CONGRATS!!! Do NOT give in!! Keep going!! It is a total pain!!! And it DOES mess with your weight loss!!! Make healthy choices, use portion sizes, eat several small meals/snacks (at least 6) a day! Eat every few hours.
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Beth,
CONGRATS!!! And DON'T give up!!! When you quit smoking there is a weight gain!! Last time I quit I gained over 15 pounds in two weeks time!! This time I have gained about 10 since I quit 3 months ago.
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Have you all done any strength training? I have heard that is excellent for weight loss efforts!
I am going to start "The 3 Hour Diet" by Jorge Cruise as soon as my book arrives and I read it. It is supposed to be excellent. Several meals and snacks a day ever few hours is supposed to be excellent for your metabolism! Which is another thing that smoking did NOT help either!!!
This is what I have been told from my doc:
30 Minutes minimum exercise DAILY (plus strength training)
Congratulate yourself EVERYDAY for quitting smoking!
Eat healthy choices, portion sizes, several meals/snacks each day!
I am trying the small meals every couple of hours - even though I feel like I am eating all day long...(no complaints!)
I have not done any strength training yet - just my machine at home and walking during my lunch hour. I will have to see if my husband will show me use his weights and his other work out gatchets!! Hummm...maybe I will just have to take over the whole exercising room!!! hehehehe
I did several (6) small meals yesterday and I felt great! I think that really makes a difference in how you feel! I hope it starts kicking my metabolism in gear real soon here now too lol!
With the weights, if your not used to it, start slow!!! If you start to high (especially without stretching before and after!!) in weights you could hurt yourself. So take it slow. I can't wait to start doing this myself again! My back has been out and I have been seeing the chiropractor so weights were not even close to something I could be doing lol. But I should be able to start this up again soon.
Hi there girls - I've got a couple minutes left of lunch and I ran out to get some bumble bee chicken salad with crackers and alot of water AAAAAAAnd....... wheat thins crackers to snack on when I get the munchies and breath mints (sug free of course. <grin>). So, now that I've started my new job...I've got my tissues and all the comforts of home...pictures, you know....the "stuff" that makes your desk YOUR desk.
I'm STILL smoking but only had one during lunch and usually have another on the way home from work so I'm almost NOT smoking at all. It will be soon....very soon.
Love to you all,
Hi Pamela - boy, I wish I could smoke like that - one here, one there - I probably wouldn't have quit. I am one of those a pack here, a pack there kinda smoker.
Well everyone, I have finally lost my first pound!!
I am starting to believe that quitting was a lot easier than dieting!! Remember when you were young and all it took was missing a meal once and a while and bam! you lost 20 lbs. Not happening anymore.....
O Well, another day, 1 pound finally lost and 62 days without a smoke.
Hi PJ,
I know that quitting smoking is hard, but if not in weight loss, at least in the quitting smoking I am a success story. I quit 9 years ago.
Yes, it was hard at first, but now it’s like I never smoked. I know you think that the cravings may never go away and you will always feel deprived, but that’s not true. Now I don’t feel any cravings at all. Granted it took a couple of years, at first every time I smelled cigarette smoke I had a craving but it just gets easier and easier as you go on.
I have even more motivation to never start again now that my mother had found out that her back pains were associated with smoking. Did anyone else know that smoking could cause back pains? It turns out that smoking decreases circulation to your spine… I had no idea. My mother had back problems for years even though she was more of an occasional smoker. Now that she hadn’t smoked for a few weeks she is feeling better. Imagine that.
Well, I hope that my post helps to give you a bit more motivation. Good luck!
I'd say it's different for everyone. I haven't had a cigarette in over 4 years, and I still crave one. Rarely, but I do. Sometimes when hubby's smoking and I get a wiff, or we're out at a bar or something...a few drinks and I always seem to want a smoke. I smoked about 2 1/2 packs a day before I quit.
almostheaven,
You are right, it is different for everybody. I wasn't quite 2.5 packs a day back when I did smoke, but maybe about half to a pack a day at times, of cource it wasn't the same all the time. It was probably easier for me because my husband doesn't smoke, so there wasn't as much temptation.
Funny thing is, hubby smokes less than a pack a day and he could NOT quit. We chose to quit together. But he went back to it and I managed to stay away from them.
Hey.....u guys....dis here chicky REALLY WANTS TO FREAKIN QUIT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS SOOOOO HOT IN FLORIDA AND I'M ONLY HAVING ABOUT 3 CIGS PER DAY........AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! This is riDICulous......WHY CAN'T I JUST STOP??????!!!!!!!!!! I hate the smell, I hate the way it feels...I'm not even ENJOYING them anymore. hellllllllppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!! QUICK.....someone give me a swift kick in the arsss!!!!!!!!!
Come on, PJ! I know you can do it.
Don't let the cancer sticks win! Trust me if I did it, so can you. I'm the most addictive person ever and I managed. Just throw away the pack and don't buy another one. You can't smoke it if you don't have it!
Hmmmmm, that's very true! Just like when I don't buy icecream or other goodies at the store...they're not in the house when I want them at midnight. Good concept. thanks for the pep talk...yes, I can and will...BUT!!! taking it one day at a time and ONE of these days I'm going to wake up and say "THAT'S IT"!!!!!!!!
Hope you're all having a great weekend!
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wheat thins crackers to snack on when I get the munchies and breath mints (sug free of course. <grin>). So, now that I've started my new job...I've got my tissues and all the comforts of home...pictures, you know....the "stuff" that makes your desk YOUR desk. 
Hey.....u guys....dis here chicky REALLY WANTS TO FREAKIN QUIT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS SOOOOO HOT IN FLORIDA AND I'M ONLY HAVING ABOUT 3 CIGS PER DAY........AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! This is riDICulous......WHY CAN'T I JUST STOP??????!!!!!!!!!! I hate the smell, I hate the way it feels...I'm not even ENJOYING them anymore. hellllllllppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!! QUICK.....someone give me a swift kick in the arsss!!!!!!!!! 
