WELCOME
We are a group of people who are working together to lose our excess weight.
We are on different plans and are of different sizes.
We want to invite everyone to join us in our journey.
We share laughter and tears.
We share what works for us and what doesn't.
We recently started a Topic of the Day.
Monday........Motivation Monday
Tuesday.......Tuesday Tips
Wednesday.....Wednesday Weigh ins
Thursday......Thankful Thursday
Friday........Friday Facials, Fingernails and Fun
Saturday.......Sit-up Saturdays - any physical activity
Sunday.........Soup and Salad Sunday - recipes
These are not required topics ...just ideas to share. We have found them very helpful. We also share heartaches and fears...joys and celebrations.
Please feel free to jump right in with us.
And be sure to check if there is a second page. We don't want anyone to miss any posts.
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Well, I fugured that it was my turn to start up a new thread...so here I am. I couldn't remember what you put at the end and I have no clues about the cute little gifs, but it was time to move on, so here we are.
Speaking of time to move on...I was thinking about doing that very thing. I have been utterly miserable this week and my dietary efforts are reflecting that. Carbo loading a go-go! I'm not even PMSing, I just feel so fat and disgusted with myself which makes me eat more. I am afraid to get on my scale. I feel like a hypocrite coming here and trying to post something positive, when I have absolutely nothing positive to post. I KNOW I am depressed and could probably use a good regimen of anti-depressents myself, but I'm too lazy/embarrassed/scared/whatever to go to the doctor to get any.
I know I need help. I'm coming to you guys, who I don't even know, and yet I do know so well, I feel closer to you all than to most people I've worked with for years and years.
Maybe work has something to do with this bout of the blues. The job I was waiting to hear about did not pan out...yet, anyway. They are over budget for the year, so they will not be filling the position til January. Apparently it will be mine then. 4 more months of nights.
I came home from a perfectly wonderful vacation and just nose dived. There is so much to be done around this house and I become so intimidated by everything that I just do nothing. I feel stifled by everything I see that needs my attention. I nudged and badgered my dh the other day, who is very patient usually, til I thought he was going to kill me. Perhaps that was the response I wanted, I certainly deserved it, but then I was so upset that he yelled at me, I was in tears.
Could this be some sort of peri-menopausal hormonal thing?
I must say, that just venting here has made me feel better. Putting my thoughts and feelings into words gives them substance...I can look at and analyze and deal with. I KNOW that's why journaling our feelings is so important. I KNOW that if I just get outside and walk in the sunshine I will feel better. I just have to take those steps. And I will, today. Just because I'm promising you guys, I will do it.
I am so sorry to open a new thread with such a downer of a post, but, believe me, it has truly helped. I thought that by venting here, I would receive encouraging words and good wishes from you guys, which would hopefully make me feel better, but just putting my thoughts and feelings into words has helped enormously.
Well, after purging my soul, I'm going to drag my chubby self outside. Sunshine on my brain always makes me feel good.
Thanks for "listening!" Like you had a choice!
Love you all...