TGIF!
 

I am so haapy it is Friday! This has been a busy week and I am ready for some down time...although the weekends seem to be just as busy as the weeks. I guess that's the way it is when you have little ones!

Yesterday I had a business lunch out. I was really good and had a chicken caesar salad with no croutons, BUT the salad came with this really yummy warm croissant and I couldn't resist! THEN at dinner time I went out to eat with one of my bestest girlfriends and I ate another piece of bread!! :o SO - I am back on the wagon today. My philosophy is if you do what you're supposed to do 90% of the time then it is okay if you "cheat" 10% of the time.

JoJoJo2 - welcome!!! I am glad you joined us. I would love to hear how you lost all that weight! Congratulations!

Saved4ever - I hope you are doing well. I know how it is with little ones - NO TIME!! If I didn't have my computer at work I wouldn't ever be able to post because I don't even have time to turn the computer on at home.

Zoe and Loridon - what book are you guys talking about? I am curious! And Zoe, was the movie any good?

Well, time to go to work. I hope everyone has a great day. God is so good - Just remember - so many things about our lives are uncertain. This one thing, however, is sure: no matter where, when, or how long, God will be there and will be with us!

Hello and Good Evening y'all ~

Ok, another day under my belt, day #5 today and still not hopping on the scale. Oh Lord, thank you and I can't wait until Monday morning to see how I've done. Greg is home from his business trip and got home before me today. He said that he got on the scale. Ugh! How could he!! :smug: So this afternoon, around 4pm, he had lost 12.5 pounds!! Now, remember, first week, male and bigger than me......oh how I will be so thankful for half that. :)

Yoyoyo, jojojo, welcome to our group!! :D So glad to have you with us. Praise God on losing 45+ pounds! How wonderful for you. You may be the senior citizen here but I might be next.......not close to 75 but maybe the elder of the rest of them. I just turned 47 2 weeks ago and I am trying to get this 50 pounds off in 2002. Again, welcome to the group.

Amy ~ the movie was ok, not great.....so much so that I can't even remember the name of it. :lol: The book is called God's Diet and it's about eating only God-made carbs and no man-made carbs. The jury is still out if it's the one for me. :)

Lori, Saved4ever, hope you're both well tonight.

Have a great Friday evening,

In Christ,
Zoe <><

happy saturday all! :)

God's diet is my diet (when i want to follow it :))

that's why i like my "meals off" or "days off" if i need them....which is what today is turning out to be..:(

had pizza and it was yummy!
having hamburger for supper...but i will try it topped with lettuce tomato and cheese, mayo and NO BUN!!

today i've had my bread for the week...now i'll be good

amydoodle i like your philosophy! only mine is good 80% of the time....:)

zoe, you can be next after jojojo....but i'm not far behind you...i'll be 47 in a couple months :^: ...and i need to get a little more serious about my eating to get this next 40 pounds off!

but with supportive friends and the Lord's help, it can be done! :cool:

:)

have a great weekend everyone!

Good Sunday evening!

Ok, it's Sunday evening and I have been 100% this week and tomorrow is weigh day. I'm anxious but nervous. You know how when you do SO good and expect BIG results. that's when you don't get them. So I'm awaiting the morning to weigh.

What I also did when I started was to take before pictures, front and side, it black bikini panties (ugh! what a sight!!) and black bra. I also took a piece of string and measured my hips with it and cut it off. This way, as I shrink away, I can see how big I once was. :D I love the Lord and have decided to let Him help me with this struggle that I've been having and trying to do myself all these years. I finally realized that He can help me with my weight just like He does with all the other areas of my life.

I hope you're all doing well. I will post tomorrow with my LOSS. Keep your fingers crossed.....:)

Zoe <><

Monday Morning!
 

It's Monday Morning and I want to go back to bed! My 2 year old kept me up practically all night last night. Both my kids are usually good sleepers but for some reason she was up and down all night. SO - I am definitely dragging this morning.

WEIGH-IN Day - I was 191.5 this morning. Up a half a pound. Do you think it had anything to do with the ice cream I had on Saturday and the brownie I had last night?:o But at least I didn't gain any more. And when I look at my grand total lost it still looks pretty good to me. Thank you Lord that your mercies are new every morning!! :D

Well I can't weight to see how everyone else did. Wonder how much we have lost all together?!?

Zoe - I loved your idea about the string. I am going to do that.

Loridon - What kind of pizza did you have?

Save4ever and JoJoJo2 I hope you had a great weekend and stop in and say hello!

Have a great day ladies and remember how you look in our Lord's eyes - beautiful!

Hello everyone.....It's Monday night.....I always feel like I've accomplished something when 5pm on Monday rolls around. :dizzy:

Well, today was weigh day......can I say I was dissappoiunted? Well, when I tell you I lost 5 pounds, you'll say WHY ARE YOU DISAPPOINTED????????????? I suppose I should be happy. It's just that I'm so used to losing 7 or 8 pounds my first week OP and I was really SO on track, SO good this week. So this morning, I had lost 5 pounds and tonight when I got home (and jumped on the scale AGAIN), I lost 6....so 5 or 6....hey, I know, I should be ashamed of myself for not accepting that with a smile on my face. Ok.....:o :o I'm sorry....Opps....woo hoo, 5 pounds!!! :D :D Closer to my first mini goal or 10 pounds by July 4th.

Amy ~ I'm so glad that you're not letting half a pound get to you. What IS your grand total of loss? Hope you're rested by now....kids take alot outta ya. :lol: ~ oh, and the string thing, I can't take credit for it, I got that tip from a WW person but I loved it.

Hi to everyone else.....where is everyone?? Amy and I are holding down the fort, keeping the home fires burning....come out, come out wherever you are. :D

Nighty night,
Zoe <><

Good Tuesday morning to everyone!

hope you are all well!

congrats zoe on that 5 pound loss!
you don't want to lose too fast, or it will just come back again!

i'm estatic with a pound a week...but it's more like a pound every 2 weeks now...:dizzy:

amy when i eat pizza i always eat Schwan's self-rising pizza's...usually pepperoni or 4-meat.
pizza is something i will never give up, so it has to be on one of my "meals off".

my eating plan that works for me, allows you "days's off" where you follow the plan for 2 or 3 days and then take a 'day off' and eat whatever you want. i did that when i first started...but now i just try to stick to the plan as much as possible...but if i want something that isn't on it, i go ahead and eat it and don't sweat it.
of course i've sacrificed weight loss because i let myself eat ice cream almost every day...and chocolate too...but the scales are still going in the right direction....very slowly :shrug:

i WILL get there eventually! (but i'm also going to enjoy the trip:lol: )

come on jojojo...spill the beans and tell us how you lost the 45 pounds! we're dying to know!

saved4ever, how's it going? grab a minute and let us know! :)

hope everyone has a nice day!

lori

Hi everyone!
 

Good morning everyone!

Okay Zoe... 5 pounds is not anything to be dissapointed about!! So you just stop feeling sad and be proud of your self right now!:D I agree with Loridon - the slower it comes off the better! If it comes off fast it will go back on just as fast.

My total weight lost is around 36 pounds. I started at 227 and now I am around 191-192. Of course when I weigh myself first thing in the morning with no clothes on I weigh 190 so I like that number the best. I remember being so excited to be below 200 and now I want to be below 190. I think I am at the point now where I am not really going to lose much more unless I start to excercise. But that's my problem - I HATE to excercise!! Anyone have the same problem?:rolleyes:

The one thing that does help the most is when I am consistent with drinking water. The nutritionist at my doctor's office told me to cut my weight in half and that's how many ounces of water to drink a day. Now that is motivation to lose weight!!!!:eek: Do you think all those trips to the bathroom counts as exercise?;)

Well, time to start working. I really love starting my day with all of you! It's like having a cup of coffee with friends (with sweet & low of course!!):lol:

P.S. When should we start a new thread - every Monday? I'd be happy to start a new thread each week if everyone wants me to. I could also start one for prayer requests, recipes, etc. What do you think?

Update on me -
 

You asked how I lost the 45 lbs.+. I follow the Richard Simmons foodmover program of healthy eating and exercise. It is a good program, but I am sure that any program of healthy eating and exercise will work just fine. We each need to find a program that will work for the individual.

Consistency is the name of the game. Get started on whatever you are doing, and stick with it. If you have a poor day, the Lord provides us each with a new starting point each morning.

I saw the doctor yesterday, and all the tests came out OK. That is my weight loss has remained constant for a year and a half, my bp and diabetes are still under control, my 76th birthday is Saturday, and we can all rejoice in the Lord's goodness.

Amy, Lori, Zoe, Saved, anyone else??? Stick with it, restart yourselves, sip that water, live your lives, count your blessings, and do what you know needs to be done.

Happy Friday my friends!! I love Friday nights. To be honest, Saturday is my favorite day of the week. Why? Because I can sleep in (for me, that's 7am), do whatever I want or need to do and when evening comes, I don't have to think about getting up for work the next day. So it's a GREAT day of the week.

I was good again this week. Not perfect today ~ it was a "big 4-0" at work for a good friend so her choice for lunch was Mexican food. I had a taco salad but ate too many chips. I also had a piece of cake but it was SMALL. We had pizza for dinner and even though that isn't too bad in moderation, I feel like I cheated BIG TIME. I suppose I did but I'm not going to get deterred. I snuck a peek at the scale today, 3 days too early and it said that I have lost 9 pounds in less that 2 weeks. I hope I hold that number, come Monday morning after todays down fall so I can post it in my signature. I'm picking myself back up. :D

Hope everyone is doing well ~ where are y'all at??? :?:

TTYT ~ Zoe <><

i'm here! :)

my 16-year-old son is visiting me for 2 weeks. he lives with his dad in Kansas. HE HOGS MY COMPUTER! :lol: that's why i haven't been on much!

i lost another pound last week. i'm happy!
if i lose this week it will be a miracle!
i'm not staying very God-made today! Pizza one meal, pierogies the next. :(

i do manage to drink 3 quarts of water every day.
i got a pedometer today and i'm going to be competing with a couple other ladies on our "Eating God's Way" ezboard for # of steps every day.

amydoodle i'm with you! my weight loss has slowed way down and i think it's because i need to do more exercise and i absolutely HATE exercising. i'm hoping the pedometer will encourage me to move a bit more.
i hate to break a sweat...and that's not good for much exercise :)

well i gotta run. i've been going strong since 5 AM and i just baked some brownies to take to my dad for fathers day tomorrow...now to stay out of them tonite....:dizzy:

back in a couple days

everyone take care!

lori

Happy Monday!
 

Hello my friends :wave: ~

Well, it's Monday, weigh day......I have finished week #2 in it's entirety and I am please to announce another 4.5 pounds!! Woo Hoo!!! A grand total of 9.5.....that's 9 1/2......wow, nine a a half pounds!!! I am so excited. Only a half a pound from my first mini goal and I have 2 weeks till the 4th of July.

Ok, enough of my dancing around. Can't address everyone this morning, I have to run to work now but I'll be back tonight.

Have a wonderful Monday,

weigh in day
 

Hey y'all! Well, it's weigh in day and I am just the same as I was last week. No more, no less. Kinda boring, huh?! But I guess I have myself to blame. We had a big get together with family and friends at my parent's house yesterday after church and I went completely crazy!!! I had some potato salad, 2 helpings of shrimp pasta salad, a piece of cheesecake AND a small slice of homemade peach pie! BAD GIRL!!:o But, I throroughly enjoyed it all and I am back OP today. I am trying to eliminate any guilt or shame from my eating because if I let myself I can get really legalistic about food. So - I am just following that 90/10 principle and praising God when I do get to enjoy those things that I don't eat very much.

Speaking of EXERCISE (were we talking about that? :?: ) has anyone ever tried Pilates? I saw a family friend that I hadn't seen in several months and I was commenting on how great she looked. She told me that she had started doing a Pilates program. She doesn't use the big machines, she just does a modified program with a video I think. I thought I might give it a try. She said it's great because it's not grueling like running or aerobics. Oh well, we'll see. If I could just find an exercise I like I think I could get into the habit. Any suggestions?

Well, gotta go to work. Everyone have a good day! Amy

Hello, everyone -
 

And how are we all doing in our struggles to achieve a more healthy life? I am still maintaining, that is I have not lost any nor gained any in the last year and a half. Which is a sort of success, praise God!!!

I tried a new exercise video this morning which is aimed at older adults. It worked fine, and I can feel it here and there. Exercise is so important, isn't it?

Consistency is the name of the game, and every day that I can stick with my program is a good day.

Summer is a wonderful time of the year, nice long lazy days. Enjoy, everyone.

Hello my friends :wave: Just a quick hello and I'm going to relax this evening. I feel so tired this week and don't know why. Exhausted really.......<sigh>

JoJoJo ~ great to hear from you again. Your posts are always so cheering.

amy ~ I've never tried pilates. Let me know if you do and how it is. I need something, ANYTHING in the way of exercise. :)

Hope everyone is having a great evening.

In Christ,
Zoe <><