good weight loss this week even with TOM and increase in calories. I lost 1.6 which put my total up to 64lbs...only 4 more lbs to my halfway point. :O)

Grammy, you may be right about my calorie limit. I have thought that, myself. However, at this point, I just want to get the bulk of my dangerously high weight off my poor, abused body. I can't keep dodging the bullet I have been forever. I can reassess and adjust my intake at a later date. So far, I am doing pretty well at this level. I don't feel too hungry and I have energy and so forth. My feeding frenzy behaviours plague me no matter how many calories I am consuming, unfortunately. It seems to be part of my own relationship with food. A very dysfunctional one, I might add. One I am working on.

Tammy, good advice from your rheumatologist. Just get through this time as you need to. Then you can pick up where you left off and move forward. In your own time. {{{hug}}}

Yesterday was a good, OP day. I wasn't very hungry and I was a bit busy and had a hard time actually eating enough. I like days like that... When I am not so consumed with my thoughts of food, when I feel normal. I would like to have more of them. Calories were: 1205. Got some exercise, too. And drank all my water. All in all, a good day.

Have a great Saturday, everyone.

I hope this is the place to post this, but I am so excited. I had a 'rough' eating day today, but overall the changes have been amazing in the short time I've started working out, eating healthy and counting calories.

First, the energy level is through the roof. Unreal how big a change there has been. It started with working out but it really took off when I changed my eating. I love that things like moving my lawn (It takes me about an hour) used to drain me completely and is now nothing more than a nice moderate work-out.

And the weight has really started to come off. I've only started weighing consistently a few days ago, so I don't know about the pounds, but I can see the difference every time I look in the mirror. I look sooo much smaller, it's a rush. And people are finally starting to comment on it too. I feel like I've gone from that 'fat chick' to that 'sporty girl' with the curves. It feels so good to finally feel good about how I look again! I started the walks back in May and didn't have results until a few weeks ago when I started counting calories, so this has been a long, long time coming.

This is the exact right place to post your news, Cdiem. I feel for you on feeding frenzy days... I have them now and then. Sometimes a little more often than I should...

Congratulations on your wonderful success, so far!

I have a question too! I just bought a scale a few days ago. My first day I was 181.8. This was awesome cause I've never dropped below 187 at Curves.

The next day it was 180.2. Huh? How'd that happen? Mebbe my weight changes a lot and I just never knew cause I haven't been weighing daily but what the heck, I'll take it. Woo hoo!

Now it's TOM. I spent yesterday cycling everywhere, but I also overate my calories with a catfish hoagie and a rice krispie treat. So I brace myself when I step on the scale....and it weights 179.

I know it's only three days of weighing, but a weight change of 2.8 pounds in three days is a lot! Is it just that I bloat up right before my TOM? I know I'll work it out in time with continued weighings, but I'm impatient to know what the heck is going on!

HI..
cdiem_I weigh daily but only one that counts is what is says on my weigh day which is on sat. I dont let the daily changes bother me..it keeps me on track more than anything else. Sounds like you are doing great. Keep doing what your doing!! congratz on the weight loss.Did you take your measurements when you first started?? That always amazes me more than the scales do.. I may stay the same weight wise but drop inches..

rain_ If only we could bottle the good day for the days we struggle..lol it would be awesome.

I had an ok day yesterday but ate a real BLT last night and my scales are up 2lbs today...i know its water weight as i didnt get up during the night to use the bathroom..that yummy bacon was salty.lol
well im heading to do some sewing i didnt get to yesterday..i ended up in bed with a sinus headache. Hey maybe that 2lbs is all the crud in my head.LOL
hugs

Hi. Hi, everyone.

Dgramie, I know... right? I'd be first in line to buy.

A good Op day, so far. I am on track and feeling fine.

Calories for yesterday were: 1332.

wow..i started out with a headache on sat..then yesterday my stomach joined the headache..NO FUN!! I love what the scales said this morning but know it wont hold there(239). I was 242.6 on sat. Being sick is NO FUN!! Not sure if it was a bug or what,,but its I dont get headaches often so im thinking it was a bug or something..
I run an inhome daycare and get exposed to lots of illness with 3 kids age 2.
hope everyone had a great weekend...i am thankful i was not babysitting and able to just go to bed. I pretty much spent the day in bed yesterday. I did get some sewing done before my stomach started acting up.
hugs to all

WAHOO Zoe is back. I am so happy to see you came back to us. How are you and your family doing. The little one must be getting big now. Glad you decided to come back. As you can see, I am still hanging around so I think I need that book. LOL!

Tammy ~ We try to make it to Bronners at least once a year. Frankenmuth is a beautiful place and the last time we were there I noticed there are shops on the river now. We usually come in the back way so we don't have to drive through town. Always busy but a fun place. Been lots of controversy over a cross being on the town crest this year and they actually had to remove it I do believe. Been there since the town was founded but someone didn't like it.

dgramie ~ Good job on the loss. Wow, you have your hands full with 3 - 2 yr olds. My GS is 2 1/2 and he is on the go and there is no slowing him down until he drops because he is so tired. He was sick with a cold this past weekend which made him cranky. Hope you didn't get something from one of them, not fun.

Rain ~ Understandable about wanting to lose fast. Yes, I feel I have an eating disorder myself. I love food and I use it improperly myself. Doesn't matter how much I eat, how full I feel, I sometimes still want to bing. I have been working on this. I need to form a healthy relationship with food and put it in place. Its just hard, hard, hard.

Cdiem ~ Welcome. Sounds like your losing to me, good job. I am also a daily weigher helps keep me on track and lets me know when I am off, like this weekend.

I chuckled when I read Dgramie had bacon and sodium. DH this weekend opened a can of mushrooms and said these are bland. I started chuckling and said they are salt free. LOL! He said your pushing it. I said there is enough salt in the sausage and cheese your going to mix them in with you don't need salted mushrooms. Yes, I am a freak when it comes to sodium and I buy sodium free products when available. He always ends up adding his reduced salt crap to his stuff. YUCK! I keep telling him he will get used to it but he doesn't believe me.

Well I have to get going and I will talk to you all later.

Dgramie, I hope that you are feeling much better, today. 3 three year old at once? All by yourself? Woman, I bow to you.

GrammyL, you can say that, again.

Whew! I got through the weekend in one piece. Calories for yesterday were: 1193.

Have a great day, everyone.

Hey guys I am still here....trying to get my mess under control....I have been terrible the last couple weeks!

On a good note. My son who turned 14 recently decided to let me help him lose a little weight. He weighed in last week Sunday at 183! So he is a bit large for his age....well we weighed him again on Sunday this week (well yesterday, whatever) and he was down 4lbs!!!! He was SO excited he said he would stick with it another week. I asked him to give me 1 week with him and see what we could do, he gets teased so bad at school because of his weight....he agreed and saw a HUGE result! He didnt go hungry, which is what I think he was most scared of....and he did it! I am so proud of him!!!!

Sorry I have been MIA lately...I am in a FUNK and cant seem to get out...I will try harder!

lost 3.5 pounds on my first week of "not dieting" on the new plan. woohoo! I highly recommend this "The Fat Came Back" book. Easy, quick read and so funny.

I'm only supposed to weigh in monthly but my TOPS meetings are weekly so I'm continuing with that.

Grammy...my baby is 1.5, growing like a weed. Do you still have the chickens? One of my hens went broody and I bought 8 fertile eggs to give her. She hatched out three. I think two of them may be roosters, which we can't keep in the suburbs. I have some hot wing sauce in the cupboard ready! LOL! I don't know about that yet but I'm considering it.

Another day... Another binge. I really blew it, yesterday. And for no real good reason, either. I don't understand myself, sometimes. I do so well for a few days, then I blow it. And I blew it big. My rough estimates place my day at a bit over 3000.

Nice.

Yeah.

I hate myself.

Zoe ~ Yep, we still have them. We lost a dozen earlier this summer to raccoons but the raccoons followed as being gone if you know what I mean. I couldn't even go out and clean up, DH and DD had to. We got another 10 chicks a few months later that are now maturing. Three of those died and all the rest are roosters except one. GRRRR! Yep, DH said he is butchering them because these are big chickens, only a few months old and they tower over my bantams but the bantams don't take any guff off of them. I was told they were Andalusions but I think they are Americana but who cares they are going to be dinner. Then we had two show quality hens given to us because the one has a crooked beak. One of our bantam hens raised this second batch of chicks and she is sitting on two eggs right now. She is a broody hen (I still pet her but she talks about it) and just loves to sit on eggs and raise babies. I can see why you can't have roosters, man are they noisy but I like it. Its fun watching them learn how to crow. They little ones just started and it sounds like someone is chocking them. They are also developing their fighting skills. Nothing serious yet, just practicing.

Wow how the time flies with little ones. Jose is 2 1/2 and Will (second GS, yep she had another) is 7 months old.

I think I need to go find that book because it sounds like what I need.

Rain ~ HUGS!

OK, I started the buying diet meals again. The difference between the last time and this time is I am not eating desserts because I think they helped me fail before. I eat a meal, triple up my veggies and call it good. Still eating healthy snacks between meals like today 2 oz chicken and 1/2 c. papaya. Before I was eating snacks that taste great but not necessarily healthy. Just because its only a 100 calories doesn't make it good for you. LOL! Yesterdays calories ended at 1400. This is right where everything I have studied said I should be. I have to say I felt so satisfied and no cravings what so ever and its easy.

Last night I had to laugh because I ate a whole bag of microwaveable broccoli with about 1 tsp of Ranch dressing. That is 4 servings which is only 100 calories and then a 160 cal. Smart One. Very filling and taste great.

Well I have to get going because the work is piling up.

Talk at you all later.