Good Morning,

Pts for yesterday 2 pts for program, 1 pt for water, and 1pt for exercise.

Faye, 4 am!!!! man you are up and at em' early this morning! DO you always wake up so early? seems like I have seen you on here in the wee hours too, whats up? too much energy? :dizzy:

Missy, I completely understand about the binges!! there is no rationale at all, it's just like you are "out of your mind"..or something, it just takes over and you lose all of your senses! :devil: except the one that is telling you "feed me, feed me, feed me"! I have been there so many times in my life, standing next to the refrigerator, eating cold food out of bowls!!!, just shoveling in like there was no tomorrow.....eating entire bags of chips in one sitting, just craziness!! and chocolate, man did I ever ingest some of that!!!King size candy bars.....it is incredible now when I think about the volume of food I use to consume!!!! I just dont have it in my house now!!! period!!! If Jane buys something, she bought a box of ice cream sandwiches not too long ago, I didnt indulge, but more than once I caught myself glaring at them!! Eyes all glazed over!! :lol: :lol: ahhh the "agony and the ectasy"....but someone on here recently said, and was an excellent point, ask yourself this, what do I want more that ________ or a healthy, fit body....that is what I am asking myself these days, everytime I think!! I want something!!! and most of the time the feeling passes. If not , I just try and find somethingelse to do QUICK!! I agree with Faye though, I just know yesterday was a better day for you, and today will be too...YOU CAN DO IT!!

Hope all the rest of you chickies have a great day!:wave:

Morning girlies....
Gotta keep it short, cuz I gots a million things to do before I set up for the show tomorrow.

4 points for yesterday! And I added an extra dance class in on top of my usual workout/rehearsal....so, I think that will make up for my memory lapse the day before :)

Missy, have you tried chewing sugarless gum when you just GOTTA have something sweet? It helps me alot when I know I can't afford to have a sugary snack. I also try to go for the grapes first, and then if I'm still craving sugar I'll have something else. For some reason the grapes satisfy the sweet urge and leave my mouth feeling clean, so I don't want to mess up that clean feeling with food. I lOVE banana bread......haven't had any in years. Cooking LIght has banana bread on the cover this month.....maybe I'll try a batch of their lower fat version. Hmmmm.


Well, stay strong everyone! I"m off to sewing land.
Julie

Pam: YOU GET A: :bravo: for points and a :barbell: for challenge!

Julie: : YOU GET A: :bravo: for points and a :barbell: for challenge!

I am usually up pretty early but I crash really early at night too! I am just not much of a night person and am a great morning person. I have already done 2 rounds of my glider this morning and am going to get ready in a few minutes and take the dog to the vet. Baby has to have all his shots again.

I ordered his car seat and can't wait to get it and see how it works. I had been looking on E-bay and on pet sites and the cheapest I had found for the cutrate model was $60 and I got one that has a drawer underneath for supplies for $50 at JC Penneys catalogue online. This way, when he travels with us he can see out the window and his harness attaches to it so he can't be hopping all over the place. He actually does really well in the car except he always wants to sit in your lap so he can look out the window so now he can!

Pam: Did you ever discover how to resize your photos?

Well, lots to do and not enough time so I have to get going!

Faye;)

Morning....
 

Hello everyone....

Boy binging, where to begin...I used to do it like once a week and now I am down to like once every two to three weeks...with me I usually make myself so sick and so full that I do throw up...and I know that is very bad for me...so it is small steps to stop...mine seems to be the worst if my husband is gone for the evening...because then there is no one there watching me....
Thanks for the advice Faye, I know it was for Missy but it helped me too...
Missy - you are not alone in that, I too go from one food to the next and finishing it....good luck, we CAN stop it!!!!

Time for me Thursday....well I suppose I will relax on the couch and get some reading done...recently I have been buying biographies of celebrities off of ebay, and I get them so cheap
( and they are in good shape )...I got this new Faye Dunaway one yesterday for $1.00 plus $2.00 shipping....so I guess I will go home and read some more of the Nicole Kidman one that I bought.

Pam and Mirabelly - Hi Girlies!!! Doing great!!! Have a good one
everybody...

No points yesterday, was on OP until dinner, then hubby wanted pizza and dammit so did I....and breadsticks...lots of them...
TODAY IS ANOTHER DAY..........

Hi girlies! Thank you all for the support and love from all of you. And yes, Carri, I'll help you if you help me! ;)

Well, I cannot tell a lie, I did a little binging, but it was better. I think I need to be avoiding the banana bread. I cut a very thin slice, went upstairs, and felt myself slipping into the same pattern...then I cut 2 more thin slices..but they WERE thin. So all in all, I probably ate half of what I ate the night before, and then I had 1 ice cream sandwich, but I did stop myself from having a second. :( So I am disappointed in myself, but, I do feel that I did a little better. I just gotta keep trying. :)

But, I'm gonna give my report today for the month of August...I lost a total of 5 pounds from the start. I'm down to 147 now. I kinda leveled out after my binging and starving over the weekend.

I DON'T ALLOW BEATING YOURSELF UP HERE! If we were perfect there would probably be ONE human on the earth and that would be Christ! Bingeing, eating in front of the tv, eating in bed, eating putting groceries away, whatever you do that involves eating and you KNOW it is something you must stop, you just have to work on. It is not a DR PHIL moment, "Oh, I binged I am not going to do that again!" WRONG! Part of the process is relieving yourself of GUILT!!!!! Guilt is what drives us so much of the time to keep eating. We fill guilty that we had a piece of cake so we might as well eat two more pieces, we feel guilty because we ate half bag of oreos standing at the stove stirring dinner, etc. Work on letting guilt go from your life permanentlym then work on taking babies steps to eradicate the bad behaviour.

I am pooped! I have run around all day!

***WOOHOO MOMENT!!!!***
I took Fortune to the Vets for his shots and the veterinarian was one I had not met before. He was such a sweet gentle man. He told me how much he loved my new coral outfit and when I we left the exam room he said, "Now I want you to be careful when you go outside. There are a lot of men out there on the street and you are going to cause them to have an accident in their car when they see you!"

Faye:)

Hiiii ladies! how is everyone ?

I just thought I would pop in for a sec in the middle of working to say hi :)
time for me Thursday for me is I am going to a football game! my little brother plays for University of Utah, and the season starts tonight :D

I am so excited!

Have a good day girls, keep up the good work, I am PROUD of all of you!

Afternoon All...
 

So far so good today, totally OP and right on schedule for my WW points... I am trying to think of what to have for dinner tonight -
it is supposed to get up to 92 degrees today, and the humidity is awful...so I do not want to heat up the kitchen by using the stove...and we had lunch meat last night so I doubt hubby would go for that again...any suggestions? Besides going out? Which I would like ... :lol:

Faye - THanks for the encouraging words...I do need to learn to let go of the guilt - and you hit the nail right on the head when you said "well I have eaten this so I might as well go ahead and have another, or three" I am learning just to take responsibility for what I eat when I eat it and move on....it is baby steps but it is progress...and is fully achievable!!! :) :D

HOpe everyone's day is going well.....if you are somewhere where the heat is horrible, I feel ya...if you are in a cool place and enjoying it, I am hatin' ya..... Just kidding!! :lol:

Hi! Your forum seemed like good fun.I'm new, so I'm not quite sure if I'm doing things correctly, but anyway, I would like to join in. 31 lbs. till december sounds fantastic! I've started late so I think my goal shld. be 24 lbs. Also I can't do strenous excercises - i have a lower back problem, so I have to stick to walking, which if I'm good about, shld. be enough. Unfortunately I keep finding excuses not to. Hopefully talking to all of you shld. keep me motivated

Faye & Carrie, you guys are right. I really do need to not make myself feel guilty b/c that is EXACTLY what i was thinking last night when I ate that damned banana bread. But at least I stopped myself with the ice cream bars. I thought, what's another 150 calories? But then I was like...NO...it's 150 calories I don't NEED! So whew!

This week is vacation, a week at the shore, so I will miss you girls when I leave on Sunday, but can anyone offer some vacation food tips? I know I promised myself that I would never deprive myself when I eat out. But in a week, I think I need to censor myself a little.

ritu - welcome to our forum! good luck to you dear! :)

Missy - I am probably not the one to give you advice on how to eat on vacation...because I always say "hey I am on vacation and I am going to eat what ever I want"... I always have done it that way and I probably always will......

Missy: I just found miracle food! Slimfast has these bars that are small but tastes just like CANDY! They have about 120 cals apiece and are terrific. I tried a peanut crunch and it was like eating a Clark bar. That would be good. Take you some pretzels sticks that are FF ROLD GOLD has them I know. Be sure and have a good time and give yourself one big cheat day and have a food ball with it. Vacation time is one for fun!

Ritu: Welcome welcome! I know you will like our group. Your program and exercise are completely up to you. You decide everything! If you feel you drank enough water than you get a point, or ate properly you get 2 points, and whatever exercise you have fixed for yourself you get a pt for it. I am the drill sargeant according to my girls not your mother so there is no watching over your shoulder! :lol: Points are done for the day before. Like I got 4 pts for yesterday because I exercised, drank my water and stayed on my program. I give smileys out according to how many pts and I have a long range and short challenge and the short challenge was to exercise 4 times this week which began last Sunday. We also have a topic for each day of the week like today was Time for Us Thursday where you are supposed to try and find time for yourself today. Tomorrow is Fabulous Down the Lbs and you get to brag about your loss or talk about what kind of help you need.

I gotta run. DH is taking the sexy new me out to dinner! :lol:

Faye

Hi Girls and Welcome to Ritu.

Well I got all 4 pts yesterday but it was tough. Back isnt doing much better so I have an appt next week. We are going out of town this weekend, so I will be sure to pack a supply of Aleve.

Today I took my 3 yr old to McD's. I am so proud of myself. Instead of ordering the double cheeseburger and large fries that I wanted to order.. I did a snack size fruit and yogurt parfait. I know it probably is loaded with calories.. but no where NEAR as much as the burger and fries. It was SO hard to pass up what I really wanted, but I am glad I did.

Missy, I completely understand about the binging. Everytime I eat I feel like I just HAVE to have something sweet to finish the meal. Its really an obsession and I have been this way for about 5 yrs. I also have alot of trouble walking away especially with so much food and junk in the house for the kids to snack on. I just wanted you to know you certainly arent alone.. me and all the other ladies here seem to understand exactly what you are dealing with. I fight it every day!! I use yogurt to help fight the sweet tooth. "light" yogurt only has 90 cals per 8 oz cup (my brand) and I try to make an allowance to have a cup or half a cup after dinner.

Everyone else.. big hugs.

I'll be gone til Tuesday. We are headed to KY to visit family and friends and go to the lake.

Ladies we have a new member to our group, Ritu. Everyone introduce themselves again! :lol: Ritu, you tell us about yourself also.

I am almost 50, have been married 31 years, have two grown children, a son who is soon to be married and 30 and a daughter who is married and I have a 3 year old grandson. My dh is retired military so we have lived all over the US but now live in Memphis, TN. For the time being, I am a stay at homer. I have two pets, a yorkie named Fortune and a mischevious cat named Butterscotch.

Well, ladies, I will catch up later. I have to run.

Faye;)