Hi, I'm fairly new to the program - 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

Raelynn · 09-02-2005, 12:17 AM

Hi! I'm Raelynn, newly married and live in Western Canada. I have one daughter, she is 5 and is starting kindergarten next week (I'm depressed! LOL). I also work fulltime, as a Quality Manager in a callcenter.

I started LAWL on Aug 1, and I am down 15 lbs since I started. I always seem to hit a rut though (mentally), it usually happens to be about 7-10 days into a program, but I've made it a month, and the only bad days I've had have been this week, because I was travelling, and now that I am home, there has been no food in the house so I've been buying breakfast/lunch, which is as healthy as I can make it, but not what I'd like to be eating. We went grocery shopping tonight, and I've got my lunch packed for tomorrow. I am determined to see 199 before the new year!

I look forward to getting to know everyone here in this forum.

Edited to add: I am not doing the lites...someone close to me works at LAWL and put me on the program and is working with me at home

textjewel · 09-02-2005, 09:10 AM

Hi Raelynn, glad that you found us!

Come on and join us in the monthly thread - that's where most of the 'action' takes place.

It is really easy to get into a rut foodwise -- I've been looking at my cookbooks this week, trying to see what I can modify to stay OP.

Julie

bunaybunnie · 09-08-2005, 06:41 PM

hi everyone, my name is yvonne, i have been doing la weight loss for 2 months. is it better to not eat the lights, will i lose weight faster, they are so expensive, like 120 dollars a month. i would rather go without them, but the councelors tell me i really need them to lose the weight, i was 151 when i started, now i am 144. please help

bunaybunnie · 09-08-2005, 07:29 PM

thank you so much. i was actually 180 when i had my first son, and i started losing weight, then i got pregnant with my second son, and the weight is really hard to get off. i had appendicitis, that is why i lost that weight, i was 138, but quickly gained after my appendectomy. mabey if we all stick together we will all be at our goal weight before we know it

alcandy03 · 09-08-2005, 08:17 PM

I wonder why it is that losing weight is so hard and so emotional! I guess that everything can't be easy though. Jan. 7th of this year I had to have a complete hysterectomy, it took me about 3 months to lose the weight I had gained after being down, and then I turned right around and had to have surgery for a bloodclot and polyp. Down again. We are all trying to lose weight for health, and then our health keeps throwing us curve balls! I just try to take it in stride and look at it as a way to increase my desire to lose. Pats on the back from kind ladies in here helps ALOT!!

MetalChic · 09-09-2005, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by bunaybunnie

hi everyone, my name is yvonne, i have been doing la weight loss for 2 months. is it better to not eat the lights, will i lose weight faster, they are so expensive, like 120 dollars a month. i would rather go without them, but the councelors tell me i really need them to lose the weight, i was 151 when i started, now i am 144. please help

You don't need the lites. They will increase your plan to compensate for the protien and calories. They told me that I wouldn't lose as fast, but I averaged over 2lbs a week until I got real close to goal then it slowed down and I think that was because my body just got used to the caloric intake.