:thanks: Linda!

Sherry,
WOW! Happy Birthday!! We are SO on the same page... near the same start... near the same goal... near the same amount of pounds lost to date... near the same age. I am going to be 40 in July. This was/is my motivation for finally doing this. I want to get a new body (or back to my former body) by my birthday as my gift for myself. HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! And, as if that wasn't enough in common, I understand about husband travel. My husband is on week 9 in a row!!! He comes home for the weekends, but this past weekend he came home on Sunday afternoon and left again Monday morning. I have an older child which I think is easier than you with the little guy. That must be tough! But I miss my husband so much when he is away and I hope this work/project will be over soon. It's been so long already. My son, (10) misses him too but handles himself very well!

Smashers, I am sorry I don't post more often. It is hard to do it during the week. Plus there seem to be more of you every time I log in who are getting started. This is a great plan and I have done well on it. (26 & 1/2 pounds so far). Things have slowed down though and that is mainly my fault. I have not brought hte exercise up to an hour. I also have not gone my 5 to 6 times a week the past few weeks. I did 4 and this week just 1 so far. I know what I need to do and I have not gained yet or maintained, so that's good. My goal for November is 10 pounds and so I have to kick it up.

You guys are positive and inspiring! Please know that I am here with you even when I am not posting a lot!! :) :)

Ok I went back further to read the rest of the posts and I just want to add Happy Birthday to Judy and Congratulations on that awesome loss Bouncy!!! Whooo hooo!! You may inspire me to redo detox... when I left it I never did it again. But I was supposed to do a day a week in Phase 3 and I didn't. :) Ok, and hello to all the new people!

:)

happyface~ We do have a lot in common! lol. Thanks for the happy birthday. It is hard when the husband travels. I should be used to it. My ex husband worked offshore and was gone 14 days and home 14 days. i was married to him for 12 years. But, I didn't have a baby then. To be honest.. by the 4th or 5th day that he was home.... I was ready for him to go back. lol. Guess that is why he is my EX husband. :)

Don't worry about not posting much. We understand. I go through times when I can't post too often either. You work.. don't you? I know it is hard when you have a job.

My motivation to lose weight is so I can get PG again. I want to be at a healthy weight in my next pregnancy. I also want to be healthier so that I can be around for my child/children.

Have a great night.
Sherry

Good Night Fellow Smashers. I hope everyone had a great day!!!

Sherry Happy B-day:hb: Hope the weekend comes quickly so you can celebrate with Hubby!

Judy Happy Belated B-Day!!!:gift: Hope you are enjoying your birthday week.

To everyone else:grouphug: :goodvibes :high: Hello!!!!
Today is my last day Detox part 2. I started phase 2 a little early by adding some turkey to my salad tonight. I am going to do Phase II till Thanksgiving then do another Detox.

Workout yesterday but not today had a splitting headache. Will make it a must to get it done tomorrow. Still sore from doing my Carmen Electra Striptease Workout :dancer: :lol: . When I was doing I was saying to myself what can you possible work out by shaking your booty! All I know was I woke up this morning so sore, I was walking funny!:lol:

Will do something tomorrow to break a sweat. :carrot:
Going to bed now, got to get my Beauty (fat smashing) rest.

Good night Smashers!!!!

Fashion Nelle - hang on just a sec - Carmen Electra Striptease Workout? Really? Wow! I bet that does work out all kinds of muscles! :o

Good night everyone - well, I'm going to be at work until midnight at least, waiting for election results - I've held strong to my no-more-caffeine stance, but I came close to relaxing that today.

Happy smashing! :cb:

Good morning Lovely ladies, I need to get ready for curves this am. So this
is a quick post !! lol Wishing all of you a great and very blessed day. lets
all of us keep on smahing !! we can do it!! so go team go!! Drink all of our water and make those great food choices and do our exercise and we will have what
we all want. The time will pass anyway , so why not make each day count.
remember no food tasts as good as thin feels!! Have a great day. lol

Carmen Electra Striptease Workout? sound fun>>>>>>>>>hew!! keep it up!!
the soreness will go !!

Good Morning Smashers!!

Today is supposed to be my weigh in. But since I started phase 1 again...I am waiting until day 10 to weigh. Today is day 2 for me. So far so good. :)

Fashion Nelle~ Thanks! I had a good birthday. I have a feeling that dh will be so tired when he gets home that we will probably just stay in so he can rest. That will be okay. We just enjoy being together.:hug:

Selkie~ How long did you have to work? Good job on resisting the caffeine. I know that was hard.

Linda~ Have fun at curves! Thanks for being such a motivational smasher. :)

Have a "smashing" day!

Sherry

Good morning
 

Hello my fellow smashers, everyone ready for a FAT SMASHIN day? Had my Oatmeal this morning with cinnamon and splenda and a little milk and a apple, did 30 min of the biggest loser workout and 30 min on my gazelle, and I am going to do 15 min on my Ab Lounge...I am just loving this program. Hope everyone is doing great!!!

Ladean:wave:

Sherry you are a very motivating smasher to me girfriend!! lol Keep up the good work , congrats on day two!! lol Go girl!!
Ladean nice to see you here this am. Work is driving me crazy!! hew!!
good breakfast girl!! I had cereal and a banbana and 1c. dec.
To all of you lovely smashers have a agood afternoon and keep on a smashing
you will look>>>>>>>>>>>>.so good!! lol will try to check in later.

Sherry - glad to hear detox is going well for you. We are on the same day and mine is going well too!

It seems like all of you are well on your way to another losing week :) Everyone is being so good with their exercise and water!

I have heard about that Carmen Electra striptease workout...maybe I should order it! Is it good cardio?

How much water is everyone drinking? I know you are supposed to take your weight, divide it by half and that is the number of oz you are supposed to drink per day. In my case that would be 75.5. I am getting in 72 almost daily...some days a little more, some days a little less. Some things I have been reading say 1 gallon per day. Is anyone doing that? If so, how did it effect your loss?

I concocted a great cassrole last night w/ 1 can veggie stock (I put 1/2 in the pan to begin w/ and added as needed), fresh garlic, dried basil & oregano, pepper, a hint of cayenne pepper (I like to my food w/ a little spice) and little salt, 3/4 of an onion chopped , 2 chopped celery stalks, (I added the celery & onion first while I chopped the rest of the veggies) thinly sliced zucchini and yellow squash. I probably added 3/4 a cup of each if I had to guess. I couldn't find my shredder, but if you have one, I think shredding the 2 veggies would be better so it would cook faster. I cooked it all in the skillet for maybe 15 min total (adding the additional stock as needed). Then I mixed it all up w/ 2 c brown rice and 1 c mozzarella flavored veggie shreds. I baked it about 20-25 min until the veggie shreds melted and boy was it good! Plus it was enough for 2 days. This morning I added a few egg whites to the leftover mixture, stirred it all up and put it in a nonstick skillet w/ some PAM and let it brown up on each side (this took a little while) and it made me feel like I was eating hashbrowns.

I am feeling BLOATED this week and I don't feel like I am losing on detox like I did the first time around. Or it could be all that crap I wasn't supposed to eat over the weekend :) I think I will go ahead and weigh in on Fri and then again next Tues or Wed when my 9 days are up. I hope I will lose a pound or two but five would be better! The weather is supposed to be beautiful here Thurs & Fri so I am going to go walking for 45 minutes each day at lunch along w/ my nightly Jazzercise class. Maybe 2 extra cardio sesions will help!

Did anyone see Oprah yesterday? There was a model on their who is one of the most successful plus sized models out there (she is a sz 12 so she is average, no plus sized except int he modeling world) but in the beginning she starved herself to lose like some ridiculous amount of weight and she got all the runway gigs. She got very sick and got back to normal size and now she has some of the biggest designers using her in their ads. I wish this would become the norm. I am big boned and no matter how much weight I lose, I will never be skinny. My hips won't let me :) Embrace those curves because voluptuous is so much sexier!

Have a beautiful day! Lem

Got my 1st exercise in last night since starting FS! And I used to be a fanatic - but the bod just isn't what it used to be - plus having a nasty cold. I have a huge collection of aerobics videos but have also been saving workouts from FitTV.

I tried a Gilad one & it was easy to follow & actually kind of fun since he had some new moves I've never tried. I can't do lunges (bad knees) & my granddaughter (4 yrs. old) told me I wasn't doing it right. I have to modify things I know I can't handle. I told her my knees hurt & she said, "They'll get better." I said something about being old and then she said, "Oh, you can't do it because you're an old lady." LOL!

Darlene - Don't feel guilty about the weaning off caffeine. You've got to do what you gotta do. Sticking to the rest of the plan will help with your goals. My tweak during detox was not using plain yogurt since I can't stand it. I've tried mixing it with Splenda & fruits but even using Stoneyfield that so many recommend as being the best, it tasted too sour to me. Hope you're feeling better.

Sherry - Hope you had a nice, relaxing b-day. My dh works a full-time job & is in 2 bands. Although once in a blue moon they'll play an overnight gig (far away with hotel rooms provided - depending where it is I'll go too if it's a fun gig) he does come home at night even though I barely see him. When we 1st got married (& he was only in 1 band), I didn't know how I'd handle it. I actually love it since I like having time to myself - although that rarely happens with 2 adult children & a grandchild at home. However, I'm sure it would be different if he was gone for such long stints.

WeightSmasher - Welcome and it's great to be prepared & have lots of variety on hand when doing detox. I know I've gotten off of caffeine in the past although I didn't drink much of it so maybe that's why I've never noticed it being bad.

Linda - I'm doing great although I'm not sure if I'm going to lose anything this week. I'll wait until Sat. weigh in & I'll be getting more exercise in but I have a feeling I might have to kick my daily calories down to see a loss on Phase II (or maybe try 1 day of detox to see if that does something). Too early to tell right now since I have a few days left.

happyface - You're doing great & I, too, might have to do a day of detox when I need to. I can handle one day, just never want to have to do it for 9 again! Wow - you also have the absent working dh. I guess you just have to get used to it, right?

Nelle - That's one tape I don't have yet! It's funny when you do a tape thinking it isn't doing anything & you wake up sore. Must have worked some of those muscles you just haven't worked on before!

Rachel - Do you get to start work later today since you had such a late night?

Ladean - Reading your post is making me tired! I am NOT a morning person. I always exercise at night. How do you like your ab lounge? I just don't have anywhere to put it. I saw the Ab-doer on FitTV & if I remember the reviews were pretty good on it.

Another thing I saw last night that interested me was one of those mini-trampolines. It showed the guy following a workout tape & it's less impact than regular aerobics. My only problem is that I think I'd get tired of the same workout tape although I could probably adjust my other tapes to it.

Hello Ladies,

I'm new to both FS and 3FC board, today is day one of P1. I was turned on to FS by a paralegal in my office. She is almost out of P1. I am excited that I don't have to fully eliminate milk, yogurt, or fruit from my diet. Those are my staples in life. However, I will have to cut back on the amount of dairy I eat/drink. I could go through three gallons of milk a week! I've got a stock pile of various kinds of apples at my desk in the event I get weak. Our floor is notorious for having food ALL DAY EVERY DAY for someone's birthday or celebration. It gets really tough around here. And not having my coffee is going to be hard, but I need to rid myself of sugar! And carbs. I over loaded yesterday on chineese food. Paying for it today. I hope to get to know all of you and help support all of our weight loss!!

Judy
 

LOL, I've been working out for quite awhile now, so doing an hour isn't hard for me, and let me tell you when I was first starting at 246 pounds, I couldn't do much, my hips were so bad, I could hardly walk to the end of my driveway and back without hurting, and I too have bum knees, but the more I worked out the better they got, I still don't overdue it with my hips or knees, but I've learned to work with it. Since loosing the weight, my hips don't hurt at all anymore, I guess my doctor was right, it was my weight causing the problem, I tore something in my right knee about 6 months ago, and it hasn't healed all the way yet, so I take it easy with lunges and such...I love my gazelle and Ab lounge, the gazelle is very low impact, so pain in my hips or knee, and the Ab Lounge, is awesome...I do a lot of workout DVD's, right now my favorite one is the Biggest Loser DVD, it has several routines on it, and are GREAT workouts.

Ladean

Amanda
 

Welcome, I'm so happy for giving the Fat Smash diet a try, it's awesome, and I know you will see great results..If you have any question please ask, that's what we are here for.

Ladean:wel3fc: