Getting Started In Baby Steps
 

I'd like thank eveyone for thier warm welcomes to me and the other new ladies. I can see we have made a ngreat choice to come here for support.
HIPPYGODDESS: Thank you for you kind words and great ideas. I took your advice and started writting down things that make me feel positive during the day. I knew I need to journal stuff, just what I wasn't sure would help. I tried writtting the positive feels and was suprised what those things were. Things that should have made me feel good, didn't really do the trick. The things that I thought were negative made me feel better to look at in astrange way. IE: I went to the hospital to weigh my self for the first time in a year, and I felt positive knowing where I am at right now. It was too much but I held the knowledge and I have a true start spot. Weird as that sounds, it was a good thing. I'm going to do what you suggested and just change one tiny thing at a time. I have to remember its things that work for me. They don't have to show right away. Thank you again.

THINTHINKER; Thank you for helping me figure all this out. It's been fun learning and I'm sure there is so much more to know. Great job on the clothes issues.
Chat at everyone soon. Love to hear from you. Have an awsome day!!!

OOHHH Hippyvanlady, you made me laugh soooo hard. Not at you, but because I know exactly what you mean. BEEN THERE DONE THAT. I saw myself in you words and had to laugh at the whole adventure. Keep on keeping on lady. Who cares who notices your floating friend. They can get thier own. :D :lol: :smug:

Hello again!

Changed my little ticker thing to show a new, short-term goal! I was doing a birthday thing, but today I realized I only have 19 lbs to go to be at a total of 50 lbs lost! I figure if I really try I should be able to be there by 4th of July - 9 weeks. I may be disapointed because I do have a camping trip in June, but it's looking like I'm not going to be able to go for the whole week anyway since we have this horrible influx of hearings coming due to the state's Medicaid cuts. So...19 lbs in 9 weeks - can she do it??? :crossed:

Catherine: The visual was too much! :lol3: I half-remember this little poem my mother used to read to me as a very young child:


It always made me laugh thinking of those little duck butts bobbing in the water. It was all I could think of when I read your post...I hope they appreciate your "dabbling" in the pool! :lol:

Ah, well, lunch is over an hour ago - suppose I should get back to it. Lilion - :queen: of the two-hour lunch!

Michelle .....

Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday dear Michelle
Happy Birthday to YOUuuuuu !!!!
:hb: :hat: :balloons: :hat: :hb:

Lilion, Julee, and all other LOSERS .... CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!
Of course I mean "losers" in the nicest ways. :D

So much inspiration today !!! Love hearing from the newcomers especially. :)
Keep up the good work !!!

Lilion--Congrats! What a treat, to suddenly have "new" clothes!

Catherine--You've almost inspired me to get into a pool again... sounds like you're having a blast!

Shadiepurple--I understand what you mean about it being good to know where you're really starting from. It can be hard, but once you desensitize yourself a little to the numbers, it gets easier to pay attention... which means it's easier to do what you need to do to lose. Congratulations on coming this far!

Hi all. I was laughing so hard at the image you painted Hippyvanlady :D I love to laugh and I find so many things that happen to me are very funny in a horrible way. I believe humor makes us live longer!

Shadiepurple, I am so glad that you are here and I know what you mean about having a start. It is nice to just KNOW where we are. guessing doen't help us reach goals.

Thanks to everyone for sharing. I love to chat with you all. My day was pretty boring other than some swim time at the gym. I am healing from my sciatic trouble. I have to stay fairly still except for the exercies. So I have been making some charts for my progress in my down time. Exercise and water charts. I did some measurments. I have so many new shirts that fit me but are snug so I won't wear them. I look like a big fluffy pillow squeezed into a pillow case in most of them. My belly has got to get smaller. Does anyone have any tummy exercises that they are doing that they would like to share? I can't move too fast yet because I am so large so keep that in mind.

Blesings to you all,
DogPal :cool:

:gift: I almost forgot. Happy Birthday to Michelle!

And today being Wednesday Wish List day. I would like to say. My parents are both in very good physical health. Not overweight at all. My dad likes to take drives in the country to see the wildlife etc. He loves for my husband and myself to come with them. I usually pack a picknic lunch to take for all of us. They think it is so sweet of me. I have a confession that I can say here to you guys. The reason that I pack a lunch for all of us is because being very new to this state and area in which I live I don't know where things are and I am so large that there are many, many times I can't fit into seats with arms. I am afraid from past experiences that if I don't pack a lunch and we end up eating in a restaurant someplace, we will go inside to sit down and I won't be able to fit into the chair. It has happend to my before and it is embarassing, humilating and gets tongues waggin in the restaurant.

I am not going to let this happen to me anymore. I am going to continue to get support here on the boards and work out every day in May then try to work out every day in the next months. I am eating better and drinking more water. I am going to get my new life. I will be so happy and excited when I don't have to face this fear anymore.

That is mine for today. Being my first time I hope it is ok to share stuff like that.

Blessings,
Dogpal

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHELLE! :joker: :hb: :joker: :hb:

I miss you! ;)

Dogpal... I too have had that not fitting into the chairs happen to me too. Of course you can share those stories here. That is why this 300+ group exists.... because someone smaller doesn't know what it is like and we do.

Mine happend once in a booth... once in an Arbys with those small seats that are attached and not moveable ... and once in a chair with arms. I have sat in other chairs with arms that I was so uncomfortable I could not enjoy my meal.

Well ladies.. my food is going good. :) My water is going good. :)
And with all the inspiration here, I just have a solid resolve to get this weight off.

Hey ladies! Dogpal, thank you for sharing with us, your story was very poignant:). You are doing great, you can do this, we all can, if we just blieve in ourselves. Catherine, your post was hilarious! I always smile when i read your posts. Since this is wishful wednesday, my wish is to one day be totally happy and secure with myself, and not always be the "biggest" person in the group. I am also looking forward to the day that i dont hear the words, "you are so pretty, you'd be beautiful if you lost some wt".
Anyway, everyone have great night.

First....lost another .8 this week...yay! Not huge but any loss is a loss.

Diva: When I was in college I met a guy on the internet. I went to visit him one weekend and we really hit it off...it was a blissful and amazing (and kinda wild) weekend. So on Sunday morning, I am getting ready to leave he tells me the following: "You are smart, and beautiful and amazing and so much of what I have always looked for in a woman...and I know that somewhere inside there is a totally amazing thin girl who really wants to come out." Nice.

Anyhoo...I'm off and running...Scott went home on AI...his cockiness got the better of him. When he was sent to the couch he was looking very thankful and happy...they are tricky on AI and will change things up like that. I just know that Anthony needs to go home next week. If he winds up surpassing Vonzell I will be very very disappointed.

G'nite...

Hi all! :wave: It's late and I'm on my way to bed but just wanted to check in for a minute.

Dogpal: Isn't it interesting that the people we love and are around all the time don't seem to look at our size. Ok, maybe they do look, but I mean they don't take into consideration some of the trials that we go through. Your story about packing a lunch is sooooo like me. Only my story is about going to the casino. I used to take my mom and my aunt to the casino in Windsor about once every 6 weeks. I would pack them up in my van and drive, drop them at the door and then go park so they wouldn't have that far to walk. Anyway, my mom found that for $5 we could all ride a bus and get a voucher for the buffet at the casino and she kept hinting that we should do that instead of me driving. Finally after she pushed a bit, I took her aside and told her, "mom, I don't really fit in the bus seats that's why I like to drive". She sees me and my size all the time and it just didn't dawn on her.

Oh well, that's enough of my story. I'm gotta get some sleep. I'll have reports to do in the morning. Some post offices, a department store and then I have to be across town by 5:30 for a $100 focus group. WooHoo, tomorrow will be a BIG money day!!! :D

See ya later. Love :love: ya bunches.

Hi All, I'm new here!
 

Hi, I just joined the site and wanted to post to say hello. Since I read that Thursdays are Thankful Thursdays...I would like to thank my friend, Shadiepurple for inviting me to this site. I am also thankful that "3FatChicks" is available for everyone that needs support. I hope to learn more about the site and hope to hear from everyone. :^:

I have a question already, lol. I just posted and i forgot to add my weight scale thingy. :) Is it possible to keep it on somewhere or do i have to make a new one each time? Thanks

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Hi Newbies!
 

Good morning Ladies, I have been MIA for a couple of days, cause I have been SICK, I mean sick. :barf: At first I thought I felt so lousy because I had switched to decaf coffee, but that wasn't it. I am feeling almost human again this morning. :)

I see that I missed some birthdays. Happy belated birthday to all that I missed. :balloons:

Welcome to all of our newbies. :)

Twinkledpink, No you won't have to make a new tracker every time. :)

I am way to far behind to respond to all of the post this morning, but I am with Ya! Have a super day. Iwillbe :wave: