Hey ladies, I have a delicate question......

Any problems with elimination?? If I don't get up at 5:30 in the morning, nothing happens argggggggg like this morning, I had a day off, got up at 8 and nothing all day....so I didnt go to the center cause I've had a really bad week so far and didn't want to register my week with a gain :-(

It's been an ongoing battle for me since the start in April which is probably why I gain every Monday. Sucks cause I am so good at staying on plan!!!!

Besides that, had to rush my Mom to the Montreal hospital yesterday (2 hour drive) and my Dad is slowly recovering from his last chemo treatment. My son has been gone 4 weeks in his Army cadet camp and is too busy to call his old Mom!! Ha Ha!

Either then that, still at 29 pounds lost till tomorrow's Wi...we'll see :-)

Great job ladies and Christina, so glad to see you are back on the wagon and cheering for yourself xox

Be back tomorrow with hopefully good news. Good night losers :-)

Sexyness...
Yes our loss is close but check out the difference in inches grrrr LOL actually you started before me ...I started July 9. In all honesty inches count wayyy more than the number on the scale and my inches arent going so fast...Im only at 7.5 inches. Who knew I had so much water in me hahaha.
I have good days and bad days...lately alot more bad days. It's almost like I am sabotaging myself on purpose...maybe I am who knows. I am sick of being fat but I also dont like change. I seem to be doing alot of binging lately. I get on my high horse about how all these other people can eat crap so why cant I...then I feel guilty. Between yesterday and today I have had BK, KFC and a pecan maple danish. I never used to eat junk as it was except fridays so I have no idea whats going on. I hate the way I feel afterwards and sometimes I can even make myself sick. I dont mean sticking my finger down my throat!! I mean I will think about it so long that I actually get sick...vomit. Thats not good either!!! Then you have nothing in your stomach and thats not healthy either. Sigh...what a journey.

Uggh up .4! boowoo.

The centre thinks I have plateaued so I am starting wm 4000 on Monday and going on the no carbs after 4 and no free exchange for a week..hopefully this kicks my body into loss.

I am still losing inches more then 2 a week..but the scale is really making me depressed.

I also have the issues with elimanation and they are upping my fibre or something cause its no good.

I am pretty much at my hafway goal with 5 months to go so lots of time to get to my goal on Jan1!

Hey im new obviously lol
yeah i just started the Herbal Magic diet on Thursday it seems pretty straight forward but i think my down fall is giving up all the sweets but im excited to get to where i wanna be and it looks like it worked for all of you

Welcome bored!

Wishing you all the success with HM!:hug:

Welcome bored :-)

1 pound loss this week gang. Pretty happy considering I was at gain until yesterday. 30 Down yessssssssssssssssss and 29 inches :-)

Happy Sunday xox

yeah when i went in for my first weigh in after starting this i dropped 1.6

taking chances...
so you can only have meat after umm I think you said 4 ...thats going to be hard I think :o

halfbaked..... sounds like me for the most part too. I struggle mostly when I dont have meals planned for the week and when my family wants to eat out or go out for a ice cream cone after dinner, I dont like the frozen yogurt at the ice cream shops that much. I feel really guilty after I eat bad too, then I think its so much easier to be fat than work my butt off to get skinny, then I come back and think what the heck? I want to be skinny I know I'm happier when I'm skinny like I was before my kids.I like seeing the results already so that helps me to keep going.
I like my inches loss but not my lbs loss its not enough I'm just maintaining because of the pills they put me on due to my galbladder and now they put me back on my original pills plus the medical pill so its 4 pills(I counted wrong before thought it was 5) I'm not a pill person so I'll be talking to them on Tuesday when they reopen from the long weekend.They said now that I'm on my original pills I will lose weight again.

Your doing good halfbake keep it up, we'll be here for each other.
I have to get back on track and plan meals and excercise!! we can do it Halfbaked :hug:

:welcome2: bored, its a great place to be!!

NO carbs after 4.. so I leave fruits for the evening and it is going well but I also am in bed by say 10.. not a late person or TV person.

No free exchange this week.. this is going to be harsh!

I so dont understand because fruits are carbs...big ones because of their sugar etc.. Basically the only thing thats not a carb is your protien sources:S

I was told no fruits or starch after 4 which is hard for the starch part because I like potatoes and rice and pasta for supper.HM told me to make some for supper but dont eat it and save it for my next days lunch. I dont do that all the time though, like tonight I had skinless boneless chicken breast with lemon on it and mashed potatoes and veggies..oops*L*
I havent been wi since Friday so I guess I will find out tomorrow how bad I did.
How did everybody do? I'm sure you did really good, but if not don't worry we can do this together :hug:

Itsgreattobeme.....Wow congrats to you:carrot: 30 lbs is amazing!!!!

Bored......Welcome and congrats on your first losses:)


Sexyness.....LoL we should have hooked up as we ate the same thing for dinner...would have been less cooking hehehe:cool:

Hi Tammy,

I hear you on the lack of eliminations... at least I did...

One word FIBREMAX.

It's a powder fibre booster (your gals at your centre will have tons of info on it) It tastes nasty but it works... just like that famous cough syrup. I haven't had a problem since starting one 1/2 tsp before bed and it sure cleans your insides up. May help with a little weight loss too i've been told since it does have a little bit of a cleansing effect.

Also... I was an officer at an Air Cadet camp for 3 summers. He's having a good time if he's not calling mom. We worry when they call mom too often lol.

Good luck everyone with your weigh ins today. I'll be heading to see the damage I have done over the long weekend after work today.

Well I was up .6 and love the lady i had today we talked for a good half hour about my meal choices and how I eat the same stuff all the time an dthat might be why I in this rut..

So I have started wm4000(for 10 days!) and no carbs after 4 more protien and high fibre low GI foods.. and no free exchange..

hoping this kick starts me agian:p

WOW I went in today and I was down too 150.6lbs & 1 inch loss = 75inches
I can see my 145-149's coming by next week After TOM Leaves town.

Hugs to all my HOT HM CHICKIES ...

Sorry not around at this moment ! :hug:

Christina that is a aweome LOSS! congrats!

I am going daily this week, and today I was down .8 from yesterday and so far the new "diet" of GI index and high fibre and no carbs after 4 is going well..

I loss no inches this last week so still sitting at 36 loss.

hoping each day is a great day this wek!

well Tuesday i was down 3.4 shocker because i had pizza Sunday/Monday couldn't go today had other stuff planned. lol. this is a lot easier then all the other diets i've been on.lol

DID they give you a plan to follow or something like this .... you can follow ?
I found a GI site with Lows,Med.High foods on it...
w w w . s o u t h b e a c h - d i e t - pl a n . c o m/lowglycemicfoodlist. htm

take the spaces out & Copy & Paste

Let me know !

Hello Ladies,

I went for my post long weekend weigh in yesterday (I went on Tuesday as well - I was up 2.2 pounds) but I came back with a vengance.

In one day I went down 3.8 pounds to bring myself right back on track!

I don't have a ticker yet so...

Starting weight - 172.2
Goal - 140
Week - 7
Current - 159.2

Less than 20 pounds to goal!!!

I have also lost 20 inches and when I started the program I was in between a 14/16, neither really fit well one was too big the other too small. Last night I went shopping and I am a size 10 :carrot: I can't remember the last time I was this size.

I love this program!!!

Yes they gave me all the handouts..

so I was down .8 yesterday and 1.4 today and it is only wed.. hope this trend continues..

evening ladies :hug:Halfbaked...anytime I have to cook less is awesome, so lets cook together *L*I went into HM yesterday and they want to see me every day again due to me falling off slowly. Seems like all I've been doing is whining lately, but man everything is hitting me. Here goes.... One thing I was dealing with my galbladder and maybe surgery coming up, then was real sick with a cold and then chest cold and a infection in my throat and both ears for 3 weeks and then the big thing that has thrown me over the stressed out line.... I'm a manager of Subway and its a very very busy one, since I've taken over this one 2 1/2 years ago(my hubby use to run it till he was promoted to General manager of 5 subways) then his assistant took over then I took it from her, anyways my sales have gone up soooo much since I've taken over and I'm the highest paid manager out of the owners 5 stores and I had a assistant manager that has worked for me for 2 years and for one year of that she was my assistant manager and was great she is 20 years old. She met this other 20 some year old guy that I know and is a BIG LOSER and I told her that and Monday night sometime after 1 am my assistant and her new boyfriend robbed my store 15,000.00 after the long weekend was over.We became friends real close and partied together and everything and she did this to me, now an investigation is going on and they are on the run.Sooooo Hm wants to see me every day and wants me back on track and I signed up for the walking group that HM has going right now starting this month and then volunteering at the local ranch to walk horses, I dont know everything about it yet, the owner of the ranch invited me to join her there when we both were at HM. wow have I ever went on and on. sorry again. My hubby and i are very stressed out.Congrats to all the losers!!oh ya I lost 2 lbs since yesterday.. dont know how but I did :o I now weigh 172.0 I want to see the 160's!!!!!Sorry that I vented so much.

Sexyness... I would say you have had more than enough reasons to "whine". I feel soooo bad for you:hug: It really sucks when someone lets you down and misuses the trust you place in them. Try to remember this has nothing to do with you....and trust me wherever she is she feels guilty about doing this to you. She couldnt not after you working together for this long. Unfortunately we sometimes make bad choices and hers was a BIG one. *sigh*

I dont know why you are so worried about the scale woman arrgghhh. I mentioned to my HM about you and how while you have been on longer and lost the same amount of weight you have lost over 20" They agreed with me that your inch loss is soooooooooooooo much more important than the scale. All I really want is to look decent in a bikini lol I dont care what number Im at.

Anyway Im down 2 inches this week for a total of 9.5 inches but Im still at 184 grrrrrrrrrrrrTOM:mad:

I amintained the weight from yesterday but am down 2.2 for the week.. hoping and praying the weekend is a easy one..

halfbaked..Thanks sooo much :hug: I really hope she does feel guilty, I know that sounds mean, but she did a number on me and some others that we work with. I pray that she gets caught and soon.I thought my scale #'s would go down more but nope it hasnt but like you said the inches are going down its 25 1/2 inches now woohoo, I'll start concentrating on my inch loss for awhile to keep me positive like your HM consultant says:) Way to go on your inches loss..way to go!! remember the #'s on the scale doesnt matter right now :D You'll do it!!Where do you live? Just wondering, thought we could get to know each other a little more if you want, if not that's ok too. Well better go and do some crunches and then go for a speedwalk with my 10 year old daughter then back to watch a movie.Isabel :carrot:

hey every one.
when do you find it best to go weigh in?
because i usually go in the morning but today i went this after noon and it said i was up 1.2 :( but i had followed everything) they think it was because of water retaining because of the heat we had here for the part two days. i donno

Sexyness..... hmm about me lol. Let's see...just turned 34 in June am a mom to a soon to be 16 yr old eep!!! Married a soldier 3 yrs ago on Aug 25 and live on CFB Petawawa. Hubby is leaving sometime in the next month for Afghanistan (his first tour):( I work on base inspecting our cleaners work in the buildings. Ya it really is as exciting as it sounds LOL But I cant complain...straight days no weekends, decent pay and my gas is paid for. Any full time job is hard to come by up here. Too many military wives not enough jobs:(

I included a pic (hope it works:p) Im alot more blonde now...feel like Im cheating as I dont really have a whole body pic...but Im taking one hopefully tomorrow!! At least now when youl have an idea who you're talking to!!! Wow I dont look very friendly lol

ps congrats on your inch loss thats awesome!!!

halfbaked... I'm 37.. now thats eek :o I'm a mom to a 10 year old daughter and an 8 year old son.I've been married for 11 years to a wonderful guy that I met online in 96. I was originally born in the states and then came here and have been here ever since. Oh ya I live in Port Elgin *L*. As I mentioned before I'm a manager of Subway a very busy subway that is. Nice pic, no you dont look unfriendly :hug: Least now I have a face with the name. Well better go and good luck this weekend with being good.Isabel :carrot:

Bored...hers what I do for weigh in...not that I recommend it. I weigh myself soon as I get up ...naked. I eat at 630 am and have my snack by 9 am. Then I dont drink or eat anything until my 11 am weigh in at HM .That way the scale is the same as my morning WI usually. Theres nothing I hate more than having them tell me a weight that is off 1 or 2 or more lbs from what I was in the am. But then Im a nut LOL

Sexyness....Well I am smack in the middle of my TOM so "being good" wasnt even in my vocabulary the last 2 days. I was BADDDDD Im paying for it today...up 1.5 lbs:o Im not shocked I knew it would happen. So just have to get back op and off I go:)

ps...I met my hubby online too heehee

Hey Gals

That is a great pic Tulip-- I am so sorry your DH is leaving.. hope the time he is gone passes real fast..How long is a tour?

I agree if I go mid morning my weight is less...I work shift work so I go at all different times but try to go 2-4 hours after last meal.

I usually do my WI at HM in the am after I go pee :o and before I eat anything. I cant eat soon as I get up, I'm usually up at 6:15am and have my tea right away and to work by 7am and then by 9am or so I have my breakfast.I know thats bad, but not hungry till then or even later.

halfbaked.. its ok there's always tomorrow to do better. Thats cool that you met your hubby online too*S*

Isabel

The deployments are usually 6 mo but alot of the guys are going this time up to 10...thankfully hubby got out of that and will only be gone for the 6. Every time it gets me down I just try and remember to be thankful we arent american...theres are anywhere from a yr on....Dont know if I could handle that!!!

Today's weigh in went well down 1.4 which is shocking as I had a major cheat on the weekend..guess drinking all that water does help.. haha..

Have a great week!

Hi Gal's back from camping. Kinda sucked with all the rain. Did fairly well not completely on plan. my pills got rained on and were to soaked to use. Silly me forgot to put my pill case in the zip lock! But my home scale read 291 which would mean a 2.5 loss. My home scale is about .5 higher or lower on average. Wont go to the centre til Tues am.

Hey everyone
I've been busy the last month or so, and WOW falling off the wagon hurts.
I'm now at 217.6. Not my lowest by a long shot. But, there are no more vacations, trips, etc... planned for a while. Not till Jan 09 that is.
I think it will be better once the kids are back in school.
Oh yeah, I got a job. I start on Thursday. That should help me as well. More structure in my day seems to help.
I talked to the girls about my gains and they understand. (not quite happy about it, neither am I)
I have to say, that the S/B and F/B's worked for me. I would probably be alot more off track than I am if I hadn't taken those faithfully while I was away.
My husband also leaves sometime soon for overseas.

Tulip, do you work with Fran?

Well now that I just posted, my ticker is a little off now.
But
I'm not changing it, It will motivate me to get there again and go further.

I went in today for WI and I'm down.... to 149.4lbs ! :carrot:

But My time is running out till maintenance ...4weeks and I have to lose 19lbs in that time or I have to pay $15.00 week till i get to the weight or be ok with the weight I get too and learn how to maintain it ! NOT because I know I will not be 130lbs.

But I don't think its right to have to pay that Much a week till you get to you goal then your other weeks run out. Mine is feb 2009

You think it's posstiable to lose 4.75lbs a week ? & make it to Sept 10 2008

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My weigh in went surprisingly well i went down 2 pounds which i was so happy for. The most always seems to come off after the weekend for me. and this weekend was difficult working out side all day and my sister would go and get food and assume what i would eat not asking me ( which she got everyone burgers and fries) at that point i was so hungry i didn't care. but two days in a row that terrible and i know.

but since starting herbal magic 6 pounds down. only 97 more

Meekster ACK!!!! shhhhhhhh yes I do. Please dont tell her Im on HM or on here. I decided when I joined I wasnt telling anyone. The only ones who know are my hubby and son. Im not sure really that I will ever tell anyone. I know that sounds weird but Im a private person to begin with when it comes to certain things, and the thought of people watching and talking about me and what Im eating etc...does not turn my crank at all. So how do you know Fran? Are you in Pet? Ive agreed to join dance with her this yr....she kept at me last yr and by the time I said yes it was over for the yr. So starting next month Ill be Twinkle Toes Tulip LOL I just hope Im not the only newbie. I havent joined anything like this since I was a young teen and the thought of my hulking load trying to be graceful terrifies me. But I know it will be fun and will give me something to do while hubbys gone.