evening ladies!

Ah the weekend is coming to a close. it wasnt a terribel weekend but not the greatest. last weeks w.i showed a 5lb loss *finally*. I just comitted to doing my dads wedding photos in 2 weeks so I have to stick very very strickly to the program, cutting out soda and certain proteins and veggies. Sicen they also said they wanted a family photo ( I hate being in them) and I have no doubt they will post them on facebook..so I have to do as much as I can extra!!!!!!!!
got some new supps and the l glut is really helping me out.

meme big hugs girl...b2b how are things with the house??? leelee, how are things there?
Heya there witchie!!
good to see those posts micheleR! You motivate!!!

and welcome traybay! newbies are always welcome!

happy Monday to all!

Hello, I'm new. I think that I'm going to be a lifer on here, I'll need it. I joined Herbal Magic on Feb 6 or 9th 2009. So far it's went really great, but the last month has totally sucked for losses.

SO far I've lost 21 pounds, but in the last month it's been lose 2, gain 2, lose 2 gain 2. I don't know what's wrong, but I'm getting ticked. I have lost inches though. About 9 in the past month, so have any of you experienced this phenomenon?

I stick to the plan most of the time (except for this morning, I went to mother's day brunch, and ate whipped cream on my pancake along with ham.) ha ha, oops. That'll show tomorrow I'm sure.

Nice to meet all of you.

Welcome to Trabay and the Talented mrs ripley! Fresh blood is always nice
Way to go 2dogs lady on your loss! That must feel good.
Tomorrow is a new day for me with me being back on track and planning ahead. This weekend has been ok for eating. With lots of houseguests and being on my feet most of the time (with my sore back) I haven't been on track 100% of the time. I go in to my centre tomorrow so we shall see what we can do to get back on focus. I know I can do it.
On the positive side of things, I am wearing a pretty new dress for mother's day that is very flattering to my 20lb lighter figure (26 inches loss last time we measured....) I am down a couple of sizes in clothing and it feels good. Now if I can just get my butt back in gear to keep going I will be a lot happier. Funny how stressors in life can throw us off .. and like I've said before.... old habits die hard. Michele I think you can relate to that with your stressors this week and your way of dealing with it. Darn those habits... but good on us for being aware of it and trying new ways to deal with it. And you are doing great by the way Michele,... in spite of it all you are still down! Good job!

HI gals... what a HM week!!!! Temptations are hard to resist. SO here was my weekend.... I go for a weigh in on Friday and I stayed the same from Thursday... but I lost 1 pound from previous and with TOM. YAHOO for me I think. Then my darling counsellor says.. I would like you to be down to 215 on Monday or 216 the least, then you will be on track. What the h@@!! Don't put any pressure on me at all!!! OH MY WORD!!! So I say to her nicely we will see what I can do.... I am working nights all weekend and its mothers day.

Friday goes good. no problem there.. forgot to write down what I ate that day.. silly me. Saturday comes and my daughter has a soccer tournament I get up and get ready to go back in for nights... my daughter wants to go to M
c donalds because she is starving... quickly pack my snack for work and off I go. Buy a grilled chicken snack wrap, and diet coke. I sit down my daughter brings the tray and lone behold there are french fries, extra ones. I love their fries... my daughter looks at me, I look at her and she says you can't have those... I said I know... and I took them back. YAH ME!!! Bought a starbucks coffee au lait with soymilk.

Work comes....Happy mothers day!!! I am now presented with a homemade delectable frozen dessert.... I take the smallest piece. I have a hard time saying no to someones hard work and generosity, the european in me... Drink alot of water the rest of the night.

Mothers day ... we are off to swiss chalet because mom is not cooking on her day.. got spoiled rotten by my family...literally, perfume book of samples with 70 dollar gift certificate towards the fragrance I like, and a 32 g i pod touch... WOW food.... 1/4 chicken dinner with a side of vegetables, took off the skin, no chalet sauce, 1 very small piece of garlic cheese loaf, no bun gave that to my daughter. Dessert comes my daughter orders fudge cake, I take one bite, my husband takes a bite and my daughter eats the rest. My other daughter orders molten lava cake won't let me have a bite!!! That is a good thing. Go to work and now there is cheese and crackers and kielbasa. Take a little bit of cheese couple of crackers, and 1 small piece of kielbasa. Too hard. Well I will have to own up to all of it tomorrow on the scale. Drink, drink my water.

Oh well, considering what I normally eat when I am out or at Starbucks, or Tim Hortons what I am giving up and eating is so much different. I will let you know how it goes tomorrow... They will not be pleased. Treadmill here I come this week.

Started April 20 2009 start weight 228.6

present weight 217.4 7.5 inches off and a total loss of 11.2 pounds, not bad I think.


lee2lee

And what about you? Are you pleased?? I mean...this isn't about them - it's ALL about you!!! That's what matters most...YOU.

Often I am mad when I hear things like that... every center is so different and stuff...I mean, sometimes you wonder... you really wonder if they are in to really help or simply see us as bank machines.

Don't get me wrong... I think the program WORKS...but I find that all the extra's they are selling and sometimes PUSHING a bit too much...is annoying...and that's exactly WHY they are getting a bad name with some people...so sad!

I started talking about this on a HM group on Facebook... and the owners were like "You better stop talking about this or else will delete your posts"... I mean... why get so defensive? Why??? Honestly... I've studied psychology enough to know they know...they know I'm right...but they don't want little me here to infest the others... lol

Oh, who cares! I should simply stick to my own little thing...but at times, I can't help it...I can't help but feel that some people are taking advantage of... and they play with the emotional side of weightloss... scaring people that if you go off the pills, you'll gain... how sad is that???

Hi ladies!! BUSYYYY WEEKEND for me!!

WI on Friday...was SOOO happy! I lost 2.4 pounds...I am down to 231.2...almost 20 pounds!

But here's the sad part..I know I'm up. I'm up cause it was a weekend of restaurant outings (chinese restaurant...what the **** can we eat there??? lol) and I'm up. I might not have made the best choices... but I have to be accountable right? I was hoping to drop 0.2 by tonight...to be at 20 pounds.
But I guess I'll have to wait another week to get there. We'll see the "damage" tonight haha

I see that most of you had a good weekend - way to go!!
Keep it up - it's a new day - it's a new start!!
We'll have a good week everyone.

What if we had this center...that would be open 6 days a week, where you could find the help/support you need as often as needed, with a program similar to ours, with no supplements but instead more food education, emotional eating help, etc... Possibly have fitness classes too or something along those lines... all under one roof ?

A place where you feel safe, you know that your HEALTH is the priority - NO doubts...

Wouldn't it feel great??

I find that we all need to LEARN how to eat, to LEARN how to react to those triggers, to LEARN to live a NEW way of living...

People need help, need education...need SUPPORT.

Seems you have a huge issue with HM Chantal. Perhaps it is not the program for you. In the meantime, perhaps you could stop bashing the supplements and let those of us who work WITH the program continue to do so without the bashing.

Hi everyone! I've just signed up to this forum, but have been reading it for a few days so far. I feel like I already know everybody! I decided on Wednesday that I was going to sign up for Herbal Magic. I've known a few people who've had great success with it. I've watched other friends try different programs, but I needed something less flexible (give me and inch and I'll take a bloody mile!). I've lost weight in the past... when I was single. The gym was my life and protein shakes my best friend, but now I have a little pup and great guy (who lost 60 lbs while I was away at school), and a crazy career. Herbal Magic is on my way to work and very convenient. I went in and signed up on Thursday... with intentions of starting on Friday... SOOO I ate my face off. LOL, put back a piece of lasagna the size of my head and had 2 mini pizzas for supper. I nearly died when I had to get weighed the next day!! I just assumed they'd give me a full day on the program before putting me through the ringer.

Anywho... I'm Nicole and I'm a food-a-holic. Start weight 210.4, goal weight 135. Current weight loss 2.2 lbs in the past 3 days I've been on the program! I can eat 3v, 2f, 2d, 2s, 1f, 1fe.

I had to go in for a bone scan for my back today. This procedure involves injecting a radioactive tracer and drinking 5 glasses of fluids before returning a couple of hours later for the actual scan. This is how I began my day. This is the frame of mind I went to HM with. Not good....
Add to that all of the extra fluids that I wouldn't normally have before a WI and presto change-o... bad results.
But, I went back to them eventhough I have been having a hard time. We are taking a slightly different approach with me and hopefully I will see some results. This is not a good time. I am bed-ridden due to a back flare up and now as a result of the injection (I think) I have the most brutal headache. Wish me luck this week... I am trying... I really am!

Anyone heard of the cleanse 'Purify'? What do you know about it or have to say about it?

Welcome Nicole! It is a lifestyle change and good for you for committing to it!

For a little bit of a boost nutritionally and the opportunity to learn more about healthy eating go check out:

www.canadianliving.com
Click on health/nutrition and you will find a whole bunch of interesting and inspiring articles on you and your health.

Hello girlies, and welcome to the newbies! Insano weekend as per usual here, but I stayed on track! WI tomorrow so we will see.... Cheers!

Hello to all the new people and if you haven't heard it before... you best be prepared to plan! haha. Hopefully you find a fit with this program and it helps you be the healthier (and smaller) person we all want to be!

Meme: Sorry to hear that your back has flared up again, but at least they're trying to fix you up! Good job on making it to the clinic even though it was the last place you probably wanted to be. Haven't heard much about the Purify... just saw a sign for it last time I was in. Said something about recommended every 6th months for those on wieght loss plans (I think!)

Witchie: great job staying on track, even in the face of chaos!

Lady: Good outlook. I'll be the first to admit that I am by no means perfect... my own favourite personal way of dealing is to take the smallest piece ever of a "cheat" and let it dissolve in my mouth. That usually either makes me feel satisfied or gross, but either way I don't eat more of it!

Nicole: Great start, keep it up!

As for me... thinking I might go have a nap. Feeling bad that I didn't go to the gym today, but did do about 2 hours of work in the yard. decided to be an idiot and try and fall down my stairs yesterday. No major wipeout but the my leg landed kinda funny and now my right knee hates me. think the treadmill impact may not be good for it, but who doesn't need to do yardwork this time of year anyways?

Yay Monday! Thank God it's over. forgot that my french students were doing thier "restaurant pitch" presentations today... also was unaware that almost every group would bring food samples. Had a pancake... but at least I hadn't eaten breakfast yet so counted it as my starch and good to go (hopefully there weren't too many bad things hidden in it).

Question: Wondering what the difference would be between having a 100 cal snack of your own choice rather than the thinsations packs. Anybody tried? Sometimes I would really like cookie or something and can't see it being that much worse than some of my sweet thins treats... ??

Oops I cut myself short... I actually lost 3.2 pounds in 3 days!!!!!! I'm anxious about my 2nd WI on Wednesday all the same... I'd be happy with .5 or 1 lb.

Michele... I wondered the same thing about the 100cal snack... It's funny they didn't have fine print for it like they did for popcorn, pasta sauce and cereal... I picked up cheeze-nip thinsations today to eat as my FE, but felt kinda guilty because they were salty!