IP Weekend Chat Sat 12/7 - Sun 12/8/2013
 

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WF = Walden Farms
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Happy Weekend!
 

Good morning, all, and Happy Weekend!

Wow, it has been so super busy around here that I have hardly had time to check in. I have been skimming through the various posts in the few free minutes I have had online recently, and I am so proud to see all the losses and NSV's! We have meeting goals and mini goals, baking without tasting, reaching a desired BMI level, new clothes, loose clothes, etc. Wow, so impressed with the dedication of this group!

I think it really goes to show that having this support and guidance (and place to vent) really does make the journey a bit easier. I am proud of all of you, or should I say us!!! :hohoho:

Just about finished my first week of P3, and I am truly enjoying the breakfasts. My weight has remained at goal for the first week, so i am encouraged by that. Tomorrow should be interesting- taking a day trip to Manhattan, and the weather is supposed to be yucky! We do have plans to keep us out of the weather for most of the time, but ew. I guess we have lucked out, as the past few years when we have taken this bus trip, we have had lovely weather. Oh, well. Looking forward to my first visit to the Museum of Natural History and to seeing some of the holiday displays.

Have a wonderful weekend, all!
~Renee

Cleaning house and doing laundry. Snow here tomorrow, not looking forward to that. Everyone keep up the good work like ReenHag says, cooking sweets not tasting. I know I cook some foods for family and don't taste, have my daughter do it. Everyone have a great weekend. congratulations Reenhag for keep same weight.

Hello everyone!!! Busy weekend, still decorating, writing xmas cards, xmas day menu. Having 26 for a buffet that day. I'm trying to not go over board with all the food I prepare, every time I think I have the menu set, DH says " oh (pouts) your not making blah blah blah" . I have cut way back on the cookies and desserts.

Congrats to all the NSV's and scale movers!!!!
Sending IP POWER

Good Morning All!! A bright, but frigid morning today!:brr:

Has anyone looked into, or asked your physician/clinic about taking the supplement Garcinia Cambogia? Just wondering if anyone has done any research on it.

Good Morning everyone :)

IT is a beautifully cold day here!! I woke up to -11 outside and we have now warmed up to -9 WHOO HOOO!!! I am going shopping today, I have things to get for the house BUT I want to get a sweater dress and I have no idea why LOL.

Good Luck to everyone this weekend!

I just bought a new sweater dress last week. I just love the variety that is out there. Mine has long sleeves with cabling on them and a swingy skirt!

That is what I want, something that is NOT fit to tight. Where did you find yours? I need to move fast outside with little peanut because it's COLD!

So happy, happy, happy!!! Just measured & I have lost 14 inches in my first month :). I would LOVE to lose 65 more pounds by summer!!!

Congrats!! Stick with it and those 65 lbs and then some will have melted off by the summer no problem!!

I love knowing that by the time summer comes things could be so different with the way one looks. I am so excited to see the scale move. I think we need to learn to focus on other things when we have a NSV. I am slowly learning that...

Thats why I love this sight.

Happy weekend all. I love that this program (and these boards especially) are teaching me to look at food differently. The hardest part for me has been not having that over stuffed feeling when I eat and realizing that satisfied feeling is 'enough'. I'm slowly coming around and in 8 weeks have already changed my views on food that I never thought possible. It's not a motivation thing for me anymore, it's a self realization that I've never had. Thanks to everyone who posts their successes and struggles, their ideas and their recipe disasters. They all help us newbies.

Definitely! I love that I've stuck it out, staying 100% OP since the end of June and now, I look so different. And I'm actually looking forward to having a family portrait picture done this afternoon - something that would have made me cry just a few short months ago.

Hello everybody and happy 18 days until Christmas :D It's really cold here today - not even going to bother posting *how* cold so we're just hanging out today. A friend is coming to take some pictures of my son and I that I want to frame for my mother and sister for Christmas so that should be good.

I picked up a few things at the grocery store last night knowing that I didn't want to go out much this weekend and I found pre-cooked and cut up chicken and turkey strips with no added anything in them! There were no extra spices, sugars, anything - so excited because I can keep some for the nights when my son has hockey and I need a quick supper.

Oh and I forgot a NSV of an ironic type - I was clearing out my closet again last night and just for giggles, tried on the dress I wore when I got married (we eloped to Vegas so it was a simple white linen dress) and it fit!!! From 16 years ago before I had my son!! I think it looked better on me now than it did back then. At least it's plain and still a classic style so I can wear it in the summer, unless I lose too much by then, lol!

Checking out travel sites today - hoping to book a Mexico vacation soon. And I'm looking forward to being able to wear much smaller sized clothes this trip :)

Jo

Hey everyone. I bought a dress today that is JUST barely too small for the Christmas party. I know I can get into it by the time it comes if I stay true to the program. I'm hoping the thought of getting into it will keep me from the bites licks and tastes aka BLT's. This party marks one year from the photo in my profile... I'm hoping this time I see a picture of me I won't be filled with pain and self hatred, but instead a feeling of accomplishment I can be proud of.

Teens (small rant not related to IP)
 

Ok I have a 15 yo. dd soon to be 16. I swear up and down teens are so freaking selfish it just floors me to no end!!!

Ok DD is having a gift exchange with her friends at school and she wants to get the person whose name she drew either a DVD or a small lamp. No biggie. She has harassed me all damn week about going to get it, she has no idea when they are going to exchange gifts, so I want to get the dang thing today to get her to shut up.

THEN every single day for the past umpteen weeks when she comes home all I hear is " did you go to the store today / Did you go any where today"
And when I tell her umm nope sorry why
I get the reply " Umm I need to restock my snack supply in my locker its getting low" this just makes me so agitated. I am so sick of hearing the words "snacks and supply" out of her mouth. The reason to stock pile food in her teeny tiny locker is that the school runs out of food during lunch leaving kids with nothing to eat and this includes her and her friends. I have called the district office more than once demanding that the lunch ladies take a census of about how many kids maybe eating durng her lunch period. BUT they will not do it. I have talked to other moms who have called and requested the same thing but it falls on deaf ears.

I informed her that I am not running a vending machine business and that she needs to stop givng her locker combo to other kids to help themselves to "snacks" in her locker. I makes me so furious, and if she gets zero lunch then she comes home b!tchier than when she left!

What in the heck can I say or do, I am just at the end of my rope on this!