Carb Counters - WEEKEND CHAT - MARCH 13 & 14

Good Morning Chickies :)

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. :coffee:

HUGS AND KISSES

Leenie: :wave: hope you have a great weekend!!

Well, today was scale day. I'm officially down FIVE pounds for the week. How'd it happen? Dunno. It made up for not going down for the past 3 weeks!! :lol: Of course, if the poundage would only go down in my gut I'd be happier. Then again, I've got excess all over the place. One part at a time right?

Hope you all have a great weekend!!!

Good Morning :sunny:

Leenie - :wave:

Brenda - WOOT! 5 pounds! See and you were worried a couple days ago ;) Way To Go!

After the past couple of days feeling so out of control I stepped on the scale this morning to face evil and see what damage I had done. To my surprise I'm down .5 lb. I'm a happy camper now that I know theres still hope for this week.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

Good Morning all!

Having my cup of Java and checking in! :coffee:

:wave: Leenie!! Hope you have a great day too! :)

Brenda:WTG on the loss! Isnt it funny how we do nothing then WHOOOOSHHH the Weight Loss Farie comes and takes a huge chunk away? CONGRATS!!

I cant believe I am number 3 on the board this morning!! actually I couldnt sleep any longer today.. so I just got up and made some coffee!

It looks like it will be a nice day today so hopefully I will be out in my yard cleaning up some of the plants and getting the beds to look better for spring! My bulbs are coming up and daffodils are blooming! I just love this time of year! :)

hugs to all and have a great weekend! :grouphug:

Trazzie - you snuck in on me! :wave: WTG on your loss too!

Morning chickie babies!! :coffee2:

Brenda that would be what we fondly refer to as the Whoosh or the BOOM! Yippeee it is great either way!!! Congrats lady you did great! :bravo:

Trazzie CONGRATS on the .5 pounds and keeping this week together!!! :) :encore:

Hi Leenie, happy weekend!!! :wave:

Karen, I know what you are saying I have to get out there and fix up those flower beds too, daffodils are coming up through the weeds!! :) But yes I love this time of year too.

Yesterday I transplanted some ouf our suculents and moved all the plants off the mud porch and outside again. The day before was spent cleaning up the backyard and patio. all that rain sure can do a number on your yard! Not to mention the snow we had this year! Today is what I have been avoiding all week long........do do do do the inside of the house and......double do do do do THe LaUnDRy......ahhhhhhhhh. Also I scrubbed down the whole kitchen yesterday cause I have noticed lately we have these dang sugar ants, just a couple here and there, but enough to bug me!! I am not a fan of ants! I am got them a cute little ant hotel with stuff to bring back to their wicked queen.....BBBwhhaaaaaaaa :fr:

Anywho have a great weekend I am off to clean and them the gym.

LOve, TG

Good Morning Ladies

Leenie - Having a wonderful weekend already, still in the pj's - right back at ya :sunny:

Brenda - omg you go! That's so fantastic, that is the best feeling, I've very happy for you, it's been a loooong time coming, now if the weight loss fairy could just come two weeks in a row (and stop at all our houses for a quick visit ;) )

Trazzie - woohoo for you, it really paid off sticking to the low carb snacks when you had the huh? Good job staying OP even with the munchies. Sometimes it really feels like crap when you have to resort to them but I swear the artful use of low carb snacks is an obvious life saver. Good for you!

Karen - so nice to have you back, a little more regularly anyway ;) Have fun in the yard, we're still itching to get outside here, but sadly there's nearly a foot of snow keeping the tulips at bay. Work those gluts! I am in OWL, can you tell, I was doing the strawberry happy dance last week :lol: I was very careful with the input into fitday making sure I was going up 5gm a week only. I'm up to 40gm now and still lost 4lbs last week so all's still going great. Heck on induction I didn't usually lose that much. I've also started working out longer, for an hour a day, sometimes it's hard to find the time but so far so good. I have finally got to the place where I'm fit enough to really work out hard without killing myself so I really believe the extra effort in that department is paying off. Varied the workouts too, weights, kickboxing and pilates so it keeps the body guessing. So my best advice would be to go slow and add foods one at a time so you know whether there are problems with them before you get too far along. Honestly, it is easier now because I feel more like a regular person, this whole process has really solidified that I can do this forever.

TG - oh I hate those darn things too, nothing irritates me like insects in my ktichen, you show that queen a thing or two :devil: Hope you workout goes great at the gym.

Michele - your post from yesterday just pissed me right off. It does sound like intentional sabatoge and glad he was man enough to admint that. The other ladies gave some fab advice about it too. You know I won't even call it temptation on day 2. Motivation and willpower are learned behaviours that come from doing, they don't appear overnight. Good job on calling the situation like it was and realizing what was going on. On the workouts, well, the determination comes from doing it for 8 months, I used to pray for it then realized that the only way I would have the drive to continue was to push myself to get it done. After a few weeks I realized that I had it now, it came from the act of making myself do it again and again.

Catgirl - Let us know how the job turned out yesterday :crossed: I'm hoping for the best.

Holy long post batman! I'll bbl to check in, the workout is calling my name.

TTFN
Tummy

:wave: Ladies

I dont have time to reply to everyone, but WTG for all our loosers!!!! :bravo:

Im off for about a week for march break......I'll be back after that, ready for full blown induction and muscle weakening workouts!!

What a great bunch of ladies here.....its so nice to see encouragment and active loosers (I mean that in the nicest way possible :D ) Keep up the great work!!

I'll be back, but in the mean time, have a great weekend and a wonderful week!

Robin

Greetings from rain-soaked Tucson!!! It rains about 3 times a year here in the desert and mother nature, sensing I had finally decided to get off my diminishing rear and do some yard work, woke me up with massive thunderstorms and pouring rain. I got back at her, though! I just decided to sleep off-and-on until mid-afternoon. :lol:

I'm finding that the mini-meal system is really helping me take off some weight now. Per doctor's orders, I've increased my caloric intake just so slightly, but have broken down my eating into about 6 "mini" meals. Suits me perfectly, because I'm a born grazer to begin with! :moo:

Brenda and Trazzie: To our incredible shrinking women....congratulations on that weight loss! I'm just so proud of both of you! :cp:

Tummy: Your talking about working out inspires me. I'm not at that point yet, where I pang for it, yet I keep showing up most mornings to do the "cross-terrain" for 45 minutes on the treadmill. It's slowly becoming such a part of my pre-work routine that I feel sort of lost if I don't go! Thanks also for the good advice on how to slowly add back in those carbs.

Karen: So good to see you back more. I'll never forget how you helped me find this board, and doing so has made all the difference in the world for me. Pull some weeds for me while you're out there today!

TG: Don't you EVER rest? :hyper: Send those ants over here....one of my greyhouds absolutely loves to eat everything and anything that crawls on the ground.

Leenie: Have a good weekend. Well, not TOO good!!! :nono:

Robin: Enjoy Spring Break! Make the most of it! :smoking:

Hope I didn't miss anyone.....well, off to Walmart for another afternoon of label-reading. :mag:

I hope you all have a spetacular weekend! I am happy to say that I still have a job! When I get time, I will post more.

Great news Cat!!!

Sped: I feel like I never rest, I am the mother of 2yr old and 4yr old sons!!! Now you know fur sure I don't get any rest!! LOL :) I am sending the ants marching 1 by 1 to your house for your GH.

Its crappy I missed the gym today, I started cleaning the house and then noticed that our little Parolet (a pet bird, its the smallest breed parrot in the world, smaller than a parakeet) was not feeling well. So i had to rush her down to the vet. She had not been eating and was very weak, so I stayed with her and missed childcare at the gym...poop! Oh well there is always tomorrow, but I came home and cleaned my whole house top to bottom, and did laundry, went to costco and went to Lowe"s (like home depot) and payed off our credit card since we got our tax returns back. Whew I am tired.....but in the midst of all of that I did stop off for LC PIZZA!!!! :)

Theo'sgirl, you probably got a good workout cleaning the house! I hope your bird is ok. If my cat got sick, I would put everything on the back burner too. I love my kitty!

Theo's Girl: Sending out warm fuzzy thoughts for your parrot's quick recovery. If it would help you take your mind off of things, I'd be happy for you to come and clean MY house from top to bottom! Just a thought, since you were kind enough to send the ant train my way....

Good morning to all!!!!

I've been read through some posts (old and new), and there's one thing I keep seeing over and over and over again. Everyone seems to attribute their "cravings" for something sweet to their TOM. Well, I'm 42 years old (no spring chicken, but not over the hill yet), and I went through premature menopause at 39. It ran past me like a gust of wind. A few hot flashes, some irregular periods, and WHOOSH, it was over. No ill effects, I just was finished with that part of my life.

Still, about every 3-4 weeks I still get cravings for something incredibly starchy (a box of crackers) or sweet (hershey's kisses, like a whole bag full). These are tie-you-up-with-duct tape, lock-the-kitchen-door kind of cravings where I literally leave the house to avoid temptation. So, if I'm no longer hormone-driven, to what do I attribute those cravings? I've just been going on the assumption that every now and then these things are going to hit, if for no other reason than it's been a while since I've indulged, but without having TOM around, I don't have a scapegoat. And without that scapegoat, I don't indulge because I can't rationalize those cravings. I can't sit their and say, "Oh, it's my TOM and I have absolutely no control because my hormones are raging, so I might as well give in."

So, you may ask, what is the purpose of this posting? I wish I knew. Maybe it's because I walked out of my house and to Walmart at 10:00 last night because I was hit with a craving for the box of Jalapeno Cheez-Its in the pantry and I knew if I stayed I would be a goner. Maybe it's because I'm jealous, because I have no TOM to rationalize my cravings and make me feel better about giving in. And maybe it's because I want to know if there's anyone out there in my situation -- post-menopausal -- who also gets cravings (SEVERE cravings) and whether they've noticed that they fall into normal TOM time frames or if they're just random and what they do about it.

Okay, I can see that I'm rambling, but staying at Walmart until midnight on a Saturday is enough to drive any woman crazy. If you have any thoughts on this, let me know!

Geesh it's Sunday.. what happened to the weekend? It must have passed me right on by. I'm already dreading work tomorrow.. yikes thats a bad sign, maybe it's time to search the classifieds :lol:
Today I have to make a trip to the grocery store and restock my cupboards. This week has been so horrible I can't even bare to think of it, so I wont :grin: but I'm feeling much better today and will gain control of it all. Maybe it's time to slip back into strick induction for a week or two.. it couldnt hurt.

Theo - Hope your lil birdy does ok and gets better. I wouldnt worry about skipping the gym yesterday, cleaning your house is a workout in itself, especially if it's anything like mine. ;)

Sped - Isn't it horrible the little games Mother Nature plays. I was going to hop on my bike last night for a quick cold ride. I bundled up and was ready to go.. stepped outside and unlocked it and out of no where.. freezing rain.. OYE! It was just enough to coat everything in a glimmering sheet of ice, then it stopped. You'd think she'd be on our side being a women and all :lol:

Robin - Have a great break!

Tummy - :wave: Yes LC snacks do come in handy, especially in desperate times. I think for Easter I'm going to put some in my basket in case I get the urge with all the chocolates around. I need to plan ahead for this or distruction is sure to happen :lol:

Karen - Enjoy your time working in your yard. I can't wait to get out there and start. My yard is screaming for help but no chance of me working on it til it warms up.. heck I haven't even taken the xmas lights down yet!

Okies I'm off to either clean house or go back to bed and have a lazy morning.. You all have a wonderful Sunday!

sped you snuck in on me this morning ;)

I read somewhere a long time ago about how and why a womens body craves chocolate. I don't remember all the details to that article but it pretty much came down to that there is something in it that our bodies need, and the lack of it is what brings on the cravings..I could also assume that starches fall into that category as well.. hmmm maybe I can find something online about it, I'll take a peek a bit later.
Don't feel too bad it's not like your asking for the onset of cravings but I have to give you a hand for your way of dealing with them. I think they are going to hit no matter what and it's just something that we are going to have to learn to deal with.

Spedmom-congrats on not giving into the cravings. One of my bosses had a hysterectomy and she still gets some cramps and cravings during what would have been her TOM. You're a stronger woman than me--I usually give into the cravings I get (usually for chocolate. lol)

:wave: hope you all have a great Sunday. DH is hollering for me to get off the computer so I've not time to go into more hello's.

I forgot...someone had a sick bird (sorry-forgot your name). Is it doing better?? Hope so.

C'ya all tomorrow :)

Hi ladies,

Good morning.

Sped: I think that with me I probably give in easier when it is TOM cause I feel all emotional and crappy anyway and I like to "pamper" myself dueing that time. I have held strong during some TOM's but I notice that my armour isn't as good during that time. I am not sure why you get cravings if you don't have TOM, maybe your body is so used to having TOM it is in the habit of acting the same. Do you get bloated or retain water too during that time??

HI Lady A

Trazzie have a great lazy day!!

So I am off to the gym and then to my niece's 2nd birthday. My sister is on Atkins too so I am happy to say she will have LC pizza for her and I to dine on, she has also whipped up LC brownies (a new kind just invented by her friends brother on Atkins he is about to market, so we get the trial batches) and LC ice cream so that we don't have to be bad and eat cake, yummy! So that will be the first easy food party I have been to! Our little parolet (her name is Booger) is doing better, she was eating yesterday and hospitalized in an oxygen incubator at work so she was doing well in there, I hope she fully recovers she is DH's bird and he was pretty broken up about it yesterday, we raised her from a tiny baby. So we will see it is always 50/50 with birds.

Happy Sunday ladies!!

I know Trazzie, Sunday already geez, I need a holiday I think.

TG - It's amazing how they can help animals these days, glad to hear your little booger is better.

Paula - I'm not menopausal by any means but just to make you feel better, I don't have the TOM cravings, I get nasty ones about once every 2 months, no where near that time. They are BAD, like chew through the leather straps bad. I figure they are something like pica where you have the urge to eat dirt and chew pennies. It's just one of those things. If I cave it's my own fault and no rationalizations, it's all mental anyway even if there are hormones involved. Wtg with the trip to wal-mart, I can't figure out which is worse, the store on Saturday night or a donut....hmmm.

Tummy

Howdy All!

Sheesh.. our front yard was so bad that we had to stop because our can was full! :) But we got a LOT accomplished and I know that I can get teh rest done next weekend if the weather holds out! Today I am feeling iin my butt! :)

today we took off and went to the store too pick up some clothes for the kids. Since the school Mascot is "the Irish" St. P day is a big day and they have to wear green! so we got lots of green today!

I am really tired for some reason, so I will catch up with you all tomorrow! I go back to the gym TMO so I will check in early!