Hi Everyone!
I am back from my medical leave and doing OK...
I have maintained my loss and am very excited to lose more! I am starting to exercise! I am amazed at how much more I can do and how energized it makes me feel. This is new to me. Exercise always exhausted me and made me so hungry. This did not have anything to do with my medical issues. I think I have just lost enough weight so it is not so stressful on my body. Plus I got an attitude adjustment on the exercise thinking.
I am so glad to be back and have the support of everyone and hopefully I can encourage others. I missed you!
Have a good day!
Just checking in, have no time between traveling and school. Went to Philly last weekend to visit my sister in law and my niece for her third birthday. I haven't lost anything substantial in almost 2 months at this point and am on the brink of just saying screw it. It's supposed to be mathematically impossible to not lose weight when you cut your caloric intake down. My body obviously likes being fat. So **** it.
Hi Everyone!
Jane, it is so good to see you again!
Wheezypi, hang in there. Kaplods who is on 3FC always says if we can maintain we are still ahead of the game. If you throw in the towel we all know what happens. Do you really want to gain it all back plus some? We have all been there and we are here for you now. Stay with us!!!
Good morning from what is soon to become the extremely rainy NW (that's as opposed to just the normally rainy NW).
Jane -- glad your birthday improved and you got to spend time with your nephews. You sound as though they are just the light in your life (as are mine). Hope you like the new yoga teacher.
UBEE-- Welcome back! Good to know you're back from leave and were able to maintain your loss. Good for you and good for getting in the right frame of mind on the exercise.
Wheezypi -- hang in there. Yes, it sometimes feels as though it would be easier to just chuck it, but we all hit plateaus and get stuck. If the thought of dieting and trying to lose weight and seeing the scale just sit there is bumming you out, then just work on the maintaining. Keep doing what you're doing only think of it as maintaining instead of trying to lose. One morning you'll weigh in and the scale will have shifted downwards.
I'm in the midst of getting all of the apples from my two dwarf trees (about 3 bushels) made up into applesauce and pie filling mix. They're so sweet that they don't even need sugar although I'll use some Splenda in the pie filling mix. I don't actually make pies, but use the pie filling over my low carb pancakes, my half cup of ice cream when I want a treat and even over cottage cheese. I've also made pesto and deyhydrated tomatoes, cut up the bell peppers, and have blanched and frozen enough green beans to last well into next year. I feel like a pioneer woman on the prairie......only with a freezer! It's a lot of work, but I figure I've saved several hundred dollars in food between this and what I canned earlier in the summer.
Wheezy It's really frustrating, I know. Hang in there!
Betsey My nephews really are the light of my life. I dread when they're older and I'm not the coolest thing in their world. They're 4, 3 and 18 months right now, and they're just amazing kids.
I'm down another 1.1 today, but I'm still nearly 3 pounds from last week's low. However, I'm down 2.9 from the 13th, so It's nice to know that I'm not gaining.
I've got some Lotte Berk method dvd's that I'm going to try for exercise this weekend. At least that's my intention. I have a lot of dvds that never get any use. I'm tired of using my floor (Or lack of one) as an excuse though, so I'm going to sneak in to my office and try them out. I love swimming, but I want to have a back up.
Wanted to pop back in.
Wheezypi, after my last post I was reading something...and it brought up how cortisol from stress can stall your process. Stay the course you can do this!
Betsy, glad to see you! I see you are still as busy as ever.
Jane, my nephews are almost all grown and still think I am cool for an old auntie. Please let us know what you think of those videos. It is a dream of mine to become flexible.
It feels so good to be back!
Saturday morning so it's time for my phone chat with a dear friend in NC. We've been doing this almost every Saturday morning for 8 years now. But first, chatting with my online friends.
Jane -- My first set of nephews are grown now, but one of them has two boys who are 6 and 3 (this week!). It's so much fun to be around them -- definitely add so much to my life.
Ubee -- It's great to have you back. We missed you!
Have any of you noticed that when you're happy it's so much easier to stay on plan and lose? I'm not talking about the every day kind of just being a basically happy person. I'm talking about that kind of happy that must be close to euphoria -- like when you're in a new relationship that seems wonderful or you've just made a life changing event and it's everything and more that you thought it would be. Wish there were a way to capture that.....although then how would we know that the feeling was so special. I just noticed that when I'm happy, it's a lot easier to stay on plan and then get happiness from just doing that. I need to think about this some more.
Hi Everyone!
Betsy, it does seem easier to stay on plan when I am happy. Sometimes when I am happy though I get that life is good, live (eat) a little attitude.
Yesterday when I was tempted I told myself "Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels." Well I took a taste... it was good. If that saying is true, being thin must feel really good. I wouldn't know. I did decide that saying is not a good one for me.
Today I will try to remember to take it one day at a time.
Ubee, my quote that I've had to do away with is where I rationalized my overeating by saying that giving up cigarettes was easy compared to losing weight because you can't just stop eating. I finally came to realize that you can stop eating the crap and carbs and processed foods and stuff that you know is keeping you from losing weight. I've decided to start a list of foods that I will consider to be in the same category as cigarettes or drugs or excessive alcohol, etc.
I've got a whoosh going on. I love whooshes. I even am happy when I have to think to where the next bathroom is when I go into town for shopping.
