Hi everyone

I just popped in to see how you were all doing this week. I have been kind of busy. Our car wouldn't start again this evening but we think it is the alternator that we just had fixed a week ago.
The warranty will cover it (I hope).

DH and I are going out with friends tomorrow to see the movie "Ghost Ship". Since we are too old to Trick or Treat we are treating ourselves to a scary movie for Halloween instead

Su-great news about your blood pressure!

AnneD-what a horrible story! Hope you have a good safe Halloween tomorrow

Psych- hi and welcome to the thread!

Aleka hope you are feeling better :

Hi Jennifer & Nugget

Mauvaisroux

Hello everyone!

Thanks for all the kind words about my BP. I had actually gotten very concerned, so it was a relief to see it drop. But it does go along with a dramatic loss of energy for a bit.

Anne, I am so sorry about that holdup experience! I can't fathom why someone wanted to do that. I guess people will try anything~

Mauvaisroux- I hope the car gets straightened out and that the movie is fun. It sounds like it should be! I plan to stay home and act like no one is here so I don't get the trick or treaters. No way will I feel up to handling sugar and not eating it.

Jennifer, Aleka, Nugget, and Nikki--- have I missed anyone? Anyway, have a great low-carb day and I hope everyone has fun today!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

I got my firm tapes yesterday, I'm going to go do them now, just thought I'd check in for the day.

Su, glad to hear about your b/p. Mine use to be elevated too, before I started to lose weight and exercise. It really is so good to see it ok and not to have to take pills to get it down. Mine at one time was 210/130. I went on pills of course. But I'm off them now and the last time I went to the Dr. it was 120/60. Feels good doesn't it?

Mauvaisroux, sorry to hear about the car problems, I hate when that happens. I wanted to see that movie, let us know how it is, ok?

Aleka, hope your doing better everyday. Our weather is still gray, cold and nasty. So far, I'm not sick. The other day when I went to the Dr., everyone in the waiting room seemed to be coughing and sneezing. I wanted to put on a mask.

Anne, that was aweful about your son being held up for his candy. You guys stay safe today/tonight.

I had a bunch of skin tags burnt off my neck and chest last time I saw the Dr. She said it's part of the aging process combined with being over weight. Of joy. Makes me wonder what other wonderful things I have to look forward to. Anyway, I'm pretty sore now, covered with little red welts all over. She usually only does 6 at a time, but I have so many, she did over 25. At least it won't be long. Just feels like I touched the inside of the oven everywhere.

I put this exercise off long enough. Talk to you all later, hello to everyone else too!

Nikki

A quick review of The Firm tapes

I said I wanted a challenge and boy did I get one. I tried to keep up, that didn't happen. I've read it takes months before you can get your form right, I'm sure of that. I felt like I was going to fall over from the workout and she said, " Ok, now that we've warmed up, let's begin." OMG! I finished watching the tape on the Gazelle, in fact, I didn't even get through the whole tape. There are 4 of them. I think these will last the rest of my life, if they don't kill me first. I'm not sure I'm glad I got them or not, but since I'm hard headed, I'll keep trying to do them til I can't try anymore.

Bye for now, Nikki

Nikki-

Good for you doing these tapes!! I bet that bit by bit they will start feeling comfortable for you. I've got the tai boe tapes, and I just need to get my area settled so I can do it. I can't do much either, but it makes me feel so much better.


The skin tag thing sounds uncomfortable, but they are getting gone, and that's the great thing. I have a few too....need to drag myself to a doc soon.

I love the Halloween icons!!

Happy Halloween everyone

Hope you all have a fun night and don't eat too much candy

Let's get this party STARTED!!!

Okay starting SUNDAY. I am going to drink at least 80 ounces of water.

Have a very low carb day.

Do my Yoga for Weight loss tape then go to my Aqua Aerobics and then Monday go BACK to Jazzercise. I haven't been feeling very well so I've been eating lots of carbs. Today I had TWO scones. Oh my...not good. Anyway, I am readly to get movin and groovin and low carbin again!!!

WE CAN DO IT!!!!

Happy Saturday Ladies!!

Great news for me today, I lost 2 more pounds putting me in the
230's. I started this WOE in August at 270 something as of today I weigh 238.

I should be doing my gazelle, I know I could enhance my results
But hey, 32 pounds in 3 months ain't bad.


My DH and I went to visit another prospective high school for
my autistic son David. We found a dandy yesterday. Up until
now it has been depressing.


Talk to you all soon.
Anne.

Snow on the ground this morning..only a dusting.

Went shopping in the southern part of the state. Bought a lot of goodies.

ANNE, congratulations on the weight loss! 32 lb. in 3 months is awesome!! Keep it up!

Welcome DivineMsJuneBug, do you like your Yoga for weight loss tape? What is the name of it? I would like to try yoga. I have a mat and some blocks, but have never opened the box

nikki, hang in there with the Firm tapes. You will be able to do it in no time. Are you as uncomfortable now as you were after having the skin tags removed? I did have a few in some weird places, but they sort of died and fell off and thankfully never grew again!

mauvaisroux, have you gotten your car fixed again? Having car trouble is a real pain

Hi Su & Jennifer.

Have a good weekend everyone. Aleka

Hi everyone,

I'm feeling a lot better today. I think I must have become part toad or something, I look like I have some kind of weird skin disease on my neck. Hope this redness clears up soon. I hate to admit it, but I sent back the firm tapes. I think somethings are just physically impossible and for me these are. What I found was that they didn't explain anything very well, they just expected you to know what they were talking about. Maybe if I'd done the tapes for years, I would have. Since they cost over $80, it was too much to invest in something I would end up not using. I did try the Pilate tape yesterday and found out that I can do that, not well, but I can. At least the instructor describes what the next movements are going to be, even though she seems to really be impressed with herself.

Anne, what great news about finding a good school for your son. I'm sure it is a big relief. I wish that places that are well run were just common and not something you have to seek out. Oh wow, you are doing so good on your woe. I am just so impressed. I'm up to 27 min. on the gazelle daily now. Get back on it, it really does help me feel like I've done something good for myself and it doesn't impact my joints, just like they say. I think it is so important to protect your joints/body.

Aleka you are such a shopper, I just love that. I bought 3 pairs of shoes yesterday on HSN. Naturalizers, they look comfortable and just like shoes my grandmother would have worn. Big and roomy. Hey, I finally started to use the Torso Track. I can now get down on the floor and bend my ankle and it doesn't hurt too much. I had no idea what a work out that little thing can give you. My stomach muscles hurt for 2 days after the first time I used it. It's been cold here too, they say that Oct was the coldest since 1975.

DivineMJB I use to do yoga when I was a teenager. I wish I kept up with it all my life, what a wonderful thing to do for your body. Sounds like you have a lot of great things lined up for your exercise program.

Su and Mauvaisroux, hi, hope your days are going good.

Talk to you all later, Nikki

Good morning! I didn't realize it was so many days since I posted on the thread! Been lonnggggg week, worked each evening before Halloween trying to get Cody's outfit together (he was PeeWee Herman) and then I worked long hours getting things wrapped up at work so I could take time off. I can't believe how much work it takes to go on vacation!

I am doing my own personal low carb camp for the next two weeks. I will be under my husband's nose for 14 days (he works at home) so I can't cheat!

June, I am with ya!! Today is my cleansing day also. I have to get the candy and the tortillas out of my system! I think I told myself something last night when I snuck candy. Well, I already had a load of carbs earlier in the day with meals, then popcorn at the movies, and while making dinner I snagged one of Cody's chocolate bars and a chocolate football shaped thing. By the time I had dinner ready, I was shaking something terrible. I couldn't believe that happened! I think this tells me I need to back off now! Also I have not felt good again over the last couple of weeks. I was slowly feeling better all the time for the last couple of months. I was losing at a snails pace, but I was still losing and I felt so much better. Weird mysterious aches and pains went away, chest pressure was gone, complexion was improving, and last night I felt like I had hit rock bottom again. I have had 2 awful weeks. I don't know what happened, but last nights sugar shock was the slap in the face I need! 80 ounces of water, huh? Ok, I will try it too! My ankles are swollen worse than they have ever been.

Today is D-Day. De-Tox Day!

We now have a Super Walmart. Last night DH & I went to check it out. I found some bacon wrapped filet steaks that looked yummy. I also got some of their Blue Bunny fat free/sugar free ice cream. It was fantastic!!! Today we went grocery shopping and I found some Jicama. I plan on having that tonight with the steaks we bought last night. I'll let you know how the Jicama is. I think I'll steam it and mash it like potatoes.

Sat. night is the first time in I don't know how many years that we've actually gone out. And...he takes me to Walmart. Who said romance is dead???

Jennifer, it was good hearing from you. Good luck with your sugar withdrawal. I am just the opposite. If I have been eating loads of candy around the holiday season, the day I stop eating it, I start to shake and it lasts a few days until I get it out of my system. You will be feeling better once you get all that out of your system.

nikki, that's fantastic you are able to get down on the floor to use the torso trak. It's great how far you have come since we all started posting. The torso trak does give you a great workout. My stomach was sore for a few days too. But, be careful because one time I felt something pull in my lower abdomen and had to stay off of it until it healed. Sorry you didn't like the firm tapes. If they don't explain things very well, then it's not worth it.

Hi mauvaisroux, ANNE, DivineMsJuneBug, & Su

It's a beautiful afternoon...so I think I'll get my dog and go for a walk. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Aleka

SuGeorgia,

FYI on a question you had asked earlier..

If you go to the library and get a copy of the Protein Power book, it has all sorts of formulas. You can get their idea of how much is the right amount of protein for your specific body. They have formulas to determine the exact amount of grams of protein you should eat each day, in fact.

The Zone books might also have that info.

Jennifer!

(And anyone else who has that reaction to candy..)

Welcome to the world of hypoglycemia. When you have been eating lots of carbs for while (weeks, months) and you eat some consentrated, straight-to-the-blood, sugar without any fat or protein with it to slow it down, it makes your pancreas put out its usual too-much-insulin and that is followed within one or two hours (sometimes as little as 30 min.) with a very low blood sugar level which causes shaking, sweating, confusion, and sometimes panic hunger.

Interestingly, the same thing can happen with diet sodas (y'all probably call it 'diet pop'), gum (even sugar-free gum), and all football-shaped chocolate balls. Either way, the body gets a clue you are eating sugar (even any artificial sugar or natural sweetner like stevia can cause the same results) and your pancreas sends out its huge dose of insulin. That insulin pulls sugar into the cells and causes the sugar level in your blood to drop too low... hense the symptoms.

That is why the real problem is 'hyperinsulinemia' (too much insulin in the bloodstream) rather than too many carbs. In fact, that is why this is not a problem everyone has. Some people have sensible and normal pancreases. So, our problem is the pancreas's reaction to carbs. It is not known why, as far as I know, the pancreas reacts so badly to sugar in some of us but not others...

Eating protein or fats does not produce any significant amount of insulin, so that is why the low carb diet works to make us feel better. [So, it seems right to drink a cup of olive oil first then have that candy bar! Should work...?) The low carb diet allows our pancreas to have a vacation from making so much insulin, and our bodies to have a vacation from the ill effects of too much insulin in our blood system. But, it is also why we have to stay on low carbs for the rest of our lives - this is a thing that will happen every time we eat too much of the "good" stuff.

Sorry for the lecture. My biology class seems to be haunting me right now.... I couldn't help myself... had to write that stuff..

I will work on getting this all under control soon!

Evening everyone!

I went to a food and wine show this weekend and totally out.

I have to get back on track this week as I am only 13 lbs away from my goal and I would like to make it before New Year's. It is going to be tough since Christmas is coming and so will the onslaught of Christmas goodies!

Anned and Nikki-congratulations on your most recent losses keep it up girls!

Jennifer-yow! your sugar shock story is pretty wild! I've never had that bad a reaction before. I've just gotten headaches or a stomache ache.

Giggles-thanks for the info! I never knew any of that could happen, especially the diet sodas

Aleka-wow, you are lucky! The Walmarts where I am only have non-perishable goods and they are mostly junk food. It would be great if we had a Super Walmart here too.

Hi Su and, Nugget and DivineMs.Junebug!