http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Con...d=970599119419

that is the Journey to Fitness link!

:lol: Sorry, Frouf! Try some magnesium tablets. That Fat Flush lady, Ann Louise Gittleman, swears by them.

Now for the quote. Get ready for this because it's a good one:

"What happened to my generation of women? Who doomed us to spending our entire lives wishing we were half a stone lighter? I wasn't anorexic, bulimic, or anything else you would put in a textbook but I still managed to see everything I ate as an indulgence and eating it as an act of weakness."

WOW! That is ME! And despite what you guys say about how I look, I've spent so many years seeing myself as dumpy that I can't shake the image in my head. I don't think I'll ever be "normal" again ... will never be able to NOT worry about everything I eat! I suppose that's a good thing to now be conscious of calorie content and portions and all that stuff, but it sure is a burden sometimes when you just want to cut loose and your conscience says whoa, now hold on a minute!! :lol:

Frannie, thanks for the link. I'm gonna go read it now. For some reason I thought the elliptical was like a stair stepper. I have a cheap cross country ski machine with poles that I've tried to sell at my garage sale for 3 years. Maybe I should bring it in and use it!

Kathy, I'm sorry. I really do understand how you feel. I've lost 25 pounds and can't tell. My leader keeps saying "How do you feel?" I can tell she is real excited and wants me to be excited too. I can't lie. I just say, I feel the same.

I think maintenance is going to be harder than losing. Dear Lord....the losing is hard. Don't even want to worry about maintenance for now. I have SO far to go! Kathy, I'm not feeling the desire to cut loose right now because I know I have so far to go. I'm not looking forward to how hard it will be when I get to your spot.

You will achieve your goal. Did you pick a goal lower than the WW top of the range?

I think my goal might be lower; I don't have my materials here so I don't know the ranges. And I wasn't near goal when I was going to the meetings @ work, so the subject never came up. I think I am the size I want to be, now I have to tone up what's left. Maybe then I'll feel better but right now, as much as I want to be excited about being 30 pounds lighter I was, I'm just not. I have to work on the mental part of it.

Hey, just thought I'd tell you guys about my yummy tuna salad I made up this noon. It was tangy, and just different enough to be interesting.

Here's what I did:
2 small stalks celery, chopped
2 green onions, chopped
lots of dill pickles, chopped (I love pickles)
handful of frozen green peas
1 can tuna
roughly 2 T. Dijon mustard (I may have added more)
roughly 1/2 c. ff Miracle Whip

Mix together and chill. I ate it wrapped in large lettuce leaves. Mmm. It made at least 2 servings if you're really hungry, 3 if not.

Angela

That sounds GREAT, except for the peas of course (I have issues). I need to make something different for lunch next week and have all the ingredients. Yummm!

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Drumroll - here is the result of today's weigh-in:

3 LBS GONE FOREVER which equals = 10 LBS IN TOTAL !!! :dance: :dance:

Can you believe it? Given my horrid week, TOM, hunger and other issues looks like things were "working".....must be all that water I guzzled yesterday!

I got my 10 lb ribbon today which is now proudly affixed to my fridge! This was quite unexpected - but nevertheless did decide to reward myself while shopping at the mall and got a new Richard Simmons exercise tape - some sort of Mix up Blast - 40 mins of different types of music and some mat work!

Frannie - sounds like you have mapped out all the Krispy Kreme's within spitting distance...ha ha ha...keep away! :devil:

Kathy - love that quote.....and I think the hardest part is feeling comfortable in your skin - esp when you are at goal weight - one lady brought this up at today's meeting, that she had lost her weight got to maintenance - and now back again - cuz she never felt "at goal" or "thin" or "comfortable in her skin". Something to think about and work on. I was reading an old magazine I had lying around - with a small section on women w/eating issues - one lady spoke about losing weight, going to therapy and finally accepting that she is not bad and food is not bad - we tend to give food qualities such as good or bad..and label ourselves good or bad depending on what we eat. At the end she said she was able to enjoy eating an ice cream cone - but more importantly 'she loved herself while eating the ice cream cone'...pretty profound if you think about it - I think most of us would have "disliked/hated" ourselves and felt guilty about it!

For those that are interested: all's well that ENDS well"... :smug: if you know what I mean - just a temporary setback it seems.

Today's eating a bit erratic - but the strangest thing was craving an orange! :dizzy: On sale today were these most humongous gorgeous big navel oranges,($0.69/lb) not a huge fan of oranges, but I got 3 large ones. Was thinking about them all afternoon while I ran my errands - finally had one when I got home around 5 pm. Breakfast was scrambled eggs, and lunch was a michelina's salad bowl (frozen entree) - the meditteranean salad is actually CORE FRIENDLY!!! Has couscous, and roasted veggies such as eggplant, zucchini, peppers, potatoes, olives, brocolli in a balsamic vinegar sauce - ingredients all look pretty good. Something to have on hand for a quick microwaveable meal!

Need to go make dinner now (salmon steaks were also on sale for $2.99/lb!!)

Frouf :cool:

Frouf, congratulations!!! That is GREAT news!!! :cp:

Butyou're killing me here!!! all's well that ENDS well????? LOL!!!

And how is your H these days? Settling down and behaving, I hope???

Congratulations Froufie, and bye bye to those 10 pounds forever!!!

I am wondering, as I get closer to my goal, if I will have problems being happy at my goal weight. I've gotten close several times, only to get pregnant before I could actually reach it. That WILL NOT happen this time (notice the emphasis). I am enjoying being thinner a lot already though. I'm wearing shirts that actually fit and aren't baggy - in fact, I bought a size medium shirt the other day, and it's too big! My dh admitted to "checking me out" the other day as I cleared up after dinner. :o

But I wonder how maintenance will be, as I've never done it. The last time I was at 120, I was 14 years old, and of course, I thought I was fat. Ugh. As my mom says, "If only I could be as fat as I was when I THOUGHT I was fat," if that makes sense.

I'm doing pretty well with my detoxing... took the kiddos to Chuck E Cheese's today, and watched them eat pizza, birthday cake and a huge popsicle. I chewed sugar-free gum. :cp:

Sunday will tell, as I am always ravenous after church, and we have to go to dh's great-aunt's birthday party right afterwards. I will think of you all though, and I'll be fine, right? :ziplip:

Ta ta!
Angela

Way to go Froufy ! You give us inspiration. I am hoping for my 5 lb. ribbon this week., no........I will get my 5 lb. ribbon this week. Trying to drink loads more water.

Great job!! :D

Hello all....glad to see and read everyone is doing well. Congrats Frouie!! Awesome loss :bravo:
As for me.............well.... I have been reading here (this still is the best board and group I have found) but not posting ....I have decided NOT to do Core as my weight loss maintenence program or journey to stay at goal. I am more out of control on it and have lost the strength to "try" and figure when I am satisfied or full etc, etc. Life for me is easier not doing it, and I LIKE variety much too much, plus I like control of knowing exactly how much I am eating and that I can eat what I have measured.
I have hemmed and hawed about this for weeks as you all know, and have fought the battle with it over and over more times than I care to remember. You have all stuck by me through my thick and thin of it, but in going over ALL of my journals in the past several months, I 'really' did do better on points, whether they were Wendie Points or Winning Points and even the dregged Flex points way. I realize I am points person now and more in control that way. And I journal anyway!!
I will continue to read here because this is the best group of online 'friends' I have seen. You are an awesome bunch and I learn so much from you.
But for me, with now 8 lbs to get me back to goal, journaling and counting is a better choice, for me :D
Seems the last several weeks of hard progam times trying to decide just what the **** I was doing or wanted to do has cost me yet another gain .5 again, small, but never the less trending the WRONG way :mad: And I CAN'T have that. I have worked too long and too hard. I know this is not a diet but a lifestyle change and for me (me that is) points gives ME more freedom.
Also in doing Core for a few months I know I what the better choices are, so I did learn from it.
I'll check back here during the week. I just cannot get on as often as you all do :( and I am so far behind in all your posts.
Just wanted to let you all know how things were going here........
Have a great day out there............Linda :flow1:

:bravo: :bravo: 2 cheers for frouf!! Awesome weigh in considering the you know.....glad things are all back in service now.

Way to go to Angela too for staying away from that pizza!! I need to de-tox too with those m & m's yesterday.......will start today! NO SUGAR right now!!

Linda I understand where you are coming from. We have to do the program that works best for us. :) This is a good bunch of girls and the best board here. I have gone on the others and find none to compare. So much FUN here!!!!!! So we will be lookin for ya!

It is 935 am......just really getting my morning started. Must go and get dressed and go for a walk......or better yet, leave the pajamas on put on the wind suit and go for a walk.......(yes, this really does happen in small towns! -- pajamas are almost warmer then yoga pants!)

Cheers

Kathy, so maybe you should just exercise and the rest of the pounds will come off. Start nagging that girlfriend of yours to buy that Gazelle anyway. I always looked at that Gazelle thing. I think I stopped wondering about it because it was only good up to 250 pounds. Wouldn't have worked for me! Still wouldn't!

Angela, thanks much for the tuna salad recipe. I LOVE tuna salad and haven't been able to make one on Core that I like. I will give anything a chance. Oh...and I won't be putting any peas in either.....out of respect for Kathy you know! I am STILL craving my Subway tuna salad sandwhich with onion. I was going to have it this week and then had only a .2 loss and didn't think I should eat too many points this week.

Froufie, CONGRATULATIONS! :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: You deserve a Cheerleader for each pound down during the most TRYING of times. It wasn't just the water, although I'm sure that helped alot. Don't forget, you stuck to the program regardless of what whas going on in your life and you were successful. I have every bit of confidence that you WILL get to your goal. Bravo for you for giving yourself a non-food reward. I think it's hysterical that you craved an orange but I'm not surprised. I did the Optifast program for 6 months when Oprah first went on it in the 80's. I know....that's partially what's wrong with my metabolism now. I tried everything. Anyway, I didn't eat food for 6 months and lost 75 pounds. Actually, not eating at all was in some ways easier than eating and stopping. But I digress! That whole time, I craved broccoli and cottage cheese. My doctor said I was missing the iron and salt. Makes sense, I guess. So you must be missing juicy sweet stuff? :dunno: Glad to see that you changed your tracker!

Angela, hang in there. I don't know how you guys do it when you have Husbands and kids who are not on the program. I only have just so much will power. I think it is just "adorable" that your Hubby was checking you out! My husband would get lucky if he was telling me that stuff! :lucky: ;)

You go get that ribbon, Mum. We'll be waiting here to celebrate.

Linda, I wondered where you were. I figured you were still reading but I do miss your posts. I'm sorry that you sound so tortured. You have to do what will work for you and stick to it. So far, I'm not having a problem with variety but then I'm home and able to cook fun, unusual meals. What we all want most is for all of us to be successful. Don't just read, post to let us know how you are doing. We can all still help with the emotional stuff!

Frannie, you really made me laugh this morning. I would love to do the PJ thing but I was raised by a paranoid Mother. You know....always wear your best underwear because you might get into an accident....or don't wear you PJ's in the car even though you are just driving the kids to the store because you might get stalled. I didn't walk on the treadmill yesterday because I over did it on Friday. So....today I'll be walking too. I'm going to go eat breakfast now. I worked on our income taxes all day yesterday and was very upset that we have to pay the Feds. Harumpf!

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Could someone please explain CORE to me? Thanks!