sexybean714: Good morning, and thanks! I'm here for you if you need help or someone supportive to talk to! We can totally do this!
Magnolia Rayne: Thank you very much, I'm happy to be here. Good luck to you too!

Also- stepped on the scale this morning... I'm now down to 243.2. Woohoo!!

Welcome and good luck !

Thank you, you too!!

:wel3fc:
It's great having you with us! Good luck to you! :D

Wow you sound so together....
 

I'm sure you'll achieve your goals.

I'm new here too - welcome

:wel3fc: Good Luck on your weight loss journey:)

Thanks everyone, and good luck to you all!

WOw you have done so many good things for your health, its amazing!!! Great job so far, keep up with it!! Make it your new "habit" ;) Im in to graphic design too, pretty amazing stuff ;) WELCOME!!!!

Thank you! Always nice to meet another design junkie :)

thanks for the encouragement!

Welcome to 3FC, we are glad you are here!

Thanks so much for the electronic cigarette info and recommendation. I am having my sister check out the site (she's better at this than I am) to handle ordering this for me. I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks so much again, deena :)

Could you help me with this? Which specific package should I get? And are what are the juice/e-liquids versus the "cartomizers"? I am clueless about the individual various items on the site. Which ones would I need.....I want no nicotine....and are the Kamel-type ones just tobacco flavored and not real tobacco?
Which package should I get and how many additional packs of the flavored cigarettes (or whatever they're called) should I get? How long does one pack of 5 last?

Thanks again, deena

I ordered from vapor4life and it was shipped out Wednesday and coming priority mail. I'm very excited and will let you know how I do....I'm determined to do this (as I sit here smoking a darn cigarette :(). But as soon as this gets here....that's it.
And I hope you are still here...but in one of the other forums....and doing well...and I thank you so much.

deena:hug:

New too
 

Hey all, congratulations to all of you, and here's to your continued success!

I'm new here (over 50 and trying to figure out the format and navigating s-l-o-w-l-y) and on my second trip of needing to lose over 100 lbs. It's way harder over 50, so if you're not, do it now!

I've started a whacky diet (I know it's whacky, but I want a jump start) called Sadkhin, where you basically don't eat anything much, but what you do eat is between noon-6:00 pm. I've added protein powder (don't tell the "doctor"!) to make it less whacky. It is fast, and next week I'll start exercising to make it also less stupid and wrong. But sometimes you've just got to go for it, right?

Here we go! Nice to meet you all. And if I never find you again, I'll be wandering the site looking addled and lost...

Deena! I'm still here :)

Sorry for the late reply, I started school this week and haven't had time to breathe. Starting this past Monday my schedule goes like this - Monday through Friday I get up at 4:30 am to make it to the gym at 5am... I work out until 6:30, then go home to shower and have oatmeal- then I have class from 8am until 8:30pm with an hour break in the middle. In between other classes, I'm the tutor for the art and animation departments, I work as a lab monitor, I'm the vice president of the animation club, a member of the fine art club and the honor society, plus I still have homework and freelance art and design work. I've been sticking to my lifestyle no problem, though... only drinking water, counting calories and eating healthy (I pack my food with me for the entire day), taking vitamins, not drinking or smoking, and exercising every day. I'm pretty beat at the end of the day, but I can get up the next day to do it all over again and feel great!

Re: the e cigs!

(I just want to start out by saying that I'm not affiliated with this company in any way shape or form other than really liking their stuff and not having tried anything else at this point.)

I'm so happy that you put in an order! Quitting smoking was one of the best things I have ever done for myself. The kit I bought was $50. It came with two batteries (I got shortys at first, but then bought two regular size later because the batteries last longer)... a wall charger, a case, and a 5 pack of cartomizers.

One cartomizer is supposedly the equivalent of one pack of 'analog' cigarettes. I've found it to be true for the most part. I did get a cart that was a dud one time, but they have pretty decent customer service. They also usually send free samples, though lately not as much.

The juice is pretty neat, in that you can order a bottle of juice and a 5 pack of blank cartomizers and fill them over and over again... I like to be all mad scientist like and mix a bunch of different ones together (for example, mixed banana cream pie juice with 555, it tasted like banana nut bread.)

With both the juice and the carts, you can order them in different levels of nicotine. I started at an 18, and found it to be too strong sometimes... an 11 worked well. I've since stepped myself down to 8, and now 4 with an occasional 2. You pick the strength of nicotine when you go to put the flavor in your cart. Tobacco flavored carts are just flavored, they contain no actual tobacco. I've had the Kamel, and it tastes like unsweetened iced black tea to me. It was really good!