April Chicks #4
 

Hi Scorchin ...

I shope at Stater Brothers. I find the Craisins in the aisle where the candy is... also the fruit juices, canned fruit, kids hi-c, tang and what not. It's with other dried fruits like banana chips and dried appricots and so on.

Cranberries are good for you. They help protect against UTI. I feed them to my rats :mouse: as well *grins*

Sue...
:moo:

lol ur rats hehe
thanks sue.... I love cranberries a good thing too hehe doctor said cranberry juice is a must for my new kidney, so I thought hmm he'd love me even more if i told him i found some dried cranberries for a snack lol.... ;)

Hiya chickies!

I did well today even though my stomach is growling like crazy...luckily, there isn't much tempation in the house right now, as I need to go grocery shopping! I managed to stay at 1200 though it was a challenge! I am happy that I have been able to stick with it for a week...the first couple weeks are always the hardest for me!

The second huge challenge I need to overcome when I get in the swing of the weight loss thing is to quit smoking...it is a horrible addiction and to be honest, often curbs my cravings, so I wind up smoking more when I am eating less. I figure, I can only tackle one addiction at a time and right now it's my food addiction, but I am going to have to try to quit smoking soon, as it interferes with my excersise and my health...

I'm really glad I started contributing to this thread, you chickies have been really supportive, encouraging and friendly... I have even responded to other people's posts--recommending them to this thread!

Well, better get off to bed!
Take care ladies!
Tara

eatnothingalive

Someone told me to check out the April Chicks and here I am and the first post I read sounds like I could have written it, doing calories and needing to quit smoking.

I am also counting calories and waiting till I am either at goal or very close to take on my next one of quitting smoking. At least on a diet, I haven't thought about killing anybody, but quitting smoking is a whole other thing. Like yo said in your post one addition at a time.

The Current people magazine has an article on folks that had the gastric by pass and how they have gained their weight back, the biggest issue seems to be they didn't change their eating habits. I always felt they were so lucky to have that help, now I see if it is not inside you even that will not keep you skinny.

It has made me realize, I will also need to do more education of myself and also rethink some of my food issues. I have ever intention of keeping this weight off for the rest of my life. Life is too much of a merry go round and I intend to not add one more thing to it. Besides, it is a lot easier to handle other problems when I'm not having to handle the weight problems.

So all of you chicks help me and I will give it back.

Smoking : (
 

Hey yall,
good morning to everyone. :)

I have never smoked, so I do not know how difficult it is to quit, so I maybe incorrect in my logic.... But, I do know how difficult it is to quit eating foods that I love and crave. I have a psychological addiction just like, I believe, smoking is. So, it seems logical that if you can make the tough decision to become more healthy by losing weight that you can also make the tough decision to stop smoking.

I work with this girl (young, only 22) she has been smoking since she was 14 or 15. Says that she would love to quit but, if she did she would gain weight back (she was once over 200 lbs, she is now about 140 and about 5'5, she has been on Adipex for several years) and that she would rather die of cancer than live and be fat. I just thought that was about the dumbest statement I had ever heard. What do yall think of her line of thinking?? Perhaps I don't understand, :shrug: I have never been extremely overweight like she once was.

Anyway, despite my recent boost of energy and increasing my exercise, I am stuck at a 6 lb loss since Monday 5/10. I must be doing something wrong. I think my protein/carb balance is off. I am choosing way more fruit than protein. What do yall think? I am not getting too discouraged, though, just thinking that maybe this doctor's diet is not working and I need to go back on Atkins.

thanks for listening!

Smoking
 

I have never smoked but my mom did and she quit. I can see someone feeling like they would rather die of cancer than be fat but maybe thats because they have never suffered with cancer. Being fat is definately not the way I want to live but having cancer is not the way I want to die either. The difference is I can choose how I live.

Anyhow, smoking from what I have understood is very difficult to stop as it is also a true physical addiction. They say it is as addictive as any other drug? I would definately think one addiction at a time is a good idea. Otherwise you may just quit both. And being obese is not good for quality of life nor for living to a ripe old age. Sooo..... What a choice.

But who am I to say since I don't smoke. Regardless, good luck on all of your goals. You can acheive them. It just takes time. We can't give up. Thats the only thing I keep repeating to myself every day. No matter what I cant give up. No matter how bad of a day or how poor I have done that day I can't give up. I want this too bad.

Hope you all have a good day. baby is crying got to go.

Thanks for the messege maggi and welcome to April chicks! These gals are really supportive and encouraging...keep posting!

Nancy Drew, unfortunately, smoking is a physical addiction as well as phsycological. Nicotine is a very physically addictive drug and some doctors say that quitting smoking is as hard to do as beating a heroin addiction (although I wouldn't know!)...I'm with maggie though, like I said, it's hard enough trying to overcome one addiction (food), that I am tackling one addiction at a time!

As far as our diet, I don't think you are doing anything wrong...I am not a fan of diets like adkins and such, one reason being I am a vegetarian (for 8 years) and another being that I think all "diets" work equally, as in the end, it is calories that matter and we need calories from both carbs and protein (IMO)... I have had success losing weight on a vegetarian diet with plently of soy and plant protein (beans and such)...my problem is that I can't maintain! I imagine I will be a big part of the maintainers forum if and when I get to my goal, because that is where the problem always lies for me...
Are you logging your calories? It is true that protein fills you up for a longer period of time than carbs do, so maybe you are snacking more or eating more calories? I don't know...or maybe you are just in a plateau right now, or maybe you are building muscle from your excersise and it's not reflecting a weight loss on the scale because you are putting on muscle...there's several different things that could be at play here...

If it's a plateau, I found that going off my plan for a couple days always kicks me out of a plateau...if you think you can do this without completely going off all together, I would suggest a couple days of eating whatever you want (within reason) and then get bck on plan...that way if, for some reason your body is in "starvation mode", it will "re-set" itself and be like, ---oh, ok, she's not starving us, we can let go of some fat now" (when you go back on plan)....I'm no doctor, but that has always worked for me when I have hit plateaus...

Anyway, I have been doing really well on my plan, I lost 4lbs in 5 days and I haven't weighed myself since last Saturday, so I'll weigh in this Sat. or Sun. so it will have been a whole week since my last weigh in... I better have lost some weight or else!! I have been REALLY good and I deserve it damn it!!

Hope all you ladies are having a great day and staying on plan! I feel so fortunate that I have a place to come to and vent, or share success, or ask advice, or just talk about whatever!

Take care all!
Tara

Morning Everyone!

I used to smoke when I was in high school because it was the kewl thing to do. But after I moved during my sophomore year out to California I quit cold turkey. Honestly I just smoked cause others did. So when it came down to quitting I just stopped. I didn’t have any withdrawals or side affects. Perhaps some of my weight could be do to it? Not really sure.

How’s everyone’s day going?

My day is going well. I go in early to work today tho. I am tutoring a kid in Math. Its sad, almost half the kids I know are failing Math or English. :( But what I don’t understand is, they don’t try… I don’t understand. This one kid says he wants to go into the Marines. Very brave of him I might add… but doesn’t he have to graduate high school or at least get a GED? I sit there in class and all he does is sit there and bug other people. I’m shocked. Then the sad thing I hear from other teachers is that, they gonna pass most of these kids to high school anyways. It’s just going to get harder for them…and most of them already are fed up with the frustration… sigh… it’s rather depressing. I offered to come into work early for this one student to help him with math only if he really wanted the help. Because this is an hour before work which I do not get paid for so I hope he is truly looking to better himself. I told him I am more than willing to help him. So we shall see what happens today.

As far as weight loss, I think I'm doing great. I use fitday.com to watch what I taking and it seems like I can really control my calories at 1600. Though I have gone over but never by much. My aim now is to lower that to 1500 and slowly work my way down. One big goal I need is to GET MORE ACTIVE!!! AHHHH! It just seems like I never have time to do anything. Now with working, I am getting a little behind in my school work. :( I bowl league tho, so that's something... plus I don't take the elevators anymore, I use the stairs. Okie well except for that class on the 3rd floor hehehehe I haven't gotten to taken the stairs for that just yet LOL :dizzy:

Catch you ladies later...

Sue…
:moo:

Hi everyone! I'm new to 3FC, and Tara invited me to April Chicks. I am really proud of you all for your persistence to meet your goals. Each day is a new one, and no matter what temptations you give into, every day is another opportunity to do it right!! I am a sucker for believing that I have to look like a cover model to be accepted into society, but I am glad to admit that that is completely wrong!!! (In fact, that is not a healthy way to look at things IMO.) I can tell from everyone's posts that we are all beautiful, intelligent women who are simply a little more prepared for winter than others!!! :cheers: Anyway, I know I came to the right place for support. Good luck to everyone on your fitness journeys!

Stacia

Hello! Welcome!

Is your name pronounced sta-cee-ah or stay-sha?

Nice to meet you! I'm Sue. I've been on April Chicks for about hmmm a week now (give or take). They are a great bunch. The ladies here are very supportive and understanding.

Sue...

Hello Ladies...

My day went great. I wanted to share with you some information I got from another user on here about the zigzag method. She mentions it as "calorie cycling" and I thought it would be great to just update those of you who had read the article and were confused by it. I still think it sounds great as a method... which I have been doing for myself already, but she is right... at my weight any form of cut back in eating with a combination of eating right and being active will help me... here is her post

That's pretty much the whole post, minus a few greeting and what not. If you would like to read the whole thread here is the url for that post Calorie Cycling

Her user handle is Meliris and she's the Moderator I believe of the Maintainers forum. I could be wrong but I have seen her post in there often.

Take care...
Sue...

Hey ladies! Glad to see you made it over here Stacia, thanks for stopping in, and hope to see you posting regularly!
Sue--Ive read up on "zig-zagging too, and it seems to make sense, especially when you are in a plateau..."bigger" girls like us don't need to worry about that for a little while though, as the bigger you are, the easier it is to lose weight through cutting calories and excersise. When I was 180 though (Ive since gained it all back and then some, but DAMN did I look good!!) Anywhooo, when I was 180, I did a form of that when I hit my plateau, although what I did was 1 day a week ate whatever I wanted (in moderation) but basically went off plan for one day a week to sort of tell my body that it was okay to keep losing, that I was eating and it worked.

Well, tomorrow is my birthday (27) and I have been stressing over going out to lunch with my Mom. I have decided that I am just going to use it as a free meal and get on with it. I am planning on getting a healthy meal like a salad, then getting a dessert as a birthday treat and split it with my Mom. I just realized that I have to calm down! It's not ONE meal that got me to this weight, it's several meals of too many calories and binges that got me here, so I am going to relax and enjoy my day. I am going to skip breakfast since my Mom is picking me up at 12 and I usually wake up late, and have an enjoyable lunch, and then a light dinner....so it's settled. I'm done stressing!

I hope everyone is having a great day and staying on plan! I weigh myself this weekend, but I started my period this morning so I hope I'm not holding on to any water weight when I weigh in!
Have a great night!
Tara

Hello everyone, just checking in, Now I may be wrong but I think we started out weighing in on wednesdays (the original bunch) so if we are still doing that..... 3 more lbs gone!!! yay, so thats eight since I started.....Its nice to see that we are growing everyday :) I read the posts about smoking and cancer and being overweight and all that debate and thought I would add my opinion, just in case there weren't enough of them :D I do not smoke but I think if I did I too would want to tackle one addiction at a time. about the debate over living life "chunky" or having cancer, I would have to say that I love myself the way I am and I am losing weight to become more healthy, being considered a prettier person because of weight loss is something that society throws at people. If you have ever been faced with your own mortality, then I dont even think that this would be a choice (being fat or having cancer) I would rather live life to its fullest (all of me). ok thats all i have to say....he he he

Tara, Happy birthday, your plan doesnt sound bad at all, i say have a little dessert, you only turn 27 once!!! I hope you have fun.

All you other chickadies, have a great night!!
Diane ........hey woman, where are you at? didnt notice any posts from you today.....

bye guys, till we meet again, Jamie

Hello again, Tara, and Hi Sue!!! My name is pronounced "stay-sha"...my mom loved the name Anastasia, but put her own twist on it.

I had never heard of calorie cycling, but it does make sense!! It prevents your body from saying "hey, you need to cut back", or "i'm in starvation mode!! Reserve body fat!". I'll have to try it out, since I'm at that stage where it's difficult to lose. Thanks for the info!!
Wish me luck tomorrow...I'm starting some late spring cleaning, and boy, will it be messy. Not only do I carry extra weight, but my apartment is full of junk, too! What better way to clean up my entire act!
Happy Birthday Tara!! :hb: :balloons: :hat:

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

Thanks everyone for the great welcome! I must be fitting in really well, because I too have fallen victim to Aunt Flow. But good news...after my workout today, I weighed in at one pound less than I did on Tuesday. Considering I am carrying at least a couple of pounds of bloat, I'm hoping by next week I'll weigh even less!

Nancy Drew, I just wanted to let you know that those Oregonians do eventually give into our Southern ways! My dear BF is from Portland, and has lived here in Texas for 4 years now...his accent is now worse than mine! Except he still calls a grilled cheese sandwich "toasted cheese". He's so "cheesy". :doh:

Happy BD again, Tara! Good for you, being honest with lunch's calorie count. If it were me, I would have counted dessert calorie-free, fat-free, carb-free. Ya know, sorta like a present to myself. I'm proud of you!

I started the spring cleaning today, and boy do I have my hands full. Wish me luck!
Good night, ladies!

Stacia

Hello fellow April Chicks...

I have some news... and well... :kickcan: I hit bottom hard. Today and yesterday.... uggg, I really ate more than I should have. I mean I didn't pig out, but I went over my calorie limit. I know that I been doing the cycling but this was more than I really wanted to go over... Can I blame it on that monthly visitor? I been doing really well... then WHAM! Munchie Overload. Yesterday I had 2100 calories and today I had 1890 calories. My goal was to stay between 1600 and 1800 calories. ICK! I just hope that I can get myself back on track and hope I didn't gain everything I lost back in a matter of two days... *sniffle*

I gonna pick myself up and start all over...I had a moment of weakness... which is better than the daily moments of weakness I have had. I can do it, I know I can...

Sue...
:moo:

hang in there
 

sue dont be too down on yourself we all have our bad days just remember that you didnt get this way overnight and you sure as **** cant get to goal overnight either. after a bad day i just really try extra hard the next. each day is a new one and what you did yesterday is done and you just gotta start over again. you will do this and we are here to help.

i am so close to not using the 200 pound marker on the scale hopefully next week. i lost 1 1/4 this week.

Talk to you LIGHTER!!!
Peg

Happy Friday
 

Happy Friday to you all.

Sue, listen to Peg, that was good advice. I hope you stay tough today and just visualize yourself lighter and healthier :goodscale You can do it, I believe in you. :cheer:

As for me, my diet is going pretty good. I lost another 1/2 pound, down total of 8 :cb:
I, too, am about to start period and will have to brace for a gain, but will be positive about it.

I have a big challenge tomorrow. We are having friends over for a BBQ and I must not go overboard. I have been saving for Saturday as my reward day, but I am scared. If I go a little overboard I will just bust my butt on Sunday working extra hard exercising.

Going to huge, wonderful estate sale Sat. am and I am sooo excited about that. I will probably get in trouble when I get home for spending too much money. Last really good estate sale I went to I bought a beautiful 100 year old center table. Hubby went with back with me to pick it up and when he saw price tag I caught **** all the way home and then some. But now he loves the table.

Gotta run for now. Have a wonderful Friday morning :)

Well, I totally blew it! I feel poopy today because I cheated last night... I did so well at lunch and had a really light dinner, but then my best friend came over with a bottle of wine and chocolate and I went to town :( I blame it partially on my period--(the chocolate anyway) and then I excused the wine away with the 'ol birthday excuse...arghhh and I was doing so well...oh well, today is a new day and I decided to be really strict today and stay at under 1000 calories (just for today) to kind of balance it out...

Anyway, about boca burgers... I have been a strict vegetarian for about 8 years now and I love veggie burgers... I don't like plain boca burgers, I usually eat MorningStar Farms brand burgers, I love the "chick" patties, to me, they taste just like the chicken patties we used to have at school lunch---but I kind of forget what meat tastes like since I have been a vegetarian for so long. You just have to experiment with brands and flavors, some of them are really good---especially the MorningStar Farms pizza burgers and blackbean burgers mmmm...
Anyway, today is going to be a bit difficult because I am staying under 1000 calories but I'm sure I can do it.. I am also drinking TONS of water to both flush out the wine bloat combined with the period bloat...at least I got my chocolate in, so now I don't have any cravings... I actually felt sort of nauseous last night before going to bed from eating so much (not from the wine, I only had a few glasses)...so today I am going to be REALLY good...
Not all is lost!! Well, I'm about to walk to the store, which is bound to burn a few calories!
Hope everyone is having a good day--it's funny that all (or most) of us are on our period at the same time!!--I thought that only happened with college roomates... :)
Have a great day all!

Peg – Yeah, I was just rather down on myself because I was doing so good! But I am determined to get back on the program today. I’m blaming the cravings on my period. The funny thing is, I’ve never noticed how much I get cravings when it’s that time of the month… I’m learning a lot about my body I guess.

NancyDrew - :) Yeah, as mentioned earlier… was just upset that it went crash and burn. I appreciate the vote of confidence *huggerz* The BBQ was what did me in heheheh.

Tara – Ooh man! It is amazing how it seems like everyone’s time of the month is now hehehe. I want to blame my cravings on my period as well. I cannot believe how strong they are. I have had cravings before and have been good at controlling them, but man…it’s awful. I know I will be able to control it sooner or later. I have heard the longer you are on a lower calorie diet, the stronger you are against cravings and even you will have less. I’m waiting for that day hehehe.

I hope everyone’s day is going well. I’ve started back on the program after two days of going awol in a sense. Tonight I’m taking Brit and Isis (her friend) out bowling so we can have some fun. The kids want to learn how to bowl like James and I do LOL. So we gonna teach them the 4-step approach. ;) Anyways, everyone have a good day!

Sue…

I feel bad i had mexican food however i didn't eat as much as i would have liked lol but i guess tonight it will have to be something very light if i wanna stay on my plan.....
I can't wait for my p**** to end grrrr...... (BAD WORD AT THE MOMENT FOR ME)

Hello, everyone, just checkin in, still doing good, it was sooo busy at my work today i didnt have a moment to stop, but thats ok, makes the day go by faster:) I agree with Peg, dont be too hard on yourself, Tara or Sue....you guys are doing great. Nancy have fun at your estate sale tomorrow, I love stuff like that flea markets and yard sales and all that stuff, but I am a packrat....i keep everything! he he he And Heather, a girl after my own heart (or stomach) I LOVE mexican food, since i am half mexican its probably natural........its what i miss the most, but if I go out with friends or family I just get something lean like fajitas (skip the tortillas) or anything with chicken........oooooh now I am hungry.....:) talk to you all soon, I think I will e-mail Diane cuz I havent heard from her in awhile...... Jamie

Afternoon Chickettes!

What a great weekend! :) So far...

We had a great time yesterday! James, Brit and I went out bowling togetehr. 3 hours and 5 games each... EEK! Was really good though, we had fun! I scored my high score of 190 and James got a new high score of 235 as well... OH! Brit... my goodness, she bowled her highest score EVER last night. She bowled a 133 LOL! She's only 11 and I'm so proud of her :cp: Her high score before that was 103. I had to get a print out of the score sheet so she could keep it and, I had to share it hehehe... :cb: I'm so proud of her :) :dancer:

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Oh and James and I made the papers this week for league scores hehehe, so I had to share that great news as well.

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We had a really great weekend, at least so far. I just hope that it doesn't end with a bad BANG. Hehehe...I've kept on program, and I know i burned a lot of calories last night. Lets pray I can keep my calories down through out this weekend.

Now I just gotta get cracking my paper for class :p

I hope everyone else is having a great weekend as well!

Hugz to all
Sue...

Hey ladies...

I guess I'm an idiot, becuase I didn't read that last part of Heather's post saying to go to the new thread, 3 days ago....duuuuuuuh. I have to admit, I scan alot, when I'm not caught up, and I don't read all the signatures ever, and I thought the red typing was part of a signature.....oops :P

So, This has been such an emotional week, same problem as everbody else I guess. I have been a total wreck emotionally, and have really bordered on emotional eating this week. I haven't done too poorly, becuase I just don't have too many treats in the house, and who wants to eat celery when you're sad? right?

I have been beginning to think that my scale honestly does not give an accurate weight. I've been counting my calories and upping my activitys for about 3 weeks now, and according to this scale, I've only lost 2 lbs, which I gained back again the week before TOM and then lost at the end of TOM. I have kept my food diary online daily using fitday, and I have been 100% honest with myself about what I've put in my mouth each day. I'm really getting frustrated. BUT, my clothes are fitting better.....so this is why I'm wondering if the scale is just not accurate. If it is accurate, and the pattern I saw this month is the way my body operates, that means I will only lose weight 2 weeks out of each month, and be lucky to maintain the other two weeks....I'm SO not loving that.

I did not see a doctor before starting my attempts at weight loss, ( my serious attempts, since weaning gabe.) and I'm thinking I need to go see the Dr. and make sure everything is working just right. Maybe he/she will have a better plan for me. *shrug*

Well, I guess the good news is that I'm back down to my 165, but I was really hoping that by the end of my TOM I would see 163. I had really hoped that I wasn't seeing a loss due to water retention. ( Which I was retaining, I had hit 167 a week earlier). Now I'm really confused, frustrated, dissappointed, and all around upset. But who am I kidding, it isn't only about the darn scale, I'm just having a bad week, and the scale is just adding to it. I had set a goal for myself to be down to 155 by June 7th, and that's just not possible any longer, since I didn't lose anything for two weeks. To make that goal still, I would have to do a crash diet, and that's not safe, so I guess that's why I'm so upset, becuase I won't make my goal, even though it was a reasonable, realistic goal, that I have worked diligently to make. Despite my best efforts, I will not make it, and this really upsets me. I am like this with any goal, not just wieght. If I bother to set a goal, I totally expect to make it, and if I don't, I'm not a happy camper.

I know I'm rambling on and on and on, I'm really not feeling myself today, I'm very out of sorts, and feeling "jumbled-up" inside, and I just need to get some of it out. Today would be a good day for a journal entry I guess.

oh, I wanted to say a couple things re some of the other posts! SueMarie, yes, a Marine must have a high school diploma, or a GED, he or she must also be able to pass an aptitude test with an acceptable score. Does the school the young man attends have a Jr. ROTC program? Perhaps participating in that, or a local Young Marine's chapter would give him some motivation to get the rest of his school work done properly. And, if he wants to be anything other than a "grunt" he really ought to consider a college degree....officers have a much better quality of life in the Marine Corps than enlisted personnel.

And as for Boca Burgers, they may be the most "famous" vegetarian burger around, but I think they are the worst tasting. Somebody else suggested a different brand, I don't remember the name off the top of my head, but I recognized it as one I've liked in the past. Also, remember, if you're trying vegetarian to save on fat and calories, check those labels closely!!!! Many vegetarian options for meat substitutes are significantly higher in fat and calories than the "real-deal"...of course if you're going veggie becuase you've decided to no longer eat meat, you'll just have to find other ways of cutting calories.

Allright, I've taken enough space, time, etc. I hope everybody's having a good Saturday.

Lisa

Oh yeah! I did get one good thing done! I got my peppers and eggplants planted today! HOooray!