300+ Support Group-JUNE BUGS-The month of JUNE

[alaskanlaughter]

this was on april 1st at the start of my LC woe and at about 216 pounds

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[alaskanlaughter]

okay well that worked a little funky....the TOP photo is the before one and the bottom one was taken today on june 16th, 15 pounds lighter...hope that works

[alaskanlaughter]

hmmm i seem to be posting in bits n starts tonight LOL...i stayed on track today eating only when i was hungry, which is WAY harder than it sounds....the mind trick i get is that i start gauging if i'm hungry so then i think about being hungry so then i start to GET hungry and then i wonder if i'm really hungry or if its' just cuz i was thinking about it

i think i'm right on target for my calories today even though i had a super busy day and my hip is killing me

i dont have a scale at teh new school where i'm working for the rest of the summer i also dont have my keys anymore to get into riverbend - my regular school - to check on teh scale i normally use....i want to just weigh at my dr's, they will let me walk in and go down the hall and weigh myself....but i dont know how that varies from the scale i'm used to...ack what if it weighs like 50 pounds more lol yeah i know...im tired

[mycattaz]

Finally a whoosh....lol

I drop 2.2 lbs from yesterday to today..... and finally back into the 350's.... weight this morning 359.2 ...... 19.2 lbs to go to reach 30 pounds lost....lol.... I have till july 1 to reach that goal..... I doult I make it, but I am going to do all I can to lose all I can of course by eating right.....

Alaska I hate to weigh on different scales .... my doctor scales and my scales are pretty close in weight...... I brought a scale off of ebay..... its a scale that weighs up to 550 and it talks..... you don't have to look down... just listen for your weight..... they have alot of them, that don't go that high in weight, but at the time I weighed 416 and my brother weighed over 500..... he is now down to 320 and I am down to my 359.2

[mstrudy]

Mycattaz,
Great job! So will they still do the surgery if you haven't lost the 30 lbs? How did your brother lose so much?

[4gotn1]

Originally Posted by alaskanlaughter

i think i'm right on target for my calories today even though i had a super busy day and my hip is killing me

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I know i mentioned this to someone but not sure if it was you or not...about the hip! One summer our riding lawn mower broke so I would go out every day and mow a little of the yard w/ a push mower.

After about a week of this my hip started to hurt but I kept mowing.

ONe night it go so bad I couldn't even sit on the toilet, I FELL down on the toilet!

After awhile it went away but would sometimes get sore!

I was diagnoised w/ diabetes and had to see a podiatrist. I can't remember what she said about my feet but immediately said I need inserts.

Theya re not prescription though!

She said to ONLY wear them an hour a day , increasing the time I went w/them each day until I was wearing them all day. She said if you dont' you legs will hurt!

Well I put mine in and decided to make a trip to the grocery store. As I was walking around the store, I could feel some twinges in my hip and even across my pubic bone! It was the oddest thing.

Next day...same thing.

I finally got used to them and then when I needed new ones I went a while w/o ordering them and my hip started to hurt again.

You the song..."your ---- bone is connected to your ----bone...well I guess it all being attached, having the inserts affected more then my feet. Which weren't even bothering me at the time!

They by Spenco and they were the thin soles! She charged $50 but i found them on Ebay for $30. Spenco makes many different kinds but it was the "thin sole" that she had and worked so well on me!

As much as you are on your feet, they may help!

Good luck,

[mycattaz]

Originally Posted by mstrudy

Mycattaz,
Great job! So will they still do the surgery if you haven't lost the 30 lbs? How did your brother lose so much?

yes, he just wanted me to lose as much as I can before surgery...

my brother lost it doing Atkins.....

[debkeversole]

Originally Posted by 4gotn1

Tomorrow I go to Curves so they can show me around and I can try the equipment out. They have a special going if your interested....

30 days for $30! It is a fitness study through Avon, they want you to come at LEAST 3 x' a week! After that they will offer you a special to join but she didn't know what the offer would be . She did say in July and August the enrollment fee would be reduced to $50.
I hope I can do it. I really think I NEED something out of the house, to concentrate on and get me motivated.
I have several videos I would like to do but the house is disaster and whenever I sit on the floor I have a few cats climb on my back, my legs! LOL!
I hope to get organized enough to do curves 3 days a week and then my tapes 3 days but who knows for sure.
Tomorrow I am due to weigh in .. I weighed today but it wasn't my usual day. I felt thinner but something said "dont' do it" and I did it anyway! Well I wasn't happy w/ it so I have stuck to proteins, VERY Low carb and I have drank 8 16.9oz bottles of water.
Hopefully my efforts pay off tomorrow but I have my doubts!
Take care, Christie

oh i go to Curves! i love it! we are in Curves Camp right now...i wonder if your club does that??/ my secret sis has joined Curves in her area too!

this is our logo this year

[debkeversole]

Originally Posted by mycattaz

Finally a whoosh....lol

I drop 2.2 lbs from yesterday to today..... and finally back into the 350's.... weight this morning 359.2 ...... 19.2 lbs to go to reach 30 pounds lost....lol.... I have till july 1 to reach that goal..... I doult I make it, but I am going to do all I can to lose all I can of course by eating right.....

*happy dance happy dance* you are doing it! hang on! are you feeling ok??? is the First your surgery date or another consult???(yup i am nosy just tell me to hush if i am too nosy)

[mycattaz]

Deb July 1 is my surgery date...

[Moons_Mom]

My mom is in hospital with kidney failure and possibly an infection in her brain. They are treating her with antibiotics but I have said no to any invasive treatments such as dialysis.

Her prognosis is guarded and it could go either way - at the moment it's a wait and see situation.

I had my first low-carb day yesterday and it went fine. Lucky for me I fell asleep at 8:30pm last night though because it's nightime that is my traditional bad-eating time. If I could manage to go to sleep at that time every night I should be fine! It is unrealistic however to expect that I will be in bed at that time every day though - I think my husband might object sooner or later when he only gets about 15 minutes alone with his wife.

As expected I did find it difficult to cook low-carb throughout the day. What with 2 kids under 3 there is no time especially for lunch. Yesteday's lunch was 2 tbsp. of cream cheese and a bit of lunchmeat.

I kinf of made a boo-boo this morning already. It takes a few days sometimes to get out of bad habits and I put sugar in my coffee and drank the whole cup before I realized what I had done. Oh well.

I am going to try to attach some pictures of the kids.

Love to all.

Susan

[debkeversole]

Oh Susan*prayers for you and your Mom*

[Pcola Girl]

Hello everyone. my low carb eating has been going ok today so far. I have been messing up alot lately and neededto get back on track.
I never weigh myself, only when I see my doctor do I get weighed in. My clothes are getting alittle looser on me so I know I am losing some.

Mycattaz, you are losing good. Even if you don't make your July 1 goal you are still doing great. What kind of surgery are you going to have, if I may ask? I will keep you in my prayers.

Deb I think I got the photo bucket all set up right now so now I have photo bucket and image shack on my computer to use.

Its hot here where I live but we did get some rain and it cooled us down to the low 90's. Its still hat but not those 99 and 100's we were having.

This hot weather brings in a lot of lightning storms and a house on the end of our street got hit by lightning and caused a fire and it burned "Saturday afternoon. At least it did not take out my computer this time. I unplg now when it get bad like that.
I bought a stronger power surger for my computer but still I am not taking any chances with that lightning.

See you all later. be good.

[mycattaz]

Originally Posted by Moons_Mom

My mom is in hospital with kidney failure and possibly an infection in her brain. They are treating her with antibiotics but I have said no to any invasive treatments such as dialysis.

Her prognosis is guarded and it could go either way - at the moment it's a wait and see situation.

I had my first low-carb day yesterday and it went fine. Lucky for me I fell asleep at 8:30pm last night though because it's nightime that is my traditional bad-eating time. If I could manage to go to sleep at that time every night I should be fine! It is unrealistic however to expect that I will be in bed at that time every day though - I think my husband might object sooner or later when he only gets about 15 minutes alone with his wife.

As expected I did find it difficult to cook low-carb throughout the day. What with 2 kids under 3 there is no time especially for lunch. Yesteday's lunch was 2 tbsp. of cream cheese and a bit of lunchmeat.

I kinf of made a boo-boo this morning already. It takes a few days sometimes to get out of bad habits and I put sugar in my coffee and drank the whole cup before I realized what I had done. Oh well.

I am going to try to attach some pictures of the kids.

Love to all.

Susan

prayers for your mom going up... God can turn it all around.... remember the saying it ain't over till its over... a dear friend of mine last week had a heart attack her blood pressure was down to 46 of 30 and they gave her a few hours to live...... its been a week now and she is back to her old self.....

[bjw]

My goodness but we have alot of missing in action peeps.
I read on another thread that Desdemona is getting married 6-19-2009. I miss all her adventures.
Zer you are unusually quiet. We all like to hear from you.
Sorry to hear about your Mom Moon. I know that is hard as my Dad is in awful shape too.
On track but not much to report so I will check back later.
Jean

[amm]

Susan, awesome pictures! Looks like little Maddie Moon is loving that chicken leg!

[Zer]

Originally Posted by bjw

I read on another thread that Desdemona is getting married 6-19-2009. I miss all her adventures.

Thanks for this update. I'm sure we will all be holding a good thought for Des as she takes this step.

Zer you are unusually quiet. We all like to hear from you.

Having a bad time with UPS, about a pkg gone missing and local UPS is not at all nice about having misdelivered the pkg on 6/9 - although a CSRep at the UPS home office is kindly advising me that he's asked the local office to help me locate the misdelivered pkg.

Local UPS says they can dump the pkg where they will, in spite of an address that asks that they bring it to my residence on a property that has several bldgs, the major bldg being a school that accepts all UPS deliveries and then does not relay the pkgs in a timely way.

Anyway, it's been a frustrating week or so and I'm now told by my landlord that a search has been made and the pkg is NOWHERE TO BE FOUND on this property. That's that.

So I called Netrition and they will initiate a trace on my 5/30 order to see if THAT excites anyone to dig out a 6# pkg that is probably stuffed under a counter or someplace, as happens. Seems unlikely that anyone has misappropriated it, so I told Netrition that I shall let them know if it resurfaces anytime at all. Pkgs do come to light after a time of being missing. This one is just more expensive than the piddly stuff that has in past gone missing for some weeks and then been handed to me as an opened pkg - "so sorry" etc.

I'm furious and not handling it well. Embarrassed to have to explain to so many people that my incoming mail is handled so badly and embarrassed to report (via email to UPS CSRep) that the local UPS office is not following his advice to call me, reassure me. I know the local UPS office feels they are entitled to dump the pkg at the school office, no matter WHAT the address on the pkg says - as in "NOT AT SCHOOL OFFICE" that is laid out explicitly as part of my delivery address.

Netrition is wonderful, as they say they will initiate a tracking to discover what went on - and will send a replacement if the original pkg has gone missing.

Once before, someone opened a Netrition delivery and took a tunafish meal out, leaving the empty tunafish-meal box, and resealing the pkg that was then delivered to me. I was flabbergasted, to find that empty container in my box full of other stuff. All other stuff was intact. Just one meal gone. Netrition credited me with the cost of that. Nice folks, Netrition.

But I'm still embarrassed to be having to talk to so many people about the muddle of receiving mail at this address. So many people handle the mail that it is difficult to figure where a pkg might be lost. That's why I get my mail at the p'office instead of having it shuffled by several people from the school to the landlord to a variety of residents who pick up mail from a table that gets our heap of mail daily. Well, almost daily. Some days we do not see our portion of the mail, if no one brings it to this bldg. See what I mean? While I'm blessed to live in a safe place, there are problems that do arise.

I almost know that this small pkg is someplace on the grounds, stuffed into a niche to get it out of the way, and it will eventually resurface - perhaps as a resealed pkg that someone got nosy about and wanted to 'check out'. Sigh.

So that's my story. I'm showing a weight gain. Makes me so mad, how a tiny frustration can become a major issue and blow up into something that begins to look as if ~I~ am annoying people by asking WHERE IS MY PKG? WHY WAS IT NOT DELIVERED AS ADDRESSED? WHAT THE "F" IS GOING ON HERE? Agh! So thanks for listening to me fulminate.

[pescacat]

Hi-
Susan-thoughts and prayers to you and your mom.**hugs** The pics are great! Thanks for sharing. The girls are so cute and you look good too!

Lisa-Best wishes as you Journey toward surgery. Congrats on the whoosh! KUTGW!

Amm-you are doing so well-how is your summer going?

Jean-what thread was that on about Des? I have been missing her and wondering how her plastic surgery consult went. I'm so glad to know she is happy and planning a wedding!

Alaskan-how are you today? Post often and let us know how you're doing.

Forgotten-I have to use Zcoil shoes because of my foot pain/plantar fascitis/bone spurs but now I can wear regular shoes on ocassion without pain-but i still love my zcoils and the relief they give me.

Deb-how is camp curves going? how are your fur babies? how is your hubby? how is life in general?

Mary-glad you are safe-some friends lost 2 of their tvs in a recent strom here too. Lightning is amazing at all the damage it can do! How are you?

Jennifer-how are things going?

MsTrudy-how are things with you?

Cris-how is today going?

Anyone heard from Carol, Bandy/Brenda, Sally, Zer or other folks?

Hope everyone is doing well. I'm back on track too and fighting cravings as I go through carb withdrawal. Hope ketosis kicks back in soon....
--Laura

[gettinserious]

I will make the attempt to be here and be more supportive no matter how many posts/pages you bury me in.

Before I start though, I wanted to put out there my intentions. I watched Rachael Ray today. A rare occurance, for sure. She had a woman that lost 200 lbs on there and she ended up losing all her friends and even her mom became estranged.

What happened was she was so focused on her weight loss, that was all she talked about, all she emailed. When she was throwing away her fat clothes, her mom suggested she give them to her, but she made crass comments like: "Oh, those are my fat clothes, they wouldn't fit you." Now to be fair to her, she didn't realize that was offensive and I think that we get so USED to seeing someone like our moms that we don't SEE them. I think that she didn't realize that hey mom is about where I was in size, she could fit into this.

So my intention as I drop my weight is to watch my attitudes. To never believe that I am better than someone else just because I "did" it and they didn't. If someone suggests giving them my old clothes, I will consider it, as most of my clothes are run into the holiest of holies and not worth much, but will be careful to point out how they are my "fat" clothes, because I know that is a hurtful thing to point out and sort of an "In your face!" I am going to pray that as I lose weight, I become an even better person. That I keep the good qualities that I have and enhance them.

That is what I intend to do.


Susan- I will pray for you at this time. God prolly gets tired of hearing from me because my list is usually long, but then He did state to pray for others more than ourselves.

Des- Congrats on the wedding! Come in and give us some details girlie!

Christie- Getting out of the house is always good. I have the whole tape/cat problem only my cats are children. Try doing a back extension with a 42 lbs kid laying across you.

Alaskan- Keep em coming (pics) and going (lbs)!

Deb- Kick some Curves Camp rear!

Lisa- Wishing you a successful surgery!

Pcola- We have been getting the storms too. This certainly is the year for them.

Zer- I am sorry that UPS is being the for you. I would be livid myself, but then.... I am part red head.

to everyone else. Now that I am fairly caught up, I will do better now. I promise.

[Pcola Girl]

I lost my computer a few weeks back due to the lightning and had to go buy a new one.
I unplug it now when we get one of those lightning storms.

[**Lola**]

Hang in there Zer. I know how you feel. Any time UPS screws up my packages it is really really frustrating.

For a time, they would leave them right outside my door and I would be gone all day. I was always worried that someone would just walk buy and steal it. So I asked them to stop doing that, but they never did. Sigh!!

It's great the Netrition will replace the stuff for you. Since they only use UPS, is it possible for you to pay a little extra for signature delivery...at least that way they might insure that it is brought directly to you for your signature.

But don't let this frustration let your diet slip...you've been my inspiration to get off my duff and get myself below the next threshold (299) since you are so close to passing a big threshold yourself.

[Lyonnesse]

Hi all,

I didnt lose anymore but am still down the same pounds. Its been a busy day here, ex took me out for birthday breakfast, then I bought me a new sewing machine, neighbor came over with a present..shes so sweet, relatives calling..so its been an overall nice day.

Tomorrow I go to the surgeon, hopefully we can schedule my surgery...the pain is getting worse and I dont want to end up with an emergency run to ER like the first surgery - which I nearly died from. Its a mixed bag...since I know just how horrid this surgery is, I dread having it, I dread NOT having it...I just hope I can get back on the LC wagon when I get home afterwards..that scares me.

Everyone seems to be doing good...and having great and promising futures with surgery, weight loss, etc...I love reading about the positives or even the negatives that are overcome.

ZER..hang in there hun, dont let the frustrations that life heaps on you overwhelm your WOE. You are very close to that goal you are hovering around.

waves to 4gotn1 and Deb

hugs to all
Vicki