Dee... good luck with the tonail. Bing had his taked off and it really hurt! Don't worry about not loosing this week just keep at it!

Now I'm feeling like I'm coming down with a cold. Just seems to be that time of year. I took a bunch of airborne and zicam so hopefully I'll shake it. Bing and I are going to a concert tomorrow to see Bela Fleck.

Hope everyone has a good night!

Turtle how much water did you drink today. I always thought I drank a lot but I started measuring today. I had 96 OZ today.

Enjoy your BNL cd!

Water
 

Came in just under 90. That's a lot for me. :bubbles:

Good morning Chickies..
sittin here trying to decide if i am gonna call in again today.. I am feeling a bit better... but not sure if that will last all day..

i am down a pound.. which is suprising since i havent exercised but a few days in the past 2 weeks.. Cough syrup is a south beach no no.. geez all that corn syrup in it.. but what are ya gonna do?

one good thing i had plenty of time for reading yesterday.. finished up reading "sugar busters" & "four corners"

"sugar busters" was a pretty good book! ok if i decide to take another day of rest.. i'll be back..

Curly-does that mean you didn't like four corners?

Angel-I have to say I'm shocked. Not only did I think she was gone forever, I thought there was good chance she was asked to leave. It doesn't look like our body fat numbers are all that far apart and we both agree that the absolute limit for women is 12%. We know (medically) that 12% body fat is required to have a menstrual period and Jillian says she has 11%-???? By her own answer, she places herself in the unhealthy range.

Well ladies, I saw the 200 lb. number appear on my scale, 200 and change actually, but I haven't seen a 1 yet.

of all the books so far.. my favs were protein power & sugar busters..I have to say i prefered protein power over the 4 corners book.. but i think thats becuz my triggers are sugar.. I was never a big meat eater, loved pasta, BREAD, cookies, cake .. i would eat a hostess cake rather than a steak any day!! well in my past life.. lol now i am a reforming sugar addict..OH and cereal.. LOVE cereal.. (not allowed in my house anymore)

i liked the science part of jillian's book.. tho maybe my take on this is wrong.. but I know this journey is not a diet but a lifestyle change ..

I have 3 basic breakfasts that i rotate.. and maybe 5 lunches.. and @ dinner is a meat and a vegetable.. so i really dont track my calories all the time, becuz by now i pretty much know what i can have and not have..and what calories are in them

if i am hungry in between i have one of the same snacks i always have .. slice of ff cheese or cheese stick, ff & sugar free fudgcicle,

One thing i read.. was that a plateau can last for as long as 6 weeks... now that is scary!

Friday
 

Hello PICs. How is everyone doing on this sunny Friday? I'm doing pretty good, I think. I've not had diet pop (or any other kind of pop) since October 30 and I'm doing very well on my food and water. Of course, I STILL need to incorporate some exercise in and I have no excuse as to why I haven't. Maybe soon! I hope everyone is doing well. I'm short of time, since I spent most of my morning cleaning house. I think I may have found a great tool in the war on seasonal depression. Clean clean clean. Toss toss toss.

I'll check in on you all, from work.

Morning all!! Once again this has to be quick as I'm at work. I just had to let you all know that I made it officially to "Onderland"!!! The scale this morning was 198.8 so I'm rounding up to 199!!!

I DID IT!!! :carrot: :cp: :cb: :dancer: :dance:

Mom!
 

That's AWESOME, Girl! I'm so very proud of you. :carrot:

:cheer: :cheer: woooo Hooo!!!! :cheer: WAY TO GO!

and Petra is almost there also!!!!

found some good receipes>>>

http://www.sugarbustersforum.com/for...hp?showforum=6

:cheer: Mom :cheer: THAT IS FANTASTIC NEWS!!! What a great way to start the weekend, bet you don't go off plan!!!! :carrot: WOOHOOOOO

Yes, you are right Curly...Petra is just a smidge off from it also. :cheer: GO PETRA GO :cheer: Must have been all those nuts!!! hehe :lol:

Curly.....thanks for the recipie link. Its always nice to get some new ones. So?? did you end up going into work? good job on the 1lb loss

Hey PIC's.....I have my bestfriend (from highschool....from a long waaaayyys back) flying in tommorow morning, so I don't know just how easy it will be to pop in. She is here until Wednesday so I may be pretty scarse. Keep OP and drinking all that water.....I'll be thinking of you! tc :wave:

Congrats Mom!!!!! :bravo: what great progress you've made! :cp:

I really look forward to the day that I can see that 1 at the beginning of my scale!

OMGosh! Mom, I am so proud of you! :carrot: :carrot: The first one officially to ONE-derland.

Curly-I'm glad you liked Protein Power so much. My two new books arrived today. I'll let you know what I think of them when I get a chance to read them. I'm still working on Dr. Phil. I think you might see what I mean about Four Corners being easier for the general public to read though? Protein Power is pretty dense. The other things about Four Corners is there is nothing "controversial" about their dietary recommendations: limited saturated fat, lots of fiber, probiotics, etc. You can't quite say that about protein power either even if I am a believer personally. I'm with you on the sugar addiction all the way. In fact, I'm making up a questionnaire for patients on sugar addiction.


I'm having some articles pulled on the National Weight Control Registry (NWCR). I hope you guys all know what that is and are planning to join someday. Briefly, it is a database started in the late 1990's of individuals who have lost at least 30 lbs and kept it off for at least 1 year. There are currently about 4500 people in the database. It is the largest database of it's kind in the world and almost everything we know about success at longterm weight loss comes from this group of people. Men and low carbers are under represented so I'm on a crusade to get low carbers to register. I'm reading the first article published about the data base in 1997. I'll let you know what it says when I finish. I had a couple others pulled too but they had to order them for me.

Howdy Ladies,

First I just have to say YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY MOM!!! Congratulations! I'm so excited for you. I think that magic number is a real mental block to most of us, and I, for one, am not going to let it stop me this time! Every one of you who get there first will be an inspiration :encore: :encore: :encore:

Curley and L2L~ I hope you're both feeling better. Take your time and get better before you work toooo hard. You don't want a relapse :)

Val~ I"m keepin my fingers crossed the Airborne will work for you. I'm jealous you guys going to see Bela.... Man it's been soooo long since I've been to see anyone. Since before I left Seattle! **sigh** YOu guys have fun and tell Bing hi ;)

AngelEyes~ Thanks for the lil pep talk :) **hugs** Have a great weekend with your friend!

Petra~ You're getting the feeling maybe the poster isn't really who she says she is??? I've wondered, but her info seems good, and she is motivating people. :shrug: I dunno.....
That study sounds really interesting, lol but I have a while before I can sign up on it for sure.
Not that I'm trying to pry, but what kind of practice do you do, and are you thinking of getting into a specialty dealing with weight issues? I worked for a clinic doing clinical trials in women's health care. It's really interesting stuff.

Turtle~ get on the......... (dare I say it?) ........ BALL hehehee... Sounds like your head is going in the right direstion. It won't be long and you'll be totally back in the swing of things again. I can see positiveity in your posts :dancer:

I'm missin' ya -- Lisa_WY, jiquira, Zoey, TEB, Jennie. Sorry if I'm missing anyone. I'm not organized enuf to actually have a list of PIC Chicks, but just old enuf to have a tendency to forget things lmao....