I keep thinking about how I have to love what I am doing because not only will this take quite awhile to do, it really is for life. It is also funny how I keep cycling back to it. The important part is making that cycle shorter and shorter until it happens almost instantly. I don't think it will ever be entirely intuitive, but I can hold out hope for that too.
This is so true. I occasionally consider one of those mail-order sorts of diets, if only to make things easier on me, but I do not see how I would be able to eat powdered food, nor do I think I would be able to maintain that sort of weight loss.
Laura - hello! congrats on your loss so far! I think some of the heat is really relative. Right now the 80s feel positively comfortable, but I imagine in the pacific NW you have a good deal of humidity to make the 80s feel warmer.
Heather, I live in a fairly small town. There is one small community garden with a long waiting list, but they do seem like such fun places - with the bonus that you will not bring your bug/soil problems with you. One hopes. I have Japanese beetles in my yard now, but I think you are right, my usual fungus/yellow spot/other plant diseases are probably not as bad because it has not rained as much as it sometimes does.
dgramie, I am going to try that with my hosta, too! I just have the one the one, and it is blooming right now. But we have been a few degrees cooler than you have.
I had a good day. Am watching the weather, if it looks like it will be nice this weekend, I will be going away for a couple of days. Hopefully for a day of hiking (well, the sort that stays on the nice, 1/2 to 2 mile well-traveled trails to waterfalls sort of hiking. Not the serious stuff) and a visit to Lilyfest - an art and garden festival. Hopefully the heat has not scorched the gardens too badly.
hello everyone.
i hope everyone is having a good day. im just enjoying my day off, was hoping to go to the beach but it appears to be storms all day. YUCK!
I'MNOTPERFECT24 ~ congrats on the good workout; hey, just keep going -- eventually, the scale will have to budge. Watch your salt intake too ...
Welcome back, NANCY ~ I remember you ...
LAURA ~ I feel sorry for those with over 100 F heat too. We were spoiled with the 70's this week, but that will change soon to about 90 F. That is so strange for us since we live in Northern Canada??? What is going on in this world? I think I'd better pray much harder ...
B REX ~ hope you got to enjoy the beach today ...
DeGramie ~ I've cut mine back too; and they keep coming back again & again & again ...
MRS RALPHIE ~ best wishes to your DH and his store ...
Welcome, MARSHA ~ glad you joined us here ...
MEM ~ hope the gardens were still nice; my flowers are hanging in there, but I am watering in the early AM to help them out.
HEATHER ~ hope you are keepin' cool down there ...
We planted our gooseberry bushes today; and have the holes ready for the high-bush blueberry bushes tomorrow AM. Then we'll be done finally. We had been waiting for some sand to be delivered, but are gonna plant them before they get pot bound.
After a stressful week, I had a munchy kind of weekend; but was able to keep the daily calorie caps on (thank goodness). Monday was really good, and today is OK as well. Happy about that. Think I will turn in early as I was up at 6 Am doing laundry, etc.
Have a great week ladies and gents (BigMike) ...
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I have company coming tomorrow so today will be spent cleaning and stuff. We always have so much fun when she comes and I am so excited. We live an hour apart and raised our kids like family. When the kids were young we moved to a town where she was the only person I knew. We have great memories together.
I exercised yesterday and it felt good. Plan on doing it again today and getting some outside stuff done also today.
Food today should be fine but tomorrow will include a meal out and I will have to be careful but I have a plan or two in place to keep me on track.
I babysit today and then have the week off till monday.
I've been meandering around the site, trying to figure out if there was a group that I felt like I would be more comfortable turning to for support..
I do believe I have found it...
I am currently sitting on the couch with intense hip pain..I think I pushed too far today in my walk. It's frustrating for me..my mind wants so badly for my body to live up to its expectations. I need to wrap my head around the notion that what I did today was further than what I did yesterday and definitely was more than the day before.
I look forward to continuing to check in with all of you...I've finally realized that this journey I am on is not one that will be successful alone
I hate when my brother comes to stay with us.. He stresses me out so bad I just want to go and mess up on my diet.. It's bad.
He's partly the reason I'm here in the first place (Yes I know it's mainly my fault because I'm the one who ate and ate and ate) but because of him and his drug addiction I was left in the background so that's why I am the way I am..Anyway long story short.. By him being here it makes me want to eat and eat and eat.. Eating was and is my comfort. UGH I need help!
I'm up a couple lbs to because my dad and I got into a major fight yesterday and food, as always, was there to comfort me. UGH why do I let myself do this.
And here I think I'm going to be a good Social Worker to help other people when I cant even help myself.
NotPerfect - sometimes that 'hovering' is from hormone-cycle related weight loss. Don't let it get you down! Though if I feel like I'm 'hovering' too long, I do take another look at what I'm eating. That's how I forced myself to start counting croutons rather than just dumping them on my salad.
Congrats on the work-out, though!
Let me give you some encouragement, though - first of all, the work that you do as a Social Worker has nothing to do with your weight or how you eat. Everyone has problems, and they are emotional and difficult to deal with when you are in the middle of them.
If you are in school, you might be able to see a therapist at University without cost, and I might consider that.
I am lucky now: I live by myself. I don't have anything in the house that I don't want in the house, so when I have emotional/snackhappy moments, it is harder to dive in. Find alternate ways of relieving pressure, maybe. Plan to go outside and walk around the block once or twice next time you and your dad have a fight. Pinky swear?
Rosebud - wow, you have so many berries, and are doing so much work in the yard, still! I am done, except for watering. Well, and some maintenance things.
wondersha - so sorry you are in pain. It is so tough when we make the effort and then have to deal with the aftermath. Maybe try something less strenuous for a few days?
dgramie - I hope you enjoy your company!
I am definitely taking tomorrow off and going hiking. It is unfortunately supposed to rain later in the afternoon, so I hope to leave early so that we can do some of the trails before the rains come. I am disappointed, but I suppose I can go shopping instead of hiking, too. And the hotel has an indoor pool.
I am going to pack lunch for a couple of days; will have to be careful with dinner, but the town we are going to has lots of organic / localvore restaurants, so hopefully we should find something that works.
Wonder – Welcome! Feeling like you want to do more and feeling limited is so frustrating! It is good to have things to work towards though.
ImNotPerfect – Don’t be so hard on yourself. You are having a rough time and you are using the best coping mechanism you have known for most of your life to make yourself feel better, which is food. What you need are better coping mechanisms. Unfortunately, food isn’t a great choice because in the long run it doesn’t really make you feel better. What are other ways you can take care of yourself that don’t involve food?
Speaking of feeling frustrated, my belly dance teacher is doing a weekend retreat in September. I would love to go, but I just can’t imagine that in two months I can have the stamina needed to dance for three days in a row, with at least one day being 7-8 hours of dancing. I suppose I can see how I am feeling at the start of September if she still has slots available. At the same time, I am amazed I am even contemplating this at all. I can forget how far I have come from when I could barely walk for 15 minutes without hurting.
WONDER ~ I have this bad habit of over-doing something and ending up in pain, and just like NANCY mentioned, I remember when I couldn't walk very far as I was in pain too. Hey, sometimes, I was balling my eyes out and ^praying^ very hard to have the strength to get back home again; but I made it ...
Just do a little bit each day; and add a few yards each day. A little bit every day is better than overdoing it and having to stop completely becuz you injured yourself. Hey, this is advice to myself too, as I overdid it this AM pruning bushes; so will be resting for a day at least!
MNEM ~ we got the high-bush blueberry bushes in; the last of them (phew). Hey, I have a berry on my blackberrry bush already. My cherry tomato plants are doing great and they taste quite flavorful.
NOTPERFECT ~ we have all had those moments; trust me. Yes, maybe go for a walk after a spat with Dad or anyone else. I took social work too; one thing isn't really related to the other unless you plan to counsel weightloss some day. There are really so many different jobs that a social worker may end up doing, you'd be surprised. Drug addiction is a tough problem to overcome, just like overeating is. Can you avoid your brother -- like stay in your room to study, or go out for walks (just to limit any confrontational contact, I mean)?
My eating has been better this week; am glad for that. The temps were OK today -- 83 F with a nice breeze. Yeah, hope they are wrong about Friday & Saturday too. Just having something light for dinner tonight.
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I haven't been here in such a long time--since May 26, 2011 in fact. I am so bummed out and depressed because I was doing so well...for those of you who don't know me or don't remember, I began my weight loss journey at 357 lbs. and I lost 130 lbs. I was so happy and so proud of myself. Well life happened and because I guess I never really "worked through" why I over eat--I have gained all of that weight back PLUS some...I weighed in at the Weight Watchers meeting at 380.8 lbs. So I've been thinking about why I was successful before and honestly--this forum is what was the most inspirational and helpful for me. So I'm back and I'm setting this as my home page and I will be here every day to kick myself in the butt and start losing again.
Sadly I'm having a few problems where I can't really work out right now. I hurt my back lifting something at work so I can really only stand about 10-15 minutes at a time right now. Luckily I'm going to see a physical therapist on Monday so I'm hoping that I can start on the treadmill at least. Heck--even the dreaded bike if I have to. I hate stationary bikes. =P So, I'll go read and catch up over the next few days and I can and will start eating right in the morning. Only because it's 10:43 at night here so today is mostly gone or else I'd start today. I've been doing "okay" but not great...
dolfingirl2000 it takes so much courage to get back"on the horse" as it were!
I have yo yo yo yo yo yo dieted since I was 13, always putting on more than I lost like a bonus for playing but not in a good way!
This time I have identified that it was my "all or nothing" attitude that was my downfall. 1200 calories or megabinge, exercising til I dropped every day or sat on the sofa!
Well I am older, fatter and have more health problems that mean this approach is simply not possible.
I have a long way to go but in my head I feel different. 15 minutes is better than nothing, if I go slightly off plan for a day or 2 for whatever reason I can go back on it. It is the knowledge that I finally have some control over my emotional eating that takes away the fear of losing control. Can't say I am totally fixed when it comes to my attitude towards food/exercise but I feel very much better.
All of that me me me stuff is a way of saying there is NO reason why you won't be successful this time. I wish you luck and look forward to us all sharing your triumphs!
HEATHER ~ hope you are keepin' cool down there ...
so glad you posted!
WONDER ~ I have this bad habit of over-doing something and ending up in pain, and just like NANCY mentioned, I remember when I couldn't walk very far as I was in pain too. Hey, sometimes, I was balling my eyes out and ^praying^ very hard to have the strength to get back home again; but I made it ... 
I haven't been here in such a long time--since May 26, 2011 in fact. I am so bummed out and depressed because I was doing so well...for those of you who don't know me or don't remember, I began my weight loss journey at 357 lbs. and I lost 130 lbs. I was so happy and so proud of myself. Well life happened and because I guess I never really "worked through" why I over eat--I have gained all of that weight back PLUS some...I weighed in at the Weight Watchers meeting at 380.8 lbs. So I've been thinking about why I was successful before and honestly--this forum is what was the most inspirational and helpful for me. So I'm back and I'm setting this as my home page and I will be here every day to kick myself in the butt and start losing again. 
