~*~" Waist'ing Away" with CLA/GLA in 2008~*~

[dogsrus]

Good morning. I know that this is acctually the afternoon but I just got up.
Great job on everyone's weightloss.
I'm only a pound down from last week. It is however one less pound on me. I am continuing to take my combo and walk my dog.
I am trying to make little changes as I go so they will stay with me. I 'm trying to overcome my all or nothing attitude. So if the weight is coming off slowly or i don't walk as far or as long as I think I should I am continueing on anyway. Because at least I'm doing something different than before. Maybe doing it this way this time after I lose the weight I want to I will be able to keep it off.

Sorry for all the rambling. Hope everyone has a great day.

PS - Mountian Girl- I may not have depression but I am familure with it due to my DH dealing w/it in the past. No judjement against you here. I will keep you in my prayers .

Please pardon the spelling errors and typos. Writing/ typing can be tough when my dyslexia kicks in at times.

[michelemomof2]

Mountain - to you, like I said yesterday.

Trish & Tom and others who have lost - Woo Hoo!!! KUTGW!

Trish - Thanks for letting me know about the extra borage every once in a while. I'm surprised I even related not losing to that, but I did log it in my fitday, and so that is when I stopped losing on the scale.

[mikkimouse]

Hang in there hun, we all need to vent a lil bit, and feel loved at the same time, I hope all getts better for you. We are here for you.

[kycowgirl]

chic, I know you were just trying to help . We are all friends here so lets all try to put this behind us and move on

Rachel, good morning . I'm a night shifter so this would normally be my morning too. Don't worry about typos, I am the typo queen lol and I don't even notice. How much gla are you taking?

Michele, good to see you today. Yea, it's like my body gets immune to things real easy so I have to shake it up a big at times and get things moving again. I'm happy with my results in the first week. It will slow down when I lose all the re-gain, probably around 192

Mikki,

[kycowgirl]

We are trying to refinance our home and equity loan together at a fixed rate. The appraiser will be here tomorrow . I hope he overlooks all the construction going on here lol Cross your fingers and toes that we get the loan we are asking for so we can also add a metal roof and garage !!! The bank said the loan part is no problem, as long as the house appraises out !!

[barbiegal]

Hi everyone!

I'm new here to Low Carb friends. I have been reading this post with particular interest. I ordered the liquid CLA from Netrition, along with the NOW Borage oil. I've tried to be self sufficient and figure it out from this post, but I'm still a bit confused on the process of taking these two supplements.

First, I know I take a tsp per day of the PBL CLA Plus (I got from this thread that it's MUCH easier than the five pills per day of the capsule form!), but I'm a little lost on how many of the Borage oil I should take.

Also, was I reading correctly that these should not be taken together?

When taking the CLA, it's good to take it with protein? Does this apply to the borage oil as well?

Does this process work if you have started adding a few carbs back into your diet? I'm not even doing official "phase 2" of South Beach. Really, I just added back in like a low-carb wrap with my lunch sandwich. Still no carbs at breakfast, almost always an Atkins shake (I'm sick of eggs!). Maybe a 1/4 cup of wild rice with dinner once or twice a week. I'm still losing, so it seems to be working, but a boost to my metabolism and weight loss would be AWESOME.

I'm sorry if I'm asking too many questions. I'm just trying to be clear before my supplements arrive and I start taking them. I'm excited about it AND about joining this forum! Yay!

Thanks in advance,
Rene'

[duece49424]

Marsha - thanks for the info. I'm trying to write everything down, we'll see how it goes. One sort of "not so smart" question, do we count our calories even when we count our carbs, do they go hand in hand? I read somewhere they said even if our carbs were low, and our calories too high we still would not lose weight. What do you think?

[lildragonfly]

Jane- Well I had issues with getting my fats into my diet. They said to try to eat more fat than protein which in some instances would go hand in hand to me. I am learning slowly how to fix that. You are supposed to not have to count calories but some do some dont. I kinda watch mine. I have noticed I only lose if my calories are around 1200-1300 but after talking to a few other ole timers in forums I am learning I should be able to eat more calories as long as I add in fat. I have to remember to add in the vegs and so forth. I have ordered a book recommended to me called the diet cure. It tells you how to reset your caloric intake levels so I am hoping I can learn to quit worrying about calories and reset my bodies sticking point. I think I count calories form all the years of low fat diets. But I am working on it day by day to get in my good stuff and see how
I lose then.

[kycowgirl]

Rene, welcome to the thread and this site, I'm proud we are your first post on the site !! You need to take 1/2 Tablespoon of the cla, not Teaspoon. I found a little 1/2 Tbsp measuring spoon I use. For the Borage oil, I take the same ones you got and I have to take 4-5 a day. Tom does good on just 2. You can start out at 2 and go up as/if needed. The cla and gla can be taken together, but if you also take fish oils or flax oils, they need to be taken seperate a couple hours later. They all compete for absorbtion so you want to give your body time to take it all in. Taking the cla & gla with protein cuts down on the queezy feeling you may get from the extra oils the first few days you start on this combo. It works on whatever plan you are on , as long as you do stay on plan. Your not asking too many questions , we are here to answer and help you along. The borage did help some of us cut our appetites too, and some experienced a warm feeling and added energy. Again, glad your joining us

[barbiegal]

Thanks for the info, Trisha, and for the warm welcome!

Wow, 5 borage oil pills per day, huh? Not that I care about taking that many, I just can't imagine REMEMBERING to take that many! Brain rot, ya know! Do you take all five of them at once or split them up through the day? That's one of the reasons I went with the liquid CLA. MUCH easier to do. Thanks for the clarification on the 1/2 tbsp., NOT tsp.

I will probably start with 2 borage and see how it goes. It's probably better to ease into it anyway or I'll be living in the bathroom. Better get a good book! LOL!

Happy Monday!

[kycowgirl]

Your very welcome. Its best to start with 2 Borage. You may not need any more. I do take all mine at the same time, but others split theirs up through the day. I would forget so down they all go with breakfast !! Keep us posted on your results please

[iabowhunter]

Hi!

Welcome Rene'! Glad you are here!!

Mountain Girl...I suffer from depression too. I'm not on any medication for it right now. I stopped taking it and I thought I was doing fine. Sometimes my wife would like to see me back on it. I think I might talk to the Dr. next time I'm in there. I hope you don't leave this thread. I enjoy your never give up attitude. You are a survivor and we all have something to learn from you. Now come here! I need to give you a I will be praying for you.

Originally Posted by jillywilly

Ok you guys........here goes.......this is very embarrassing for me. My DSH just took these for me. I am so shocked at how horrible I look, especially from (every angle really!) behind!!

Embarrased about what? I think you are a good looking woman! You will be glad you have these pictures. Can't wait to see your progress.

Chic...Cool video! You look great too. ****taken from Ramone from the movie cars**** "lookin' kind of sassy! 20 pounds from goal? YOU GO GIRL!!!


299 today. I'm down 7 pounds from last week. It's good to see the 200's again even if it is 299! If I can only stay out of the peanut butter...

I'm going to go do some crunches!

to all. High 5 right back at you Tom!

Phil

[mikkimouse]

Like the video chic... WooooHooooo

Hi Jilly

Phil CONGRATS to you!!!!!!!! Keep it up..... hey Psst!! c'mer ~what kinda peanut butter? Crunchy or creamy? YUMMY i love em both too. heheheh


I will bbl

[iabowhunter]

Originally Posted by mikkimouse

Phil CONGRATS to you!!!!!!!! Keep it up..... hey Psst!! c'mer ~what kinda peanut butter? Crunchy or creamy? YUMMY i love em both too. heheheh

Thank you! I'm a creamy peanut butter kind of guy. I had to put it up out of my line of site tonight. I'm doing pretty well though. I made some biscuits for the kids tonight and man did they look and smell good! Ain't gonna do it.

I did 100 crunches tonight. Why is it I feel all jackd up after doing those? I haven't done those for a long time and I tell you what, I feel good. Don't know why but I'm ready to go. My gut will hurt tomorrow. I'll take it.

For supper tonight I raided the freezer and pulled out some swiss steak. I thawed it out, stuffed it in a vacuum bag with a bottle of Lawry's Baja Chipotle with lime juice marinade, stuck the open end in the vacuum sealer and sucked the air out of the bag. Doing that pulls the marinade into the steak. I'll grill it on the George Foreman here in about 15 minutes.

I'm searching my MP3 for work out tunes right now. I have it loaded with 808 songs with everything from all kinds of rock to country to Christian tunes. Right now I'm jammin to Queensryche.

[kycowgirl]

Phil, you need to make those revolution rolls and get some LC peanut butter if there is such a thing

The bathroom is finished !!!! uploading pics now

we had those breakfast deviled eggs with bacon for breakfast/lunch and just had cajun blackened fish and cauliflower for dinner Yummo !!! We have been so busy today we skipped a regular lunch

[lildragonfly]

I had a moment tonight. Had to make cookies for my daughter school and bought the prepackaged dough. I put them on pan and put in oven no problems but I saw a small piece of dough left in wrapper and I stuck it in my mouth but then i spit it out lol. I felt guilty as crap that I was going to eat that. Wow I am converted I think.

[Justachic]

Thanks Trisha, Phil and Mikki....you guys are awesome people!

Trisha...hope your house gets appraised at 1000 times more than it's worth!

Mikki....Peter Pan Peanut Butter was the best!

Phil....."I'm smiling next to you.........in silent lucidity"

[lildragonfly]

Chic- Just now got to see the video. Girl you look great now, you going to be so smokin hot!!

[Justachic]

Thanks Marsha! You are looking hot too! I've said this before but it's always nice to hear it again from someone right?!!! Let's all get there together.

[iabowhunter]

Originally Posted by Justachic

Phil....."I'm smiling next to you.........in silent lucidity"

LOL! I love that song. That song was the only reason I bought the Empire CD. I listened to the rest of the CD and guess what? I loved their music! In fact, I had to go back and listen to silent lucidity again. Makes me want to turn out the lights, find a lighter, and let the flame ride high...just like the god old days.

[michelemomof2]

Chic - You look smokin' hot!

Phil - That chipotle lime sounds sooooooo good! I'm going to have to look that up at the grocery store. By the way, I saw brown eggs at the grocery store the other day and the tag on the shelf said $1.53/dozen large brown eggs and $1.69/dozen large white eggs. So I thought about you! I bought the brown eggs and couldn't wait to tell ya, and then I looked at my receipt when I was home and they charged me $2.99 for those brown eggs! I was but I'm eating them. That's a pretty expensive dozen and here I thought I was getting a good deal.

Congrats on the 200's!

Trish - Can't wait to see the pics!

babiegal.

Jane. I'm so happy that you are sleeping through the night with no problems. Magnesium is an amazing mineral.

[lildragonfly]

Its always so great. I have no one else but you guys so I have to rely on you to keep me motivated.

[lildragonfly]

Wow you guys have cheap eggs then. I buy organic free range though and brown farmer market eggs when I can. I prefer the brown. But eggs here are 2.27 a dozen and some are even 2.97.

Phil- You got me eating a teaspoon of PB...lol. You doing great btw too!!

Jane- I meant to tell you I drink this stuff called CALM its magnesium. Makes me sleep soo good. My chiro sold me on it.


I want to see the sink pics!!!