Just checking back in today to post my points. Now that I'm getting the hang of all this, I can say I earned my 4 yesterday and 4 again today. I don't follow any particular program, so I consider watching my portions, controlling my snacking, lowering my carbs and getting my fruits/veggies in "my program."

On to another day!

Goodnight everyone!

3pts for me..i can never get the water in unless i stay home :lol: i only managed 1 pint today..i'm not worried about it..i was watching 'the view' the other day and a doctor was on and he said its a load of codswallop and he does'nt know where it comes from :shrug: he said there is water in everything we eat and we don't need 8 glasses a day :shrug: who know's? I know that i get enough fluids because i'm always drinking tea :lol:

Hello Serious Funners! I get 4 pts today, if I write my stuff down now, which I will...There, I did it. Good day for me but...

WOES!

I am totally overwhelmed and disorganised with school, every day I find out one more thing that I did not do when I was supposed to. I exersized today in sacrifice of sleep. I DO NOT WANT TO DO THAT. I want to be on top of everything. I need to succeed. And I am not a natural. So that is my biggest complaint of the day. I gotta go to bed. @%@#$^@%^

Good Morning Beautifuls!

Wow, quite the woeful day yesterday huh? Isn't it nice to know you're not alone feeling down or not losing weight despite your efforts. I love coming here because inevitably someone will say something that cheers me up.

SO, I guess it's my turn to do the cheering! IT"S WINTER BABIES!!!!! ALL of nature is resting, sleeping, storing fat, trying its best to stay warm. WE, on the other hand, are trying desperately to exercise, stay awake, lose fat, and be coooolllllllllll...............You can't fool mother nature! Our bodies know it's "down time", and the more we fight it with our heads, the worse we can feel sometimes. I used to roll my eyes at all the dirt-munchin' granola heads that spouted on about nature and rhythms and our bodies having a natural intuition. But now that I'm older and wiser(?), I'm learning that there is something to be said for following nature's cues. Eating seasonally, and understanding the rhythms of life.

Now, that doesn't mean that you should stuff your face and go hibernate! Though living up here, that's exactly what I WANT to do! It got UP to -20 F yesterday. It's better now, though....I think it's supposed to be 3 today :rolleyes: Faye is right about pretending it's summer.......even if you can't trick your body, it will lift your spirits for a while. One of the hosts of a cooking show I like says she sometimes will turn the heat wayyyy up and put on beach music and cook summery foods just to chase away some winter blues.

I'm rambling now, but the point I think I'm trying to make is to be nice to yourself right now! It's not the "weight losing" season, it's the fat storing season. Your body knows that. Which is probably why you can't get "passionate" about losing weight. If you are doing "everything right" and still not losing, be PROUD that you're creating good habits that will carry you through your whole life and eventually your body will let go of the weight when it is time. I know that's what I'm struggling with right now. I've been eating less, moving more, and not losing at all! And it's frustrating and depressing, but I know this is how I want to live the rest of my life and I just have to keep going.

For those of you going through menopause......this is a season, too. Be gentle with yourself. Which is not to say that you should use menopause as an excuse not to be healthy. You can be tough on food and exercise, but be gentle with your self-talk. Tell yourself that all the symptoms WILL get better, that you are NOT the same person you were five or ten years ago and that's ok. Remember how hard it was going through puberty? How you felt, how you acted, how you spoke to yourself.........I do. I hated myself, hated my body, did everything I could to rebel against the changes that were happening. Well, all that effort didn't stop my body.....You're wiser this time, so give yourself a hug. I'm watching my oldest daughter start to go through all this puberty stuff, and I'm doing my best to help her understand what's going on so she will come out of it STRONG and CONFIDENT instead of hating herself.

Well, I"ve certainly gone on like Oprah today! :lol: I hope something I said will cheer you ladies. I'm mostly saying it for myself. Today I'm 36 and am starting to feel "old".....which is stupid, because I actually feel more young and alive now than I have for the past decade!!! I guess I just feel like I've wasted the past 10 years in my food coma. So, Now it's time to come the **** out of it and make sure my children don't fall into the same trap I did!!

Oh yeah, I got 4 points yesterday. And I finally decided to just move my home gym stuff inside the house until spring. It took forever to heat up the garage enough to exercise, and by the time I did, I had lost the motivation to workout at all. So, hopefully now I'll have an easier time.

Everyone have a :flow1: :flow2: day today! And STAY WARM

I love you all
Julie

This I can handle!
 

Well friends, the Lord works in mysterious ways, but I'll take it any way I can get it!

I got up this morning at 5, ate my smoothie, did my pilates ;) , and just to be sure, checked the time of my class today. :o What?!?! 3pm?!?!? :cool: !!!

So now I am up, energized, and have HOURS and HOURS to go to the library and get the stupid code I need to do the reading for the class, and I can show up looking like I had it together ( :dizzy: yeah right!) all along. As well as organize my desk, where I toss everything the second I get home. I don't know what I did to deserve this, but OK!! :lol: Feelin' good.

THURSDAY: Today is Time for us Thursday. Do something special for yourself today!


POINTS POINTS POINTS POINTS POINTS!

Kim :bravo:
LisaZ :bravo: :bravo:
Cathy :cp:
Me :bravo:

I have already been out shopping this morning and spent $155 and haven't even gotten groceries yet. Man when you buy water filters, carpet shampoo, a tax program you find out real fast the money slips right through your fingers. Oh well, nothing can be done about it, I needed new filters, the carpets need shampooing and we want our tax refund as soon as our W2's get here!

I am doing really well again and feeling good about all of it.

I need to go shopping again and pick up a few more things. DH and I are going to the commissary when he gets off work, FUN FUN FUN!

Faye :)

Good Morning!
I am feeling somewhat better today. I went to Jeff's house last night. He was a super friend--he rubbed my back and let me pour out all my troubles, all my woes, fears, everything. He listened to everything, his hand never stopped moving over my back, and then just held me while I cried. He never said anything, he just listened and touched. I never realized how much I missed being touched. Anyway, he said we would work on all that was bothering me, together, one thing at a time. I slept better last night. I will try the Benadryl tonight, didn't make it to the grocery store yesterday.
Between you wonderful ladies, Jeff and myself--I might just make it!

I did get a point for water yesterday. I have been weaning myself off the diet soda and drinking more water these past few days. I have noticed that the swelling in my feet and ankles is increasing, not decreasing. I noticed that the last time I drank nothing but water too. My ankles stay closer to normal size when I load up on the soda. Nothing else has changed in my day, I am still stuck sitting most of the day at work. Does this happen to anyone else?

I am going to be nice to myself, not today, but Saturday. Billy (son) goes to his Dad's so I am going to get my hair trimmed up and get my nails done! Then I am going window shopping for spring styles.
Thank you ladies for being there and listening to me.
Have a great day!
Judy

GOOD MORNING BEAUTIFULS... WELCOME TO LISAZ AND A GREAT BIG HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO JULIE!!!! I am going thru he same stuff... just no motivation... i am not overeating... but i am NOT exercising either... it seems like it taking forever to get back into my preholiday routine... i finally have my house all in order... Now its time to get mydlef back on track. Altho i must admit that these days i just cant seem to find a reason.... hubby is traveling so much for work that i rarely get to "talk " to him let alone anything else...and when he is home he wants to do his thing... which these days is playstation... which just makes me feel all the more attractive and wanted. I guess i need to find something to get my energy and creativity going... but i am at a loss to where to even start. i was up at 5:15 today to spend some adult time with hubby before he left for the airport... and did not even attempt to do my yoga... i will see if i can get it in after i send sawyer to school... or possibly before then. I am ususally an upbeat and optomistic person so when i get the blues like this and cant seem to pull myself out of them i cant stand it... so i try harder and that does nothign but frustrate me... does anyone know what i am talking about?? LOL or am i really losing my mind... hahahahahaha
ok i am feeling better some... i will check back later dears... i love u all... remember to take care of U

Sandy

Hi Friends!

Thanks to you Julie for your words - they were really thoughtful and helpful. I've been on anti-depressants for the past 18 months - I'm wondering whether I need to change them, or maybe it is the nicotine withdrawal that is having a big effect on my mood - I'll talk to my doctor about it.

Last night I sat down and tried to put some kind of plan together to lose weight. I have decided to go easy on myself and take it slowly for the first few weeks whilst I get used to it. I have set myself some targets for my first week (today - next Weds):

1) Eat no takeaways.

2) Drink at least 4 glasses of water per day.

3) Exercise at least 3 times this week - either gym, exercise bike at home or a half hour walk.

4) Write down everything I eat.

Thats it for week one - I think that is a good start and not too overwhelming.

I've got a sort of job interview tomorrow - just for a local job through an agency, a 6 month contract - the job sounds quite good and I really thik that going out to work is the best thing for me at the moment. I'll let you know how it goes.

Love Amanda xxx

Hi Ladies,

My day is just starting really..internet first :rolleyes: post on threads, check mail have breakfast and then exercise..today i think i'll do the stability ball workout although yesterday i did my Tony Little Upper Body Workout and he said at the end of the tape "tomorrow its Lower Body" :lol: so i might have to do that.

Amanda, Good Luck with the job interview :crossed: i think your goals are very do-able :D

Hi All

Amanda - Good luck on the job interview, yes it could be the no smoking...my dh is a great man but he just quit smoking at New Years, and he has been unbearable alot lately...his mood is up and down...nicotine is horrible on you...
Sounds like you are heading in the right direction, baby step it at first, on the first week of me getting back I just stopped having soft drinks, then the next week I took away something else, just go slowly...

Judy - boy you really got some extra attention last night huh? Good for you...enjoy!!! Glad to hear you are feeling better

Faye - The money thing is frightening really, scary how fast it goes, I get my check tomorrow and 3/4's of it is spoken for...sad....

I am doing well this week, I am now down to 224 so I get to change my signature yeah!!!!

Julie, Sandy, Dorothy, Lisa and Lisa, Susan, Pam, newbies and to anyone I
missed have a great day....

Ok, I know it's not "Sunny thoughts saturday" , but I just read this.......

If a man says something in the woods, and there are no women around to hear it.........is he still wrong?

YES!! :rofl: :rofl:




Just had to share that! :lol:
Julie

POINTS:

Julie :bravo:
Judy :flow2:

Oh my gosh, Julie, that was great, I laughed right out loud!

I wasn't going to talk about this, but I feel I must as it is going to turn my life around I think. First let me explain a few things. When I was 16 my stepfather got mad at me one night, threw hot coffee on me, kicked me and slapped my glasses off my face. We were living in a garage in the country at the time and it was pitch black, but I took my two younger siblings and walked about a mile to the next house and called a relative who came and got us. My mother's parents took us in and became our guardians. So now this is what happened to me yesterday watching Dr Phil on tv. BTW, My mother has been dead for 7 years and I have NO contact with him at all except I did send him a get well card when he had heart surgery last year and included a picture of my grandson in it. Most of you who have been here awhile know also that I have serious Obsessive Compulsive issues with cleaning.

You know those light bulb moments Oprah talks about. Well, I had a serious one yesterday. Dr Phil had this young married woman who was 26 and wanted help with her anger problem. She has a little boy under 2 and he sees her throwing stuff and breaking stuff etc and her stress and frustration level is very high. He asked her why and she said because everything in her world had to be perfect, perfect kid, perfect house, perfect everything. He started talking to her about when she was 5 how her parents divorced and she was sent to her grandparents to live temporarily but the parents never took her back, either one of them. He talked with her about how she was manifesting her anger and hurt over her parents abandonment and her guilt over her grandparents being saddled with her into how she acted and the expectations she put on her self, her husband and her son.. God, I was sitting there sobbing thinking, my God that is me. Though I forgave the two of them years and years and years ago, I guess I never dealt with the fact that I felt abandoned by mom when I was thrown out, she never fought to keep us, he was more important than her children, that I was embarrassed living in the tiny town of 1600 people where I had spent most of my life. My grandparents neighbors had been my neighbors my whole life and they now knew what she had done, that she didn't want us, that we had been mistreated by her and her husbandetc. On top of that I felt guilt we were saddling grandma and grandpa with the three of us when they were in their 70's and 80's. Jack and I have talked at length why I am so obsessive compulsive about the house and freaking out everytime he is a little late, or checking in the middle of the night to see if he is still breathing etc and now I see it is because it is the way I can control my world. If my environment is perfect than no one can make fun of me or judge me for not being what I should be, I don't have to be embarrassed and I am worthy of love. If I know where and what is going on with Jack then I know I am not going to be abandoned again by something happening to him that would be totally out of my control like his heart attack. As for my obesity. I have hidden behind the fat all these years. It was a way of verifying what I believed people thought of me, worthless, lazy, an embarrassment. I am working on trying to not be so perfect now and not worrying about things that I have no control over. I know now that my weight loss will definitely be much more successful and my life with Jack will take a turn for the better.

Thank you for lett me talk about it. It was the most amazing thing in the world to happen to me!

Faye :)

you are beautiful Faye :grouphug:

Faye - I don't even know you but from what I've read so far, you are a wonderful person. Just remember, no one is perfect! I'm so glad you had your lightbulb moment - that is truly a life-changing event! Take it and run with it - like you are doing right now, just by typing that post. Kinda feels like two cement blocks of of your shoulders, doesn't it?

Cathy - "load of codswallop" I'm still chuckling over this one! I have never heard that phrase before!

July - you guys out there on the east coast are sure getting hit with the cold. I have a friend/aquaintance in Rockford (?) and have been wondering how he's doing. But knowing him, he's getting ready for his two trips - one to Jamaica and one to the Swiss Alps. Then in March he's coming back to Wisconsin. Must be nice! And thank you too for such an uplifting post!

Amanda - Great goals; simple and very manageable. My whole "program" pretty much evolves around that philosophy "simple & manageable." I eat smaller portions, drink my water, at least one smoothie per day and exercise daily. I think it will eventually evolve into more, but for now, you do what works, right!?

Satine - Congrats on the loss!

Well, I splurged today and we went to Culvers. We had GCs to use up so DH and I ate there for under $3.00. Not that I made the best food choices, but my supper will be my smoothie and that should help balance things out. I'm guessing fast food is not necessarily OP for anyone, so I'll be earning only 2 points today for my water and exercise.

Gotta run! Take care and keep it up gals! Special thoughts to Faye.