300+ Support Group-Peach Blossoms-The month of Of MARCH - Page 24

eaglesmate · 03-25-2008, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Need2LoseNow

hi everyone! im gonna go ahead and apologize up front....im SO not gonna try and read all these pages! lol...anyone wanna give me a cliffs notes version of how everyone's doing?

me, im back from the brink of death!! okay, i have a tendency towards dramatics.

however, ive been sick for around 2.5 weeks, and thats why ive been absent for so long....things got rather alarming last week when i had a fever of 105 degrees along with a severe sinus infection. so i was pretty much incapacitated for a while...it was rough. and it was a completely off plan time, since my food of choice during times of illness is ramen noodles and apple juice. its a throwback from my childhood

im feeling better now, but after emerging from bed for the first time in 5 days on easter i went out to my car to find that it had been broken into, which is just lovely! the only thing of consequence that was taken was my social security card....so, that sucks hard.

on the weight front, im stuck at 381....which is a result of me just not getting back on plan yet. but i will be going to the grocery store soon and taking care of that.

i hope all is well with everyone, and i missed you all!

welcome back! we missed you, glad you are starting to feel better!

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Originally Posted by behind_the_mask

Hello everyone... just checking in and saying hi.

Des~ your pictures from the past year are AMAZING!!! You are such an inpiration!!!

hi!

pescacat · 03-25-2008, 12:46 PM

Need2-Sorry to hear you were sick! Glad to know you're doing better and hope you recover completely very soon! Alos, what a bummer about your car getting broken into! Hope everything is ok with that and I'd call the soc sec dept and ask about what to do about your card ASAP! Glad to see ya back with us and take care!

--Laura

ValerieisGoing4it · 03-25-2008, 01:34 PM

Need2 - glad to see you! Sorry to hear you were sick. Glad to have you back and feeling better.
Well, my over the limit carb weekend didn't turn out as bad as I thought. I weighed 304 this morning. So that's only 1 pound loss this week. But it could have been worse, so I'll take it!
Hope everyone is having a good day!

pescacat · 03-25-2008, 01:49 PM

*Yay!* Valerie! Glad to know the news wasn't too bad! Take care!!

--Laura

Zer · 03-25-2008, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Need2LoseNow

... ive been sick for around 2.5 weeks....on the weight front, im stuck at 381....which is a result of me just not getting back on plan yet. but i will be going to the grocery store soon and taking care of that. i hope all is well with everyone, and i missed you all!

Sick time is sometimes a harsh way to lose weight, as food loses its appeal. Comfort food at such a time is often all one can manage. So climb back aboard and let's get to working together on our shared goals. So glad you are back!!!

hippiegirl · 03-25-2008, 08:58 PM

I'm still here. I've been reading, but not posting. Letting crap affect my psyche.

But no more!

I did hit the 50 lb mark awhile ago - did I already tell you guys that?

I've read everything, but don't have it in me to do personals. Just know that I'm thinking of you.

And if you have it in you, please send some positive thoughts and prayers my way - I could really use them right now!

Zer · 03-25-2008, 09:08 PM

Made it past a box of stale donuts today, midday, and am struggling to avoid going back to the kitchen today. I know those are awful carbs and not worth sacrificing my LC self on the altar of wasteful indulgence. These are not food that I'd offer to a homeless person, so why am I considering eating them? Why? How I wish I understood what it is that motivates me to shovel empty carbs into myself as if it was a special 'reward' or a delicacy. It's awful food. Stale.

But I am absolutely sure that I'd eat one or all (4 or 5) of them if I drift back to proximity, having twice opened the box to 'check out the contents' when I was passing by earlier today. By the grace of god, I did not do more than poke at what I knew to be rigid dried cake covered in god-awful tasteless frosting. Agh! Hopefully they will be eaten or disposed of when next I pass that counter. If I can, that will be at least 12hrs from now, long after I've done what I can to get myself nourished tonight - maybe with a hot slosh of WPP+cacao+VCO - and a similarly nourishing hot slosh to start off my Wed morn (after my midweek sneak-peek to weigh myself - with a slight chance of seeing 415 or so on my talking scales). Oh, I hope I can distract myself and avoid passing that way tonight. I know 40g of protein in a hot slosh will satisfy me, although I'd like to pass up the 500calories if I can get by with a drink of water and a handful of pumpkin seeds - the ones with husks intact that seem mostly fiber as I chew their woody papery hulls. Lots of zinc too!

Pray for me, please, if you pass this way and can feel how I'm struggling.

Zer · 03-25-2008, 09:18 PM

Sending you positive thoughts. Hope you have taken steps to get advice on how best to put a stop to the annoyance that is affecting your psyche. Action is often the best remedy for anything that saps our strength. Positive action CAN stop the downhill skid/spin that inertia initiates. Do for yourself NOW just what you'd advise a friend - someone you care for deeply - to do in the same situation. Sometimes I have to see myself as My Own Best Friend to figure out what is my Perfect Right Action. Stepping outside my fear gives me a different perspective, brings out the Tiger in me.

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Originally Posted by hippiegirl

I'm still here. I've been reading, but not posting. Letting crap affect my psyche. But no more!

...please send some positive thoughts and prayers my way - I could really use them right now!

And you too, pray for me as I battle my own demons and fight the urge to give in to carbs calling to me, enticing me to betray my own best interests, to give in, to give up on myself. I hate carbs!

Zer · 03-25-2008, 10:04 PM

Funny how sometimes just writing things out resolves what seems to be 'hunger' and dulls the urge to do something destructive - like eat as a pastime.

Am I hungry? I don't think so. I maybe DO need some protein. Might do a tin of sardines, just to make sure my cells have some nourishment. Might also do a hot slosh, but I think that 500calories will mess up my chances of a good loss on the scales for my midweek peek, where I am truly hoping to see 415 <g>.

So what if I am hungry, truly deserving of some food, some protein. Can I sit with the feeling, drink a bit of water, let myself feel hungry until the feeling passes? Thin people do that all the time, observe hunger as a feeling that will pass with time. It's only fat folks who regard 'hunger' as a 4-alarm urgency, a call to avoid famine and starvation that might set in if food is not stuffed into a mouth. What gives? I can sit and feel what might be 'hunger', as I sip water and explore the possibility that a handful of pumpkin seeds or freeze-dried crans (they crunch at first, then are chewy and bitter - yum!) is just as good as a bellyfull of stale donuts. Yeah, I know. They are still on the back of my mind. I'm thinking I might go scramble an egg or two, but I know too well that once I'm in the kitchen, I'll eat stale baked goods as if it is going out of style. I can stuff a donut in while an egg is cooking. Oh, damn!

But inertia is working on my side. I'm more likely to lie here typing than to rise and struggle to walk to the kitchen. Yay for inertia. My friend at night!

Zer · 03-25-2008, 10:07 PM

I feel as if I'm talking to myself in here tonight. Maybe lurkers are here? Or is all the world except me asleep, dreaming of dancing in slim bodies. Oh, well.

hippiegirl · 03-25-2008, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Zer

Sending you positive thoughts. Hope you have taken steps to get advice on how best to put a stop to the annoyance that is affecting your psyche. Action is often the best remedy for anything that saps our strength. Positive action CAN stop the downhill skid/spin that inertia initiates. Do for yourself NOW just what you'd advise a friend - someone you care for deeply - to do in the same situation. Sometimes I have to see myself as My Own Best Friend to figure out what is my Perfect Right Action. Stepping outside my fear gives me a different perspective, brings out the Tiger in me. And you too, pray for me as I battle my own demons and fight the urge to give in to carbs calling to me, enticing me to betray my own best interests, to give in, to give up on myself. I hate carbs!

Good advice, to treat myself as I would my best friend.

And here are some prayers for you, friend...

DIYninja · 03-26-2008, 02:22 AM

hippie- positive thoughts your way

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Has anyone had an absolute crazy scale day? i got on, was excited about it, did it again, the same thing. did it again and its totally different, again same as the second different. again and its the first weight? im talking a pound one way (which is a pound down) to the same as yesterday. to the weight i weighed the day before.

i am all mixed up

i am afraid to log in my weight low in case tomorrow it wasnt correct. i wonder why its all over the place. its digital btw.

Maybe ll try in another few minutes

DIYninja · 03-26-2008, 04:53 AM

ok well an update. the details are in my blog but.... wowza! im going to log in the new weight that went thee times in a row a few hours later.

pescacat · 03-26-2008, 05:27 AM

Zer-
hang in there. Btw, if the donuts are stale and should not be eaten, why not throw them away?? Then, they are in the trash (where they belong) and you won't be tempted by them (hopefully, although I know of some people who actually dug stuff out of the trash and ate it later...if it was still in the wrapper/box and not messed up but I'm not likely to ever do that-are you? Once it is in the trash, it is off my list of possible things to eat) Who is bringing these items into your living space/kitchen and why do they have to leave them out? I know all too well when something carby is in the house and in plain view, it can really call to you and all self control can vanish like a vapor in the wind.Hope the hunger and pull of the carbs passed without you eating too many cranberries or pumpkin seeds so the scale will tell ya something nice. **hugs**

Kim-here's sending you positive thoughts and prayers! **hugs** Anything I can help with? feel free to PM me.

Hope everyone has a great day!

--Laura

Zer · 03-26-2008, 06:32 AM

Scale was crabby this ayem and said ERROR as the weights flashed and I tried to stand steady enough to allow scale to find a reading. Got on twice and am going to accept 413.2 as a useful bit of data for today, as it was the final figure (even as the scale growled ERROR at me). Figures flashing ranged from 413.8 to 412.0 - but the final steady figure was 413.2 (down from 416.8, Mon 3/24 at midnight). Makes me glad I settled on sardines last night for a protein boost at 11pm (instead of browsing carbs in the kitchen or even doing a hot slosh). Got 20g of protein into me and felt quite satisfied - tummywise and spiritwise too.

I'm off to change stats, add data to my signature. Have a great LC day today!

Zer · 03-26-2008, 07:00 AM

Shared kitchen space means I do not trash stuff that is not mine. Period. I'm not sure who donated donuts, as host has been away for a week and I cannot lay blame on landlord. Just have to figure that someone brought donuts in, put them out to share. Sometimes I find great stuff, like salmon from a dinner that someone did not finish. Fridge is worth a quick check, if it gives me a lovely piece of salmon for a snack! I donate what I cannot use myself, figuring the chicken that is not recommended for my blood type (B-neg) may be useful to someone else. Why trash it, if someone else can make a meal?

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Originally Posted by pescacat

... if the donuts are stale and should not be eaten, why not throw them away?? Then, they are in the trash (where they belong) and you won't be tempted by them.... Who is bringing these items into your living space/kitchen and why do they have to leave them out? I know all too well when something carby is in the house and in plain view, it can really call to you and all self control can vanish like a vapor in the wind.

Hope the hunger and pull of the carbs passed without you eating too many cranberries or pumpkin seeds so the scale will tell ya something nice.

I've got a vast supply of freeze-dried crans, having ordered 3# at once without a clue what a big box that would be! Great snacking. No sugar or sweetener of any kind - and great CRUNCH to each big round berry as it first come to me, then a chewy sour mouthful. JustTomatoes.com is source. I figure it's enough to kick over my metabolism, just a handful of cranberries so sour that no one can eat a lot. Using that and a pithy p'kin seed from NutsOnline.com (it's the spicy p'kin seed, with hulls, not the hull-less pepita) as snacks by the handful, when I want something to gnaw on. I think it is working well for me, creating digestive activity and adding fiber too.

With that and my fallback supply of sardines in olive oil, I feel satisfied and think that I can make a real dent in this weight that I've carried for more than half of my 64yrs now. I'm hopeful of finding myself at TWOterVille by the end of 2008. Yes, I truly think that I can do that, even as I am not quite into THREE-dom as April 1 approaches. With a little effort, I think I can do a really clean LC program for the five days between 3/26 and 3/31; six days to build my total-pounds-lost-in-March data (some of them lost more than once in March, sad to say, but...that's just the way my LC plan goes).

We all know that folks my size (413.2) CAN dump a lot of weight in six days!

April 2 is my next Midweek Peek. Eight days away. I think I can hope for a glimpse of THREE-dom as the scales skitter figures while I teeter unsteadily and hope to hear the scales intone a BIG THREE weight at me. What say?

cleochatra · 03-26-2008, 07:08 AM

Good morning gorjusses!

I hope you're all having great mornings! I am trying to think about what I want to eat today and have deadlines to hit and want to sit about being lazy instead of doing them.

I'm going to ban myself from LCF until they're completed, so I'm letting you know now.

If I don't show up for a few days, I'm working hard. Right now, I'm hardly working. It's hard to stay away from friends, especially when I don't want to do other stuff.

Love to my boopies!

Jamie

DIYninja · 03-26-2008, 07:16 AM

holy smokes zer.. youre going gangbusters! woohoo!!!

Zer · 03-26-2008, 07:17 AM

Cleo, hurry back to us, after you knock out your work and meet deadlines!

Zer · 03-26-2008, 07:23 AM

Edit: I'm feeling so good from this morning's hot slosh that I can imagine doing all 100# of THREEdom by NewYear's 2009 - and then busting my way into ONEderLand late in 2009, after kicking 100# of TWOterVille to the curb in 2009. What a dreamer, eh? After more than 30 (or 35?) years gestating at more than 400#. What a lot of ooomph in a hot slosh!

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Originally Posted by DIYninja

holy smokes zer.. youre going gangbusters! woohoo!!!

Thanks. I hope I'm not being silly, imagining that I can 'do' all of THREE-dom (not yet reached, but within sight - and maybe within reach as I see a week of committed LC eating between this Wed and next Wed-4/2) in just nine months. Nine months is time to gestate a baby, to bring forth a full textbook from manuscript to bound book. Can I hope to lose 100# in 9mos? Wonderful to think of entering 2009 at 299#, just in time for a new driver's license that I'll be getting pix for in 2/2009 (if I pass my driver's test at 65 and if the 1989 Plymouth passes state tests for fumes as I register it in 12/2008).

Nine months to pass through THREE-dom's 100# and to reach 299#? Maybe....

Zer · 03-26-2008, 07:34 AM

From 413.2 today, my goal is to hit or break my 410# mini-goal and show it in my signature on Saturday. Wish me luck. Wish me fortitude in bypassing all the carby challenges we ALL face from day to day as life 'happens' to all of us.

Here's hoping we all set - and meet - our goals this week!

Let's plan. Let's dream. Failing to plan is planning to fail!

eaglesmate · 03-26-2008, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by ValerieisGoing4it

Need2 - glad to see you! Sorry to hear you were sick. Glad to have you back and feeling better.
Well, my over the limit carb weekend didn't turn out as bad as I thought. I weighed 304 this morning. So that's only 1 pound loss this week. But it could have been worse, so I'll take it!
Hope everyone is having a good day!

a loss is a loss! great job!!

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Originally Posted by hippiegirl

I'm still here. I've been reading, but not posting. Letting crap affect my psyche.

But no more!

I did hit the 50 lb mark awhile ago - did I already tell you guys that?

I've read everything, but don't have it in me to do personals. Just know that I'm thinking of you.

And if you have it in you, please send some positive thoughts and prayers my way - I could really use them right now!

sending hugs and prayers!! hang in there hon.

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Originally Posted by Zer

Made it past a box of stale donuts today, midday, and am struggling to avoid going back to the kitchen today. I know those are awful carbs and not worth sacrificing my LC self on the altar of wasteful indulgence. These are not food that I'd offer to a homeless person, so why am I considering eating them? Why? How I wish I understood what it is that motivates me to shovel empty carbs into myself as if it was a special 'reward' or a delicacy. It's awful food. Stale.

But I am absolutely sure that I'd eat one or all (4 or 5) of them if I drift back to proximity, having twice opened the box to 'check out the contents' when I was passing by earlier today. By the grace of god, I did not do more than poke at what I knew to be rigid dried cake covered in god-awful tasteless frosting. Agh! Hopefully they will be eaten or disposed of when next I pass that counter. If I can, that will be at least 12hrs from now, long after I've done what I can to get myself nourished to

03-25-2008, 09:08 PM	#697
Zer Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SoCal (Orange County) Posts: 4,520 Blog Entries: 41 Gallery: Zer Stats: 5'10"; 64; 508.7/394.8/199 WOE: Atkins+ALG; BMR:2423cals; 182gProtein; 128ozWater Start Date: 432.4(2/8) 413.2(4/8) 402.2(6/8) 394.8(7/8)	9pm and all is well...so far... Made it past a box of stale donuts today, midday, and am struggling to avoid going back to the kitchen today. I know those are awful carbs and not worth sacrificing my LC self on the altar of wasteful indulgence. These are not food that I'd offer to a homeless person, so why am I considering eating them? Why? How I wish I understood what it is that motivates me to shovel empty carbs into myself as if it was a special 'reward' or a delicacy. It's awful food. Stale. But I am absolutely sure that I'd eat one or all (4 or 5) of them if I drift back to proximity, having twice opened the box to 'check out the contents' when I was passing by earlier today. By the grace of god, I did not do more than poke at what I knew to be rigid dried cake covered in god-awful tasteless frosting. Agh! Hopefully they will be eaten or disposed of when next I pass that counter. If I can, that will be at least 12hrs from now, long after I've done what I can to get myself nourished tonight - maybe with a hot slosh of WPP+cacao+VCO - and a similarly nourishing hot slosh to start off my Wed morn (after my midweek sneak-peek to weigh myself - with a slight chance of seeing 415 or so on my talking scales). Oh, I hope I can distract myself and avoid passing that way tonight. I know 40g of protein in a hot slosh will satisfy me, although I'd like to pass up the 500calories if I can get by with a drink of water and a handful of pumpkin seeds - the ones with husks intact that seem mostly fiber as I chew their woody papery hulls. Lots of zinc too! Pray for me, please, if you pass this way and can feel how I'm struggling. __________________ 432.4#(2/8/08)... Feb -5# / March -13# / April -5.8# / May -6# / June -6# July: 396.8(7/1) 395.8(7/2) 395.0(7/3) 394.8(7/8) 398.0(7/10) 394.8(7/12) 394.4(7/17) 398.8(7/19) 398.0(7/20) 395.0(7/22) Interim goals: 432.4 430 420 410 399 390 380 370 360 350 340 330 320 310 299(2/5/09) 290 280 270 260 250 240 230 220 210 199 5'10"; 64yrs; Your feedback is welcome at my blog Tango, anyone?

03-25-2008, 10:04 PM	#699
Zer Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SoCal (Orange County) Posts: 4,520 Blog Entries: 41 Gallery: Zer Stats: 5'10"; 64; 508.7/394.8/199 WOE: Atkins+ALG; BMR:2423cals; 182gProtein; 128ozWater Start Date: 432.4(2/8) 413.2(4/8) 402.2(6/8) 394.8(7/8)	10pm...and I got over my fear, got past my 'hunger'... Funny how sometimes just writing things out resolves what seems to be 'hunger' and dulls the urge to do something destructive - like eat as a pastime. Am I hungry? I don't think so. I maybe DO need some protein. Might do a tin of sardines, just to make sure my cells have some nourishment. Might also do a hot slosh, but I think that 500calories will mess up my chances of a good loss on the scales for my midweek peek, where I am truly hoping to see 415 <g>. So what if I am hungry, truly deserving of some food, some protein. Can I sit with the feeling, drink a bit of water, let myself feel hungry until the feeling passes? Thin people do that all the time, observe hunger as a feeling that will pass with time. It's only fat folks who regard 'hunger' as a 4-alarm urgency, a call to avoid famine and starvation that might set in if food is not stuffed into a mouth. What gives? I can sit and feel what might be 'hunger', as I sip water and explore the possibility that a handful of pumpkin seeds or freeze-dried crans (they crunch at first, then are chewy and bitter - yum!) is just as good as a bellyfull of stale donuts. Yeah, I know. They are still on the back of my mind. I'm thinking I might go scramble an egg or two, but I know too well that once I'm in the kitchen, I'll eat stale baked goods as if it is going out of style. I can stuff a donut in while an egg is cooking. Oh, damn! But inertia is working on my side. I'm more likely to lie here typing than to rise and struggle to walk to the kitchen. Yay for inertia. My friend at night!

03-25-2008, 10:07 PM	#700
Zer Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SoCal (Orange County) Posts: 4,520 Blog Entries: 41 Gallery: Zer Stats: 5'10"; 64; 508.7/394.8/199 WOE: Atkins+ALG; BMR:2423cals; 182gProtein; 128ozWater Start Date: 432.4(2/8) 413.2(4/8) 402.2(6/8) 394.8(7/8)	Is there an echo in here? I feel as if I'm talking to myself in here tonight. Maybe lurkers are here? Or is all the world except me asleep, dreaming of dancing in slim bodies. Oh, well.

03-26-2008, 02:22 AM	#702
DIYninja Senior LCF Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 103 Gallery: DIYninja Stats: 5'10"-338/324.2/305.0/299 mini/199 alltime for now WOE: Moderation, calories always under 1600 Start Date: 3-16-08	hippie- positive thoughts your way ---------- Has anyone had an absolute crazy scale day? i got on, was excited about it, did it again, the same thing. did it again and its totally different, again same as the second different. again and its the first weight? im talking a pound one way (which is a pound down) to the same as yesterday. to the weight i weighed the day before. i am all mixed up i am afraid to log in my weight low in case tomorrow it wasnt correct. i wonder why its all over the place. its digital btw. Maybe ll try in another few minutes __________________ Searching for One-derland... but to get to that i have to get through two-terville.. which is behind the door of Tri-pole! Super mini goal- Lose 60 pounds by september! So far lost 30--- 30 to go! Favorite Quote: "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -Albert Einstein My weightloss blog

03-26-2008, 06:32 AM	#705
Zer Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SoCal (Orange County) Posts: 4,520 Blog Entries: 41 Gallery: Zer Stats: 5'10"; 64; 508.7/394.8/199 WOE: Atkins+ALG; BMR:2423cals; 182gProtein; 128ozWater Start Date: 432.4(2/8) 413.2(4/8) 402.2(6/8) 394.8(7/8)	413.2 on Midweek Sneak Peek (but I saw 412.0 flash by) Scale was crabby this ayem and said ERROR as the weights flashed and I tried to stand steady enough to allow scale to find a reading. Got on twice and am going to accept 413.2 as a useful bit of data for today, as it was the final figure (even as the scale growled ERROR at me). Figures flashing ranged from 413.8 to 412.0 - but the final steady figure was 413.2 (down from 416.8, Mon 3/24 at midnight). Makes me glad I settled on sardines last night for a protein boost at 11pm (instead of browsing carbs in the kitchen or even doing a hot slosh). Got 20g of protein into me and felt quite satisfied - tummywise and spiritwise too. I'm off to change stats, add data to my signature. Have a great LC day today!

03-25-2008, 12:46 PM	#692
pescacat MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: May 2007 Location: USA Posts: 1,079 Gallery: pescacat Stats: 351.1/288.8/170 WOE: Atkins/Portion control/Exercise Start Date: 12/31/07	Need2-Sorry to hear you were sick! Glad to know you're doing better and hope you recover completely very soon! Alos, what a bummer about your car getting broken into! Hope everything is ok with that and I'd call the soc sec dept and ask about what to do about your card ASAP! Glad to see ya back with us and take care! --Laura

03-25-2008, 01:34 PM	#693
ValerieisGoing4it Senior LCF Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: South Carolina Posts: 95 Gallery: ValerieisGoing4it Stats: 336/288/149 Start Date: January 1, 2008	Need2 - glad to see you! Sorry to hear you were sick. Glad to have you back and feeling better. Well, my over the limit carb weekend didn't turn out as bad as I thought. I weighed 304 this morning. So that's only 1 pound loss this week. But it could have been worse, so I'll take it! Hope everyone is having a good day!

03-25-2008, 01:49 PM	#694
pescacat MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: May 2007 Location: USA Posts: 1,079 Gallery: pescacat Stats: 351.1/288.8/170 WOE: Atkins/Portion control/Exercise Start Date: 12/31/07	Yay! Valerie! Glad to know the news wasn't too bad! Take care!! --Laura

03-25-2008, 08:58 PM	#696
hippiegirl Mrs. Robbie Williams Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Idaho (but originally from Northern California) Posts: 3,580 Gallery: hippiegirl Stats: 325/267/175, 5'11" WOE: Atkins, unlimited lc veggies - yum!	I'm still here. I've been reading, but not posting. Letting crap affect my psyche. But no more! I did hit the 50 lb mark awhile ago - did I already tell you guys that? I've read everything, but don't have it in me to do personals. Just know that I'm thinking of you. And if you have it in you, please send some positive thoughts and prayers my way - I could really use them right now!

03-26-2008, 04:53 AM	#703
DIYninja Senior LCF Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 103 Gallery: DIYninja Stats: 5'10"-338/324.2/305.0/299 mini/199 alltime for now WOE: Moderation, calories always under 1600 Start Date: 3-16-08	ok well an update. the details are in my blog but.... wowza! im going to log in the new weight that went thee times in a row a few hours later.

03-26-2008, 05:27 AM	#704
pescacat MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: May 2007 Location: USA Posts: 1,079 Gallery: pescacat Stats: 351.1/288.8/170 WOE: Atkins/Portion control/Exercise Start Date: 12/31/07	Zer- hang in there. Btw, if the donuts are stale and should not be eaten, why not throw them away?? Then, they are in the trash (where they belong) and you won't be tempted by them (hopefully, although I know of some people who actually dug stuff out of the trash and ate it later...if it was still in the wrapper/box and not messed up but I'm not likely to ever do that-are you? Once it is in the trash, it is off my list of possible things to eat) Who is bringing these items into your living space/kitchen and why do they have to leave them out? I know all too well when something carby is in the house and in plain view, it can really call to you and all self control can vanish like a vapor in the wind.Hope the hunger and pull of the carbs passed without you eating too many cranberries or pumpkin seeds so the scale will tell ya something nice. hugs Kim-here's sending you positive thoughts and prayers! hugs Anything I can help with? feel free to PM me. Hope everyone has a great day! --Laura

03-26-2008, 07:08 AM	#707
cleochatra Blabbermouth!!! Join Date: May 2005 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 7,296 Gallery: cleochatra Stats: 350/264/125 WOE: Atkins Start Date: January 1, 2008	Good morning gorjusses! I hope you're all having great mornings! I am trying to think about what I want to eat today and have deadlines to hit and want to sit about being lazy instead of doing them. I'm going to ban myself from LCF until they're completed, so I'm letting you know now. If I don't show up for a few days, I'm working hard. Right now, I'm hardly working. It's hard to stay away from friends, especially when I don't want to do other stuff. Love to my boopies! Jamie __________________ National Low-Carb Examiner Columnist The Lighter Side of Low Carb blog Mid-Year Resolution Challenge member: 86 to lose/ 22 lost/ 64 pounds to go We Are Carbarella!

03-26-2008, 07:16 AM	#708
DIYninja Senior LCF Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 103 Gallery: DIYninja Stats: 5'10"-338/324.2/305.0/299 mini/199 alltime for now WOE: Moderation, calories always under 1600 Start Date: 3-16-08	holy smokes zer.. youre going gangbusters! woohoo!!!

03-26-2008, 07:17 AM	#709
Zer Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SoCal (Orange County) Posts: 4,520 Blog Entries: 41 Gallery: Zer Stats: 5'10"; 64; 508.7/394.8/199 WOE: Atkins+ALG; BMR:2423cals; 182gProtein; 128ozWater Start Date: 432.4(2/8) 413.2(4/8) 402.2(6/8) 394.8(7/8)	Cleo, hurry back to us, after you knock out your work and meet deadlines!

03-26-2008, 07:34 AM	#711
Zer Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SoCal (Orange County) Posts: 4,520 Blog Entries: 41 Gallery: Zer Stats: 5'10"; 64; 508.7/394.8/199 WOE: Atkins+ALG; BMR:2423cals; 182gProtein; 128ozWater Start Date: 432.4(2/8) 413.2(4/8) 402.2(6/8) 394.8(7/8)	Shooting for 410# on Saturday morn, just 3 days away. From 413.2 today, my goal is to hit or break my 410# mini-goal and show it in my signature on Saturday. Wish me luck. Wish me fortitude in bypassing all the carby challenges we ALL face from day to day as life 'happens' to all of us. Here's hoping we all set - and meet - our goals this week! Let's plan. Let's dream. Failing to plan is planning to fail! Last edited by Zer : 03-26-2008 at 07:36 AM.