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Well I was TOTALLY OP yesterday and walked for 100 minutes, quite fast too, boy was my face red & sweaty!!!!lol
Catherine, your post made me laugh BUT the other, serious bit was VERY interesting! Congrats for your hubby's award, what did he do to get it? You must be so proud of each other.xxxxxxx Ammi, I think I said everything last night on MSN BUT WTG, YOU ARE A STAR!!!!xxxxxx Well I feel better for being OP, I even went to bed early as I fancied a beer, so I watched tv in bed, out of temptation's way! I might even get some exercise in to one of the dvds I have!! As long as I can get by breath! Have a great day everyonexxxxxx xxxxsharon |
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AMMI -- CONGRATS!!!! OMG!!!! Amanda has to go back to the DR tomorrow (Tuesday) at like 2:45 and i will let you girls know something ASAP! I know what else to do! Other than that, I don't have much to update. I won't make my minutes this month. (I will get closer, but not totally there. Just gotta work harder next month.) But I'm gonna take yet another diet change and go back to something that worked for me a long time ago. (Read Here: http://www.soulcysters.net/article-v...s-flab-198816/) Love you girls! Erika Leigh |
Sharon--I'm right there with you in feeling better after being back OP for a whole day. A day doesn't sound like much, but every day I do well just makes it that much easier to do it again the next day.
Catherine--nope, not beating myself up, here...I was back on track yesterday and have no reason not to be so again today! Xena--so true about how important inspiration is even to our lurkers. I know there have been times where I've not posted for a period of time, but I would still come read, and I know even if I weren't posting, Ammi's accomplishment would put a smile on my face and a little more hope in my heart. Val--good luck with Steph showing! I did a bad thing last night...I watched one of those Animal Cops shows, and they almost always have some mistreated horses. It makes me so sad that anyone could possibly neglect such a big, strong, beautiful creature. But luckily, there are also thiose (like you) who love and respect them and treat them well (if not spoil them a little ;) ). Sandy--I did the 4 Idiots plan a couple of times. I think when I did it, they were calling it "weight loss for idiots," but it goes by a few different names (so long as it ends with "for idiots" :dizzy: ). It's really not a horrible plan, but I would always lose really well for the first 1-2 cycles and then the losses would just taper off. It's VERY repetetive--you choose which foods you like from some options they give you, and they make your menu based on the foods you like. Well, that's all well and good if you could switch the food around as you see fit, but it makes no mention of being able to make substitutions. Rather, it tells you to eat what they tell you to eat every day for 11 days, then take 3 days off. Those 3 days are killer, and I ALWAYS ate way too much on those days, gaining back at least half of what I'd lost in the prior 11 days. In the end, it was to strict, too unstable, and too repetetive for me to stick to long term. Ammi--yes, we did go to see Jeff's grandmother this past weekend. She is doing SO much better than when we saw her at New Year's. When we there for NY, she was only awake for maybe a total of 4 hours the whole weekend. She would get up and get in her wheelchair and then just fall asleep in her chair everywhere. She also could barely hear/understand anything we said to her, and what she tried to say to use was just as difficult to understand. She had also been having some minor hallucinations, telling us about the girl outside her window at night or the skunk walking around in her bedroom. Anyway, this past weekend, she was in a nursing home (she'll be going back home with Jeff's mother on Friday), and she was in MUCH better condition. She could speak clearly, could understand us, and was awake and alert the whole time we were there. I'm so glad she is doing better--I only hope her health remains well when she returns home on Friday. Annie--always so encouraging, but here I am, right back on track with the rest of you now :) So that brings me to me...I did well with my eating yesterday. I am back to planning my food for the day beforehand in Fitday. I need to re-wrap my brain around the fact that it's okay to eat a "normal" amount of calories (normal for me being up to about 1800). I keep trying to keep my calories lower, I guess to try to "make up" for having been off for the past couple of weeks. But I need to keep them at a sustainable level, so my goal is to keep my calories above 1500 (I found myself only planning for less than 1200 and had to catch myself). I can't believe it's only Tuesday. I want so badly for the work week to be over so I can just go back to my sister's for the weekend to see the baby. And to see Jackie, of course (her almost 7-year old step-daughter). Jackie has been saying some things that have us all a little worried that she thinks no one will love her as much now that the new baby has arrived (of course, it doesn't help that her own MOTHER told her that, that my sister and her husband wouldn't have as much time for Jackie once the new baby was born, that my sister would love the new baby more since it's HER baby and such--man, Jackie's mother does NOT know when to keep her mouth shut). Anyway, off to breakfast and to gather up the food I've planned for today. Have a great day, everyone! |
Arghhh typed a whole bunch then pushed the wrong button and lost it .. Hate it when I do that .. Its almost 12.30 (in the morning) and Im getting tired so will be heading for bed .. But I just had to come in to confess .. Time for Katt to be accountable!
Just over a week ago I got heatstroke … and went right off the rails! Stopped eating breakfast, barely ate lunch (at least nothing healthy!) .. Actually .. didn’t really eat a proper dinner either! Instead .. What have I been doing to my body??? Filling it with McDonalds, Chocolate, Ice Cream (not the light one!), Cream Buns, Bread galore, Candy Floss, not drinking enough water .. Arggh … and there I was thinking I was doing well .. I was terrified about getting onto the scales .. Esp as TOM has turned up for a visit today .. Surprisingly enough .. The scales are still under my Xmas goal weight of 275 … BUT .. Im back to being Morbidly Obese!!! ARGGGHHHHH!!!!! I havent done any exercise either as I was just exhausted with this stupid heatstroke … silly me got it working out in the sun for too long then in a hot room moving a lot of boxes (sweat was reallllllllly pouring off me like never before!), I had drunk a lot of water but too little too late. The doc has told me I have to take the exercise routine at the gym slower, have to reduce the times until Im back to 100% and that the TOM visit may delay it a little longer as it will drain me as well .. Have to stay out of the sun, drink more water (oops) and keep in well aired rooms. So that is my plan for this week .. I have been a good girl (except the food lol) and following doctors orders (well .. Most of them) .. But I came to a realisation today. I had become complacent. I had questioned myself about why I had put on all that weight before I got sick when it seemed so easy to come off … so .. I got complacent and stopped WORKING on this journey and just started coasting. I had felt that I don’t know why everyone isn’t having an easy time of this when to me it seemed so simple .. Dumb me … I got complacent. Its not that easy .. I was cheating and getting away with it, but wasn’t that what I had done to get to this point?? Cheated my life with eating the wrong foods and not exercising .. I wasn’t hurting anyone else .. But I was killing me softly .. And here I was thinking that I KNEW how to do it and it wasn’t that hard .. What a Dumba$$ (scuse my French lol). I forgot something that I have told others .. This is a learning journey .. I didn’t think I had to learn some lessons that I really didn’t have a clue about .. And then I found the most evil emotion or mindset on this journey … COMPLACENCY!! It was complacency that got me to this size .. And here it was again letting me cheat and making out as if it didn’t make any difference etc. It kept telling me hey youre still playing with the same 5 pounds .. Youre maintaining .. IM NOT SUPPOSED TO BE MAINTAINING YET …. IM SUPPOSED TO BE GETTING RID OF IT!! So tomorrow I start with the basics again .. Gotta have breakfast before I get on my Scooter and go to the gym … while Im not allowed to do 60 minute workouts for a week or so that is no reason to do none .. So I will go tomorrow and do what I can. So Jilly … don’t you start beating yourself up either … its another day tomorrow and as long as each tomorrow gets you doing something in the right direction … we’ll do just fine Okee .. Gotta get to bed … almost 1am now (gawd Im a slow typer). Love, Light, Laughter & Hugs everyone!! |
goodmorning everyone.Nightkatt i know how you feel about the exercise i had to cut my workout time too.. feeling frustrated about it too... so after a few days rest i am off to try to workout again !if my leg will let me !
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Catherine An inspiration as always! :) Sharon SO glad you are better! Katt! Heatstroke is a terrible thing! You do what your doctor says and take it easy! I'm SO like you on the complacency. It's why I went 14 months losing only about 20 lbs when I'd lost 70 the first 8! But now that you've recognized the problem, you can work on the solution! :hug: I am an IDIOT! I actually took DH to a WW meeting last night-he'd never been to one. We've been doing the plan on line and by ourselves and I thought he should see what a meeting was like. We won't be going back most likely, because I just don't think we need it for the cost, but after we hadn't had dinner. We decided to do chinese and just "be good". We hit the buffet, I'm eating, counting my points all the time thinking "I can go over...I have my 35 flex to dip into." STUPID! My week ends on WEDNESDAY! I'm OUT of flex points until THEN! :dizzy: So I'm over - unless I counted too high this weekend when I thought I used them all up. I guess we'll know tomorrow if the MSG and oil caused a problem, because I KNOW I was down a pound before that! |
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wow, I could never go vegetarian. But that's just me--I hate a good 95% of all vegetables :p I'd be one of those vegetarians living on cheese pizza, mac n cheese, and ice cream and think I was healthy for not eating animal stuff :devil:
Lilion--mmm...Chinese food...when it comes to Chinese for me, there is no such thing as "being good" :devil: I'm all for the fried chicken in dark, heavy, thick sauces...man, now you've got me drooling ;) Actually, I am just eating my homemade orange chicken right now (lunch #1), and I am LOVING it. I'm so glad I made it for lunches for the whole rest of the week. Katt--I'm not beating myself up at all! I'm back in the saddle again, so they say, and glad to hear you're here with me! I didn't have heatstroke, but I sure did get sick, and that's what threw me off track in a big way (and I was doing just like you--fast food, ice cream, JUNK). But, back to focusing and learning, and shrinking! |
Hello All,
I want to thank all of you again who were so happy about my weight loss and gave me such heart felt congratulations. It’s true, sometimes, especially at the start of our journeys it seems like we just have too far to go. To get to 100 lbs lost is such a thrill, and as others have already said, it shows me, and all of you that it can be done. I have 61 lbs to go until I am at the right weight to be eligible for a tummy tuck, but who knows, I may just decide to go further because I CAN!!! I might head for 140 instead of 168 as my final goal. Time will tell. But :thanks: to all of you for helping me along the way, without you this journey would not and will not be as great as it is :grouphug: Chimi - oh my goodness, you are in dieters **** living go close to the market!!! Talk about having to have STRONG willpower :lol: That’s great that you have seen photos of Wales, yes it is very pretty in the less built up areas, and I don’t live too far from a lovely seaside town called The Mumbles. Ask your boss if he/she has been there. I have just been spoiled having lived so many years in Australia, I still get homesick and I have been here for 20 years this year!! You asked me what kept me motivated to stay on track and get this far with my weight loss. Let’s see, my health was a big reason, I realised if I didn’t finally do something about my size it would kill me, or at the very least have me bed bound. I also got fed up of not being able to do fun stuff with my family, and my dream is to go to a theme park and KNOW I will fit on all the rides! As my weight started to drop, the thrill of that, and feeling so much better has also become a huge motivator. It’s like heck if I feel this good now, imagine how fantastic I will feel when I have lost some more. And of course everybody here have been a brilliant source of motivation because I want to prove to myself and all of you that even the world’s biggest yo yo dieter can shift the weight and keep it off!! All those things keep me from reaching for that bar of chocolate, and stop me from saying I’ll give my exercise a miss because I am feeling lazy :yes: Valerie - I loved your old and new Ammi ditty :rofl: Thank you :hug: That’s great that you found that old photo and I can’t wait til you can take a new one and post them both on the picture page for us to see!! Xena - thank you so much for your kind words. I am so glad that after that first initial struggle to get started, that I ended up on the right meds for my depression and that from that moment on I was ready to take the bull by the horns and shift this weight. I am doing it, and if that inspires others then I am thrilled :yes: I can’t wait til I can cheer you and everybody else on as you all get closer and closer to 100 lbs gone too. I know it will happen!! Catherine - wow a possible MBE for you hubby too. Yes, you definitely better get saving for that unit next door :lol: but something tells me that you could need it for yourself too because your pride in your husband is going to take up a lot of that space :D AND rightly so :yes: :cp: I can’t wait to hear the tips on kicking the metabolism into high gear, I definitely will be trying some of them :D Sharon - congrats on getting through another day totally OP and taking that walk at a fast pace. I am sure you will be rewarded when you have your WI :goodluck: Erika Leigh - thanks for the congrats :hug: :goodluck: for Amanda today when she sees the doctor. :crossed: that she gets the go ahead for the surgery and can get it all done and dusted :yes: Jill - that is so great that Jeff’s grandmother is so much better now. I hope she will be just as alert and well when she goes home :crossed: I thought it was you that had done the weight loss for idiots thing, but I wasn’t 100% sure. I am glad you could tell Sandy more about it. As for Jackie’s mother, she sounds like an :devil: evil witch. I am so sorry Jackie now has that kind of worry, but I am sure your sister and everybody including you will soon make her realise that there is plenty of love to go around for her and the new baby!! Katt - I am so sorry that you got heatstroke, but it seems that it was kind of the :kickbutt: that you needed to make you see that you had started to get complacent with your weight loss journey. Good for you for realising what you need to do to get things back on track, but just take it easy until you are fully well again :hug: Patti - are you still trying to use that treadmill? I thought the Wii was going to become your new exercise :D I guess a Gazelle is out of the question now after that spend huh? Lilion - Nooooooooooooo, not Chinese before a WI :dizzy: Oh please please drink lots and lots and lots, and with a bit of luck you won’t only see that 1 lb you had lost still be gone when you weigh, but you’ll have lost more besides :goodluck: Annie - I hope you are having a great day OP :hug: Ok I need to make a move now, I am late today and I have to go make tea in a bit. So take care all and THANK YOU ALL again for yesterday :yes: Hugs, Ammi :grouphug: |
Ammi i am still wanting the Gazelle but am now letting my hubbys wallet cool off! yes i did my treadmill this morning while i am waitng for my biggest loser dvd to come in.. my leg is better when it gets to hurting too much i just kind of rest and take it easy! i get a good upper arm workout from the wii lol1
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Ps The Boxing Game On Wii Sports Is A Really Good Work Out For The Upper Arms Lol!
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Yuck...I am having a very hungry day. Its legitimate hunger--not just cravings or a desire to eat. My stomach just feels empty. I'm constantly drinking water (with a little pure cranberry juice added for flavor), and I've already eaten 4 times today (breakfast #1 at 6am, breakfast #2 at about 9am, lunch #1 at 11:30am, and just had lunch #2 just after 1pm). I kept looking at my calories to see if I could add in an additional snack, but I think I'm okay for right now having just eaten my Lean Cuisine (lunch #2). I just hope I can stay strong at home between when I get home and when Jeff gets home. If I really need to, though, I suppose I can add a snack. I have some fresh grapes and oranges at home.
Not really asking any question here...just needing to vent and keep my hands busy at the keyboard so I don't go grab a snack from the free snack stash (sugary granola bars, cookies, candy, etc.). I think the culprit may be TOM, as I just started spotting today. Stupid hormones...but I WILL conquer them! |
Jill -- I sympathize -- I've been having a lot of days like that lately!! (and can't blame TOM for all of them) GOOD LUCK!!!! :)
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I HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE. I'm the first one to tell someone who has a gain not to worry. I'm the first to applaud a NSV and to tell people not to obsess over the scale. I'm the first to say it's a marathon, not a sprint. I AM A HYPOCRITE. Today I am up 2 lbs. Yesterday I was weighing 231. Today I'm weighing 233. Again. And while intellectually I KNOW I didn't gain 2 lbs yesterday and I KNOW it's most likely the sodium and MSG causing water retention, emotionally it's devastating. Right this minute, I feel like I will NEVER lose any more weight, no matter how hard I try. Why do we do this to ourselves? At least, why do I do this to myself? Why is it so hard to practice what we preach? I would chastise anyone else for feeling bad over this...heck, I'm chastising myself! But I still do it over and over again. In a way, I feel the largest problem I have isn't my size, but my obsession over losing weight. I spend more time per day thinking about food than ANYTHING else in my life...what to eat, what not to eat, how to eat differently, how my child eats, how my husband eats, what's in the house, what we need by buy, what's for dinner, what's for snacks? Did I eat enough carrots that I have to count them? Did I figure those points right? Does the elliptical cancel out the creamer in my coffee? Are there calories in gum? How about air? I think this must be what it's like to have OCD. I have a dear friend who has always linked her self-worth to the men in her life. She always has a man. I don't believe she's ever been alone for even a year at a time since her mid-teens. When she gets dumped, which she pretty much always does in time, she feels worthless, useless, like she has no intrinsic value without a man. She is a lovely, amusing, intelligent woman in her own right. She just can't see it. Every once in a while on these boards I see that sort of attitude from people with respect to weight loss. The "I'm fat and useless" syndrome. For me, it comes and goes. Right this minute I have that feeling, but it fades and I go back to plugging along. Luckily for me I'm shallow enough to really not care how other's see me, except for my husband I couldn't care less. I want to say to everyone - even if at the moment it is a bit hypocritical of me - EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU IS A WONDERFUL, INTELLIGENT, BEAUTIFUL PERSON IN YOUR OWN RIGHT! If you never lose another ounce you will still be just that! Try to believe it now, and tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that. It's hard to remember. It really is. It's HARD to want something so much and feel like it's just beyond your grasp. It's HARD to have a set-back and not feel like a failure. And try to ignore me tomorrow when I'm still no closer to that 100 lb loss I want so badly. Sitting here and writing this has made me feel better. Guess I just needed to reflect. I think the thing that has kept me going, thru the set-backs and the stupidity and the sssllloooowwww losses, is knowing that there is this wonderful group of women here who understand how hard it is. You really do understand, don't you? :hug: I love you all for that. :) Thank you. |
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