I am in.

Are you Angie, Noelle and Teresa?

I got a book to help me with my food addiction so I am hoping this will help me get this stuff off of me. It is just extra bagage that I don't need.

You don't have to worry about me not checking in. You should know by now that I am addicted to this place.

OK, I'm in!!! Except I'm gonna have to weigh-in on Saturday morning 1/4. I think my flight gets in @ 11:30 pm Friday, 1/3/03 so I am NOT getting on that scale as soon as I get home (haha). But I am definitely in. This may be painful but should be fun. Don't weight around for me...I'll catch up

Hey Teresa, welcome! Please join us anytime. Whenever you need a boost just holler. Hope you feel better soon--you can do this and you are worth it.

Thanks everyone and have a great day.

Spock you latahs! (translation: see you later)

Hi, may I join you too?

I could totally relate to eating in secret - it is something I have done since I was a teenager, and it is very hard not to. In fact the times I've slipped up this holiday, it was not with eating a portion of trifle I let myself have at the table with the others but sticking my fingers in the trifle when no one was looking. This is why I have tended to like candy and cookies the most - easier to eat secretly.

It is hard not to eat in secret as a reward (kids are in bed at last!) or because I feel angry at DH or something (at least I know that the chocolate will taste good - like I can't seem to remember that I will be MORE unhappy later on when I am heavier...)

So not only do I want to take off more weight in 2003 but to really let go of chocolate & pals as a need in my life. Plus I need to drink my water and exercise REGULARLY.

I'm in to weigh in on Jan. 3 and try for 10 lbs.

You all sound like terrific, cool women BTW!

Lidian

Woo-Hoo! We'r eon a roll! Let's see, we've got Kempy in, Theresa in, Noelle, in. Lidian, in. I'm in. Where's my other ladies? Boy do I feel like an anvel is on my hips. Lately i've been just like you girls, eating eating eating. Mking excuses. I'm tired of feeling lousy. I'm ready for the 3rd.

Of course I am in too!!! I will weigh in on Saturdays though because that is my weigh day for Gennels challenges so it would be easier to stick to that day for me. I didn't get much of a chance to check in yesterday because I was busy...EATING!!! I am going to try my best to get back on track(the first couple of days are the hardest)

Welcome to everyone new, together we can all do this!!!!

Hey guys, I thought I would check in to let you know how the book is going. I finished it about 15 min. ago and wow that book was written about me. I think it will be a real challenge to stop what I am doing to myself but I think with so support I can do it. It made me ralize that overeating is a disease not a weakness. That I keep falling back onto food when anything goes wrong and that most compulsive overeatrers are obssesed with their image. That is me in a nut shell. It also says that diets are not the right way you have to completely change the way that you look at food and eat and if you slip up you could fall back into the disease again. This is something that I am going to havce to deal with for the rest of my life. I am just glad that I caught it when I did. I am still scared about talking to Joe tonight. I really don't know what to say to him about all of this. Like I said before I don't want to look like a weak person because of this.

Sorry if I brought you guys down with this but I need to get all of it off my chest.

Kempy, sounds like you've had an Epiphany of sorts. I understand that compulsive overeater stuff. Can I ask, what book was it?

I just read a book called "the Obvious Diet", about how to pattern a diet for your life, making deicsions based upon what you know about yourself, and not on fads, or popular methods. Anyway, one way I'm going to use this challenge to lose my ten pounds, is to have one day of each week for Cleansing. It'll be Wednesday, and I'll eat only fruits and veggies. I can eat cabbage soup, veggie soup of any kind, as long as there are no potatoes in it. I'll eat fruit, and soup, and all I want. Until the end of the day. Then, the next day, go back to eating healthy.

Then, I get one day of Treat Meal. This means, I'll choose Friday nights. I can eat anything for dinner I want. As bad as I want. And, that'll be my cheat. That will let me indulge,a nd I'll feel okay, cause I will have been good the other days. Sounds like something I can try for now. I'm going to do my Cleansing day tomorrow, cause Wed is New Years, and I can't guarantee i'll do only veggies and fruit. What do you girls think of this?

Why no poatatoes Chris? I would die if I didn't have potatoes. LOL(even for 1 day)

I think because potatoes raise your blood sugar. And potatoes are carbs. And this is about vegies and fruit.

I think sweet potatoes have a slightly lower glycemic index - they can be nice with a bit of brown sugar and are very very filling (abt 130 cals plus a bit for the sugar, you don't need much)...The Obvious Diet sounds really good and I am going to look for it. Thanks for the recommendation...

Kempyd, I understand totally - I have had a VERY hard time talking to my DH about my food issues and when I first met him I didn't want to eat in front of him at all...I think he still doesn't get it, how big an issue it is for me and how it really is such a big (but hidden) part of my life...it took me days to ask him to put the trifle in an opaque container because even now I am ashamed to admit that I was eating it...I am thinking of you - please let us know how it all goes...

Take care everyone and talk to you soon,

Lidian

Hello ladies. I'm gearing up for my Vegas vacation and thinking about how much weight I'm going to bring back with me after all those awful, scrumptious, free buffets. I'll need some serious motivation when i get back. Maybe I'll just go shopping and walk a lot. I told hubby that we have to walk the length of the entire strip at least a couple of times. I'll buy some smaller clothes as an incentive. Can't wait to go on this trip but can't wait to get back so I can get back to "normal" healthy-eating and diet mode. Phhhttttt!!!

Chris, I like the sound of that obvious diet too. Maybe I'll check that out. Thanks for sharing.

Kempy, forget about appearing weak in front of Joe. He should be your number 1 supporter in overcoming this problem. You've recognized something as a problem in your life and are going to do something about it. I have to admire you for that, that shows strength and courage.

Lidian HI! Glad you're joining us. Remember Kicking Horse's Christmas Challenge? All the pounds I lost I found.... . Nobody's fault but my own, I know. But the more the merrier and I love competition.

Angie, potatoes are great, but rice is my carb of choice--every day, in the form of sushi if I can get it.

Anyway gals, just wanted to stop in and say hello and wish you all a safe and Happy New Year. Let's get healthy in 2003.

Aloha, Noelle

Noelle I hope you have a great time in Vegas. I love it there. Joe and I can't wait to go back. Do you have family there or are you just going to have fun. Which place are you staying in?

Thank you guys for the encouraging words. I guess I am just scared of this b/c I recognized it as a problem. I hear of stories where people have to go to treatment hospital for this kind of stuff and I don't want to be that type of person. I want to do this myself and with the help of Joe.

Chris the name of the book is "Food Addiction, the Body Knows". There is a way that you change your eating (not supposed to say the "D" word). It seems a little intense. I think I might try it if Joe is game to do it with me. It says that most peoples trigger food is refined sugars which include flour and even wheat. I am kind of freaking out about giving up my wheat bread. I want Joe to look it over and see what he thinks.

Angie potatoes are high in carbs if you have to eat one eat a sweet one.

Lidian sorry I didn't say hello when you first posted but welcomle to the crazy lady group. No, seriously, I am glad that I am a part of this thread I have become really good friends with these three and I am glad that I have gotten the opertunity to get to know them. Who knows maybe sometime in the future we can all plan a trip to meet somewhere. I think that would be so much fun!

Oh, do you all do the low carb thing? I refuse to do that. If I can't eat the foods I normally eat then there is no way I could make it a lifetime thing. I ate so much pasta and potatoes when I lost the 135 pounds the first time that I don't get the no carb thing.I would just be setting myself up for failure. I will do my best to give up sweets but noone is touching my spaghetti and potatoes. LOL

I better get back to work to help hubby before he kills me. LOL

Later everyone!

Kempy, How did your talk go?

Where is everyone? I am so bored. I worked out for an hour today and I still don't have anything to do.I am still craving that damn cake and Popeye's too. Good thing there is only one Popeye's in Maine and it is ALOT closer to New Hampshire than me.

Chris, How did the soup thing go?

Lidian, How are you doing today?

Ugh. The soup thing was really har dtoday, but I am so proud I've lisved through it. One day can't kill me. It seemed so long, though. I ate an apple for breakfst, wiht my coffee. Pretended it was a bagel and cream cheese. Ate cabbage soup for lunch.

Ate a salad, made some homemade dressing with it. Ate more cabbage soup for dinner. Ate some cranberry sauce, from the can. Dying for sustenance.

Then, a little whie ago, opened a can of vegetable soup, Campbells. Good salty can of yummy soup,. No cabbage. Fighting off trips to the bathroom as we speak. Peeing like crazy. Pooping like a ... you get the point. But, I think it did me good. I feel cleansed... literally. I'm glad I got thrrough it, cause tomorrow night, at Dad's I'm gonna eat. Shrimp, whatever. I'll tryo not to overdo it, but i'm gonna celebrate and eat. Be back, bthroom break... (eek!)