Stacia, Welcome, I meant to tell you in my last post, sorry charlie!!! :shrug: I hope you enjoy our little (well not so little anymore), group.

good night to all talk to you in the AM!

welcome Stacia great to have u.... Thanks sue for the webpage im thinking bout doing that....
Yes, jamie today was the day were suppose to weigh in but im on my u know the p word lol and am very swollen I look like a beach ball some one blew up to much i swear i can't wait till my meds are way lower and i don't look like this everytime i get it or a change in meds it make me so depressed..... ill weigh in a few days.... I have 7 more days starting the 20th until my fiance comes for and visit and then i go up there to met his friends im so nervous lol.....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO U HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR TARA HOPE U HAVE A GREAT 27th....
take care ladies... Heather :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy:

Good Midnight Ladies… LOL does that make sense? It’s not really late and Good Night sounds like I’m going to bed hehehe… well I am but not just yet.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TARA!!! :hb: About the zigzag… I was told a while ago it was best to do even at such a hefty weight. Since my metabolism is probably super slow as it is, the last thing would want to do is make it super duper slow. I can’t remember the last time I was skinny :( all I have are pictures… I was constantly hospitalized for asthma and/or pneumonia and was given all kinds of steroid based meds… sigh… which is probably why I gained all that weight when I was young… course today I still take the steroid nebulizers, but those big nasty ugly HUGE gray horse pills are no longer in my regimen.

Stacia – ahh okie, I love the name, it’s beautiful. When yer done, maybe you could come over and, you know, help do some spring cleaning here LOL… Actually as soon as my classes are over at Cal State and then when the Jr High goes on summer break I’ll be doing my summer cleaning hehehe…

Heather – Diane is the one who posted the link, I was just posting it in another forum thread and got a little more info on it and figured I would quote it and share what I learned. But it definitely sounds like a good plan for those hard to get over plateaus, although I haven’t reached one yet but have been zigzagging away and still notice weight loss at my hefty size.

I had a good night, we bbq’d and I ate a lot :o but we all went bowling to work some of it off hehehehe… I figured bowling was more fun than walking for 20 minutes. We did about two hours worth of bowling. AND the good thing is, I think I figured out my new ball and how to work it LOL :) so when league comes on Monday I can kick some butt! Okie well, I can dream… we are second to last place *grin* but at least the kid and her friend are having fun hehehe…

Good Night Ladies!

Sue…
:moo:

hi all
 

tonight is weigh in for me. i go to T.O.P.S. (take off pounds sensibly) it is a weight loss support group. there are chapters all over if you would like to check it out go to www.tops.org to find a meeting near you. it is free for your first meeting and only 20.00 a year to join. then very low weekly dues(ours is .50 and pay fines if you gain ours is .10 a pound or partial pound) it is very helpful to me to know that my weight is being recorded each week. i joined 3/11 and have lost 19 pounds so far. but they are just there for support i have done this because i need to be healthier. i have high blood pressure, authrits and diabetis runs in the family and i am turning 45 soon. i want to be here for a long time to come. i have completly changed my BAD eating habits. eating healthy and only eating when i am trully hungry instead of when it is time (buzzer goes off at work...eat, hubby wants lunch i would eat too even tho i wasnt really hungry yet) so far it is working for me. last week i had my first gain (only 1/2 pound ) but a gain none the less. so i may be on a plateau , not sure but i will try the zig zag thing for a couple of weeks and see how it goes. my new way of eating......

breakfast........... 300 cal
mid morn snack... 120 cal
lunch................ 400 cal
supper.............. 550 cal

total..................1370 cal

this is approxmatly what i am doing it varys a little each day but i do not get hunger pains and do not feel like i am starving myself. i estimate that before i was eating 2000 to 2500 cal a day. well i gotta go hope you all have a good day and i will....

Talk to you LIGHTER!!!
Peg

Good morning from hot, humid sweltering Alabama! :wave:
You would think that with it feeling like a sauna most of the year here that I would sweat off weight just by going outside.

Anyway, I finally got out of my "hump" I lost another 1.5 lbs.. total of 7.5 since last monday :cp: I am really happy the scale moved, i was getting discouraged after adding all that exercise in. I did the elliptical machine for 30 minutes last night, that thing is tough.

Anyone ever tried Boca burgers? They are terrible, my pit bull wouldn't even eat them. It could be that I am just an incredibly picky eater. That is why diets are so difficult for me. I like very few vegetables (corn, potatoes, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, green beans..that's about it), I love red meat and have a sweet tooth from ****. My momma spoiled us with food, if she cooked something that one of us didn't like she would cook us something different. Now, all 3 of us are in our 30's and my step mother does the same thing at holiday meals. She will cook a special thing for each of us, something that she knows only one of us will eat. I keep telling her she doesn't need to do that but she loves to make us happy. She totally blows away the myth of the wicked step mother.

Well, back to the old salt mines. Yall have a good morning. Talk to you lighter!!

Good morning girls..... Heather, I had the same problem last week with my TOM, I just waited till I was done and weighed in. Iam sure his friends will love you. :) Sue good luck on your bowling. Peg, good luck at your weigh in. Nancy Drew, its is hot where I live too, but luckily it is a dry heat, I dont know if I could handle all the humidity. In the summer it gets to like 110-115 here.....yuck! I havent tried Boca burgers but last night I did try turkey burgers, at first I was very skeptical (cuz I love hamburgers) but they were actually good. i just seasoned them the way i do hamburgers and ate them on a whole wheat bun with the fixins (tomatoes, onions, lettuce,) not bad at all, I also have a killer sweet tooth, fruit helps, and licorice is very low fat and low cal, and I have been trying fat free sugar free pudding, which tastes the same as regular pudding, also angel food cake is low cal......just a couple suggestions for the sweet tooth.

everyone have a great day, TTFN......(ta ta for now) Jamie

Hi everyone and thanks for the nice birthday wishes!

Well, I survived lunch...it was really nice... I had a vegetarian asian salad... I picked off all the fried crunchy things so I saved a few calories there! I also had a frozen chocolate mousse for dessert which was only 4 carbs...so I assumed they used splenda or something similar to sweeten it, and had a few small bites of my Mom's cheesecake....it was yummmyyy...
I guesstimated the lunch at 1000 calories and I only had a glass of orange juice for breakfast, so that puts me at about 1100 calories so far today... I am planning on having a small dinner as to only have about 1600 for the whole day so I am doing well!

I got a nice birthday treat...my period :( so I don't know if I am going to weigh in this weekend, I don't want to be dissapointed if the scale hasn't gone down, so I might just wait til next week...

Anyway, so far the day is going well...I told my hubby I didn't want to go out to dinner tonight because I don't want to blow my plan completely, so we are just going to spend a nice night at home---the b*tch about it is we can't even make "whoopie" because of my TOM :( oh well...I suppose worse things could happen!

Hope everyone is having a great day, and thanks again for the birthday wishes!
Tara

Good afternoon
 

hey all, hope you're making it thru the day staying strong !!

Jamie, yes, it is like 90% humidity or more here from March to end October. I lived in northern california for a few years, i was in the military at Travis AFB in Fairfield. I loved the weather there and the location. it is very beautiful. I visited southern cal a few times and didn't like it as much. not as pretty and too much traffic. i hope to come and visit SF and Napa again some day. Yall still have Round Table Pizza?? I loved that stuff. we don't have one.

We have a new girl in our office from Oregon, this will be her first Alabama summer and we are telling her that this ain't nothing yet. We are also trying to acclimate her to our southern ways, like, that accent of hers has to go LOL. She didn't know what a "hose-pipe" was (garden hose), "tinfoil" (aluminum foil), she is already starting to say "fixin' to" (about to) and about got her to say "ya'll".

I haven't tried the ground Turkey yet. I see it but I am afraid. I guess i should try it, it is on my list of good foods. I am eating a lot of fruit, can't have dairy (just increased my calcium supplements). Why is it when you are on a certain diet you crave the foods that you can't have? Say like, you can't have fruit on the Atkins induction, then if you switch diets you crave what you can't have but could have on the other diet. On my new diet I can't have red meat but i can have fruit. It is a double edged sword.

oh, well, i am gonna stick to this one for a while. it seems to be working. you all have a good afternoon. :flow1:

Tara, glad to here you had a nice lunch with your momma. Nancy Drew, I live more northern than that, we are only about 2-3 hours from the Oregon border, about 2 hours north of Sacramento. It is beautiful here, I was born in S. california, and i just go back to visit my grandma, now and then, and that is when i remember why i love it here so much, the traffic is CRAZY down there. I live in small town. I love visiting SF, I love fishermans wharf, I am about 4 hours from SF, so I dont get there too often. Yes we still have round table, its everyones favorite, I find it a little expensive as far as pizza goes, but I am known for being cheap...he he he..... I was afraid to try the turkey too, but then i just sucked it up and tried it, its not exactly the same as a hamburger but not bad..... talk to ya soon, Jamie

GREAT JOB TARA.....
I think this is the week for periods haha....
Man my iron is low and i was exercising and almost passed out again. I wish i could take a whole box of iron pills(bet my doc would love that)
Well was just saying hi to all...

It must be contagious! I started as well... Hehe...

And with that comes the cravings!!! AHHH!! I got them bad too *sigh* (the cravings that is LOL)

Sue...

i know me too i so want a huge pineapple sundae with nuts whipped cream and a big fat cherry on top .....

Jamie, congratulations on your loss. You are doing so well.

Tara, happy birthday. It sounds like you did pretty good going out to eat after all. Hope you and hubby have a good evening anyhow.

Nancy Drew, Congratulations on your loss. Yay! I love Boca burgers. Not all of them but the veggie. and the garlic. I guess I'm wierd. :dizzy:

Good luck on your weigh in tonight Peg. I bet the half from last week will be gone plus some. You have already accomplished so much I can't wait to be where you are. It seems to come off so slow doesn't it. But hopefully it will pay off in the end when we actually get to goal and KEEP IT OFF.

Have fun bowling Sue. Sounds like a great time.

Heather, Hope next week is a good weigh week for you. It is so hard when you have such drastic water fluctuations its good sometimes when you know you are a water balloon to just weigh later. No reason to get discouraged over nothing. 20 days till your sweetie comes. Yay! You must be getting very excited.

Stacia, welcome. Hope to get to know you better.

I have to go cuz mommyhood calls. Anyway, Its hard for me to find ANY time sometimes to get on here. So if you all don't here from me for a while you know its cuz I'm changing diapers, giving baths, you know the drill. Hee Hee. I had a rough weekend but I'm back on track now. I think I didn't do too bad even when I wasn't keeping track. But its done now. Have to move on.

All of you take care. I am very sorry if I missed anything important I just wanted to stop in real quick.

OOOH OWWW Heather... that doesn't help LOL... Now I gotta wipe up the drool and stick a carrot in my mouth... hehehe POUT

Sue...

Sue you are soo funny...he he he..... :lol:
Has anyone heard from Diane?? she hasnt been around for a couple of days..... have a good night girlies.....Jamie