br!na's weightloss diary

Sorry to hear you're dealing with depression on top of everything else. It seems that we all have issues that come along with our weight problems. I'm not really a religious person, but I really like the quotes about god not giving us more than we can handle. I think we're all strong people here and we're all doing the best we can to become better people. We just need to keep working at it. :) I hope by working with your doctor you're able to find a medication to better suit you. :)

As far as the protein powder. It really matters on how you use it. Try looking up some recipes online. Also you can use it to cook with. I used a vanilla flavor to make protein pancakes which were declicious! I didn't really see it help me to lose weight, but I was concerned about not getting enough protein so I tried it. I haven't used it in months though.

So happy that you've reached your goal and that you're in the 180's! That's some really awesome work. Keep up the good work! :)
 
Mandy- I'm not religious in the way most people are. I'm wiccan. So instead of the traditional god, I believe in many gods and goddesses. :)

I'm very happy to be in the 180s!! I'm 189.2 this morning! Only a .2 loss from yesterday. But at least its not a gain! :)

Alright, I will update more later... I have a lot to get done today.
 
Glad to hear you are feeling better! And congrats on the loss and hitting the 180s!! :hurray:

I'm sure your doc will work with you to find a better anti-depressant that will work but not cause the weight again, or the stress/worry of weight gain.

You are doing great! Keep it up!!
 
Thanks Icy and MrVee!! I'm still 189.2. I'm hoping for another drop soon!

We had an eventful day yesterday! I almost got in a fight with a guy. He almost hit us in the truck, then followed us home and threatened to punch my momma. I went off. Told him to get out of the truck, but he refused and finally left. I was ready to fight him! No one threatens my momma. I don't care if you're a guy. I'm not scared of anyone!! Trust me! I once got in a fight with my cousin, he's about 12 yrs older than me, about 6'5 and 350 lbs. Again, it was over my mom. I threw my drink in his face, but that wasn't enough for me, so I threw the cup at his head. Haha he almost hit me. But I didn't back down.
No, I'm not a violent person. I don't go looking for fights. But I will defend my family!!

Anyways- after that we took our FD trick or treating. Second night, thus time here in town. It was fun. Then one of my friends showed up. I haven't seen him in a long time! He's been in basic training for months! Anyways- he showed up with 48 rolls of toilet paper. You can imagine what he was doing. Someone called the cops on him. So the cops were chasing him around the back roads. And I got caught with him. I thought I was going to jail. Haha. Luckily the cops in our town have very little to do, so they thought it was funny and no one got in trouble. :)

I don't have crazy nights like that often. But they are fun when I do. And it was nice getting to see my buddy after so long!

One of my other friends took our FD out to dinner tonight. So we got a little break! :) I have some pretty great friends!

Anyways.... We are supposed to get our godchildren tomorrow. And we are keeping them for about a week. So if I fall behind on here, that's why. Our goddaughter, Ryleigh, is 2. And our godson, Greyson, is 8 months. So we will be pretty busy! :)

Good luck to everyone!!!!
 
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Wow! Sounds like a fun weekend! And you do have some awesome friends :)

Have fun with the godchildren this week! Sounds like you will be quite busy.
 
Sounds like you had a crazy, fun time! I'm too chicken to get into anything like that. I don't know what I'd do if I were busted by a cop for doing something. I'm glad you were let go without any issues. :)

It sounds like you guys are going to have an insanely busy week with the wee ones. Sounds fun, but I don't think I'd be able to handle it very well. I like kids, but I usually have a time limit on how much I can take. LOL
 
Lol Mandy!! They are quite a handful!! Ryleigh is 2 and is still all over the place. and Greyson is 8 months and just learned to crawl. So he is into everything. I finally had to put our dogs food up off the floor because he kept trying to eat it and I would have to dig the dog food out of his mouth. Luckily he likes to put himself to sleep, so nights haven't been that bad. Although Rys wants to sleep in between me and Melissa (Mimi) and she's all over the place at night. So we haven't gotten much sleep. I'm very busy with them here. I haven't been able to go to the gym. :( but I think running around after these two munchkins counts for something. Lol I'm sure I've burned calories. :)

My momma is watching the kids for a bit right now. So I wanted to update quickly. My weigh in this morning was 188.2!! :) I'm almost to my 30 lbs lost! Yay!! Although, I think I weigh less than my scale says. It said 188.2 this morning. Then I went to my sisters and got on the Wii fit balance board, which is super accurate. And it said 187.6! But whatever. Lol I'm losing weight, thats all I care about. :)
 
I'd have to agree that running around with the little ones counts for something!

You are still doing great with the weight loss :D
 
Okay you guys.... I'm back!!! :) the kids went home on Thursday. But then yesterday, my dog at my sister's house went into labor. Her pregnancy was a complete accident. She's at my sister's house because she's an outside dog and I can't have an outside dog where I live right now. I didn't want to get rid of her because we have had her since she was 6 weeks old and shes almost 7 yrs now. And trust me, thus dog is an outside dog by her own choice. I tried to make her an inside dog. But she gets restless and wants to go out.
Anyways- she had 7 puppies. 5 boys and 2 girls. 2 of them are solid white, 4 are white with black spots, and one strange one is white with a black head. Haha. I'm afraid the runt will not make it. He was great yesterday, but today he is lethargic and won't nurse. I tried squeezing her nip and putting the pup up to it, but he won't latch on. I even tried feeding him milk with a medicine stopper and it just ran out of his mouth. Cukiee, the momma dog, still cleans him and accepts him, but she doesn't seem as concerned about him as she is the other pups. But that's just nature, and sometimes the runt just doesn't survive. especially in a litter of 7.
Cukiee is a Reindeer Chihuahua and beagle mix. Yep... She's a cheagle!! Lol she's about 8 lbs. And the father is a 12-15 lbs terrier. He's my sister's dog. :)

Okay, onto the reason we are all here.... My weigh in today was 186.2!!!!!!! It's a new low and I'm only .2 away from 30 lbs lost!!!! Yay!!!!!

I wasn't able to go to the gym at all last week because of the babies. But I'm going to go tomorrow!!! I can't wait to get back on track! Although, my weight hasn't seemed to have suffered! :)

My fibro has gotten worse as the cold weather moves in. Luckily, I was approved for Medicaid and it starts Jan. 1st. I'm really excited about it!! I will finally be able to find a good doctor to treat everything thats wrong with me!! And not have to pay out of pocket. Because I really can't afford it. Also, I think I have a bone spur on my hand. It looks like my bone is broken and the bone is trying to poke through my skin. It feels that way too. But I think I would have known if I had broken my hand. A spur is all I can think of. Although, if it is a spur, then I have more than osteoarthritis. Because spurs are caused by a degenerative arthritis. That's all I need... Something else wrong with me. Ugh.

Okay... I'm gonna go catch up on my shows for the week. :)
 
Yesterday was a very happy day for me! I got ready to go in a hurry. Just grabbing some clean clothes out of the laundry room without paying much attention. I slipped on the jeans and thought they fit better than before. I was worried. Though my weight is still down, I didn't understand why my jeans fit when for weeks they have been baggy and literally falling off with every step. Upon further inspection, i discovered I had picked up my foster daughters jeans by mistake!! They were size 11s!!!!!

I started my journey at 216 lbs and in a size 17! And now, 3 months later, I'm 30 lbs lighter at 186 and fitting in size 11!!! I cannot explain how happy this makes me!!!! I have been floating on cloud 9 since yesterday morning!!

I'm heading to the gym in a bit. Haven't been in about 2 weeks, so it may kick my butt today. Lol but I'm ready for it!!!! :)
 
Thanks, Q!! I did enjoy it, very much! :)

Okay you guys, I know this forum is about weightloss,but i have a problem and I need to vent. And I can't do it on Facebook. I'm really afraid I will be judged and I'm hoping there will be none of that here.

For the past month or so me and my foster daughter both have been itching like crazy. At first I thought it was because if the weather change. You know, the dry air in the winter. But its only gotten worse. Now we are covered in scabs and still scratching! To the point that we cant sleep. The itching never stops and gets 10 times worse at night. We've tried lotion and allergy meds, but nothing helps. So finally, today, I called the Dr and made an appt for this afternoon. He checked us out and told us we have scabies!!! My best friend and her daughter had these months ago. But I thought we had luckily missed out. Apparently not. So I'm going tomorrow to get the prescription cream filled so that we can treat ourselves tomorrow night.

I'm really embarrassed!!! I've always heard that people get scabies from being nasty. And though I know this isn't true, and that it was actually spread from a hospital that my best friend went to when she had mrsa. But I can't help being embarrassed and feeling nasty. To think of those mites crawling under my skin just makes me itch worse!!!! It's gross!!
Has anyone ever had these little pesky things? Were you embarrassed??

Ugh- anyways... Our little runt puppy passed away last night. And my sister freaked out when she went in to get him to bury him and the momma, Cukiee, was trying to eat him. I had to assure her that my dog had not gone crazy or feral and that she would not eat the other puppies!! She said she thought only wild animals did that! She seems to have forgotten that dogs were once wild. They havent always been domesticated. and some of those wild instincts carry on through the many generations! They eat their dead pups so that the smell will not attract predators that would surely kill her and the rest of the litter. Cukiee does not understand that predators cannot get to her and her pups! My sister caught her before she actually went through with it though, and buried the little guy in her yard. Unfortunately that's just the circle of life. And Cukiee's only instinct right now is to protect her living puppies.

Anyways- I did go to the gym, and yes it kicked my butt. I was forced to stop when I had an asthma attack and my chest started hurting really bad. So I didn't do as much as I wanted. But I did 30 mins of hardcore stuff!! :)

I really hope that you guys won't judge me for the scabies thing. But I really needed to vent about it. And right now seemed the perfect time, since i can't sleep due to the severe itching!!!! It's driving me mad!!!
But I guess I should lay down and try to get some sleep. I still have to get FD up for school in the AM. Goodnight everyone!!!
 
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So hope you are getting better, anyone that judges you is not worth wiping your feet on as it can happen to anyone.
Have not had it but I remember when we were kids we got nits.... now nearly every 2rd mum has a kid with it at some stage and it is just something that is passed on to others, no matter who clean they are.
In fact lice only like clean hair...and I think the only reason my son didn't get it was he sticks so much gel in his hair that they would have died on the spot.:rolleyes:

Try not to scratch too much and you will be back to well in no time.:waving:
 
Thanks so much, Mrs. Woods! We did the treatment last night, washed it off this morning. Now we are spending the day bagging up toys and washing all the bedding in the house. Hopefully we have this under control and will start feeling better soon. Unfortunately, the itching can last for 3-4 weeks after treatment. :(

So, I haven't had a good day in a while. Although, I did go to the gym on Monday, i havent been back yet. And for the past few days, I've eaten everything in the house. I've just been snacking constantly. And its catching up with me. This morning I was 190.0. :( I feel nauseous right now just thinking about everything I've eaten and how much ive gained!! I have got to get back on track. I messed up, but I can still fix it!!!! Not that I'm making excuses, but i think TOM is coming. Some of what I've gained could be water weight. And I do tend to snack a lot when TOM is pending. Idk why! I'm just frustrated right now. And I can't go to the gym today because of scrubbing the house and FD has 2 Dr appts after school, which will have us out pretty late on a school night. And afterwards we still have to make dinner and then FD has to go through her routine of chores and getting ready for bed. But I'm hoping I will be able to slip something in. I've gotta get that number back down or I will cry. :( I wanted to be in the 170s by thanksgiving. But I don't think that will happen. Especially since now I'm going in the wrong direction.

Alright, back to scrubbing the house before FD gets home from school. Gotta get everything clean!!!
 
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From my experience with cheat days, on which I ate absolutely everything on sight (to the point of feeling physically bad), and occasionally had 2 on a row, the weight stabilities in around 4 or 5 days.

Keep in mind that part of that weigh will be the weigh of the food itself, and other part of it is going to be water due to the increased (and, on my case, brutal) sodium intake - Part of the weight may be fat, as well, but it isn't nearly as bad as it seems first.

Anyways, I hope you can get back on track soon! Don't feel bad. :grouphug:

As for the scabies, I'm wondering if applying some oil directly on the skin could help?

The parasites that like to live under the skin need to breathe. If you cover and saturate the holes they use to do so (with a substance such as oil), they need to go back to the surface or they die.

Now I don't know what would happen on this case. When I saw this, it was done to bring back to the surface the larvae of a fly (Aka maggots) a guy had crawling under his skin.

Maybe it could help? Still, don't take my word for it. I would suggest doing a google search or consulting a doctor first. I would feel bad if my suggestion makes things worse. :(

I hope things get better soon. Take care. :grouphug:

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I forgot, if you apply stuff to your skin, always test on a small area first. You don't what to find out you are allergic to the stuff after applying it!
Another thing you could do is find a forum specifically about scabies and read the info there.

Good luck. :)
 
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Sorry to hear what you're going through. You'll get no judgement from me. Sometimes we can't control how things go. Same as clean kids winding up with head lice or staying at a hotel and bringing bed bugs home. Unfortunately, sometimes these horrible things happen. Thankfully you found out what's going on so you can start treatment.

I wouldn't worry to much about your weigh in today. It might just be water weight since TOM is getting close. I highly doubt you would've put all that weight back on so quickly.
 
Thanks so much for the support you guys!! I'm hoping I can make it through this hard time soon. I'm done with it.

Quick question.... I'm so not sure what to do. And I really need advice!! So, we gave FD a cell phone. But we check it randomly because she's 13 and I wanna make sure she's not doing something she shouldn't! So, i did a random check on her phone a little while ago while she was in the shower. She had a text from a friend saying she had a secret. and the secret was.... She cuts herself. Now, I have this information and I have the girls name. But I don't know this girl... And I don't know her parents or anything. What do I do?? Obviously its not ok for a 13 yr old girl to cut herself!! But who do I tell? Or should I stay out of it since I don't know her? I'm not sure I can stay out of it though. What would you guys do???
 
Does your Fd know you check her phone? If so just tell her what you saw to figure out who this girl is. IMHO her parents def need to notified. I couldn't keep that secret. :(
 
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