Carly-Are you talking about endometriosis? My sister has that. I have rheumatoid arthritis as well as my mom. She has sarcoidosis and diabetes. My bro has sarcoidosis. What a healthy family! I am very overweight for my height. Along with wanting to wear the "cute, trendy clothes", I want to get healthy too. The more weight I get off of me, the easier it is on my joints. When I dropped 25 lbs, I felt so much better and I didn't get so many flare ups in my joints. My problem is that I fell off the weight loss wagon and now its so hard to get back on . I really have a hard time with sugar. I crave the stuff all the time. A few of the people I talk to on the RA thread read articles about sugar effects on arthrits. Not good news. I just don't know how to get the motivation back and get back into losing weight. It's different to want to lose weight and make it happen. I don't really have anyone around here to keep me going. My husband says I look fine the way I am. He doesn't understand. I don't want to look just fine. I want to look great and healthy. He understands so very little about RA. I wish he'd read up on it. I worry about him too. He has extremely high triclycerides and cholesterol, he has acid reflux disease, and he's hypothyroid. All of it would benefit and greatly improve from a better diet and exercise. None of which he wants to do. I don't know what to say to get him to want to feel better. I'd like to have him around for years and years.

Okay...I guess I can get off my little soap box and get on with my day. I have to go to my dad's and take care of his kitty cats. Then I'm going to go to the walk in clinic and get my eye looked at. I think I have a nasty eye infection. It hurt yesterday and I woke up this morning and its all swollen and hurtin like crazy.

~ttfn,
chris

chrily- yes that is what it is.. sometimes i just cannot remember the names of things or beable to say them.... I am sorry to hear all the health issues in your family.. my family has many of those also... mom, had fibromyagia, diebetes, pancreatic cancer .. gram has pancreatic cancer, diebetes, narcalepce, arthritis.... so our history with health issues is very high around here. i am sorry to hear about your eye i certainly hope it is better today. I feel same way about my husband.. he is 5'8 216lbs mostly in the belly... he eats terribly but i am working on that.. and drinks that coffee brandy... which as everyone knows put the belly weight on... i worry for him,,, plus he also smokes as do i... i figure maybe if he see's me getting healthy he might want to jump on the band wagon.. we will see.. he is eating better..more veggies and such.. i just wish he would start taking walks with me... at least that would help him and he needs to drink water... he never does that... anyways, regarding support.. i am here to support all of you ladies in your efforts to lose the weight and get healthy... the sugar thing can be very difficult the first week... i started with not putting it in my coffee... that was hard because i loved like 4 teaspoons in a cup of coffee.. but i have not have sugar in my coffee for about a month and i have gotten use to the taste of black coffe which isnt so bad.. i also, started drinking 4c ice tea - its greentea and it is very good.. it does have splenda in it... so i only have 1 glass a day.. but they say greentea is great for you metabolism... I have bulked up on the veggies i eat.. tons and tons.. i dont use butter or anything like that.. i use mrs. dash on them.. that is yummy... i eat much more then i did before and i am feeling better and losing some weight.. go figure huh... i need a high fiber diet for all my health issue's so that is what i am trying to figure out how to balance my intake for that..this seems to be working for me not sure if it will work for anyone else but hey... i will share what i do.. you never know.. you are doing great and your hubby will never understand because that is how men are... but he will truly love the end result.. keep up the great work... jump on the band wagon slowly... just cut out one thing a month... you will see great results... well i better go.. probably bored you to death... i hope you had a great weekend... i will check back tonight.. carly

Carly, I used to be a veggie and fruit avoider. I just don't like the taste of alot of it. I have gotten used to eating salads though. I've been eating zucchini too. One plant in a garden can produce an awful lot of that stuff. I guess my downfall is sugar and carbs. If there ever was a carb addict, it's me!
Well today I went all day without eating any sugar. I'm sure I'll be a crank to deal with later. I decided I'm going to treat my weight loss like being in school. I'm going to rate my days with an A, B, C, D, or F grade. I always hated getting anything lower than an A in school so why should my efforts with weight loss be any less. But in the weight loss game, it seems you develop an all or nothing mindset. An A is a really good, right on program day. B-almost perfect, C-an average day, D-need to reassess our approach, F-very bad day. I did 1/2 walk during my break at school today and I've been right on track with my eating, so for today so far, I have an A.
I want to be on the the weight loss honor role.

I'm not sure how to stick more fiber in my diet, except with beans, I guess. I have a yeast and wheat allergy. Yeast-free/wheat-free bread is expensive, so I don't really get to eat it all that often.

Okay, time to get dinner on the table. The fam. is wanting some food. Talk to you later.

Hey girls! Where are the rest of you?????????????????????????????????????

~chris

hello everyone! I used to post on this thread regularly but Chris will. Let me introduce myself.

Screen name~sharqueen76
Live~ Upstate, NY
Age~28(will be 29 next month)
Children~ 3 DD#1 6years old, DD#2 4 and DS is 3 years old

I am a single mom to 3 beautiful children. MY husband and I recently seperated. I just recently went back into the work force. I am in training to become a C N A(certified nurses assistant). Tomorrow I start my clinical. I graduate in 2 weeks! Since April I have lost over 20 pounds!! I basicly lost the weight by walking to the bus stop everyday(2miles there and 2 miles home). When I am at work I am on my feet all day. Right now I currently work as a resident companion. I help feed the residents(it's a nursing home), give them norishments, make beds and do their laundry. I am looking forward to doing hands on. I have grown very fond of many of the residents. I love my job! I wish I had found thid field sooner. In a year I plan to go for my LPN.

I plan to post here everyday again! It's so nice to see so many new faces. I look forward to getting to know all of you!! I better go, my children are rasing havic..LOL!!

goodmorning ladies,

sharqueen- very nice to meet you ... I was a cna about 12years ago.. i loved taking care of the patients i became very attached to them.. so when bad things happened i could not deal with that, that is why i left the field.. you sound like you will do wonderful in this field... congrats..

chrily- congrats on such a great day... you sound like you did wonderful ... and giving yourself a report card so to speak could be very motivating.. but dont put to much pressure on yourself.. we all have our bad days and thats ok... we just get up shake our selves off and get going again.. i think if you pick up one new habit a month you will see amazing things.. i think the not having any sugar is the right way to begin.. i think that is what helped me.. dont get me wrong.. i have my days when all i do is crave something sweet.. and i dont deprive myself i have a little something i just try really hard to make it as healthy as possible.. not that it always works.. I was at the hospital until 10:30 last night.. my gram has been admitted.. this worries me .. because of her cancer and me just losing mom in march from cancer.. so on these kinds of days my eating habits go right out the window.. but i will try to stay on track.. hopefully i will.. i am an emotional eater.. that i think is the worst kind of eater.. but i will try to keep control..

hey where is everyone else.... this was a very lively list when i joined..LOL..

well have a great day i will check back later...

carly

Jeniqua-Hey Sweetie! So good to see you post again. I'm glad things are working out for you. Sounds like you're doing great!. How's the little kids doing? I see you've lost some more weight. That is awesome. WEll, I'll be looking forward to seeing more news and posts from you.

Carly-You're gramma has cancer? I've dealt with that a bit this year already. I took my mom to the ER in Feb. because she was having "female" type problems and they did a bunch of tests on her and they found cancer of the uterus. She had her surgery in March (they removed her uterus, ovaries, and lymph nodes). Scary stuff. They caught her's early and it hadn't spread beyond the uterine wall. Thank God! I hope you're grandma is okay. You didn't say why you took her in. I'll pray a little prayer for her. Carly, get some rest. SOunds like you had a long night and not much sleep.

I burnt my shoulder AGAIN! Now its healing and itching and I'm going to go nuts. Okay...time to skiddadle outta here. I have a bunch of junk to do today. Errands, bill paying...yuck.

~chris

Hey, everyone. I'm sorry I don't have time to post, but we still have company in from London. It's been a hectic week!

goodmorning

chrily- we took gram in cuz she was having stomach pain... they are at this point thinking that her intestints are twisted... not sure what they will do for that.. but they are doing more test.. i am very worried though..

i havent been feeling to good these past couple days.. stress always does that to me... its that emotional eating thing again... i better stop that... i will keep you posted on grams progress...

michelle- cant wait until you are back to post more.. i hope your having a nice time with your company...

well have a great day...

carly

Carly,
Just checking in with you to see how your Grandma is doing. Hope they can help her.

Please keep me informed and let me know.

Chris

chrily goodmorning,
gram went home yesterday... they say her intesint not that i can spell mind you. has twisted.. i guess this is not an uncommon thing. but with all gram's issues it is very worriesome.. but at least she is home.. so we are happy about that.

well i have been doing some reading up on all the things wrong with me. and with these issues they say to cut dairy out of my diet. i have always eaten wrong.. so this is a real big issue for me. if any of you ladies have any recipes, ideas on how you do this i would greatly appreicate it. i really need to get my self under control. i am very tired all the time. they say that happens. so i figure the diet is the first thing to change.. so what did i do when i went shopping of course i bought yogurt... i have been eating good cereal for breakfast.. but with milk.. i love cheese... help... so heres the thing i need high fiber diet ideas.. with out dairy... i really dont think this is going to be easy.. lol... but all the support and help would be greatly appreciated. thank you all...

Michelle.. where are you!!!!! we miss you....

carly

Name: Chrissy/Chris
Screename: ChrissyL
Homestate: PA
Occupation: Stay at home mom to 3, Cara 14, Tori 3 and Anthony 9
Age:39 until November

Well guys again I'm doing a quickie, things are a little rough on the home front, my husband was diagnosed with melanoma last week...we just did lymphatic mapping and will find out the results and when his surgery is on Monday.
I'm still loosing but just not as quick now, summer time and beer are just not good for a dieting person even when the beers are only 94 calories...1 beer is OK but who wants just one beer?
I'll post again as soon as I know what is going on here.

To all the new girls, the women here are great!

Well, hello again . Wow, I have not been around in so long.. The babies are sleeping better, thank God, but some nights are still better than others. Last night would've been great, but thunderstorms woke me up instead, go figure . I have not been excercising at all, just too damn tired, but my eating hasn't been too bad, thought there is room for improvement there as well. I have a 13 year old nephew coming to stay w/ me from Brooklyn for 2 weeks, so we will see how that goes. I have not done a thing to get this house ready, and he will be here on Sunday. Having 2 5 mo. olds is really quite time consuming, and when you don't have much help, it just sucks. I LOVE my babies, just wish there were more hrs. in a day.
Soooooo, how is everyone else? Welcome Sahrqueen and ChrissyL. I am trying to keep up w/ everyone"s posts-
Carly, sorry to hear about your grandmother, how's your new diet going?- If you find something that increases your energy, i want to know!!!
Well, they woke up, i'm outta here, bye ladies, I'll try to be back soon.

Carly, glad to hear your grandma got to go home. As for your eating...I love the dairy stuff too. I've gone though for 4 days now without sugar. Woo Hoo! I did screw up a bit today. I ate at Del Taco. ALl my kids spent the night at their aunts house so I had some free "me" time. I went shopping and I went too long without eating. I got the jitters and scarfed down on the nearest fast food joint. At least I didn't eat the fries.

Kim, I bet you are busy with those babies. It'll get easier. IT takes a while to get a routine going with just one baby. I imagine it may take a bit longer with 2. So you're little nephew is coming? That'll be fun (or an adventure ).

Chrissy-Okay girl! Thought you got lost on us. Sorry to hear about your DH. Hope it all turns out okay. I swear Cancer has to be one of the scariest words in the dictionary. I know I felt a rock in the pit of my stomach when they told me that 4 yrs ago when I was pregnant with Nicole. And I felt totally nauseous when my mom was diagnosed with uterine cancer earlier this year. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and saying a prayer for you and your husband...for good results! Take care sweetie.

~chris

Hey, everyone. Our company was supposed to leave on Wednesday, but his flight was cancelled (we found out after spending two hours at the airport) so he was here for an extra day. It's nice to finally have the house back to ourselves. I don't know what is with me lately, but I seem to be swinging back and forth from insomnia to not being able to get enough sleep no matter how long I stay in bed. I can't seem to get my world straightened out.

Carly- you just have no luck with food, do you? I don't drink milk, but I tend to eat A LOT of cheese (and of course ice cream). Hang in there.

Chrissy- good to see you back. You are doing to great! I wosh I'd managed to stick with things as well as you have, but sometimes life just gets in the way, right? Yeah, excuses, excuses.

Kim- I can't imagine having a teenager and twin babies in the house at the same time. You are a brave woman!

Chris- no sugar? Is that possible? Doesn't that take away all of the good food? It's no wonder I'm bad at dieting

goodmorning ladies,

well my husband and daughter just left for the airport to pick up my son who has been in florida for 10days... i am very happy he is coming home.. i miss him terribly.. i really wanted to go but i have another darn appt at the hosp. for an ultrasound.. so the water thing i am doing great this morning.... lol...its the holding part i am having a hard time with..LOL.. anyways, my eating has really sucked.. so i have to get back on the wagon... i will just taking me some time.. i dont know what to eat anymore... that is very frustrating...

chrily- congrats on the no sugar... i think you will feel better once you dont have some much in your diet... just remember dont deprive yourself.. if you want have a little... it makes it easier to go with out it when you dont feel as though its taken away..

well my son was in florida he tried gator.. he says it taste better then chicken... myself just the thought...YUCK.... lol... wonder how good gator is for ya??? anyone know???

so has anyone ever tried those non dairy milks... if so please give me some input... i dont want to go spend the money on the wrong one.. i know some just taste like yuck... but i love my cereal in the morning and i havent had it in a couple days cuz i dont know what to buy... so any help would be appriciated.


thank you all for your support and words of encouragement.. you all are doing great and keep up the good work..

have a wonderful day..

carly