Hi all -

Today I hit 2 mini goals -50 lost (-52!) and 1/3 of the way there. -50 is a big deal for me because in all the times I've lost weight before I never hit more then 50lbslost. I have been a lower weight as an adult (220) but I haven't seen those #s (and only stayed there briefly) for at least 6 years

It's funny when you start everything seems WAY so far off in the future. Too far... but once you really get into the swing of things time goes by faster then you expect. It's nice to almost be in the 240s again and therefore have less then 100 to lose... My next goal will be to get that awful "Modbidly" tag off my BMI# (240)

I don't really know you guys that well because I'm so bad with the personals... but I wanted to share my joy with you. The weight has been an awful thing that I've let control my life, and I really feel like I'm done with it and ready to see what being healthy feels like.

One of the DVDs I do has an instructor who says something like You're more powerful then you even know... and at one point when it's really intense she says something like "Imagine something you're really passionate about and grab hold of that energy" I know it sounds hokey out of context, but when you're doing it and those endorphines kinda kick in it's quite powerful. (For me I imagine getting rid of the weight that has held me back from living properly and how much I WANT this)

Today I almost started crying in the middle of that particular workout because I felt so strong and so hopeful for the future and I took what ever energy that was my anger for my weight issues and tried to pour that into positive (real) energy to pour into my workout. Like I'm breaking free of a self imposed prison.

It's been a few years since I've been this low.. probably about 4-5 so it feels really good... I can't wait to see what changes the next handful of months bring and I hope to be able to share that with you.

-muse

Story - I'm already starting to have skin issues too. Obviously not just skin since I have a lot left to lose but I notice a lot hanging where it didn't hang before. I think most of us will still have major body issues to address as we lose.

Nancy - Can I call you Nancy? I'm glad the move is done... you've had a busy couple of weeks between that and helping friends move. Make sure you take some time for yourself to re-energize.

Meta - You have .2 up on me! Congrats... but you've come SO far! You must feel amazing... What kinda skirt was it? I know what you mean about feeling girly for once. I'm just starting to get glimpses of that too been wearing some more form fitting shirts and even though "they" are smaller my stomach is also smaller so they look bigger. Does make one feel a wee more feminine. Husband approves anyway. Heh.

Ammi - sounds like you're feeling more positive this month. I'm glad!

Hippie - yeah fatigue makes me less motivated too. I know it sounds counter intuitive but when i feel like that and I know its not my body saying something I actually exercise. Somehow that gives me more energy and avoid the pizza trap.

DogP - 7lbs wow! Gotta love weeks like that...

rat - Glad you found a good alternative to biking... and hey if you miss biking too much there is spinning which is surprisingly fun! You don't have to get weekly training sesson if you can't afford it. I used to meet up with one every 4-6 weeks or so a few years back and we would alter my plan each time as needed.

Battle - new glasses for the new you. Congrats on this weeks loss! I love your new Icon BTW.

Debbie - I kep 'testing' myself with bringing things home. For the most part it ends up being not a good idea, but I have noticed my behavior with some things has changed so it's worth testing the waters now and then.

Princess - Wow another fascinating job you must give us a list of all the cool ones you've had! NSV... hmm... well I did some 'advanced' tapes from the turbo Jam series, wore a shirt I bought last year that i never wore before because it was too small, and here on 3FC we did a Biggest Loser challenge on the Red Team and I got to the 500# first.

Crime - Jump away. I'm still testing the waters! Heh.

Hi everyone! WELCOME NEW LADIES!xxxxx
Lost 8lbs this week which was annoying as after 4 days the scales showed this loss but as TOM has FINALLY started so that might explain it. I'm not up to many personals, my head is killing me & I feel quite faint. The Dr gave me some traxamic (sp?) acid to minimise my 'loss' so I hope I'll feel better soon.
Story, I know how you feel with the skin, my upper arms in particular are quite awful & all my clothes have at least elbow length sleeves. I's something we have to put up with for a while as we lose, at least once we are at a 'healthy' weight we can look into surgery if finances allow. Zelma who used to come on here a lot lost loads & thought of her skin as her 'badge of honour'.xxxxxxx
I'll try & do personals soon,
xxxsharon

muse -- Just wanted to pop on and quickly say CONGRATS on that milestone!! I remember being just where you are and feeling so strong and solid about what I was doing! Just keep going!!!!!!!

Sharon -- Congrats on the loss, too! Good to see you posting regularly.

I have inherited Sharon's headache, so this is short today!!!

Hello All,

OK it’s now Tuesday and I am feeling so great. I have a lovely clean house thanks to doing all the work on Sunday. I am catching up with my emails slowly but surely, but best of all I feel like the old me when it comes to being OP. I am not quite strong enough to go near the scales yet, but I had a thought while I was exercising. I love to see the numbers going down, but I have to remember that all the exercise I do is toning my body up, and that in itself is going to help me fit onto those rides. So if the scales give me a nice result before I go away then great, but more importantly I want to see my clothes fitting that bit looser

BattleAx - wow another 2 lbs down, that’s great news Maybe your body will surprise you and carry on losing rather than come to a standstill for a little while

That’s great that you got new ‘skinny’ glasses. I don’t think it’s strange at all that you are changing your glasses as you lose your weight. It’s like me, I changed my hair! I went from long, to a little shorter, to a lot shorter to SHORT. I don’t think I’ll go any shorter now

Catherine - I know what you mean about being tired, and having nothing planned being a time when you are more likely to eat what you shouldn’t. If I have a big day out the last thing I want to do when I get home is cook, so that’s when I tend to do what you did, have pizza, or something quick. I find that if I’m able to, and am being 100% OP if I prepare myself a meal the day before and put it in the fridge, then coming in after a day out to find that meal there waiting is a godsend.

Annie - I am sorry you are feeling poorly, colds are really the pits, do you have a cough or sneeze with it? I hope it doesn’t hurt when you do either I was terrified for months after my surgery to cough because I knew it would hurt, in fact sometimes it still does. I think I have scar adhesions and when I cough or sneeze it feels like they are tearing apart. I sure hope you never experience that! Feel better soon my friend. I wish I could send you some of my home made stew to help with your recovery. It’s easily liquidized so it’s a soup you could have a teaspoon or two of

on another 7 lbs down, with the way your are going you will be out of the 300s by Christmas

RK - for the dry day vibes for when I go to the theme park. I am sure that in all the hours we are going to be there that it’s bound to be dry at least some of the time

As for the wasps, lol about the humming. I promise to be careful. Last year we had some migrating wasps use our roof as a resting spot. Talk about horrendous. It was one of our unusually hot summers and we had the windows open and in day we had about 15 wasps fly in. I thought it was rather odd, so it wasn’t much of a surprise when a neighbour pointed out that most of half or our roof was covered with wasps!!! I rang the environmental health people, they assured me the bees would be gone by the morning and to just stay indoors and keep the windows shut. Not nice on a hot day, but nicer than having all those wasps making an unwelcome visit And yep they did go by the next morning.

Good for you for joining a gym, I hope you’ll really enjoy going there, although I think I would be too tempted to spend all my time in the hot tub

Peggy - I am glad you didn’t end up having to go to the ER and that your week has started off so well. I hope it continues on that way

Debbie - I know you didn’t make what you consider good food choices with the cheese dip and chips, but I kind of think you did. You kept them in your calorie limit and you had something you really wanted. You didn’t sit there getting resentful wishing you could have them, and then say ‘oh well’ and then binged on them. Just in case you aren’t so strong the next time you want a little of what you fancy though, I’d say keep them foods out of the house for now

with you holding on to all that rain for me I am sure to have a dry visit to the amusement park. We’ll be there on the 31st, so you think you can hold on to it for that long

Luan - great news about losing some more lbs. As soon as you get on track you really do get going and those lbs fly off

Great news about the job offer on that cooking show. Just make sure you don’t eat any of the lovely food they are bound to be cooking up What would be so cool would be a cooking show that only showed how to cook WW meals, or at least calorie counted, low fat meals. That would definitely be worth watching

Crime Girl - hi and Of course you are welcome to join us and post away You have definitely found the best place to be when you are dieting

Story - what a great idea to have those popsicles there ready for those days when you want to eat everything you can. I’m like that with my stash of sugar free jello, I love knowing I can eat that whenever I want, just a shame I can’t add a big scoop of ice cream with it

I’m sorry you are hovering now with the weight, but hang in there. You’ll get on the scales soon enough and see you have dropped past that 358 and are closer to 350 It’s a good idea too to increase your walking a little. Do you walk outdoors, or do the Walk Away the Pounds videos. I do the latter, and love them. I especially love the newer ones where you can also incorporate using hand weights. Any help to tone that under arm flab is always welcome

Idealmuse - that is fantastic that you have gone past 50 lbs lost. You have proven to yourself you can do it, and now you can keep on losing the lbs. I was exactly like that when I was at 30 lbs. Prior to this diet I had never lost more than 30 lbs, I would just gain it all back and a more besides. So when I hit 31 lbs, then 40, then 50 lbs and so on I was just so thrilled. It’s amazing to pass a barrier, and I am so happy for you that you have just passed yours

I know what you mean about nearly crying during your work out too. I often well up when I am exercising, and I feel so happy that I can and am doing something to change my life for the better. When I think how ill I was before, and how my weight was disabling me and then I think of what I can do now, I can’t help but feel those tears well up. But during a work out it is a bit inconvenient

Sharon - on the 8 lbs lost. I’ll catch you later on MSN, I hope those new meds are helping you to feel better

Heather - sorry that you have a headache. They seem to be going around today. I had one earlier, but I had an old lady nap and feel much better now.

I best run, I need to go make lunch and my tummy is grumbling because I should have fed it 15 minutes ago I hope everybody is keeping well, and JOHN where are you??

Hugs,

Ammi

Morning all! Another nice cool Fall day here and I am loving it. I have my doctor's appointment this afternoon. That nurse better not tell me I weigh 50 lbs more than I do again...or it might get ugly!!

I am feeling good and this might be TMI, but gosh I am visiting the bathroom ALOT. I feel like my body is getting rid of a bunch of retained water. Maybe it will set off a WOOSH for next week's weigh in?!?! One can only hope!

Have a great day everyone. Will report back after the docs!

Hello all!

Story, you'll stop hovering soon enough since you are taking action to nip it in the bud. Lawd, I have skin issues. Right now, my fat issues are higher up on the priority list. hehe.

Muse, so great about your 2 victories!!!! w00h00! -50+ milestone and 1/3rd gone! I am going to try to do this gym stuff everyone is talking about. I do cycling, but it's a lone sport and I'm not much for public exercising. I wanna get so reved up in a workout I wanna cry!!!

Luan, wow about the producing job. You go girl!

Debbie, hang in there. I did the same thing and brought a pint of ice cream home due to preTOM cravings. Bleh. Not a good idea. We can do this!!

Battle, w00h00, new glasses! I have seen those hills over there in CA. I've heard stories about that one. Gratz on getting there!

Sharon, gratz on the loss! Sorry your head is on crooked. Hopefully, today is better.

Ut oh Heather! I think the roving headaches are due to weather changes and the "fall stress" Don't worry, it'll be over by the time we make our New Year's resolutions.. hehe.

Ammi, eep about the roving wasps!!! See? All that exercising humming got them to park on your rooftop.. hahaha.

Tori, ER? I hope you are feeling better. What is this about the nurse trying to add 50 lbs to your total? Thems a'fighting words! Oh, I have days where all I do is run to the potty. The scale DOES show the results. No clue as to why my body does this randomly. I've tried figuring it what it was linked to .. was it food? exercise? fluids I drank? inflammation? TOM? Any one given day at least 2 of those things are in play.

Welcome CrimeGirl!! This a great place for support.

John, where o where art thou?!

Ok.. off to my 10:30a meeting.

Will post more later about my new gym exploits!! I'm scart and excited at the same time... w00h00.

Luv,
Ratkity

Hi,
The program I am doing requires me to have a coach, someone with whom I can discuss problems, brainstorm strategies, check in on progress. If anyone is interested please reply. Thanks,

Hey Yertle, I'm interested.

Storey: Sorry that you are not loving the skin on your body. I hear ya. Under my arms looks horrid. I hope all this weigh lifting and swimming will tone them up a bit more. I realize most of it will be extra skin which I am saving to have removed. Hang in there sweetie.

Ideal: Yipee to reaching 50 pounds lost. I am so happy for you and to know that you are 1/3 of the way to goal too is awesome.

Sharon: Great job loosing 8 pounds this week. You are doing fantastic. Sorry about the headache. Hope it goes soon.

Heather: Hugs to you too on your headache. It must be something in the air. I woke with one yesterday and my DH had a bad one today. Hope yours goes soon.

Ammi: My cold came equipt with tons of sneezing and a bit of coughing. lol. I am feeling much better just weak. I am not going to be doing any exercising today either except for walking like yesterday. I need to learn to be kind to my body. It is hard to not feel guilty because I'm not working out but I need to let my body rest. LOL. I can't even imagine being out of the 300's! Being out of the 5's forever was a huge deal. Being out of the 4's was even bigger. I haven't been under 300 pounds since, well 1989 I think. Wow. that has been almost 20 years that I have been above 300 pounds. What a thought. I will have to meditate and ponder on that today. lol.

Peggy: I hope all goes well at the Dr. today for you and your weigh in is excellent.

Well, I'm off to jump in the shower. I bought some lovely Pumpkin smelling body wash and lotion at Bath and Body Works last night. I already have some pumpkin shampoo so, I will be smelling like a pumpkin pie today. lol. I have to go get my blood drawn to check my potassium level. I am praying that I won't have to take it anymore. That would be such a triumph for me. I already have a charm for my bracelet for when I don't have to take it. It is a monkey with a banana. I thought that would be a great one to remind me of that old potassium life as soon as I reach my goal closest to no potassium. lol.

I hope you all have a great op, headacheless day.

Blessings,
Annie

Hello All!! I am so happy I found this website and support forum!!! This is my first time ever committing to a lifestyle change as far as my weight and eating habits are concerned. I joined WW last Friday, and I am nervous, anxious, and determined. I really want to feel better and spend more active time with my three children. Good luck to everone here. Thanks for having me!!

Back from the Doctor. The nurse this time weighed me and started the weight at the 200 slot on the scale. I told her "Aren't you sweet, but slide that up to 250 to start." LOL! My scale is still the same as the Doc's which is good. Doc was *thrilled* with how well I am doing with losing weight. She is stumped as to why I am exhausted, but wants me to feel good again. She said that perhaps it was time to refer me to an endo (great minds think alike!) so I will be scheduling that appointment as soon as we get our new insurance cards....hubby just changed jobs. So thats a good thing.

Dinner tonight is a crockpot beef and broccoli recipe with brown rice. YUM!

Ulovelee: Welcome. Glad to have you hear and see your enthusiasm. I think you sound like you are off to a great start. WW is a good program if you follow it the way you should. I recommend going to the meetings as often as you can. I sure learned a bunch from them.

Peggy: So glad that the Dr. was happy with you. I hope they find the problem making you tired ASAP.

Well, I went all around this area today looking for someone to take in the little night lights that my mom and dad are making. I have one place that may be interested in them but I have to go back Thursday to find out for sure or not. I shopped till I dropped. lol. Hope you are all enjoying the fall weather.

Blessings,
Annie

Hi everyone,

After a good day yesterday, I went crazy in the evening. A giant bowl of popcorn with butter, a big tub of mashed potatoes with butter, lots of chocolate. I'm chalking it up to PMS, and am back on plan today with no problem. No biggie. It's a relief to know that I have my days when I overeat, but they do not ruin me and all my efforts. If I'm doing well with eating most of the time, I'm doing well. This perspective is a total change for me, and it's changing my life.


Muse: Congrats! 50+ lbs. is a huge accomplishment. I can relate about getting all teary--I get very emotional on and off about the weight loss journey.

Sharon: Big congrats on losing 8 lbs. I hope you feel better soon.

Annie: What a great idea. Monkey with banana. How does your weight affect your potassium level?

Ulovee: Welcome. You can do this.

Peggy: I know I am about to lose some weight when I spend 1-2 days constantly having to go to the bathroom. It's been my pattern all along. This past Friday and Saturday I went nonstop, and by Monday had lost 6 lbs (after 3 weeks of no loss). I hope you are tinkling away the pounds too!