OK where are you??

Easter is over, the kids should be back in school now is our time to work on these beautiful bodies and get back in shape for summer.

Has everyone reported in for the Challenge? I finally had a decent week last week and plan to keep improving.

Now remember if your an old member and doing different diets we still want you to come and join us.....we miss you.

Still some time to get the pounds off before swimsuit weather....let's up the support level here......WE CAN DO THIS!!!!

Phyllis

Hi. still here last week loss 5.50 lbs and so happy with me. now easter so trying hard to turtle at least. ha had a good easter was only up 2 lbs from it. so not as bad as i thought. got back to my plan and all. so hopefully. hope everyone had a good easter. have a good day. LaDean

yeah, it sure is quiet around here lately Phyllis. But I'm here!!!

I got a nice long walk in on Monday. Didn't do it yesterday, but plan on it for today. Bobby is going to be the "ball boy" for a local baseball team this afternoon. So I am taking off the afternoon from work. After the baseball game I will get in a walk before dinner - I promise myself!!

Food and water is going very well for me this week. I am hoping for a good WI! Then we are going to Lake George NY for 2 days to an indoor waterpark. We will be eating out for 2 1/2 days, so I am concerned about that. I will REALLY try to push the water at least.

TTFN- Sharon

I'm here! I can't get on my computer at home thanks to my very unwelcome house guest! It's not worth the hassle to kick him off -- he hovers and constantly asks if you're done yet.

I'm trying to get back in the habit of drinking the water. All the leftover candy went into the trash, so that's gone now.

I am also here but truthfully feeling worn down and tired of being fat and trying to lose the weight.Half the time I really don't even think I am really trying other times I know that I have worked hard with NO results.I finally came clean with DH and told him how much I really weigh. I felt timid but good to finally tell him.But I just can't seem to lose even one pound. I am going crazy with depression about my damn weight.

Hopeless and hating it!

Howdy! I didn't weigh myself last week because my TOM came on Sat., but I did weigh in this morning and I am down 3 lbs. Now if I can just keep going and get to my May goal, then I will be moving.

Hi Everyone,

Checking in. I'm working on getting my motivation back. Right now, I'm focusing on eating breakfast with protein every morning.

Lynn

I am around, not sure if I am coming or going but I am around!

Well, I am back home. Had a great time in Baltimore. We went and toured XM Radio because my neice works there. It is really impressive! My younger neice is at American University so we went walked around the campus there. Actually, I just weighed on my scale and I have lost 1 lb! YEAY!!! We did a good deal of walking so I feel I got in some excersize. Glad to be back home though.

Great to see everyone doing well, and those not so well, KEEP GOING YOU WILL GET BACK ON PROGRAM!!!

Thanks Cathy! I have also dropped the diet word. I realize that I have made a lot of positive changes toward taking care of my body. I drink water! Something that I never really did before. I drink soda so rarely that it is almost never in my thoughts. I am trying to eat one fresh salad daily. Still a new habit that has not really become a habit yet. I am thinking of my life goal of eating healthy, of drinking plenty of water and motivating myself to MOVE every day. I really am starting to understand that the emotional pounds that I carry are my real problem. I keep peeling back the layers of ME only to discover that I still have yet another deeper issue then my weight. I feel like I can let go of my weight, That I do not need it to protect me any longer only to find that I am also afraid of success and closeness. Where does it end? I am simply unmotivated to keep going only to realize at the very same moment that I can't quit, don't want to quit. I am slowly starting to realize that this is my souls way of shouting "hey we have some more work to do on the inside" I have taken the steps to move forward only to find that I am frozen in time, But amazingly when the thaw comes I am still moving forward, I am doing this one baby step at a time, my goal will be reached and my soul set free, in the end I will be ME! Now if I can just remember this when the wave Of severe emotions come. I am not even always sure what it is just that I seem to be carried away with it. Hiding from these emotions to the point of not even being able to recognize them.They are that deeply embedded, no wonder I have so many layers to peel away.


Susan got your PM : will start monday on a thread. I write everything down in my food journal every day, but stopped about 4 days ago. Just lost the motivation. Thank you for being here.

I understand how you feel Fonty. I also put on extra weight on my body as a kid to protect myself from the world. I tried dieting, so on.. and of course succeeded but the weight kept coming back. Because I wasn't ready yet and didn't know how to be in the world without my extra weight protection.

Shortly before my second daughter and my lifestyle changes, I was seing a therapist who helped me understand that my body wasn't a bad thing. It did what I wanted it to do. Protect me from the world by adding the extra weight to not be seen by others. I learned to love myself whatever I looked like. Well, mindless to say I don't need the protection anymore. I have learned how to deal with my past, and still learning every day how to deal with my every day emotions. It's not easy but in the end we can learn how to manage our weight.