[coco99]

Good Morning Ladies
Hope you don't mind that I started the thread. But was just checking in. Gonna get ready and go for my walk. Just walked a mile yesterday. But I will do two today. Hubby had a Dr's appt yesterday. So I knew I would be walking alot there. Boy was it nice yesterday. Was 88 degress yesterday. Suppose to be nice again today. With a chance of showers tonight. Could use the rain.
Weighed in last night. Hubby lost 3 1/4 lbs. Dont know how he did it. The way he ate last week. He ate a whole box of Nilla wafers. I bought them Sun and by Mon eve most were gone. I had 3 and son had 4. Hubby the rest. I lost 2 lbs. not sure how either. I still fill like I am retaining fluid. My hands are still swollen. So I guess I will increase my water. And see if that helps.

CC The pup (Sadie) she goes in for surgery tomorrow. She has to be there at 7:45. Then we should get to bring her home tomorrow night. Suppose to pick her up between 5:30-7:00. You and my Hubby are having the same problem. He has 5 lbs to lose also. And cant seem to get them off. But you both will.

Sherri How are you doing. I know that you are back on track. And you will do alright.

To everyone else. I am thinking of you. I know that you are all working hard to lose weight. And we all will be to goal. It will just take time. I guess we didn't gain this weight over night. But it seems like it. So we wont lose it overnight. Would be great though. You all take care. And have a wonderful day. Remember to smile.
A TOPS PAL

[lady06498]

Coco,

Hey girl congratulations on your loss. You did great. I am so proud of you. You must be doing something right. And you thought you were doing sooo bad. See it is all that exercise for sure. Keep up the great work.
You are right the last of the weight I am sure is the hardest to lose but he will lose it.

I did great on plan yesterday. I plan on having another great day today. My scale was finally down the 2 lbs it has been up all week. I think it is good to rest between the strength training like they say instead of doing it everyday like I was. I know moderation in everything.
But I am going to do the 12 week challange following their strength training menu which you alternate upper and lower body workouts. You don't do them the same day or everyday. It is every other day with cardio 3 days a week.
As far as the food plan goes I am going to stick to the one I made up for me. It works for me and I won't change it. I am going to get committed and really try to make it the 12 weeks without cheating only on my given cheat day that they allow. It will be very hard to do not cheating even once during the week. But If I can make it through 12 weeks of doing my plan I will be very proud of myself and I will have lost weight and inches I know. I know that just by following my plan of eating for 1 week I lost 5 lbs. Now for following it for 1 day the scale is down. So I know it works and I am getting all the food groups in also which is important to me.

Can I rely on you guys to help keep me going. It will be very hard. I can never stick with my plan for more then 2 weeks before I cheat. I really want to do this so I am giving it my all. I will try and that is all I can ask of myself.

I will continue to walk daily if I can. As long as it doesn't rain. I can't imagine that walking every day will hurt even though they say to only do it 3 days a week.

You all have a great day.

Sherri

[FLgal]

Hi Everyone,

Its been a while since I posted. I just haven't had much to write about, but I wanted to get on and say hello to everyone.

Coco, you're doing really good with the weight losses. I can't always remember, but it seems that you are having a loss every week. Weigh to go, girl! Hope everything goes well with your dogs surgery.

Sherri, Hang in there girl and keep working on losing. I keep telling myself that this weight has to come off sometime if I keep trying. I wish that I could do the all the exercises that some of you do, but with achey hips and knees, walking is the best that I can do right now.

Eleni, You are doing great with the losses also. I'll look for you at the SRD registration table next Friday morning. One of the other ladies will be picking up our packet because they are going early to go to the retreat reunion. We are having weigh-in before going to Daytona. But, I'll come by just to say hello.

Happy Birthday, Punky_s. !
I hope that you will come back and post with us again. Also, Randa and Elaine(crstrixie).

Mary Ann, how are you doing?

Thought for today:
A bend in the road is not the end of the road.....
unless you fail to make a turn.

Nita

[shortstack]

Good afternoon.
Congrats coco on your loss. Weigh to goal girl. I'm thinking of you and all with the puppy thing. I know you all were there when our family needed the extra thoughts. So I'll keep you all in my prayers for a while, ok. I was just telling people here at work that they didn't get the weight over night. And it all won't come off tomorrow.
Try taking a b6 vitiman for your water retention. My hands swell up all the time. And it helps. Also little more water will help too, just don't over do it like I have before.

sherri- you will make it. I know you will Just keep hanging in there. You have the right attitude, and everything. You are working hard it will all pay off. You go girl.

Nita-Love that thought for the day. Really makes ya think. You keep making changes too.
And all you ladies that haven't stopped by in a while. Hi, and hope all is going well with your program.

[flatlander]

Well, my scale made a liar out of me (again), I think I will tuck it in the closet and forget about it for a while. I was down 1.25 last night, 2.75lbs to go and I will hit the magic 100 lb mark. Yippee!

Sherri, I am doing only the exercise portion of BFL, I like eating the way I am now so I won't change that, plus I could never eat 6 times a day! I like a BIG supper so that just wouldn't do for this camper. About working with weights, if you are doing the program his way you MUST let your muscles recover. The whole point is to work your muscles to exhaustion. This causes tiny tears (which stimulates new muscle tissue growth)and the down time allows for the repair of these tiny tears. If you do not allow your muscles to recover you actually wear down muscle tissue you have already developed. So a caution, do not overtrain, it is very counter productive. I have been working into it and Monday is DDay for me. I bench pressed 60 lbs, so I hope to have that near the 80 mark before the end of the challange. I set most of my weight targets around the 40 lb mark. Have you tried the cardio done BFL way? It is BRUTAL!!! I love it! Makes a nice change from the long haul trucking I have been doing. But I refuse to give up my Pilates so I will continue with that as well. (I just love how good I feel afterwards, very addicting)

Coco, I hope the pups surgery is a complete success. And you are doing awesome!

Eleni and Nita, Have fun at your SRD and let us know all about it!

[Lara H]

Hi ladies... I'm going to try and post daily now... I think we are into a routine of getting 5 solid hours of sleep a night now and I'm not quite so exhausted.

Congrats to everyone on being op and for all the weightloss. And the commitment to exercise! WOW! you guys are great! I keep saying I'll commit and then finding excuses not to do it. I have my 4 week tomorrow, and hopefully the Dr will give me the exercise go ahead. So far I've only been doing some (very little) upperbody and walking with the baby.

It's been over 100 on my back deck (afternoon sun) for the past 5 days, and I don't see that changing until October or so! I've already decided to order baby sunglasses for Mya to protect her little eyes. I don't like the idea of keeping her inside all summer, but would do that rather than have her suffer eye dammage from the uv rays. And I think we are going to buy one of those blow up pools that fit adults too and get some sort of awning to go over it so it doesn't get direct sun. I'd really like a real pool, but we can't find a dealer we like for above ground ones, and inground ones are too expensive for a house we are hoping to sell in the next year or so. And we would never recoup even a fraction of the cost in the price we'd get for the house.

Well, I'm op, this is day 4 of being completely op... no cheating, and I must say I feel better for it. I think eating well is also helping my breast milk supply which seemed to be drying up there for a while. I've also started taking these nasty tasting drops that are supposed to help. Between that and renting a hospital grade pump and pumping every 3 hours (which reminds me it's time again) I'm hoping to get back my milk. Mya still isn't latching on well, but now I think it's mostly just that my milk is scarce and she is used to a ready supply from the bottle. I found a lactation consultant that I like now... one that isn't chastizing me for all the things I've done "wrong". This one just says "you did the best you could at the time and now we just need to deal with the difficulties that have cropped up." (Well I'm paraphrasing a bit but that's the message.)

With hot days coming for everyone remember to drink that water! Down here we go by 1/2 oz for each pound you weigh... I can hear you all now "but I'll float away!!" build up to it slowly, adding an extra glass every couple of days and you'll be there in no time and it will seem like nothing at all. And if you have trouble drinking water at all try adding a citrus slice to it, even just one or two thin slices of orange in a pitcher do wonders... makes it look like you are getting a treat too. And the additional carbs are so miniscule that they don't even matter. Just remember to put the rest of the orange in a ziplock bag in the fridge so it doesn't dry out before you can use the rest.

Now that I've written a book have a good day all.

Lara