Oh, all of my beautiful wonderful lovely friends. God has indeed blessed me. Thank you all so much for the lovely encouragement. I plan on taking every single bit of it. After writing on 3fc I was so down. I took a very long nap and just woke up. When I got up, I jumped on that stupid old bike and did my 3.3 miles /15 minutes for the day, did my situps and my weight lifting! I am going to give it my all. To not give up. To allow my spirit to rule this fat body instead of my body dictating my life. I'm pissed off as Wyllen said. I will do everything I can to get 1st back into the stinkin 400's and then to my new 10% Weight loss goal. Onward and Downward. I truly couldn't do this without your support. Thank you so much and Thank the Lord for you all.

God Bless you all,
Your very grateful FRIEND,
Annie

ANNIE~

I was just thinking about you! I am so glad to hear you are feeling better. You sound like you have a great plan of action! You will be seeing the 400s in no time! :cheer2: Hang in there hun!:hug:

there you go Annie inspiring to grin and bear it and get on y treadmillagain... thank you so very much!

Hi ladies!
Annie, i am so happy to see that you are feeling better! All the things everyone has said to you is true, and please believe me, no matter if we have 50, 100, 200, or more pounds to lose, we all have felt or feel like you do. I am so glad that i found the 3 fat chicks community, i believe that the support here is awesome and i truly appreciate everyone. and just remember, we are all here for you:)
I hope everyone has a great weekend. im continuing to do well with food and excersise, and wednesday we will see how good i have been:) There is a very good article in this months first magazine about trans fat and how several women lost lots of wt when they removed it from their diets. if you havent read it, you should check it out, very interesting.
See you tommorrow:)

Annie - YOU GO GIRL!!! You can DO IT! :cheer2:

As for me...I didn't work out today, but I just spent 20 minutes hauling all my food in my refrigerator out of my house and into the snow. No - not a new diet plan...my FRIDGE CONKED OUT! It STINKS! Thank heavens it's 32 degrees and snowing. Hopefully the coolers full of snow will keep everything cold enough until we can get our only 4 yr old very expensive fridge fixed!!! :crazy:

Got to run! Later! :wave:

Just wanted to update a little!!

Still on my water and green tea only kick! So far no change!

I've gotta add another 30 minutes from walking at school to my minutes and them I'm off to finish what I'm working on here at work!

Can't wait to see how everyone is doing tomorrow!!

GL CHICKS~~

Annie, I AM SO PLEASED YOU POSTED!!! look at how much you are LOVED, RESPECTED & ADMIRED!!!!! SUPER FAB that you had a nap then exercised, we must never give up, giving up & giving in getting healthy is giving up on ourselves and LIFE! The world would be a darker place without you, so get on that bike & get that booty moving! xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am feeling a tiny bit better today, but Steve has it now, he's in bed resting. I am just about to tidy up & hoover, the house is a complete tip but it will have to be done VERY slowly, with lots of sits down!
best wishes,
xxxxsharon

Good morning ladies
For some reason, i am in an extremely good mood today, and im hoping that mood lasts all week:)
LILLION: i am sorry to hear about your fridge. i hope you get it fixed soon, thank god for the snow. i know what a major pain it is to lose all the food in the fridge due to it not working. Hope today is better for you:)
SHARON: Thats great your finally feeling better. there has been a real nasty stomach virus floating around work for the past month, thankfully, i havent gotten it. i hope it doesnt affect your family too much
ERIKA: thats awesome you have kept up the green tea and walking! im sure you will see a difference in your wt, and the way you feel. good for you!
AMMI: i meant to ask you earlier, any tips to make the gazelle a little more fun? i mean i like it, but i really prefer richard simmons or just plain walking. can you help me out:)
Well, ladies, i am off to church and some other things. i hope everyone has a great day, and i will see you all tonight:)
ANNIE: Have a great day:)

Good morning everyone. i am now officially recommitting myself fully to being OP and exercising.. do you hear that leg ? i am gonna exercisie! the past 3 days i have let depression win and get me off track but now no more i am gonna start kicking food and exercises behind!

Morning Everyone
Well we went out for supper last night and had fries... man I was craving fries. Then we had nachoes and cheese. Really not OP!! It was my cheat day but this morning I am kicking myself a little since I am holding 5LBS of water :lol: oh well, I have a week to get rid of it. Going to go and walk a bit now. I wonder if I can do 60 min like yesterday... hmmm.... we shall see!

Have a great day everyone! :hug:

Brenda :wave:

Annie – Here is a giant :hug: for you. You are such an amazing lady and you have been doing so incredibly with the exercise recently. I am not sure why the scale is being so mean to you, but if your rings are getting looser that says something is going right. Maybe you are right – that you had been higher and hadn’t weighed in for awhile. What you don’t know is where you would be if you hadn’t been doing what you are doing. I haven’t lost in months now, and that is what I keep telling myself every time I go to the gym. Who knows where I would be if I hadn’t been doing the things that I have? All we can do is try and start again from wherever we find ourselves at the moment. I am so glad you are feeling better today.


My life continues to be a bit of an emotional rollercoaster, and it is taking its toll. I have turned to food more than once for emotional reasons. I need to stop this cycle, but I also realize that every time I push too hard on myself – start going down the negative road – I do more harm than good. I really need to re-read some of the Geneen Roth books that have helped me so much in the past with emotional eating. It is just tough finding the time. I have felt out of control with my eating in a way I haven’t felt in a long time, and it is scary.

But I have had a few small victories lately that make me feel hopeful that I can pull myself out of this. Friday afternoon I had to a bunch of food including candy for a big sales meeting that is taking place in my office next week. I had a big bag of mini chocolates including mini twix bars. I ended up having a few, and they were so good. (on a side note: I really think that at certain moments my brain chemicals are different or something because I don’t know how something can taste that good – almost drug like – if you know what I mean). So I had decided to stop and get a potato for my dinner and in the car I couldn’t stop craving another twix. I promised myself that I could have one if that was what I really wanted, but I ended up doing my shopping and going through the check-out and forgetting all about it. I actually did a little jump for joy when I realized this – the people in the store must have thought I was crazy. Again last night I was feeling low and cranky and I told myself I could have a dessert of my choice. I ended up forgetting all about it until it was time to go to bed. I feel like my food crisis is passing and hopefully I can get back on track soon.

The next two weeks are going to be crazy busy for me so I am not sure how much I will get to post. I had to work yesterday, and again today I need to go to work. I can’t wait for my life to go back to normal!

Annie- i do not post often but I have been reading post here for over a year and your post gave me a jolt. i am so glad you are feeling better.

Erika- when you say you are doing water and green tea do you mean only water and green tea? Is this a fast? Your body might think you are starving and hold on to the wieght if you do this for long periods. I am not sure if I understand your plan but I thought I would mention this as you wrote you have not seen a change.

I have started to get things right after agian over the holidays. I have been eating breakfast and more veggies. I have been going to the gym about four times a week. This week I added wieght training. Something I have done in the past and really enjoyed. I still struggle with eating out when stressed or bored.

Sorry i am not so good with personals and posting but good luck to everyone and have an OP week!

Ayanna

Ayanna

Hello All,

It's 3.15 in the afternoon here and I have just got up. No I am not just being a lazy :chicken: I actually woke up this morning with one mother of a migraine :( I must have jinxed myself when I talked to Brenda in one of my posts about the symptoms I suffer when I get them. I obviously reminded myself so much that I got one. I dosed up with pain killers and anti nausea tablets and now although I feel rough still, I feel up to finally putting the PC on. I think I might need to put sun galssed on though :rofl: because the glare from the screen is just plain nasty :devil:

Cristie - hi, and :wel3fc: you couldn't have joined at a better time. Did you read all the posts for Annie when she was having a bad time of it? That's why I just love this place and all the wonderful people here. None of us have to do this alone. We all have such long weight loss journeys ahead of us, or are at least on some stage of the journey still. We know all the ups and downs, and we come here to share them with everybody. I have dieted on and off for the last 20 years and since finding this place this is the first time I have ever done so well with my weight loss. This time I know I will get to my goal weight and I will not put the weight back on.

Michelle - isn't it so annoying when you find a site online that lets you watch episodes of your fave show, only to get the message you are outside of the location you need to be to be able to view it :mad: I tried to watch Heroes that way and got that very message. YET my friend in Colorado gets to watch our UK episodes of Doctor Who and Torchwood, it's not fair :lol: It's a shame you missed those first couple of episodes of Ugly Betty, have you figured out the reason she was hired in the first place was because the guy's dad was fed up of him getting off all his pretty secretaries so he made him hire Betty. Since then she's proved her worth and has the job because of that, but it was awful when she was meanly told why she was given the job in the first place :yes:

I hope you are getting lots of sorting and packing done, it won't be long now until the move.

Patti - what a great idea for you to make that deal with Annie, and I see on a later post of yours that you have indeed started Sunday with renewed enthusiasm to your diet and exercise. I must nag some more though, go to the doctor, go to the doctor, go to the doctor, go to the doctor :D Please GO to the doctor. Aren't you glad you aren't married to me, :rofl: Seriously though Patti, even if today it seems much better you know it's going to play up again, especially if it is some kind of tendonitis. If you go to the docs you can get some advice on it and some treatment for if and when it happens again :hug:

Annie - I don't know about you, but reading all the messages of love and support for you sure brought tears to my eyes. You are one much loved person and all those posts were so uplifting. I am so happy to hear that you aren't going to give up, and I just know when you get in the 400s you are going to have an even bigger surge of motivation to keep going towards the first 10% goal :yes:

Charlene - wow Ugly Betty gets even better, it doesn't seem possible. I am glad it does though. I just hope the show doesn't get axed over here. Every time I get into a US show we only get the one season, or if we are lucky the second too, and then we never get more :( Dead Like Me, Tru Calling and Invasion are just the first 3 that come to mind.

Kymberly - that's great that you have been staying OP, I am sure you will see great results when you weigh on Wednesday :cp:

As for your question about making the Gazelle fun....well.....what I do is I put on a CD of feel good, upbeat songs. For each song that plays I try to keep up with the beat of it, and sometimes with songs like Hey Mickey, keeping up gets me laughing so much that I nearly fall off :rofl: I know I am not doing the correct strides when I have a fast song to keep up to, but I am still using energy and having fun at the same time and I think that counts. Other times, when I am not feeling so energetic I watch the music channel and just chug away on the rider as I keep myself engrossed with music videos. And finally on the days when I really need to keep motivated I fantasize, I picture myself as slim, as having met my goal, and I am now on my Gazelle in front of a group of overweight ladies on their Gazelles. I am running a free class so that I can do my bit to help people who are in the same boat as I was. Of course that's only one of my stories, I have others :rofl: AND if all that fails, get one of Tony Little's videos going, even if you don't want to follow the work out he does on the Gazelle, you can keep very entertained with just how enthusiastic he gets :yes:

Lilion - I am sorry to hear that your fridge conked out. Thank God for natures fridge being just outside your front door :D Do you think the snow will last long enough for you to get your fridge repaired ready to do the cooling job itself? I hope so :crossed:

Erika Leigh - that's great news that you are still keeping off the soda, even forgetting the scales are you noticing any change in how you are feeling in yourself since you gave it up? My friend recently gave up cola and she can't believe how much better she is feeling. She used to always have diarrohea on a daily basis, that's all gone now and obviously it was all down to the amount of cola she was drinking.

Did you get around to measuring yourself? I hope you did becasue it's lovely after so many weeks of dieting to measure again and see just how many inches you have lost. It's also brilliant because if like me you look in the mirror and search to see where the lbs have gone from, if you just can't see that you are thinner, that tape measure will tell you just how much thinner you are :woohoo:

Sharon - I just knew Steve would end up feeling ill. I hope he won't get as poorly as you were. I am glad you are feeling a little better, don't try to do too much around the house. The mess will still be there tomorrow when you might be feeling a bit more up to sorting it out :yes:

Brenda - sounds like you had some yummy food on your cheat day :yes: Why do you bother weighing after it though? If it's truly a cheat day then it doesn't matter if you gain anything from the salt content especially as you know that by the time you have your official WI that weight will be gone.

Nancy - I am really sorry to hear that you are having a hard time of fighting off the comfort eating. For me learning that eating for comfort is actually just cold comfort and definitely not worth it, it's one of the main reasons I am doing well with this diet. Now when I have the urge to comfort eat I give myself a good talking to, ask myself just what I will gain, which invariably is nothing, then I ask myself what I will gain from NOT comfort eating, and it's a LOT. Then I don't do it. I hope that re-reading those books you mentioned will help you get things in perspective and that you will be OK. In the mean time you did pretty darn good with those NSVs of yours, :cb:

Ayanna - you don't have to be good at writing or doing personals, just post whenever you want to. It's lovely to hear your news, and I am pleased to hear that you are doing so well after the holidays. Are you enjoying going to the gym four times a week. Daren and I are going to sign up for a gym this month. I need to sort out some photos for our membership cards though, and I keep forgetting. I will definitely do it this week.

Well I better go now, I have some emails to write. Take care all and bye for now,

Hugs,

Ammi :grouphug:

Morning all - Just a quickie today!

I've had a decent morning - slept somewhat late but got up, made a nice breakfast for DS (and me) figured I'd better start cooking with my snowy groceries! I called Sears and wouldn't you know it, my refrigerator warranty is 5 years and we bought it 5 1/2 years ago! :mad: So anyway, bought this service contract thing and made an appt for the fridge - ON WEDNESDAY! :tantrum: But I checked for forecast and we should stay at 35 and below all week so for a change I'm happy about that! On the up side, I'll be cooking every meal in the next few days, using up fridge food, so I shouldn't have any problem staying OP! I'm just glad we caught it before the stuff in the freezer thawed and even gladder that we have another freezer!

Anyway, I've done 22 minutes on the elliptical and plan on shoveling the drive later. I already shoveled a path for the dogs to get out to the yard to potty. If they can't tell they are on concrete they don't go off the patio! - Yuck! That snow is nasty, wet stuff!

I really hope you all have a terrific OP weekend! Stay warm those of you in the northern hemisphere - and those of you down under - Stay Cool!!! :cool: