BarbPa Maybe we share more than a name!!! I to am terribly fustrated, depresssed, and just plain mad!! I've drank my water, exercised, made great food choices, and not eaten things I really wanted!!! I've journaled, I've posted and I've pasted feathers on my http://home.ripway.com/2004-11/20039...ng/bturkey.gif like it was going out of style. And what did I want out of this? Just 2 little pounds! I wasn't asking for the impossible,I just wanted to make the 2 pound challange for a change. But unless I have a unexpected visit form the whoosh fairy http://home.ripway.com/2004-11/20039...iry_clip02.gif "It ain't gonna happen!!!" And like you I know that it's just a number, but I don't have any of the other perks that's supposed to take the place of the numbers going down. My clothes are still tight,and getting tighter, I still have no energy, my skins not getting smoother, NOTHING... NADA...NIL
Oh well,we can't give up. if I did I'd be up to 500pounds!!! Ugggggh!

Can I say something ?
 

Gee... I don't know if I have the right to post here or not.
I feel like I am intruding since I have never posted here before.
BUT... when I read Barbs post I just felted overwhelmed to write.
I know Barb, you have already stated you aren't giving up... and I am proud of you for that. But I still have to say it. Maybe more for ME than for you or anyone else. Maybe I am really writing this for ME and not any of you. I only know I have to say it. Forgive me if I offend anyone. '
Remember it is just my opinion ... my conviction....and that does NOT make it fact.
But also remember... it comes from my heart.

BARB and anyone else struggling with disappointment in your progress.

:coach: YOU CAN'T STOP NOW !!!! :coach:

When we started this little TURKEY event it was to get us EXCITED about the journey again. We ALL held high hopes for a loss at the END of this little contest/ competition/ tool. It was only 3 weeks and we knew we could at least do our best for 3 weeks. We even had an advantage of our 2 lbs in 2 weeks challenge.

I witnessed the EXCITEMENT that stirred on these pages. :cb:
I witnessed many of us doing MORE than we had done for YEARS. :tread:
I witnesseed the JOY and Happiness of MANY here. :flow2:

Ladies... it has only been 11 days. PLEASE don't get discouraged.
PLEASE hang on to that enthusiasm !!!
PLEASE don't let a weigh in today ruin your tomorrows.

If I had told you BEFORE we began that if you followed your Turkey's commands you could lose an average of a pound a week ... thus losing 52 lbs in a year.... you would all have been happy little pidgeons. :cp: You would show the enthusiasm that you have shown for the last 11 days.

But after 11 days... then tell you that you would have to do it for the 52 weeks to get that "average" ..... would you QUIT ??? Would you give up the 52 lbs ???
Was it REALLY sooooo hard that it is NOT WORTH CONTINUING ???

YES.. sometimes we get screwed in this effor to lose weight.
Sometimes it just plain ISN'T FAIR !!!
But if it is a day of disappointment for some ... then remember it has only been 14 days of the original challenge. Only 11 days of the commitment to the COMMANDO TURKEY.
11 days... don't give up !!!

I know.. some of you are saying... IT has been 11 years or more..... BUT .... were you truly committed to staying on your program for those 11 years ??
Let's give this true committment more than 11 days before we throw in any towels.
Let's maybe post your food you ate the last 11 days so the rest of us can see where we can help with ideas.
Let's join hands... lock arms together and WIN this damn battle with FAT once and for all. :drill:
Don't give up... get mad and say ...
" MR COMMANDO TURKEY ... I am taking you ON... me and my fellow chicks."

Ladies... WE CAN DO IT !!!! WE WILL DO IT ... if we don't give up.

I just need to stick my 2 cents in here too for what its worth! Everyone's body is different and reacts different ways to water, exercise, food etc. Like 2Cute says YOU CAN'T GIVE UP NOW! Maybe you are thinking your food is good because its better than you have done in the past, but are you truly weighing and measuring your foods or counting true calories? or doing whatever your food plan entails? I know sometimes I think I am having only a 5 pt meal but when I get back to weighing and measuring my portion size has somehow grown bigger so I am getting more calories and losing slower or not at all. Also, when you start exercising alot, your muscles grow and muscle weighs more than fat. Keep trucking and let your body adjust and you will begin to lose again...just DON'T GIVE UP! We will never lose weight if we give up!

So with that said...heres to the beginning of my weekly weigh-ins! I wont' give up no matter what!!


Highest beginning weight: 326

11/12/04 - 319.2

OH NO! :no:

I am NOT giving up! You are not getting rid of me!!!!!! I was just very frustrated on Friday when I got on the scale!!! I know what I need to do to get this weight off and I also know I need to work harder! I need to focus on getting through one day at a time! I must get my priorities in order and my health is a BIG priority!

Thanks for giving me your 2 cents worth! It's worth gold in my book! I love you gals!

:grouphug:
Barb

I'm not giving up either!!! But I am fustrated. I am disappointed, And if I didn't have this :censored: disease and could make tears, I'd cry.

In fact I feel like a good cry would make me feel better all over, but alas, as 2cute said, Life isn't Fair, and not olny can't I lose weight, I can't even cry about it. SSoooo... I come in here and rant and whine.


But give up???? Never... In fact I was at a bookstore yesterday and bought a new book. It's called "Weight Loss Kit" for Dummies" !!! It's supposed to start back at the very basics. The first chapeter is How Do You Know You're Fat (DUH,,, I look in the mirror!) and goes on to talk about and explain all different facets of weight loss. Maybe one day I'll even read it!

1st Jan 2004 - 380.3 lbs (172.5 kg)
1st Nov - 345.9 lbs
15th Nov - 343.3 lbs (down 2.6 lbs)

Yes I am smiling! This is the lowest I've been in about 6 or 7 years!

Leanne

8/9: 308.5 (hips 65.5)
8/16: 307 / 65.5
8/23: 306 / 65
8/30: 306 / 65
9/6: 299.5 / 64.5
9/13: 304 / 65
9/27: 305
HIATUS....
11/1: 307 / 65 RESOLVING TO RENEW THE DOWNWARD TREND....
11/8: 306.5 / 65 better than nothing.... oh I want that 99 back.
11/15: 299 / 64.... 1st mini-goal achieved :) :)

Barb, Barb, HANG IN THERE (as Barb says). 2cute, thanks for bringing the commando turkey along. Leaps aren't impossible, although I thought they were 2 weeks ago. And thanks everyone for helping me keep going when I was despondent.

6/28/04:271.5
7/05/04:266.5
7/12/04:264
7/19/04:266
8/02/04:266.5
8/16/04:264
8/31/04:261
9/05/04 264.5
9/18/04:264
9/24/04:261
10/01/04:265
10/31/04:270 *ouch!*
11/15/04:267.5

Starting Weight: 230
(ticker will be updated each Friday)

11/12/04: 228.2
11/15/04: 227 (2 lbs. in 2 weeks challenge...starting weight) :D

I guess I'm not doing as badly as I thought. I logged my weight yesterday into a computer program I've used off and on for several years and when I looked at the graph for the last two month it is slowly but surely going downward. I am actually down 7 pounds from what I was on Sept 16 which was only two months ago. (I won't tell you I'm still up 7 pounds from the first of this year) NOW IS WHAT MATTERS!

So I'm starting here:
9/16/04 294
10/16/04 291
11/16/04 288

http://home.ripway.com/2004-11/20039...arbgDoll96.gif

Reporting in!!!! :write:

Starting again weight: 240 (middle of August) :cry:

10/01/04 233.5 2Lb Challange
10/06/04 233.5 Weigh in Wednesday
10/13/04 233 Weigh in Wednesday
10/15/04 231.5 2Lb Challange DOWN 2
11/04/04 232 Weigh in Thursday
11/11/04 232.5 Weigh in Thursday :mad:
11/18/04 231.5 Weigh in Thursday:

Measurements
10/13/04 -1 inch
10/27/04 -1 1/2
11/04/04 -1 1/2 inch
11/11/04 -1 1/2
11/18/04 -1/2 inch

Workout Minutes: :tread:
10/06/04 192
10/13/04 167
10/15/04 187
11/04/04 249
11/11/04 174
11/18/04 249

Starting Weight: 230
(ticker will be updated each Friday)

11/12/04: 228.2
11/15/04: 227 (2 lbs. in 2 weeks challenge...starting weight)
11/19/04: 227 (down 1.2 from last Friday) :D

Starting again weight: 300 (7/20/04) :o
WEIGH INS:
7/20/04: 300
7/23/04: 296
7/30/04: 298
8/5/04: 296.2
8/13/04: 299
8/20/04: 297.6
9/3/04: 295.8
9/11/04: 295.8
9/14/04: 296.2
9/24/04: 297
9/30/04: 294 :) (Goal: 292 by 10/14, will be out of town on 10/15)
10/8/04: 296.2 :( TOM was in town this week.
11/5/04: 300.4 :mad:
11/12/04: 301.2 *&%# :?: :fr: :sp:
11/19/04: 298.6 :)

2.6 GONE this week! :) :D :) :D

Congrats, BarbPA!!!!!


For all you losers this week!!!!
:cb: :dance: :flow2: :encore: :cheers: :cheer: