Hey Kim...I am so happy for you girl! Its so great to hear that you're doing so well. It really helps me out...great motivation!

This thread seems to be slowly slipping away...whats wrong with us??

Love,
Deanne

Hey there Deanne! I'm still here. Just had a busy weekend. I have managed to stay on plan though and am really hoping for a good WI tomorrow night. How about you?

Whew! I DO need to catch up! I kinda got stuck in a little posting funk there for awhile, but I've been lurking.

((( alone on the thread)))))

My weekend has been packed. We are starting to plant a vegetable garden so we had to pull up the sod, till it and now we're finally to the planting stage.. Ok so the husband did most of the grunt work, but still lol.. poor guy. Then we had 2 ball practices in the midst of all of that.
Everyone needs to start talking again. I cant believe that out of all the women on this board no one has anything to say???? C'mon.. that's impossible. Put a group of women together and they can talk about nothing for hours on end..
Lets go girls.. stay motivated and we can get thru anything

Dina- Things are good here. The diet is going just ok. Still trying to get back on track.

Lynn- You're not alone, Im here. Im just looking up some stuff for Nic about jobs. Ugh his company is awful. How are things with you? Your daughters??

GoddessKim- I understand...my husband does all the grunt work too. I "supervise":)

Lets all keep supporting each other!! I cant do it without y'all.

Love,
Deanne

I don't get to this thread often enough. The motivation and support found here is wonderful.
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.
For those who step on the scales on Monday, I hope it went your way! :D

Ok, I didnt have a fabulous week as far as weight loss goes, but I did managed a very respectable 2lbs. I'm gonna chaulk this up to that time of month and keep trucking right along ( i know i shouldnt complain, I didnt gain and any loss is a good loss) I'm debating on staying on phase 1 for an extra week, but I'm not sure yet. I haven't gone grocery shopping yet and i'm doubting I'll get out today because it's raining like crazy out there so I'm at least stuck on phase 1 an extra day lol. I'm allowed to start adding some fruit and other whole grain carbs back in this week, but I dunno.. i dont really miss them that much right now. LOL ****, I might as well wait until i actually want them
Kim and I got rained out this morning so I guess I'm gonna hop on my eliptical trainer and knock out some time on that.
Hope everyone has a fabulous day.. raining or not

Good Morning Ladies, sorry i havent posted much, but i usually dont have time on the weekends. But i need to try, because that is the time i do really bad. I usually eat what i want and i cant seem to stay on track. I was doing really good at first but now ive seem to fallen in a whole. But i am determined to loose this weight and i am not going to let this take over. Tonight is my weigh in im pretty nervious because i kind of know i have gained. But its frustrating i know i have lost alot of inches but not alot of weight. Come on ladies lets get back on track. TOGETHER. i have noticed, that this thread has helped alot. I seem to do really well when i post, thanks to the vixens. :D you ladies are great. Everyone have a super day.

Jessica :cool:

howdy all
can everyone, post their food plan? I'm having a senior moment and forgot what everyone is doing
I'm doing weight watchers

I'm on the South Beach diet..modified lower carbs for anyone that doesnt know what the plan is. We dont do atkins version of no carbs, but we eat only the good carbs.. veggies and such..

Ok. I am with Kim. I think I will stay on Phase 1 another week. I am bored with it,but it certainly won't kill me. I don't know how, but it looks like I gained a 1/2 pound. WHAT DID I DO???? :shrug: Anyway, I am not giving up. What is one bad week compared to the rest of my life? We didn't get to walk today either. It is so stormy here. Just nasty!!!!! Anyway, Just wanted to post real quick. I will be back later!

Oh, I am doing South Beach Diet also. Ditto what goddesskim said!

I'm simply counting calories (I eat 1200/day) write down everything I eat. Drink a lot of water (8 servings) and exercise everyday.

I am doing to same as Soccer, counting calories and exercise, with at least 8 glasses of water.

Hi everyone :) Little post of the early evening, before we get to eat dinner, hehe.

Lynn - I follow Montignac. It's mostly known in France, I suppose, but it doesn't matter, I guess. It's mainly about eating foods with lower glycemic index (50 is the max that is "allowed") and not mixing carbs and lipids (so no pasta+cheese, but pasta+tomato sauce/mushrooms is okay). Not too complex to follow in social meetings either, unless said meetings are full of bad foods, but then any plan would be blown up by these anyway. Oh yeah, and I can lose weight while still being "allowed" to eat pasta and rice (provided they're not made with eggs/processed). All good, all good :lol:

Hey chicks! Today was good...stayed on the diet. Not great but still stayed on.
I take Zoloft and it makes me feel like I cant get enough food. So, I stopped that about 2 weeks ago. Now, tomorrow, I will start a new antidepressant called Motival. Its cheaper and isnt supposed to cause weight gain. We'll see. I think that if an antidepressant that causes weight gain sort of defeats the whole purpose. Im going to be even more depressed if I gain anymore weight!!

Anyway, so I've given up getting a rabbit. I went to one of the many pet stores that we frequent and found a new animal. They have a spider monkey!!! We had a baboon when we first got here and we were told it was trained but it wasnt so we got rid of it. I held the spider monkey though. It climbed in my purse. So cute. So, its on my wishlist. My husband wants it too. Its $1,000 though :(

Ok, Im going to eat some fruit. I bought alot of it. Im going to just cut it all up and eat ALL of it...hehe. Its still in my points.

Ill check in later. By the way Lynn, Im on WW Flex plan. Lynn, is everything ok with you lately??

Love,
Deanne

Deanne, didnt you mention being bipolar or was it just depressed?

A spider monkey aww that sounds so cute. Oh man Deanne you've had all sorts of animals. Well i have stayed on my diet today so far. i can do it the rest of the day. The past weekend has made me so tired today. But have to go workout today after this weekend cause i did bad. I also need to catch up on some house work.Well talk to you Chics later.

Jessica

Hey girls!!

Kim- Yes, I am bipolar. Oh and I forgot to tell y'all what happened the other day. Nic is working nights. Well, his friends were having a bbq out by the pool and invited me since Nic had to work. So, I went out there. This jerk stands up in front of everyone to tell me hi. He grabbed my side and tried to pull me down on his lap. Then, he says"oh wait, you're bipolar, you might kick my a$$". I really dont think i have ever been that embarressed!! It was awful. So, I just said "whether Im bipolar or not, I could still kick your a$$ so sit down".

Anyway, Jessica...good for you staying on your diet!!! I think I did pretty well today too. Just have to keep going :)

Love,
Deanne

Now forgive me if I'm wrong, but i thought that if you were bipolar you couldnt take antidepressants. They tend to trigger manic episodes .. unless there is a new batch of them that are safe.. Dunno, just thought i would ask. And don't be embarrassed over that ***.. whether you are bipolar or pmsing your mental health isn't anyones business. You are who you are.. remember God doesn't make mistakes

Deanne, so you got a spider monkey? I am going to have to look that up. I know I have seen them at the zoo, but I don't remember what they look like. You really are an animal lover!
Oh yea, good for you stickin up for yourself. Was the jerk someone you know? What an a-hole :s: .

Ok, back on track for me tomorrow. I am going now to ride my stationary bike before bed.

Ok ladies, i had to go to the second page of the thread list to find this! We are seriously lacking on posts lately! Everyone get motivated and start typing. I know its spring and there is tons of stuff that needs done, but lets not forget about our commitments to losing weight. This thread is very helpful to provide support that we might not get elsewhere. So lets get back into the swing of things.. for everyone that's struggling its ok, we all have set backs. We just have to get up dust off the powdered sugar (from that awful donut that snuck up and jumped into our mouthes) and decide to try again. It's when you dont that you actually fail. We're all gonna have times that temptation gets the best of us and that's ok. If we didnt, we wouldnt be human.
I wanna hear from some people!!!!

I know i need to get back in the swing of things. This past week wasnt a good one. But i want to be able to loose ten pounds by may 15th. That shouldnt be a problem. ITs a whole month to loose it. So lets get back in it. I have lost alot of inches but only 6 pounds which feels great because my clothes fit better but i just wish it would show on the scale. I really need to get back in being serious about this. Spring should make it more encouraging to loose weight because of the weather, then next thing you know its gonna be summer.So come on ladies, LETS DO IT. I need your help though, as some may need mine. Love you Vixens. ;) Thanks kim for those encouraging words also.

Jessica

Yaaaahhhhoooooooooooooo Jessica.. congrats on your loss.. inches are in fact better than pounds on the scale. It motivates me more to have my clothes fit better or looser than to see numbers on the scale and my clothes fitting the same. Keep going and those numbers will come down.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey chickas...

Goddesskim-You're right about the antidepressants. Most bipolar people take a combination of an AD and a mood stabalizer. Some anti epileptic medicines are used for mood stabalizers. This is what I do. Its a matter of finding the right "cocktail". I wish I didnt have to take them at all. When you're trying to find the right medicines, you have to take so many different ones. Which is what caused my weight gain in the first place. Also, you're right. We all need to post when we can. Everyone needs the encouragement.

Kim- We didnt get the spider monkey. I wish :) I did take Nic to look at it today and he loved it. Its just wayyyy too expensive for us. We're trying to plan our first anniversery so we need to save money for that.

Jessica- Ugh its already summer here. If it were spring, I could say that I still have time to lose weight before summer. I wouldnt be caught dead in a bathing suit right now. Thats motivation enough for me. Just to be able to go lay out at the beach:)

I just woke up...its almost 9pm here. Im on this weird schedule with Nic. I had some green tea and 2 rice cakes for breakfast. I was just not that hungry for some reason. Which is not a bad thing. I tried something new yesterday. I made some warm green tea and then put a slice of a green apple in it. It was so good! It added a sweet & sour taste to it.
I'm going to be working on this website and adding all of my pictures to it tonight. I will give y'all the link later. If their are any pictures that y'all have, I'd love to see them. Its nice to have a face to the screenname :)

Love,
Deanne

Ok, I have done great today! I walked with Kim, and have been cleaning house. I have worked up a sweat! I am working on a bottle of water right now.

Deanne, so what are you going to do for your first anniversary? Hope it is something special!

You are right Jessica, before we know it, it will be summer and we will all be pissed off at ourselves if we don't lose some weight by then. I KNOW I will be mad at myself! So....here is to all you curvy vixens! Here's to all of us! :cheers:

Gotta run for now!

I wonder if we need to start a curvy vixens #3? This thread is getting long.

mMmMmMMmmM, i just had subway, it was so good. I really wanted some soup from there but they didnt have any. I was just talking to my boss and she went to the country music awards lastnight, i was so jealous. But she was telling us about it. I really need to get out and tan. I think i may get a membership this weekend. My legs are just really pale. I think once i start getting some color on me i may want to show it off and dont wanna show off just fatt, so good thing my legs are trying to shape up. Well hope everyones day is going good so far. Hey Deanne cant wait to see your website, i bet it will be great. Hmm Kim this thread is getting kind of long. :( I still want some soup, hmm maybe for dinner. Have a wonderful day "losers."

one of many curvy vixens,
Jessica :cool:

Deanne,
my first anniversary i spent VERY pregnant and mostly alone so anything you do will be better than mine lol. My hubby was in the army (out in the field) and I was due with our oldest daughter the next month. They did let him come in for a "shower run" for a couple of hours, but most of the time i spent by myself with some cookies and the tv remote since i was on bed rest anyway.. lol we're goine to celebrate our 14th anniversary this summer.. we actually get to go out now.. we've come a long way baby lol

Wow 14 years, thats cool Kim. So do you all have any plans for yours this summer Kim. Me and my boyfreind have been living together for about 2 years. I would love to get married but i am not sure if he is ready. Although us living together we are pretty much married. One of our freinds just had her baby couple of days ago. As much as i love kids, i am having enough trouble with my puppy, but one day.

Jessica

We're trying to make plans, but with vacations, ball games and work it's getting difficult. We'll manage to get something together though. We got married young.. very young.. we were both 19. It's a miracle that it worked out so well, but then again we've both to stubborn to call it quits. We have 4 daughters that keep us on out toes.. AHHHH domestic life lol..
Deanne give me your email address and I'll send you some pictures.. i would post them here, but gosh they require them to be so small...

ok all of my pictures are bigger than they allow on here :(

hello and happy tues vixens..(wed for deanne and kery)
I had a terrible day today, too much going on, my daughter is up at school and is very sick, I'm thinking strep, I told her to go to the campus health center.. but she won't.. she is like me.. pigged headed...
Deanne happy almost first year anniversary!! that is awesome. Jim and I got married very young too, I was 20, I'm amazed at myself that it has lasted for 21 years. Although we have our ups and downs, we are soul mates and meant to be together, I was 22 when I had Jamie. I'm sorry you didn't get the spider monkey :(....

I binged today, it was stress, purely stress. What makes it worse, is I went to an OA meeting with a friend last night. She told she really needed to go and asked me to go, I figured I needed it prolly as much as she did.
I cried. I listen to the stories and I cried, this is me I thought. Everything these people are saying is me! I was so moved by everyones experiences I spoke myself. I thought my friend would fall off her chair. I left feeling great, but had some stress at home waiting for me and I ate, then I ate all day today. I feel ill. I am so sick of dealing with my food issues. I'm on zoloft also and I feel that I have gained because of it. I'm trying to wean off but it has been hard.

My trip to Hawaii was almost cancelled today. I have a knot in my stomach right now about it.It is a long long story.. but in the short of it... we have a delta sky miles credit card that we have points on and this was paying our way to hawaii. Hubby called in feb to secure the flights, what he didn't know was you had to call another 800 number with the confirmation number they gave you to 'ticket' the account and get the tickets. He didn't do that process, he just got the confirmation number and thought we were set. My travel agent called to book our seats and delta said they had no one booked for that flight under our name and that the flight was booked. she called my cell phone in a panic!! I called hubby and said you have the info right?? he said I gave all the info to you.... well... giving things to me, means they are lost. It took me a half hour to find the info. I called delta and spent an hour talking in circles to animated voices till I finally got an operator. She put me on hold and after 20 mins I secured our seats... what a sign of relief...........

My younger daughter is going on her first date this weekend. I'm thrilled for her and not thrilled. I sorta know the kid, he actually took Jamie's friend to the prom last year. He is almost 18 and heather is 15 going to be 16 next month. I figure, he can't be as bad as that kid she's been talking to who has the web page!

I'm going back on plan tomorrow, very strict, I can't even weigh myself tomorrow as I i'll be ill. Why do I do this to myself??? I am my own worst enemy.

jessica, my friend jeanne and I are going thurs to get that mystic tan. Have you heard of it? It is a sprayed on tan. Most tanning places have it.

I dont really tan during the summer.. Its a vicious cycle of burning and peeling.. the joys of being pale pale pale lol
Lynn, just pick yourself up and start over again. There is no reason to beat yourself up over mistakes. We all make them we just have to learn something from them.
I was on zoloft for while. I didn't notice a weight gain, but then again i was zombied out so I didn't notice much at that point. I've run the gammut on antidepressants, but have settled on living without them. I've found that I can manage quite nicely on my own. There was a point in my life that I HAD to have them. But i'm more settled in my life and happier than I have ever been..
Good luck to everyone..

Hey vixens!

Sorry for my temporary absence...like I mentioned before I am in the middle of a class (actually its a class on web design) and work with all the other stuff going on. It sounds like many of us hit a funk--but am glad to hear that some of us stuck with it and are still here to motivate us! Go GoddessKim! That's great!

I have to be honest and admit that I have been stress eating--but after reading all the posts and thinking long and hard this evening I realize I have to get myself back on track. And I go back to that saying "if you do what you always did you will get what you always got!" And I sure tired of getting this jelly belly, and feeling like crap from the junk. So I have to change my pattern and give it a go again. So here I am! Please push me along! I am joining the race!

Deanne~What kind of program are you using to build your web page? Just curious. I am learning to build in HTML. Fun, fun.

Lynn, what a relief that you still have your trip!!! I know you were stressed! Glad it worked out! Tomorrow is another day, start over. Don't beat yourself up :rollpin: cause there is nothing you can do about it now.
My hubby was 18 and I was a fresh 15 when we started dating. June 20 will be 18 years :love: . Amazing looking back! I really wasn't supposed to date till 16 but my mom and dad both fell in love with him when they first met him. Anyway, the rest is history. I am not looking forward to the dating thing with my kids. I know I will have to let go, but I don't want to! :cry: Partly cause I know how bad I was. Will they do those things too? OMG! I can't stand the thought!!!!!! :eek:

I have some minutes left from the last year and I think I am going to start going back to the Tanning bed Thursday. I have some Indian in me and I tan really easy. Just gotta get it started. I am pretty white looking right now! :lol:

Ok, I will jump in on the anitdepressant bandwagon here. I am on prozac. It is the serafem form of it, but that is exactly what it is. I didn't know it was doing much good till I tried to get off of it. And geeezzz! :crazy: So I am back on it. It started right after my son was born with PP depression. Then it just went from there. It is amazing how having kids changes your whole body chemistry. I also didn't have allergies till he was born! I was also skinny! OMG! What have I done to myself? ;) You know what? I wouldnt change a thing! Amazing isn't it?

I had Bunko at my house tonight and I did very well. I had tacos for everyone, but I just had the lettuce, some meat, tomato, salsa, and skipped the chips and shells. I also skipped the desert. While everyone was eating their boston creme cake, I went to the kitchen, started cleaning up and had a sugar free fudgesicle. YEA for me!

Well, here is hoping that Wednesday is a superfantastic day for all the curvy vixens! I hope we are all 'losers'!

Well good morning ladies!
I'm having a great day so far. Went out for our walk at 7am.. which is really early for us, but it's great. I'm up showered and ready for my day already. Now i'm just waiting for my 4 yr old to wake up so we can get started with our chores. I hope everone is having a good day. I'll check back in later on

Good Morning Ladies, well i had a good day yesterday, worked out, did 40 minutes of cardio. I usually only do like 20 minutes so i was pretty proud of myself.
hey Lynn dont get too down on yourself. I had a pretty bad weekend, but talking to the ladies on here, got my spirit back up and back on track. You can do it, you just have to make sure you know you are worth it, and just keep it going and pick up from where you left off. I am so glad everything worked out for your Hawaii trip, i am so jealous, i bet your going to have the best time.
I know alot of us here lately have resorted to stress eating. I know the hardest thing for me to do is to recognize that i am stress eating. Because i can start doing it and not even realize that i am just doing this just to do it, not becuase i am actually hungry. So i really have to concentrate and listen to myself to know when i am stressing about something, and do something else instead, like take a long bath, paint my toes, take Mojo (my puppy) a bath or just sit outside with him. I am trying to just replace that feeling of eating with something else.
We all just have to remember how good we feel when we do good and try to remember that as much as we can.
Good Job Kim, you are doing great. yesterday i did really good, but today we are having a pot luck here at lunch, but i brought some fat free cream cheese and hot sauce dip, and another freind brought some beans i can eat, so i think i will do good. Ever since the time change i have been pretty messed up with waking up on time and going to bed on time, last week was horrible. But i think i am finally back on track. The past couple of days i have been feeling great. That is really my ultimate goal, just to feel great as much as i can physically and mentally.
Well hope to talk to you soon ladies. Have a wonderful Tuesday.

Jessica :cool:

Hey chickas!

Kim- Not sure yet on the anniversery. Since we live with other people, we thought about just getting a hotel for a few days and relaxing. Im so jealous that you have someone to walk with!

GoddessKim- 14 years! Thats awesome!! Was the first year hard? Things get really hard with us sometimes. My email address is [email protected].

Lynn- It was really hard for me to get off of zoloft too. So far, I feel better. I dont feel as much like a zombie. I had to take 75mg per day and that just kicked my butt. I literally felt like I must be drooling if Im this out of it. Have you tried lowering your doseage?

Karen- Its nice to see you back on! Hows the html stuff going? I use a page builder thing on Tripod. Its easy but is very time consuming. How are things with you?

Jessica- You are very encouraging!! Its really helps when I read your posts:)

Ok girls, did ok today. Nic took me to a breakfast buffet and the only bad thing I ate was the potatoes. So, I ate a really low cal lunch. Hopefully, it wont effect me. Other than that, theres nothing new. Nic has training tonight so he has to leave at 7pm rather than 8. I hate it when he goes but its nice to have some peace and quiet too. Ill post later.

Love,
Deanne