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[1BellaDonna]

Hey Cathy! What's on the docket for today? You have your boot camp thingy again? Who the heck suckered (er...convinced) you into doing that anyway? :-) How long is it for? Did you have a good Sunday? BTW, I think we should just change your name so we all have different names than our screen names. lol Let's make it crazy, like Penelope! Not even close! lol

Michelle - I'm so sorry about the increase. I KNOW that a jump that big HAD to be water. I bet that soup had a ton of sodium in it and the dehydration from the other night's alcohol probably had your body DYING to hold on to some water. Tomorrow will be a better number, I'm sure. If the scale doesn't cooperate, my scale-stomping services are always available for you, as long as I'm not booked up with my own @&(#@! scale...

...BOOOO!!! 152.2 today. Please be PMS. I liked seeing yesterday's number much better!! :-( Anyway, I left a message at a doctor's office so I can schedule an appointment. Hopefully, it won't be 3-4 weeks out. The other one I got referred to is 77 yrs old. While I am not an ageist and think he could be a great doctor, I don't want to get used to him only to have him retire in 6 months and I've got to search for a new doctor again. Anyway, I'm nauseous this morning. I'm not sure if it's anxiety due to "the lump" or my coffee sitting uncomfortably in my tummy.

Ordered some Intermountain pellets this morning. I realized my drops are going fast since I've increased my dosage. I was tempted to buy a few phases worth (bc of my hoarding tendencies!! ) for just in case...then I figured that I should never have to do this whole thing again, if I do what I'm supposed to do and correct any out-of-window-deviations immediately. Right?

[catjrow3]

Hey Letitia, I am not doing a bootcamp thingy?? I do turbo kickboxing on Mondays and a week or so I did turbo camp, which was all day of turbo kickboxing, not sure if thats what you are thinking. Just ran for 5 miles and about to start working and then tonight is TKB! Sorry about the weight, boo for you too, It will go back down though, damn TOM. He just left my house, thank goodness!!

[1BellaDonna]

lol...sorry, turbo camp!! i should have asked what that was before today. i was thinking it was one of those boot camp programs. it's kickboxing??? all day long?? wth?? is the regular class seeming super easy to you now that you did that all day program? how do they run the all day thing without having people passing out left and right? lol are there just all day classes and a max of how many you can do? anything requiring sweat is a foreign concept to me. 'splain it to me, girlie! :-)

well, so much for being ageist. the younger doc isn't taking any new patients! i scheduled an appointment with the older doc (77!!!!!!!! why isn't he on a nice little island relaxing now!?) for 10:30 tomorrow morning. i'll keep you guys posted. i'm glad i don't have to wait a week or two for the appointment! now i'm trying to schedule dental appointments for me and the hubs. i got groupons for them (cleaning, xray, exam, and whitening trays-$29!). we both DETEST the dentist, but we need to do it. i wish i weren't terrified of the dentist so much bc i have teeth that get a cavity at the mere mention of S*gar. Shhhh!! Don't say it!! I have lots of fillings that need to be redone too. Boo! Boo! Boo! Booooooooooooooooooo!!!!

[catjrow3]

Well, you dont literally do it from 9to5 without stopping. We did have breakfast, lunch, and hip hustle and PIYO (pilates yoga mix) so there were slight breaks inbetween all the activity! Its quite a workout, but i love a good workout, so thats probably why I love it so much! Tonight is an hour long class, will burn about 500-600 calories during that time, maybe a bit more if i jump more than usual! :-)

[1BellaDonna]

eek. so nervous about my appointment tomorrow. please say a prayer that its just an enlarged lymphnode due to infection or a really bad muscle knot, nothing major like lymphoma (that I keep coming across when I try to look it up). :-(

[catjrow3]

Definitely thinking happy thoughts. Keep us udpated!!

[shelbyla]

Hey kids! Clean eating yesterday netted me a pound and a half off and back to LDW. Woke up this am to a splitting headache so I am taking it easy and going to see my massage therapist (he of the great hands!) later. I am pretty sure this is fibro related since I woke up super hypo yesterday then to make matters worse forgot to take my morning meds. No WONDER I was exhausted all day yesterday! Anyway, this kind of thing always screws with my weight so I'm not sweating it. It will be gone soon enough!

Letitia - (and I say this for your own good, darlin'!) STOP GOOGLING STUFF AND FREAKING YOURSELF OUT! Positive thoughts coming your way from your immediate north...

[1BellaDonna]

hello my chickadees!! thank you for the happy thoughts and prayers! good news and bad news...bad news: i'm UP to 152.8 today. Grrrrr! Good news is that "lump" is okay!! The doc said it's just a lymphnode and feels benign (cancer feels harder??). i have a low grade fever but i feel fine, relatively speaking. anyway, i DO have to keep an eye on it and if it starts doing the growing thing then I need to get it removed. i was paranoid bc in '93, i had what i thought was a really swollen gland in my neck, only to find (after lots of ignoring and 4 doctors' opinions) that it needed to be surgically removed asap! it was as big as a golf ball and pressed on my carotid artery, so...blah blah blah. i got nervous about this lump bc i have ignored since spring and it's not going away (and is in a weird spot, where you normally don't get swollen glands). overall, i liked my 77 year old doctor. he spent over an hour with me and prescribed me some muscle relaxers for my jacked up back/tmj (is open to a pt referral but when tmj is an issue, it's a longterm issue i guess) and has me starting some testosterone cream for my..ahem...lack of libido. pray that it works. this cougar has to keep her cub! lol Cathy- TOM has made a beeline from your home to mine. Thanks a lot! ;-) I will chalk up the weight fluctuations to that and my poor water intake lately. Today, I didn't get to eat lunch bc I spent so long at the doctor's office and pharmacist. Now I'm just trying to catch up on some loose ends. Anyway, wanted to give you the update so you're not there wondering.
BTW, Michelle...Thank you for the pimp-slap. lol I am QUEEN of diagnosing (myself and others, so that's gonna be a hard one to break! lol i should've gone back to be a PA like I had intended. darn!)

[1BellaDonna]

back to 152.2...uggh! so angry with myself bc i don't think i'll make it to goal at the rate i'm going. :-(

hope you ladies are doing well today. where are you????

[catjrow3]

I so know how you feel Letitia. Sometimes its just so hard!! You will get there, dont give in!

[shelbyla]

Hey ladies! I haven't been able to get on here for a little while. Yesterday I woke up with a nasty headache that went from my eyes down under my shoulderblade. I woke up at 6am tried to exercise it out, ended up saying "nope.com" and going back to bed. I slept until 11am so about 13 hours of solid sleep. It ended up being a pinched nerve in my neck--probably due to the fact that the weekend activities crashed my adrenals and sent me hypo. A lot of ice, a little neuromuscular therapy, some aspirin, and today I feel like a new woman!

Letitia - happy to hear that your bump thingy isn't something to be super concerned about. And glad that you liked your doctor and that he spent some time with you. I HATE it when you get in to see them and they spend 5 minutes with you! Just fyi, muscle relaxers, aspirin, ibuprophen, and any other meds WILL cause you to retain water which may be what you are seeing in the scale. Not to mention TOM--lol. What strength of T cream did he give you? You may need higher than what he gave you and I may be able to point you in the right direction if what he gave you isn't enough. You may be the queen of self-diagnoses but *I* am the queen of self-treatment!

Cathy - hope you're well kiddo.

As for me, I was up a half-pound today but that is probably due to either making some poor food choices last night (peanut butter, sugar-free cheesecake), inflammation from my pinched nerve, reaction to the ibuprophen, or the phase of the dang moon, for all I know! I seem to be bouncing between 150 and 155, depending on all those factors, and I am ok with that because my clothes fit the same wherever I am in there. I have a couple of days to decide whether to load for a third and final round starting Sunday or put it off. It may be a last minute decision because I'm not sure my head is in the right place yet. Any thoughts from you guys? When you YOUR rounds end?

[shelbyla]

Morning ladies. Quick checkin with a solid 2 pound loss yesterday. Inflammation is obviously down and my food was back on track yesterday. Good thing I am so ZEN about these scale changes or I would be going batty right about now! (om om om) Seriously though, if I have less than a pound movement a day, that's rare for me. It sure is making me numb to wild fluctuations though! THIS is why I REALLY want to be below 150 before starting the heavy weights again! Mental space for the inevitable gains...

I get to wear JEANS to work today...happy dance! Life is so much better when you can wear jeans! Off to get sweaty...

[shelbyla]

Yoo...HOOOO... Where you girls at today?

[catjrow3]

Oh, here!! *waving*, just been busy today!! Glad you dropped the 2 lbs again, just water to be sure!! Will try to pop on tomorrow!!

[1BellaDonna]

Here I am! *Waving Arms Like a Crazy Lady*
Sorry to be MIA today! Work has been super busy because I have two new assistants that I've been having to train them. I'm sooooooooooooooooo thrilled to not have the IDIOT who was assigned to me from Jan-Jun. She was lazy, unprofessional, pretty daft (and I don't like to consider people that way), and had ZERO work ethic. The woman couldn't even bother with cutting on the line or filing properly! Uggh! I won't even talk about how she had the nerve to come with me on a fieldtrip for my students but left her too-tight pants unfastened. I mean, I was STILL wearing my maternity pants (AAAAAAAAAAAAH the comfort!!) up until spring (yes, my son will be 2 next month! hush!! lol). However, I at least wore clothes that fit and was presentable. Uggh. What a DB. Anyway, it seems like assistant 1 has a good work ethic, works well with kids, and takes initiative to fix things that she sees that needs fixing.....assistant 2 seems more knowledgeable and very excited to make an impact. YAY ME!!!!!! I swear my blood pressure used to go up 3000000000 points just when I'd see my old assistant! lol

I was down to 151.8 today, so I was pleased to see that number. Right now I'n toying around with the idea extending my p2 now. Yes, you read correctly. lol Remember how I was really considering stopping around day 4?? I was thinking an extra week? What do you think? I am supposed to start p3 next Friday (5 Aug) but am not going to be at goal at this rate. :-( Remember when I was thinking I'd want to lower my goal and get down to 143, so I could use 145 as my +2lb window? Now I'm just trying to get down to 148 by the end. :-( My adjusted goal is to get to 145 (my original goal). I'll be on P3 for the trip to Iowa no matter what, so extending it some won't make a difference. The only thing is to be off of P2 by 17 August, bc we leave for Iowa on the 18th. Maybe I should just keep going until I lose what I want?? What do you think? The only crappy thing is that I won't get to even have a little taste of my baby's b-day cake, when he turns 2. :-( Plus, Luke and I would have to put off our anniversary dinner for even longer (like 10 September). Then again, our anniversary was back in May, so.... lol

Shelby, are you going to do P2? Are you ready for it? (Ooops! I mean "Michelle". lol) Hey, congrats on getting those 2 lbs off again...AND for staying so zen!! I could learn a lot from you. I'm working on my water intake....been so busy at work that i've just not been getting much in. Hey, is your pinched nerve better?

Cathy- where are you on p2? How are you doing on this round? I'm not disgusted by the food right now, so I'm thrilled. Oh yeah, had salad greens with chicken today! It was delish (made Shelby-dressing with vinegar and chick broth and then added some Italian spices and a little splenda. It was great to eat a salad. I like raw spinach but it's not very saftisfying to me with nothing else but protein on it. Mama wants some egg and veggies on it! lol)

[shelbyla]

Mornin' ladies and happy freakin' FRIDAY!!!! Another jeans day for me today and hopefully another nice drop on the scale tomorrow. Down another pound today despite eating more coconut peanut fudgey things than I should have last night. I usually limit myself to one but I had three! :blush:

I'm really really not sure about P2. I am trucking along here happily maintaining my weight--although to be perfectly honest, I haven't had too many challenges. I may hold off or I may not...wafflewafflewaffle. If I wasn't feeling so dang GOOD right now, I'd hop back on but I'm honestly not sure that I NEED to lose any more...

And my pinched nerve is MUCH better, thanks. I totally think it was thyroid related. As long as I've been doing this and I STILL forget my meds sometimes...

Letitia - glad to hear to have a couple of good kids working for you. It's so frustrating working with people who don't...work...kwim? Good scale, good scale! I think you could go another week if you wanted to. The good thing about extending P2 is that you can stop any time you feel like it. Granted, you have to plan your last couple of days, but I just go by how I feel and how well I'm losing. As far as the bday cake goes, it's all about YOU babe! Your 2 year old will never know that you didn't eat his cake. What do you want more--to see the (low) 140's, or a bite of something that could (for me) trigger all sorts of nasty binge eating that would pop me into the high 150's? Think about it... And for the anniversary dinner, I say plan it for you first weekend on P3. Go to one of those yummy Brazilian steakhouses or something (you eat meat, right?). Absolutely GORGE on roasted tri-tip and salad with STUFF in it. You can do that whenever and it will be a nice celebration of you guys AND your weightloss!

Hi Cathy!

Btw, I think I am going to post some pics in here and let you guys tell ME if I need another P2...

[catjrow3]

Morning ladies!!

Just figured I would post a short one at least before I forgot!!

Congrats Letitia on the number, great job! If you can stick it out another week and get closer, I say go for it!!!

Michelle, you didnt look like you needed another P2 when you posted your photos before, so unless you gained, I say you LOOK GREAT!!!!

As for me, I am in a very modified P2... I am injecting every day (well since Saturday anyway) I had stopped them and was just eating around 1200 a day, but I was more maintaining, so I started again last week, and am still exercising twice a day, injecting and eating around 1200 a day. I cannot exercise and eat less than 800 at least... and it makes me miserable to try, so I seem to be losing very slowly like this, but still going back down. I was finally back in the 150s, and have not binged in over a week, so thats good, but was up 0.4 again this morning and back to 160.0 even.. boo! But thats okay, tomorrow is another day! So yes and no to the P2 thing, yes taking HCG, but not following perfect protocol at all.

Hope you all have a great Friday!!
TTFN

[1BellaDonna]

hey there my friends!! congrats on the losses (a slow loss is still a loss!!), great attitudes, and surviving the week! :-)

i started off the day nicely, seeing a big fat 150.0 on the scale!!! since then, my day has gone down down down down downhill. :-( i'm so upset i just want to cry. i just got back from the dentist's office. i am absolutely terrified of the dentist (d/t my horribly mean childhood dentist experiences) and, seriously, would rather go to the hospital to have a kidney removed than step foot in the dentist office. anyway, i got a groupon for a cleaning, xrays, exam, and take-home whitening trays for just $29! i knew i needed to go since i've not been since about 2005, maybe 2004. i thought i might have a cavity bc i have those teeth that decay at the mention of s*g*r. however, since it seems i have pretty much fillings in every tooth already, i figured there was no space to get a cavity! lol anyway, my dental visit consisted of being told that i have MODERATE periodontal disease. they didn't even do the cleaning bc i need to get what's called scaling and root planing (which requires local anasthetic). PLUS i need to get partial and complete crowns, wtih my left side needing immediate attention. I am SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK right now and am trying to reach my company to find out if i can get dental insurance ASAP. It's $1k just for the freaking cleaning (Scaling). Oh I'm sick, sick, sick over the money and the idea of the procedure. However, i'm also ANGRY as heck with myself bc my avoidance of the dentist, tooth grinding/tmj/type-a personality, and bulimia have caused this.

HA HA HA!! i ran out to the dentist again and forgot to hit send!

pt. 2=== well, it's 9:45 pm and i went back to the dentist. they had some special that for this month, if you brought in a new toy for their charity, your treatment wouldbe 20% off. i thought that would be great to save some $800! i went in and filled out paperwork to get on their payment program (open enrollment for my company won't be until march!) and learned that i'd need to get the treatment done TODAY!!! i was so unprepared for that!! i sucked it up, teared up some, and requested nitrous oxide. i ended up getting FOUR crowns (2 on each side --bottom) put in and now i feel like crap! overall, they were very very nice and made a horrible situation as bearable as possible. thank God for the nitrous or i would have probably peed myself, puked, AND passed out bc of my anxiety. it would be nice to think that this hell is over but i have to go back on the 8th to get the temporaries removed and the permanent crowns placed. plus i still need the scaling/root planing procedure which they say requires anesthetic too! my left side seemed a bit sensitive to me and they only put temporaries in bc they want to make sure i don't have any reactions and need a root canal! i'm terrified of that possibility bc of MORE money out and more dental procedures. however, my left side is sensitive and i can't fully bite down without some discomfort. please pray i don't need a root canal too!!! needless to say, after 3.5 hours of dental work my face hurts and i can't really eat. my love was sweet and took care of me. i requested a half of one of those muscle relaxers i just got to accompany the motrin the dentist handed me. i slept some and then spent time on the couch with my boys. i finally ate for the first time around 7pm. i ate scrambled eggs (1 egg+3 whites) and then later my DH pureed some strawberries for me to eat. i've been super dizzy off and on, so i'm just going to bed after i post this. hope tomorrow my sensitive tooth feels better. on a good note, i think i'll drop some weight! lol also, my hubby found a great deal on some expensive-@$$ toothbrushes for us. never again, will i take our teeth for granted! i will be going every 6 months and will add this to my list of obsessive behaviours! lol

sending you ladies hugs! michelle- i bet you look great but post the pics!! :-)

[catjrow3]

Originally Posted by 1BellaDonna

hey there my friends!! congrats on the losses (a slow loss is still a loss!!), great attitudes, and surviving the week! :-)

i started off the day nicely, seeing a big fat 150.0 on the scale!!! since then, my day has gone down down down down downhill. :-( i'm so upset i just want to cry. i just got back from the dentist's office. i am absolutely terrified of the dentist (d/t my horribly mean childhood dentist experiences) and, seriously, would rather go to the hospital to have a kidney removed than step foot in the dentist office. anyway, i got a groupon for a cleaning, xrays, exam, and take-home whitening trays for just $29! i knew i needed to go since i've not been since about 2005, maybe 2004. i thought i might have a cavity bc i have those teeth that decay at the mention of s*g*r. however, since it seems i have pretty much fillings in every tooth already, i figured there was no space to get a cavity! lol anyway, my dental visit consisted of being told that i have MODERATE periodontal disease. they didn't even do the cleaning bc i need to get what's called scaling and root planing (which requires local anasthetic). PLUS i need to get partial and complete crowns, wtih my left side needing immediate attention. I am SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK right now and am trying to reach my company to find out if i can get dental insurance ASAP. It's $1k just for the freaking cleaning (Scaling). Oh I'm sick, sick, sick over the money and the idea of the procedure. However, i'm also ANGRY as heck with myself bc my avoidance of the dentist, tooth grinding/tmj/type-a personality, and bulimia have caused this.

HA HA HA!! i ran out to the dentist again and forgot to hit send!

pt. 2=== well, it's 9:45 pm and i went back to the dentist. they had some special that for this month, if you brought in a new toy for their charity, your treatment wouldbe 20% off. i thought that would be great to save some $800! i went in and filled out paperwork to get on their payment program (open enrollment for my company won't be until march!) and learned that i'd need to get the treatment done TODAY!!! i was so unprepared for that!! i sucked it up, teared up some, and requested nitrous oxide. i ended up getting FOUR crowns (2 on each side --bottom) put in and now i feel like crap! overall, they were very very nice and made a horrible situation as bearable as possible. thank God for the nitrous or i would have probably peed myself, puked, AND passed out bc of my anxiety. it would be nice to think that this hell is over but i have to go back on the 8th to get the temporaries removed and the permanent crowns placed. plus i still need the scaling/root planing procedure which they say requires anesthetic too! my left side seemed a bit sensitive to me and they only put temporaries in bc they want to make sure i don't have any reactions and need a root canal! i'm terrified of that possibility bc of MORE money out and more dental procedures. however, my left side is sensitive and i can't fully bite down without some discomfort. please pray i don't need a root canal too!!! needless to say, after 3.5 hours of dental work my face hurts and i can't really eat. my love was sweet and took care of me. i requested a half of one of those muscle relaxers i just got to accompany the motrin the dentist handed me. i slept some and then spent time on the couch with my boys. i finally ate for the first time around 7pm. i ate scrambled eggs (1 egg+3 whites) and then later my DH pureed some strawberries for me to eat. i've been super dizzy off and on, so i'm just going to bed after i post this. hope tomorrow my sensitive tooth feels better. on a good note, i think i'll drop some weight! lol also, my hubby found a great deal on some expensive-@$$ toothbrushes for us. never again, will i take our teeth for granted! i will be going every 6 months and will add this to my list of obsessive behaviours! lol

sending you ladies hugs! michelle- i bet you look great but post the pics!! :-)

Letitia, oh girl, I am sooo sorry. I feel your pain. Its funny you talked about teeth, as I just set up our appts yesterday too. My hubby and son for cleanings, which they have not had in a couple years either. My teeth..ugh! I have had problems with them for years, and they were literally falling out. They told me I had bone loss and it was from smoking. He told me if i quit smoking that it would stop the process. Well, I stopped smoking 4 years ago, and it did not help at all. I have had 4 molars on top, 2 on each side, removed already due to them being so loose and getting infected. Now i have one in the front that is about to fall out and I dont want to be toothless where anyone can see it, so I am having to get dentures on the top. I am VERY UPSET by this, but I have on choice at this point. I am very much dreading this too. I have had the scaling and while its not fun, its not too terrible either. I have an appt on Wednesday next week for evaluation on the denture plate. I am mortified about having it done!!! Its very hard to eat though, and I cannot bite anything at all with any texture. I hope you feel better today! Sorry you had to go through so much!

[shelbyla]

Oh Letitia sweetie! I am SO sorry to hear about your dentist traumas! Big hugs for you . You'll get through it. Congrats on the scale too--so close to the 140's!!!!--but don't be freaked if it has gone up a little today. Between the trauma, the muscle relaxer and probably some inflammation in your mouth, you're probably going to see a little jump. BE STRONG! It's just water weight!

Cat - gosh, tooth removal??? Hon! Wow, that's gotta seriously suck! (No pun intended.) They do absolutely great things with tooth replacement these days. Are you sure that you need the dentures? In any case, I'm sure whatever they do will be fine and you'll be able to chew again properly soon.

No teeth issues here but I'm a little freaked out myself about something going on next week. I'm having an IUD placed and the doctors are prescribing me weird stuff "so the placement will be easier and less painful." WTH is that supposed to mean?? I mean seriously, what kind of pain am I supposed to expect here??? When they are prescribing you oral ulcer drugs applied internally (?) to dilate your cervix it seems a bit odd to me and is kinda worrying. I am trying not to worry to much about it right now but as it gets closer, I'm starting to freak a little. I'm sure it will also show up as a few pounds on the scale so remind of the advice above NEXT Friday!

Down another 0.5 this morning to land exactly 3 pounds under LDW which was 154.6. These are my weights for the last 2 weeks...you see what I mean by bouncing all the hell around the scale?

S 152.2
S 153.5
M 154.8
T 155.3
W 153.2
T 152.8
F 152.4
S 151.5
S 151.6
M 156.1
T 154.7
W 155.1
T 153.1
F 152.1
S 151.6

Anyway, have a great weekend chickadees!

[shelbyla]

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Here are some recent photos... What do you think? Will 10 more pounds make me too skinny?

[catjrow3]

Shelby, I would love replacements, but I have so much bone loss that they cannot put those in either, that really does suck too!!

I think you look pretty skinny girl! Mind, they are small pictures so cannot see up close, but damn... you go girl!!

What are they going to give you for the pain? I have never had an IUD, I got my tubes tied after my third kiddo, so not much experience there.... I hope it goes okay though.

How you doing today Letitia??

[Stevie Renee]

Originally Posted by shelbyla

Oh Letitia sweetie! I am SO sorry to hear about your dentist traumas! Big hugs for you . You'll get through it. Congrats on the scale too--so close to the 140's!!!!--but don't be freaked if it has gone up a little today. Between the trauma, the muscle relaxer and probably some inflammation in your mouth, you're probably going to see a little jump. BE STRONG! It's just water weight!

Cat - gosh, tooth removal??? Hon! Wow, that's gotta seriously suck! (No pun intended.) They do absolutely great things with tooth replacement these days. Are you sure that you need the dentures? In any case, I'm sure whatever they do will be fine and you'll be able to chew again properly soon.

No teeth issues here but I'm a little freaked out myself about something going on next week. I'm having an IUD placed and the doctors are prescribing me weird stuff "so the placement will be easier and less painful." WTH is that supposed to mean?? I mean seriously, what kind of pain am I supposed to expect here??? When they are prescribing you oral ulcer drugs applied internally (?) to dilate your cervix it seems a bit odd to me and is kinda worrying. I am trying not to worry to much about it right now but as it gets closer, I'm starting to freak a little. I'm sure it will also show up as a few pounds on the scale so remind of the advice above NEXT Friday!

Down another 0.5 this morning to land exactly 3 pounds under LDW which was 154.6. These are my weights for the last 2 weeks...you see what I mean by bouncing all the hell around the scale?

S 152.2
S 153.5
M 154.8
T 155.3
W 153.2
T 152.8
F 152.4
S 151.5
S 151.6
M 156.1
T 154.7
W 155.1
T 153.1
F 152.1
S 151.6

Anyway, have a great weekend chickadees!

Just passing through but I just recently got an IUD inserted. It is over within less then a minute. They usually insert it during your period as the cervix is open. It is super, minor, pinch like pain. I took a motrin before I went.

Not to freak you out or anything, but I am getting it removed come September. My cycles are too long now, too heavy and well, sex hurts.
I am older the you, so maybe its just my old body! (almost 48)

Your pix looks great
Looks like you are at goal but your photos are small.

[shelbyla]

Thanks Stevie! Appreciate the info. They ARE inserting it during my period and the pills they gave me are weirdly ulcer pills that you er...insert... They are supposed to dilate the cervix even more. I am getting the Mirena but the doc HAD told me that the other kind--the regular one without the hormone--COULD make your periods longer and make you cramp more. I already have long heavy periods when I am not on the pill, so I didn't need any MORE of that! As far as sex goes...well, I just HOPE I get the chance to find out! I'm not that much younger--44. If you're still lurking, did you have Mirena or the other one?

Thanks for the compliments on the pix. My camera broke so I was stuck with my phone That's why they are so small!

[dawnyama]

Shelby--Are you kidding me???!! You look terrific. Those are great, but small, pictures. Where would those 10 lbs come off from??!! I cannot see anywhere it possibly could come off from, but I know we all see ourselves very differently in the mirror with no clothes on. So only you can decide what to do. What I suggest is go over to Biz's site (I cannot link it here) and see what she can do to help. Email me if you want to get her info. She does one-on-one counseling for using the hcg to reshape so that if you only want to lose a few pounds for vanity or basically reshape and not really lose. I think she can help you better than we can throughout that process. Personally, I think you look marvelous and do not need to lose another ounce, but that is me!!

Never mind. I sent the info and article anyway!!!

[Lildrew]

Shelbyla, you look AMAZING!!! I say, if you want to lose 10 more go for it, but I don't think you need to AT ALL!!! You are such an inspiration!!!!!

[shelbyla]

Thanks for the compliments guys! :blush: And thanks to Dawn for the article. I'll check it out. It's not so much that I want to lose 10 more. It's more for cushion when I start lifting heavy weights than anything else. Especially since you can see that my weight just kind of naturally bounces around about 5 pounds every week. I'd rather have it bounce 145-150 before adding 5 pounds of muscle than have it bounce 155-160. Totally a mental thing. And like I said, I am really on the fence. Actually less on the fence than not even really looking at the fence right now...

[Lildrew]

That makes total sense Shelby!!

[Stevie Renee]

Originally Posted by shelbyla

Thanks Stevie! Appreciate the info. They ARE inserting it during my period and the pills they gave me are weirdly ulcer pills that you er...insert... They are supposed to dilate the cervix even more. I am getting the Mirena but the doc HAD told me that the other kind--the regular one without the hormone--COULD make your periods longer and make you cramp more. I already have long heavy periods when I am not on the pill, so I didn't need any MORE of that! As far as sex goes...well, I just HOPE I get the chance to find out! I'm not that much younger--44. If you're still lurking, did you have Mirena or the other one?

Thanks for the compliments on the pix. My camera broke so I was stuck with my phone That's why they are so small!

I chose the 'no-hormone' kind. That is um, weird about the meds to insert.lol
I hope it works out for you. I know it does for most

[shelbyla]

Where's our BellaDonna????