I made it through Yesterday with no sweets, yippyyyyy, I can avoid sweets pretty well,, it is POTATOE CHIPS AND SODA!that I love, Just stopping those two, that is a diet within itself.for me.

Hope everybody is having a good day, Take care,

Hi Guys :wave:

Just a quick hello before I head off to the gym. :) You all make me feel like I SHOULD go and not chunk out:o :p so thank you!

Zelma--I just read your file! You are truly a wonderful person for writing that all down for us. Thank you. :hug: I do want to tell you that your friend is right about the water--once your body gets used to drinking it all, you "have to go" much less frequently. I couldn't believe it either, but it's true. :) One of the reasons that I feel so strong right now is because I started my weight loss journey at 357 lbs. and knowing that you started at a weight so close to mine. Actually seeing your pics and KNOWING that it can be done is a real boost to me. Thank you so much for coming here. :hug:

I've been really down lately because I've been at this plateau for over a month. I keep going up and down with the same 7 lbs. and it's so frustrating. :( I'm not going to give up, but it really doesn't make me want to go out to the gym and work at it since I haven't been seeing any real changes. And because I haven't been seeing any REAL changes, I've been kind of lax in what I'm eating. :?: Don't get me wrong--I'm not stuffing myself with bags of potato chips or fries or anything like that, but I am having more carbs than I should be. I made some chicken breasts yesterday and I have some salad mix in the fridge so I'm hoping that I'm now getting back on track. Wish me luck.

I have to go and call my work out buddy. There's a problem with the alignment in my car and my bf doesn't want me driving it. He says it's dangerous and that it's probably ruining the tires. I didn't tell him, but I think I remember driving over a curb:o and I'm pretty sure that's what caused it. Don't laugh--I'm sure we've all done that once or twice, right? ;)

Okay--I'll try to come back for replies later. Thanks for listening everyone. :grouphug: Keep up the good work and thanks for the inspiration to keep going.

Vicki

Mornin' Chickies!

Well, I'm on a plateau! :( WI showed 248.2. This should make me happy, since last Wed was 250.6, but Thursday showed 247.6 after I drank plenty of water and dropped the water weight. Which means I actually gained .6 lbs. This does NOT make me happy.

I've been doing everything right, except for exercise, but I've at least added little things like walking from the parking lots (instead of parking illegally in the visitor's lot) and taking the stairs instead of the elevator. So darn it...NOW what do I do?

Honiangel: I LOVE the internet for recipes! One of my favorite sites is allrecipes.com. They aren't necessarily "diet" recipes, but they do give nutrition information. This site is great too! There are plenty of WW and South Beach and other recipe threads. Doing WW I've just done random Yahoo searches for "weight watcher" "recipes" and gotten some great ones. I love halfmysize.com - Really good recipes and the official WW site has a community that has a recipe review thread, you get great recipes there. Again, depends on what program you are on, but lowfat is lowfat, especally when looking for a meat or poultry recipe.

Kayley: How was the surprize? No details necessary! ;)

Jilly and Crockett - I also managed to have NO candy on V.day! DH was warned! He got me flavored coffee instead. :love:

Anyway, today is snack day at work and I brought 1 pt fat-free bean dip and bite sized tortilla chips. (12 chips = 1 pt.) I haven't participated in a snack day forever, but I thought it was time to show these people that you don't have to load things with sausage or sugar or fat to have a good snack! I just hope folks like it...otherwise I'll end up taking it home! I really should have brought the rest of my chocolate oreo cake from home...but it was SOOO good! I'll have to seriously watch my points the rest of the week to fit in a few more slices!

Well, time for me to run. My friend is bringing her puppy to the office for me to see in a few minutes. Have a healthy, happy, OP day everyone!

Lilion~ Hang in there with the weight loss.. Are you losing inches? The main thing is that your still hanging in there, wooo hoo........ that is a good idea for the snack thing at work,, I hope they gobble it up!

:sunny: Well its a beautiful Spring day in the UK, at least where I am, TOM is almost over, thank goodness! So its a good day, I cleaned all the upstairs windows inside, hoovered and dusted upstairs and now I'm having a rest!! I will be able to exercise tomorrow, and I will do some on Saturday too as Steve's doing o/t. He finally got my avatar changed to a recent photo, though he was standing up so I don't have too many chins;) I am not up to doing that sort of stuff I just get mad and throw stuff around when it doesn't work!:mad:
I have to get all the stuff ready for our 'holiday' at my parent's house as well but boy, am I ready for a break from the routine,;) and of course a few nights out with hubby, sans kids.:lol: We always find places to go, like old churches, pretty villages, coastal walks and of course a few pubs!!! we do eat there as well though! Steve is only allowed one beer as he drives and I only have one as I need my wits about me to watch the boys.:devil: :devil: I just hope the weather stays like this for the week, what's the weather like where you all are?
I was not very good yesterday, but today I'm feeling well and staying OP, TOM always makes me feel the need for starchy or sweet stuff, I hate it.:(
I hope you are all well and the sun is shining on you,:goodvibes
xxsharon:hug:

Good pic, Sharon, Where is your parents located, will you be traveling far?

Well, another Valentine's Day come and gone. Fortunately for me, it's a non-issue at work. I work in a synagogue (Jewish) and it's very much downplayed..especially to the kids in the school there. Plus I left work early yesterday to run errands. It was also my friend's birthday and I had to go get her cale and present for her prty last night. Jason got me flowers and the first season of The Muppet Show on DVD...yay! When I was at the grocery store getting my friend's cookie cake decorated, I saw that they had mini-cakes that were no-sugar added. It tasted pretty good...we sat around my apartment when he came over after work and fed each other cake. Maybe it was practice for November (LOL). In any case...the cake was tiny...I am sure it was still meant to be 2-4 servings. We ate about 2/3 of it and dumped the rest. It was a good cake (not great) and in the end it made us both very gassy (ugh).

We went out for a lovely dinner and then went to my friend's party. My total candy intake for the day was 1 square of very very dark chocolate (72% cacao). I had some of the frosting on Wendy's cake but that was it...and loads of water. I kept eyeing sweets all day (it's really roten to start TOM on Valentine's Day) but I was good. I know I had too much cake but my food and water were excellent...so no biggie. I lost no sleep over it.

I did get a lot of compliments on my outfit last night and I am very sad that we had no camera at the party (how did we do that???).

Hope you all had a good day and that you enjoy the rest of the week!!!

Puffy: I didn't move your link, Hon, all I can think is that maybe you thought it was there and it wasn't or it was coded wrong. Sorry.

Julee~ way to go on all the TEMPTATIONS of yesterday,, You sound like you have just lost the taste for the goodies,, This morning I had to use the microwave to heat up some apples sauce for my Dad (he is not feeling well, and I am daddysitting while Mom is with Granny) and when I opened the Microwave there it was,, HOMEMADE CINNAMON ROLLS!, (my 15 yr old brothers breakfast) I removed them from the Microwave with a snalrey face , as i smelled them and was not even remotely intirgued,,(that is great for me as I used to eat 3 or 4 just for breakfast) Sooooo I am happy that I reacted in this manner,, So here I set eating a donut,,( Cauliflower is my new donut ,,lol)

Crockett, my parents live in Mablethorpe, on the Lincolnshire coast, we live just over two hour's drive from them, between Nottingham & Derby. Being in the US you will have heard of Nottingham coz of Robin Hood, but Mablethorpe is not famous for anything!!
I am chatting with Ammi on msn, so goota go.
xxxsharon

Kayley: How did the surprise go? ;)

As for me, the cardiologist's office called last night to tell me that my iron numbers did not change from last month's numbers. They upped my iron pills to 2 per day and if it does not get better, they want to send me to a gastroentologist (like I can spell or afford that!..LOL )
I did the test they wanted and it did not pick up any blood but they still are harping on this gastroentologist thing.

As for candy, my little sister brought home tons from school. I swear that you could not have a diabetic child inour school district.. parties, ice cream and candy all the time it seems. I managed to have just one mini reese cup, a small chocolate heart with crispies in it, and 3 M&M's. Enough to enjoy the chocolate but not enough to make me feel guilty ;-)

I'm having one of my "crazy thought" days and being down about it. Hubby says "you're crazy!" It's just that I always thought losing 100 pounds would make such a dramatic change.. and I dont feel that it really has. People can't even tell yet (except mom and hubby) It really does not feel like I have lost that much. It's all still here darnit! I keep thinking "the docs must have misweighed me somehow"

How is ammi?

I love typos! For a minute there I thought you were giving her KALE - you know, the seaweed type veggie stuff! I thought "Wow! That's dieting!" :rofl: Sounds like you had a terrific Valentine's! Good temptation management. I'm hopeless in party situations.

So far I've managed to eat a bit of my bean dip I brought for snack day (2 pts) AND 2 no bake cookies, a tiny slice of banana nut bread, a tiny slice of lemon cake, a tiny piece of some kind of fudgy, frosting coated brownie stuff (about a bizzillion pts). :barf: Think I'm done with snack day. No way to really count this stuff, so I'm gonna just start over at lunch time and not worry about it. :no: If I can't have a tiny bit of sweets now and then I'll never stick to this anyway. I'll have a small lunch and dinner and call it good for the day.

Sharon: Great photo! No double chin at all! :lol: Think I'll stick with my fairy...no need to scare folks with my photo! :lol:

Hi All,

Did you miss me, did ya, huh, did ya :lol: It's great to be back. I haven't been online for ages. First of all it was because Daren was making wall units for our bedroom so I was busy helping him, and as everything had to be taken out of our room we weren't hooked up to the Internet. Then when we finally did get back into our room, we discovered a problem with the Internet. We thought Daren had accidentally cut the cable, or squashed it, so we paid out for new stuff only to find that it was the cable modem at fault. We got an engineer to come out yesterday, he gave us a new modem, and now we are back online WOOHOO :cheer: I really missed you all :grouphug:

I had a beautiful Valentines day and am so proud of myself because I told my hubby not to buy me any chocolates. He didn't, so I wasn't even tempted to be naughty food ways! He did buy me beautiful gifts though, a pair of garnet heart shaped earrings, A cuddly owl in a love heart, and the new film of Bewitched on DVD. He certainly knows how to pick the perfect presents. I bought him a CD and some helium balloons. To everybody else who managed to stay good on Valentines, good for you, and for those that did give in to a treat or two, it's ok, you enjoyed it, now you have to just get back on track again :D

Because I was so busy with Daren on the weekend I didn't get chance to watch the Olympics. Please can somebody tell me if the women figure skaters have been on yet. I have seen the couples, and the short programme for the men, they are having their free tonight, but I haven't seen the women. Did I miss them?? I love watching the winter olympics!!

Christine - I didn't find the mattress pads like you have, but I have found a really good waterproof protector that is cotton on the top but is sprayed with some special stuff on the underside that is breathable, but doesn't let liquid through to the mattress. I have had much better night's sleeps now that I don't have to worry about if I do have any accidents. Oh and the bed is heavenly. It's a firmer mattress than we are used to so for the first few mornings we both woke up with aches and pains, but I think we have both adjusted to the firmness now because we wake up well rested and with no more pain. Yay.

Jill - shame on you for chickening out of keeping that teddy on til Jeff got home, but I am glad he persuaded you to put it back on later in the evening ;)

Catherine - I have been awol from here too, so it was good to see your post. It must be so rewarding when you have an experience like telling your new doctor how much weight you have lost and seeing him lost for words. You should be so proud of yourself. Are you still loving married life, it sounds like you enjoy using the words, your 'husband' in your posts :D I have been married 4 years this year and I will never lose the thrill of introducing Daren as my husband :D

Crock - been missing our chats on Yahoo. Will defo look out for you later. Congrats on the weight loss. We have both lost 11 lbs!!

Nancy - It's lovely when we find men who love us for who we are, and that our weight is an attraction and not a turn off. I know your hubby prefers you overweight, but perhaps when he sits and thinks about it he would realise that smaller and healthy is much better than fatter and unhealthy and a shorter life span. My hubby loves me as I am, but he is behind my diet 100% because he wants me to be happy and healthy. I hope you can find some sort of compromise with your husband, you obviously love each other a lot, so fingers crossed you can work it out.

Sharon (voodoo) - I love your new photo on here. Thanks for letting people know I wasn't sick or anything when I was away. I am writing this while chatting to you, so I shall finish up here and carry on with our chat :D

A big hello to anybody new here, and of course to everybody I haven't replied to individually. I am sorry I couldn't answer all the posts, there are just too many. I am back now though and hope to keep up to date with everybody.

Hugs,

Ammi :grouphug: