So sorry about your doggie. I don't know what I would do without my YLD (Yappy Little Dog)....

dark chocolate peanut butter?!? Wow, that sounds supberb! Never heard of it over here, and that's probably a good thing.

Sorry about your lapse ff2000. The important bit is the rest of your choices - don't worry about the odd bad one.

Morning All!
foodfighter2000....sorry about your crappy day foodwise. Dark chocolate peanut butter...mmmm...definitely wouldn't last longer than a day or 2 in this house! Even though you ate something fairly healthy,I'm willing to bet it was the carbs that set you off on your binge. Personally, I can't eat any carbs for my first meal,otherwise I have the munchies ALL day and am battling the cravings. Protein and veggies (ie eggs and salsa,V-8 mixed with extra beet juice and a handful of almonds etc) and my day is set...no extra calories and tummy feels good.

We're a YDFH here....(yappy dog free house)! Give us a dog over 100 pounds and now you're talking! Our current guy is 120 pounds and is a black lab amstaff cross. Great personality but slobber galore! ugh! He's a rescue dog as well, previous owners were going to put him down at 5 years old because they didn't want him anymore. (shaking her head at some people)

Hope everyone has an awesome calorie AND exercise day!!
Maddie

Greetings all! New here found 3FC yesterday, and estatic that I did. Beginning on my WL journey again and for the final time! Had a good food day yesterday finished eating with still 100 cal to spare! (fist pump!) Just getting over a horrible virus so I plan to start daily excercise next week, I've been enjoying the Zumba infomercials, caved and of course it arrived just as I got sick...so next week, I'm dancin people!

ange82much and maddieD, thanks for the encouragement, today is going much better. The dark chocolate peanut butter is to-die-for and comes from Henry's, a local farmer's market type chain, and gluten-free which is the kiss of death for me, but I think the solution for me is like the rest of all things good: don't bring it into my house! sigh.

Here's to a much better day, and to Big Dogs, and good houseguests, wish I had either, TGIF. FF2000

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I hear ya... Hubby is already b*!@#%ing about no chips and pepsi in the house)

Maddie

ange82much- Sorry for you lose! Makes sense to wait a bit and have lots of time to intigrate the new family addition
superhero- I believe I lost the fight as well (Pizza). About sweets, I want them, boy do I want them, but when going shopping I make sure I don't buy them, because if they are in the house I already lost the fight.
Maddie- LOL, I like the big dogs to, especially the ones who already have a personality (comes with age), but always end up with the leftover crazy ones, which are always small dogs.
CoCo- Hi to you as well

Back to feeding the family.... Seams like all I am doing is cooking!

I have finally come out of hiding. I have been avoiding 3FC for the past 10 days. The binge/depression spiral hit bottom, I think. I've been taking positive steps again and had my first no binge day in awhile yesterday.

Medicating with food doesn't work anymore. I was so exhausted & depressed last week that I thought I was having thyroid problems. But I think it was the sugar. Yesterday I ate well & exercised and I feel pretty good this morning.

I have updated my ticker finally & the gain isn't that horrible. I'm not going to focus on the scale, but on eating nutritious food and daily exercise. Glad to be back. Missed y'all.

Happy Monday to you all! I hope everyone had a good weekend and was successful with their plans!
I found it very easy to stay within my calories this weekend.
I think maybe it's the mental calm that has precipitated my journey into weight loss for the final time.
I'm ready, I'm doing it and whew about time!

Hi Friends!!

I am still around, at some point in time my weight has reached 188 so guess I will be stuck there for a while.

I will have to get some time & read through everything again & catch up on personals. Hi to the new people.

I am so totally overwhelmed right now. My pregnant teenager is okay but I spent the day at the hospital with her the other day. Very sick, very weak, dizzy, etc. etc. She is fine, the baby is fine but she is really having a rough time. My two other teenagers know that she needs the extra attention right now & they know that I am doing the best that I can to work, get Ree healthy & just stay on top of everything, but they still are jealous. The two healthy girls are helping with chores & doing what they are suppose to do (I require all the kids that we take in to do chores & participate in household things if they are able), but right now I have 3 very clingy teenagers & I am going nuts!!!!! I have not even been able to go to the bathroom since Saturday without one of the girls knocking on the door needing something or wanting to know when I will be done. My husband keeps telling me things will get back to normal but I honestly believe that he is just telling me that while trying to convince himself.

So everybody have a good day/week, I will check in when I can.

I am new to 3FC, but struggle with emotional eating and bingeing right now, and have not really been focusing on what you wrote about, which is taking positive steps. So, I am going to try to be more positive, and focus on eating good food, and making sure I exercise so that I can keep my mood up. Thanks for being here. FF2000

Wow, welcome to all the newbies! I kind of got involved in craziness here and haven't checked in for a while. My ds 19 aka stupid boy is getting married on 9/5 and is trying to get into the army as they have both lost their jobs in the last few weeks. My dd 25 who doesn't speak to me had a relapse of her cushings disease after the first surgery to remove the tumor from her pituitary gland, and now their going to remove her adrenal glands. I heard by way of mouth that they were debating radiation because of my breast cancer and her high risk. I did what I thought was a nice thing and emailed her the research I had done on my diagnosis and offered to allow my oncologist to go over my records with her if it would help. Apparently that contact made me an ogre and she went on a witch hunt to find out who's giving me info. I have been riding to work with my young friend to work out at the gym in the mornings. On friday she cancelled at the last minute so I hit the fitness center here at the apartment and the pool before work. My eating on the weekends has been atrocious however. My weight is holding steady, but I really need to see some movement on the scale! Unfortunately the same young friend apparently fell apart at work today due to stress issues and will be out for a while. So I have to go back to bus-hopping. Which isn't terrible as we've finally had a break in the heat and humidity. I just have to figure out how to get the earlier bus so I still have time for the gym 1st. I'm thinking with things picking up on the board maybe we need to go back to weekly forums?

I hope everyone got a great start to the week!

Kathi

Hello friends, new and old.....one and all!

I am officially moved into my new home!! Still haven't got the home computer up and running yet. I would have been jones-ing for internet had I not been so busy working. Still have lots to do....have to finish at the old house tonight and then work on unpacking/organizing the new place. So I may be scarce for a while still.

I am so tired of eating out! All the calories and the cost. Getting my kitchen back in business is my first priority starting tomorrow evening. Even with my out-of-whack eating and not exercising (older son promises to get the DVD player working tonight), I still lost almost 2 pounds!! What a treat when I stepped on the scale yesterday. I am not taking it for granted and plan to get back on plan ASAP!!!

Not even going to try to catch up on personals, but you all seem to be doing great.
Welcome to all of our new friends!!

Morning All!

This week is having its ups and downs. Up....I've lost 2.8 pounds! Actually,I hate to admit this, but I just guesstimated my starting weight. Figured it was around 220...might have been more or a smidge less but at least now I have a firm number.

A big downer is headed my way....Hurricane Earl. Right now they are guessing that he'll hit as barely a category 2, but with our way warmer temps since June....it wouldn't surprise me if he hit as a barely cat 3. UGH! So as a result,I'm doing laundry and prepping for his arrival. We do have a generator so at least I can still come here!

Hope everyone is having a great week!
Maddie