Lowcarbers! ???# Starting fresh!!
 

I guess that thigs are a bit messed up and well I guess that it forgot that i havenot been here for 3 months. :lol:

this means a new start again!!

Day 7 OP and g oing strong. Pat I guess that we are still here and so are you Kina. I sure hopt that some of the old glas also come back. If I can show my face after a total backslide then so can they!!!

well hey girl, way to go on teh OPdom, Sorry I have not checked in!
I was doing awesome until Friday then fell.
But I am rareing to go!

Where are the rest of you?
Check in we have a fresh new year to meet our goals!

I think Kina got lost on the way to the coop. she always had a problem finding us. she would link the the thread not the forum then search. i hope she finds up. after the crash. i do hope that all the gals find their way back. I had a controled fall yesterday it was with burrito shells for my chicken wraps and boy were they good I need to find a low carb wrap or use low carb mis to make low carb wraps. that is an idea!! manybe i can find a recipe for that.

Pat get back on the bus we are driving to OPness, starting this week i will be exercising. I am ready and just jumping in my seat ready to go!
come on girl!! If I can do this at my current weight ready to bust at the seams then you can do it. Like when we first started this thread I am ready to drop this fat suit. I see it coating my body like a big coat. I wish I could just take it off but I know it will not get off that easy it is going to take hard work. I am ready how about YOU????

Oh Sue music to my ears!
I am happy to report that I worked out yesterday! I want to make my goal this year. I have been reading about people who have done this. Lost 100# in 1 year. That works out to 2 # + a week! Yes girl I am ready!
Yes I miss everyone!

Would you believe I found Dana's email??? I did send her out a howel for a come back!!!

I am doing good not great but good!!!

no exercise yet but i certainly want to be heading out soon!!!!

Hey girl I am checking in daily, worked out 2 times so far this week. eating right and water too.
Gosh I hope Dana comes back I really miss her! Pam too, melody, kina, Lee,
The bus has alot of empty seats!

Keep striving Sue. I really want to be 100# less in a year!

I need to see if I still have Pams email. I think I have lees!! I may have melody too. I hope kina finds us I do not have hers. by the way I do not have yours either i have one old one.

I am eating good. faux pizza today, drinking is better but still no exercise.

I am working tonight but I am really tired. and do not know how I am going to make it. but I guess I had better go and get to work. lots of coffee!!! and then a few more coffees!!!

Well way to go! Sounds like you are getting a handle on the eating! The working out will come! I have found that I have to be a little more flexable. Getting a little in is better than none at all! Today will be hard as I have made 2 cakes for work. I will attempt to not endulge and stick with salad(no pizza). my e-mail address is [email protected] . Hope you made it through the night

you are in my mailing list now!! thanks.

I had to work overnight and did not get home till 10:30 am I did get some sleep and when i woke I was munching on a few bad things untill I got to eat some great faux pizza!! Now I am good.

I am going away this weekend and have bought a bunches a bars and a few shakes. so I will be farting like a horse but golden for eating.

So girl how did you do with the eating today???

I can never keep up with your girls! I found you! After the site crashed I got lost because I kept going back to the last thread but you all had already moved on. I can't say that I am OP on the LC but I can say proudly that I have been exercising daily. Actually DH did not get me out of bed this morning so I didn't get on my trainer. So I will have to do it tonight before bed. But, in truth, it doesn't look like it is going to get done.

So anyhow now that i have found you girls once again...I have put in my 2 cents and will visit often.

Hugs & Smiles, Corina

Oh my gosh look at you both!

Well today was in the toilet food wise. But back on track!

Gosh I don't miss the night shift! Way to go on teh eating! Looks like you are planning the meals.

Kina A huge hug girl! WOrking out is a great thing to keep being dedicated too. So how have you been?
You'll have to catch us up.

Hi Pat! Hi Sue!

Today is a new day and already I can see it isn't going to happen. My daughter has a spaghetti supper and silent auction to benefit the school band. I have to go and show my support, of course. That is okay I really feel that getting on my elliptical trainer is doing me some good.

Lots happening here. Before the crash I had mentioned that the cotton season ended in early October which was a nice break. But once I stopped working I wasn't getting my workouts anymore so the pounds started to creep up on me. I am back at the office and soon to start the spring semester. This semester I will be taking mostly online courses only because my youngest daughter has to have regular visits with her cardiologist and pediatrician. Yea, last November she was diagnosed with Fifth Disease which has been spreading like a wild fire. Well anyway it turned out she didn't have that she had a rare disease called Kawasaki's Disease. Science does not know how children get it. Bottom line it targets the damage to the heart. Luckily we caught in time and she is doing good. But she can't do the regular every day things most kids do her age. Besides that we are planning on a 15 dance for our oldest daughter. She will be 15 November 2005 and we have gotten a jumpstart on the planning. Which brings me HERE!

November 2005 is a long ways from today but I have plenty of extra weight to shed. My goal is to be at goal by then. I know I can do it; if only I can stop making excuses and get on the wagon. So that is why I bargained with myself to atleast exercise daily if nothing more. Basically I don't want to be the fat mom in the pics. Also I want to wear something nice not your basic shower curtain dress.

So here I am!

Hugs & Smiles, Kina

Good morning everyone! Well yesterday was OK but I'd a kille someone for something sweet. This was my pay back for completely falling off the bus on Friday. It is amazing that I think that it will be different this time! The outcome was "this" every other time, but it will be different this time! Today will be flushing the fluid out of my system and see if Friday did any permenant damage. It should be warm enough today to do some snowshoeing around the back yard. That should burn some calories.

Kina, I am sorry about your daughter having K. D. , I know that I read an article about it. I can't bring any of it to mind, the name just stuck with me. What is a 15 dance?


Hey Sue how goes it?

Well i am starting a 5 day OP challenge for myself! food, water and exercise! 5 days!
Got back on tract yesterday. Rethinking my weekely treat/relaxation which involves bad carbs. ususally on fri. pm I go to a coffee shop then to saketts. I was thinking yesterday that I almost felt like i had a hangover. Am going to try an experiment this friday. See if it changes.

How are you girls doing?

Miss the other women!

Hello My Fellow Fighting Friends,

I continue to win battles, but never the war. I regained every ounce I took off. I am ashamed. It is all too familiar territory for me. Winning battles - but never the war. I decided to do it AGAIN - hopefully for good when 2004 hit, then a welcome and timely note from Sue brought me back to this site. This time, for good. It is wonderful to be sharing with you. I hope I can be an inspiration and friend as we reach our goals TOGETHER and take off these fat suits once and for all.

I began my low-carbing today. Exercise will also be a daily part of the routine. I have the tools, but USING them is key. I will not make this first entry lenghty. I just wanted to say hello. I am here - with you - for you- for US! Let's do it! :) What great words for this thread. A fresh start. I need it. THANK YOU!

DANA I HAVE MISSED YOU MY DEAR FRIEND!!!! HUGS!!!!!
I am so glad to see you have returned to the bus! I think we can all identify that we put some # back on. There is a quit smoking commercial that says something about the other times you have tried to quit. Just to think of them as practice.

Lets take what we have learned and make it work this time.

Oh the bus is filling up

well I had another good day yesterday. still able to stay focused. wITH my eyes on the prize. How are the rest of you doing?

ALright ladies , I am talking to myself again!
Lots of stress at work. But managed Not to eat the pasta I was craving. But I better start reading some labels. Wondering why teh scale isn't moving. Denial is a great thing.
Things are getting easier each day that goes by.

I'm Here!

Went to the doctors today. Got on the SCALE :o Drum roll for my ROLLS!....269. There - I said it ---I typed it--- 269. I am 5'9" tall. That means I need to lose about 75 pounds for a realistic goal. I am wearing size 20 jeans. Size 14 jeans would be fine with me. 180 pounds would be lovely! I looked GOOD last time I weighed 180. We had a long talk and- nothing new------ eat smaller portions and MOVE! He is referring me to a foot doctor for horrid pain in my heel. (Spurs and tendon problem) That will make exercise hard at first. But, I will MOVE!!! I also need to go see a gastro guy for reflux problem. AND---- some routine bloodwork. I think I should be okee dokeeee! I have avoided a physical due to the excess tonnage. BUT - I faced the scary monster (SCALE) and the doctor. Now, it is up to ME!

Hope you all are doing well. :smug:

Hey Dana
Lets talk about heel spurs! I have the one that can't get the cortisone shot. I am wearing a very sexy brace at night and sneakers daily at work. I can only use the exercise bike as walking just aggravates the spur! I do hope you have a "regular one" So you can take the shot. The pain as you know is excrucaiting AT times.

But on to our wieght. Yes facing the scale is such a challenge. But we can do it! We did it before. I am avoiding taking my measurements. Because I lost so many inches before. I can't tell you how happy I am to be back in touch with you!

Have a great weekend. good luck with the spur!

Good morning all
Well yesterday wasn't too good, poor p[lanning again!
Did some time on teh bike though which is good. My but it is cold here. -22 this morning.

How is everyone else doing?

Well...HELLO Ladies!

Welcome back Dana! I believe you were not active on the thread when I happened to stumble across this thread.

You know what! I AM SICK AND TIRED! That is right...I am sick and tired of hearing myself saying another day down the drain! (WARNING: KINA is about to kick herself in @ss!) Why? Why is it that another day has passed without me doing anything about this. I am disgusted in the way that I look and I am disgusted in the way that my clothes feel. So why haven't I done anything about it? I keep saying TOMORROW...well tomorrow never comes. The only thing that seems to come without a problem are excuses.

I see the rest of you are making a valiant effort. I feel that my pitiful postings are bringing down the morale on the board. I am jumping on the wagon...one day at a time. I am going to make the best of what has been given to me and make it count. Nothing will be handed to me I have to make it happen! Tomorrow I am going to post and everyday after. It may be a challenge to post daily, with school and all, but if it is going to make me accountable then that is what it will take.

I am glad that you ladies are here to lean on. Tomorrow feels like such a bad word right now. So I just won't say that word...I will just make it happen.

Thanks for listening and allowing me to vent.

Hugs & Smiles, Kina

Well.... I guess your ready to make some changes!
Please don't feel that you are bringing anyone down. That is the time you need to be posting. If we let what we perceive as failures keep us from the help and support we need we're just hurting ourselves. Yes those days that we don't work on things can pile up. Let's just worry about today!

Hey Sue and Dana how are thinsg going?

Hey Lurkers anyone is welcome.

DANA!!!

KINA!!!!

I had hoped and prayed that both of you would find your way back to us. Dana I thought many times of you and when my other computer totally crashed I was so afraid that I would not find your email addy again. But guess what??? :D

I too gained everything back and again in to the wonderful size of not fitting into my 22 (which means 24's) Kina I feel the same. Like a big fat suit has lowered on my body and injected itself under my skin. the worst part was watching the fat creep back into my face and arms. (I could just watch weekly it growing)

The bus is starting to roll!! Girls I am ready I have been OP since the first of the year except for the wonderful day of the cubscout pinewood derby where I had a piece of cake and added frosting and that is all the bad stuff I have had!! WHOOOO

I will be glad to say that the whoosh fairy has visited and whoosh I am down almost 13 lbs since the beginning of the year!!

I have not veered near the gym as I am sufferering from an upper respiratory I doubt it is pneumonia but I sure feel worn out and coughing like a sick dog. So it will be a while before I do any thing like that. but slow and steady will win the race.

Hey Dana did you go onl your cruise???? Did you have a great time???

Now is not the time for self incrimination. We all have had our setbacks and we all will suffer them again. the point is that we are here and will be here for each other.

Oh by the way the reason for my long absence is again computer problems --- the modem was not working properly and it was a simple thing of unplugging it and starting it all over. but in the mean time I got spyware stuff and have scanned the computer and found over 300 processes running. What a mess!!!


OK I will step down. (hey what do you girls think?? should I get my buesiness up and running again??? Low carb is really getting popular!!)

Now just to find Lee and Pam and HHHMMM was that Terri??? I think I may have thier email addy some ;place too!! HEE HEE I even thing I have Boo's too!! gosh am I sneaky!!!

Hi guys! I just found you as I had been hanging out at the Low Carb board and found this one under Misc. Groups.

I started Atkins last year and lost 22 lbs. right away. Then for some unexplained reason I went off and gained it plus about 10 lbs. more. Made it all the way up to 264 at 5'9" I decided 300 would probably be the next stopping off place and I don't want to go there because at this weight I feel hopeless at times. If I ever got to 300 I would probably give up. Not criticizing anyone who is there as I know how stinking easy it is to gain. I need to be in a group that will hold me accountable for my daily actions and kick my *ss when needed but also sympathize when needed. I, like, Kina have said enough, enough excuses, enough overeating, enough not exercising at the gym, ENOUGH ENOUGH ENOUGH ALREADY!!! It is time to get my #*&! together and stop destroying myself for some unknown reason. :?:

I have been fighting a respiratory infection all week this week but am feeling a little better today. Hoping to get back to the gym this week for sure. Dr. wants me to do a treadmill test and I can't even do that cuz I can't breathe very well. He doesn't really believe there is anything wrong with my heart but wants the test to be sure and he believes it is insulin related. Pre-diabetic is what he called it. :devil:

Thanks Ladies, I have started out strong this morning or should I say this afternoon. I stayed up late playing games on Yahoo...so I woke up late. I will be having a late lunch in a while. Unfortunately, I hadn't decided to take a stance on Locarbing until after I had bought the groceries for the week...so this week will be dull and a lot of improvising. We had bought a large submarine sandwich yesterday for lunch today. So that way I wouldn't have to be disturbed while doing homework. But now that I have made better decisions I have to take a route untraveled and improvise my lunch. I don't feel like cooking for myself so I think I will take out the leftovers of chicken and rice and just take out the rice and just eat the chicken. Unfortunately I don't have any diet coke in the fridge...or maybe that is a good thing for now. I do have lots of Crystal Light in the pantry.

So far so good. I think that today is going to be a really good day.

Sue~~~WOW! 13 lbs! You are truly a inspiration at this very important time in my life. So if I follow plan for 3 weeks I can also be 13 lbs lighter. You will be my affirmation...thank you Sue.

Well I am off to get that chicken before I get hungry. Talk to you ladies later.

Hugs & Smiles, Kina ;)

Sue too!! Welcome we are always glad to see new gals. Not many find their way down here. and well we are a nice group. personal and cozy a nice place to roost!!

Welcome to this hen house. I too go up to the low carb forum. But this too is home for me. I know the feeling of not having any breath when doing the treadmill I started that way too. then I got to run 4 miles before I went by the way side and now again I huff and puff on one flight of stairs!! Low carb is the way to go with prediabetics. you will never realize after the first few weeks how great you feel. and as for stalling after the first few weeks we can work on that!!! I am a pro at that but i just need support to get my rear in gear!!! so hang in there!!!

Kina I too handle my food by the seat of my pants. Not the right way to do it. but the cookies are out of the house and so is the bread. So I guess i am not doing to bad. Just plenty of tuna and eggs for the main staple!!

Well I have tons of things still to do!!!Catch you all later

PS I did find Boo's Pam's and Lee's Email addy and did write to them lets see if they find their way back home!!!

If it is easier you guys can call me Bunna (name of my favorite doggie who passed away five years ago.)

Well my goodness! Don't check in all day and look what happens!
I can't tell you how much I need this motivation! Had a poor weekend. UGH!
Sue 13 #'s? OP since the first? You are the first OP Goddess of teh new year!

Take care of that URI If it's any thing like what we have going around here, if it's not pnuemonia it could easily be/

Bunna Welcome, we always have room for one more!

Dana, now that you are back, I hope you are lurking, worried that we will lose you again>How did it go at the MD's?

Kina, the shopping takes so much thinking at first, And I know for me to be successful I can't have it in the house!

OK girls I am stating and shooting for a OP week. ANd for some movement on teh scale! Will have alot of fluid to lose.

Is there an uglier word than OBESE? I think not. As I stated in my last post, my trip to the doctor yielded a few things I need to have taken care of. (Heel spurs & Acid Reflux) Once my blood work is back and I talk to the MD, he will send me on to a foot doctor and gastro guy for the reflux. While cleaning out my purse today I found the receipt from the office vist. I paid the bill and left without looking at the slip that day, shoving it in my purse as I dug for the car keys. There is was------ horrible writing and all------- I could make out the word---obesity. A shot to the heart. A lump in my throat. A bitter taste of reality. As if the scale and the mirror are not enough to make me feel like crap--- there is that ugly word. So now what????? No magic beans or genie out there. It is up to ME. Lifestyle change- whatever it takes- to get rid of that ugly word. O B E S I T Y. I would rather be called one hundred other things than obese. Fat is not pretty so why should the word be? I am not looking for a pitty party. I am not whining. I am simply sharing. Ugly, ugly word.

Let's do it, girls! WE WILL!

Hello all I just stumbles across this thread and thought i would say hello. I usually post at the 100 lb club board. Bunna have you ever heard of pcos? There is a board here for it and one of the symptoms is prediabetis. I havent been officially diagnosed but my dr thinks its highly likely that is what i have. Dana have you heard the term MORBIDLY OBESE? That is even worse.

Hi Ladies! I am so happy to come to the board today and say that I have been OP for now a day and a half! The day is not over and I am taking this in small steps. Today for lunch I had to have some chicken tenders and reluctanctly I threw away the toasty french fries. Now I know chicken tenders weren't the greatest choice but there wasn't anything else. As it was a friend was picking up my lunch for me. But I will tell you this it is only day 2 and I am already having carb withdrawal. Now I know there is no real science to this but I do have a awful headache right now.

Anyway...I don't plan on being on here too long. So I will check back later.

Hugs & Smiles, Kina

PS...Welcome aboard new comers and lurkers.

Welcome Bunna. I had seen you up in the other thread and am glad to see you here. you want kick butt???? HEE HEEE HEEE We can do that. We also have the shoulder that understands, So hang on the buss is starting to get rolling!!!

Get your seat belt on!!!!

Kina go around the periferal of the store. all the carbs are loaded in the middle. stick with the meats and vegies, and a few fruits. and then sneak into the pork rinds section.

Pat I got on the scale and saw that it was up then i realized that it is TOM UGH.. As well as the fact that i am low on fluid. (that will cause me to retain thinking my body is in drought)

Girls are you ready????? lets get going!!!

Girls lets start to post our meals too so we can really be more accountable. this is a go and getum thread. add your exercise. too

B- 3 soft boiled eggs on a slice of atkins toast. 10 ecc (you will see this often)
l-eas lemon cheese cake bar 1 ecc
s-omlet 3 eggs and 1/2 c ham and cheese

No exerecise as I still am having a hard time with taking deep breaths with out coughing to death!!!

PSST Dana???

I got to admit I did so good today UNTIL dinner. You all know I have 4 children and my husband to feed besides myself. Well naturally as a mom and wife I have to feed them first. Which I think I learned something. But I was already set up for failure without the right foods and all the wrong foods in the house. Well the mexican food was smelling so wonderful that it took over my stomach grumbling. The only good note to this is that I ate the same amount as my oldest daughter...which is well underneath what I would have normally served myself. So as much as I want to beat myself up...I really do have to applaud myself for doing okay. But tomorrow is another day and I plan to do excellent for the remainder of the days. I can honestly say I stayed away from the cookie counter at work...woohoo!

Intake for today:

B...2 scrambled eggs with sausage water
L...2 chicken tenders diet coke
D...4 flautas 1/3 c rice 1/4 beans diet coke
s...orbit gum


Well I have to do homework. I'd like to see others post their intakes. It would give me ideas.

Hugs & Smiles, Kina

POST FROM PAM, that I brought over from # 50.
Didn't want her to get missed

Darlins.... So much has occured.............I think God figured I needed reminding that you are all still here.
When the world goes crazy I still tend to withdraw. My world went....NUTS!!!
Mom was semi conscious for 4 months and nearly starved todeath as she went down I went up. I have a real hang up about starvation. It looks as though she has come out of it but I was near histaria. I can't spell tonight.
Thank you Sue Bee and Pat for remembering me. I started back a few months ago and many pounds ago as well, but everything went to **** in a hand basket about that time.As you well know I do not tend to get depressed but oh Lord was I ever. My last Siamese Chi who was born in my lap died in my arms, Mom, and Hubby was a wild thing. To much for me. Of course it did not help that Tom came to visit on Dec. 6th and has not left yet. The results came back and no cancer or fibroids but a thickening of the uterine walls was observed. This Wednesday I go to see an ob gyn. I hope they just pull the thing as it has been nothing but trouble since my daughter died inside me three days before her due date and that was back in 1985! My Darlins I am at this point a mess but here I am. I will be 50 in March and weigh in at 306. No I am not back to square one but about half way. I need to be here. I will tell you up front at this point I feel awful, physically I mean. Weak, and rather like I had been drug behind a horse for a couple of miles. I may be going through surgery soon as well but if you all can put up with me in this condition, I will stay or I can wait until this is resolved. I am ready to begin again regardless. I have sorely missed you all so much but well as you can see
I just pulled back into my cave and pulled the rocks down! I will be back tomorrow and hope you all are ok. I glanced through the messages as I came in and Suzie Q. I am so sorry for your losses. It seems we are all rather ashamed of ourselves but together I know we can come through this shadowed place and back into the sunshine. LOve you all.
Pam

I smell enthusiasm!

Dana, reality sometimes sucks. However, it can also inspire us to make life changes! Yes, obese or morbidly obese for some reason have a horrid sound to them. ANd then coming from an "expert". But again, you are taking action on this. You have had success before. We all have! Lets start building again!

Kina, It si so hard to juggle with a woe and family. I decided after my last store trip that DH has to eat like me too. At least in the beginning as right now I can't even have it in teh house. It will come! The carb headache should ease soon. How is school?

Hello Julie

SUe, way to go girl, did you see Pam's post? The bus is filling up. Take care of those lungs! You are doing awesome.

Was OP yesterday until teh evening.

See you all later

I knew I was missing some one when I was posting and the puter was acting up so I saw Julies post but missed it on my responces!!!

Hi Julie!!!


welcome and have a seat on the bus!!!We are ready and starting to roll. julie I have seen morbidobese and let me tell you that the person you are is just inside. Just hiding under the fat suit like dana likes to say. At 5'2"and 1235 lbs rearing at a size 2x or 24's I am boarderline morbid obese. over weight is sitting at 20 -m 30% body fat obese is 30+ and where I have been is up to atleast 55% at times. Pam who had posted here for so long lost from over 300 to around 270 and lower. She also has had many very difficult times with family and cats (kids of the fur) as you can her from her post. She has been such an inspiration to me that I am so glad to hear from her. Not her pain but her voice. Yes morbid obese is certainly a nast word and made to be ugly. come with us as we all work to shed that name.

Kina one meal at a time. Lear from your mistakes. this is a wol so it will take time to get it right and there will be time when there is no choice but just keep at it slowly. you will get it. I eat mexican. I munch out on the meat in a bed of letuce!!! MMMMM smothered with cheese. MMMMMM again.


Pat I am hanging in there. TOM had hit hard!! EEWWW my gut hurts. Holding up for my meals all of them. I am not making any tempting things here!!

Dana I found you once I am not going to lose you again!!! I can find you again!! :sneak:

b-3 eggs on low carb wheat bread
s-p-bar and p shake
l-chicken wrap from subway
d-steak and veggies

My server has been cutting me off all day :devil: Of course they said it is my modem, guess the modem fixed itself tonight huh :?:

I will begin posting meals Monday, just wanted to say hi.

So sorry to hear of your kitty passing Pam. I lost my baby a few months ago at the tender age of two. I miss him so bad sometimes.

I am reading the Dana Carpenter book and she has some really good things to say about lc eating and very informative, very sensible. When I have more time I will share some of those if you are interested.

I have been trying to get my husband to eat right for his diabetes for a while now and he will not do it, he goes all day with nothing and then he will eat two or three maple bars and a glass of milk or just one meal in twenty-four hours. I realized today while working on the book that I can only be responsible for how I eat and have no control of what he does. I must focus on taking care of myself.

Feeling a little better today, gonna wait a few days before I try going to the gym.

Kina: At least you did not eat like you could have for dinner. Any step is better than no step.

OBESE and MORBIDLY OBESE are scary words. I can't help but wonder how the heck I let this happen. Oh well, that is yesterday. This is a new day and I am in control of what goes in my mouth. Just gotta get through the cravings. :(