Good morning girls, everyone sounds good.

Alice, I find that keeping up w/ my exercise somehow helps me stick to my diet better. So keep that up and the good eating will follow.

I am intrigued by your move. I know you really are having to lighten your load to do it. I need to do the same in order to simplify my life! I am keeping boxes around to fill up w/ stuff to get rid of and have been using them too. I spent yesterday working on a little home improvement. I ordered a new fridge, mine is original to the house which was built in the 60's. Actually it still works so I'll move it to the garage where I can have some extra fridge space. I also made an appt. for a cabinet man to come measure my counter tops for new laminate (also original to the house). Kind of exciting.

I am really having to stay on myself about eating too much. Ended up w/ a 7th small/ clean meal last night. At least it wasn't ice cream! But, I have already started on telling myself it won't happen again today. I plan on drinking more water today and having a cup of tea tonight if I get hungry after my last meal.

Hi Everyone , this day has been good. started it off with my walk. a good one . Early before it got hot. then went shopping and walked all over. got warm by then.. eating is good today.tops is in the am. scales down a lb this morning. not getting off what was gained last week. but then thats over and gone. so what i do this week is what counts.. drinking my water and trying to figure out the carbs. ha ha monday its atkins for me and no carbs.... thats the only way i think i am going now.. fruit makes me gain and is loaded with carbs and sugars. so i as of today have had no sweets for 3 weeks. so its best for me to just give it up... have a good day all. LaDean

Friday 2nd ,,, gee July already.. a new month and i am ready.... i had tops today loss 1.25 last week. so happy day for me.. i am glad its going down again the scales. have not exercised yet but will get some in. drinking that water its warm so that helps me with drinking it.. I feel better. this is 3rd week NO SUGAR. YEHHHHHH i feel so GREAT... a big THANK YOU to all my friends here on the board. you help me keep going with the inthusium and encouragment i get. makes it fun.. well have a great weekend... A VERY HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY TO ALL OF YOU....... LaDean

i wish all of you a nice FORTH OF JULY.....
I am having a good day. got on scales and down 2 lbs since friday. so talk about happy me. i sure am.. tomorrow i will start a low carb diet plan.. so looking foreward to it. my neighbor and i are doing it together. so that is always helpful. I am excited. did it before but has been awhile. so hope the rest of you are doing good with your plans and all. have a good day.. LaDean

Hey Ladies, How are you all? Got DD back to school today and, I hope back to my own routines. My new refrigerator came yesterday! It is so beautiful. I have entered the 21st cent. (old fridge is Harvest Gold if that tells you anything!) it dispenses water, ice (cubes and crushed) from the door. As a result yesterday was a great day for getting my water in as I played w/ my new toy. I kept the old fridge as well, it is out in the garage now and it feels so luxurious to actually open the doors w/out stuff falling out. As an added benefit I cleaned the garage in preparation for having the fridge moved in there. It was a busy weekend for me in that respect. I have a mound of stuff for the garbage man to pick up and and about 10 boxes of stuff to take to goodwill.

On the diet front - last week was pretty lame. Yesterday I was back on it and I feel that I will have a good week this week.

Take care.

Ledom,,, good for you. glad its going good for you. i wish we had gotten the ice thing with our new one when we got it years ago. they are sure nice. my brother has one in garage to. so handy for cold drinks and all. sounds like you been abusy one.

well for my diet plan. its going great. yesterday first day on atkins. went good. scales down this am. so of course i love that part. just had my 3 mile walk. drinking that water and off the sugar now 5th week. so got that down pat. the carbs to now.. so all in all i am ready to reach my goal...

Hope the rest of you are ok. Hope everyone had a great weekend. i did... woof lacee from tuffy.. Hows Florida he says and all that sun... we have had it lately. to warm for me. ha LaDean

Well I don't believe I have posted on this particular thread, but it doesn't seem that the other threads are getting much use.

I have been doing fairly well here.....trying to stick to the 1200-1600 calorie range and exercising as much as possible. Walking outside, biking outside and lifting weights once a week. You would think I would be melting away...but NOOOOOOO. Oh well, slow and steady as they say. I have been under some personal stress and find that makes it easier to stick with a diet at some times, and harder at others....Yesterday was a harder day, not stress-wise, but eating-wise.....but I entered it all in to Fitday and figured it could have been worse

I have noticed a few things just lately though.....I used to drink at least 2 sometimes 3 glasses of diet coke at lunch...now one with lunch and I am stuffed! I also noticed how a meal is plenty...seconds are not only not wanted, but there is NO way I could eat more!!!!

On the flip side I have delevoped a bad habit of diet Mt. Dew. I drink 1 24 ouncer in the morning and one in the early evening.....sometime an additional one later depending on what I am doing. I still drink water in between times. Ahhhhhhh one bad habit for another.....so it goes!
Lily

Hi Lily, Don't you remember us? You posted with us not that long ago - this is a new thread though. Glad to hear you are hanging in there. I hear you on diet sodas, I gave up diet coke for almost a year. It was a big habit too. Recently I started drinking diet rite, mainly because it uses splenda which I feel is a safer sweetner. But you know, I am not sure why I added that expense, I know water is better for me and I did just fine w/out soda for a while. Now I am hooked again. I would still prefer diet coke, but you know what? The worst part of me was that it triggered my eating, it would go something like this, another glass of d.c. to finish off what I was eating, oh....another serving of food to go w/ the d.c.......and on and on. The diet rite doesn't seem to affect me that way, maybe because I don't like it as much.

Anyway, welcome back.

Lily, welcome back. so glad you dropped in on this board. you will do it. we just have to get into new habits and find that plan and go for it. this is what i have done. I know have no choice since finding out i am now a border line debetic. that was added to my already problems from the sugar. so in 2 years i seen what the sugar can do. so now i am off it for life. been 4 weeks this week and all is going great. i started eating some fruit the lower kinds. and i started gaining. so that showed me. so off it i went.. so monday i started the atkins as i was watching carbs. so since monday i am down on scales and l love it. i walk for exercise. so start out slow and build it up. i drink dp to but water alot.. so good luck to you..

Hey gals I wish all of you a great day. i am taking it one day at a time. forgetting the day that has gone byeeee and looking forward to a fresh day that i have. good luck to all of you... LaDean woof lacee from tuffy...

well good day to all. lost 5 lbs this week i was so happy. plus i had gained 3 lbs from the forth and was down it to. so all in all 8 lbs on my plan since Monday. cannot complain about that at all. i have till friday and then can slowly add some things. so hope i have a loss this week to. I am so glad to have this board to share with all of you. it sure helps me lots. good luck to all and have a great weekend to all. LaDean

Well I just about threw in the towel yesterday.....no breakfast, than lunch at the Bonanza food bar, off to the movies with popcorn AND candy, then later that night when I wasn't even hungry......pizza! Just a bad food day all the way around. I thought I would just throw it all the way, but then this morning I decided to get back on the wagon....the alternative is not only probble weight gain, but I HATE how I feel when I over eat like that. I feel much better when I eat less, so back to it. As I mentioned before, I have some personal life stress and I can control only my part of it......the rest is out of my hands....so I guess I look at it as taking control of all parts of my life and focusing on that. Since I can not control others, I will keep myself in check and take control of myself and bask in the glow of knowing I am doing all I can! That is all for now!
Lily

Yep lilybutt, you have come so far!!!! You aren't going to throw all that hard work away. Also, as you proved to yourself yesterday. You FEEL better when you eat right!

I see no one comes to this board anymore. so i will just not come in. i see there going to other boards. so i wish everyone good luck in your programs. miss you. but have a good week. LaDean

LaDean, we have been awfully quiet here lately. I have been posting on the BFL thread mostly because that is the diet I am doing. I noticed Alice is posting on a couple of other threads too. Don't give up on this thread quite yet, we have a way of getting quiet and then resurrecting. I hope you are doing good and that your plan is working for you. I have been working hard on sticking to my plan this week and have had a really good week.

Ledom. thanks i will not give up on it. i understand moving to one that is your plan. as i went to the tops one. so that is ok. I am doing just fine. i have finally had no choice as to what to do. its a have to be for my health. sometimes it happens like that. I could not get with it //So God said ok you will do it. so i am. I loss 3.50 lbs this week. total of 9.75 so far this month. so i am happy that i am doing this. i have had no sugar will be my 6th week coming up. so on the atkins and is working. so a life time plan for me. I am so happy your doing great with yours to. i read the other boards. so its ok to not come in to this one. is hard to do several. i understand. i am in tops some. so what ever. i see that everyone is doing ok and that is what counts... thanks LaDean