~♥~ YES WE CAN! ~ Jan 2009 ~♥~

[hummingbird11]

hey, maybe: The Power of The Circle of 9 (Feb 2009)

ps: there's already threads called:

Circle of 7
and
3 Amigos

[Lbertas]

Originally Posted by hummingbird11

This one is perfect!

I "move" that effective Feb 1st;
we change our thread title to:

Power of Nine

All those in favor: YAY
And those against: NAY

[hummingbird11]

Oh Jen! that's terrible news! you poor thing; your poor DS.
why did "they" kill the dog; who is "they" -- the other dogs??
I'm so sorry!

Originally Posted by gynx8467

But while we were there the neighbors came down and told us that our dogs had gotten into a fight. We have several dogs outside. They ended up killing my DS's chocolate lab. It was not a good thing and very upsetting. Then I had to drive to work and think about it all the way.

[Lbertas]

Originally Posted by hummingbird11

hey, maybe: The Power of The Circle of 9 (Feb 2009)

ps: there's already threads called:

Circle of 7
and
3 Amigos

I like the sounds of this much better. We wil see when we all take the vote. That is a completly different name than any other on here. [B]ThePower if The Circle if 9


Alberta

[gynx8467]

Originally Posted by hummingbird11

This one is perfect!

I "move" that effective Feb 1st;
we change our thread title to:

Power of Nine

All those in favor: YAY
And those against: NAY

YAY!!! I love it. We are a powerful group.

[gynx8467]

Originally Posted by hummingbird11

Oh Jen! that's terrible news! you poor thing; your poor DS.
why did "they" kill the dog; who is "they" -- the other dogs??
I'm so sorry!

Other male dogs. Fighting over a Dog in heat. It was very ugly.

[gynx8467]

What are the new rules going to be? Do we know that yet?

This day has jsut dragged on and on. It is 2pm here and feels like it should be at least 7pm. I am extremly tired. today. BBL!!!

[hummingbird11]

Originally Posted by gynx8467

Other male dogs. Fighting over a Dog in heat. It was very ugly.

Oh Jen. I'm so sorry. That is tough. How are you/DS doing with it today?

Originally Posted by gynx8467

What are the new rules going to be? Do we know that yet?.

The rules will be very similar. Weight will be Monthly (instead of Weekly) + a few other minor tweaks. But rules are gonna be "enforced" a litle harder in Feb so take a peek at Jan rules and see if anything you'd like to change for Feb?

[gynx8467]

Originally Posted by hummingbird11

Oh Jen. I'm so sorry. That is tough. How are you/DS doing with it today?



The rules will be very similar. Weight will be Monthly (instead of Weekly) + a few other minor tweaks. But rules are gonna be "enforced" a litle harder in Feb so take a peek at Jan rules and see if anything you'd like to change for Feb?

Thanks HB! We are doing ok. It takes time you know the furbabies are like our kids. It was just hard watching him die.

Ok I will check out the rules. I do like the idea of weighing in once a month.

[hummingbird11]

of course it will take time; I really cannot imagine; well, yes I can; that's why I feel so bad for you and DS.

Originally Posted by gynx8467

Thanks HB! We are doing ok. It takes time you know the furbabies are like our kids. It was just hard watching him die.

Ok I will check out the rules. I do like the idea of weighing in once a month.

[sheshy]

Or just the Power of 9!

Originally Posted by hummingbird11

hey, maybe: The Power of The Circle of 9 (Feb 2009)

ps: there's already threads called:

Circle of 7
and
3 Amigos

[sheshy]

Originally Posted by hummingbird11

The rules will be very similar. Weight will be Monthly (instead of Weekly) + a few other minor tweaks. But rules are gonna be "enforced" a litle harder in Feb so take a peek at Jan rules and see if anything you'd like to change for Feb?

Oo-rah!

[gynx8467]

[COLOR="Blue"] Grams Calories %-Cals
Calories 1,912
Fat 141.8 ---- 68 %
Carbohydrate 30.2 ---- 6 %
Protein 121.2 ----26 %


Fat (68%) Carbs (6%)
Protein (26%)


Well I seem to have eaten a few too many calories today but the percentages are still good. Or close.

I am going to bed now I will check in tomorrow. Have a great night all!!![/COLOR]

[hummingbird11]

The Power of Nine!! I really like that!!

On another note, I won a short mental battle with a bag of microwave popcorn!!

It was screaming: EAT ME!!

I got it out of the box; and considered placing in the microwave; but placed it back in the pantry.

Instead, I ate a beef patty w/ cheese + some broccoli salad + some SF chocolate afterward.

I ate a little too much LC stuff at once...
(this was hours ago but I'm still full).

But I did NOT eat the popcorn!

Whew.

[sheshy]

Good girl, you won! And you told that popcorn to kiss my tushy, right?!!!

You know, I have this great idea for an avatar...some thing GREAT (and a little scary) to look at and laaaaaugh, but stay motivated! Maybe I'll share via PM first !!!

Originally Posted by hummingbird11

The Power of Nine!! I really like that!!

On another note, I won a short mental battle with a bag of microwave popcorn!!

It was screaming: EAT ME!!

I got it out of the box; and considered placing in the microwave; but placed it back in the pantry.

Instead, I ate a beef patty w/ cheese + some broccoli salad + some SF chocolate afterward.

I ate a little too much LC stuff at once...
(this was hours ago but I'm still full).

But I did NOT eat the popcorn!

Whew.

[hummingbird11]

Right!

Yes, please share the avi!

ETA: do ya like my new avi ??

[sheshy]

Originally Posted by hummingbird11

Right!

Yes, please share the avi!

and yes, I have to finish it up and then I'll share!

[hummingbird11]

I have a new avi now, too!!

[sheshy]

Originally Posted by hummingbird11

I have a new avi now, too!!

Perfect!

[hummingbird11]

Originally Posted by Magicsmom

The best advice I can give you is to click on this link and read the post. It is excellent material about the psychology of this WOE:

Why is low-carb is harder the second time around, part II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.

that was great! esp this part:

The insight that Dr. Glasser had and that I recognized in myself and in my patients as soon as I read his book was that people spend all their time worrying and stressing about things they can’t control and end up ceding control over the things that they can control completely.

Going back to our example at the start of this post, my patient who put her mother in the hospital didn’t have any real control over any part of what was happening. She couldn’t control her mother’s disease, she couldn’t really control much of anything that went on in the hospital. But she worried constantly about these things she couldn’t control and abandoned her diet, over which she had total, 100 percent control.

People do this all the time. One of the very few things we have complete control over is what we put in our mouths. Unless someone hogs us down, pries open our jaws and force feeds us, we have total and complete control of our eating. Yet how many times have we heard people say (or have said ourselves), I just couldn’t do the diet with all this going on. I lost all control.

Dr. Glasser understands about the rider and the elephant and the multiple warring selves, although he doesn’t call them such. And he has a game plan for dealing with them, which puts the control squarely in our hands.

He explains that all behavior has four components. He doesn’t explain these in dietary terms, but I will.

1. the physiological component
2. the feeling component
3. the thinking component
4. the doing component

We don’t have any control over the first two and only partial control over the third. But we have total control over the fourth, the doing component. Let’s look at how this all works with food.

Imagine you’re sitting in your office minding your own business when a co-worker comes in with a box of fresh, hot donuts, sticks the box in your face and says, ‘Have one.’ What happens?

First, your physiology kicks in. Your pancreas says, uh oh, here comes some sugar. Better get a little insulin cranked out to get ready for it. You get a spurt of insulin and your blood sugar starts to fall.

Then, as your blood sugar falls, you start to feel hungry. And your stomach starts to churn as it gets ready. This is the feeling component. And you have no control over this. It all happens and it is totally beyond your control.

Then you think about how good a donut would taste. And you imagine it. And you say to yourself, hey, it’s only one. What could it hurt? This is the thinking component, and you do have some control over it. But with the physiology and feeling components hard at work, it’s difficult not to think about the donuts. Difficult, but not impossible.

And all the above happens in just a few seconds.

Then you grab a donut and eat it. The doing component. You have complete control over this component. You choose to eat the donut. All the other components are ragging on you and you cave. And you say you had no control, but you really did. If someone had told you they were going to shoot you if you ate one of the donuts, you wouldn’t have eaten it. All the other three components (at least the first two) would have been acting the same, but you wouldn’t touch the donuts. You can control the doing component if you want to. Problem is the other three components gang up on you, trying to disable your will.

But, this can all the dealt with.

Dr. Glasser realized that the physiology to feeling to thinking to doing progression could be reversed. Since you have complete control over only the doing component, you’ve got to do something. And once you do, you can foil the progression. Because if you take different action, you can drive the progression the other way.

If you get up from your desk and say, No thanks, then leave your office and go involve yourself with something else all the components start to fall in line. Once you start doing something different, you start thinking about it, then your feelings of hunger go away and soon even your physiology falls into line. Your liver produces glucose to make up for that the little spurt of insulin knocked down, and soon you’re back to normal. And it doesn’t take all that long.

So, basically, we can be driven by a progression over which we have no control to abdicate the one thing we do have control over, our actual active doing. Or we can use our ability to do something to reverse control all the components that we don’t have direct control over.

Realizing that I had this ability to control the seemingly uncontrollable made a huge difference in my life years ago and continues to do so today. Knowing that I can control virtually any behavior, but especially my dietary behavior, by simply focusing my attention and effort onto a task or other activity has kept me on the straight and narrow multiple times when strong temptation fell in my path.

If the high-carb demon is goading you to go face down, telling you that you have uncontrollable cravings, just force yourself to go do something else. Soon the cravings will be gone. It takes a little practice, but it helps to repeat the mantra: I have 100 percent control of what goes in my mouth.

Take the advice of Dr. Glasser. Start worrying less over those things you can’t control and accept that you have no control over them. And take back control of the things you can. If you do so, you will be a much happier person. And a much thinner person.

[gynx8467]

Originally Posted by hummingbird11

The Power of Nine!! I really like that!!

But I did NOT eat the popcorn!

Whew.

I love the name!!!

Way to go on the popcorn. You showed it who was boss.

Good morning ladies. I couldn't sleep this morning. One of our birds were making an aweful flapping sound not like just stretching her wings. I jumped up and turned the light on just in time to see DH had beaten me up and was at the cage already. Man he can move fast. We lost a bird last year to a stupid rat and now he keeps a trap under the cage. But she just had gotten her wing hung on the floor of the cage. Funny how we can tell the difference in her flapping. So needless to say I am awake now and it is my day off. Bummer!!! Anyway decided to fix me a cup of coffee and see who was around this morning.

I discovered something the other day. I am extremely out of shape. When the neighbor told us about the dogs DH jumped in the truck and took off without waiting on me (remember I told you he moved fast). So I took of running up the hill toward the house. Yesterday I could hardly walk. Man I need to do that more often (without the dog issue) Dh put the other dogs in pens, they are being punished and they howl all the time now.

Well I will BBL!!! For some reason I am starving this moring.

[Lbertas]

Jennifer I see you are up now too. I could not sleep again. That is how I am, I can not run but I can walk fast. I am thinking of cooking my eggs in CO to try and help with weight loss can't hurt anything. Glad your birds are ok, I get REAL upset when something happens to any of my pets. I will be lost when Harley dies, he is my mynaha bird that talks so me. Yeah I know, crazy but he is my buddy.
Better run and get my water then off to handicapped mans house.
BBL

Alberta

[gynx8467]

[COLOR="Blue"]Ok plan for today!!! Going with DD to OBGYN appointment. I think while she is seeing the dr me and DGbaby will walk the track at the hospital. Exercise!!! Not too cold I hope. Then she is taking me to lunch. I just have to decide where I want to go. [/COLOR]

[gynx8467]

Originally Posted by Lbertas

Jennifer I see you are up now too. I could not sleep again. That is how I am, I can not run but I can walk fast. I am thinking of cooking my eggs in CO to try and help with weight loss can't hurt anything. Glad your birds are ok, I get REAL upset when something happens to any of my pets. I will be lost when Harley dies, he is my mynaha bird that talks so me. Yeah I know, crazy but he is my buddy.
Better run and get my water then off to handicapped mans house.
BBL

Alberta

I know Alberta! I have so many animals and I love them so much. Why do we get so attached to the little things. I think it is the unconditional love. We still have 3 ferrets, 2 birds, 1 bunny, 10 dogs, 5 fish, 1 swimming frog and 1 cat. Dh wants to but chickens for the eggs. All we need now is a couple goats to eat the grass.

[gynx8467]

Oops!!! Double post!

[DaisyGG]

Good morning everyone! I'm here at work and ready to hit it hard. I need to put on my creative cap and come up with an idea.

Pray for me!

[sheshy]

Morning girls !!!

Originally Posted by gynx8467

I love the name!!!

Way to go on the popcorn. You showed it who was boss.

Good morning ladies. I couldn't sleep this morning. One of our birds were making an aweful flapping sound not like just stretching her wings. I jumped up and turned the light on just in time to see DH had beaten me up and was at the cage already. Man he can move fast. We lost a bird last year to a stupid rat and now he keeps a trap under the cage. But she just had gotten her wing hung on the floor of the cage. Funny how we can tell the difference in her flapping. So needless to say I am awake now and it is my day off. Bummer!!! Anyway decided to fix me a cup of coffee and see who was around this morning.

I discovered something the other day. I am extremely out of shape. When the neighbor told us about the dogs DH jumped in the truck and took off without waiting on me (remember I told you he moved fast). So I took of running up the hill toward the house. Yesterday I could hardly walk. Man I need to do that more often (without the dog issue) Dh put the other dogs in pens, they are being punished and they howl all the time now.

Well I will BBL!!! For some reason I am starving this moring.

Oh that's so scary, waking up to a strange noise...heart beating out of your chest! Ahhhh! I'm glad all was well though.

Isn't it amazing what physical things you can do and hurt the next day? We were doing painting and I think my legs were more sore than my shoulders just from all of the up and down the ladder! Just using muscles that don't get used often, I guess!

Originally Posted by Lbertas

Jennifer I see you are up now too. I could not sleep again. That is how I am, I can not run but I can walk fast. I am thinking of cooking my eggs in CO to try and help with weight loss can't hurt anything. Glad your birds are ok, I get REAL upset when something happens to any of my pets. I will be lost when Harley dies, he is my mynaha bird that talks so me. Yeah I know, crazy but he is my buddy.
Better run and get my water then off to handicapped mans house.
BBL

Alberta

I'm with you guys, I'm so attached my my firkids...I don't want to think about losing one.

Originally Posted by gynx8467

[COLOR="Blue"]Ok plan for today!!! Going with DD to OBGYN appointment. I think while she is seeing the dr me and DGbaby will walk the track at the hospital. Exercise!!! Not too cold I hope. Then she is taking me to lunch. I just have to decide where I want to go. [/COLOR]

Great idea for some extra exercise! And Gbaby will love it!

Originally Posted by DaisyGG

Good morning everyone! I'm here at work and ready to hit it hard. I need to put on my creative cap and come up with an idea.

Pray for me!

What is it you do again,advertising or marketing? Did you come up with an idea yet?


OK, so plan for the day...work, study, exercise - it's cardio day today so I'll be doing Jillian Michaels DVD.

Study: It's pretty quiet meeting wise today, so I will work in a little extra study time at work *fingers crossed* !

Life: Other than that, it's time to get the oil changed in my car and DD's. So, while that's happening we're going to wander across the street and get our nails done!

Oh and the pedicure (gift certificate) was really nice. The tech was veeeery chatting, but she was nice !!

Question of the Day ~
What will you do differently in the February challenge?



TTYL
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[Lbertas]

Originally Posted by gynx8467

Oops!!! Double post!

Awww Jennifer You just wanted to be sure we saw it, I didn't notice double post.

Alberta

[Lbertas]

Originally Posted by sheshy

Morning girls !!!

Oh that's so scary, waking up to a strange noise...heart beating out of your chest! Ahhhh! I'm glad all was well though.

Isn't it amazing what physical things you can do and hurt the next day? We were doing painting and I think my legs were more sore than my shoulders just from all of the up and down the ladder! Just using muscles that don't get used often, I guess!

I'm with you guys, I'm so attached my my firkids...I don't want to think about losing one.

Great idea for some extra exercise! And Gbaby will love it!

What is it you do again,advertising or marketing? Did you come up with an idea yet?


OK, so plan for the day...work, study, exercise - it's cardio day today so I'll be doing Jillian Michaels DVD.

Study: It's pretty quiet meeting wise today, so I will work in a little extra study time at work *fingers crossed* !

Life: Other than that, it's time to get the oil changed in my car and DD's. So, while that's happening we're going to wander across the street and get our nails done!

Oh and the pedicure (gift certificate) was really nice. The tech was veeeery chatting, but she was nice !!

Question of the Day ~
What will you do differently in the February challenge?

I am going to get SERIOUS about losing this weight in Feb. not just play around with it. No more oh I can do better tomorrow I will do it TODAY.


Alberta

[ragtopwife]

Hope everyone is doing well today.

Started snowing here last night... I was so excited! I left home without hat and my ears have been freezing (thank goodness for long hair or I would really be in trouble) so picked up a skein of yarn and crocheted scarf last night. Much better! I got to take my morning walk while it was still snowing and mine were the first steps on the pristine white sidewalk. I know snow is "Blech" to many, but we don't get it back home so it is a big deal to this lil ole southern girl!

Change over to freezing rain tonight. Not so good.

I think we may actually be leaving NJ in the next day or two. I'm ready. 7 days in this little burg is enough!