. So we've been going through the healing process one more time. Its just hard keeping him calm; he has so much puppy energy. I'm thinking doggie ludes. So life has been about the dogs for the last week.

Jen - The kids are so adorable. You've very talented with the creative stuff. Animal Fiber Fair?? Is that like lambswool?? You do such fun sounding things.

Kira, Dawna, Chatty - Welcome to the group. I've been posting here for more than two years I guess. But I'd taken a hiatus for a bit.

J-Ann: You're colorful as ever! How's the cold? DH has one and has been moping around for a few days now. There really isn't much you can do but mope with a cold. They truly make you feel miserable. Feel better soon! How was your weekend?? The turkey sounds great. I'm ready for a Sunday turkey any time now.

I better get ready for work. Have a great OP day!

Evening Ladies,
It is cold, dark and damp here in Indiana tonight. I could not believe it but today, we had about 2 hours of snow! I mean big old snowflakes that came down long and hard! Of course, it did not stick because the ground is so warm, but still snow in October is not a good omen for the winter ahead! Last year for Halloween, we sat in our front wicker chairs to hand out candy, it was so pretty, but not this year. Temperatures are suppose to be in the 20's for Halloween night...BRRRR for all the little ghosts and goblins!
As for me, my WI at home showed a 3# loss! :D Yea for me! I am on my way for the Thanksgiving challenge. This week I need to concentrate on drinking my water. Have not done really good this past week..so that is my goal this week....DRINK, DRINK, DRINK!
Jen..your outfits are beautiful. You sound like you live in a interesting place. Just what the heck is a Animal Fiber Fair???
Dawn...Our Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November. Let me know when your ship does come in...maybe I can jump on for a ride!
Kira....21 # gone! Wahoo for you!
Terri...when you Dr. Phil your answer, let us know the secret! It is an interesting question of why we do this to ourselves. :?: I have started journaling on the weight issue and my childhood so I can hope to see if I can find the answer. It is like I too sabotage myself with this issue. Hope your hip starts to feel better!
Well better scoot! Hope everyone has a great Wednesday and keeping working on that Thanksgiving challenge!
Chatty

10# Thanksgiving Challenge -3# with 7 left to go!

Thanks Chatty! It's supposed to snow here this week too, but not much. It's been dreary here, very gray and damp.

I worked out today, and I'm really glad. Just a small workout, but it was definitely worth it.

Hope all is well!

Good morning ladies!

Well we are in for our ninth day of cold, dreary, drizzle. NINE days without sunshine. Maybe, tomorrow. Chatty, just a few degrees colder and we'd have your snow too. So far, fall has not been a good one this year.

I've journalled for two days now. I'm right at the top of my points but it takes me a day or two to adjust. At least I'm being accountable.

I've started to use the 3FC journal so I can explore the reasons why I sabotage myself. I am very protective of my home as I consider it my place to come to and hide from the stresses of the world (kinda like a turtle). Its my safe place. I love having people over but when I invite them not just dropbys. I'm starting to acknowledge that food is a safe place for me too. Or used to be when I was single and lonely and all I was doing was working and going to college at night. I think I really haven't let go of that safety. I don't need it anymore so I'm going to really try to stay focused on that and see if that helps.

As far as Thanksgiving challenge, I'd like to get back down to 260 by staying focused on journalling and planning.

Have a great day ladies!

Terri, its really nice to see you back. I've been having the same sorts of self-sabotaging issues ... and disenchantment with WW ... and posting ... and so forth. One of my solutions has been to force myself to come here and post and feel accountable for myself. Whether I'm keeping up with what I mean to, whether I'm failing because I choose to self-sabotage, whatever - I come here, read and post, and feel like I'm keeping myself honest about it anyway. Perhaps right now, while you can't exercise, is the perfect time to look at food and its role in your life - so, its seems to me, that you're on the right track for finding your rhythem for sucess. (Er, I didn't mean to sound so preachy - the upshot of it was, "WAY TO GO, TERRI!")

Y'all asked about the SE Animal Fiber Fair - well, this is a fair held at the fairgrounds in Asheville, NC. Its a pretty significant event in the fiber world. Folks bring their knitting, hand spun and woven goods to be judged. There are animal contests as well (sheep, llamas, alpaca, etc). There are classes in animal husbandry, learining to spin, weave, knit, and so forth. And most important of all, a giant marketplace for buying everything from feeding troughs to cashmere woolens. I just *loved* it! I ended up buying some dyed wool roving to spin into yarn - I haven't used my spinning wheel much since moving here 2.5 yrs ago and I'm looking forward to getting back into it. I also picked up yarns and patterns and so forth. Delightful!

Yesterday I went to a small crochet group in Arden (a 'burb of Asheville) - two of us showed up to learn from one teacher. We also talked about different fiber activities in our area. The Asheville area is great for crafting/artsy stuff, really.

Today is an auction in our small town, followed by lunch at my favourite cafe (where the WW points are available for all menu items - I love it!). Then is - I hope - walking in the woods to see the last bits of fall colours here abouts. I've had some problems with one of my foots - plantar fascitis (sp?) near as I can tell from the symptoms and sometime search the 'net - and the stabbing pain when I begin walking has slowed us down. I've been carefully working on exercising my leg muscles specifically and it seems to be finally helping a bit. This is the first clearly related to wt health issue I've experienced (I'm generally, thank God, healthy) - and its scaring me. The unfortunate thing is that I'm more prone to turn to food - the one thing that will make it worse - than to exercise, or knitting, or prayer, or meditation, or anything. That's my bugbear - the one I have to conquer to succeed.

Thank you all - and Terri, today you especially - for being here to help me see the forest through the trees. I need to address my food addictions ... but sometimes it feels so safe to hide with them instead.

WE'RE MOVING RIGHT ALONG!

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j-ann

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