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Together they are great from time to time. Every now and again I will buy a pack of reese cups and eat one. One is more than enough for me. Peanut butter without chocolate is nasty lol and yet I love peanut butter cookies.

Hi everyone,
I had a pretty good weekend. I was sleeping about midnight last night and my cell phone rang..it was my daughter in college and she called to announce that she was engaged. We knew it was coming just not sure when...so i have even more reason to get my butt moving this week!! My son got married in dec last year and i decided then that i wouldnt be FAT when my daughters got married............thank god I have lost what i have and really have to bump it back up a notch or two...looks like i may have 6 months to get some more off. So back to daily exercise!!
I actually am not usually a big peanut butter person but lately i have been craving it. I will make a half sandwich or just grab a spoonful.........my husband is like you dont even like pb whats the deal...I think i may need the extra protein.
Well I sure hope everyone has a great week of dieting and exercise and lots of water!!

Congratulations, dgramie, on your daughter's engagement. Lot's of planning ahead of you.

I like peanut butter but not with jam or jelly. I like it with bananas, marmalade, honey, fresh fruit slices and of course in sweets and with chocolate. My DH eats it everyday and if I offered pb&j sandwiches for dinner he'd be just as pleased as if I'd slaved over a hot stove all day.

We're getting dumped with rain from the remnants of "Hannah" but no wind damage thank goodness. And it's chilly. I made oatmeal this morning to warm my poor old bones. It's supposed to clear up later on today. I don't have anything to complain about though when I see the damage these hurricanes and tropical storms do farther south.

Congratulations dgramie! How exciting! :congrat:

LOL! That's funny. My husband is the same way. He can put away the PB&J!

The is my first post here. I have enjoyed reading everyones posts though.

I LOVe Chocolate- just about any kind! Love it Love it Love it. :chockiss:

I love PB too and OMG if it is combined. sorry i had to get that out. lol.

I love 3Fc too. I am so glad i found this place. It is nice to see that i am not the only one that totally screwed up my weekend and it is nice to hear all the inspirations to not do it again. I have to say i am always looking at peoples starting weights and thier tickers because for this gives me so much inspiration. To see how far people have come. I think it is absolutely wonderful to see how people can do it, and make a change like this for them selves. Congrats to everyone even for 1 lb!!!:hug:


On another note.......
Have any of you ever noticed that the same people that say "how do you let yourself get that big" or "people should have more self control than to let themselves get that big" or "she should not be eating that...." are the same people that when you are out with them say have some of this or some of that..... they contribute to it! They are part of the problem. but i guess it is up to the person to say no. I just wish some people were not so hypocritical of it. Sorry for the rant.....

dl
Welcome
Do you notice the ones that say you really need to lose weight are the same ones that buy you candy for holidays lol.

retire
My husband would eat the stuff all the time. I let him have it on saturdays for lunch and that is it. lol

dg
Congrats

I feel so violated ladies. Someone on 3fc tipped me off that my goal pictures had been stolen off of this site and were being used to market bodybuilding products. Which is funny since I never lifted a weight during my weight loss. Thank you to the person who messaged me! I emailed the company and they've taken down the link, but I still feel so violated. I'm taking down all pictures and personal info from all the sites I'm on.

As far as food went, this weekend was anything, but damage control. Stupid TOM! Anyway, I'm determined to get back on the wagon today.

I hope everyone is having a good Monday!

Shy - thanks for the Welcome and yes i do notice that its like "Did you really just give me that?"

Zenor - I was just reading your Thread about that before i came over here. That is Horrible and i would feel Violated too. That just goes to show how many fake weight loss stories are actually out there. And it really shows how your pics and info are not safe on the internet. Makes you wonder how many people they have done that to. sorry that happened to you.

Wow! That is crazy.

I belong to a couple of motorcycle forums and a woman there had one of her pictures stolen and published in a motorcycle magazine.

Um, that is so much worse! Yikes!

Wow, that is horrible. I wish people could realistically sue over things like that. Mebbe after being zapped a few times they would learn some respect. I'm so sorry. :(

That's awful zenor! I noticed you put up a post in the announcements section. Good idea! Everyone needs to be aware of such things happening. Hope you're doing ok! :hug:

Thanks everyone!

My calories were good today. I think I was so busy being peeved I forgot to be hungry. Lol.

another small weight loss this week! yay! its so crazy that I'm eating so many calories and losing every week. Still having the glass of wine with dinner most nights too.

I'm going to try and join in on a walking challenge to get me exercising. I'm terrible about exercise.

I came in short on calories yesterday but got alot of exercise..I jumped on the minitramp for 20 min and then walked 4 miles in an hour with a friend from church. It was great!! I am so pumped about getting the wedding plans going. Its was just the inspiration to get my tail moving again. They are thinking maybe may..but no date yet. That gives me9 months to get the rest of the weight off. I dont know if i can lose all i want to by then but i should be able to lost alot of it!! Cant wait to compare picture pictures from my sons wedding(306) to my daughters wedding( hopefully under 180 by then).

zenor_ how awful for you..i had my sil get into my account here and read all my pms and stuff..that was bad enough. I think your story will keep me from posting pictures!!
rain- i have missed you on the 300+ thread.
hugs to all

Hi everyone! I'm new to this thread but not calorie counting, I've been doing it so far for about 2 months.

This past weekend my mom was in town, so I unintentionally did some calorie cycling; earlier in the week I was bit below my calorie target and then over the weekend I was above. I did my weigh-in Monday morning and I had lost 3 pounds! I may try incorporating calorie cycling into my plan and see if I continue to use.

Good morning everyone! I posted in here last week, then wandered off for a few days, but now I'm back...

I tried my first weekend of eating at a higher, closer to maintenance calorie level. I've been averaging 1265/day the last two weeks of weight loss, so the advice was to add 100-200 to that number. So, I did 1475 (210, so close...) for Saturday, Sunday, 1425 yesterday. And, I weigh one pound more today than I did on Friday...:eek:

Now, intellectually, I know that it is water weight - I've weighed one pound up pretty much every Monday & Tuesday for the last few weeks because I never never never get enough water on the weekends so I retain like a fiend... My BW percentage is only 57.6 today, and was 58.9 on Friday, so it is pretty clear I need to get more hydrated. There is no way I ate 3500 calories over what I burned on Sat, Sun & Mon. Heck, I didn't even eat a total of 3500 calories on Sat & Sun together... :)

Irrationally, I'm freaking out a little... I posted in another thread that I'm scared of upping calories for maintenance. Shaky hands, short of breath scared... I'm afraid that I'll lose it with coffee creamer here, a french fry there, etc, and be right back where I started. As I feel better now than I have ever felt (except for the head cold I'm picking up!) I really don't want to do that...

I'll pop back in later and reply to specific posts, but have to go to a conference call now... Thanks for reading my vent! :o

Tinky~ What to share your green chile recipe? I made a vegetarian version last night and I'm using it to make bean and cheese enchiladas tonight, but I just got the recipe off the web. It's good, but I'm unsure of it's authenticity. We like it here. I still need to find a job, but I'm working on it. The fair just started and I think we may go later in the week when the weather forecast is better.

CoolMom~ Congrats on the loss! Isn't it great that you can lose and still have wine?

dgramie~ Oh how I love weddings! How exciting.

Chemgirl22~ Welcome!

Shannon~ You'll be fine! I was freaked out about upping my calories for maintenance too, but I actually upped my calories and lost a few more lbs because I wasn't upping them enough. Just make sure to drink your water! ;) BTW, just so you know, I gained a few back from stress and moving this summer, not from my maintenance calories. Lol.

Well, I hope everyone is having a great day! I'm in a much better mood now that the picture thing is resolved. Now, I need to focus on finding a job. *Sigh* I hate job hunting!

Okay, done with call and going to respond to some posts..

dgramie - cool news about the upcoming wedding!

CoolMom - I love wine, and am thinking I need to work a small glass into my maintaining life here soon.

Tinky - I'm jealous of your upcoming vacation, mine is still 5 weeks away...

retire - I'm just realizing how much I love cheese, so I'm trying to head it off at the pass and not get attached to it... My grandaddy used to tell me "Baby, cheese and black pepper will kill you, never eat them" - don't know why they will kill you, but I didn't eat either of them until recently...

Shy & Dlhphnmomva- my mother makes Easter baskets, Halloween baskets, Christmas stockings, Valentine's day baskets all packed full of candy for all of us... She has cut back significantly since my SIL and I started trying to eat healthier... Now, she says SIL & I are 'wasting away' so she might beef up the candy... The quirky part is that my mom weighs 97 pounds and is fussing about her weight gain (she did weigh 83 pounds at 5'2" before...)

zenor - wow, that is terrible about the pics... Good luck with the job search, I know that can make a person crazy...

Chemgirl - welcome! I did some calorie cycling during my weight loss process and it seemed to help me when I had stalled a few times. I wasn't dilligent enough to keep it up long term...

Good day all!

Zenor, what a shock to see your pictures posted somewhere else. I never saw your pictures but they must have looked good. And good luck with the job hunt.

Coolmom, why don't you try the 3FC 5k challenge to get you in gear. See my signature to go to the sign up page and learn all about it. I started with 1k in April and now I do 5K 3x a week.

dgramie, you'll look fit and trim at the wedding. Just don't get too excited and forget to eat at all.

Hi Chemgirl. Calorie cycling sounds good if you don't go hungry on the days you cut back. I tend to do that now and then if something special is coming up and I know there'll be food I won't resist.

Shannon I feel the same way about a chip here or there, etc. Silly thoughts that come into our heads sometimes. My dad wouldn't eat black pepper either. Said it wasn't fit to put inside your body. I know cheese is full of saturated fats and that'll contribute to "killing" you.

Tinky, hope you get all your work done before your vacation. Just try and eat clean when you're rushing about trying to get everything done. I tend to grab junk or nothing at all and end up overeating or starving.

We have a nice sunny day and I've got a line of clothes out just ready to be taken in. All the rain is gone from Hannah and no damage was done as it was downgraded to a post tropical storm. Sort of petered out by the time it got to us.

ok ladies..i think i am overwhelmed today with all the changes going on in my life!!My son got married on dec 31 now they are expecting a baby girl in 6 weeks. Now my middle child is engaged and my baby started college.Life sure moves fast at this age. Everyone who has small kids or young teens give them an extra tight few hugs..enjoy your time with them. They grow up to fast!!!
Im craving protien today ..figure its from cutting to low yesterday. I will be careful and make sure i get enough calories. Thanks for all the well wishes!
hugs

Dgramie, we can't control what happens with our grown children. One minute you're tucking them in a cradle and the next you're wondering who that bearded adult is down in the nursery. Twenty years fly by in a blink. I, too have felt that overwhelmed feeling. I guess the only thing you can control is how you handle the changes. Sometimes I handled them well and other times...well, let's just say I've used up more than one box of tissues. It's hard to let go at times, even when the kids are doing good things in their lives. My DS and DIL are expecting their first baby in March. This is our first grandchild and we're all excited. Here's a hug :hug: from one old chick to another.

retiredone_ thank you so much for the hug! I am very excited about all the changes..I love my dil dearly. I love the my future sil and knew for a long time he was the one for my daughter!!Basically it has just been waiting for them to finish college to get married. I am so excited about my new granddaughter i can hardly stand it. I cant wait to hold her in my arms. Her mom has another ultrasound today(34 wks). I pray for one more month before she comes!
I think what overwhelmed me yesterday was just how fast things change. That and TOM is here ...cant wait for tom to go away and stay away!!
I guess the reason i was so hungry yesterday was Toms fault as well.LOL I made good choices though!
Better go and drink my coffee and get my 20 min on the minitramp in before the little kids i keep get here

We love our DIL too. She's a real sweetie and DS#2's GF is a girl we've known for years and I even taught her in school. She a lovely girl and we're hoping they will eventually get married too.

What's TOM? :rofl: (sorry) I had a partial hysterectomy in my late 30s so I haven't had a visit for years. It seems so unfair that nature keeps sending it along when you know you don't want any more children. Should be a button to press or a key to turn to fix that problem.

I've kept to my caloric goal all week so far and have done all my exercises so I feel good about myself. I just made chocolate cupcakes for a church potluck this weekend and the cakes don't tempt me but the frosting does. I'm a pot/bowl licker and the frosting is just there waiting to be licked. I'll have to plunge the bowl in soapy water immediately upon frosting the cupcakes. The cupcakes will go in the freezer when they are frosted.

Good morning everybody... I'm finding myself more and more freaked out this week about the maintenance calories thing - I still weighed a pound more than Friday when I weighed this morning and typically my water retention from the weekend clears out by Wednesday... I do still feel a little puffy and have a little first two weeks of new pack of Seasonale spotting, so again, rationally I know what is going on, but it is still grating at me... Then, to add to it, I've worried myself into a headache so didn't work out this morning and now I feel worse than I did when I got up... :(

Blah, blah, blah... I need to quit fussing, get up, dust myself off and I'll be fine...

dgramie - you do have a lot going on all at one time! Even good things cause stress and can overwhelm a little, I know! :hug: It will all be beautiful, though, I'm sure.

Thank you for all of the welcomes.

If nobody minds i would like to ask, what is calorie cycling.
I mean i just try to stay with in my calorie range and try to pick the healthiest food s for my calories. And excersise to get at least a 300-500 calorie defecit for the day. But i just started reading somethings about calorie cyccling and i am not sure what that is.:?:

well i on my Weigh in theis morning i was at 198!!! WOoooooo HOOOOOO!!!:woohoo: that is 3 lbs down!!

Zenor - I hated looking for a job too. It was hard decision for me to make to leave my last job. I do not like starting over!

Well i will not get to excersise tonight but my league is tonight so i will be gettting some good excersise there.

Hey, everyone. It has been a rough few days, in Rain Dancer country. I had a blow out binge day on the eighth, major yuk, then on the ninth, (my wedding anniversary, wouldn't you know?) I got the news that my Daddy had died. He had prostrate cancer and we have known for a year that we were going to lose him, but it was a painful shock, all the same.

I am doing all right, staying on track. I am determined not to let this throw me. I must admit, the idea of just drowning myself in food is rather appealing, right now. But, it won't do me any good. And it won't make the ache in my heart any better. It will just make me sick and mad at myself.

Dgramie, that is wonderful news, about your new grand baby. You must be so excited! :D

Zenor, I am sorry that your pics got pilfered. I belong to another website that is a magnet for photo stealing weirdos. What is wrong with people? :mad:

I hope that you are all having a good one. Talk to you all, soon. :smug:

Tinky
No one buys me anything I don't want in the house but I have seen my sisters husband do that to her over the years.

Shannon
Do you know one of the first things I did was stop making candy. Everyone hates that they no longer get it on holidays but I just couldn't keep making it and not having a taste here and there. It isn't the huge amounts of food that got me this way. I never ate huge amounts of food. I am sure the taste here and there sure helped to get me where I am lol.

Rain
I am so sorry to hear of your loss. We knew my father didn't have long but it was still a shock the day it happened. You are very right. Eating isn't going to make you feel better. Only time lets wonderful memories replace the pain you are feeling. Will keep you in my prayers.

:hug: I'm so sorry about your loss, Rain.

Rain Dancer, so sorry about your Dad. It's always painful when death steals a loved one. Will keep you in my prayers and thoughts.

Rain, I'm so sorry you're having such a hard time. Imagine lots of big virtual hugs from all of us.

Rain - sorry for your loss... I know that food seems like the best option now but you have to stay strong and get through... staying on track will be the best feeling that you could have right now.

Rain - I would like to offer my condolences. loosing someone close to you is always heartbreaking. And like you have already said the food will just make you more miserable and i am sure that is not how your dad would want you to be. Keep your head up and on track and let time heal your heart. Our prayers are with you.

Good morning everyone...

Rain - I'm so sorry to hear about your dad. My thoughts are with you - even when you expect it it is never any easier. I also believe your dad wouldn't want you to fall off track with something so important to you - he would want you to take care of yourself as best you can.:hug:

dlp - calorie cycling is what is sounds like - varying your calories to keep your body from getting accustomed to one level. The articles about the calorie cycling talk about chemicals that your body produces when you change your levels, I don't really remember all those details, just that there are different schools of thought on the actual cycling. I've seen people who change their intake my 100-150 calories every day, some who go a few days at one level, then go down 100-200, then go up above starting level, then back down, some who keep one reasonably low level M-F then go up on weekends, there are a lot of variations. if you search for calorie cycling in the other forums you will see a lot of discussion on it.

I've been on plan with my 1450-1500 calorie target. I did go to Sonic last night with DH (he had a bad bad day) and had a Jr. Banana split - according to the website it was only 180 calories and 3.5 grams of fat. It was the cutest little thing I've ever seen, and the perfect snack size to satisfy the ice cream craving without going overboard. :)

shannon - :thanks: for telling about the calorie cycling. i was a little embarrased :o to ask what it was. Now that i know it's like duh, it is just what it sounds like. thanks again.

Raindancer, I am sorry for your loss.

I also have something else to say to you and please take this with every bit of kindness imaginable because I mean no disrespect.

I have been noticing in your posts that now and then you seem to have a binge. I had a peek at your blog and I noticed that for your height and weight your calories are at starvation mode levels. I'm 5'3 and close to 450 pounds and I am keeping my calories at 1600. I have also noticed that while doing this my desire to binge has greatly diminished. It is not gone away entirely but at 1600 calories it is easier to keep under control and say no to an entire bag of potato chips or a container of ice cream.

I think you need to increase your daily calories to get your binging under control. I believe you are binging because you are literally starving yourself. One day (on your blog) your calories were below 1000 and for a few days they were under 1200. That is not enough for someone of your height and weight.

Please consider what I said and again...I am sorry for your loss and I hope things get better for you.

dlp - I had no idea what it was at first either! :) Once I saw it though, it made so much sense!

1200 calories is a base amount to keep the body going. It isn't enough for anyone that has an active life style. Even at my height If I am active I need more calories. We all have to remember we have to eat to lose. The tummy thinks the throat has been slit and it isn't going to get anymore food. It is going to let the body know. The body is going to turn all it can into fat so that it doesn't go without energy. The worst thing we can do is not eat. There is a reason there are four basic food groups ( I do understand there are those that doesn't eat meat products but they do fill in that food group with other things ). Sometimes we have to become children again. We were taught in school, at an early age, about a healthy diet.

Shy, Blue, Retiredone, Cdiem, Didjaever, Dlphnmomva, Shannon, Canadianwoman, thank you for your hugs and condolences. :hug: They meant so much to me and helped to ease my sorrow.

Canadianwoman and Shannon, I have been giving this subject a lot of thought and I agree that too few calories may be a factor in triggering my binges. I don't think that is the only reason, as I was binging when I wasn't counting calories, but it may very well be a part of it. :smug: I have decided to try a bit higher target range and see how things go. Thank you for your concern. :D

Yesterday was a really, really bad day for me. In so many ways, not just my eating. But especially my eating. I am still stuffed and sick and very mad at myself. I really need to learn that using food as a drug or weapon against myself is never a good idea. It never turns out well.