That's wonderful.:bravo::dancer:

Darralyn - I'm so sorry for the loss of your step-father. It's never easy to lose someone we love. I'll be thinking of you.

Ok still craving - but am drinking herbal tea - and it's helping - I just keep reading posts to help motivate me.

Thank you everyone! Everyone has been so kind to me. i really do appreciate it.

I've done some if that crying too. Did some today. It is such a relief.


Sounds good. It was probably just your body adjusting.


It is life changing, your good example.



Glad to hear you're going to at least explore your options. Lot of the fear is probably of the unknown. Your surgeon should be able to help with that. Good luck. I'm proud if you for being brave and making the appointment.



You're sweet! Thanks.

Thank you :) It's taken me a while to get comfortable enough to take pictures of myself and not cringe...

Wonderful!!!!!!

Good luck at your appointment, that is very exciting.
Shawna

I just want to let everyone know I am going Halibut fishing with my family and a few friends this weekend in Valdez, AK. We are leaving early tomorrow morning. I hope everyone has a wonderful long weekend. I will check in with you on Tuesday morning.

I am still undecided, I still want to see 200lbs on the scale BUT we will see. I think I am still big, not big like I was before though. My top have is small but my bottom is big. I am a true pear shape right now.
My company just switched insurance so I am not sure yet. But I think that it will be because of my hip, having the extra skin pulls down on my hip and lower back which both have little to no cartlidge at all left. So time will tell.
I had to look twice at the avatar, wasn't sure who you were until I saw the name....lol....you look amazing.

I wanted to share with y'all from FB. There is a guy who I have been friends with for years, he has been watching me transform over the last year. He asked the name of the of the program, so I told him. I sent him to the same place my brother and mom went too. He was a diabetic on insulin until yesterday when he got his blood work, He NO LONGER has to take be on insulin. ONLY after 11 days of being OP!!...he had his WI today and loss 19.5lbs and 6 inches!!.....I am SOOOOO EXCITED for him, his wife was skeptical about the program but now she is starting tomorrow.....I LOVE IP!!

I have another friend in Omaha that found me when she was searching IP on Youtube. She found my video's, I haven't talked to her since 92. She will be starting the program over the next few weeks. She has some medical issues and wants to pass it by her Dr first.

Never know who's lives you will change....I am ONE happy person right now :)

Amazing, absolutly amazing!!!!:carrot:



Hang in there, you have done so well with this program. Sometimes the scale hiccups a little bit and then starts moving again.


It's so true Lisa; I've had three people start this program based on my success, and for two of those people it is really working too.

Well its 9:23 PM and i have survived day 7 by the skin of my teeth. It was such a hard day..full of emotional ups and downs. First i was a biatch and then i was a depressed down in the dumps and then back up to normal and it went up and down and up and down. Finally, the night looked up when my hubby gave me the opportunity to go out and have some just me time..my 2 year old has been driving me nuts so much lately with her whining that ive wanted to pull my hair out the past 6 days and today it finally broke me and was like " This just makes me want to eat everything in sight and it makes me so mad to even think about that".

I actually went home and layed down in bed and i cried out of pure frustration because i know that in the past, when i got really emotional or stressed, i know food is where i would turn to for that comfort. Just the fact that i have no sugar in my diet anymore is a huge thing for me. Its like....sugar made me happy somehow and not having it..it feels harder to be happy almost...but at the same time i know that its not good to live a sugar laden lifestyle. Today i just wanted to do everything and nothing. I wanted to quit the diet, it felt too hard like i couldnt do it. Im sick of being irritable this past week and its like " i cant live like this".... and then at the same time, after i cried, i needed to repeat the reasons for why im doing this diet in the first place and what i want out of it..Amazingly, by simply saying what my reasons were for and actually voicing them out loud, i felt more empowered to stick with it. I came home this evening and told my hubbers, that there is no way i can quit now. I have to keep going..even though i have felt irritable and even though i have missed sugar and even though it feels like its too hard.. i need to keep going...Because everytime i have given up when its felt too hard...this time i cant do that. My life depends on it. I need to live for my kid. I need to live a healthy life. I cant die fat and alone and sick and unhappy...Im only 26 years old...

So here i am..100% OP and looking forward to day number 8...To those of you who feel like its too hard..yah.. it might be really hard..but just because its hard, doesnt give you a good enough reason to quit.

Good evening, just checking in, wow, so many things going on! Sewmom, I love to see your picture! You are beautiful!
Wuv, great new picture and what an exciting appointment, we all want to hear what he/she says!
Have a great evening!

Wow! You have done so well, and you are always so busy! Very inspiring for me. :)

The IP store that I go to sells a gum called Spry, maybe try some of that, they also make mints. :)

Wow congrats! :carrot:

Just stick to the program and you will do fine. ;) I have confidence in you, you sound like you want this.

Wow, you're really doing great! :hug:

Welcome back and congrats on making the decision to come back. :hug:

Wives, I am so happy and excited for you!! :hug:

I really "felt" your post when i read it. I know what you are feeling, I am 46 and have been fat since I was 28. I would go up and down over the years but for the most part I was up and when I was down it wasnt for a long period of time. What I have found in the last 3 1/2 months on IP is that the first couple weeks is hard and even when I was losing it was hard not to get depressed because there was still so much I had to lose. I would like to share with you my truths about my journey. During times of stress I would want to quit and eat, I just got through each minute when urge came. I truly lived by the motto one day at a time in the beginning. "I can do this for 1 day" and I have to say that the next day I ALWAYS felt better, not only that.. I felt great that I didnt cave in to the emotional eating. I really believe each time I didnt cave it made me stronger in my resolve to stick to this plan. After a few weeks it became so much easier not to cave in to the craves. Dont get me wrong, they still come sometimes but they are no where as strong as they were and no where as frequent. I swear to you, this is the last time I am going to go through this, I will NEVER go back to eating like I did before this plan. I will never hide from social events again because I am too embarassed to be seen. I am not going to miss out on the rest of my life. Also, Just think of how quickly time goes by. Doesnt it seem like yesterday your baby was born? That was 2 years ago.. didnt that fly by? well the same is true for this plan. The time will fly by and when it does you will be thinner & healthier. You will always have stress in your life wether you are thin or overweight, wether you are young or older. Dont wait until you are 46 like me to learn how to deal with it without food. You will miss out on too much life.

This is your time porthardygurl! Lets get this weight problem taken care of NOW so you wont miss out on life. When the tough times come, buckle down and face them without food and they will pass. . YOU CAN DO THIS!!!!! :hug: