Hello Ladies,

I just couldn't wait for the Basics to begin, so I started prepping myself this week. I have upped the treadmill time--now working out at 3-3.5 mph 60 minutes each morning. I'm averaged 3.03-3.25 miles. I have reeled in the crap food and have started to weigh myself again. Enough is enough.

For me, the Basics will mean three things (that I can think of right now): Exercising, eating healthy, and supporting my friends here on the thread. We are all at different points in our lives, but still all here for support with our lifestyle changes. I come here to vent, ask for help, and celebrate victories with each one of you.

Basically, I want to be a more positive person next year, and I think our new thread and thought processes will be very helpful for me to get exactly where I need to be.

I need to know not to set myself up for failure and set my goals too high or be unrealistic. I'm going to enjoy my body changing and shrinking. I'm going to enjoy hearing about my friends have successes. I'm going to enjoy LIVING!!

I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Raven, girl, I'm a nerd too. My big plans are to sew. Did I tell you all that I learned how to quilt? Oh yeah, baybay!! My new passion. So, I have about six of them done and ready to get on the quilting frame. Hmm...sounds like Chach will need some addresses to send quilts out next year...

Happy Tuesday.

Chach

A new Beginning after "the fall"
 

Well, guys, I had a rude awakening last night as I went to my ww meeting and found that I had gained back 2.6 pounds over Christmas. Amazing when it takes me forever to lose that much, how quickly it comes back.
Happy, I hope the move goes well and I really felt for you when I read about you saying your goodbyes. You'll do well, it's the leaving part that is the hardest, I have been there! Once you break away and leave, then the activity of moving and getting settled takes over, but you get awfully emotional. Just keep moving and don't let the emotions control what goes into your mouth - I've really been there for sure.
Raven, I think you were having quite a time thinking of your family days that have gone by and I hope you can get back on better terms with the remaining family you have. I, too, miss people who are no longer part of my life over the holidays. Yet, this year was a good year and we had some nice times. We sure as heck had some really nice food!
Driving back from Rhode Island in the car was the first news we'd heard in a few days and I was really saddened to hear about the Earthquake, Tsunamis (sp?) and all the deaths. I though of our Red and wonder if she is ok and if she has suffered through all of this, though I see from a map that she must have been far away from all the horror.
Chach, you are a powerhouse when you set your mind to a project, you go girl! Wow, sewing on New Year's Eve, sounds great to me! We're nerds as well here and truly never make New Year's Eve plans. We do have a nice meal, usually, but we're in bed well before midnight each year. It's no big deal to me, just another day.
I put together a quilt yesterday that is very artful, will have to show you guys photo of it when it's done. It's a Snowy Owl in the middle of a snowy field. It's a very peaceful quilt and I hope it wins me a prize!!!!
Chach, I read your back to basics analogy and I'm totally on board and I am, as of yesterday, back to basics too!
I have some goals for myself now..... First and foremost journalling, which keeps me on track and I have to be honest with myself. I will eat better and move my exercises to the front burner and really work hard. I will stay on track with you guys and help you all as best I can.
I'm looking forward to the new thread and a new approach.
Linda

Linda, I'm here, OK, no effect from the tidal wave this far east. Been reading sometimes. Back to work today. Dreading it. Don't want to go. Seems like a big waste of the day. Horrible that even the money, which I need, is not a motivator anymore. Will try to write more later. Things were so quiet around here I started posting over on the Battle of the Bulge thread. Spreading myself too thin again. Wish it would spread to the weight loss! :lol:

Happy New Year chickies. I have arrived safe and sound in Memphis. It was a very foggy drive but we made very good time. Was a pleasant surprise also to hit unseasonably warm weather. It was almost 70 degrees (don't hate me Jolly as I understand you guys got an ice storm). I can't tell you how wonderful that felt and how dumb I felt as my only clothes were warm winter ones with snowmen on them - what can I say I only get to wear the holiday sweaters for one month a year? :o

It seems I am in the middle of horse country out here - horses everywhere. One home we looked at even backs up to a horse farm. You guys would feel right at home here.

I am trying hard to accept that this is my new home now. Also trying to get my bearings and not get lost but that will take time. The people DO drive crazy out here - I think I may not have a perfect driving record for much longer.

New Year's Eve was quiet. We ordered in a pizza and played cards with my SIL who drove my car down here. I was in bed before midnight for the first time in my adult life. Lots of changes this year.

Today I started the new year with more water, some basic exercises I can do without any equipment and paid close attention to the food choices. I saw myself in a mirror last night and didn't like what I saw one bit. May this last new year's eve be the worst I ever was - if I've hit bottom I have no where to go but up and I desperately want that as I am tired of feeling like a blob along with the aches and pains that come with not taking care of myself.

I love the back to basics theme you guys talked about. Little steps. Big improvements.

Then too I see the devistation from the Tsunami and can't believe the suffering that is going on. Reminds me of how lucky I am.

I'm sitting here at the hotel internet kiosk and I think there are others waiting to get on so I have to cut this short. We'll be moving into our apartment on Monday and hopefully we'll have electricity, phone and cable service, furniture and our worldly possessions so that we can start getting settled in again. I do have to find the complex's fitness center as the treadmill is calling my name.

Hope you all had a very happy new year and may this be the best year yet for all of us! Will catch up later in the week...

happy, good luck! So good to hear from you. You will settle in in no time. Remember, to the tune of is it 10cc or Ten Years After, . . ."I've got my home in my hand!. . . .! Great song. I always thought of it as I traveled the world. It's YOU happy that makes a home, not your house or the environs. So just jump in and get to it. The neighborhood will thank you!
Take care.
Where is everyone else? Did we start a new thread yet. . .. Raven?

New Year
 

Happy New Year everyone.
Happy, glad to see you made it and glad you are safe, Red.
Will we have a new thread?
Linda

I'm in if you want newbies
 

:wave: Hello Everyone, I am Angie, I live in the coldest province in Canada Called Manitoba. I am a sahm of two very active little girls ages soon to be 6 on the 19 and soon to be 2 on the 23 both in this month. I have been with my hubby for almost 10 years married almost 5 years. We live in a small town just out side of winnipeg. I have tried atkins last year lost 15 pounds keeped that off thank god and now i want to lose the rest which is 80 pounds. We bought a :tread: treadmill last year and i maybe have used it 5 times the rest of the time it hold my hubbies laundry because he is to lazy to put it in the laundry room, and since i'm not his maid i refuse to clean up after him. Well i got on the treadmill today for 15 min and i thought i was going to die. I did five min of a warm up then i went to buring fat the next step up and man i am sore.

My goal is to be 110 by the end of june i am 190 now. The reason for such drastic weightlose is so i can apply to our police department and you need to be in exellent shape.

I need the motivation that my hubby can not give seeing he is a rail and never weight more than 145 in his life. The man can eat and eat and eat.

He just doesn't understand what it is like to be over weight and feel so ugly inside i look at my self in the mirror and see me as when i was thin back when i was 21 i was 110 pounds and boy did i have energy. I want that person back and i need your help in getting there.

I just celebrated my 30th birthday back in sept and we went to a social to have some fun and my ex boy friend was there and the look he gave me was somthing else the look like what the f*** did you do to your self kind of look.
All i could do that night was drink and drink some more so i didn't have to feel stupid or explain why and how i gained so much weight.

I belonged to the atkins forum and had no support there and was off line for awhile and now back and i am ready to get down to buiness and shed my extra person i am carring.

I really need the support and from reading this forum i no i can get some help and motivation.

Oh by the way i am a very stubborn person and very hard to push when my mind is set but i am not perfect. :smug:

Can someone be willing to keep me in line and help me lose this weight please :drill:

Thanks Angie i can be reached on msn if anyone wants to chat one on one

Angie, Good to see you and welcome!! :wave: This is the old thread so hit the link below and hop on over to the new one for the new year!! See you there!!

http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/show...345#post744345

Linda, there you are! I was wondering. You too, hit that link above and find the new thread. Chachee started it up for us the other day. Happy New Year!