We are a group of individuals who weigh or have weighed 300+, or near there. This group was formed to provide a place for others like us to find support and hope. We are aware of the distinct problems that come with weighing over 300 lbs.
We want to invite everyone to join us in our journey.
We share laughter and tears.
We share what works for us and what doesn't.
We often use a "Topic of the Day" for discussion.
Motivational Monday
Tuesday Tips
Wednesday Wish List .. and What you are doing to obtain it.
Thankful Thursday
FUN Friday ... don't wait until you lose your weight.
Sit-up Saturdays - any physical activity
Share your Success Sunday
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We have a bi-weekly 2x2 Challenge.
Our goal is to lose 2 lbs in 2 weeks.
We have a long term goal of losing 300+ lbs within our 300+ group in 2005.
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we have found it to become a home. We invite you to join us.
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hi all.
Glad to hear your all doing well.
I have done well in not eating everything i could , but i did have a bagel with cheese ( chedder ) and marg for brekfast and fries for lunch.
I saw the chiropracter last night. he says i have a pinched sciatic nerve (sp?) and 2 or 3 twisted vertabra's.. so the pain is kindda stoping any physical activity hopefully i will have better news tomarrow .
Hello everyone!! Gosh this place is getting huge. It takes an hour just to read the new posts.Iam not complaining I love reading the posts! I can't post long I am taking 2cutes advice and decluttering my life. And there is a lot to declutter. and I mean alot. Loki living with my parents is a pain. It is even more difficult since my sister moved in with her five kids. (hence cheese puffs, captain crunch, etc) I could afford an apartment but I would have to leave my dogs and I just can't leave them.
I have read all the posts and glad to see so many people posting. Huggy great new name! I weigh in at TOPS tonight so hopefully I will have good news to post later .
Huggy: I have been diagnosed with both sciatica and a herniated L4/L5 disc at different times. The sciatica pain comes and goes. When I had my first flare up the pain was the most intense thing I had ever known. I know I screamed and I think I blacked out. Physical therapy really helped because the muscles around the nerve were also inflamed. I was given a lot of lower back exercises, which are actually all ab-stuff...those muscles work together, so to strengthen your lower back you have to strengthen your abs. If I can remember any of my exercises I will pass them on. The discomfort of having my leg go numb was pretty bad too. Sometimes it would be the front of my leg from my knee to my toes and other times it was from my hip to my knee. I hope that you are able to take care of yourself and find some relief from the pain.
Fortunately *knock wood* my disc has not given me problems since it first was diagnosed. It was my MRI that resolved it, at least temporarily. I really do not want to have surgery and I am very sincerely hoping that my weight loss will give me greater comfort related to both problems down the road.
Good luck to you with everything.
HEALTH RELATED recipe of the day:
"Sport Ice"
Combine in a ziploc baggie....1 part rubbing alcohol to 3 parts water. Seal and then put inside another ziploc. Freeze.
This will be come a slush..the alcohol changes the freezing point of the water. It's better than a bag of peas and you can refreeze it. Put a towel over the affected area before you use this...you do NOT want it to stick to your skin or cause a "burn".
Good Luck...time for veggie burgers...wishing for sushi.
OMG Julee - when I first read your recipe I was thinking it was a sports drink, but I couldn't figure out what was so healthy about drinking rubbing alcohol!! I'm dumber than I look!! - Ruby
Perhaps eating before bed is bad if you are on SugarBusters, but I stand by my statement that if your body is hungry, you should feed it. I'm not saying eat a whole pizza or a cake or a fatty hunk of steak...just something sensible (not sugary or filled with saturated fat, things that we wouldn't be eating while dieting anyway), enough so you don't go to bed hungry. If you should eat every 3-4 throughout the day to keep your metabolism up, why should you starve yourself for 10 hours between dinner and breakfast?
Does anyone else know anything about this topic? I have heard both sides. Most of my life, I had heard that eating before bed is bad because the calories don't get burned off while you sleep, so they are stored as fat. More recently, however, I have been reading many articles that say the opposite, that no matter what time you eat, your body will treat it the same. Whether you eat your 1500 calories a day from 6am-6pm or 6am-10pm, it's still going to be fewer calories than you burn during the day, therefore not causing you to gain weight. (Just make sure you don't eat anything that may cause indigestion or heart burn while you are trying to sleep!)
HI everyone. Check it out== I have NOT disappeared off the face of the earth. Life is just giving us a whammy here lately. My husband took a job with Halliburton and will be going to Afghanistan in 2 weeks to work over there for a year. My job is to get us straight with our credit so I can buy (and decorate-- yayayayay!) us a house while he is over there. His ex-wife is being a serious pain in the #@$%&*@ and we've spent the past two weekends straightening out things with her. Ugh. She's my ever-so-favorite person in the world. She is the reincarnate, I swear.
And I will not bore you all with the details. I just thought I was done with my husband leaving me for months at a time when he discharged from the Army, and here we go again. Although the pros much outweigh the cons, it still SUCKS severely to be without him for so long. But I'm a tough ex-military wife, and I will survive.
I have, though managed to lose 2 more pounds in the last month, considering I have been suffering from the flu for 2 1/2 weeks and didn't hit the gym even once. So I'm up to 20!! Yay! Hopefully I can lose a truckload more while the hub is gone this year.
Huggy-- I'm so sorry to hear about your back! Been there and done that, and it's no fun at all! A heating pad, muscle relaxers and ibuprofen will work wonders for ya though and nice hot showers to relax the muscles. I've had sciatica that I got in nursing school when I caught a man that was falling and twisted my back horribly. I failed a nursing test taking those pills-- what's even wierder is I don't even REMEMBER taking a test! So be careful if the doc gave you any of those!
Scooter-- I hear ya with this place getting huge! I have that problem staying caught up reading and posting-- so I get a little discouraged and read but then I'm outta time for posting!
Julie--cool, that hits just in time for me with that sport ice recipe! My shoulder has really been bothering me when I raise it too high. Maybe that'll help. Thanks!
Huggy and Julee: OoweE! You bring back unpleasant memories! I had a nasty problem with bulging disks pressing on the sciatic nerve a few years ago. Started out I just had leg pain, like I'd pulled a muscle. Then the spasms started! GOD THAT HURTS! I swear it felt like someone had a pair of those old-fashioned ice tongs and was trying to rip by right butt cheek off with them! The second round of epidural steroid injections fixed me right up, but BOY do I not want to go through that again!
Well, the work day is almost over and I'm doing okay. I'm looking forward to spaghetti for dinner tonight. DH is probably going to freak when he sees me measuring pasta and sauce.
Does anyone know how much a serving of spaghetti is in cups? I have a device for measuring it dry, but when we get done cooking it I'll need to measure it out again so we don't take too much and dip into the leftovers for lunch tomorrow. I'm certainly not going to cook one serving at a time.
Well, promised myself I'd just drop in and then go back to work! I'll stop in again later.
Lilion
Wow - well all the talk of decluttering inspired me when I got home from work yesterday and looked at my hugely messy house with a sinking heart. The kids were all just watching tv, so I gathered them together, and said "ok we have 23 minutes (time until your favourite tv show) to all work together to clean up this house as fast as possible - lets GO!" and we all tore into it. Within 23 minutes the house was tidy, a load of washing was in the machine, and the vacuuming was done. It helps that I don't have a large house! The kids were amazed how much we got done in that time when we all pitched in, and the house was much more peaceful all night after that. I noticed that the kids tended to pick up after themselves much more afterwards as well (because they had transformed the house with me!). I will have to use that approach (sparingly) another time!
It's really hard for me to work in a messy environment, and as I work from home 3 days a week (when I have contract work) I keep getting distracted to clean. So starting this morning with a reasonably tidy house means I will get more work done today, be less stressed this afternoon and they will have a happier mum!
Catherine, from one 'hippy' to another - congratulations on your great achievement so far!! Your courage astounds me. I know what it took for me to get out of my rut about 14 months ago, and start making the changes I needed to make in my life so that I could lose weight. It was really difficult. I can't imagine what determination you must have had to turn things around in your life. And things can only keep getting better from here! Congratulations!
This group has been so supportive and wonderful in the 4 months or so I have been here, even though I'm on the other side of the planet. With support you will do it! I am fairly isolated like you, through single-mother-of-4-dom, my weight how it was, and my workload/profession, but I am finding as I lose weight and gain confidence, I am slowly making new friends who know the real me, not the one with barriers up! I'm sure you will find the same, both cyber and 3D friends!
Lilion, I'm not sure if this helps, but according to my software, 2 oz of dry spaghetti = around a cup of boiled spaghetti, so maybe you could weigh a serving after you measure it out?
Anyway, enough gabbing from me - I better get to work...
Leanne
Last edited by hippygoddess; 03-01-2005 at 05:11 PM.
1 cup of cooked spaghetti noodles varies between 175 and 200 calories, according to nutritiondata.com. 175 calories is for cooked whole wheat pasta, 200 (well, 197) is for cooked regular enriched pasta. Oddly enough, I was looking that up earlier, in order to confirm for myself that my portion sizes of pasta are appropriate. So, you can adjust your portions based on that info, your sauce, etc. I hope it helps!
I love love love nutritiondata.com because it has, well, so much easily accessible information. Sometimes I get panicked by the data I come across, but then I realize that I've been looking at the calorie count for dry, uncooked such and such (rice springs to mind) rather than the final product.
Ladies,
I've lurked in this forum for a while, and was inspired to post (just now!) in part by Catherine's (hippyvanlady) story and in part by Lilion's question. I will attempt a more detailed introduction later, since I do wish to join you (inconstantly, as is my wont, but nonetheless) on a more permanent sort of basis (and stop this infernal lurking), but I can't manage it now because, well, it's time to leave work and I have errands to run and a few other committments tonight. Later!
leanne... I am so happy you and your kids used such a wise method to get a little more organized. 15 minutes a day can do wonders !!! I am always amazed how longgggg 15 minutes can be when I don't want to do it. My sister gets off work in 10 minutes then she is on her way to my house to spend the night. I am going to have to put double speed on my pick-uping skills.
mnemosyne... WELCOME !!! I am glad you came out of lurkdome to join in.
We love to have newcomers join in. Thanks for the info.
Can't wait until you return again.
As for the back problems... I too have been there, done that. It hurts like he//.
Like I said earlier.. my sister will be here in a little while so I won't be back until tomorrow afternoon. Keep on keeping on. NEVER GIVE UP !!!!
Wow! I'm glad to see so many posters. A big WELCOME to our new members. Glad you found us.
mnemosyne: nutritiondata.com What a great site! I'm going to be spending hours there. Thanks for mentioning it.
Leanne: Love the 23 minute house cleaning. What an absolutely wonderful idea! "Make it a contest and they will come."
I'm having a really good day. Not hungry. Getting in my water. Took the day off to shovel but we only got 4" this time so I got a lot of paperwork caught up and I joined the declutter ranks by putting a dent in my room. My cold's about gone but I'm left with the cough that makes me sound like I'm going to gag and die any minute even though I feel great.
Scooter: I'll bet if you search really hard and maybe, lower your apartment/flat needs, that you could find a place for you and the critters. It's a lot easier to look when you aren't under the gun to find a place. Try scouring the papers about 2x a month. You'll get some exercise too, visiting possibilities.
Oops, I'm out of time again. Remember the newest Amazing Race starts tonight - 2 hrs!
Jill: I agree with the idea that it doesn't matter what time it is when you eat. I'm an expert diet book reader. ( tell people my hobbie is reading about diets) and as everyone has a theory, you just have to pick out what seems to work for you, and I don't buy the theory that you can't eat for so many hours before bed.
Kerri I was wondering what had become of you. Us fellow Texans need to keep up with each other.
Something funny happened at work today that brought to focus how easy it is to get the wrong impressions out of things that you read. This subject has been talked about here in the past and I didn't think much about it (Of course everyone must think like I do, because I'm right!!! ) Anyway on to my story: Son Mark, brought in a bad of sweet potato chips he had bought. He asked if anyone wanted any, but I said I din't care for them. He said when he say them in the store, he thought SWEET potatochips, not sweetpotato CHIPS. He was thinking of Kettle corn that's salty with just a hint of sweetness and he was terribly suprised and disapointed when he found them to be chips made of SweetPotatos!!! So that proves it's all in the way you preceive things.
HI...
The spaghetti info is timely! that is what I have cooking on the stove. DH is at a 'town meeting' of sorts and don't know when he will get home to eat, so figured this would be a good thing to hold for him. He's been gone for 3 hours must be a doozy!
Huggy, sorry about the back that sounds like a major OUCH!
The radiologists, or whoever it is that reads them didn't like my mammogram, so have to go in tomorrow for a 'diagnostic' one and an ultrasound.
Had an eye exam today for a diabetis check, and that turned out good, although my eyes didn't get back to normal from the dialation for about 6 hrs!
Getting old is not for sissies!
On a fun note, we got Daisy, our new dog today! she is a black lhaso apso/pekinese mix, a sassy little thing! already missing DH like crazy, keeps wanting to go out back, but when she goes , she sits by the gate watching for him!
YIkes she found my yarn!
I must do some rearranging of things! aka declutter
ttfn
Decluttering is a good thing. I feel so much better since I got my rec room in better shape. Its made me feel much more positive about myself. Which will help on the weight loss front because when I'm in control of other areas of my life, I am less likely to want to eat and be a blob. Speaking of, I might actually get to have that guilt free day of doing nothing but reading a good book. Good job to everyone attacking the clutter!
Huggy - Sorry about the back.
Joyce - about the doggie! Good luck with the ultrasound.
I'm going to head to bed early. Another harrowing day in the household. DH's youngest brother (51) was taken to the ER with chest pains and a numb left arm. They didn't like the EKG so they did a heart cathe. DH spent the afternoon at the hospital instead of working (again). Turned out to be a lucky warning instead of anything worse. He's been told that he needs to quit smoking and hopefully he'll be smart enough to since he's seen what it did to his brother. DH's #2 son has arrived. We've had a good evening with him. This is the first time we've ever got to visit with just him and he's relaxed more this time. Made my heart feel good to hear him say that he wants to move to this area because he wants to have the family he didn't have growing up. I don't think DH can take much more family stress.
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She is the 
reincarnate, I swear. 
You bring back unpleasant memories! I had a nasty problem with bulging disks pressing on the sciatic nerve a few years ago. Started out I just had leg pain, like I'd pulled a muscle. Then the spasms started! GOD THAT HURTS! I swear it felt like someone had a pair of those old-fashioned ice tongs and was trying to rip by right butt cheek off with them! The second round of epidural steroid injections fixed me right up, but BOY do I not want to go through that again!
Your courage astounds me. I know what it took for me to get out of my rut about 14 months ago, and start making the changes I needed to make in my life so that I could lose weight. It was really difficult. I can't imagine what determination you must have had to turn things around in your life. And things can only keep getting better from here! Congratulations!
15 minutes a day can do wonders !!! I am always amazed how longgggg 15 minutes can be when I don't want to do it. 
My sister gets off work in 10 minutes then she is on her way to my house to spend the night. I am going to have to put double speed on my pick-uping skills. 
by putting a dent in my room. 
My cold's about gone but I'm left with the cough that makes me sound like I'm going to gag and die any minute even though I feel great.
