Jill, sorry to hear about the health stuff
Your situation reminded me of the movie Kundun, about the Chinese occupation of Tibet in the 60s - one of the last things the Dalai Lama says is "We were just about to change. We were going to do it ourselves. We were about to change." (But the Chinese invaded on the premise that they were coming in to improve the country... etc etc...) Even though you're doing this yourself, your body decided to give you an unwanted push... Okay now that I think about it the Kundun reference is only vaguely applicable but since I've typed it out already I won't go back and delete it
Sorry, anyway,
I know you can do this, you'll be off those meds in no time and the dr will wonder why the question of surgery was even brought up. Good luck, we're all cheering for you!!
KimProbable - glad to hear you had a wonderful vacation!! That's really interesting stuff about the cinnamon - I had no idea. I'll have to pass that on to my family, we're all very at-risk for blood sugar problems...
Debi - Congrats on the inches lost!
tinainab - I've heard so many horror stories like yours recently about scammers, ebay, and paypal, and their inability to get things resolved when they're totally being taken advantage of. I'm sorry to hear you're going through it too
I hope everything works out in the end... Those pictures ought to be worth something...
Chelle - sorry to hear about Daniel's hearing!
Yesterday's QOTD - hmm, in high school I was alternately not eating anything until dinner, taking dexatrim max, using those stupid weight-loss patches, and taking some bizarre supplement I found over the internet (some kind of cow bone oil? maybe? I don't remember what it was but it definitely had to do with animals). So I was always hungry, could never sleep, and felt miserable, in addition to losing money in the process
Not a pound lost, either. Oh well
I'm all the wiser now for it.
Well, that's all I've managed to cherry-pick from the past 7 or so pages... I read up on everyone though, so I feel slightly informed again
I've been pretty off-plan this whole week, I sold DH to my father for five days (
) and not having him around seems to make me want to eat and eat and eat. Darndest thing. I'm fighting it, though, and I guess it's a good thing I won't be able to make my WI this week... I have an extra week to work out whatever damage I've done this week.
I'm excited about the long weekend - I'm taking tomorrow off work to see my sister graduate law school, then I have four days to spend with my mother who I haven't seen in almost 2 years... I know I can keep my eating on track this weekend, and it's supposed to be just GORGEOUS outside too... I foresee lots of walks with my 3.5 year old niece, shoe shopping (read: walking around the mall), and at least one bout of intentional exercise when the 3FC 5k happens! (Shoot, that reminds me, I forgot to pack my pedometer and I can't go back home to get it - I gave my house key to the cat sitter! GAR.)
Emotionally, I have no idea what to expect from the weekend (re: mother visit) but I know that I'm going to get moving again and jump back on plan with a vengeance... I certainly need to.
Thoughts and
s to everyone, enjoy your days and think healthy thoughts