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Hey everyone,,,,had an accident today after pottery. I slipped in some mud outside *wearing crocs had some very nice firemen/women come to my aid. I popped my shoulder out of its socket...but managed to get it back in without realizing what was really going on. Very painful and going to keep my shoulder still for the weekend..typing with one hand here. Thank goodness for ibuprofen. Have a good weekend..Ill peek in but prob wont post much till better.

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thanks for the new thread and sorry to hear about your accident- hope your up and about in no time.

start of a great weekend- hit the next decade this morning - so excited. started cleaning closets and have a huge bag of clothes to give away- it was so refreshing and pumped me up to have a super day.

So sorry to hear about the shoulder patti, mine is killing me too. Am I your voodoo doll or what? This neck/shoulder thing is the worst, I can't sleep, I can't sit, I can stand but it's making the rest of me achy too. Hopefully you can find a comfy way to sleep with it tonight and be better tomorrow or the next day. Actually it will probably be 4-6 weeks before you are perfect again.

Yesterday was a complete disaster for me. I went waaaayyy overboard on the calories. I'm much more in control today. That was sort of scary to me really because it's the first time I've done that really since I started this process. The middle child and I were baking birthday treats and having a good time with it, then one broke while we were getting it out of the pan and she and I gobbled it up before it hit the floor. We laughed and joked about it, but then we ate another broken one, and then we all went out to dinner. I ordered an okay meal, but pigged out on chips and salsa beforehand. It was a bad bad day for me calorie wise. But I vow today will be better. I got up early and went for a 70 minute walk and so far today I'm okay for calories, I've budgeted for cake, ice cream and pizza later, but when the day is over the pie chart will be completely out of whack. But it's workable and it's okay, every now and then these days happen. I'll just flat out eat more protein tomorrow and be back on track Monday for sure.

Sorry about the shoullders, you two and congrats on the drop to the new decade. It takes me awhile to figure out what you guys are talking about. I finally figured out this week who Aunt Flo was, duh. Never heard it called that.

I went overboard last night too. I do fine during the day but my medications that I take in the evening cause weight gain, it says, but what it does is stimulate the brain to want food. I have tried taking it later and then I just get up later and do it. It is driving me crazy. During the day and I know many people have said that my calorie count is normal when I log it without thinking about how many calories something has and eat to my satient level, but at night, it is like a demon or gremlin emerges from me and I lose control. On my appt at the end of a month I am going to see if I can be treated with a less appetite stimulating medication and since I have lost weight, maybe the dosage can be lowered.

Other than that, I am holding my own. Haven't tried my ab rocket again, yet. But I have been tearing out floor exercises to do once I am down there. I have the dreaded plank and others. I just have to get motivated to start doing them. Getting down and getting up is a big hassle for me. I will be so glad when my addition is done because it will have a fold up therapy table in it, so I can do them there. So as you can see, it is not that I am not thinking about it and core exercises are very important to help keep my walking stabilized.

While I am thinking about it in the Pork Recipe, in case you didn't see the last post in the May forum, drop the oregano to 1/2 to one T.

Hello again! I just got off the phone with my middle child; he is starting his diet on Monday and we are doing it together this time. For his wedding three years ago, we did it separately. Then we both had regained our weight by the time we went to my other son's house a year later and I was so miserable. His poor wife sat between on us on the plane. She must weigh 110-120 dripping wet with three rocks in her pocket. So there we were all big and tall in the outer seats with her stuck between up. She was more to my side as my son now outweighs me by 130lbs. He says it is his highest. We start Monday and we have a kitty going. The loser by percentage lost must make the other a healthful meal of his or her choice. We are going by months or four weeks; we haven't worked out all the details yet. I am just so happy that he is doing something again. He said he told his brother how good I looked because after my last time, I had maintained and at least not put it back on, so I think that was a major reason that he decided to do it with me this time and I told him I was in a forum before. It really does help and make a difference.

So, I am on cloud nine and I think I have a new found motivation and I am so glad for my son. He finds losing weight easy once he starts and the exercise, but he is derailed when there is a major eating event. They went to AZ to visit his brother and his family and my other son can burn. He ended up gaining so much that week of what he had lost that time and from there he just went up and up.

I found through research today that I have been doing a major faux pas. I misunderstood the old gov't pyramid. I thought when it said three servings of meat per say that it meant three, three ounce servings, llike the portion size most diets talk about. I did major reading on their site and got a full understanding of what they are talking about. So, I got the info for a 1600 cal diet and today, so far, unless I get my evening munchies again, I am on track. So, I am switching up, yet again, and counting servings of the food groups according to their measurements and still trying the IE plan. I found that even though I was eating well, I was still eating way too much for lack of understanding.

It finally made it up to 68 degrees here today. Back E where I am from it has been in the 90's so I feel all your pain for those that thought my stew was not timely. It is due to go back down to sixty though.

Hope you all are having a fine weekend and I am just so happy with my son. I try not to push him and I think my maintenance really impacted him because he told his brother how good I looked. That's what I have to be careful of is feeling comfortable at this weight. My daughter tells me I am not fat all the time and at my height I am not far from the overweight status. It is easier for me to walk at this weight than when I am forty or fifty pounds heavier and I have to keep reminding myself that at my goal weight how much easier everything will be for me. I look down and I don't see all the fat that I had on that plane trip and I have lost plenty of inches since then and actually; although for now, I am apple shape, have a waist. I have to keep reminding myself that I am eating this way for better health as I am sort of comfortable with the size I am now. I know that sounds weird. One thing I did was to buy myself something nice in sizes down so I would have something to shoot for because as I am comfortable with who I am, I can get complacent. Does that make any sense?

This makes perfect sense. I recently treated myself to a major shopping trip, and almost all of what I bought, I need to lose 5-10 lbs to be comfortable in. Aside from not wanting to waste money on clothes I'll out-shrink, I've been too complacent lately skipping workouts to make time for other appointments. So now I HAVE to get my butt to the gym to justify spending this money on myself.

JayBrodz, It was great to read your post about you and your son. I hope this month goes well for you both and that you continue motivating him :)

Speedy, congrats on your new decade!! I know how great that feels.

Almeeker, i hope the shoulder improves. I've been having a rough time ever since Memorial Day weekend staying within my calorie goals. It's all about persistence so I think we'll come out stronger from this.

Patti, Sorry to hear about your slip, I hope you are feeling some improvement. I hope the firemen were attractive!!

I figured that since the title of this thread is "jump in" that I'd join you ladies. I love reading all your posts and find you all inspirational.

Julia, I guess you are new, if you are it is great to hear from you. I am rather new myself but I don't recall seeing you before. Yes it is wonderful about my son. I started raising him from the time he was about ten. My other two were used to well rounded healthful meals, but he expected dessert every night, which I didn't do and didn't care for many vegetables. I think now that he is grown, he has gotten into the habit of eating what he wants. I don't think he started blowing up until he was about 21 or 22. It seems like he was average size and then the next time I saw him, he wasn't. Of course that is not true, but the wonderful thing is that he and his wife have been together since high school. She went away to the Midwest to school for electrical engineering and even though he gained, they stayed together and were eventually married after eight or nine years. It was wonderful to dance as the mother of the groom, when truly, I am not his bio mother. I tease him and tell him he is the easiest birth I had with no pain. He and my other son are two months apart and I call them my two month apart twins, which is possible these days with one being delivered early due to some type of emergency. I love him to death and I think some times, he ponders why and how and can't understand why I don't differentiate between my other two and him.

But anyway, as you will find, I am truly longwinded, Julia.

Had my last hoorah last night, I think, before the even bigger weigh-in on Monday with my son. I ate almost a whole 8 serving bag of pistachios last night around eleven. Now you know that took some doing with shelling them. I paid for it this morning when I weighed myself and expected it. But on a good note, my IE during the day is going well. It's just the darn nights. I think also because of the construction, I can't sleep in my bed and I use a recliner here in the livingroom. There is no clear separation between the day and night time sleeping.

Looking forward to joining you ladies this month.

Welcome, Stitchergirl. This is a wonderful group.

Good morning, muscle mocha salute to everyone, feeling really achy and sort of sick this morning, but had a really fun weekend with the middle child's birthday party and all. Slumber parties are so exhausting.... It poured all night on Saturday so we didn't get to sleep in the camper, but the kids had fun and that's all that matters.

The shoulder is no better, but I have an actual appointment with a real doctor this afternoon, so maybe by dinner I will have a better idea of why I hurt so much and maybe a script for something that will help me get some sleep. The good news about the whole thing is that I'm more comfortable on my feet than sitting, so my pedometer is way up. I took my oldest on a long walk last night, we went almost 5 miles.

Calories over the weekend were completely off the charts, that's my first horrible binge weekend since we went to Chicago the first of April. But it happens, and since I've decided this is a "lifestyle" change rather than a "diet" I have to find ways to go off plan a little here and there and then jump right back on track the next minute. So I'm here bright and early Monday morning reporting for duty. The good news is that I'm a little sick this morning, my GI track was not happy over this weekend, so hopefully that will give me additional inspiration to stay on track in the future. I know it's crazy that a woman would be glad to have a bad case of the trots, but it's the silver lining or something.

Jay, glad to here the son is getting motivated, your such a good mom. You know on your calorie issues, why don't you just plan for a late night snack? Rather than eat all your calories during the day, make a plan for something late at night as well. Then you can have your medicinal binge and stay on track. I've done that for myself, well breakfast is my bigger hurdle, so I eat it twice, and it's part of the plan and it's all good. What is it that financial guy says? Something like "nobody plans to fail, they just fail to plan". So plan for it, and enjoy your guilt-free late night binge.

blackrhino, I here you on the calories, I always have trouble for a few days after I've gone off plan. I'm a carb-o-holic and I get the worst cravings after even just one meal of high carbs. So I'll probably be suffering all week, I'm just trying to keep myself really busy and off the food. I coming down off the carbs right this minute, I actually have the shakes from it, no lie.

Gotta go, kids are up and I need to stand or I'm going to start crying.

Patti - I'm sorry to hear about your fall, I hope you are feeling better today?

Jaynie - So, so, so happy about your son! I know that his issues have been weighing on you hard, so I'm so glad he's decided to join you on your journey as well. You really can keep each other motivated!

Almeeker - Shoulder issues abound! I hope you get some answers at your doctor appt. Keep us posted. And I think you have the right attitude about your unhealthy weekend. It's not like we're never going to binge again, never eat pizza/ice cream/cake/fast food (whatever the vice is) again, so we've got to learn to live with our choices, enjoy the short-lived slip-ups when they happen, and hop right back on the healthy bus at the next stop!

I also had a not-so-stellar weekend. I did fine at the graduation party on Friday night (only some fresh fruit salad and a few bites of a pork chop sandwich), but I had already had that milkshake earlier in the day and I got home from the party and had 3 Girl Scout cookies (I need to just throw them away!). Then on Saturday, we decided to take a drive to New Glarus, Wisconsin, which is a little Swiss town that has phenomenal food shops. My hubby was the enabler - he bought a small slice of apple pie for me, some coconut fudge, and my favorite....artisan cheese. Sharp white cheddar with cranberries. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. Then we went home and roasted whole chickens over the brick oven spit he built in the backyard. I didn't eat any breakfast or lunch that day, but between all the high calorie snacks and dinner, Saturday was NOT a good calorie day. Then on Sunday I had an event for work and ate just OK there (ended up eating the dessert that came with the meal even after I said I wouldn't), but then had a salad (and more cheese, and more fudge) for dinner. Ugh.

So today I'm keeping calories low in hopes that my icky weekend won't show up as a gain on Thursday. I know I need to get in some exercise/activity to burn a few extra calories. Maybe DH and I can walk our lane tonight after the babe's asleep.

Morning everyone
As long as I keep my shoulder still its ok..but I forget and move it..:eek:
Dh is being so good and helpful.
Tried to eat my way thru comfort this weekend but last night I wrote out a weeks menu and going to stick to it. I cant walk at the ymca its too painful still so I really have to be careful, I wont be burning any extra calories.

Egm that place sounds like so much fun!!! Ive done the same thing pick and pick and pick at treats till they are all gone..normally I would say throw it out but that sounds like something special... Im pretty sure treats like that can call your name...........maybe ask someone to help you eat it??

Almeeker you know carbs are my downfall as well..and yup it does take awhile to get that craving out of your system again. I hope you get some relief for your shoulder... 5 miles?? way to go!!!!!

Welcome stitchergirl and Blackrhino! Jump in any time and join us!!!

Jay meds making you hungry would be a hard problem to deal with...hope the dr can suggest soemthing else..youve been doing so well! You must be so proud of your son for joining you! It really helps to have support!!!


Ok thats it for today...Im off to rest my shoulder and put some heat to it! Take care everyone!

Hi all! Stressful crazy week ahead: This is the last "partial" week of school for the kids, my oldest has 8th grade graduation Tuesday and I agreed to chaperone the dance from 10 to midnight. Then the last day of school for the youngest is Wednesday, I have a board meeting out of town on Thursday and oh yeah, it's playoffs week for the youngest's softball...games start tonight with single elimination. Is it bad of me to almost hope that they lose tonight so will be "done" with playoffs? :o

Aunt flo is uncharacteristically late by about 4 days, but not sure if it's having a teen in the house who hasn't settled in to a routine or if I'm starting through that part of menopause.:confused: The one thing I know for a fact is that I can’t be pregnant—thank Heavens!!! Regardless I feel icky, bloated and am retaining a good 5 pounds of fluid still. I have dh's horrid cold and feel like dog doo, with complications of my allergies on top of it all. Can I just go back to bed and get up in the fall now????

But I took a chance and hopped on the scale this morning and am down another pound! That was a great start to the week, especially considering that I didn’t track my food this weekend, and haven’t walked since Thursday cause I feel so awful.

It was a crazy, sick weekend, trying to get through this cold. I was looking for clothes in our horrible walk in closet which Dh has pretty much packed to the ceiling and it's such a disaster that I just removed ALL my clothes from it. Most are sizes that I can’t get into—yet—but some are probably going to fit now. I decided to wash (or dryclean) all of them, and—wait for it—the dryer element went out 2 loads into the project.

I’ve been preparing to replace my old (15+ years) washer and dryer anyway and have the set I want picked out. We’ve replaced the element numerous times, the motor once or twice on just the dryer, and have fixed the washer several times. But the problem is the set is just too small for all of us. And the dryer takes two cycles even with a new element, so I’ll be spending the big bucks on a set of Bosch font loaders today.

Sigh.

Tulmutuous, crazy week of change. At the end of it, I’ll have a high schooler and a middle schooler and it’ll be summer break for the kids, and I’ll have a washer and dryer that work. And on Friday I’ll turn 42—the meaning of the universe!!!!

Sorry for the book, just needed to get that all out of my system this morning I guess. Thanks for reading if you got this far!

I hope for a good, fulfilling week for all of you, that all of us sickies feel better, that everyone loses at least 1 pound and that we all feel energetic and happy!!!!

Morning all! I too, had a somewhat pig oueekend. I think it was a last hoorah before my son and I begin out journey together. Thanks for all the great comments about that.

To all those that are sick or hurting or bloated, sorry to hear about that. I am rather dammed up myself, if you know what I mean.

On the medicinal eating. I do save for my late night oatmeal and warm milk in the late evening to help put me to sleep. There's a lot that has a bearing on this and that is that there is no clear deliniation between my day area and bedtime area due to the construction, I sleep in a recliner. The eating is mindless, more or less--almost like what has been reported about sleep meds. A definite change of meds is required. I have lost weight while on these meds, before, but the atmosphere was different and once I retired to my room, that was it. It might be something as simple as turning on the music or turning off the TV to create that environment; although, I have always fallen asleep in my bedroom with it on, my mind new it was time to go to sleep. I do not wish to take sleep meds to make me sleep through the whole nite and besides as previously mentioned they come with their own set of problems. My sis takes them and sometimes she gets up and eats, but she is still at the high end of normal weight or maybe about ten pounds or so over.

Anyway, I will work it out. Just have to recall how I solved the problem last time. I know this sounds bad, but when I was in the army, my first meal was dinner and then if I wanted to snack or whatever, I did. I only sometimes ate lunch in the messhall with my husband if he wanted to and I think that is how I lost weight was to eat very light during the day and save the bulk of my calories for evening. I know it goes against everything that is taught about not eating after a certain time and not eating a heavy dinner, but if I can't adjust normally, I may have to do that.

Been at MyPyramid.com and on there you can build your whole menue for a week without writing it out just FYI. They have a lot of usable tools on there and I think having someone tell me, exactly what I can eat, as they do by breaking down not only for the day but for the week--the five food groups--will be a help for me. Well I told you I often change up, so I am going to try this for the week I guess. My weigh-in date will be switching from Thursday to Monday.

Have a great and blessed day!

Evening everybody. Well my doc said I have an irritated rotater cuff, and he dosed it up with cortisone. Which instantaneously made the whole works feel much better, then the nurse told me that it also had mild pain killer in it and when that wore off I might actually feel worse for a couple of days. Ug. The absolute funniest thing was that he said to me "you need to lay off the weight lifting for a couple of weeks". And I was like "how do you know I lift weights?". And he smiles and said "women don't get the sort of muscle definition you have in your arms and shoulders without some pretty serious weight lifting". Okay, chalk up one for the doc, he knows his stuff after all. I also got a script for some pretty heavy duty muscle relaxants to take at night. I'm pretty excited about getting a decent night's sleep, hopefully I won't feel dopy in the morning. Well I gotta go and put the kids to bed and get my berries jammed up.

Wow, that is super impressive that the doc is commenting on your muscle definition! Glad you have some meds to help relieve the pain--hope it stays away.

Congrats Montana on the 1 lb loss!! Progress feels so good! Maybe those high spirits will help fight that cold off.

I skipped the gym today because it was gorgeous out, and I took a 90 min walk instead. This is the first time, in about 9 days, that I can say that my food was pretty much in check the whole day and I'm only over by about 50 calories. I'm with all of you guys with the life-style mindset. I've got to be able to keep it up forever, so I don't want to be to get too down on myself even if I have a bunch of discouraging days.

Well I just talked with my son and it is on, as they say. We are more going to be in competition with each other because that is his nature and I know when he puts his mind to it he can drop sixty in no time. He even is going to send a pix of his weight because he thought I wouldn't believe his first week loss when it comes. But I told him that because he is larger, I would expect that. I am not really a competitive person, so I know that I will be cooking the first low cal dinner of the winner's choice. I told hime I can't do that but so long and today I found that I had enough points on my card to get a gift certificate of $50 and I proposed for the third month that we put up anti. I'm no gambler either so I better make this work. We are going by percent of weight loss to make it fare. I never watched The Biggest Loser, but I did catch a few episodes of Dance Your A-- Off and the largest person still would win even if it was by percentage. Am going to need a lot of encouragement from you guys on this one.

Been spending an hour or so a day over at mypyramid.com and have my menus out to Wednesday. This makes it sooooooooooooo much easier for me. I find living alone, I just don't want to cook for myself and when I do try to lose weight it is the bland chicken breast wotj broccoli or something. I actually cooking this time and enjoying it. Tonight I cooked the French's canned onion breast and purposely left out the flour and used egg whites instead of eggs to dip and coat it in and those darned things just wouldn't stick no matter how much I pressed. And before that I used my bullet to crunch them up and it turned into one big gob that I had to rub between my fingers. I bet next time I will follow directions and crunch it in a bag, but once I forced it, it was good.

I am trying to make savory meals and do low cal replacements where I can. I am having Apple Juice Pork this week which should be interesting. I usually don't eat that much pork but it sounded good. I am going to replace the flour thickener with corn starch and make a few other adjustments. It said 473 for one, but I figure that was four ounces and I am going to eat three, so I think I will have it down to about three hundred when I am through.

On that site, it tells you exactly how much to eat for each food group according to how many cals you are eating a day and measures by servings, which I find easier to enter, and then it tallies the cals and no matter what you eat if it is healthful and you eat the proper amount and SIZE of serving, which I wasn't before, you come under. No fuss, no worry.

Well as usual, I have had a perfect day and now comes the dreaded night. I am going to fight it. I would like to see the scale move, it has been days.

Almeeker, I am so glad that it is not arthritis or something. At least this will mend but you have to take your doctor's advice very seriously. My sister had a torn rotator cuff and the surgery is no piece of cake.

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Ok, so... wow... it's been a CRAZY few days. I ended up in the hospital on Friday. Basically, I was having some major memory issues, cognition was bonkers, dizzy, pain all over my body, exhaustion and really blurry vision. I went to the ER and got a quick trip to the Ct Scan machine, a lot of blood draws, urinalysis (probably testing for shrooms or something)... I felt more checked out than a recalled Toyota.
So, basically it was a few things. First, I have a pretty bad middle ear infection and something called "Migraine Varients." So, Migraine Varients are nice, little physcial reactions to the head pain of Migraines. Usually people who get the varients don't get the headaches - so I never would have guessed that I was actually having a migraine.
I used to get migraines when I was a child. I have a skull fracture (thanks mom!) that never healed correctly, so the migraines just came with the territory. However, the hormonal changes I went through with my first pregnancy eliminated my migraines! Until now... docs say all the major hormonal changes I am going through with the weigh loss probably activated a varient of my previous migraines. I say, "quack, quack, quack... I can be a duck too!"
Eitherway, it's Tuesday and I am feeling better. Getting back into the workout grind. Afterall, it's only TWO days until Thursday. Missed you guys something awful. Oh, and my baby is officially a walker! *proud mama*:D

Oh wow Skinny! I can't believe you're going through all that. I'll be thinking about you. The son of the lady that does my daycare also has migraine varients...his gets terrible stomachaches, vomiting, and constipation. I hope you recover and rest, and congrats on your little walker!

Jaynie - I'll have to check out mypyramid - sounds interesting. I am always looking for some new ways to incorporate veggies for my son and new recipes in general!

I'm having a mixed emotions day. I haven't eaten the greatest in the last week due to lots of work lunches, social events, and feeling ick in general (yeast infection and early PMSing - yuck!). But then I put on a pair of jeans and they were quite a bit looser, so I took a chance and went down to my basement to try on some smaller pants I had in storage. I was able to put on 3 pairs of pants I haven't worn since I was 10 weeks pregnant about 2 years ago! I was thrilled, and hopefully that will motivate me to stop this destructive eating pattern I've gotten into the last few days. Just a little further, and I may be able to wear some PRE-pregnancy pants!

Erinn, sorry to hear about your medical woes, but it is great that you feel better and you have a walker in the house. Those times are so thrilling, but you are in for it really now in about six months when the "terribles" come around, but if you have other kids, then you know that.

Dobbs, that is great about the pants. I am waiting to fit in a few pair of pants that my sister sent me a couple years ago that she had bought when she ballooned because of having to take steroids. She went up to 238 and she is tall also; although, not as tall as me. I can get them up and if I really, really suck it in, can get it zipped but that's dangerous. I caught me in the zipper. Wasn't daunted though. I had a sweater that went with them and a scarf, obviously this was in chillier weather, and I used the old rubberband through the whole and around the button trick. Why anybody would buy those things that extend the waist, I don't know. I learned that when I was in the military and they had no pregnancy uniforms at that time.

I'm holding my own. The last two days haven't been quite as bad. Ate around 2000 cals when my quota is 1600. It is so hard for me to judge due to my disability exactly how much I should eat to lose because I put out so much energy just walking. I'm thinking that 2000 cals should be my daily because as a double amputee, I expend anywhere from 80 to 200% more cals just walking. I'm still in the figurin' zone, so bear with me.

I did find info on caloriecount.com, I think it is called, that said to ramp up my activity level to moderate even if I am basically lame due to it and the calories were more than I am trying to maintain. My pyramid suggested 2400 something. So, maybe this isn't all meds. In case you are wondering, I do have normal days and am not totally a couch potato as one would suspect with someone of my extreme physical disability.

My son is taking in 3000 and he loses weight with ramped up exercise even at his size and he asked if I was sure I could maintain at 1600. By the way, he lost a pound or so in a day. He sent me a cell pix of the scale. He does that to document his progress. I didn't get on the scale today because I,, frankly, was afraid to. I need dynamite. I ate prunes yesterday to no avail and hot fresh cooked prunes always worked. I take flaxseed oil in the morning which is another remedy that used to keep me regular. I know TMI. But since Thursday, come on! I'm going to have to break out the hard stuff this evening and I don't like using that, but I am miserable. Who'd a thunk that being so full of it would be so debilitating, lol.

Well anyway, those are my woes and wails. I think by writing this, it gave me time to come to the conclusion that 2000 cals is good for me. I just thought that was way too high since I am older and metabolism slows, but I eat about six times a day and all things are preplanned. Three are meals of about 350-400 and between it is fruit, yogurt, 8 wheat thins with one Happy Cow, which I love or something of that nature. The snacks total around 400 cals and that is how I was rounding out my 1600, but last night I had a mini meal of half a chicken breast and a half cup of left over candied sweet potatoes that I made by using imitation liquid butter--like extract--splenda and imitation liquit maple and boy is that good. I felt satiated after that and could go to sleep. I guess I have just been trying to starve my 6'1" self.

Morning eveyone
slept on my shoulder last night and its very sore this morning..so Im not staying long. Sorry....I read though.
Jay I signed up for the mypyramid site and its great! In fact I cancelled my fitday premium ...that one is way more helpful and easier to use!! Thanks for the input....

off now to put some heat on...
will be back tomorrow ladies!

Hey patti, did your doc give you any cortisone for that shoulder? Mine seems to be much improved after a dose of that stuff. I'm going to check out mypyramid too. The husband of a good friend of mine lost 90 pounds using that website. I just don't have a lot of time to do this, and she said he was on-line like 6-8 hours/day with it.

jay, you're 6'-1"? Holy smokes woman! What I wouldn't give to have a few of those inches, I've always said I have the curves of a much taller woman. I tell you what, if I ever need prosthetic legs then I'm gonna get something taller than what the good Lord gave me to start with that's for certain. A good buddy of mine has one short leg and one long one. She and I always joke that it's far better to have one short leg, than 2 short ones. It's pretty funny because when I want to have a face to face conversation I make her take her prosthetic shoe off so we're eye to eye, otherwise she's like 6-7 inches taller than me. On your back-up issues have you tried Miralax? My DH uses the stuff religiously. I don't, cause I tend to have the other issue, but he swears by it, 1/2 tsp every morning in his OJ, keeps him regular like clockwork. He never had a single problem until he went on heart meds. Another thing that works really well for him is dried apricots, and gallons of water.

Hello ladies! I'm new here (well..I've been lurking for a couple weeks), but I have finally started to see the scale move, so I thought it'd be a good time to become active in the "community" as well. I love reading about all of your successes and everything (even if I felt slightly stalkerish in the beginning, lol) and I'd love to be able to start adding some of my own.

A little about myself.. I'm 25, married, and we have one daughter about to turn two. I've been overweight my whole life and have always wanted to do something about it. The kicker was last month when my OBGYN told me I would probably have a very difficult time conceiving our next child due to my weight, which causes irregular periods and ovulation. DH and I are ready for another baby, so I had to get my butt in gear. I started counting calories and changing the way I eat two weeks ago. Last week, I bought an elliptical/cross trainer and have used it 5 out of the 6 days we've had it. I'm up to 30-35 minutes at a time, which I'm super proud of.

I didn't really see any change to the scale until yesterday morning, which just amped up my motivation. I feel good about what I've been doing to get healthier mentally..but physically I don't really feel much different, which is a little disappointing, but I'm sure that in as little as another month, I'll start to feel more energized and actually FEEL healthier...I hope. :o

Nice to meet you all!

Hey Jay,
Drinking/eating hot foods sometimes helps me go. Hot lentil soup might do the trick!

Ladybug, Congrats on joining the forum section. It helps me tremendously. Many minds together are better than me feeling alone. Also, I love the quote that you have with your signature.

Well, still on the mend. Back is messed up but jumping back into the workout. I have 3 make-ups I am trying to get in within the next few weeks....double bootcamp.... kill me now.

Big big news here at my house!!!! The parts for the elliptical came yesterday and now it's working again. Whooo hooo hoooo!!!

You know the last week or so I've been flirting with limboing under the obese stick, but so far I haven't managed it. I'm starting to think I'm afraid of it somehow. What is up with that? I'm so stupid. Maybe now that I've confessed that little secret I can let it go and get on with the program here.

Welcome aboard ldybug, always glad to have new voices here.

Skinny, sorry to hear you're under the weather. I hate it when that happens. Argh!

Well I gotta go the little fishes are home. I still think swim club should practice for 2 hours, but what do I know?

hey skinny, i hope you are feeling a bit better. sorry you had such a long past few days. good for you for being so hardcore about getting back on plan.

almeeker,
i think what you mention is a really common feeling. i've heard people talk about the same thing at WW meetings. Personally, whenever I get close to reaching my goal I binge and then gain a few pounds.

I first started doing WW about 5 yrs ago with my mom. I got down to like 118 and the WW lady told me I was too thin and needed to gain weight. I know she was just trying to look out for me, but she kept saying it and then they would like bring others over to talk to me. It was just a pain, and then I had my parents down my back and it just turned into me thinking I was insane. It made me way more self conscious and somewhat afraid of reaching goal. Very silly and stupid, I know...

Let's both get over it!:p

I'm in the same sitch, only from becoming Obese, instead of Extremely Obese. I just can't wait to be Obese! ROFLMAO. I think I am afraid too... what the heck happened deep inside me to think that I was somehow unsafe at being so big? I think that in order for someone to be as big as I was, something deep and critical had to have happened. I've taken a few stabs at it, before saying, "nah, that can't be it" and forgetting the entire process. I know it has to do with my mother. I know that's very Freudian, but's it's true. I was raised with great maternal tid bits such as, "I only had you because your dad wanted a baby of his own." and classics like, "I never should have been a mother, I just can't stand children." And the timeless, "You look like a man." at my wedding. Great times. Eh... I have a lot of work to do. :rolleyes:

Great news on the elliptical! :D

Hey Ladies! First of all let me say I am no longer full of it and am now again potty trained. Welcome, welcome to our new member. Don't worry, I think we all lurked at least a little bit, I know I did. This seemed like such a close knit group that I was afraid to jump in but once I did, I found a home among them.

About the shoulder, I can empathize with that. One time my shoulder arthritis flared up so badly that it hurt when I sat, stood, drove (and I use hand controls)--everything. And the stupid thing that I did was go to the VA and not wait the couple hours for my meds. Then I had to drive. I finally called my other son, that I haven't mentioned thus far, who used to be a pharmacist assistant and said, "Help!" His recommendation was ibuprophen and being the large person that I am, don't do this, I took four instead of two and the pain lessoned to a bare minimum. It was something to do with the inflammation and that taking care of it. He said that aspirin or tylenol was useless in that case. Now I have vicadin, which is what I left at the VA that day, to cure that ill immediately. I guess I could use it as a diet pill because I don't feel like doing anything after I take one of those. I'm just kidding.

And, yes I did make an adjustment when I had prosthetics this last time for my son's weddding. I have the type that can be adjusted up to three inches depending on the showe and it was the first time that I wore a dress in thirteen years at that time. I had them take me down from a size twelve to a, what I consider normal, size ten shoe. I did a power point of my firsts since I have been disabled for an assignment in my computer class last year and my teacher was more amazed at the size of my heels. I have been the same height since eighth grade and you know when I was growing up there weren't that many tall girls my age and I was second youngest in the class too. Anyway, it wasn't until I was about thirty that I grew into my height and began to enjoy walking into a room. You have to remember that I was a size eight-ten at that time. Do I miss them. I did, but after three years in a wheelchair feeling sorry for myself and not leaving the house, basically, for a couple, I am amazed by what God has done for me. I know we don't mention Him too much but I am in school now. I manage by myself. I have four pets I take care of and have my stinkin' garden. I swear I really suck at that. I started it so I would have something to do and now I don't have the time for it, nor the tenacity.

Let me see, how did I get on this. Oh, getting the longer legs. But wouldn't that look awkward with shorter arms. If I didn't mention it they wanted me to go shorter for balance but I have a six foot arm span. Now that would look weird.

What else was discussed, oh, being complacent or sabotaging ones self at a certain weight for various reasons. I think I briefly touched on that on my last one. To the new member, you have to do what is best for you as long as it is physically safe. I don't know how tall you are, nor your bone stucture. I will reiterate that the reason that my goal is so low for my height is to accout for the leg loss of thirty pounds and then my current legs weigh ten, so I need to adjust by twenty pounds. I am tall but I am a very small boned tall lady. My wrists are very small. My ring size to most people would not go with my height and especially my current weight. I still have long slender fingers. So anyway to bring this back on point, do it for you.

I think I mentioned everybody, if I didn't I am sorry. I may not be on here as much soon. I have got to start studying for school which starts at the end of August. I did well with the four courses I had to update after thirty years at the community school, but this is a bigger more impersonal school and I am a little rusty in my major of Mathematics. I just want to study calculus before I take it. I got an A in all my math courses, including that before, but I have forgotten that particular one and am taking it again. I also have trig and Spanish to bone up on. I took it in high school and college but I am trying to teach myself it. And believe it or not, I still have my college Spanish book.

Well ladies, I guess that is about it. I finally, finally go in to get my crooked foot fixed, which is good because it has affected both my knees and when I walk I have this urge to want to walk on my knees like they are feet. I know; you have to have a sense of the sensory of amputees. You see I can still feel my toes. When I work my muscles in my residual, my brain receives that I am moving specific toes, my ankle, whatever. It is different from phantom pains and it is not normally talked about but we actually sense three different feelings, phantom, old nerve endings and actual feelings in our residual. And one last thing, I am fortunate because I don't usually get phantom pain and there is little medications can do but what is worse is when I get an itch. Something as simple as that and you can't scratch it.

So, have a nice evening ladies. I'm off to the prosthetist tomorrow, which means another appt to get them re-covered. One good thing, when I lose weight and have to get new ones, I can get bigger legs. My daughter called these chicken legs. She didn't know she hurt my feelings. I thiught I was styling. I told them to make them bigger than my other ones, but they still look like they belong to someone who is about a size 12 or 14. I want legs shaped like Mo'niques, only slightly bigger because she is smaller than me now. I can get new legs yearly at the VA but I have been refusing because it is supposed to be another incentive for me to lose weight plus I like the comfortable fit of these.

BIG BIG BIG NEWS!!!! Or should I say "small" news? I'm officially under the "obese" stick this morning, I weighed 161.8 pounds, and the obese cut off for me is 162, so now I'm just plain old 30 pounds overweight!!!!! The Wii Fit Plus said "dink dink dink that's overweight" to me this morning" instead of "dunk dunk dunk that's obese". Very pumped about that and I also got in a good 48 minute workout on the elliptical, I might have gone 60 but I got started late (no!) and my extra kiddies arrived earlier than usual.

I'm going to be extra good today because tomorrow we're going to the in-laws and when they ask how the diet is going I want to be able to say "I'm no longer obese". And believe me, they will ask.

Okay, blackrhino, I'm over it, now it's your turn.... Take it away girlfriend.

jay, good luck on getting your foot straightened out. And I seriously think that if I ever do need prosthetic legs I will get longer ones than I should have. I have a really good friend that had a bilateral mastectomy as part of her breast cancer treatment. Do you know what she did? She told her doc that if she had to lose the ones she had been carrying around for the last 55 years, could he please give her some like young Joan Crawford had? I tell you what she came out of that whole breast cancer ordeal a whole new buxom broad, looking younger and better than she had in years.

skinny, glad to hear you're still at it. Hopefully you'll feel better any second now.

patti, care to start another "weakend challenge"? I'm going to need to do something with that in-law visit.... Ugh.

Hey that is great Almeeker to be overweight. Who'd a thunk! Well I am getting back down to my last week's loss. I had picked up three pounds because of not eating well after hours and the problem that I had. Well yesterday, I ate 1700 something calories and that was it. I paid attention to my body and I also took my evening pills later than usual. I was hoping to be asleep when the urge to eat came. I was still awake and I looked at the clock and about an hour to an hour and a half had past, so I guess that is what I need to be aware of because that's when I got the urge for something. I know that most cravings are supposed to subside after a few minutes so I was determined to ride it out. I stayed up a little later and had a total of two waves at which I was successful of overcoming. So I said all this to say that I had my third good day since starting on the twentieth of last month. And whereas I am not usually hungry for breakfast or a breakfast eater, but try to eat it within two hours of rising, this morning, I was actually hungry and have already had my bowl of cereal. I enjoyed it so much more because I wanted it, then eating it for metabolism purposes.

Have a great day ladies!

Ldybug - Welcome, welcome! It sounds like you and I are in similar places - I'm 28 with a 16-month-old and have also been overweight most of my life, and of course, the pregnancy didn't help that any. Getting healthy for you will have two benefits - being able to conceive and being a healthy mom for your children!

Skinny - How are you feeling today? Any better? Good luck at bootcamp(s) this weekend, I admire your resolve!

Almeeker - Shut up, sistah! I can't believe you're now just overweight! "Dink, dink, dink" sounds a helluva lot better than "dunk, dunk, dunk"! And I know what you mean about sabotaging. I usually do it in the form of rewards...like getting into my pants that I wore before my son was born made me feel so good that I walked right to the freezer and got a couple of Thin Mints. WTF?!? I corrected myself later that night though and threw all Girl Scout cookies in the garbage. It's stupid to think that we're not worthy of success. We are, and we should demand it of ourselves!

Jaynie - Good luck with your appt. today. I hope that you're able to get everything all straightened out (literally) and hopefully that will make exercising and just plain getting around a lot easier and less painful for you. And I'm glad you were finally able to, um, "clear out" so to speak! I bet that will mean some weight loss for you too!

I weighed in this morning for my Thursday weigh in and lost .6 pounds. It's not much, but I didn't expect much because I have not done the best this week, so I'm happy for a loss at all and not a gain. I have been so hungry for some reason. I was keeping to between 1200-1400 calories for about 4 weeks, and I finally hit a wall with that. It might mean I lose weight slower, but there are times when I need to eat 1500-1600 just to keep from being so exhausted and sluggish. I'm really going to try to keep it in check this weekend though because next week will be killer for me - 3 work luncheons and the impending arrival of Aunt Flo.

Morning everyone!!!
*weak*end ....lol how appropriate Almeeker! As soon as Im done here I will start the challenge. I sooo need it this weekend. Been just hanging on my plan but haven’t done any exercise all week..trying to rest this shoulder. I have a workshop on Saturday and I don’t know how Im going to do it..may just have to watch. Its for pottery...one good thing I wont be near food all day...maybe Ill have a on plan weekend!
Almeeker I haven’t had a cortisone shot..my dh had them in his elbows a few times and found out afterwards that even though there is relief you tend to over use the joint due to not feeling any pain. So Id rather not...it will just take time.
Erinn a short term goal for me is to be *obese* as well . That even sounds bad as I write that..
Jay what are you going back to school for? I have never been close to goal but have heard from others how they will sabotage themselves because its scary for them to think they are not *fat* anymore. Jillian moves in addressed this to a participant last week on her new show. The girl still felt like she was overweight...and not pretty...etc. It was sad to watch. I don’t know how it feels and do wonder about it sometimes. Of course my immediate reaction is....what are you complaining about?? Your skinny! Like that will solve all my problems. I would love to be skinny (healthy)...but I realize there is still alot of mental issues no matter what size you are at...
Egm congrats on the loss...I count fraction of pounds as well....if it makes you feel good its all good.
Erin hope your head feels better..cant imagine having miagranes with a toddler at home..and a walker to..now the fun begins . You will be getting more exercise in chasing him around!
Julia walking outside is the best isn’t it? I have a membership for the ymca and walk the track there but as soon as im done babysitting for the summer i will be putting the miles in outside! Did that all last summer and it felt great to get up in the morning and head for a walk before doing anything else. Set the tone for the day..know what I mean?\
Chris down another pound!!! Good for you..with all the craziness right now with you that is fantastic!! Good luck getting thru the busy week ahead for you.
Ok off to start the challenge here...have a good day everyone.

Hi All! Here it is to Thursday and I've hardly checked in this week.

I think I mentioned earlier this week that my dryer died last weekend in the middle of my big "closet cleanout".

It's funny, I have stacks of dry, clean jeans, and a line and drying rack of wet, drying jeans and I'm simply floored by two things:

1) How many pairs of jeans I own and can't fit into.:(
2) How the sizes within the same size, brand and style of jeans can vary from pair to pair with no apparent reason. :confused:

Kind of exciting though, I put my "fat fat jeans" in the Goodwill bag and found I think 6 pairs that fit that didn't before...I still am working hard at the food thing for the most part, but have been not exercising as much between this cold and the crazy week.

But tomorrow is my birthday and the 365 day countdown begins for about 104 pounds to go!!!! I want to weigh 160 by my 43rd birthday!!!!

Hope all are well, and recovering from various ills, injuries and pains. Rock on you lovely ladies!

Happy B'day to you. Happy B'day to you (and many more). Good to hear about your finding jeans that fit. I have about three pairs that I probably need to lose another ten pounds to get into them.

Well, I finally can join the able bodied folks and have regular slightly slew feet, when I sit, but look straight when I walk because of my gait. I finally took Zoey in this afternoon since I wasn't afraid of tripping over my feet and only had to worry about tripping over her. I am a real space case or fruit loop. I kept wondering why she was putting on weight and it completely slipped my mind that she had a thyroid problem. That's a big one folks. My mom had dementia and I worry about getting it. She got it when she was around 65. But, the difference is, once reminded I knew she had it. I had them look in the computer and the last time I purchased it was 9/9, so I guess over the hub-bub of T'giving and Christmas, it completely left my mind to reorder. When I was younger, my friends called me the absent minded professor, so this is typical for me. I can analyze and figure out the hardest things but often look past the obvious. Oh well; it's been a good day. Let's hope tomorrow I get a little bit of exercise in--at least five mins. I am not going to set my goal high because I haven't walked since February.

Have a nice evening, ladies.

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sorry I haven't had much time this week, been super cleaning around the house and started the mulch on the front yard. It has been so great to do this without needing help and struggling for breathe. It has so motivated me to try harder things.

It seems like everyone has had a tough week too- hope everyone is feeling better and the medical issues are being resolved- good job almeeker on having your doc comment on your weight lifting- all that hard work is paying off !! :)

welcome to all the new friends, everyone here has been so helpful and it really helps emotionally for me to read how everyone is doing.

as posted before, emotionally been up & down, still talking to ex and that is going good, but only time will tell for sure. I have not let it get me down or stop my plan though which is a good thing, have eaten very healthy this week and had my first spaghetti squash of the season. Found some in the grocery store last week - love the stuff and so easy to fix.

unfortunately, the walking was stalled a little, but hoping the extra work at home has been making up for it- time to get back on track.

congrats to all the closet cleaning as well- it is so great to get into clothes that has been packed away. lol , or of course new ones !!

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Ok..... couldn't go to bed without telling all you glorious gals how the weigh in went.... btw, can you tell I feel better!? TONS TONS TONS better - I'm back, and my fat is a-tremblin'!

Ok, so for laying in bed, doing nothing, barely drinking and NOT journaling - I lost 1.5 pounds. I'm not stressing, just to see that scale have a lower number after a full week off of my routine is uh-mazing.
Today was great - swam 14 laps, cycled 7 miles and rocked my weight lifting routine. I just tried to see how much I could bench - max, not repetitive - and I am at 140 pounds bench press! Oh yea, Mamma is getting BUFF. I still have a ways to go before I am no longer obese, but I know I will get there. It makes me GIDDY to think that in 20 pounds I am in the 230's!? Are you kidding me or WHAT!? That's almost 200 pounds out of my life for-ev-er!

I have to get back into the core, but I am fearful of straining my back, today was the FIRST day I haven't been in terrible pain at the end of the day and I would rather just keep it there.

Great job ladies! You are SO inspirational, motivating and it is awesome reading about your progress. Have a great Friday! :D

No, you are awesome, Erinn. To think you started out at over 400 pounds and can do what you do. I have a goal board, which happens to be down now because I am in the midst of slowly redecorating and perhaps painting in here, that has things that I want to accomplish. Losing weight was one thing. I didn't meet my goal because the board had been up for a couple of years, but when I do accomplish something that is on it, it makes me feel especially good. I finally went swimming about a year and a half ago and that was wonderful. I used to love to swim as a child. I am telling you guys all this because Erinn mentioned her cycling and that is one of the things that I have had on the board. Right now, I know from getting on regular exercise bikes that my feet slip off. I need those feet thingies that hold your foot on the peddle, but I would love to ride a bike again, but the cost is a little prohibitive since I have had to pay for all this construction that I have going on in addition to the grant the VA gave me.

I have many things on my goal board. One thing was to go to the beach. I would love to go to an amusement park again and yes I know I am 52, but think of the feeling of accomplishment I would get if I could walk the whole day without having to use a wheelchair. An amusement park is definitely a lot of walking, but there would also be opportunities to rest on the benches. Maybe when my kids and I gather this spring we can visit the small one up here. I know the grands would love it.

I also have on there, and I am doing this from memory, several motivating qotes and different titles from mags, which all have ccome from, indicating other things I want to accomplish. One is about finding love. Ladies, I am not sure on that one. And I hope you don't mind my sharing, but I feel now we are all friends, I am just stuck, stuck in my ways and feel that I have little to offer. I don't know the way to a man's stomach. I don't know how to cook soulfood and have always cooked healthfully. A man from church, I think, would expect that. You should see the spreads at at church. You just look at it and you walk out with twenty extra pounds. Everybody brings in their favorite dish usually passed down, starch, sugar, fat or grease laden dishes, vegetable and meat that are oh so tasty, but just waiting for hypertension or a heart attack to set in. Anyway, I can't cook like that. I don't even know how. I've never made real cornbread, biscuits or anything. My fried chicken sucks as the coating I make causes it to steam on the inside. Oh, I am just awful at down home cooking. No, my food is definitely not the way to a man's heart.

But anyway, as usual, I digressed. I just want to meet someone with which I can have a meaningful conversation. I had one friend and he would eat KFC and fall asleep sitting up on the couch while we were watching a movie. Couldn't talk current events or anything. Had to get rid of him fast. So anyway, that is maybe one of the things on my goal board. I wish my picktures weren't in storage in my spare room with all the furniture from the rooms that are being worked on, so I could find one from where I was thinner in the army to put up there as motivation. My daughter has family photos on her facebook and I saw everybody but me and then I looked again and there I was when she was about five or six and we were coloring eggs at the ktchen table. I have been this way so long that I had forgotten the old me and didn't even catch that it was me. I think that goes along with what everyone has been saying about hitting the mental plateau with losing weight. For me, this is me. Feels like I have been an amputee forever and overweight forever and after having been larger weights, being this size is comfortable for me, both when I look down and see my body compared to other weights and to move around. It's not the diet plateau that I have to get past but the mind one.

But anyway, I feel like I have lost twenty pounds today. You don't know what it was like to have to walk with my foot turned in like that. My feet were spread so far apart to keep my balance that it looked like I was trying to keep a poopy diaper off me. It affected my hip sockets and knees also. Now I am walking just like anybody else and you would not know that I am an amputee. You should have seen how easy he turned the foot. It was so loose and what kept it together was the foam and skin that it had. I could have had a serious fall had I not noticed what wash going on. I feel so much better now and am even breathing better. Being this way takes a lot of energy to walk anyway, but I was breathing through my mouth when I walked and being overly taxed, that's why I feel so much lighter. So let's hope tomorrow morning I throw a dvd in the TV and Walk Away The Pounds with Leslie Sasone.

Congrats Erinn on the 1.5 :) AND on feeling good. I was very happy to read your post.

I never made it to WW yesterday so I am going today before I head down to PA for the weekend. I don't own a scale but I think I have lost a little bit this week, but prob not more than 1 lb. We will see soon if I am right. Although I won't be able to post it till I get back from the weekend trip.

Jay, Your posts are always so thoughtful, you seem like a person I would love to sit down and have a conversation with. I'm sorry you haven't found that with someone from your church. Are you specifically looking for a male companion or do you just want a companion--female or male? I say that because even though I love my boyfriend I often feel like girls are better for great convos. If you like talking about politics maybe you can join a town committee for whatever topic and get engaged with interesting people there?

Speedy, glad to hear that you won't let you're taking care of yourself and keeping yourself a priority above the ex.

And congrats Montana on moving down a size and fitting into new (old) jeans! I loveeeeee when that happens.