Hi ladies, just checking in. My eating has been spot on, the exercise is going smoothly. Hope you all are doing very well.

Mel- please take care of yourself. Diabetes is a big deal.

As for the diabetes...I'm going to hit it with diet and exercise....and as for your arm workouts...can you work out with 5 pound weights? There are a ton of arm exercises on www.shape.com just put in what your lookin' for.

I'm in....my personal goal is at least 2 pounds lost this week.




So, I just got home. I went and signed up at Curves. They are having a biggest loser compitition. So, I officially have NO excuse for not working out.
I have a trampoline, a bike, a stepper, several workout videos, weights at home, a membership to curves for women only, a gym membership to a 24 hour gym, and my sister has a treadmill....soooooo

if its too hot outside...I can go to Curves, or the gym, or swimming, or to my sisters to walk on the treadmill

If I don't feel like going anywhere...I can work out here at home and jump on the trampoline while I watch television or do workout videos.

If the gym is too full....I can go to curves, or swimming, or to my sisters to walk on the treadmill, or workout at home

If it is storming outside....I can go to curves, or the gym, or to my sisters to walk on the treadmill, or workout at home....


Seriously...I can't think of one single excuse to not work out other than just pure LAZINESS! I sure don't want to be lazy!

Peggy, I stayed even this week.... but next week, I am all over getting down again! Go Rebels! Especially Go Rebels that actually lost last week!

WOW! I can relate to so much in your story...the abusive relationship at an early age, getting started in school late...and while being a mother, and a few other things. I have never been through a divorce, but I hear they can be rough. Woman...let me tell you something....If you can get through everything you mentioned in your story...then you can do ANYTHING! Being a mother is tough work, and it sounds like you have been both a mother AND a father...also...you didn't let that get in your way or be an excuse to not do things for yourself ....like your education...the fact that you went to college and got your bach. and masters shows your a fighter and in it for the LONG HAUL. You will be successful. Just keep it up!

Mornin' everyone!

So, I'm enjoying myself a milk chocolate weight loss shake this morning. I'm going to do a slim-fast diet....if I can afford it. This shake I'm drinking is pretty dang good. I could definately drink two a day. A shake for breakfast, a snack, a shake for lunch with some fruit or some veggies or something, and a snack, and a sensible dinner. I'm shooting for 1200 calories per day.

Well...gotta go clean the house!

Well Rebels, looks like TOM has showed up, so that doesn't look to good for my weigh in for Darth Scale this Friday. However, I am strong with the force, so hopefully, I can get through this and even see some dropage by weeks end. Go Rebels!!!

I was on program yesterday pointwise and with my exercise. Got to do it again today.

Go Rebels.

Mel, I haven't forgotten about writing my story, hopefully later today.

Well, hello ladies..

Well done Rebels, I didnt lose this week but I didn't gain either, I also have TOM to tea so cant really help it.

Well My Story.

I was always a large child, I wasn't huge in the sense of being fat I was just tall and chunky. At school and home I was always active, I played sports, Was in the hockey and netball team, played rugby and loads of other things too. In my last 2 years at school I took Sport studies as an extra option and had 7 hours a week during school time doing this.

Where it went wrong, I met a guy, and he was 3 years older than me and LAZY, omg he didn't leave his room for 3 weeks at one time. He ate pizza and drank Coke - full red label, and I mean 3 litres a day. He would sit in and play games and watch tv. i got into this habit and although I was still at school and active during the day, when I saw him at night I did nothing. after a year I quit it. I started going out more and after a few months my best friend told me he really liked me, enter bf no2. So I didn;t see him as often, and I made sure we went out etc. all was great. After I finished my exams, I found a voluntary job in a vet surgery, after a month they took me on full time employment. 50 hours a week, so enter diet - lots of fatty sandwhiches, crisps and chocolate. less exercise and lazy nights as I was so tired. I gained 14lbs easily. then another 14lbs.
after being with my bf for 3 years we got engaged, bought a house of our own, and moved out. Take aways and bad diets followed. then entered online games, sitting for 18hours on a weekend playing games is unhealthy and getting home at 8pm and eating crap didn't help. so we set a date, and in the January 2004 I weighed my heaviest at 202lbs, I did not have time to diet or exercise (ps I had been to slimming world unsuccessfully in 2000). but somehow by October 5th, I had lost 41lbs, I surprised myself. we got married and up went my weight again, I went back to slimming world 2 more times and lost and gained the same 14lbs so gave up. Until 31st December 2008. I weighed myself and was so upset at the numbers I decided to change it permenantly and give myself a year to do it, not the usual I want it yesterday approach. So January 1st Day 1 - 206lbs, My heaviest ever. Now 182lbs - 24 down and almost at the half way mark. I am very happy with myself and I know I've changed forever. I really want to get down to my goal, and maybe a bit more, but Its what I feel inside that counts now, not the number, and I can honestly say I've never felt this happy about myself.

So thats my story. abit boring hehe, but anyway aiming at 1lb this week, as I said Tom's visiting.

Fellow Redcoats, I'm up a pound this week, sorry! I've been bang on plan, and the only thing I can think of is that I'm retaining more fluid in my muscles because I've ramped up the exercise thing big time this week. I'm training for my first 10k!

So, my story. It isn't very exciting, to be honest. I was the biggest in my group at school, but in hindsight and looking at old photographs I realise I wasn't that big. I was a 12 Au (8 us), it's just that my friends were tiny stick insect 6's and 8's (2-4).

When I left school and started working I discovered alcohol, as all 18 year olds do, and being the 80's my preference was for brandy alexanders and fluffy ducks - both of which contain a substantial amount of cream! Combine that with moving to the city from the farm where I was constantly on the move, and the weight started to creep on.

I got married and pregnant straight away, and then never really lost the baby weight. I've been down to 80ish kg a couple of times, with Weight Watchers, but then last year when my weight hit 98 kg (almost 10 kg/20 lb higher than my highest pregnancy weight!) I decided it was time for a change.

WW wasn't really my thing, I found 3FC and decided that with your help and support I could do this on my own. So far I'm down 12kg (26 lb!) and am fitter and healthier than since I was 18. I can run 6km continuously, and am training for my first 10k - goal is to finish without stopping. And I am sleeping better and have more energy than ever.

I love you guys!

my story... i hope it submits this time cause i have written this out on my phone and it got lost ugh!

i was always thin actually some would say i was too thin but the doctor told my mom that i was fine as a child. middle school was hard i got teased constantly for being too skinny, i had no butt, no breasts and boys werent interested. and then puberty hit like WHAM! i had a nice round arse and a c cup at 12 all of a sudden i had a fan club and in my head tht was cool but i started to tell myself i was fat my mom didnt weigh over 130 pounds till she was pregnant with me at 31 sooo at home i was chubby all of a sudden. and they felt the need to tell me i needed to slim down. so begins the crappy body image i still have.

in high school my horrible body image began...due to a number of reasons. i had a crap bf who was a bit abusive and my mom thought i was huge in my family a size 8 was big...everyone is so little. but truthfully i was athletic i had big thighs, always had but at 5'8" 140 i was nowhere near fat. i felt fat all through high school i managed to work out 2-3 hrs a day playing sports and eat whatever i wanted and i still had a what i think now was a cute little shape...then i left for college.

i was 155 when i got to school due to not only muscles but i worked at sonic every summer and would gain about 5-7 pounds from my ice cream diet and lack of exercise. my first semester i gained 15 pounds. it wasnt a big deal at the time and then the next year another 15 pounds...so at this point i'm 30 pounds up from my comfy weight and i begin to do liquid diets, south beach, atkins, anything that seems quick. never tried to exercise again. by 2005 i had gotten down to about 170 and joined a gym and i stayed there for a while i was using phentermine from an online pharmacy as soon as i stopped taking it i gained right back to 185... i was diagnosed with clinical depression at this time as well and needless to say that didnt help with my eating and by 06 i was 190

i contracted the MRSA staph infection in 06 and had a violent reaction to the antibiotics they gave me to treat it. by the time it was all over and i had been on a course of steroids for months i was at 205lbs and totally miserable. my depression got worse because the illness stopped me from graduating that fall. and i pretty much stayed there till 07 when i did WW and lost down to 179. i exercised and felt great i also started school again for the last time. i had what i thought was a great relationship that was going somewhere and then i found out he cheated and got his ex pregnant. long story short we broke up and i ate and cried my way to 213 pounds. from oct 07 to march 08.

sooo here i am. i joined 3fc april of 08 and ive been making an effort to get this weight off since then. i fell off but can say i have been more consistent with everything since i joined here. so thats actually the short story...sorry i am so longwinded. i really left out a lot lol and its funny when i think about it. i got teased sooo bad for having a flat butt. omg if they could see me now! lol

gnight girls

Good morning everyone! I'll cheer my redcoats on!! Woot ladies-- where are you?!

I've got a couple hours of exercise scheduled for myself today, don't have much else planned. House cleaning and job hunting, but that's pretty much it. My eating is still on plan. Not seen a loss yet this week, but still hoping.

Hey girls! Only 2 more day of this week! Make sure to send me those weigh ins!!!

Mel - I could probably do the #5 weights - but I don't own any weights at all. I did find some exercises that are KILLING but doing their job. I'm also continuing to do wall push ups - at least 100 everyday! I NEVER thought I'd be able to do it!!!

I love reading everyone's stories. It helps me to feel not so isolated. I'll tell mine one day, but right now I still have a lot of anger and guilt with in it - and retelling it over and over brings it all back - and I'm having a hard enough time with emotions, depression and pregnancy. But keep telling them! A lot of times seeing your perspective in black-n-white helps you to deal with the actual issues. No one's problem is the actual food.

So right now I feel HUGE! I'm still hovering around the #25 gained mark - but this baby is COMPLETELY in my stomach. It makes me look further then I am. I'm REALLY sick of people asking when I'm due, and following it up with "wow - that's still a long way away." or the ladies at the bridal shower that I hosted taking a vote on if they thought I looked more then 29 weeks. The MOG actually asked me if I thought I was "actually going to make it to the wedding" HELLO I still have 11 weeks of this left - the wedding's in 5!! I wanted to hit her!!! Oh but the best so far is my neighbor... he and Joe were throwing back a few - and he was more then a few ahead of Joe already - and I went outside to join them and said something about the wedding and Mark (the neighbor) asked me - "So how do you feel about being the fat girl in the wedding" I DIED!!! I told him "Even if I gain #100 in the next 5 weeks, I still won't be the fat girl (on account of the bride's sister weighing well over #300) and I'm not F*ING FAT - I'm pregnant @ssh0le!!" I went back in and I heard Joe go off on him... He apologized - but seriously - if you can't control your tongue when you're drunk - DON'T DRINK!!!!! AHHH!!!

Yea - pregnancy and me don't mix well - and it's doing NOTHING for my self-image! I also hate the "You're supposed to (eat a lot, gain weight, etc.) because you're pregnant." I'm SO glad that this is my last child that I'm having! I couldn't do this again!!!! I think it's worse this time because I was working SO hard on losing weight, and then I saw the dreaded #200 back on the scale! I know I can get it back off - I've done it before.. but it sometimes feels like I wasted a year of my life losing #60!

Ok I'm done venting now. I'm so glad I have you girls!!! Thanks for listening!!!

Hey everyone

Still loving the stories you are all posting. Like Eny said...I think it makes it really real to us that we aren't alone in this.

So, yesterday the MIL, SIL, neice, DD, and me all went to the Tennessee Safari Park. It was GREAT! If you live in or near Tennessee (especially West TN) you should definately go. You get REALLY close to the animals and get to feed them. We even fed and got to pet a Giraffe. Sooooo COOL!

Anyways.....things are going pretty good for me. Reckon I'm gonna go to curves for the first time today. I'm excited!

Hope all is well with everyone

hello all. i hope everyone is doing good. well i am glad to be back at work after the week off last week. not saying that i did not enjoy it but i know it did not help me to much with the weight loss partly due to boredom eating and not really exercising whole heartedly. so after thinking about it i think i know what slowed me down last week so sorry redcoats. anyway i have plans to change that.

sprkle--- i was woundering the same thing about the rest of us redcoats.