Stillmanites Sweeties Unite! Get Slender in September!!!

[becky123abc]

Originally Posted by msgirl

Looking forward to eating a turkey leg with one of my best gfs this weekend

Yes!!! YEs!!! YEssss!!!!

[SquishyPunim413]

I'm FINALLY home!!! EXHAUSTED!!! About to finally eat dinner!!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[swebb]

Originally Posted by SquishyPunim413

I'm FINALLY home!!! EXHAUSTED!!! About to finally eat dinner!!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Job or ??

[CCGirl]

Originally Posted by swebb

I have finished scanning Chapters 6,7,and 8. It is 3 files (6 and 7 and then 8 part 1 and 8 part 2). I broke it up to keep the file size small.

I will send to everyone who asked yesterday. If there is anyone else that wants a copy you will need to send me a private message with your email.

Sharon

TY Sharon!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by msgirl

CC - I love the heels! I am a shoe loving fiend also and heels are my favorite!!! But................I am getting closer to 40 and they have been killing my feet lately! UGH!!!

I am seriously considering buying some of those (night out) shoes I saw at Walgreens. They come in this cute little pouch and you can switch to them if you are out and about and your heels are killing you. They look kind of like ballet slippers.

backup pair(s) always on board when I'm out.

Originally Posted by IM2fat

Nooo. discuss it here. Chapter by chapter. . that way those of us who are too lazy to sit down and read a whole book can skym. ..

Deep Thoughts from my journal:

If you bite it, write it.
If you drink it, ink it
pencil before utensil
Scribble if you nibble. .

(I am working on it.) . .

Remember: I've tasted it all before, it is nothing special. . It DID NOT make me happy. .it made me fat!

And. . Reality is hullucination brought on by lack of alcohol. . Oopps. .wrong journal . .

cool...all of them

Originally Posted by swebb

OK - Then I guess we need to pick a day to start discussing Chapter 1 - anyone up for beginning tomorrow afternoon (EST)??

Then I have been hallucinating for WEEKS!!!!!!!!

I propose a toast........

at least i don't feel alone now, I thought I was the only imbiber!

I am trying to not start until nine......I am being good. Amazing, for me, at least!

Originally Posted by becky123abc

Believin' for a loss...Believing' for a loss...Believin for a loss...

praying with you, sista

menu
3 egg white scramble
8 oz. lean london broil
1/2 c greek yogurt w Splenda and lemon extract
chik drumstick
HB egg

5 16z water

[SquishyPunim413]

Originally Posted by swebb

Job or ??

Job and lol

looooooooooooooooong days....and today I woke up SICK...Sore throat, fever and cold!! Back to sleep I go!

[CCGirl]

ugh, feel better and load up on vit C and zinc

just in...........


Subject: This is a fantastic message for everyone





Serving Customers


No one can make you serve customers well.....thats because great service
is a choice.
Harvey Mackay, tells a wonderful story about a cab driver that proved this
point.

He was waiting in line for a ride at the airport. When a cab pulled up,
the first thing Harvey noticed was that the taxi was polished to a bright
shine. Smartly dressed in a white shirt, black tie, and freshly pressed
black slacks, the cab driver jumped out and rounded the car to open the
back passenger door for Harvey ..

He handed my friend a laminated card and said: Im Wally, your driver.
While Im loading your bags in the trunk Id like you to read my mission
statement.

Taken aback, Harvey read the card.. It said: Wallys Mission Statement: To
get my customers to their destination in the quickest, safest and cheapest
way possible in a friendly environment...

This blew Harvey away. Especially when he noticed that the inside of the
cab matched the outside. Spotlessly clean!

As he slid behind the wheel, Wally said, Would you like a cup of coffee? I
have a thermos of regular and one of decaf. My friend said jokingly, No,
Id prefer a soft drink. Wally smiled and said, No problem I have a cooler
up front with regular and Diet Coke, water and orange juice.. Almost
stuttering, Harvey said, Ill take a Diet Coke.

Handing him his drink, Wally said, If youd like something to read, I have
The Wall Street Journal, Time, Sports Illustrated and USA Today.

As they were pulling away, Wally handed my friend another laminated card,
These are the stations I get and the music they play, if youd like to
listen to the radio.

And as if that werent enough, Wally told Harvey that he had the air
conditioning on and asked if the temperature was comfortable for him. Then
he advised Harvey of the best route to his destination for that time of
day. He also let him know that he'd be happy to chat and tell him about
some of the sights or, if Harvey preferred, to leave him with his own
thoughts.

“Tell me, Wally, my amazed friend asked the driver, have you always served
customers like this?

Wally smiled into the rear view mirror. "No, not always.. In fact, its only
been in the last two years. My first five years driving, I spent most of
my time complaining like all the rest of the cabbies do. Then I heard the
personal growth guru, Wayne Dyer, on the radio one day.

He had just written a book called Youll See It When You Believe It. Dyer
said that if you get up in the morning expecting to have a bad day, you'll
rarely disappoint yourself. He said, Stop complaining! Differentiate
yourself from your competition. Dont be a duck. Be an eagle. Ducks quack
and complain. Eagles soar above the crowd..

That hit me right between the eyes, said Wally. Dyer was really talking
about me. I was always quacking and complaining, so I decided to change my
attitude and become an eagle. I looked around at the other cabs and their
drivers. The cabs were dirty, the drivers were unfriendly, and the
customers were unhappy. So I decided to make some changes. I put in a few
at a time. When my customers responded well, I did more.

I take it that has paid off for you, Harvey said.

It sure has, Wally replied. My first year as an eagle, I doubled my income
from the previous year. This year Ill probably quadruple it. You were
lucky to get me today. I dont sit at cabstands anymore. My customers call
me for appointments on my cell phone or leave a message on my answering
machine. If I cant pick them up myself, I get a reliable cabbie friend to
do it and I take a piece of the action.

Wally was phenomenal. He was running a limo service out of a Yellow Cab.
Ive probably told that story to more than fifty cab drivers over the
years, and only two took the idea and ran with it. Whenever I go to their
cities, I give them a call. The rest of the drivers quacked like ducks and
told me
all the reasons they couldnt do any of what I was suggesting..

Wally the Cab Driver made a different choice. He decided to stop quacking
like ducks and start soaring like eagles.

How about us? Smile, and the whole world smiles with you... the ball is in
our hands!
We reap what we sow. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the
proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up... let us do good
to all people.

Ducks Quack, Eagles Soar.

Have a nice day, unless you already have other plans. SORROW looks back,

WORRY looks around, and FAITH looks UP... "Life isnt about waiting for the storm

to pass. Its about learning to dance in the rain." And while in the storm, give

it to God and let him handle it.

[becky123abc]

Grrrrrrrr... Still between 169 and 170. Maybe I'm eating too much beef? Or maybe it's the mix of reduced sugar ketchup, mustard & olive oil mayo?? Or maybe it's the granular splenda instead of SF Davinci's?
Or maybe my bodys just holding on to water an I'll let it go soon...
Oh well...maybe tomorrow!
Msgirl, I hope your sale is kind today!!
And of course I hope everyone is is losing too!

[Getting there!!!]

Originally Posted by msgirl

GT - Congrats on the size 4 skinny jeans!!!!

I so want to be back in a size 4~! I just don't see it happening for a few months.....at the least!

Thanks!! It will happen--faster than you can chomp down meat!!!!!

[Getting there!!!]

Originally Posted by msgirl

CC - I love the heels! I am a shoe loving fiend also and heels are my favorite!!! But................I am getting closer to 40 and they have been killing my feet lately! UGH!!!

I am seriously considering buying some of those (night out) shoes I saw at Walgreens. They come in this cute little pouch and you can switch to them if you are out and about and your heels are killing you. They look kind of like ballet slippers.

Ooh I have a pair (not from Walgreens, obviously-but maybe they're the same!)!! They fold up and everything-so handy!! They're so popular here !!

[Getting there!!!]

Originally Posted by msgirl

okay -- so tomorrow is my weigh in day after two weeks of NOT being on the scale!!

I am scared to be honest because I have had a couple of salads when I went out Friday night and yesterday. But, I will down the water, ground beef and chicken today.

Then, after tomorrow I will be back to weighing in everyday until I see a significant change in the scales!!!

Good luck!! I have everything crossed!!

[Getting there!!!]

Originally Posted by swebb

I am probably older than you (I am 53) and have had great success (at least to me) on Stillman's with MINIMAL exercise. 61 pounds in 6 months.

You CAN do it

Your results are amazing Sharon!!! I think it every time I see them!!! Seriously WoW!!

[Getting there!!!]

Originally Posted by swebb

For some reason I was CRAVING a banana today. I usually have them in the house all the time and don't give them a second thought.

Yes, I did eat one. I was thinking that maybe my body was trying to tell me I needed more potassium.

It tasted ok - not as great as I thought given the craving I had for it.....

I have upped my water the last couple of days trying to flush the salty foods out of my system so maybe I have also flushed too much potassium as well. I do take a potassium tablet each morning but maybe those were not enough.

I am now back to my regularly scheduled programming....MEAT!

It was, it was!!!!! I crave bananas too!!! I try to keep away-sugar city!! But I have eaten one or two over the last months and boy do I savour every bite!! And feel so much better after!! They're my new treat!!

[Getting there!!!]

Originally Posted by IM2fat

And. . Reality is hullucination brought on by lack of alcohol. . Oopps. .wrong journal . .

[Getting there!!!]

Originally Posted by swebb

Nutrition Info on my Banana

Nutrition Facts
Calories 72

Total Fat 0.2g
Sat. Fat 0.1g
Cholesterol 0mg
Sodium 1mg
Total Carbs. 18.5g
Dietary Fiber 2.1g
Sugars 9.9g
Protein 0.9g
Calcium 4.1mg
Potassium 290mg

Yup!! Sugar city!!! But so good once in a while!!!

[Getting there!!!]

[QUOTE=CCGirl;13908810] I have a 34" inseam

QUOTE]

Life is just soooooo unfair!!!!!

[Getting there!!!]

All this talk about shoes!!!! I think I'm weird!! I'm into bags, def not shoes!! Now it never matters what you weigh with bags--that's probably why I like them!!

[Getting there!!!]

Originally Posted by CCGirl

and i have a chocolate colored long cardigan sweater thingy-I forget what they are called- it's like knee length-that would be way cool over the tee shirt,no?

I've been studying at instyle.com..........you city gals are lucky...everybody is stylish and trendy down there......I have my walmartians.......nothing to see, no trends to follow.

Yeah long and lean is totally the look here (unfortunately!!)--skinny jeans. long skinny cardis and jumpers and shoe-boots.

[Getting there!!!]

Originally Posted by aleriaaa

Great idea! So we can celebrate every Saturday with a whoosh! Are you excited yet? 110 here we come!!!

I'm in for that 110!!!!!!!!

[Getting there!!!]

Originally Posted by IM2fat

.

After close inspection of your shoe, pix . CC. . I realized I have a pair very similiar and I wore them to work on Friday (with pants - a rarity for me!). . Anyway. .mine are metallic gold . .from the J Lo Line. . .I ran to the grocery store on my way home. . Killer. . Killer. . My feet hurt, I won't lie. . but I must have looked super hot doing my shopping. . .

Go you!!!!


I always feel dumpy!!

[Getting there!!!]

Originally Posted by IM2fat

I have a question .

How do you guys refer to each other when you are talking to someone else. . Like. .I try to tell my hubby. .this girl. .on my lCF site. well. .she's like. . or . if I try to call you by your screen name. .I get looks. . or perhaps you don't even talk about each other?? It just sound dorky to say. . someone from that website. . IDK. . just thinking outloud. . I call you my friends when I'm talking to co-workers, etc. . but if I say my friend to hubby. he immediately wants to know which one. .(especially when I say stuff like. .She's lost 40 pounds already or she's going to quit her job and back pack across Germany (I miss her, tooo).or she's wearing her leopard print shoes shopping at Walmart. . .) You know. .important stuff like that?

Oh yeah me too!!!!! All the time!! It's scary!!

[Getting there!!!]

Originally Posted by CCGirl

clogs are in for fall........at Chanel and Givenchy too......



Coach Rana clog in black..........drool

Clog boots are in too!! Comfier!!

[msgirl]

Thanks for the luck girls!

Well, I got on the scale today and I am thankful for a 6.4 pound loss in these two weeks. Truly, I was hoping for more because I just feel swollen...I am not sure if it is all the water I am retaining or if my body is just changing - it just feels swollen - even my fingers. It's really weird.

There is a large percentage of my clothes that I still CAN NOT wear. I would even be completely satisfied with the number on the scale if those clothes would fit me right.

It's weird....I have a very small waist but could put Beyonce to shame with my derriere

But, I am thankful nonetheless that I was able to lose and not maintain or gain

[msgirl]

Originally Posted by SquishyPunim413

Job and lol

looooooooooooooooong days....and today I woke up SICK...Sore throat, fever and cold!! Back to sleep I go!

Take care of yourself.....get some rest and maybe have some chicken broth - it will be on plan and make you feel better!

Mmmmmmm.....chicken soup kind of sounds good!

[msgirl]

Originally Posted by becky123abc

Grrrrrrrr... Still between 169 and 170. Maybe I'm eating too much beef? Or maybe it's the mix of reduced sugar ketchup, mustard & olive oil mayo?? Or maybe it's the granular splenda instead of SF Davinci's?
Or maybe my bodys just holding on to water an I'll let it go soon...
Oh well...maybe tomorrow!
Msgirl, I hope your sale is kind today!!
And of course I hope everyone is is losing too!

I am guessing it's the water Becky! You will lose it....I know you will

I know you already drink a lot of water but try 100 oz today....maybe you will flush it away!

YOU ARE AWESOME AND SUCH AN INSPIRATION!

[msgirl]

GT - Look at you such an encourager!!! What's the weather like over there right now?

[Getting there!!!]

Ok gotta go!!! Just want to rant (well ya know me!!) Was watching The biggest Loser USA last nite(dunno what season, prob an old one) anyway---seriously 130lbs in 11 weeks??????????????? I think I read somewehere that they were TV weeks and well I hope so!!!!!!!!!!! It's incredible!!! I'm telling ya I was depressed watching it! Like sooo much weight!!! I know some people were 400lbs starting off but still!!!It was down to the final 4-a girl called Amanda was in it who kept wearing her lucky pink tshirt!!!
The other thing that was scary was that the men who had lost over 120lbs looked a little "deflated", in their shoulders and neck and everything. It just made me think, I hope I don't look that. I don't think I do or at least I didn't but seeing these people I couldn't help but wonder. You know that I'll always look like someone who has lost a lot of weight--that everyone can see it. As I say I thought I was lucky and didn't really look like that but the poeple on the shoow do. Not the Amanda girl but then she had "only" lost about 55. Anyway it was driving me (and my other half! He! the poor thing!) crazy last night. Who's the blonde presenter?? She doesn't look that skinny herself, I mean not like other American presenters!!! Was she ever in the show?? She has amazing body built arms!!
Ok rant over!! BBL!!!

[CCGirl]

Originally Posted by becky123abc

Grrrrrrrr... Still between 169 and 170. Maybe I'm eating too much beef? Or maybe it's the mix of reduced sugar ketchup, mustard & olive oil mayo?? Or maybe it's the granular splenda instead of SF Davinci's?
Or maybe my bodys just holding on to water an I'll let it go soon...
Oh well...maybe tomorrow!
Msgirl, I hope your sale is kind today!!
And of course I hope everyone is is losing too!

Ugh, trapped here at 172 for a month now-of course, Moms visit didn't help, but I'm really getting back into super clean and on plan....and water......fingers crossed for us both!!!!!!!!11

[quote=Getting there!!!;13914915]

Originally Posted by CCGirl

I have a 34" inseam

QUOTE]

Life is just soooooo unfair!!!!!

it's not all that great, everything is a 30 or 2 inseam, I look like a flood victim in most pants I try

Originally Posted by Getting there!!!

All this talk about shoes!!!! I think I'm weird!! I'm into bags, def not shoes!! Now it never matters what you weigh with bags--that's probably why I like them!!

Oh no babe you just haven't gone to the next step........bags.I stopped counting at forty of them...and that was after I sold a half dozen to downsize....

Originally Posted by Getting there!!!

Yeah long and lean is totally the look here (unfortunately!!)--skinny jeans. long skinny cardis and jumpers and shoe-boots.

not too keen on jumpers.......styles take about two years to catch up to us up here.....we're still doing the two layer tanks

Originally Posted by Getting there!!!

Go you!!!!

I always feel dumpy!!

OMG at 5'6" and 125 you must look like beautiful swan......wake up, girl!

Originally Posted by msgirl

Thanks for the luck girls!

Well, I got on the scale today and I am thankful for a 6.4 pound loss in these two weeks. Truly, I was hoping for more because I just feel swollen...I am not sure if it is all the water I am retaining or if my body is just changing - it just feels swollen - even my fingers. It's really weird.

There is a large percentage of my clothes that I still CAN NOT wear. I would even be completely satisfied with the number on the scale if those clothes would fit me right.

It's weird....I have a very small waist but could put Beyonce to shame with my derriere

But, I am thankful nonetheless that I was able to lose and not maintain or gain

yeah I'm still pretty bootylicious.........but we will conquer the JLo butt!

Go us!!!!!!!!!!!

okay back to work........gotta make some cat food money

[swebb]

Originally Posted by SquishyPunim413

Job and lol

looooooooooooooooong days....and today I woke up SICK...Sore throat, fever and cold!! Back to sleep I go!

I am sorry you don't feel good Chicken broth and Vit C and Zinc (seconding CCGirl)

Originally Posted by CCGirl

Dont be a duck. Be an eagle. Ducks quack
and complain. Eagles soar above the crowd..

Ducks Quack, Eagles Soar.

OK - I am going to be.....no....I AM an Eagle watch me soar!

Originally Posted by becky123abc

Grrrrrrrr... Still between 169 and 170. Maybe I'm eating too much beef? Or maybe it's the mix of reduced sugar ketchup, mustard & olive oil mayo?? Or maybe it's the granular splenda instead of SF Davinci's?
Or maybe my bodys just holding on to water an I'll let it go soon...
Oh well...maybe tomorrow!
Msgirl, I hope your sale is kind today!!
And of course I hope everyone is is losing too!

My guess would be a combination of the mayo and water retention
Hang in there ..... the WHOOSH Fairy should be getting to you soon!

Originally Posted by Getting there!!!

Your results are amazing Sharon!!! I think it every time I see them!!! Seriously WoW!!

Thanks GT but YOU are my inspiration...your beginning weight was close to mine and you are now where I want to be!

Originally Posted by msgirl

Thanks for the luck girls!

Well, I got on the scale today and I am thankful for a 6.4 pound loss in these two weeks. Truly, I was hoping for more because I just feel swollen...I am not sure if it is all the water I am retaining or if my body is just changing - it just feels swollen - even my fingers. It's really weird.

There is a large percentage of my clothes that I still CAN NOT wear. I would even be completely satisfied with the number on the scale if those clothes would fit me right.

Congrats on the loss! That is 3+ pounds a week. It took me a loss of over 20 pounds before I could wear the next size down There was a Dr Oz show that he explained that swollen then a squishy feeling. THe swollen feeling was the fat cells filling up with water (instead of fat) then as the fat started to literally melt, you would get a squishy feeling. You migh even be able to feel small pocket of fat - they would feel like hard small lumps. So I am guessing you are also about to see a WHOOSH

Originally Posted by Getting there!!!

Ok gotta go!!! Just want to rant (well ya know me!!) Was watching The biggest Loser USA last nite(dunno what season, prob an old one) anyway---seriously 130lbs in 11 weeks???????????????

The other thing that was scary was that the men who had lost over 120lbs looked a little "deflated", in their shoulders and neck and everything. It just made me think, I hope I don't look that. I don't think I do or at least I didn't but seeing these people I couldn't help but wonder. You know that I'll always look like someone who has lost a lot of weight--that everyone can see it. As I say I thought I was lucky and didn't really look like that but the poeple on the shoow do. Not the Amanda girl but then she had "only" lost about 55. Anyway it was driving me (and my other half! He! the poor thing!) crazy last night. Who's the blonde presenter?? She doesn't look that skinny herself, I mean not like other American presenters!!! Was she ever in the show?? She has amazing body built arms!!
Ok rant over!! BBL!!!

Yes it is TV weeks I think from start to finish the time is actually 8 months. Some of it spent on "the ranch" and the rest at home.

I am sad to say that I have that "deflated" look starting. Sagging skin everywhere Even my ankles are getting "saggy" - gross! I know I will have to have some reconstructive surgery done - but that is a couple years down the road.

On one of the seasons the presenter was pregnant - the BL show did not say anything publicly until near the end of the season.

[msgirl]

There was a Dr Oz show that he explained that swollen then a squishy feeling. THe swollen feeling was the fat cells filling up with water (instead of fat) then as the fat started to literally melt, you would get a squishy feeling. You migh even be able to feel small pocket of fat - they would feel like hard small lumps. So I am guessing you are also about to see a WHOOSH

SWebb - Thanks for that bit of information! Maybe that is what is going on~!!! I sure hope so.....we shall see what tomorrow holds!

[msgirl]

Okay I have to share this - it may be too much info but....you girls know me pretty well so I am gonna share anyway.

Today I noticed that I either have a kidney infection or a UTI due to some bleeding when I urinate. Anyway......I mentioned to a friend what is going on and she said to try apple cider vinegar. So, I made a note to go get some and then low and behold she brought me some this morning.

Well, I just took 2 tablespoons in my water and

I survived but YUCK!!!

So, on the inside of my body today I have 2 tbs. of CO, 2 tbs. of ACV, and a b-12 packet, along with green tea and water. I should be pretty doggone healthy or else my stomach is totally freaked out

Have any of you had any experience with ACV?