Holiday Hangover Help
 

Time to get back on track. I'm lanching a challenge to all my chicky's. Let's vos to lose ten pounds in the next month. To get off the holiday weight, and to feel less heavy. To exercise more... okay okay, one step at a time. Let's do this!!!! Join our challenge!

Hey Chris I followed.

To comment on what you said in the other thread, I almost eat the same when he is around. I will be cleaning up after dinner and if there are left overs I will snack on them like I am hungry. It is the weirdest feeling. I know I don't need it but in it goes. It is like the food does everything for me, it is my friend when I am lonely, it makes me feel better if I am depressed and it just takes up the time in my day. If I am out shopping I don't eat everything I come across so why is it I do it at work and at home and at all of the relatives house I go to?

Hi girls. I just ate 2 pieces of fudge. SLAP ME!!! I will get the hang of it again because I do not want to weigh 265 pounds again. It may take me the weekend but i intend to start over.

Angie did you even taste it? I don't even remember what the food just tasted like when I eat it. I really need to work on all of this. Like Chris said you are really stong so I have no doubt that you will be back on track this weekend!

Oh I tasted it. LOL I did make sure to savor it. My problem is that when I give myself permission to mess up then I keep thinking of "Oh this would be good and that and that..." So one day ends up being a week because I will obsess on the next food I want to eat. it is really wierd because when I make up my mind to stick to it there is no such thing as messing up. I am really strict with myself like that.

I wish they would just sell OLEAN like regular grease so You can make fried seafood and stuff at home and not have the fat. The wow chips have never affected me like they do everyone else so i would love the grease to cook with.

I agree with you kempy. I think I overeat just to keep the good taste in my mouth.If only brocolli had that affect. HA HA

How about fried boccolli!!!! lol

I like fried mushrooms so maybe. LOL

Poor Jay!!! All he wanted for Christmas was snow. When we heard about the big storm he was so excited. He couldn't wait,he lived on the weather channel all week waiting to see how hard we were gonna get hit. Everyone got so much snow it is sickening. US? We got nothing!!! He was so pissed.Our Downeast delivery guy said he got 16 inches and he only lives about 60 miles from us.

Has he even driving the snow mobile yet? I saw how bad eveeryone got it I just thought that you got it too. Do you live all the way at the top of Maine?

He loads it up and hauls it to Greenville to ride. He has done it 3 times. We live right in the center of Maine.

I found ya. I know I have an eating disorder. I can be so saintly good around other people but once I'm alone, I am very sneaky. I am probably one of the best covert eaters out there. I was just scolding my husband about leaving me upstairs near the kitchen one night because after he went downstairs I ate a bunch of leftovers and chocolates and stuff. I wasn't hungry, it was just there so I ate it. Poor man, always bears the brunt of my bad attitude.

Angie, I'm just like you when I'm dieting. I do best if I'm really strict with myself--no deviating from the designated "safe" foods. Once I go off, I go WAY off track, like right now. *sigh*

Help me, help me, help me. Yes, I need and want to do a challenge. I think 10 lbs is reasonable since I'm still on the high-end of my weight for me. I love it when you make a conscious effort to lose weight and in the very beginning the weight just kinda falls off. I've been cheating so horribly that I think just getting back into the groove will cause at least 5 lbs to come off in 2 weeks. My temporary goal right now is to stay below 200--I know how easy it is to just freefall and eat myself into oblivion. When's the weigh in? Can I weigh in when I get back--1/4/03?

I am not going to weigh in until next week. I weighed in this morning and I miraculously still am at 175 but I know I will more than likely be going out for seafood tomorrow.Sunday I intend to get back in the groove and I will see my small shorts by summer!!! I made homemade mac and cheese for supper tonight and oh my god isn't that good. I put garlic bread crumbs on top. I made it with lowfat butter and skim milk, does that count for something? LOL I WISH.

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Hey guys..........
I just found your replies in the support section of 3fatchicks. Wow what an inspiration you all are. I have been in the depths of depression over my weight the past week.

I simply have to get this weight off. Not only for health reasons but mental reasons. I just can't take it anymore.

All of you keep up the good work and keep posting.

Teresa
:( my mood right now

HI Girls... Okay, you sound like you wanna do this challenge... 10 pounds off in a month. Let's make our weighti n on Jan 3rd, Friday,, after New Years, after the Holidays, and starting on a hard day... a Friday.

I hate starting Mondays, cause I binge all weekend before.. you'll have plenty of time to enjoy life befroe Friday. Are you in? Let's weigh in on Friday, Jan 3rd, 2003....

I know that we can do it. But we must check in once a day, so we don't worry so much about each other. This is not going to be easy... easy, that's putting it all on. Hard... that's us sweating it off. Be Good, and talk to each other every day. That's how you do it!

ARE WE ALL IN?!!!! --- Anyone can do this with us!!!

I am in.

Are you Angie, Noelle and Teresa?

I got a book to help me with my food addiction so I am hoping this will help me get this stuff off of me. It is just extra bagage that I don't need.

You don't have to worry about me not checking in. You should know by now that I am addicted to this place.

OK, I'm in!!! Except I'm gonna have to weigh-in on Saturday morning 1/4. I think my flight gets in @ 11:30 pm Friday, 1/3/03 so I am NOT getting on that scale as soon as I get home (haha). But I am definitely in. This may be painful but should be fun. Don't weight around for me...I'll catch up :)

Hey Teresa, welcome! Please join us anytime. Whenever you need a boost just holler. Hope you feel better soon--you can do this and you are worth it.

Thanks everyone and have a great day.

Spock you latahs! (translation: see you later)

Hi, may I join you too?

I could totally relate to eating in secret - it is something I have done since I was a teenager, and it is very hard not to. In fact the times I've slipped up this holiday, it was not with eating a portion of trifle I let myself have at the table with the others but sticking my fingers in the trifle when no one was looking. This is why I have tended to like candy and cookies the most - easier to eat secretly.

It is hard not to eat in secret as a reward (kids are in bed at last!) or because I feel angry at DH or something (at least I know that the chocolate will taste good - like I can't seem to remember that I will be MORE unhappy later on when I am heavier...)

So not only do I want to take off more weight in 2003 but to really let go of chocolate & pals as a need in my life. Plus I need to drink my water and exercise REGULARLY.

I'm in to weigh in on Jan. 3 and try for 10 lbs.

You all sound like terrific, cool women BTW!:)

Lidian

Woo-Hoo! We'r eon a roll! Let's see, we've got Kempy in, Theresa in, Noelle, in. Lidian, in. I'm in. Where's my other ladies? Boy do I feel like an anvel is on my hips. Lately i've been just like you girls, eating eating eating. Mking excuses. I'm tired of feeling lousy. I'm ready for the 3rd.

Of course I am in too!!! I will weigh in on Saturdays though because that is my weigh day for Gennels challenges so it would be easier to stick to that day for me. I didn't get much of a chance to check in yesterday because I was busy...EATING!!! I am going to try my best to get back on track(the first couple of days are the hardest)

Welcome to everyone new, together we can all do this!!!!

Hey guys, I thought I would check in to let you know how the book is going. I finished it about 15 min. ago and wow that book was written about me. I think it will be a real challenge to stop what I am doing to myself but I think with so support I can do it. It made me ralize that overeating is a disease not a weakness. That I keep falling back onto food when anything goes wrong and that most compulsive overeatrers are obssesed with their image. That is me in a nut shell. It also says that diets are not the right way you have to completely change the way that you look at food and eat and if you slip up you could fall back into the disease again. This is something that I am going to havce to deal with for the rest of my life. I am just glad that I caught it when I did. I am still scared about talking to Joe tonight. I really don't know what to say to him about all of this. Like I said before I don't want to look like a weak person because of this.

Sorry if I brought you guys down with this but I need to get all of it off my chest.

Kempy, sounds like you've had an Epiphany of sorts. I understand that compulsive overeater stuff. Can I ask, what book was it?

I just read a book called "the Obvious Diet", about how to pattern a diet for your life, making deicsions based upon what you know about yourself, and not on fads, or popular methods. Anyway, one way I'm going to use this challenge to lose my ten pounds, is to have one day of each week for Cleansing. It'll be Wednesday, and I'll eat only fruits and veggies. I can eat cabbage soup, veggie soup of any kind, as long as there are no potatoes in it. I'll eat fruit, and soup, and all I want. Until the end of the day. Then, the next day, go back to eating healthy.

Then, I get one day of Treat Meal. This means, I'll choose Friday nights. I can eat anything for dinner I want. As bad as I want. And, that'll be my cheat. That will let me indulge,a nd I'll feel okay, cause I will have been good the other days. Sounds like something I can try for now. I'm going to do my Cleansing day tomorrow, cause Wed is New Years, and I can't guarantee i'll do only veggies and fruit. What do you girls think of this?

Why no poatatoes Chris? I would die if I didn't have potatoes. LOL(even for 1 day)

I think because potatoes raise your blood sugar. And potatoes are carbs. And this is about vegies and fruit.

I think sweet potatoes have a slightly lower glycemic index - they can be nice with a bit of brown sugar and are very very filling (abt 130 cals plus a bit for the sugar, you don't need much)...The Obvious Diet sounds really good and I am going to look for it. Thanks for the recommendation...

Kempyd, I understand totally - I have had a VERY hard time talking to my DH about my food issues and when I first met him I didn't want to eat in front of him at all...I think he still doesn't get it, how big an issue it is for me and how it really is such a big (but hidden) part of my life...it took me days to ask him to put the trifle in an opaque container because even now I am ashamed to admit that I was eating it...I am thinking of you - please let us know how it all goes...

Take care everyone and talk to you soon,

Lidian:)

Hello ladies. I'm gearing up for my Vegas vacation and thinking about how much weight I'm going to bring back with me after all those awful, scrumptious, free buffets. I'll need some serious motivation when i get back. Maybe I'll just go shopping and walk a lot. I told hubby that we have to walk the length of the entire strip at least a couple of times. I'll buy some smaller clothes as an incentive. Can't wait to go on this trip but can't wait to get back so I can get back to "normal" healthy-eating and diet mode. Phhhttttt!!!

Chris, I like the sound of that obvious diet too. Maybe I'll check that out. Thanks for sharing.

Kempy, forget about appearing weak in front of Joe. He should be your number 1 supporter in overcoming this problem. You've recognized something as a problem in your life and are going to do something about it. I have to admire you for that, that shows strength and courage.

Lidian HI! Glad you're joining us. Remember Kicking Horse's Christmas Challenge? All the pounds I lost I found.... :( . Nobody's fault but my own, I know. But the more the merrier and I love competition.

Angie, potatoes are great, but rice is my carb of choice--every day, in the form of sushi if I can get it. :)

Anyway gals, just wanted to stop in and say hello and wish you all a safe and Happy New Year. Let's get healthy in 2003.

Aloha, Noelle

Noelle I hope you have a great time in Vegas. I love it there. Joe and I can't wait to go back. Do you have family there or are you just going to have fun. Which place are you staying in?

Thank you guys for the encouraging words. I guess I am just scared of this b/c I recognized it as a problem. I hear of stories where people have to go to treatment hospital for this kind of stuff and I don't want to be that type of person. I want to do this myself and with the help of Joe.

Chris the name of the book is "Food Addiction, the Body Knows". There is a way that you change your eating (not supposed to say the "D" word). It seems a little intense. I think I might try it if Joe is game to do it with me. It says that most peoples trigger food is refined sugars which include flour and even wheat. I am kind of freaking out about giving up my wheat bread. I want Joe to look it over and see what he thinks.

Angie potatoes are high in carbs if you have to eat one eat a sweet one.

Lidian sorry I didn't say hello when you first posted but welcomle to the crazy lady group. No, seriously, I am glad that I am a part of this thread I have become really good friends with these three and I am glad that I have gotten the opertunity to get to know them. Who knows maybe sometime in the future we can all plan a trip to meet somewhere. I think that would be so much fun!

Oh, do you all do the low carb thing? I refuse to do that. If I can't eat the foods I normally eat then there is no way I could make it a lifetime thing. I ate so much pasta and potatoes when I lost the 135 pounds the first time that I don't get the no carb thing.I would just be setting myself up for failure. I will do my best to give up sweets but noone is touching my spaghetti and potatoes. LOL

I better get back to work to help hubby before he kills me. LOL

Later everyone!

Kempy, How did your talk go?

Where is everyone? I am so bored. I worked out for an hour today and I still don't have anything to do.I am still craving that damn cake and Popeye's too. Good thing there is only one Popeye's in Maine and it is ALOT closer to New Hampshire than me.

Chris, How did the soup thing go?

Lidian, How are you doing today?

Ugh. The soup thing was really har dtoday, but I am so proud I've lisved through it. One day can't kill me. It seemed so long, though. I ate an apple for breakfst, wiht my coffee. Pretended it was a bagel and cream cheese. Ate cabbage soup for lunch.

Ate a salad, made some homemade dressing with it. Ate more cabbage soup for dinner. Ate some cranberry sauce, from the can. Dying for sustenance.

Then, a little whie ago, opened a can of vegetable soup, Campbells. Good salty can of yummy soup,. No cabbage. Fighting off trips to the bathroom as we speak. Peeing like crazy. Pooping like a ... you get the point. But, I think it did me good. I feel cleansed... literally. I'm glad I got thrrough it, cause tomorrow night, at Dad's I'm gonna eat. Shrimp, whatever. I'll tryo not to overdo it, but i'm gonna celebrate and eat. Be back, bthroom break... (eek!)

Kay, I'm back. So, I made it through the cleansin, soup day. Oh, and as soon as I got home from work, around 3pm, I ate a bowl of fruit salad/mixed fruit. The menu is better with the fruit. I'd die with just soup. No matter how much seasoning, it's still bland. Hopefully I'll be able to stick to this. I'll plan to have a nice container of fresh fruit salad at the house the nihgt before. Then, defrost a couple bowls of that cabbage soup. Then, make more as I run out. I'm sure gonna appreciate food more, when I'm 'fasting" like this. It's only one day a week. I'll live.

Kempy: Told Hubby yet about your thoughts, and the book? You said something about an eating disorder, are you sure it's a disorder? That sounds clinical to me. What about just loving food? Just curious.

Noelle: Be good. When's the trip to Vegas? Try eating fruit and salad before dinner, at those buffets. You'll fill up on the good, and get full into the bad.

Angie: I think, about the potatoes, sweet potatoes are better than plain, cause they're like dessert. I'd never do Adkins again. Not for me.

Lidian: How's your day going? Are you on track?

Hi everyone!

Chris, sounds like you did great on your cleansing day - I might try that out too.

Angie, congrats on an hour long workout! Wow, I am very impressed! I am going to go back to serious exercise next Monday when my dear girls are back in school...:)

Noelle, have a super time in Vegas and enjoy your vacation! Chris is right, in those buffets you can always find fruit and veggies and maybe some really good bread that is so good you don't need butter on it...and plain baked potatoes or something. When I was away on a trip a few weeks ago I found it helped to write everything down and to make sure I always had my own snacks like apples and mini rice cakes etc so that I didn't feel desperate about getting hungry.

Kempyd, how're you doing? And Teresa, and everyone else, how are you?

My day was OK foodwise, only a tiny bit of candy that I counted in as soon as I had it (so I wouldn't have more) am under 1200 cals (I aim for 1000-1200, that is what I lose on and am comfortable with - 1300 and up I maintain, not lose, so will end up someday on 1300-1500). Exercise consisted of flogging round enormous grocery store hoisting stuff into cart! As I said, next week I can get back to normal routine...

Take care, Lidian:)

Chris, I don't understand fad diets like Adkins either.When I weighed 265 pounds I decided that in order for me to lose weight I was going to have to eat things as closely to my normal eating habits or it wouldn't work for me. That is what I have done. I eat only the lowfat versions of foods I love. WOW chips,frozen yogurt ,low fat cheese,etc. I still eat taco salad, I just use wow doritos and low fat cheese.I actually like lowfat versions of some things better than the full fat ones.TCBY fat free yogurt is one of my favorites. I think everyone has a different way of eating and when they figure out how to cut back on some of the badder things to fit in some healthier things they have it figured out.

I don't believe I have ever had a sweet potato. Maybe I will tryo one soon. If it tastes sweet it can't be bad right. LOL

Lidian, I am like you with the calories. I have to stay low or I won't lose or worse yet I will gain. EEK!! It is wierd but it doesn't seem that bad once you get the hang of it,does it?

I got on the scales today and it said a 1 pound loss. Let's hope it is a true loss and not just a fluke. We will see for sure on Saturday but for today it just made up my mind for me not to mess up so that is good. I am going to make a pumpkin parfait for dessert tonight so I can feel like I messed up without actually doing it.

Good Luck girls. I hope you all are safe tonight and have a great time.

HI Girls. Are oyu sure you've never had a sweet potatoe Angie? Ever had yams? With marshmallow topping? that's sweet potatoes!! maybe you just didn't know you had it. Try it.

Still running to the potty. Thank God that cleansing day is over. Literally, ran to the bathroom every 20 minutes peed my heart out. But, I won't feel guilty tonight at Dad's when we have shrimp (healthy), and other goodies. Roasting marshmallows, (not bad)... we'll ahe chicken for dinner, so we won't come hungry. We'll get to his house later on (like 7 or 8 pm) that way it'll be like appetizers, or munchies, instread of feeling like I should eat a big meal. Always easier to just watch myself munching.

Didn't take my walk yesterday, since I was eating so healthy. I was tired anyway. Started the new job, and met one of the Clients. An 18 year old, who has some major emtional problems. Torn up her mother. It was aweful to see her mother crying, and so emotionally exhausted by her. Ugh, this job is gonna drain me. I pray for strength.

Never been god at counting calories... or working out an hour a day! You're better than me there!

Nope never had yams or any of that.

I love sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top! My grandmother used to make them and mix in crushed pineapple with the sweet potatoes. The marshmallows get all browned and it is yummy!

If you measured the marshmallows, it wouldn't be a bad treat at all - one sweet potato abt 130 cals, some pineapple, a couple of marshmallows at abt 15 calories each - you could have a big bowl for under 200, could be most of a meal or a large (filling!) snack.

Lidian

How did everybody do last night? I stayed in and snuggled Jay all night. Sent the kids to their grandmothers house, it was nice and quiet. I hope you all had a great night and now we get to get to work to lose some weight.

Hey guys I am back in today. I told Joe Monday night and of course he didn't think i had a problem. I havn't dragged the book out for him to show him the checklist to see if you do have a food addiction. I told him that I had the majority of the signs. He wasn't as bad as I thought he would be. I said that he would help me get up early inthe morning to head to the gym adn also we could work on eating better at home. I know this is going to be a srtuggle but at least he is willing to help me.

You guys have been busy posting since Monday, I feel like I am lost. I know we are supposed to check in everyday so this will be the bigining of my daily check ins. (like I am not here everyday or something)

We ended up going to my in-laws last night and shot off large amounts of fireworks. I love that we can do that here. We were supposed to go to a friends house but it rained and the ground was way to soggy to do that. It was better ths way b/c we didn't spend any money. I know we would have ended up going out if we had gone to our friends house and after all of the shopping we did for Christmas that was not a good idea.

I hope all of you gals are having a great New Years day. Make sure you eat plenty of black eyed peas and cabbage!

Holiday Hangover Help
 

Count me in. I hope this post goes in the right thread. I have so much in common with all of you. It seems we all have food hangovers! I will weigh in on Friday, as requested. Right now my starting weight is 142 so I'll see if I go down in 2 days although it's not very likely! My goal for the end of month is 135 and long range goal is in the 122-128 area depending on where my body seems most comfy. Well that's enough about me. I will post (or try to post!) daily. Happy new year everyone!

Kempy, That is great that Joe will help you with this. It helps me alot when Jay tries to cut back in front of me. You can rest assured that you aren't the only one with this problem. I am the same way so I know exactly what you are going through.

Hi, Musicgal !! I am glad you joined us. I am looking forward to getting to know you. This is an awesome group of friends and we are always here for each other.

Jenn, WHERE ARE YOU????? I miss hearing from you. Come back to us.

Lidian, I guess I will have to try a sweet potato. Maybe I will like it. How was your night?

Chris, How was your evening at your dad's? Fun I hope.

Okay everyone, Are we ready to lose some weight??!!!??? YES WE ARE!!!!There is noone to keep us from our dream but us. I am here almost all the time so if you are having a hard day and want to eat feel free to PM me and we can keep each other busy through out the cravings.

NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS THIN FEELS!!!