ON A JOURNEY

KALIICET · 09-26-2006, 03:56 PM

THIS IS A BRAND NEW DAY FOR ME AND I OWE IT ALL TO A LOVELY LADY NAMED MEL. SHE IS THE BIGGEST INSPIRATION ANYONE COULD ASK FOR. I HAVE BEEN REINDUCTED FOR 2 DAYS NOW AND HAVE SINCE LOST 2LBS BRINGING ME FROM 204 TO 202 SO THATS GREAT. TODAY HAS BEEN A LONG DAY FOR ME BUT I HAVE SPENT MOST OF MY DAY READING THE JOURNAL OF MEL AND THATS WHAT REALLY GOT ME GOING. I NEED TO THINK OF WHAT I WILL EAT FOR DINNER TONIGHT THOUGH CAUSE RIGHT NOW I AM DRAWING A BLANK.

I WILL THINK OF SOMETHING BUT ANYWAY I AM GONNA START POSTING MY MENUS

B~coffee 4 splenda and cream /sausage egg mcmuffin w/o mcmuffin
l~ ham deli meat and honey mustard
d~ ???

KALIICET · 09-26-2006, 05:02 PM

WELL JUST AS I WAS READY TO ORDER SOME BONELESS RIBS FROM THE CHINESE RESTAURANT (NEXT DOOR TO MY JOB) I THOUGHT MY WAY OUT OF IT AND WALKED OVER TO BURGER KING AND HAD A DOUBLE BURGER WITH CHEESE AND BACON AND I AM SO PROUD FOR GETTING THROUGH THAT MOMENT.

I AM TAKING IT ONE STEP AT A TIME. I AM IN MAJOR NEED OF SOME MORE WATER THOUGH.. I HAVE BEEN SIPPING ON THIS LITER ALL DAY BUT I AM ALSO CUTTING OUT ALL SODA. I AM WANTING TO SET A MINI GOAL OF 198 BY MONDAY AND SEE WHERE IT GETS ME. WELL SEE YOU THEN DAWN

indogia · 09-26-2006, 05:09 PM

YOUR GOALS WILL LEAD YOU TO SUCCESS

If you have correct goals,
and you keep pursuing them the best way you know how,
everything else will fall into line.
If you do the right thing right,
you're going to succeed.

You are what and where you are today
because you first imagined it.
Knowing where you want to go is all you need to get there.

Just return over and over to that picture in your mind
of the place you are headed for.

The first essential element of success is to know what you want.

KALIICET · 09-26-2006, 05:16 PM

THANKS FOR THE INSITE

KALIICET · 09-26-2006, 05:59 PM

Forgot that this is a public journal so I would like to officially introduce myself. My name is Dawn and I am a 27 y.o. mother of 2..Tevon 9 and Paris 2. I reside in Tampa and have been low carbing on and off since 2002 which is when I had my first success with it. In just 4 months I lost about 60lbs and it was the best feeling in my life. Before this weight loss I have always been the heavier one out of my 2 other sisters I am the middle child. In high school I weighed 140 in 9th grade and by the time I was a junior I was pregnant with my son. I weighed a whopping 236 by the end of my pregnancy. So that was definately my ultimate highest. After that I pretty much stayed between 175 and 190 to go back up in 2001 to 225 and thats when I knew that I was really out of control. So in Jan of 2002 me and my mom decided to try Atkins and we both did really well with it and like I said I had lost about 60lbs which brought me down to 160lbs. When I tell you I felt like a totally different person I really did. For the first time in my life I felt thin. I remember visiting my older sister back in New York and that was the first time she had seen me since the weight loss and she and my cousin are really what brought me to the realization of how much weight I had lost cause at first I wasn't quite grasping it. But seeing them standing next to me I felt like I was apart of the slim girls crew. I never took as many photos before in my life as I did that year. I had also never shopped for clothes as much as I did that year because prior to that everytime I went clothes shopping I hated to try clothes on only to find that it didn't look as good on me as I thought it would and I hated dressing room mirrors cause they show every negative thing possible. But that year was the first time that I was able to know the exact size that I needed and try it on in the dressing room and have it actually fit and look nice. I was a size 16/18 and had now gone down to a size 9/10. So then in 2003 is when I had gotten pregnant with my daughter which by then I was up to 170 and at the end of my pregnancy in March 2004 I was 234 lbs. After that slowly but surely the weight started to come off and I even got down to 175 almost back to my prepregnancy weight by July 05 which is the pic that you see now as my avatar and actually it wasn't due to low carbing but due to walking 5 mi. a day around the track. Then that stopped due to me being side tracked with buying a house and all the stresses of that which was 12/22/05. So since then I have joined the gym and been working out bet 3-5 days a week but have yet to fully get my eating on track which brings me current.

Sorry for the long drawn out story but thats the Life, Trials and Tribulations of Dawn

Sadler_Girl · 09-26-2006, 07:14 PM

Hey Dawn
You are doing great! KUTGW and you will be back at if not lower than when you went to NY!

Mel78 · 09-27-2006, 06:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KALIICET

In just 4 months I lost about 60lbs and it was the best feeling in my life.

You know, Dawn... One thing I have learned (...and LISA has helped me to see it with my own posts...)... most of the time, we have the answers and motivation already WITHIN US!!! You said it yourself, when you lost the weight before - in just 4 months - you felt AWESOME!!! You have "done this, been there" before! You KNOW what makes this successful for you!!! Lisa is forever quoting me and pointing out that I already know what works for me and why I'm having a rough go of it at times... because I recognize it but instead of USING that as a tool for moving forward, I (we all) tend to dwell on it and say "why me" or "why isn't this working"... Instead, we already KNOW the answer to that! She is also really good at copying and re-posting my replies to others when I'm going through a similar situation... and it's amazing what impact reading your own advice to someone else and having it apply to your current situation does to get you motivated!!!

So... You already KNOW this, but here goes:

CLEAN EATING + PLANNING + LOTSA WATER + DEDICATION + DETERMINATION + PERSERVERANCE =
A Skinny Dawn!!!

You KNOW you can do this, because you HAVE done it before!!! Take what you learned works from your previoius experience - and what didn't (truth be told, I learned more of what "not" to do last time around) - and tell yourself, I'm going to give myself 1-year of TOTAL DEDICATION! For one year I can pass up all of this crap and temptation. I'm worth ONE YEAR to make this work!!! Then, when you are strutting your stuff in your goal jeans, we'll still be here cheering you along and figuring out the maintenance part together!!!

Well, I have to run and get more coffee... But I'll be back checking on you and cheering you on!!! KUTGW!!!

And remember - PLANNING, PLANNING, PLANNING!!! (If you do it for a week or two, it will become habit and you won't need to be so hardcore with it...) Kind of like lable reading, once you do it for a while you get to know what you can and can't have... Same with planning. Just do it hardcore for a while and eventually it will become HABIT!!!

Sadler_Girl · 09-27-2006, 06:38 AM

Good morning dawn is the weather nasty there?
It is here in Sarasota been drizzly all night.
Just wantted to pop in and say good morning.
Rember you are not alone.

KALIICET · 09-29-2006, 09:45 AM

SORRY LADIES FOR CHECKING IN LATE BUT JUST GETTING A CHANCE TO GO BACK ON THE COMPUTER BUT I JUST WANTED TO SHOW THE BIGGEST APPRECIATION FOR YOU GUYS CHECKING IN WITH ME AND SENDING YOUR LOVE AND ENCOURAGEMENT MY WAY CAUSE I DEFINATELY NEED IT. JUST TOP LET YOU LADIES KNOW I HAVE BEEN DOING GREAT ON MY EATING AND I JUST FINISHED MY 30 MIN ON THE ELIPTICAL. I FEEL SO IN CONTROLL FOR THE FIRST TIME OF MY EATING AND IT FEELS AWESOME. I HAVE TOLD MYSELF THAT I WILL TAKE IT ONE DAY AT A TIME TO REALLY MAKE THIS WORK AND I KNOW THAT THERE WILL BE MANY UPS AND DOWNS AND I AM SO PREPARED FOR THEM THIS TIME.

I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE YOU LADIES STAYING WITH ME THROUGH THIS JOURNEY OF MINE AND I WILL DO THE SAME YOU FOR YOU GUYS. I WILL WEIGH IN ON MONDAY TO SEE WHAT MY WEIGHTLOSS IS.

SEE YA LATER AND THANKS AGAIN

Sadler_Girl · 09-29-2006, 12:06 PM

Sounds like a plan!

indogia · 10-01-2006, 03:26 AM

just stopping by to send you well wishes and smiles

KALIICET · 10-03-2006, 01:22 PM

JUST CHECKING IN AND LETTING EVERYONE INCLUDING MYSELF KNOW THAT I AM DOING GREAT AND HAVE BEEN CHEAT FREE FOR DAYS KNOW SINCE I FIRST STARTED.

I WILL ADMIT THAT TODAY HAS BEEN A STRUGGLE FOR ME SINCE I AM CRAVING ICECREAM ONE OF MY FAVORITE FOODS.

BUT I HAVEN'T GIVEN IN AND I WON'T CAUSE I KNOW THAT THIS TOO SHALL PASS.

I AM VERY TIRED TODAY AND I AM VERY NERVOUS CAUSE I HAVE FINALLY LEFT MY JOB OF 5 YEARS TO START ANOTHER AND I AM FEELING HOME SICK (MEANING MY OLD JOB). I AM FEELING LIKE I HAVE MADE A MISTAKE IN MY CHANGE. I ONLY LEFT FOR BETTER HOURS I.E. I WAS WORKING 51 HRS A WEEK AND NOW ITS ONLY 40HRS. BUT I AM SO MONEY DRIVEN THAT I AM FEELING LIKE A MADE A MISTAKE CAUSE I WOULD BE MAKING MORE MONEY AT THE OTHER COMPANY. MAYBE I AM OVER REACTING BEING THAT IT HAS ONLY BEEN 2 DAYS AT MY JOB. I JUST NEED TO START GETTING INTO THE GROOVE OF THINGS AT MY NEW JOB AND STOP WORRYING SO MUCH. I WILL KEEP POSTING MY EXPERIENCES AT MY NEW JOB

KALIICET · 10-06-2006, 05:31 PM

WELL I AM KINDA GETTING ADJUSTED TO MY NEW JOB AND AS FAR AS THE WEIGHT GOES I JUST BOUGHT A SCALE TODAY FROM TARGET THAT MEASURES .2LB INCREMENTS AND I AM 196.8

WHICH IS .8 FROM MY GOAL THAT I SET FOR THE 13TH

. I AM VERY PROUD OF MYSELF EVEN THOUGH I SCREWED UP A COUPLE OF TIMES WHERE I HAD PURCHASED SOME BREYERS LC ICECREAM AND PLUS A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO WE WENT TO A MEXICAN RESTAURANT AND I ORDERED FAJITAS AND DIDN'T RESIST THE WRAPS

BUT ALL IN ALL I HAVE STUCK TO PLAN AND AM SATISFIED WITH MY RESULTS SO FAR

KALIICET · 10-08-2006, 07:24 AM

SO YESTERDAY AT MY NEW J.O.B. I FINALLY SOLD SOME BEDS

..SO I AM SO SIKED AND I AM ABOUT TO GET READY TO GO AGAIN AND SELL SOME MORE...BUT ANY WAY I JUST WANTED TO GIVE AN UPDATE ON MY WEIGHT CAUSE THAT IS CURRENTLY 195.2

I WILL CHECK IN LATER

Sadler_Girl · 10-08-2006, 08:20 PM

Congrats on the sales and being so close to goal!

godsbeloved79 · 10-08-2006, 08:39 PM

Hi Dawn,

I just wanted to stop by and wish you well with your journey!

You have some Wonderful people cheering you on

.

09-26-2006, 03:56 PM	#1
KALIICET Senior LCF Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tampa, Fl Posts: 310 Gallery: KALIICET Stats: 210/188/135 WOE: Atkins	ON A JOURNEY THIS IS A BRAND NEW DAY FOR ME AND I OWE IT ALL TO A LOVELY LADY NAMED MEL. SHE IS THE BIGGEST INSPIRATION ANYONE COULD ASK FOR. I HAVE BEEN REINDUCTED FOR 2 DAYS NOW AND HAVE SINCE LOST 2LBS BRINGING ME FROM 204 TO 202 SO THATS GREAT. TODAY HAS BEEN A LONG DAY FOR ME BUT I HAVE SPENT MOST OF MY DAY READING THE JOURNAL OF MEL AND THATS WHAT REALLY GOT ME GOING. I NEED TO THINK OF WHAT I WILL EAT FOR DINNER TONIGHT THOUGH CAUSE RIGHT NOW I AM DRAWING A BLANK. I WILL THINK OF SOMETHING BUT ANYWAY I AM GONNA START POSTING MY MENUS B~coffee 4 splenda and cream /sausage egg mcmuffin w/o mcmuffin l~ ham deli meat and honey mustard d~ ??? __________________ DAWN MYSPACE.COM/FLHONEY I HOPE TO AVERAGE 8LB LOSS EVERY 2 WKS 10/13~215.8 START INDUCT. 10/14~215.6 Last edited by KALIICET : 09-26-2006 at 03:57 PM.

09-26-2006, 05:02 PM	#2
KALIICET Senior LCF Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tampa, Fl Posts: 310 Gallery: KALIICET Stats: 210/188/135 WOE: Atkins	GOT OVER IT WELL JUST AS I WAS READY TO ORDER SOME BONELESS RIBS FROM THE CHINESE RESTAURANT (NEXT DOOR TO MY JOB) I THOUGHT MY WAY OUT OF IT AND WALKED OVER TO BURGER KING AND HAD A DOUBLE BURGER WITH CHEESE AND BACON AND I AM SO PROUD FOR GETTING THROUGH THAT MOMENT. I AM TAKING IT ONE STEP AT A TIME. I AM IN MAJOR NEED OF SOME MORE WATER THOUGH.. I HAVE BEEN SIPPING ON THIS LITER ALL DAY BUT I AM ALSO CUTTING OUT ALL SODA. I AM WANTING TO SET A MINI GOAL OF 198 BY MONDAY AND SEE WHERE IT GETS ME. WELL SEE YOU THEN DAWN

09-26-2006, 05:59 PM	#5
KALIICET Senior LCF Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tampa, Fl Posts: 310 Gallery: KALIICET Stats: 210/188/135 WOE: Atkins	INTRODUCTION Forgot that this is a public journal so I would like to officially introduce myself. My name is Dawn and I am a 27 y.o. mother of 2..Tevon 9 and Paris 2. I reside in Tampa and have been low carbing on and off since 2002 which is when I had my first success with it. In just 4 months I lost about 60lbs and it was the best feeling in my life. Before this weight loss I have always been the heavier one out of my 2 other sisters I am the middle child. In high school I weighed 140 in 9th grade and by the time I was a junior I was pregnant with my son. I weighed a whopping 236 by the end of my pregnancy. So that was definately my ultimate highest. After that I pretty much stayed between 175 and 190 to go back up in 2001 to 225 and thats when I knew that I was really out of control. So in Jan of 2002 me and my mom decided to try Atkins and we both did really well with it and like I said I had lost about 60lbs which brought me down to 160lbs. When I tell you I felt like a totally different person I really did. For the first time in my life I felt thin. I remember visiting my older sister back in New York and that was the first time she had seen me since the weight loss and she and my cousin are really what brought me to the realization of how much weight I had lost cause at first I wasn't quite grasping it. But seeing them standing next to me I felt like I was apart of the slim girls crew. I never took as many photos before in my life as I did that year. I had also never shopped for clothes as much as I did that year because prior to that everytime I went clothes shopping I hated to try clothes on only to find that it didn't look as good on me as I thought it would and I hated dressing room mirrors cause they show every negative thing possible. But that year was the first time that I was able to know the exact size that I needed and try it on in the dressing room and have it actually fit and look nice. I was a size 16/18 and had now gone down to a size 9/10. So then in 2003 is when I had gotten pregnant with my daughter which by then I was up to 170 and at the end of my pregnancy in March 2004 I was 234 lbs. After that slowly but surely the weight started to come off and I even got down to 175 almost back to my prepregnancy weight by July 05 which is the pic that you see now as my avatar and actually it wasn't due to low carbing but due to walking 5 mi. a day around the track. Then that stopped due to me being side tracked with buying a house and all the stresses of that which was 12/22/05. So since then I have joined the gym and been working out bet 3-5 days a week but have yet to fully get my eating on track which brings me current. Sorry for the long drawn out story but thats the Life, Trials and Tribulations of Dawn Last edited by KALIICET : 09-26-2006 at 06:02 PM.

10-03-2006, 01:22 PM	#12
KALIICET Senior LCF Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tampa, Fl Posts: 310 Gallery: KALIICET Stats: 210/188/135 WOE: Atkins	ANOTHER DAY JUST CHECKING IN AND LETTING EVERYONE INCLUDING MYSELF KNOW THAT I AM DOING GREAT AND HAVE BEEN CHEAT FREE FOR DAYS KNOW SINCE I FIRST STARTED. I WILL ADMIT THAT TODAY HAS BEEN A STRUGGLE FOR ME SINCE I AM CRAVING ICECREAM ONE OF MY FAVORITE FOODS. BUT I HAVEN'T GIVEN IN AND I WON'T CAUSE I KNOW THAT THIS TOO SHALL PASS. I AM VERY TIRED TODAY AND I AM VERY NERVOUS CAUSE I HAVE FINALLY LEFT MY JOB OF 5 YEARS TO START ANOTHER AND I AM FEELING HOME SICK (MEANING MY OLD JOB). I AM FEELING LIKE I HAVE MADE A MISTAKE IN MY CHANGE. I ONLY LEFT FOR BETTER HOURS I.E. I WAS WORKING 51 HRS A WEEK AND NOW ITS ONLY 40HRS. BUT I AM SO MONEY DRIVEN THAT I AM FEELING LIKE A MADE A MISTAKE CAUSE I WOULD BE MAKING MORE MONEY AT THE OTHER COMPANY. MAYBE I AM OVER REACTING BEING THAT IT HAS ONLY BEEN 2 DAYS AT MY JOB. I JUST NEED TO START GETTING INTO THE GROOVE OF THINGS AT MY NEW JOB AND STOP WORRYING SO MUCH. I WILL KEEP POSTING MY EXPERIENCES AT MY NEW JOB

10-08-2006, 07:24 AM	#14
KALIICET Senior LCF Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tampa, Fl Posts: 310 Gallery: KALIICET Stats: 210/188/135 WOE: Atkins	GO ME SO YESTERDAY AT MY NEW J.O.B. I FINALLY SOLD SOME BEDS ..SO I AM SO SIKED AND I AM ABOUT TO GET READY TO GO AGAIN AND SELL SOME MORE...BUT ANY WAY I JUST WANTED TO GIVE AN UPDATE ON MY WEIGHT CAUSE THAT IS CURRENTLY 195.2 I WILL CHECK IN LATER

09-26-2006, 05:09 PM	#3
indogia MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,020 Gallery: indogia	YOUR GOALS WILL LEAD YOU TO SUCCESS If you have correct goals, and you keep pursuing them the best way you know how, everything else will fall into line. If you do the right thing right, you're going to succeed. You are what and where you are today because you first imagined it. Knowing where you want to go is all you need to get there. Just return over and over to that picture in your mind of the place you are headed for. The first essential element of success is to know what you want.

09-26-2006, 05:16 PM	#4
KALIICET Senior LCF Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tampa, Fl Posts: 310 Gallery: KALIICET Stats: 210/188/135 WOE: Atkins	THANKS FOR THE INSITE

09-26-2006, 07:14 PM	#6
Sadler_Girl Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: sarasota florida Posts: 15,825 Gallery: Sadler_Girl Stats: 282 start Start Date: 3/5/2006 (full into on the 9th) for the last time	Hey Dawn You are doing great! KUTGW and you will be back at if not lower than when you went to NY!

09-27-2006, 06:38 AM	#8
Sadler_Girl Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: sarasota florida Posts: 15,825 Gallery: Sadler_Girl Stats: 282 start Start Date: 3/5/2006 (full into on the 9th) for the last time	Good morning dawn is the weather nasty there? It is here in Sarasota been drizzly all night. Just wantted to pop in and say good morning. Rember you are not alone.

09-29-2006, 09:45 AM	#9
KALIICET Senior LCF Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tampa, Fl Posts: 310 Gallery: KALIICET Stats: 210/188/135 WOE: Atkins	SORRY LADIES FOR CHECKING IN LATE BUT JUST GETTING A CHANCE TO GO BACK ON THE COMPUTER BUT I JUST WANTED TO SHOW THE BIGGEST APPRECIATION FOR YOU GUYS CHECKING IN WITH ME AND SENDING YOUR LOVE AND ENCOURAGEMENT MY WAY CAUSE I DEFINATELY NEED IT. JUST TOP LET YOU LADIES KNOW I HAVE BEEN DOING GREAT ON MY EATING AND I JUST FINISHED MY 30 MIN ON THE ELIPTICAL. I FEEL SO IN CONTROLL FOR THE FIRST TIME OF MY EATING AND IT FEELS AWESOME. I HAVE TOLD MYSELF THAT I WILL TAKE IT ONE DAY AT A TIME TO REALLY MAKE THIS WORK AND I KNOW THAT THERE WILL BE MANY UPS AND DOWNS AND I AM SO PREPARED FOR THEM THIS TIME. I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE YOU LADIES STAYING WITH ME THROUGH THIS JOURNEY OF MINE AND I WILL DO THE SAME YOU FOR YOU GUYS. I WILL WEIGH IN ON MONDAY TO SEE WHAT MY WEIGHTLOSS IS. SEE YA LATER AND THANKS AGAIN

09-29-2006, 12:06 PM	#10
Sadler_Girl Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: sarasota florida Posts: 15,825 Gallery: Sadler_Girl Stats: 282 start Start Date: 3/5/2006 (full into on the 9th) for the last time	Sounds like a plan!

10-01-2006, 03:26 AM	#11
indogia MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,020 Gallery: indogia	just stopping by to send you well wishes and smiles

10-06-2006, 05:31 PM	#13
KALIICET Senior LCF Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tampa, Fl Posts: 310 Gallery: KALIICET Stats: 210/188/135 WOE: Atkins	WELL I AM KINDA GETTING ADJUSTED TO MY NEW JOB AND AS FAR AS THE WEIGHT GOES I JUST BOUGHT A SCALE TODAY FROM TARGET THAT MEASURES .2LB INCREMENTS AND I AM 196.8 WHICH IS .8 FROM MY GOAL THAT I SET FOR THE 13TH . I AM VERY PROUD OF MYSELF EVEN THOUGH I SCREWED UP A COUPLE OF TIMES WHERE I HAD PURCHASED SOME BREYERS LC ICECREAM AND PLUS A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO WE WENT TO A MEXICAN RESTAURANT AND I ORDERED FAJITAS AND DIDN'T RESIST THE WRAPS BUT ALL IN ALL I HAVE STUCK TO PLAN AND AM SATISFIED WITH MY RESULTS SO FAR

10-08-2006, 08:20 PM	#15
Sadler_Girl Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: sarasota florida Posts: 15,825 Gallery: Sadler_Girl Stats: 282 start Start Date: 3/5/2006 (full into on the 9th) for the last time	Congrats on the sales and being so close to goal!

10-08-2006, 08:39 PM	#16
godsbeloved79 Atkineer For Life Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Pompano Bch, FL Posts: 14,148 Gallery: godsbeloved79 Stats: 210/206/162 WOE: Atkins Start Date: 11/14/08	Hi Dawn, I just wanted to stop by and wish you well with your journey! You have some Wonderful people cheering you on .

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