serious this time
 

:) I have been overweight for man years now. I have lost weight in the past, but I would regain the weight lost and often gain even more. I have tried many diet programs. I believe for me it is not so much the "program" I choose to follow, but the mindset. I have finally had enough. I do not want to be this heavy (219lbs, down from 238!!}. So I made the decision to try a radical approach to weight loss. I started the Medifast Diet. I will stay on Medifast for a while and then perhaps I'll transition to something else. I do not reccomend this for anyone else, this is my choice and what I felt right for me at this time. I have approx. 80lbs to go. Is anyone else out there doing Medifast or a similar program, would like someone to talk with. I am 50 now and I just do not want to be fat,( which means I am not healthy) any longer.

more than just shakes.
 

:) Hi Donna,

Thanks for your encouragement, and I wish you the best too!
I haven't any serious health issues at present, I did have a little blood pressure problem, but my doc says the meds for that will need to be reduced as I continue to lose weight.That is a good thing, I have Thyroid problems which may have contributed to some of my weight, but certainly not all of it. I too have some aches and pains, but that is because I am carrying around too much weight!
I like the taste and variety of the Medifast products, they have oatmeal,soups,bars,cappuccino,hot cocoa,and a choclate pudding that is so good. I usually have a salad or some chicken or fish and veggies for lunch so it is not all liquid intake. There are some days when I have only Medifast products, but not always.
As I said in my post, I am just determined to do this. I want to lose the weight!! and I guess that I am just ready to do this.
My husband is on Medifast too, but he only has a little weght to lose, and he will not be on the program much longer.
I think this site is great and I am loking forward to the support and information found here.
It is very hard to lose weight, I just can't believe I got in this shape. But that is not good, I need to move forward. I am reading some books and some of the Medifast literature deals with why we eat the way we do and the patterns and motives for our food choices.
I like to eat, I like food. I live in Texas and Mexican food is one of my favorites! I am learing that moderation is key, but exercise, calorie control, and the type of food we eat all are important issues.
I am just trying to take it one eay at a time, Medifast is great to me because I only have to decide about flavors, and nothing else. This is gona take a while and I may have minor setbacks, but I'm gona keep at it!!

you go girl
 

I think you are doing great, I think the first hardest part is getting your mind right to start! So if you need to switch down the line ok. I think the first and most important thing is do what is best for you and your weight loss plan. What ever keeps you on target and motivates you. I'll support you! I really believe that no matter how much weight a dieter needs to get rid of, we all need the support. I only have 46 pounds to lose but I'm looking at a long time.

I just keep remembering a lot of diet books I've read that say, the longer it takes to lose (this was a discouragement in the books against quick fad diets that you drop 10 lbs quickly and then normally regain back 15) the more opportunities you have to make life style changes that will help in keeping it off. Also, I believe it is the education process. My goal is to get it off this time and I just don't give a darn how long it takes, 5 months or 46 weeks, and then to keep it off and stay healthy by exercising and keep that good feeling going about myself and have some serious self-confidence. And thento have a serious shopping spree for myself, and then throw out everything from underwear to shoes that do not fit, so I can live inthat new body and it becomes the new me!

Hi Magnolia and Aggie,

Just read your post while sipping :coffee: the morning coffee.

I too have read so many diet books and tried so many diets. It alls comes back and then some. It seems they can tell us exactly what will go wrong and how quickly, yet they can't figure out why its so hard to stick to a program. I quit :smoking: over a yr ago. Never thought could stick to that. Yet to eat the right foods and exercise(which isn't like quiting cold turkey, you still get to eat) is so hard to stick to. :( I just want to be healthy again.
My dh is great, never complains about the weight. We spend lot of "quality" time together :o that's never been an issue. I just do okay for a few days and then :eating2: :eating2: :eating2: too much. So sometimes I look for the quick fix because you drink a shake or eat a bar and thats the end of it. When your constantly planning what you will eat or avoid, your mind is set on food all the time. I know when I'm busy with other things, sometimes I don't think about food at all and get to experience "real" hunger. So I would love to find a way to get off a big bulk portion of the weight and then work on life changes at a more reasonable amount. That's why I think Aggie might have the right idea. You lose 50lbs in a fairly quick amount of time and feel better physically and mentally to make changes in the way you live to conquer and keep off the remaining weight. I really wish you the best with that. I went onto a medifast site last nite and the testemonials seemed sincere. Of course to me they always have. Probably why I always try everything. But I thought you had to go to a medical Dr for supervision. Is that how you are doing it? or did you just order products on line? I think I may ask my physician how he feels about it. They have a line for type II diabetics and if I could reduce some of my meds my head would be in a much better place :D

Sorry I rambled. Keep me up to date, and :crossed: to you and your dh. It must be great to have a partner right there with you. Please don't get discouraged if he loses faster. We've all read the men always lose faster :mad: ( figures they get all the breaks, they have portable plumbing and shorter lines, they lose weight faster, and hips and thighs aren't usually an issue, they start losing hair, they shave their heads and are in style, no visits from "Aunt flo or sister the hor-mona :lol:" ) Anyway need a second :coffee: TTYL

I was on Adkins for 3 weeks, could never get past the tired and kept a headache. Guess that just means that wasn't the one for me. I would love a faster way to lose, but I am what Iam as pop eye says, lol. I'm just glad, thankful, and all the rest that somewhere inside of me a button rolled over and I found the motivation to start, now to just handle the sticking part. I will then face the next challenge gladly, the maintaining part. I think all those books are great, and we should go back and reread them again because I think they will motivate us more now, then they did then because our heads weren't ready to be where we are now. Two other things that have worked great for me before, may be silly but I 'm going to use them in the losing side of this house, and try and pick up some great things to help with the other side that is hard down the road. (1) I put up a motivational poster, usually where I will see it and no one else will, like the room I walk in, This poster has cut outs from magazines, mail order catalogs of good looking clothes that I like and I paste to a poster board and then I look at each picture and imagine myself wearing that outfit and how I will feel, sexy, confident, sassy, slim or what ever as I walk I glance over and look at the clothes and let myself feel again and see what other feelings come, and I really use my imagiation on this and feel myself wearing that and see myself looking at the mirror.

The second thing is (when I'm down or feeling discouraged) I will buy every magazine WW or any others that have before and after stories or any articles on dieting. This has really got me through some down times. Reading the articles really helps me refocus. Never did anything to help get me to start a diet, but once on it helps me feel encourged and focused to handle that next hurdle. By the way, ya'll are all just great!

Hey Magnolia&DonaD,

I hope everyone is having a great day today. About Medifast, I am doing this with my Doc's blessing, she used to do the Medifast program in her office many years ago, but got it was challenging keeping all the products and she doesn't do that anymore. I was going to go to a clinic but it is about an hour away so, I am just ordering the product online, from the Medifast site. I purchased many of their books and am finding them a big help. My Doc is keping track of my progress and will do the appropriate test, the web site gives suggestions for tests, however I am sure that your doctor will know how to monitor their patients. I am not trying to lose the weight as fast as I can, I want to stick to the suggested intake of shakes etc, but sometimes I do not drink the reccomended 4 shakes. I find I am not hungry, I am very satisfied and as I said I do eat a lunc consisting of "regular" food, regular HEALTHY food.
We are all in agreement that when a person is really ready to do the work it will get done, the way you do the work is secondary (barring something really bizarre).
everyone keep in touch, this is great!!

Medifast
 

I'm glad you get to eat lunch. My cousin was on in 18 years ago and couldn't eat anything but the shakes. She lost all her weight. I think our bodies tell us when we need to be on different programs and we just need to listen.

hello everyone, wanted to say hello to aggie, and congrats on your weight loss so far. i am not on medifast, but if it works for you, glad you found something. what did work for me, and i noticed in your post was you talked about lifestyle changes. everything i lost and gained back on diets. well that cycle we all know about. i never saw change that stuck until i started changing my whole lifestyle.last december i was 230, this year i have plateaued at 182 but i realize that it is me and my lifestyle holding me back. i think that the most important thing is realizing that no diet will do for you what you can do for you. :)

good suggestions, great gals!!
 

I just want to say congrats to blugrl, I am happy for you. That is great. Lifestyle change are important, we just can't keep doing the same things and expect changes. Magnolia, that is a good idea about the poster, it is the uniquness of each of us that shows that no "ONE" thing works for everyone, and their are exceptions .(we probably all know someone who can eat anything and everything and not gain an ounce) If those of us who are "fatchicks" want to become skinny we have to change our old habits and adopt serious changes. I was watching Discovery Health Channel today and watched a group of men and women who made serious lifestyle changes and for the most part they all had dramatic results, it was encouraging. Granted, they also had some collagen injections, and similar cosmetic procedures, but their weight loss and the changes to their bodies I felt were a direct result of ther food choices and the commitment to exercise. They all had different exercise routines,(and food programs) but the point is it was not just diet alone, they exercised too! That's what I have got to get serious about.
I really have a hard time geting motivated to exercise.
Hope everyone has had a great weekend.

Motivation
 

Aggie and all the rest

the motivation poster does help me, right now I need one too, but a bit short on the material I need to get it done. My favorites are clothes magazines, I like to focus on things I would like to wear and look good in.

I have watched that show to and you are right, it does mean making life style changes. For me, it means getting off this yo-yo! I want to lose this weight and keep it off, so changes will have to be made. I think I will need to keep myself aware of the calories my body needs and what I consume, in addition, to making better choices in food and food preparation.

Now on the plastic surgery, I would love to have a tummy tuck when I've lost my weight. I have a ugly pouch, I've had about four surgeries, just between the bikini line and the belly button, even when I was smaller it was there. I would love to get rid of that and any fat deposits in it, but not sure if I have the nerve to go under the knife as a volunteer. My cousin had it and she loved it and offered to make an appointment with her doctor and go with me, I told her to "hold on and lets see how I feel when I've got all my weight off" I know I will probably feel the same but don't know about the surgery thing.

Exercise: Is there one you do like or that you find easy to fit into your life style? For example, walking on a treadmill is easy for me and fits easily in my lifestyle, and I make it entertaining by listening to audio books so I will get caught up in the story. This is an idea don't know if you will like it or not but here goes, do you have a room that you could have some privacy in? If so make you a CD or tape of songs that you like to dance to or that make you feel like getting down to boogie, be sure to include 1 or 2 slow songs that you like in the beginning to help you do some stretches and warm up breating etc, then dance, dance, and dance, then include 1 or 2 different songs on the end for your cool down, if the sound will travel, get head phones. I for one like privacy when I exercise at home, yeah, I know he (hubby) has seen it all before but he doesn't have to see it in that form and in that kind of moving.

my motivation
 

hi everyone,

im new here and love this.

my highest weight was 228 got down to 204 then started back up to 221 so i joined t.o.p.s.(take off pounds sensibly) it is a non-profit weight loss support group. 20.00 to join and very low weekly dues (our chapter is .50) There ard thousands of chapters around the world. go to www.tops.org to find one near you if you are interested. i guess my motivation is the weekly weigh in and knowing it is being recorded. we have information, support, contest.and more, but most of all we have a lot of fun.

i tell myself every day that i am NOT on a diet but that i have changed my BAD eating habits. i will get healthy and i will survive. it took me 44 years to get to where i am now so dont expect to get rid of it overnight.

i didnt even realize how much i ate when i wasn't even hungry. like at work
( buzzer goes off for break so i would eat) or hubby wants lunch and i would eat too even tho i was not hungry yet (we have been maried 21 years and he still wears 32" waist jeans and weight is 145) . or just board so i would go to the fridge. now i am only eating when i am trully hungey and am eating healthy .i am exercising somewhat but nothing to extreme (walk a mile in 25 mimutes) i joined tops march 11 at 221 1/2 and on march 25 was at 212 1/4 so hope to keep going at this rate, but i wont let a gain discourage me.

Well i beter end this and i will keep coming back here for more motivation and support.

TALK TO YOU ALL LIGHTER !!!!!

Peg

Good start
 

Peg

You sound motivated, I got motivated just reading your last post. I will check out tops, I've heard of them before. I understood what you were saying about how you ate. I am an emotional eater and I think that is one of the biggest contributors that got me where I am today, or Has made me the woman I am, lol! Now that you have my mind thinking, I think I will go a check out some books on that and do some reading and see how I can change my thinking!

Type to you lighter!

Peg, It's like you read my life story. I'm 44 yrs old, been married 26 yrs, he doesn't have a weight problem (the belly gets a little out of control and he cuts out some of his junk for couple of weeks and it goes away :mad: ) I probably wouldn't eat as much if I wasn't preparing for him or watching him eat junk. Boredom is a terrible thing. I shouldn't be bored as I have many things to do and projects to tackle but with the extra weight I have no energy and get bored and eat, vicious cycle. I checked out TOPS link that you posted and will try to make my first meeting wed. I am considering medifast but just considering. I like to check out all my options. So I will truly try to attend. Thanks for the tip.

And congrats on 9lbs in less than 2 weeks :cheer: Thats great. Are you following a specific plan. Does TOPS just support whatever plan you currently do or do they have a plan for you to follow?

Anyway, :thanks: Here's to continued success :cheers:

t.o.p.s.
 

donna,

tops is a support group that wants you to see your dr for a diet and exercise plan tailored to your needs. meetings allow time to share weight loss successes and challenges and keep your spitits high. they do have a 1500 calorie sample diet but you dont have to go by it.they ask that your dr set your goal weight for what is healthy for you.you also get a monthly news magazine that has success stories ,heath articals, recipes and more. it is a lot of fun and for me knowing that i have to face the scales every thursday and someone is going to write it down is very helpful. i have learned already that if i cheat i only cheat myself. i AM what i eat and it is there for all the world to see how foolish i have been. they have contest, games , skits and other things to help. there are area or state recognition days for best loosers and once you get to goal you become k.o.p.s. which is keep pounds off sensibly so that you dont backslide. like i said before it is non-profit so it is very afforable. in my area weight watchers is 16.00 to join and 12.00 a week that was just too much for my pocket (because my 17 year old daughter is in too) i beleve tops allows children as young as 7 to join. and the cost is about half.

hope you join and talk to you LIGHTER!!

Peg

Peg,Donna,Magnolia,
Peg, woohoo!!! great loss, keep it up.I did find there was a TOPS group inmy area, I may give it a try. It would be a source of additional suport, we can never have toomuch of that. Magnolia, thanks for the tip abput the music tape. Our treadmill is broken right now, not sure when we will get it repaired,big goings on for DH at work right now.Mgnolia, could you find some pictures of fashions on the internet?
I think we share in common our skinny husbands, mine has a tummy too but is thin elsewhere. He is almost where he needs to be and will not be on Medifast much longer.
I hope you all have a great day tommorrow, I am really neding this support, let' keep it up gals!!
agie

Husbands tummy, TOPS, and Fashion
 

aggie and all the gang

You go girl, I must have been brain dead, what a great idea, pull them down from the shopping sites, I will be on that today. I am going internet shopping for my motivational chart. I've been needing that. Just yesterday while walking, I looked up at the wall in front of me and thought that would be a great place to put my chart. I need to be looking at clothes and bodies (no heads) to help me visualize myself in those clothes and feeling: cute, confident, sporty etc... you get my picture.

I didn't get to do any TOPS research yesterday. I had too many projects to get brought into line. I make these cute purses for the girls in my family as a kind of I Love you gift, normally for sisters-in-law, favorite aunts and cousins, but then some of the others have seen them and had to do them for them too, and then some of their friends wanted one, so I agreed to make them for them (for a fee) and I am hoping to be finished soon! My love is quilts and I have one that needs to be put together (and several more in my head that I want to make) so I want to move on! I hope to be able to say NO, to anyone else wanting a purse soon, so I can get back to what I want to do!

Hi to all,
I had a bad day today, I have been sick for over a week and haven't been anywhere, I am feeling somewhat better, and I had to go out and run a few errands, well I was just feeling so tired, and I had more things to get done, so I just popped into a fast food place (ooooh!!!!) and yes, I ordered something!! I feel so bad )-:. I now have to deal with that ina a day or so when it shows up on the scale.
Has anybody ever been in the chat here? Is anyone interested, I am in Centeral time. I'll be on a while longer and then back later this evening

Chatting and Medifast
 

Hi gals!

Hi Aggie, I did some research and decided to try Medifast. Optifast has a better support system, but is nowhere in my area. Hard to believe being so close to NYC. I found a doctor near my job where I can pick up supplies and he wants me to follow up with my regular doc for blood work. I am waiting to here from my doc as to whether or not I should do just shakes or add 1 meal.
What are you doing and how is it working? The support board says use caution driving the first few days and no exercise for 2 wks (DON'T HERE THAT OFTEN) As far as the chat room. Never anyone there when I go. I am EST so I guess 1 hr later than you? I drive out to the mid west every summer, you'd think I'd have the time zones down by now :lol:
I'll check in a few minutes and see if anyone is there. If not maybe we can set a time up a day in advance and see if that works.
(p.s. I wouldn't give yourself too hard of a time about the slip, but will it make you feel ill because of the medifast? I hope not. :?: )

Magnolia, you sound SEW talented :lol3: I can barely sew a button. When the kids were little I got by with costumes and such, but since going back to work I've done nothing. I think your poster idea is good. I'd like mine to show people doing activities I used to do and want to do but can't. And some new ones that I'm to heavy and out of shape to try. Hiking, rollerblading etc...

Hi Peg, How are you doing? I think I will still try to make the TOPS meeting tomorrow nite even though I'll be starting the medifast. I agree with Aggie, the more support the better. I don't know what I'd do without all my new friends here. :grouphug:

Well, let me know if you guys want to put a chat time together.

ttyl :balloons:

Hi everyone,and Hi Damion
Has everyone had a good day? I am done brooding over my slip, I expect it may not be too bad. I am going to try and check out the next TOPS meeting in my area. I am also going to get my self in gear with some exercise as soon as I get over this upper respiratory infection. Snifle,cough,blow nose, it is geting really old!!
I hope you will like Medifast Donna, I for one would reccomend eating one meal a day, it is just so easy that way. if you decide you don't want to eat you can just have the supplements. It is great to be able to go to lunch with friends and be able to have a salad or a piece of grilled chicken or fish and veggies. But you have to decide that for yourself. Are the products the same price at your Doc's as they are on the site?

welcome aboard Damion
hi everyone

Aggie, I talked to the nurse at the doctors office and she has the medifast plus and it's actually less than on line. Maybe because the buy in bulk. This doctor has been carrying it for yrs. Unless she made a mistake. Maybe I should buy extra :lol:
I figure I'll get choc and vanilla. She said you can mix flavors into the vanilla. We'll see.
I figure I'll probably eat 1 meal a day. Still have to cook for dh. Though people on the discussion board say its easier to have shakes and not eat anything to avoid wanting more. We'll see. Sorry your not feeling well. Respitory infections suck. Start in the head and drop to the chest. I really hope you feel better soon. The support board says no exercise the first two weeks. So be careful.

Hope everyone else is doing well.

ttyl

Hey Donna, does this doctor also carry the other products, the sops and bars etc. What is the Medifast plus? And where did you find a discussion board.

She said she carries the bars but they are high in sugar and they don't think I should have them yet. The discussion is at www.liquiddietdiscussion.com
the have a chat room and msg boards. there is a place to join and pay or you can just read and post for free, still have to register. but it doesn't cost anything. I already had someone respond to a post and there are also success stories and before and after pix. Take a look. Its pretty cool. Medifast plus is for diabetics. New product.

I am so bummed.....
 

:( My primary phys called me today at work and told me straight out no way could he condone my doing medifast. Of course he said he knows I can do what I want, but he's only thinking of my best interest and that it is not a medically studied program. I felt like a boulder was dropped on my head. I was actually in tears. :stress: I know, what a baby. But I get so depressed with the slow progress (which of course he says is the best way) I just get so tired of trying so hard and getting so little. I not in the right state of mind to be posting.
later,
Donna

Donna,
I am so sorry, I don't understand, Medifast was developed by Johns Hopkins University Med Center, I think. I guess some docs are really cautious. Did you already buy some of the products. I am thinking of you

DonnaD

Did you ask your doctor what is reservations were, or if maybe he would approve on a limited basis say for two meals a day like slim-fast does? I am sorry he doesn't recommend it for you. I know how furstrating it can be, but hang in there and don't let this get you down. Try and look down the road and see yourself as slimmer and looking back here and saying it all worked ok.

Maybe that is silly, but I've dwelled too much in the past on the time and numbers and lost it all, I just don't want see a fellow dieter give up the good success they have created for themselves. Hang in there.!

Magnoliamouth

Hi there Magnolia,

I hope your having a good day. I got right back on my program today, I am feeling good now. I am still sick, I think I may go and get a shot tomorrow, I hav been sick too long. I wanna feel good again

Hi Aggie, Hi Magnolia,

I'm sorry I sounded like such a baby before. I just took a quick nap and feel a little better. He feels that it is like any quick fix. He did look at the breakdown from the label and said even with 5 shakes only 90 calories and such low carbs and fat would not be a sensible way to lose. I didn't know about the John Hopkins study. He was so adoment about me not doing it. He asked if they knew I was diabetic and basically said he was my advocate and had my best interest at heart. He knows I struggle and knows there is no easy way out. (I've done other diet programs that he didn't approve of and the weight always came back) I know he cares and it was hard to argue. He said I need to make lifetime changes and there really aren't any short cuts. But he does think WLS has been studied well and considers the risk acceptable because of the lasting benefits many of his patients have seen.(he doesn't do the surgery nor does he refer to any doctors, he just advised going to the local medical center website) I'm just afraid to have that done. (afraid of dying or complications) I also have seen people gain it back or stop losing before goal. It's all hard and all a struggle. Makes my head :spin: But as always, I'm comforted by knowing my friends are here. Thank you for listening :grouphug: What would I do without you all.

donnad,

i dont know how old you r but you didnt get to where u r overnight so you cant expect to get to goal that fast either. t.o.p.s. tells us that 1-2 lbs a week is the best for a healthy approach to weight loss. hang in there and ill be right beside you every step of the way.

Peg

DonnaD

I didn't look on you as a baby, just another chick struggling like all of us, we each have our crosses to bear, your big one right now is the diabetes. My dad is a diabetic and I understand a little about it, so you are right in listening to your doctor. Slow and steady wins the race. I like what you said about not wanting to gain back like before, I hear you on that and understand completely! That is one of the reasons I am doing everything I can to take this diet seriously, since diabetes run in my family so strongly I hope to avoid it as best as I can by not contributing to it by carrying around this weight.

The surgery, are you talking about gastric by-pass? I've had several friends and family members have it, in fact, one just had it Monday. My one family member had it, but the doctor told her, she would only lose about 80 lbs (she only JUST had a 100 to lose and just qualified for the surgery) with just the by-pass the other 20 she would need to diet and exercise to lose, she has never bothered to lose it and that was 4 years ago. She is just happy that she is the size she is because it is the smallest she has every been since she was 12 and she is now 52. Do some checking and if your doctor does approve, maybe do some consults with the doctors and hear all about it.

well all hang in there together.

Hi Peg,
You're right 1-2 lbs is the best way and my doc seems to agree. I just so sick of all the ill affects of the extra weight. It seems like an impossible battle at times. If I wasn't so bummed when I got home then maybe I wouldn't have forgotten the TOPS meeting was tonight. I'll have to try and go next wk. I'm 44 and have been yo-yo ing this weight for over 20 yrs. But its seems like I've been battling it just as long... But gotta get up, brush off and keep going. I was just looking forward to feeling better and possibly ditching some of the pills. But all in due time ....hopefully. :crossed:

Aggie, sorry your still not feeling well. Get some rest. And as always, thanks for listening.

Hi to everyone. Hope alls well.

now I have a question for us
 

How does everyone handle the end of the day, when you've eaten your quote of what every? How about the boredom, I've always eaten when I was bored, this internet site helps, but sometimes I just go to bed so I won't be tempted, chicken I know, but I'm working on my bravery!

Hi Donna, Peg,Magnolia,

Donna. I am glad you are feeling better, your doc know you best, the weight will come off, I am not losing the weight as fast as some others on Medifast. That s just fine too, remember when we all spoke about lifestyle changes, well that is so important. That is one reason I eat one meal a day and not just drink the shakes, because I cannot stay on medifast forever, I must retrain my mind to make healthy food choices. Maybe you could just concentrate on eating healthy, exercising. Keep a positive attitude, and just vent here when you need to. We didn't gain the weight overnight, we won't lose it that way either.

Aggie hit it on the head
 

Aggie

You are so right about that, eventhough I'm not doing medifast, the same goes for all of us, retraining the mind to eat healthy. I've found myself thinking those same thoughts as I walk on my treadmill (even when I'm listening to audiobooks). I think about how i've done things before and how I felt that contributed to weight gain and unhealthy eating ways. I don't waste time beating myself up on the past, nor should anyone else reading this. The past is what it is, and can't be changed. Look forward to the future and what we are doing in the present and how to improve ourselves. I lost 1.5 this week and of course I wish it was more, but that is a loss not a gain and they will add up over time. I am trying and accomplishing sometime, to look on this time as a way to reevaluate myself and my habits. I'm hoping today DH and myself can go goof off. I want to walk around the mall and look at clothes in the size I will be when I hit my goal, now is normally a size 9 and 10 at my height and weight. That helps me visualize better and gives me a little more motivation to press on ahead.

Slow and steady wins this race and to stay winners we can maintain it. WE are going to be hot looking chicks, even if I do say so in my over 45 year old body!

ha ha old body
 

well they say you are as old as you feel :?: so i guess we all will be getting younger as the weight comes off :lol: cause right now i feel a lot older than i am :fr:

talk to you LIGHTER!!!
Peg

Hi all,

Woohoo! a weight loss, that is great!! It's a loss.Keep it up. I showed up losing almost a lb, even after my slip. I think that is because I have been sick tho. Yes we will be Skinny hot chicks!! Later everyone. Oh yes, I went and got a kenelog (sp?) shot this afternoon, I am hoping I wake up tomorrow felling amazingly better. One of the side effects of this shot can be hunger and weight gain. Please pray that doesn't happen. Thanks

WEll hot chicks, I guess I can't make my diet go faster, so ok I can accept that, but I was left unsupervised yesterday in a store, DH was looking at electronics, and I picked up some hair color! I went from dk brown to a strawberry blone with some highlights. DH says it makes me look younger, either he is telling the truth, or he has become a better liar, ha ha ha, lol, rofl!!!

But something weird happened. I'd eaten just a pear for breakfast knowing we would be eating out lunch and maybe dinner. At the restaurant I ate a guiltless chicken Pita sandwich, 9 grams of fat, and was very full, later that night I came home and looked it up it was 477 calories. I couldn't eat another bit the rest of the day because I was so full, But I kept feeling guilty, even this morning when I woke up I'd felt like I had cheated. Is that weird or what, the only thing I can think of is that because I was out of my normal eating situation.

Has this happen to any of you?

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dont know about the idea of being out of your normal eating situation making a differance. eating out is my problem too i have been asking every place that i go for their nutrition guides but there are still not enough choices ( you know salad, salad, or maybe salad)... maybe you have found a very good thing for you to eat and feel full for only 477 calories. where was it that you ate? :) keep up the good work :cp:

talk to you LIGHTER!!
Peg

Peg, Donna and all,

Donna, I think that is great that you found fufillment in less than 500 calories
Peg, you are doing fantastic, what are you eating?
I went out to lunch w/a friend, we had saw the allergist today. We both had salads, she has gained a lot of weight again , but she is not ready to get to work on losing at this time. I think we all agree that ouur minds play such an important role in our success at losing the weight. I am wondering if this is at all similar to what it is like to try to quit smoking? I am going keep not to look at it as depriving myself of something, rather I will try to think of it as a new way of life, a new way to treat a disease____ Obesity, the disease of Obesity. My treatment for this disease is eating far differently than I have in the past, a new attitude about food, Donna your right it isn't a treat, it is feeding the disease. And I have to stop doing that! Hope everyone will have a great weekend!!!

aggie,

this is a lot harder than quiting smoking because you dont need ciggarettes but we do need food!!! i tell myself everyday that i am NOT on a diet but that i have changed my BAD eating habits. i have completely changed my way of eating and what i eat. i found out that i was eating out of habit instead of when i am trully hungry.(buzzer goes off at work...eat, hubby wants lunch...eat even tho i was not hungry yet.) now i am waiting till the tummy starts to growl and then i am eating healthy . instead of biscutes and gravy or eggs and bacon and hash browns i am eating bran cereal, skim milk, and banana. for lunch instead of buger and fries i have salad and cottage cheese or raw vegies ,yogert and lite turkey sandwitch. i really look at the labels at the store and am a lot more aware of what i am buying and eating. it is more expensive to eat healthy but i look at it this way ...i can afford 20 to 25 more dollars a week for food a whole lot easyer that having health problems.(doctor visits, meds, possably missing work, maybe even hospitalization) so it is really all in the mind and how we are going to look at this. you got to keep it up and this is not just for now it is for life!!!

good luck in keeping to plan

talk to you LIGHTER!!!

Peg