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cruiser1911

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last year this time of year november I was weighing it at 322 pounds my blood pressure was pushing 160 over 105 just all around unhealthy Im a active person, working hard labor job, just eat and drank a lot . i have 2 wonderfull little kids who are 2 and 3 Im in my late 30s and I was afraid I wasn't going to be around for them. so I go to try it get some term life insurance just in case something happened was denied by 40 different companies thats a bit of a wake up call. fiddle farted around with trying to lose weight until april 2017. then for some reason remembered that my dad and mom had lost a bunch of weight down to on the atkins plan decided to try that. that worked ,got down to 283 until about september when I smashed my thumbnail off and broke the end of my thumb no insurance doc couldn't do anything anyway. is this the kind of stuff this is for here? never been on this kind of forum before?
 
So pretty much from sepember onI have been eating the same a fair amount of meat and more grean veggies than anyone should have to eat. Also eggs ugh. Im amazed I havent started crowing. :). But cheating a litle more corn dogs and burritos baby :) only at lunch thou. My biggest downfall is my achahol intake jumped from about 8 ounces to about 16 ounces of 100 proof a night after my thumb.
My weight has maintainedlow 280s even with all this abuse until 2 weeks ago when both kiddos and I got sick and we had soda, canned food, and pastas, now back up to 291.
This is turning into a book but I went o a doc for a prescripion of antibuse , my blood pressure, is in the proper range and I dry for 2weeks now . Time to start losing weight again woohoo
 
Hey Cruiser and welcome to the forum!
cruiser1911 said:
is this the kind of stuff this is for here?
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In your diary you can write about absolutely anything you want (with the possible exception of lewd or illegal stuff, I´ve never had a need to check that :D ) and especially anything which either keeps you busy, distracts you from living the healthy lifestyle you wanted to get used to or simply makes you happy or proud. Feel free to browse through other people´s diaries if you´d like to get a better idea (that´s usually the quickest way to build some contacts as well) but don´t feel pressured to conform!
How´s your thumb doing now? Is it the kind of thing that´ll be crooked-but-ok or something that´ll be a problem in the long run?
 
Thankyou lamaria for the welcome.
as for the thumb it's an 1/8” longer and the ball is moved over a little no pain everything is great nail almost back in but retraining my brain to text properly well, there was lots of agravatuion :banghead: allways hitting the letter next to the one you want.
 
That´s annoying, of course, but I´m glad you´re basically ok. Thumbs are important. If only because it´s hard to peel veggies for yourself and your kids when your thumb doesn´t work :p
 
Hey Cruiser! Welcome and nice to meet you! :)

Great job cutting out the alcohol. I recently did the same myself, it'll be two weeks on Tuesday, and I feel really good. When I feel like I've had a stressful day and want a drink, I just remind myself that it takes 48 hours for the body to process the alcohol and in that 48 hours I'm not burning fat. Energy and calories aside, I always find that thought helpful!

Looking forward to hearing your progress! I hope you have an excellent day!
 
The booze has always been my downfall I started doing research and realized that for me, I not a full blown achkly necause if I need to pass a DOT physical or have to leave early for work I have no problem saying dry for a few days its when Im bored or hurting its 101 bourbon for me. The prescription from the doc basicly makes me puke if I drink and takes 3 days to get out of my system so I cant just have one drink, Which means half a bottle.
Enough background. today I cooked up oatmeal for the kids Breakfast And a omelet for me with a little bacona lot of red and green peppers and some leftover broccoli, And of course cheese. Lunch was egg salad rolled in lettuce leaves. Thats only because is sunday and have the time normally when Im doing good is a couple sticks of jerky, a boiled egg and some cheese sticks. Dinner will be taco salad without chips will use chopped letuce instead will do enough peppers and onions so I have peppers for omelets in the morning.
Writing this out sounds so boring. But it has been working for me
 
It doesn't sound boring to me either :) Love that profile pic too. What cuties! A late, but warm welcome hon.
 
Hi cruiser! Welcome.

I want to share something with you and I hope you will take it in the spirit in which it is intended - to be helpful to you.

I am a recovering alcoholic. I have not had a drink in nearly ten years. The amount you are drinking is extreme. Please talk with your doctor and be honest about how much you are drinking because stopping cold turkey can be very dangerous and you may need an additional medication.

Alcoholism isn't about being able to quit for an important event, or quit for a few days, weeks, or even months. It's about what happens after you start drinking. Alcoholics lose control after they start drinking and find it impossible to moderate how much they consume. For me, I could not have just 2 beers or two glasses of wine. I would tell myself that's what I was going to do - just have one - and I truly meant it and believed it - but I always developed this craving which was insanely compulsive and trumped all logic and promises after I started to drink. I believe it is physiological in nature - my body does not process alcohol like other people who can just have one beer or glass.

Again, my intentions are to be helpful and not offend you in any way. Wishing you the very best.
 
Thankyou for all the warm welcomes Those are the kiddos they were deterrmined they were going to watch on more chuggington on netflix before their naps:). They stay with their moms, mother most days while im at work. I pick them up at night. They sure are fun. Anyway its 5:30 am and Coffee is on and Im being lazy reading the news while the house is quiet.
Got a small pork roast in the crock pot so it will be done tonight when I get home.
dinner will be pork roast because pork is almost as cheap as chicken. and I hate cooking chicken, I havent found a fast way to cook it that has any flavor and I not slaving in the kitchen for an hour preparing a meal. Anyway pork roast with onions, a pound of broccoli, cauliflower mix and some mac and cheese for the Munchins I try to always have some thing with filler carbs for them. Well thanks for listening
 
Jenniquest thank you I was typing while you were. the doc was freaked out when I told him how much I was drinking. He was womdering how I ws even funtioning. im through the detox stage now. Im the same way I cant have just one. I hate the thought of being a teetotaller but that looks like thats going to be my life. So now I have to say crude things and anoy people while sober;). i hate pain so we are teying aversion therapy right now he has me on antibuse so I cant even have one drink. im dry longer then I have been in 10 years
 
Well just got back from work and meetings. kids mom was here and had them fed before I got home. But I got to tuck them in and send them to bed. Now a few selfish minues on todays diet.
breakfast was a omlet using the leftover taco meat and bell peppers from the night before. Then lunch, was 2 boiled eggs have I menioned I hate eggs? O to top it off My darlings swiped my salt and pepper shakers out of my lunch pail:ack2: Some cheese sticks, and some home dried jerky, finnished off lunch. Dinner was a crockpot cooked pork roast and out of a couple of cans green beans and peas i don like the flavor of tinned can food but sometimes. . i did good tonight even sayed out of the kids mac and cheese while they cleaned out the roast and everyting else.
Feeling good mentally, had some horrible news from the mechanic working on my work truck. Thousands in repair rather than hundreds but life goes on and will be better tomorrow. Now to just keep these weight numbers going the right way.
 
Boiled eggs without anything? That does sound gross :eek: Otherwise your food sounds lovely, even if I'd swap the canned beans for frozen. Meh on the truck; I hope for that amount of money it'll at least run smoothly for a long time to come.
 
The truck is just life it happens. Splurgged last ni and stayed up and watched a longmire epasode on neflix. slept in a litle his morning until the sounds of the munchins fighting over something at 5:45 made it time to rise and shine. Somebody told me , young kids, its long nights and short years before there gone. loving every minute of it. Did no food prep last night so time to start This morning
 
Welcome Cruiser. You started out at pretty much the same weight as me; I'll try and catch you up haha. But don't wait for me :)

I used to drink quite a lot until my mid-20s, then I couldn't afford it any more, plus it was leaving me feeling terrible for a couple of days afterwards. I can afford to again now, but I never re-started. I still have a drink occasionally but usually go months at a time without, even when I go out to party. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that sober is as fun as you make it, it needn't be boring. Once you're clear of it you realise how much you don't miss it at all
 
Belated welcome from me too Cruiser. Kids grow up SO fast & I don't think we appreciate them enough at the time because it can seem like such hard work. Good for you having the courage to give up alcohol. I admire you for that.
 
Thanks for all the welcomes. I seems very welcoming here.
today was one of those days didnt get up early enough to get lunch ready so I splurged on a gas staion corn dog and borrito but no soda :D my nemesis non acohalic drink, root beer, the sugar flowing down your throut firing off all those endorphins flavered sugar water.
But there is always tommorow I ended up having a lower back flair up so it was Ice packs for an hour theN 30 minutes in the hot tub. I have found in the last six months I have been eating like this,(very few filler carbs,and sugars, my back pain and overall aches and pains have dropped tremendously, this flair up could be related to no longer self medicating a half bottle a night. I don know One day at a time.
Dinner tonigh was grilled pork steaks with Montreal steak seasoning and a pound of broccoli.
 
Hey Cruiser, just want to say if you ever need support, we can be buddies.

I'm two weeks sober, and this is probably the longest I've ever been sober in ten years too! At on point, I ended up getting myself to drinking a full mickey of vodka almost every evening, and waking up with barely a hangover. This went on for two years. It was scary, but I am so thankful I've broken out of the habit. Not that it was easy. It's been months of slipping every other week or so, and then horrible hangovers. I've come to realize that I don't want my boyfriend coming home to a drunk me, or worse...

Now, my motivation is the weight loss. I've put a lot of focus into that and getting my cardio in first thing in the morning really helps me say to myself, 'uh, no I don't want to eff up all that hard work for a buzz'!

My body went through some weird feelings the first week. Inflammation, headaches and fatigue. As long as you're seeing your doctor, I think it's all just about your body adjusting. The detox passes, I promise.

Anyway, not to take up your journal with my story, but I just want you to know you're not alone on that front. I'm really proud to hear you're working through those issues, and it's solidified my own resolve to never pick up a drink again!

PS. You're dinner sounds delicious!
 
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