Adra's Journal

[Adra]

Good Morning

I am hoping to find help here with my weight loss. I have always been overweight , (10 and 1/2 pounds when I was born). I am not trying to become a model just a comfortable size, and healthy. Last Wednesday I started the low glycemic diet and I have lost 3 pounds. I am happy with that.

Now for a little about me----Like I said I have always been overweight, and short -5 ft. 4 inches, so even a little overweight makes me look like a rolling ball.

But I am not a little overweight-I weigh 213.4 this morning.

In 1999 I worked at a casino, I was night shift manager, and one night a man came in with a gun. He had been there before and even though I was alone I felt that since I knew him it would be ok to let him in. He stuck the gun against my head and he tied me up. He robed the place and he robbed me of 5 years of my life. I went home and locked my doors and pulled my window shades and ate my way up to 252 pounds. And there I stayed for a long time. When I left my house I had to have dh or my grown children with me. Eventually my dh moved me to where I am now and I developed a breathing problem and dr. could not find anything wrong. Hospital and x-rays and tests and they still could not find aything wrong. Sometime later the dr. said I had post traumatic stress syndrome. I thought I was dying. So I tried to make myself better.

I started doing some exercises and I went on a diet and lost down to 184, and started going to church, got saved, and was healed.

And then I started gaining weight, calories way down, fruits and veggies and counting calories and exercising sometime 2 to 3 hours a day. So back to the dr. and more tests run and now I have thyroid problems. I am taking 50 mg. a day of synthyroid.

I go back tomorrow to have more test run to make sure the thyroid is ok. But I am tired of having clothes in my closet that I can not wear. I am tired of being overweight.

I exercise almost everyday, I try to get 10000 plus steps on my pedometer a day. That is not hard to do. On Tues. and Wed. and Sun. I watch my 2 yr. old grandson and he is active, which means that I am active too. Sometimes I watch him on other days but always on those days. On the other days I walk down behind my house through a fire trail It is about 2 miles long and I love to be in the middle of the woods breathing the clean air and listening to the birds. When dh gets home early enough he likes to go walking too so somedays I actually go walking two times. I do arobics video a couple of days a week and I work out with weights a couple of times a week. Grandson weighs 30 pounds and I pick him up lot, yes I really do consider picking him up as exercise.

My downfall is chocolate anything, and I am President of my church's Golden Harvesters group, we meet once a month and always have a great big meal. Desserts of all kinds and fried chicken and BBQ ribs, home made biscuits, peach cobbler. Plus I give devotionals and speeches at other churches and there is always a big meal. And everyone is so sweet, "your speech was so good, here you have to try this I made it -it's delicious" and how can I say no? "Surely a little bit won't hurt" "Aunt Sue is going to feel so bad if you don't take a piece of her Ten Mile High Chocolate Cake, She worked for hours on it."

AACCCKKKK Side tracked again.

Help me please and come slap my hands.


Pleased to meet you all.

[Adra]

I stayed on this site all day today. This is a very informative site, and it is a little intimidating with all the people and all the forums and posts. But I am sure I will be able to navigate with no problems in just a day or so.


Baby was here today and I have been potty training him. So I was up and down a lot. I did 40 min. of arobics early this morning and when dh was home for lunch I put baby down for nap and went walking for 30 minutes. I have eaten good all day. I am not going to write it all down but I stayed under my carb limit and under my calorie limit so far. I will be eating dinner soon, and i have it planned out, Small salad crock pot chicken and a little grilled squash, and some broccoli.

Have a good nite everyone

[Tommyswife]

Hope you don't mind me posting in your journal, but I wanted to welcome you to this part of the world. Journaling is so therapeutic, so keep it up. Our stats are almost the same. I'm doing atkins and I've lost 9 pounds in the last week and a half.

I'll check on you later.

[Adra]

Thank you for the sweet welcome.

I just read where posting on others journals was not encouraged, but really I do better with helpful comments.



Please everyone come in and talk to me, encourage and scream and hug and slap my hands. (not too hard) lol.

[Adra]

Hello
I want to check in and let everyone know that I am trying to write daily. I have a blog that Itry to keep updated and i will probably just copy and paste from here to there. I ate very good and this is day 7 of my low glycemic eating and as of Wed. to Wed. I have lost 4.2 pounds. I am happy about that enough to get up and do the "weight loss happy dance". What? You never heard of the "weight loss happy dance"? Where have you been?

I ate good today and I did not lose my temper with baby. NOT ONCE. He is so hard headed and when I say ok baby it is time to go potty he jumps and runs and I refuse to chase him because he thinks it's a game. I put a lot of his books in the bathroom and I put him on potty and then I read to him. In two days of him being here with me, he has only soiled his pull ups 3 times. I am proud of him.

In two weeks I am going to a special function at my church. It is a combination fellowship meeting of the mens ministry and the womens ministry. I need to fix something that is low glycemic friendly and somewhat low calorie. Also my husbands prediabetes is getting worse and so I need to fix something that is ok for him to eat.
I know it is not that big of a deal and we could just stay home but I enjoy fellowshipping with my church family, and if I don't take something I know I can eat freely then I will just eat the other stuff, and that might trigger cravings and sinful overindulgence.

Have a good night

[Adra]

Hello

Today I went for a long walk with my husband. His legs are longer than mine and I thought I was going to have to run to keep up with him. We walked over 4 miles, and my pedometer counted 11210 steps.

I ate good and feel so energetic and enthusiastic about my small amount of weight loss.

Have a good night everyone.

[Adra]

I had so hoped I would make friends here, that others would reach out and help by giving support and advice.

Didn't happen,

[seb]

Hey Adra, this is a great place to be, sometimes it just takes time be make friends. I'd be happy to help you in any way I could! I've low carbed since 2002 for the most part, but put on weight last year, and now am trying to lose it for good. I've lost at least 29 pounds (loaned my scale out about 2 months ago so don't know what I weigh), have been stalled out a bit, but this is the way I will eat for the rest of my life. It's not a diet.

We have a home group we go to every Sunday evenings with a pot luck, and there is rarely anything but salad for me to eat, so I eat lots of green salad, and make sure I have something to eat before I get there. Church functions can be hard because of all the goodies.

I have a journal called "Sue's Journey to Finally Getting this Weight Off" if you'd like to visit me.

[wittykitten]

Hey Adra,
You were the first person 2 leave me a message.I really appreciated it...so you have a friend in me. Dont worry...I havent made many friends either but i know it will get better...come visit anytime @ my journal "little woman trapped in big womans body"
HUGGS

[Grammie C]

Hi Adra...

I read your introduction so you won't have to answer my question in my journal thread about yourself!

IO am so happy to read about the amazing recovery you made and it is just wonderful you can walk like that.

Bless You! Carol aka Coriander