Hey all-- Thanks for your feedback about the threads so far.

Based on what people said, I think I'd like to try a weekly thread -- it happens in many other areas of 3fc. It will get long, but in some respects it may be easier to follow -- I don't know about anyone else, but making comments across multiple threads was tough if I am not on here for a couple of days.

However, this may not work for us, so feel free to pm me if you feel it isn't working.

you caught me i was having another sneaky peek... friday is still my official
WI so now i am off to hide the scales because if i dont put them up you know me i hop on them. gonna have a nice healty meal day today too full of veggies .Well i am off to get some cooking done so i can play my Zelda game lol!

Not much to say today but wanted to :wave: to the chickies! (Roosters? You still out there?)

I was OP yesterday and am happy to say I managed to get up today again at about 5:45 - I really need to up that 15 minutes - and did the :devil: machine. Today is day 29! Does that mean it's a habit? :lol:

Must run! Have a happy, healthy OP day!

Lilion – Thanks for the explanation on the picture page. That did appear to be some form of torture!

I will put in my vote for weekly threads. Just in case anyone doesn't realize (because I didn't for the LONGEST time) when you view the list of posts in the main 300+ section (here: http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=124) to get to the last post you didn’t read (assuming you haven’t logged in previously and not looked) you can click on the little downward triangle before the post name. That should take you to the next post in the thread you haven’t read.

Also, speaking of general site stuff, I have checked into 3FC a few times recently from computers that I wasn’t logged into. I couldn’t believe the difference in viewing the page with ads. If you haven’t tried paying the subscription fee to remove the banner ads, I would highly recommend that if you come here every day and you can afford to do it, that you try getting rid of the ads. What a HUGE difference. Also, I want to note that I am not saying this because anyone prompted me, or anything like that. I was just amazed by how much nicer it is to view the forum without all the banners everywhere.

I had a disappointing weigh in this morning. You know when you really feel like you lost weight and the scale doesn’t agree? Well, I was barely down a pound (I don’t like to mess with decimal places) this morning, but I feel like it should have been more. Oh well. The important thing is that I feel like I am doing well and I can feel it. The scale will catch up with me eventually.

Woohoo! Weighed myself this morning...down 5lbs! This was my 1st weigh in since starting my new life and I am thrilled! I didn't think I made such huge changes to my diet...guess I was wrong.

Heather - you didn't get much feed back on the changing of the threads question, but it seems that everybody that did reply liked the idea of the weekly thread. :crossed: that it will work well.

Patti - tut tut! I let you off getting on the scales when you saw a loss, but today you went and spoiled it ;) You got on them and they showed no loss. Oh well at least they didn't show any gain, so that has to be a good thing. I am glad you have hidden them away until tomorrow. Who knows, maybe by then you'll see another loss :goodluck:

Nancy - well I never knew that about finding the first new post since posting last yourself. I must try that. I get the email notifications so that I know as soon as somebody has posted a reply. Sometimes it doesn't work though, and those are the times I must remember that little arrow :yes:

Sorry that you were disappointed with what the scale said today, but if you feel like you have lost more then the chances are that you have. It's probably just a build up of fluid or something, or you need one good session on the toilet :rofl: Don't let it get you down, you feel lighter and that's what counts :hug:

Simone - awesome weight loss :dance: It makes dieting so much more agreeable :lol: when you see a lovely loss like that. Keep up the good work, obviously whatever you are doing you are doing right :bravo:

Hugs,

Ammi :crazy:

Ammi -- Well, I figure if we hate the weekly thread, we can change it!

Nancy -- I only learned about the "downward triangle" trick the other day!! It works less well when I move from computer to computer.

Here's another trick I just learned. If you are looking at all the threads and look over to the right, it will show you the last person who posted, and the time of the post. Then there's a little "right pointing triangle." Click on that to go to the last post in the thread!!

Katt: sorry about your rental. Thank God you had insurance.

Rileydog: Congrats on your -7.5 Great job

Brandnewme: Good luck in PE. When I was in school that was my very favorite class. lol. Hope you enjoy the water aerobics too. I will be starting mine as soon as I get well.

Xena: Congrats on -1.4 Good going.

Nancy: Hey girl. almost a pound lost is so much better than almost a pound gained. I know how you feel about thinking it was more though. Maybe you lost some inches too? Good job.

Simone: Congrats on -5 Way to go.

Well, I'm just exercising and mostly sleeping. When I am awake I have been knitting some hats. I purchased a knitting circle and I have made 3 hats on it. They are really cute and I have been using fancy yarn. I have been thinking about getting a few things painted and some hats and taking them to a store and see if they would like to sell them for me. I used to have a business called "Annie's Country Creations" in CA and I did okay at it in Craft shows and such. I am thinking about getting another license here in Idaho. I don't know if I want to hastle with it. I gotta think that one over. lol. I haven't been able to go to the pool yet because of the flu bug but, I pray tomorrow I will be better if not, I will go on Monday. Hope you are all doing well and having op happy days.
Blessings,
Annie

Hey everyone, I’m back. That was not a given I can tell you. While we were in Banff, a blizzard descended. The trip by shuttle from Banff to Calgary wasn’t too bad, except for the crazy man who was riding his bicycle on the highway in the mountains. When we got to Calgary it was -40 degrees with blowing snow. Our flight was of course delayed a bit, but we eventually loaded onto a small turboprop plane for the trip north into the heart of the storm. I guess if they cancelled flights for blizzards, stuff wouldn’t fly until Spring. We were greeted with over a foot of snow back home, and believe it or not, we actually got an intoxicated taxi driver from the airport. By the time we realized that he was drunk, it was too late to get out. Edmonton’s airport is a 30 minute drive out of town, and has no mass transit connection. We would have died of exposure before we could have found a phone or another taxi. We basically had to keep telling him which way to turn because he couldn’t figure out where he was, and then kept falling asleep at the wheel. When we finally got home, I stepped into a man hole. There’s a drain in the middle of the parking lot that is the only place where the snow melts completely. Elsewhere the parking is compressed snow/ice that is about a foot thick. Normally it isn’t a problem because you can see the hole, but with a foot of new snow covering the hole, I all of a sudden sunk in to above my knee, my bad one of course. Then I had to climb out by clawing the snow. Himself hadn’t seen me go down, because he was still trying to pay the drunk taxi driver. He couldn’t hear me because of the roar of the wind.

Anyway, it was a lovely trip none the less. They gave us a suite that had two levels. We had to go down stairs to the bathroom. It is in an old Scottish style castle that is over 100 years old. I remember thinking that I couldn’t have made it had I still been in a wheelchair. We clunked up and down weird staircases, and through old passageways. I’m just glad we didn’t have to foot the bill. We were asked to give a speech at a national conference for a drug company that makes the new medication that my husband takes, and I can now say I know why drugs are so expensive. Breakfast was $80. That’s $100 in American dollars. I did real well on my eating considering. I decided that I would go off just for the traditional English high tea in the afternoon of our last night. That led to nachos before bed. I just can’t allow myself even a little bit of leeway, or I just go nuts. I got right back on the next day. Luckily this resort has a hot spring and spa facility, so they had a vegetarian/spa menu. We had that the rest of the time.

I guess for me, going off OP will be like justifiable anger is for alcoholics—just not a good idea. I should be able to go off occasionally without losing it, but I can’t, so I’ll just have to accept that. For alcoholics it’s the first drink not the 10th that gets them into trouble. For me it is that first bite.

Luminous-I’m not sure fairy dust would have helped. When you are being treated like royalty, it is hard not to act like it.

Lilion-It is so unfair the way guys can lose weight quicker, do stuff longer or faster. He can cheat all the time, and still lose weight, while I’m sweating my butt off.

Nancy-I understand about having to be comfortable in your home. I have created a safe bubble here, and I only have trouble when I venture out. You’re right about having to separate issues and deal with only one at a time.

Annie-I commend you for being willing to go for braces. My teeth have overlapped in the front ever since my wisdom teeth appeared. I just hate the idea of having that much stuff in my mouth. Once you start swimming 3 times a week you are just going to be melting the weight off. I’m so jealous. I’m still not allowed in the city pool because I’m not “legal” yet. I’ve been in Canada a year today, but am still waiting patiently for them to decide I’m not a terrorist and give me my permanent resident card.

Brenda-I have days where I feel like eating everything in the house including the wallpaper. Thankfully, it will eventually pass. Try drinking a whole pot of tea. That’s what I did today going through resort-food withdrawal.

Patti-Welcome. I hope you find here what you need. I had an angina attack that put me in ICU in 2001, it turned out to not be life threatening, but I understand the fear involved in thinking that you are going to die, and feeling like you’ve done it to yourself. You’re right about taking it one day at a time. That goes for all of us.

Ammi-I was thinking about you feeling bad about the chocolate. We have a 12-step club in our neighborhood that has a restaurant in front, and meeting space in back. One of the wall hangings up front said the dieter’s serenity prayer is “Lord grant me the serenity to accept the foods I should eat, the courage to reject the ones I shouldn’t have, and the wisdom to know that a little chocolate never killed anyone.”

Russiandoll-I had the same dilemma when I was on Nutrisystem 17 years ago. I lost 150 pounds, down to almost my goal weight, and as soon as I started eating real food, I went right back up. It’s scary, but unless you can stay on VLCD the rest of your life, you have to do it eventually. You just have to decide if you need to do it now or later. I really understand the anxiety. Food scares the crap out of me. The least amount of time I can spend around it or in the kitchen cooking it, the better I feel. I have days where it is easier than others. Just do what you think you need to do, and at your own pace.

Iwannaloseit-10 pounds the first week is not unusual when starting a new diet, especially at our size. You don’t want to do that every week, but man, doesn’t it feel great to have that kind of start.

Simone-Glad I could help. I figured out that I have a total of 1,505,000 extra calories to burn to make up for a life lived in excess and sloth. So far I have burned 714,000 of them. I’d run naked in the snow at this point if I thought it would help, but I’d probably be eating hospital food for a while. One the other hand hospital food is pretty inedible, so maybe that could be a new diet plan: go to the psych ward diet. Any movement is good.

Wyllenn-the new thread idea sounds great to me. However you want to do it will be fine with me, we will follower the leader wherever she goes.

Xena-having a broken toilet so sucks. I’m lucky to know how to fix one, but I really hate doing it. When I had to replace the ball-cock (I’m not making that name up, obviously named by a guy), my husband had a friend drive us to the plumbing supply place. The clerk looked past me out the door, waiting for the guys to get out of the car. When I told him what I needed, making it clear that I knew what I was doing, he got the stuff right out for me. I wanted to tell him that they stayed in the car because they’d probably have ended up buying just a new toilet seat.

Jill-I hope you end up feeling better soon. When I get sick, I always want someone to just shoot me. I am not a good patient.

Emily-my problem with eating until I’m satisfied and not stuffed is that the link between my stomach and my brain was destroyed some time ago. I think that part of my anatomy must have come off the assembly line on the Monday after the Superbowl. It never worked right, and now I’m sure it’s out of warranty. I hope you have great luck. Being able to learn to eat that way would be a godsend for me.

NightKatt-I’ll be praying for your Nephew.

Sandy-I’ve had to deal with the bully on the bus thing. When my oldest foster son was in 4th grade he had a 6th grader picking on him. I even tried riding the bus with him. His parents didn’t care, neither did the school, principal or driver. I finally took him out and home schooled him for a year and a half. He had too many other issues involved in his little psyche, that a prolonged bully episode might have done him some damage that couldn’t have been easily fixed. I hope you can resolve yours easier.

Brandnewme-I also found myself more accountable when I was posting. I found out the hard way how much weight I can gain when not posting, so I may be doing this everyday until I’m 80.

Well gang, I’m off to finish the snow shoveling I started this morning. Hopefully it has warmed up above -30 so I only have to wear 2 pairs of pants instead of 3. At least I have many pairs of much larger pants now that I can properly layer.

Catherine -- Glad you got back alive!! Wowsa.
We'd love to see you post everyday until you're 80!

I find just coming here to read and post every day helps keep me on track in a lot of ways. It reminds me of what I need to do everyday, and, maybe more importantly, it reminds me I'm not alone.

LOL ladies - thanks for the kind words about my grades. the thing about that study skills class is that because i had been away from school so long they required me to take it. i really shouldnt have passed because i did terribly on the tests because i never went to class, but the teacher is a counselor and i explained to her that i had to pass the class to continue going to school and to keep my financial aid, so im pretty sure thats the only reason she passed me

Heather - i am all for a once a week new thread. i think it would make it so much easier for those that cant keep up!!

and as for my weigh in - down another .8. not the greatest but considering i did not track my food at all and ate HORRIBLY and drank a lot while i was gone, i will take it.

annie - i was in Missoula. im not sure where most places are there, so i dont know if i was near the reservation. I will be up there again this summer tho for the 4th. my best friend is from Coeur D'Alene. maybe we can meet up. you are in post falls right?

HI all, Just popping in for a sec. Congrats to all who are seeing losses, hang in there to any struggling. I'm op for today, but haven't had the motivation to exercise all week. I piddled out the other day too. It's been be cloudy and drab here.

Ammi - I am not sure if X Factor is on over here. I have heard of it, so maybe it is on somewhere. I know I get a BBC America on my satellite service so I will have to check it out and see if I can find it!

Catherine - Sounds like quite an adventure you had in your travelling to and form Banff. Happy you made it back in one piece!

Annie - I love the sound of your knitted hats. If it were colder down here in Texas, I'd buy one from you. :)

Nothing new to report. It was a very busy day at work but I left feeling I had accomplished alot so that was a good feeling. I am really tired from being up too late last night so I plan to spend a little time vegging in front of the TV and then hitting the sack early. One of my favorite shows is on tonight....The Office. Another American show modeled off a British one. Can we think of no good ideas ourselves? I guess not. :lol:

Take care everyone.

Good American shows... I'm into "Heroes" right now -- anyone else seen it??

heather im OBSESSED with Heroes. its SO good!