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Good morning everybody!
First: Congratulations to the binge free chicks!! :carrot: Second: I have to admit that I am a bit dumb today....I am feeling quite good (despite the exams on Friday/ Monday/ Wednesday), I am binge free, I am exercising and like it and my first measurement- jeans start to fit better. So, what do you do when you are Kate and feeling good? Yes, you guessed it: jumping on the scale. Yeaha. Good news: I havenīt gained weight. Bad news: I havenīt lost weight. I KNOW that itīs not PMS....maybe my body is holding back water because I am not drinking enough and itīs so hot here. Or itīs another of that 3.749 reasons why your weight fluctuate. But I was a little bit shocked.... Itīs strange: my scale says 164 pounds, but I can wear a jeans I bought last year. And I know that I starved myself to fit into that jeans (for a special occasion). I weighed 156- 154 pounds then. I only weared it twice, then washing machine, dryer and then it was hidden in my closet. Anyway. I am not weighing myself again this week. And maybe better not next week. Hope everyone is having a good day! Kate |
Good Morning Kate, I should be heading to bed as it is almost 2 am here.
Your doing everything right Kate but sometimes our bodies just don't do what we want them too. Even though the scale hasn't moved you have lost inches to fit in those jeans that is wonderful. Stay strong and that scale will eventually move |
Hi Everybody! :wave:
I had a good day yesterday! :dance: Today, I've noticed that I'm starting to dwell on thoughts of food (oh, what CAN I eat now) I hope my binge-beast is not waking up :yikes:!!!! Help! Quick.... get the binge-beast sedation darts!!!! I think a big part of my problem is that I love to cook almost as much as I love to eat! :chef: I read recipes, watch cooking shows and always read thru the food forums here at 3FC. Making food that tastes yummy, looks good and is healthy is a pleasure to me. Maybe it is a pleasure I need to curtail?!?!? I'm starting to wonder if I'm like an alcoholic who goes to wine tastings? You know, the one that tastes and doesn't spit it out!??!? Hmmmm..... My dh made an astute observation :chin: after tasting a Thanksgiving meal prepared by someone else --who shall remain nameless! I'm talking about canned green beans without any seasonings, canned sweet potatoes without anything added and a turkey which was both BONE dry and undercooked (it really takes talent to cook a turkey THAT badly!) for Thanksgiving supper served on paper plates!!! DH said, "I can see why they are all so thin. Food like that makes you not want to eat!" Everyone took these incredibly small servings! DH and I were STARVING after dinner and went to a buffet after we left:o It seems like a potential remedy to my love of food----make food that NO one could possibly love! I KNOW that dh will not be happy :tantrum: if I start cooking frozen meals or stop putting effort into my culinary endeavors! Ok, enough babbling................ My3tots~ Quote:
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Kate~WOOHOO on fitting into those skinny jeans! :carrot: You go girl!!! Exercise can make such a HUGE difference! does it really matter what the evil :devil: scale says?!?!? (remember the evil scale is a cousin of the binge beast?!??!) If I wear a size 4 do I really care if I weigh 400lbs?!?! Nah...... :hug: to everyone who is lurking and who doesn't feel able to post here YET........We hope to see you all SOON!!! |
Kate~I forgot to say this in my very LONNNNGGGG post...
Your avatar looks great! You are so pretty! |
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Don't stop cooking! Maybe just try some new dishes that are a little lower in calories? I'd give anything to be able to cook well. :dizzy: Mel, how are you, hon? :hug: How's the baby doing? Kate, you're doing GREAT!! Never mind the scale right now... that'll come. The fact that you're exercising and binge-free is awesome, girl! :cheer: Koko, keep at it, hon!! :hug: I'm sort of binge-free today. :) Mainly because there's nothing to eat in here! I just bought a food processor, a new pot, and a chopping knife. I'm seriously considering taking a cooking class. What's the point in having all this stuff if I'm just going get take-out? :D |
OK Harpo call off the search party :hug: haha...im here, just in lurk mode. I have been doing "OK" I set a new goal for myself of 3 miles a day 5 days a week and not over 1700 calories a day and so far so good I'm sticking to it (at least the exercise part). I still have bad days I was 7 days BF then had 7 not so great days and now I am pulling myself BACK up again :( after another 4 days BF a certain Devil made a reappearance into my diet late last night and was knocking at my munchie door again today (actually was on the desk half way to my mouth) when i got 2 PMs from some great ladies here on 3FC. Needless to say the devil got washed down the garbage disposal:) thanks for that girls :hug:
My scales are actually showing a major loss and my waist has shrunk again too so even the days I have been bad haven't been too bad i guess. I went to walmart to buy some shorts and took a 12 to the dressing room since its what i wore my last chothes shopping trip...(december) it was big on me so i took a 10 and still too loose took the 8 in there and they were loose too but not like falling down loose so i bought them :) i havne't bought a size 8 Faded Glory product in a few years so it felt good. :cp: I think the last time i was here I was going to to the Dr for severe pms and he diagnosed me with PMDD and put me on Sarafem and so far it is working wonders and my mind feels free without that dark cloud that has been there all year. I smile more and keep my temper more and just all around feel great. Although I have really bad chest pains caused from indejestion since i started this medication :( but i can deal with that as long as my mind is clear enough to enjoy my kids again :) No explaination as to why i haven't been here...I guess I kinda knew that I was on the wagon for a short time and didn't want to post yet another failure....:?: :shrug: I got some disturbing news yesterday when i found out one of my daughters preschool classmates mom has breast cancer :( a very progressive cancer. She used to jog EVERY day with her little girl by my house her little girl riding along on her bike. EVERY day this woman jogged and she has been my source of inspiration to work out. Even on cloudy gloomy days she was out there jogging :( She is 29 years old and her daughter is only 5. That is my age ,and I don't know; I feel so bad for her and for her little girl and husband. She went from perfectly healthy to chemo in 3 weeks :( Its really tearing me up. She worked so hard to get healthy and now this. I guess its the reason for last nights devil encounter and todays as well. I feel like whats the point right now. My inspiration may not live to the end of the year and her little girl will not be old enough to remember her. Me and her aren't really friends. I mean we talk on the street if we see each other and stuff but not like I can call her up and give her my best well wishes and stuff...I wouldn't even know what to say. She has no idea that because of her I started on my healthier road and now she is fighting for her life. Its scary....OK that vent is out and amazingly i feel alot better. |
Sharon, welcome back! We've missed you. :hug:
I'm so glad the Sarafem is working for you. It's so hard to live a healthy life when you're feeling miserable. And I'm really sorry to hear about the young mother with breast cancer. :( That's such a heart-breaker. I lost a very dear friend to a brain tumour this year... his little boys are eight and four. It just doesn't seem fair when you're a wonderful parent and you're doing everything right in terms of healthy living. |
I told you, Sharon ;)
I think we all fall into lurker mode when we have consectutive bad days. It's great you fit into 8's!!! I'm in 14's now and they are getting baggy, but I got my one pair of capris from Cato's and I think they cut them big. You should try Cimeditine for your indegestion. It's the generic form of Tagamet and they sell it at most dollar stores for $1 or $2. It's the ONLY thing that works for my acid reflux. It's so sad about your acquanitance. It's a good reminder that we all need to self-check ourselves, at any age. ~~~ As for me, last night I ate a piece of cake that I said, "if I eat this, it will throw me into a binge" and it did!!! But today, I've been binge free. I have a really bad habit of not exercising on days that I binge (which makes NO SENSE at all), but I've decided to exercise EVERY day, regardless of bingeing. This is why I've lost one pound in the past 6 weeks!!!! |
3/7 it was so hard to achieve today :dizzy:
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Good morning!
Yeaha! :carrot: My scale (a.k.a the bad cousin of Elizabeths binge beast) gave up today. Maybe it was due to my really brave effort to stay nearly perfectly binge free yesterday and drink that "healthy" amount of water yesterday, but I am down that *** 2 pounds!! That means that I lost 10 pounds until now!! :carrot: LeaLee: It was sad to read about the young mother with breast cancer. You know, I always thought that you are quite "save" to get no breast cancer until your 40s... Maybe I am not the person to give advice here, but I have a lot of people in my family fighting with cancer (like two of my aunts. Several family member already lost the fight against it. Like my father, my grandmother and two uncles) I know that there are a lot of insecurities towards such ill persons. I guess most people donīt know what to say and how to react. And a lot of people say: Oh, I just know her, we are not close friends, so I donīt call. A lot of people shy away. I experienced that calls and wishes from other people (who donīt necessarily have to be best friends before) are highly appreciate. If not, most people are able to say it...My family apperiated such calls- when they are not totally dumb. Like telling my father shoud drink his urine or something like that. And you wrote that this young woman was your inspiration. So why donīt take all your courage and tell it to her? The fight against cancer has (despite all that chemo stuff) a lot to do with psychiology. Maybe she is glad to hear it and "motivates" her a bit. Elizabeth: Thanks for the compliment :o Youīre right: I SHOULDNīT care what the scale say....But itīs strange: I lost that 10 pounds slowly and with exercising. So I actually look thinner then i am. Or it just feels that way because I came from a higher number.... I think itīs perfect that you are such a good cook!! You know, you are able to do all that fancy healthy recipes! You donīt have to stick with frozen meals or something like that! After all, itīs WHAT you cook- and the amount of food you cook. I am not so trained in cooking. I remember that I binged a lot more as I was living in my own apartment. I wasnīt able (or wanted) to cook real meals, so I ate all that junk....Unfortunately I made my first cooking experiences while working at a Party Service kitchen- each seving was for at least 20 persons. I still have a hard time with the amount of food I am cooking. My mother always says "Hey, you invited 18 persons to lunch today!" :D Congratulations to all you binge free chicks! Have a nice day and take care of yourself! Kate |
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I was looking around on the Internet, and read about taking cider vinegar. Have you ever tried it? I keep a bottle by my bed (that's when I suffer... as soon as I put my head down), and take one tsp just before I turn in. It gives you a major jolt as it goes down, but it works instantly. It's amazing! |
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I did a search and found, imo, a short but interesting article on the medicinal uses of vinegar. It also explains how it helps with the acid reflux. http://frugalliving.about.com/cs/tip...inmedicine.htm |
Hello!
Whew! I survived a day of fighting with my binge-beast! :boxing: I was starting to have those evil :devil: persistent thoughts of food that precede a binge attack. I carefully :mag: considered my emotional and stress status. Thankfully, both are low to neutral. Then I decided to try a dietary approach. Normally I would go for LOTS of low calorie foods---i.e. large quantities of lettuce :moo: to graze on or high fiber stuff like oatmeal. Instead of trying that, I decided to go for something that was high protein with lots of healthy fats. It worked like a charm! Switched off my crazy :crazy: food thoughts! Really amazing! It took about 1-1.5 hours to subdue the binge-beast but the rest of the day was so much easier. Ellis~Hiya! I think a cooking class would be fun! Of course, I do have this weird cooking fetish! :chef: I would love to take a class on healthy cooking. I recently passed up the chance to have a real French chef come into my home for personal cooking lessons. I can't think of many french foods that are healthy and he (the chef) couldn't either when I asked him. So, why torture myself? Lealee~Welcome back! WOOHOO:carrot: :flame: :carrot: WOOHOO SIZE 8 That is sooooooooo awesome!!! Congrats! Single digits~~yay you! It's really sad & scary about your acquaintance. Working as a nurse, I saw so many young people that were terminally ill. I briefly worked in a pediatric critical care unit, but couldn't deal with the unfairness. I started to question God and knew it was time to change. The things I learned are that life really isn't fair and NO doctor, nurse or human being can EVER know what is in God's plan for us. I've seen a person who was comatose for over 3 years wake up and I've seen "terminal" patients live for years. I've also seen "healthy" young people die suddenly. Life is so precious. That is one of the MANY reasons that I hate HATE HATE dealing with persistent food thoughts. It is such a waste of time. sigh. Harpo~I can relate with the food thing triggering a binge. :hug: I don't know if you eat this, but salmon really killed my binge inclination yesterday. I guess the protein and healthy fats did it. I'm trying to think of some good foods with protein and healthy fats to start keeping on hand. Good luck! I KNOW you can do this---you've come sooooooooooooo far! Kokomo~ :bravo: :cp: :bravo: WTG on staying binge free! You'll make a week SOON! Kate~:cheer: :woo: :cheer: 2lbs lost! Congrats on your success! It is well earned success due to your hard work! :grouphug: to everyone, including those in lurk mode! |
WTG all on being Binge free!!
I was looking over my journal today when i was giving advice on the cyber purger board and discovered something awesome that made me almost cry..for TWENTY SIX days I have stayed below 2000 calories! Made me feel silly for being in lurk mode for a few "bad" days they weren't even out of control binges..just the devil (If ya know "who" i mean Harpo ;))sneaking into my day somewhere along the way. Thank you all for your comments about the young mom :) I have decided to get her a card and let her know that her jogging led me to wanting to get healthy. My neighbor knows her really well so I have decided to send it through her. |
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Holy ****! 1 WHOLE WEEK! I did it, I haven't binged since last friday. :carrot:
I am very happy. I know I'm going to do good today i have to go to my weight watchers meeting. I hope I'm still losing. I don't care if it's 1 pound as long as it's down! :hug: |
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