HI and a big welcome to you. Make yourself right at home. We are here for you. :)

Yeah, not good. I gained a pound.


I am just not going to be able to eat supper with Jennifer. I may splurge once in a while but for the most part I'll have a supplement at supper and a low fat snack before I go to bed.

The bars and pudding I got from the hospital are gross. I doubt I'll eat them. I will hit Wal-Mart and get some bars from them.

I'll go into more detail later. I'm really tired this morning and i need to get my hair washed before i leave.

Hi and :welcome: ! sorry to hear you are extra down, and hells yeah I would blame it on living in a brutal winter place! I go extra downhill through November and December. Congrats on exercising the past 3 days! check in here often for some good friendship :)

congrats on no Mtn dew for a week! and no fast food for a month! :carrot: :bravo: you are making progress Lisa!! in the evenings, when I am trying SO hard no to think about eating or snacking, sometimes I have just given up and gone to bed to avoid the temptation.

thank you for your input about the therapy. I know it takes work and I just always want things to be better right away. I do subscribe to someone online who sends motivational emails and they are helpful. And I always kinda bounce back once the weather's nice :roll: but thank you so much for your concern Lisa nd I applaud you for sticking to therapy for so many years!

did you have the appt today with the contractor?
and yes it was odd that your daughter did NOT get mad about the tracked-in-poo! yay for small miracles :D

best wishes with the endoscopy tomorrow and sorry to hear of the PCOS diagnosis, JesikaBeth. congrats on a good start with WW!

Hi to EasySpirit Monica, I'm glad you got a LOL from the R@t B@stard story :D

yeah I do the comparing thing All the time, something I need to STOP.

Hey here's a benefit to our consistent exercise - today I tried to get into my car, i say 'tried' because 3 of my 4 doors were frozen shut! The rear right passenger door did open.. I have a small car, a Chevy Impala, and it has a center console that is bulky! but I climbed in through that rear door, wormed my way inbetween the front seats and over that center console, with my huge boots making it difficult, then plopped down into driver's side and putting my weight into it, shoulder/elbowed the damn thing open :devil:

Hello to Coop and Kathleen :wave:

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. I had a doctor appointment today. The scale said 274 (I think?), up 3lbs within a few weeks. The scale has fluctuated a lot lately. I am still not sure if I should weigh in weekly or daily. I know weekly would be better for me, but it's hard for me to stay off of the scale. The doctor I saw today was a neurologist (I get migraines). I decided to go back on the med I was on before, this one can even help with weight loss.

Anyway. I exercised again today, this would be day 4. It seems as if exercising is easy for me, but eating healthy is not. I don't know why it's so hard for me. I am so tired of abusing food. Food is used to help fuel our bodies, instead I just keep trashing my body with excessive amounts. I am trying to keep in mind that sure I can have 2 cookies, but there's no reason to eat 2 in a row. Spread it out throughout the day.

I made a list of all the reason why I want to lose weight/get healthy. The only con I have is that the only weight loss/getting healthy/eating better ordeal is a lot of work. :/ Ugh!

Hi everyone and Happy New Year! I hope you all had a lovely end and start tof the Year!
I wrote out a long post yesterday, but had trouble posting- thankfully I managed to recover it so I could try again today, then you’ve all gone and been so busy overnight!

Hi hiimawkward! Welcome to the forum, I wish you luck in battling your postpartum depression. It’d be great if your medication did help with weight loss! I know how it feels with junk food taking over – I used to be great at stopping myself, then I lost all control. I find it easy enough to not buy junk food, but as soon as it’s in the house, I can’t stop myself. I’m going to give up sugar for a while, see if I can kick the habit. Also, I’d recommend you don’t weigh yourself daily. It’s not good for you. Bodies fluctuate every day depending on how much you eat/drink/exercise, and if you weigh every day, you get hung up on the ounces, rather than the bigger picture. Weighing weekly on the same day each week is best. Weigh yourself in the morning too.

Lisa sorry to hear you gained a pound. I hope it will shift fast with your new supplements. I’m so impressed with you for kicking the mountain dew and junk food! That stuff is just so addictive, it’s a great feeling when you can say you haven’t had it for a while. Make sure you have some fiber in the evenings as well, that helps you feel fuller for longer too. Do you have a start date for your kitchen being fixed?

holly I'm amazed how many sandwiches you guys made! I hope the r@t b@stard gives you a decent bonus for it :) I agree therapy can be quite good - I was terribly homesick, and it threw me into depression. I started visiting a counsellor, and it improved my mood enough to allow me to come off my meds. If you do your research, i'm sure you'll find someone you like. Do you have a SAD lamp at all? It might help you in the winter months.

Well I didn't start any food diary yesterday - i'm still off work, so we have been going out for walks and having a few too many treats while we’re out! I'm finally through our Christmas chocolates, the last of the pringles and 90% of the drinks. I wanted to start my sugar detox yesterday, but we still had a little bit of junk left. I think i'm going to try starting this Saturday. I'll start my food diary tomorrow too.

I feel so much better now. I had 3 small scrambled eggs, they tasted so good. My total for the day is 1411, it's a little low but that is ok. I must have really been dehydrated, I have almost had 800 fl oz of water in 30 minutes.

One last thing, I have found the best web site to help with food journals. It is called https://www.fatsecret.com/Diary.aspx...29722&dt=17172

For some reason, I find it easier than myfitnesspal.


Have a great night ladies. I'll try to post again tomorrow.

yay to you for exercising 4 days in a row! same with me, I don't really mind the working out, but to deny myself food? it's close to impossible :( but we will keep trying!

Hi Coop did you start your sugar detox yesterday? it is so hard when you have to throw out the holiday junk isn't it! but our bodies do so much better without the crap food right.

Hi Lisa, hey congrats on your big decision about the house and I think it is a good idea also! Oh and I never consider any good advice 'bugging' me :D I appreciate it!!

I have to see a new general practitioner this week, my old doctor is retiring and I had to find a new one. I go to the doctor , truly, about once every 4 years for simple things, bronchitis, a tetanus shot..maybe this new doctor will tell me that if I take Wellbutrin, I should talk to someone too, and have suggestions.

and HI to Kathleen, we miss you!