300+ Support Group-May Flowers-The month of Of MAY

[Zer]

Once you find your exercise rhythm, the weight will probably drop right off.

Originally Posted by Doing this Again

...walking the dog on a serious “counts as the gym” walk.... I still weigh over 300 pounds! This is supposed to be the easy part when it works and works FAST b/c I have so much to lose. How am I going to hack this when it gets harder?... I’m here and haven’t screwed up too horribly. Just checking in.

Is that avatar your beautiful leggy dog? If so, I bet you burn some serious calories keeping up with those long legs on a walk or jog or run - or just a romp where you throw and your dog runs and fetches and wants you to throw again. Beats driving in traffic to get to a pool. Spending time with a dog is rewarding in itself - with all that affection and appreciation and no-strings-attached love that a dog offers. Have fun!

[pennylovesdarren]

Yay Zer on your loss! Cleo too! Wow girl! Everyone keep it up!

[debkeversole]

http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/be...l#post10277876

penny pincher's has a new thread for May! come on over AND SAVE MONEY!

[Hot Tamale]

I'm discouraged, too...but not giving up either. Sounds like several of us are having issues... People tell me I'm still losing - they can see it - but I've been losing and gaining the same 5 pounds since January! That's not right. I came home from work SO hungry - and its all I can do not to cheat. First I had some roast from last night. THen, some strawberries and cream. Next, some lindt chocolate with cream to make a mousse-like confection...still wanting to EAT. Not hungry (at that point...), mind you, just wanting MORE!!! I'm now on my 2nd big glass of water... I don't want to gain weight, really. It just sucks.

[cleochatra]

April was an awful month for me. I even looked to a different plan for a week, worried Atkins had stopped working. It's a PITB when you're used to progress. You know stalls exist, but when they exist for that long?

That was when I went back to induction and have been flying along ever since! and now I'm addicted to Caesar salad of all things. I eat it at least once a day!

[Hot Tamale]

Dang it anyway. I am going to do a few things this week.
Consider it my Atkins to-do list.
First, I'm gonna have to buy a new book. I had a few, but loaned them out and NEVER get those suckers back.
Two, I think I might get a food scale...or start recording what I eat, or maybe both. I know a big part of my problem is portion sizes.
Three, I am going to start weaning myself off splenda and other fake sugars. I have too much splenda and I think it can't be helping. I'm also worried about splenda, so I might switch to sweet and low. Or maybe just stop using more than 3 packets a day (which is one big cup of coffee for me...).
Four - I am going to make a promise to try to go for a walk or actually swim (not float...) twice a week this month. Then, in June, 3 times... I know that sounds wimpy (twice a week...but maybe just twice will sound easy enough that I will do it.).
Five - Gonna start planning more and making foods in advance/less ordering out. Ironically, when I do order out, I almost always get a salad...but still, my food from home is easier to control.
Six - I'm gonna start a thankful journal or something. I mean, my life is crazy, but without my kids it'd be really boring. True, I haven't lost weight like I've wanted to, but man, I've lost and kept off almost 80 pounds for close to a year now. THat's the most progress I've ever had with my weight. And, for the record, although I REALLY want to lose weight consistently again SOON, I need to realize that this is not about getting to goal as fast as I can, but rather holding out - and holding on until I do get there. Then the REAL BATTLE begins - maintaining that loss.

I am an addicted person, and I am fighting this uphill battle to live a longer, fuller life. This is one battle I must fight until I get to my goal - even if that takes a lot longer than I had intended. Goals are nice, but rarely is my mind that in synch with my body to get the dates right! I need to be thankful for my successes and patient with myself for my shortcomings...and I have to change things up if they aren't currently working. I will do this. I WILL DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cleochatra]

I love your plan of action! One goal a week (or two) would be perfect. You will do this!

[Zer]

Hot, all of your May goals look worthwhile to me, but this one stands out as a goal that will make you glow each time you look back at it: Gratitude is such a trait to cultivate!

Originally Posted by Hot Tamale

I'm gonna start a thankful journal or something. I mean, my life is crazy, but without my kids it'd be really boring. True, I haven't lost weight like I've wanted to, but man, I've lost and kept off almost 80 pounds for close to a year now. That's the most progress I've ever had with my weight. And, for the record, although I REALLY want to lose weight consistently again SOON, I need to realize that this is not about getting to goal as fast as I can, but rather holding out - and holding on until I do get there. Then the REAL BATTLE begins - maintaining that loss. ...

...I need to be thankful for my successes and patient with myself for my shortcomings...

Patience is one of the lessons that LC/Atkins teaches. Respecting my body as it holds on to weight, seeks balance during my spurts of feast and famine, bounces up down up up down as hormones play havoc with weight in spite of my prayers to see diminishing weight no matter how I eat and (ch)eat or how I occasionally fast from fear of what I *might* eat if I dare to go anywhere near food. It's a wild ride for my cells, I'm sure. Yet they go right on delivering service to a body that offers uncertain nourishment from day to day. Bless my good old Scots-Irish genes, from generations of uncertain nourishment and a meagre nutritional heritage (I'm sure) of eating porridge and potatoes with scant protein. Sigh.

[JUNEBUG2]

Morning everyone!! Alot of good heartfelt posts. I wish us all the best in our decisions today.

[Zer]

What a silly hope, to think that I might show a few ounces lost since my weight on Monday morn. Better if I get off this computer and burn a few calories by doing some of the stuff I've been procrastinating on. Need to collect mail and to haul stuff to the dumpster. Might do so, at daybreak, if I'm still awake then.

[JUNEBUG2]

I bought a workout book about pilates yesterday. I have enjoyed the water pilates that I do at the Y and can definitely tell a difference in my well being, balance and posture. I know its going to be different on land than it is in water but I am going to go slow and see if I can get a work out each day. The exercises r so simple and easy it amazes me how sore I am , but the soreness only lasts short time. The book says just 10 mins a day is a good beginning. Low carbs and pilates, that is my plan and I am sticking to it

[magickal1]

after 2 days of mowing my 1.5 acres of grass and pulin weeds and diggin up the weed trees that are touch to get out and pullin up the weed blocker from a larg area im managed to lose 2 pounds , so it was all worth it, ill be back out there today to try and get another loss and finish cleaning up the yard.

good luck to all of u i wish u losses on the scales!!!!!!

menue
b- hb egg
l- tilapia
d -tilapia
water and green tea.

[debkeversole]

Originally Posted by JUNEBUG2

I bought a workout book about pilates yesterday. I have enjoyed the water pilates that I do at the Y and can definitely tell a difference in my well being, balance and posture. I know its going to be different on land than it is in water but I am going to go slow and see if I can get a work out each day. The exercises r so simple and easy it amazes me how sore I am , but the soreness only lasts short time. The book says just 10 mins a day is a good beginning. Low carbs and pilates, that is my plan and I am sticking to it

Junebug good to see ya!

sounds good June! and pilates helps construct long muscles to make a sleek look! wowza! my library has several videos on pilates does yours

[debkeversole]

fun-genius.com - Great Bed Positions

[debkeversole]

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

- Daniel L. Reardon

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

- Frank A. Clark

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.

- Jack Penn

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

- Ken Blanchard

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

- Vernon Law

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

- Wayne Dyer

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

- Erin Majors

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

- Thomas Jefferson

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

- Agnes DeMille

[debkeversole]

"If you want happiness for an hour- take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month- get married.
If you want happiness for a year-inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime- help others."


~Chinese Proverb

[Zer]

10am and I've had quite a nap, then rinsed out some handwash that's been soaking...and now is dripping...next wash it will go in with whatever is washed, as I do not want to be itching from the stuff it was soaked in. All sorts of stuff seems to itch me these days, so I cannot rinse out clothes enough anymore.

Room smells nice, with the washing and dripping and all. I think it is trying to rain outdoors as well, as there's a sense of damp in the air. Overcast today.

Usually if I'm not dressed and out the door by now, it's not on the day's agenda, gets put off for another day, a day when I am energized to start up and run off before I second-guess my ability to find my way home before I poop out. Sigh.

How oddly satisfied I am with my life. Trying to live each day as it falls out. Striving to make the most of this idyllic residence where I'm not pestered to do things. I've explained to some that I am dodging carbs and will not be hanging out in the kitchen area where temptations abound. I think they are concerned that I am shutting the door on a lot of things, so I make a point to smile and be cheerful when I cross paths with anyone - in the loo or hallway or, occasionally, in the public rooms (LR/DR/kitchen/laundry) where I used to spend a fair amount of time fixing and eating and eating and...uh...eating.

The scale shows that I am doing better to stay in my room. Surely I can get rid of 10# in May. If so, I shall secure myself a spot in THREEdom and can start nibbling away at that happy range of weights to work my way to the 2s!

Oy, joy, that I am among such a wide array of weights that I get to dream of actually finding myself encouraged step by step as one and another of my LC friends achieves a goal and we all get to do a HaPpYdance to celebrate - and to anticipate our own arrival at a lower weight. That's what it feels like for me when anyone shares a goal achieved. I get such a large charge from the spinoff or fallout of sheer joy as we all join in celebrating. I'm so grateful to be part of Deb's 300+ Support group, simply because we are such a diverse group of so many sizes and so many histories. What energy there is here!

[amm]

I was thinking about something today...

I'm wearing mostly size 22 shorts and pants with the occasional 20 fitting me. I was remembering when I first had to buy a size 22, when I was a teenager, and I was on my way UP in sizes. I was miserable about it. But, when I bought my first size 22 jeans, on my way DOWN in sizes, I was thrilled!

[Pcola Girl]

Stare at this for awhile and it will wake you up.................

Just wanted to say HELLO.

[debkeversole]

Originally Posted by Pcola Girl

Stare at this for awhile and it will wake you up.................

Just wanted to say HELLO.

i am so glad i am at the library's computer so i could see it! Mary! how ya feeling today??
Guess what i did girls??? i cut off 11 inches of my hair for locks of love and i am not crying like i used to whenever my hair got cut! pics whhen i get on at home tomorrow

[Hot Tamale]

I bet you will lose a pound - hair is heavy!!!!!

[behind_the_mask]

Today is day #1 BACK ON PLAN! Siiiiigh... I'm sad to say that I'm up to 351 again... but I am ready to lose it again and a whole lot more! I'm also tting back to the gym today. My new-ish goal is to lose 50lbs before my hubby and I consider getting pregnant. I will still be way above my goal weight, but I should be a lot healthier to carry a baby. So... talk about MOTIVATION! I so want to DO THIS!!!

Today's Menu:
B- turkey on oopsies (6)
S- brie (2)
L- salad w/chicken (6)
D- steak and broccoli/cauliflower mix (6)
TOTAL = 20
(walking at gym this afternoon... ~3 miles)

[dixichic]

Ok folks,
It's here! My scale is here and I have an official weight now.
No more guessing, no more hoping, it's a cold hard fact!

My weight today is ..........I'm embarrassed to even post it but I know it will keep me on plan.....

415.5 lbs.

I never imagined my weight had gotten this high.
When I stopped Atkins 2 yrs ago, I was at 330lbs.
So I probably gained in actuallity, about 100lbs since I have been on induction
for 3 weeks now.

Well, here is to staying committed and alive!! Here is to staying motivated to be a normal size.

I know I am losing because my clothes are getting loser every day but now I can track my progress in LBS!

[JUNEBUG2]

Thanks Deb. The library probably does have videos. I have one with Denise Austin. I have never played it tho. Just ran across it and I have no clue where I got it. I did the warm up exercises this morning but didn't do the floor exercises because I am going to the Y tonite. Yes it does give that long sleek look, but I am a very long way frm that. I just have the tighten up the core look.........just have to look for it