***Losing 100 in 2007 *** Week of Aug 27-Sept 2

[kbetz0419]

anniepie- welcome to the group- This will be the time you stay on and on and on plan. You can do it!

Tiffani penny and dream- sound like you gals are doing great,

tiffani- I do the I lost my 1 yo or I lost my 3 year old. I actually wraped them around my waste and ran threw the house one day screaming. all the kids alughed...I am I reading that rite? You have lost 34 pounds since july 27? Impressive!

[kbetz0419]

Ok now all about me. Me , Me , Me, Me. I want to talk about me, I want to talk about I, I want to talk about number one oh me oh my. Ok enough being silly.
I'll start with an update and I will try and keep it as short and to the point, but rember its me jabber, jabber, jabber.

Thursday-1 year old had surgery and come threw it ok. had tonsils and adnods removed. Work done with his urinary sytem and urethra reflux. DR seems to think we have it 95%undercontrol for now. He spent 2 long days in the hospital.

Friday- My 8 year old had his first spelling test and missed 0 100%. WOW. 1 YO came home from hospital. 3 Y/O getting worse from his tonsils last week. ( not doing well, started throwing up)( gastric reflux acting up) Throat contuning to dry up due to not takeing fluid by mouth. We had been told to cut his tube feeds back to 1 a day in staed 3.5. The plan was to make him so hungry that he would drink. ( wrong, he dosnt eat even when hes hungry) I talked with DR about my concerns that my sons breath smells much like the nurseing home when some one was on death bead ( i used to be a nurse aid) I told him I think hes got an infection. Dr says finish the antibiotic and keep pushing fluids threw mouth. OK, If You Say So! They gave him another RX for codien. 8 days on codien so far. Every 3 hours.

Saturday morning- 1 YO doing ok breath not smelling like 3 YO. Hmm I wonder to my self why? Getting worried. My 3 YO is barly moveing, and laying around. I told DH thats it, I am going to the ER. ( throat specialist is off till tuesday) On the way to our local hospital, we passed the peds office. I ran in and asked if one of the associates could look at him. I wanted a peditrican to see him. They only had 1 there and were running behind. They sent me to the ER. So like I said, we went to the local ER not the childrens hospital an hour away. ( big mistake!). The ER DR. said " well its only been a week and some kids get an odor to there breath. I said NO, he is not active. The DR then tells me that since my son is delayed it may effect him diffrently. What is this DR on? He offered us a script for Codien. I have plenty of codien. I can give the DR some codien. LOL. I said I really think he needs more antibiotic. He ran out friday. The DRs alway say finish it even if you feel better, well he got worse not better, and now it is gone. I sighed very loudly and said" are you going to give him an RX for an anti biotic or do I have to drive to childrens hospital? He said ok, I will give you enough to get him threw untill tuesday. I quickly jumped in and said good, than I get him to a real DR. ( I know it was bad, but this guy was off). I took the RX to target and talked to the pharma. He has kind of become a support for our family. I said lets do some brain storming of what is going on. The best we could figure out was he just needed a different antibiotic. We had it filled and I left.

Ok so how many of you have figured out why my sons is going down hill so fast, besides the antibioic?

He is starving to death. His body is eating it self. Keto Breath! It never occured to any one. Every one said when he gets hungry enough he will eat/drink. Every one said he needs to keep his throat mostend. I foolishly listened to them. ( he has a tube for a reason)
I had told all the DRs that he has not had a BM in days They said sometimes the anestasa can cause constipation. He normally has diarea. I said ok I followed orders to just give him one 8 oz tube feed a day, and put the rest in cups.

It is now saturday night and I have him on a constant slow drip tube feed. I am so upset that no one includeing myself put the rotten breath with malnutrion. ( The DRs should have known by the severty of the stench.) He had become the "stinky kid". I could smell him from the front of the van to the middle. My 5 YO was gagging from the smell. I went and bought smarties to make him salavate and I am going against DR's orders. I am tubbing my son before he gets hospitalized.

[kbetz0419]

I almost forgot to post my loss I lost 3 this week and I have a total of 8 miles in. I did alot of walking on the hospital track.

I see we have a few new comers. Wecome to every one. This is a great group to be in.

I have to find a way to kick up my weight loss besides stress, not eating. I went tonight to the store and bought some 1 carb turkey and swiss to get threw the next few days. I really need to get some relief.

[Dreamcometru]

Hey everyone. Did my 6 mile walk this am. Going again tomorrow. My Polar said I burned 804 calories, so we have really pumped up the pace.

Kbetz: Aww, I sure hope your little one gets better. You are such a good mom to stay on top of the situation. We had a situation with DD1 when she was 6. We had to fight to get her into the hospital and after four trips to ER and the clinic, they finally figured out she needed to be admitted. It takes pro action on the part of the parent to stay on top of the docs. They think they are perfect and so much smarter than we are but we know our kids better than anyone. Oh, and bless your heart, congrats on your 3 lb loss, although not a fun way to lose.

Lisa: I knew it. You always get these amazing whooshes. Good for you. Congrats on such a huge loss! It takes me months to lose that much.

Jennifer: Great job! 6.5 for the month is great. Since I lost less than that over the last two months, I would love to drop that much in a month. Fabulous!

Anniepie. A lb is a lb. Great job! Take it when you can get it.

Tiffani: You are also doing great. Fantastic for all you losers. Let's keep it going.

[kbetz0419]

dream 6 miles- great job. I want a tredmill for the house. Maybe a late christmas gift with a tax return. I also want cabel, so I can watch TV and walk. LOL

[InTheProcess]

UGGGG sometimes I have the "holidays" this is the first I've sat at my desk all night errr day for that matter.


And going with the theme :Me , Me , Me, Me. I want to talk about me, I want to talk about I, I want to talk about number one oh me oh my.

So I got on the scale this morning and it says 239.2 ummm YEAH BUDDY!!!!! Almost 9lbs. Will it continue to be that much or is it just because I'm a Fatty McFat and just starting. HMM?

The eating wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, and I usually wasn't hungry. Today for instance @10:30pm am eating something for the day, yeah........ohhh wait I ate a half slice of banana bread that I made here at work just to make sure it tasted good before I gave out the other loafs of it.


What I think:

Tiffani ~ 2lb is great.
Myattz ~ 6.8lbs that's a baby jesus right there.
Jennifer ~ 6.5lbs is AWESOME every little bit helps. Just step by step, lb by lb.
Kbeztz ~ 3lbs and 8 miles (did you see Eminem) inspiration to me WTG
Dreams ~ 6 miles in one day....ooooucchh my calves hurt just reading that. I am in awweeee!

You guys are doing absolutely wonderful keep it up....errr I mean down!


What I like:
Diet Barqs Rootbeer....oh so creamy
ohhh ohhh ohhh and that I have tomorrow offffffffffffffffff! GO ME!




What I know:
Everyone is going to do FANTASTICALLY FABULOUSLY next week!!!



What I want:
My feet rubbed and beer!


What I see:
The numbers on the scale going down down down!
and no beer!


Here's hoping that the banana bread didn't ruin me!!!!!! AHAHAHA!

Have fun
~Shauna

[kbetz0419]

Shauna- why dont you try rubbing your feet in the beer. Maybe a little might absorb. LOL
I love your energy today. I am dragging about a mile behind my self. You are a shot of caffine for me today. thank you.We will all benifit from you today.
9 pounds is a great job. As you guessed it may slow down. I have seen people drop 5 pounds a week all the time ,but it is usualy 1-2 a week when you average it for the month. It also seems the younger you are and the less meds you are on seem to make a diffrenece on speed. Some people are sensitive to thinks called franken foods. These are the things like shakes, bars cookies and candies that are low carb. Some find that too much bacon, lunch meat and cheese slow them down. Every one is different. I am for the next few days liveing on low sodium turkey lunch meat and swiss cheese, eggs and what ever I can begg my husband to cook on the grill when ever he stops by.
with every one now sick( yes I said every one) On top of DS1 and DS2 recovering , we have all picked up nasty sore throats and chest congetion. I am just going to try and make it threw this week with out any gain (I might have some water gain due to lunch meat. I have to get get to the store today an buy 7 cuks and 7 green peppers to keep some good carbs. I am also going to pick up some chicken broth. Like I said, I am expecting a water gain but I know I can drop that in 2 days. ( just going to make threw my first personal illness being back on lC. I remember tears ago I ate shreeded cheese. And I sipped on crystal lights morning sunrise.( not at the same time)

[kbetz0419]

Today DH is working from 5 am- 9 pm. One of his managers got in a little bit of toulbe and some how DH ended up working a double on his normal day off. Does working a double seem odd to any one else in this situation? Why not a single? I kept asking him why he has to work both shifts and he grunts back at me " he has to cover the restraunt" He is tired of playing nurse aid with me. Aggggghhhhh. Husbands. Some times I think I have an extra child not a hubby. Oh well I guess he knows when he has had enough and if hes not going to be much help than he might as well go to work. To bad he is salary. The extra money would be nice.

[mycattaz]

Originally Posted by InTheProcess

What I think:

Tiffani ~ 2lb is great.
Myattz ~ 6.8lbs that's a baby jesus right there.
Jennifer ~ 6.5lbs is AWESOME every little bit helps. Just step by step, lb by lb.
Kbeztz ~ 3lbs and 8 miles (did you see Eminem) inspiration to me WTG
Dreams ~ 6 miles in one day....ooooucchh my calves hurt just reading that. I am in awweeee!

You guys are doing absolutely wonderful keep it up....errr I mean down!


What I like:
Diet Barqs Rootbeer....oh so creamy
ohhh ohhh ohhh and that I have tomorrow offffffffffffffffff! GO ME!




What I know:
Everyone is going to do FANTASTICALLY FABULOUSLY next week!!!



What I want:
My feet rubbed and beer!


What I see:
The numbers on the scale going down down down!
and no beer!


Here's hoping that the banana bread didn't ruin me!!!!!! AHAHAHA!

Have fun
~Shauna

Shauna you make me laugh... thanks needed that.....lol

baby Jesus?.... lol oK thats a good visual....
WTG on everyone's losses.... everyone is doing great.... KUTGW

So glad you childrean are better this Am... KBETz..... it tuff when the kids are sick and you feel like you just can't do enough to make them feel better....

Dream I notice your stats are going down, down down... WTG girly

will be back later... everyone have a great day!

[kbetz0419]

Update on my 3 Y/O he had 24 oz of resource pumped into him between last night and about an hour ago. He is getting his wiggle back and his breath is improveing. My 1 Y/O isn't aloud a bath untill tuesday because of his catheder. He is doing ok with ever thing. If he ever falls asleep I am going to sneak a good smelly bubble bath into my 3 Y/O to see if I can get his poors to open up and release. He is useing markers next to me rite now. I love him so much!

I have been rambeling on so I have made a few posts, I lost 3 days of this so read me or ignore me. I just need to let it out, before I return to my old ways of letting the carbs in. ( nope not happening this time!) I AM WOMEN HERE ME ROAR LOW CARB!

I wanted to thank all of you for your thoughts understanding in my rambeling lately about me kids. I just have 1 real life friend that I can talk to and my DH and my Dad. I try not to tell my school mom friends any thing. People seem to think I am some sort of mircle mom, and the tuth is I am just floating along hopeing that I am doing what I am supposed to be doing. I used to worry about makeing a lot of money in life and haveing fancy things. I have had this strange fealing that grows stronger all the time. It started 3 year ago when I was in the hospital and I thought I wasnt going to make it home. Every since than my out look at life has been trying to find my purpose. I think it is to just be a mom to my kids. I still keep syaing that I will go back to school when my 1 YO starts school
(maybe before), but I have to figure out what it is that I am supposed to be doing. I am pretty sure I am ment to be a care giver. It may be teacher,social worker, nurse, or maybe even something like a respatory therapist. I dont know. Part of me tries to say worry about being able to support your family when the time comes and the nagging part of me says get ready incase you ever need it.I could take one class at a time or 2 when the kids are doing well. If I never needed to work full time I would still have not wasted my time. All of these jobs could be done part time and most could be in home care. I love seeing people stay in there homes. Nurseing homes are ok, but home is where I would want to be if it was me. Most people would say you are 28 why are you so worried about 20 years from now. You are a stay at home mom with 4 kids.
Please tell me that I am not way over worring?
My husband is 42 ( not old) but has diabetes, had 1 mild heart attach 2 years ago and has a strong family of heart dissese and cancer. He gets so made at me when he knows I am worrying. I have 4 kids and I know that every cent that he makes is sometime barly enough to pay our simple life. If the days every comes I want to be able to help. We did do this program with our mortage that we willbe able to pay it off 6 years and 3 months earlier. That will make him about 65 when it is paid for. He has life insurance at work and we are working on putting a out side policy into the budget. I would like to get one for both of us , but I think if I can get down below 200 before I turn 30 I will be able to get a decent rate.I ahve even thought about paying a years premium with each tax return. ( we get back alot) What do other 28 year olds think about? This cant be normal. What is going on with me? Why am I worring so much and why am I telling you guys this stuff?

I need to start a journal, but I am not sure how to do it on here? any one know how?

[AnniePie]

Hello!
Yay I'm so happy, I am down to 217 today! I am kind of surprised because we have been eating out the last two days. I have been sticking to chicken salad mostly. We had some friends over yesterday and of corse everyone wanted to eat out. I made them go to boston market so I would be sure to stick to plan. I am still trying to convince dh that corn is not a proper vegie. So after two weeks of nothing, none, nope, nada, I am down about 4 pounds in 3 days that is so cool.

Shauna is the diet coke made with splenda the coke zero? As far as deserts go, I found a great recipie for low carb fudge and pumpkin cheesecake over on sugarfreeshiela.com The cheesecakes are great, I make a batch up(makes 4 servings) and freeze 2 for the next week. Now I have to go find the banana breas recipie

Tiffani I am going to borrow your line about Labor day lol. I have a 7 year old and a 4 year old. They have it so easy! I am a SAHM so I take care of all the house cleaning....all I remember when I was 7 I knew how to load the dishwasher (the rite way), vaccum, and scrub the bathroom. My kids hear the vaccum cleaner and run in fear for their life

Seriously though, congrats on the 7 pounds and high 5 on the pilates! I must have about 12 pilates/yoga workouts on tape and I havent pulled those babies out in ages.

Lisa How are ya? I am going to the store today to get me some Jalepenos!

Jennifer I am a real slow looser, I don't think I have ever lost more then 8 in a month. Hang in there, I hear September is a great month for weight loss.

Kbetz and more . I hope everyone gets better soon. I am 30 and a big time worry wart! My mind is always filled with the what if's. I think you need a break. Maybe you could get out and have some "me" time. Go walk the mall, or have a coffee at a book store, maybe see a movie. I'll tell you it works for me! Sometimes you just need to refresh yourself.

Well everyone have a great Sunday!

[kbetz0419]

Annie pie-Wow thats great 4 pounds in 3 days. You have been visited by the woosh fairy!
I think a refreash day would be a good idea. I have to get threw today and monday first. My 8 &5 Y/O and more than likely my 3 Y/O will go back to school on tuesday. I may get a sitter for my 1 Y/O or I might just take him with me.
Tuesday morning from 9-11:30 is going to be my me time.

[AnniePie]

kbetz - yay me time! I like to go shopping. It doesn't have to be for me, any kind of shopping gets me out of a slump. I spent the day out yesterday, just me and a couple of girlfriends and it was great. I felt so good eating my chicken salad while they were chowing down chicken strips, rice...the whole nine yards lol.

ohh how funny I thought when people were talking about woosh they were saying that they went to the bathroom and had a woosh. And I was like man I wish I could have a 3 pound woosh

[kbetz0419]

outch a 3 pound woosh in the bath room would not be fun. I have to tell you some thing strange though. I have thought about weighing myself befor I go to the basthroom and than after , just to see. LOL. I know I'm gross.

Ok so I am not haveing any me time today except on here. LOL.

I am burning up some stress and calories with my laundry. I am doing the endless piles of clothes on my basement floor. I was shocked to find out that It was cement and not a cotton blend. BIG Ha Ha Ha!. I find that house work helps get my edge back in life. We have to many hand me around coats down there and when I finsih the lunadry I am going to give them a good wash, and donate them. I ment to do it weeks ago. It will soon be that time of year.
Wow I am starting to feel better, just talking/posting and getting physically buisy. Thanks Annie pie for being around this morning.

[Divine Miss M]

Kbetz: I am furious for your son's sake that the doctors are so stupid! Thank goodness you figured out what to do and knew how to do it!

Don't get me started on doctors...in my experience, 1 of out 12 is a truly good, knowledgeable, and caring doctor. The 2nd is passable, and the rest are conceited fools. And that's all I will say on that score. I will now bite my tongue, but not too hard.

Today I dropped 1.2 lbs. (yesterday was a maintain). I've been doing Atkins 72, Week 1 for the past few days...basically, view it as KE with added fats (butter for eggs, a bit of ranch dressing on boneless, skinless chicken breast). Still, amts. were low - like 42 fat grams and 21 carb grams, proteins at 111, calories at 986.

Tomorrow I'll start Kimkins again.

May you all have wonderful Sunday!

[mycattaz]

http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/weight-loss-journals/

Kbetz here is where you can start a journal... just go to where it says start new journal and start from there...


I remember when I was about 32... I had did alittle of everything... was a cake decorator at the time had taught classes for wilton and that was my life.... I was married at the time to a guy who I thought was absolutly wonderful.... a couple days after his birthday he left me, not warning, nothing.... he just left while I was at work.... I pour myself in to reading the word.... I needed to know I was not alone.... reading the word became very important to me.... the Lord was showing me something.... it was shortly after my ex left me that My mom and dad decided to move to florida... and wanted me and the kids to move with them..... so that is what we are going to do..... the Lord was really impressing upon me to work with kids... I had been working with kids before had a 4 -H group.... did it mostly because I had kids of my own... and I wanted to be a part of their life....

when I went to florida, I got out and begin to look for a job.... there was a ad in the paper for a living faciliaty for the elderly and i went to apply...... I was talking to the guy and he said.... These are our kids and we are here to take care of them.... it hit me like a ton of brick... a hot rush went over my body... I knew without any doult the Lord wanted me to work with the elderly..... And from that day that became not only a job, but my passion in life... I had so much love to give and who else needed my love more then anyone....

I was injured after many years of doing this... loved every minute of it... but the Lord had even a bigger plan for my life... thats when he brought my husband of almost 8 years back into my life.... He was someone I knew from my teenage years.... I was dating his brother....well, not really dating, he was bedridden due to a accident he was in... but, during that time I became close to the whole family.... even after we broke up, we still stayed in touch... but during that time, I had a big crush on his younger brother and all the years after that I always thought about him and wonder what it would have been life if we had gotten married..... then on December 13 1999 I called his brother and talked to him... I did this every year around christmas.... and then called his mom and talked to him..... When I got off the phone with her, she went and told him he knew who his next wife should be( HIs wife was killed in automoble accident earlier that year) and he laughed at her, then she told him who it was.... and he said he went into his bedroom and he couldn't believe it.... because he had always had a big crush on me.... he said he was in love with me then and just never told me because I was seeing his brother...

well, I am trying to make this shorter...lol.... Oh December 14 he called me...told me, that he was always in love with me.... I laughed at him and told him that he had not seen me in over 23 years..... he said it didn't matter, he remember my heart..... well on December 22 on my way to tennessee to see my parents for Christmas ( they had moved there a few months earlier) I stop in birmingham... and on December 28th we were married... blew everyones mind....it was like we had never been apart from each other.....

Getting back to my passion... the elderly i know they are alot of work...but its so worth it... they are beautiful people that if we would just take the time and listen, they can teach us so much....

will be back later

[kbetz0419]

Divine- yay 1.2 pounds. I always like to see what your doing. Its like watching CNN. What has she discovered and how will she make it work. Well done! Divine I actually can thank you and every one here for knowing how to make my son better. I dont think I would have thought about keto breath if we didnt talk about it so much.

Lisa great story, so ramantic. I walked into a pizza shop almost 7 years ago desperate for a job. I was recently divorced with a 1 year old. First marriage, BAD NEWS!. Any way one of the gals sent out the manager and the guy started looking at me and trying to talk. His eye kept twitching. I thought what is wrong with this guy? He couldnt get it together so he handed me a application and went into the office. I filled it out and turned it in. I guess moments after this manager came back out, and he was upset with his employee for letting me leave. He called me on the phone and offered me the full time delevery job working M-F days only that I needed. This wasnt even a positon. I worked there for about 3 months with my manager going out of his way to come in during the day even though he normally worked nights. I brought in my son a few times for this and that, and my manager went nuts over him. It was Aug 10 the day before he was to be off for a week. He decided to help me carry out the small pizza to my car because I might need help. My son walked. Any way he kept makeing small talk and then finally handed me a buissness card that also had his cell # printed on it. He said if I had any trouble the next week to call him. I thought ok? Then he said or if you just get bored and want to talk. Ok, now I defanitly know why he twitched his eye every time he was around me. Needless to say, I made up a reason of saying that I wanted to know about insurance benifits and called him the next day. The insurance talk lasted 2 minutes and then we talked about an hour. The next day we met in another town and a park with my son. He was alreday in love and I fell in love. It was only a total of 6 months that I new him before we got married. I had to find a diffrent job fast . I gave a notice right away and we only ended up working 1 week after he returned from being off. We kept things quiet for a few months but when we got maried he got fired.We only worked 1 week together while dateing. His district suppervisor didn't believe that we hadn't been dateing longer than we had. Alot of people said we were nuts but we are still together today. By the way I did not get pregnant untill 6 months after we were married. People thought I must have been preg. Nope. And he wasnt looking for a young hot chick because I weighed 250 at the time. I wasnt looking for a sugar daddy because He got fired actually 2 days before we got married.




And to end this with ,yes Lisa, I agree the elderly is a great bunch of people to help. I love working with them and kids because they are the ones who unfortunitly are the ones who get taken advantage of and need the most help. These are the groups that most people stear away from.

[mycattaz]

Awwww.... thats so sweet Kbetz.... I love stories like yours... so romantic... its neat how people meet.... my mom and dad will be married 53 years on tuesday.... they meet when dad was a taxy driver and mom cousin knew dad and called him to come and take them some place..... He said for him it was love at first site....


a couple in our church will also be married 53 years tomorrow.... he said this morning they have only had one arguement, it started after they said I do and is still going on today....lol.... they are such a cute couple....

[kbetz0419]

Lisa, That couples argument is so cute. I'm sure I am not alone in this, but it seems like once you are married for a while you just have the same arguments over and over again. It is always nice though when a point that I had been trying to make to my DH for along time, he uses in a conversation with some one else. For example, due to the kidos ages I monitor what they watch on TV. I belive it should have some sort of value. It can be moral or eduactional. They watch clifford, seseme street, dragon tales, barny, cyber chase, veggie tales dora the explorer, care bears, or any disney movie. ( There just fun to watch) I heard my husband tell one of his employees that he dosnt let the kids watch sponge bob, because there is no Value!. My mouth dropped open. This was from the man whos family has and still does raise children onBevis and butt head, the simpsons,and south park. These may be cartoons but they were not created for children. I guess I have finnally won that argument. 1 down about a half dozen to go. Dont stop me now, I'm on a roll ( Low carb of course)

Lisa, by the way my DH still once in awhile gets a twitch in his eye. He dosnt even know he is doing it but it is usually when we are all dressed up. Maybe when I hit wonderland he will have an eye spasam for a week.LOL

[kbetz0419]

Hey gals, Lisa and I started something fun here. Does any one want to share how they met there partner? Or,how some one else they know met there partner? Lets have an awwww how sweet day!

[mycattaz]

Originally Posted by kbetz0419

Lisa, by the way my DH still once in awhile gets a twitch in his eye. He dosnt even know he is doing it but it is usually when we are all dressed up. Maybe when I hit wonderland he will have an eye spasam for a week.LOL

Even though I want to lose weight so badly for so many reason, my dh is scared to death I am going to look different when I do lose it.... so I can't wait to see what he says when I get to onderland