Silver Sonnet's Lines to Losing

Thanks, Sday :)

I know veggies--and fruit--are lacking in my diet. I'm still basically camping out, and fruits and veggies take up a lot of space. BUT I made a food chart last night that I can stick in my purse and just check off fruits, veggies, dairy, grains, etc as well as total calories and fats. I'm hoping awareness will will help.

I guess on some level I still don't believe I can really do this. Somehow I've stumbled into something that is working, but I think I'll soon stumble out of it. I just have to work on changing that inner dialouge.
 
I wouldn't say you stumbled into this- I would say you are working hard and it's paying off. You are halfway to your 1st goal! That is plenty to be proud of. I have faith in you- and I'm glad that you talked to your WW leader and your sister about how you have been feeling. If you haven't been eating enough, it's great that they were able to point that out to you so you can correct it. I know what you mean about wishing we didn't have to eat at all... if they would get rid of all the food we currently have and just give us some supplement that gives us all the nutrients we need and doesn't taste good, none of us would be trying to lose weight. I highly doubt we would binge on some tasteless capsules. Oh well- wishful thinking.
 
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You know, years ago when I was in my 20's, I tried some "appetite suppressent" taht was supposed to keep me from bing hungry (this is a measure of my desperation: I don't even take aspirin, but I took that stuff). It didn't keep me from being hungry, but it DID short-circuit my tastebuds. NOTHING I ate had any taste at all. So you'd THINK that would solve the problem, right?

Wrong.

I proceded to eat EVERYTHING I could find to see if I could find anything I could taste.

I'm still not ure what's different this time, but it is.

Right now, I'm at 530 calories for the day; most of that is from orange juice. There's nothing here to eat, and I don't want to go out in the storm to get something. Haven't decided yet what to do.
 
I'm in the process of packing to go home, trying to get everything ready for the up-coming semester AND trying to fit in all the fun stuff I haven't gotten done yet. My sister and I are playing in clay every day she's not working--in short, I'm just BUSY.

BUT I lost ***4.6*** pounds this week! That puts me at 17.6 lost (according to WW--it will be more, I'm sure, when I weigh on my "normal" scale next week).

I am SO ready to go home. But I'm also looking forward to going shopping Thursday with my sister: my clothes are literally falling off me, and I have to have SOMETHING to wear to school starting mid-Aug.

If I actually HAD a normal life, I'd be getting back to it soon :)
 
Touching base: I'm home and swamped in stress. Think I'm kidding? I have three sick grandbabies, a daughter whose house keeps getting broken into, classes for fall are STILL up in the air (three classes, no FOUR classes--maybe F*I*V*E classes?!), trying to line up some classes for ME (I want to be a diabetic nutrition educator) and, to top it all off, the house got flooded. Of course it would pour rain for the first time in two months just when we were in the process of putting on a new roof. Oh--I forgot--while trying to tarp the roof and stop the flood, hubby did some pretty heavy damage to his back....

BUT I've stayed on track and am still losing. I'm 3 pounds away from my first goal. Down 30 pounds from the last time I saw my doctor, and I've been able (with his blessing) to stop taking meds for my diabetes! YEAH!

Best thing of all: I went to see one group of grandbabies Monday--4-year-old twins Riley and Abby and their 8-month-old sister Leah. Riley saw me get out of the car and asked his mom, "Who's that?" Jen said, "That's Grandma." Riley looked at me and said, "That's not MY Grandma!"

Guess the weight loss is starting to show :)
 
Welcome back. Sorry about all your troubles. Great job keeping on track with your eating.....you're so close to your first goal! How exciting. I hope things start coming together for you. Keep your head up!
 
Awesome weight loss! And it's great when family and friends notice the changes (even if they don't recognize you right away!).

You are inspiring.
 
AAHH!! Incredible job.....and to now be off meds...that is truly amazing! You should be so proud of yourself! I hope things begin to calm down for you soon and your house dries out :p !
 
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House is dry--but on Firday I had a WRECK! Someone ran a stop sign and ploughed into my little car. Stupid insurance company wanted to total it out just because it's old; they offered me $1175 for it--AS IF I could get anything else dependable for that! So now we are working on the car, and Richard's back and my shoulder are hurt--well, let's just say that life is not yet its usual wonderful self.

However, I have reached my first goal--TA-DA!!

I'm now working on goal #2 which is to reach 175 pounds.

It's just constantly amazing that this is still working!
 
So sorry about your accident...oh I hate them! I had a rear ender once and was "gun shy" for quite some time. On the bright side!!! Yay for meeting a goal and setting a new one! GOOD FOR YOU!!!
 
Excellent work reaching your first goal! Kudos to you.

I wanted to say thank you for suggesting some time ago in my diary that I try a food log. I finally did it this past week, and even doing it for 7 days made a huge difference. I looked at true quantities of food and thought about everything I put in my mouth. It was truly helpful. Thanks!
 
Ha! I guess you could say I'm "big white car shy." Every time I see one out of the corner of my eye, I flinch :p

Patty, I'm glad the log helped. I know I can't function log without mine. Sometimes I don't eat something just because it's too much work to record it all!

One little addition that helps sometimes, if you do your log on paper, is to circle the "not so great" chioces at the end of the day. When you flip through the log, if you start seeing more and more circles, you know you need to get serious again :)
 
Yay! Congratulations!

So sorry about your accident. I hope you are OK and just sore from the blow. Have a great weekend.
 
After almost three years--can it really have been that long?--I'm back. As it turns out, I just couldn't maintain my new eating style once I got home. I kept going to WW meetings, but I really don't like the leader here. I kept losing weight. I lost weight even after I started having one meal a week at my favorite Mexican restaurant. So I decided I'd try having pizza after each WW meeting, provided I lost weight in the weigh in. And then I set my first official food reward: my family's signature tacos (don't ask--you really don't want to know!) when I reached goal #2: 175 pounds.

Well, I reached that goal and ate those tacos, and then I just kept on eating. I avoided the scale like the plague, but I was eating and gaining and eating more.

Then, almost a year ago, my hubby had a stroke. It was just a miracle that he survived it and the brain surgery that followed. He came home blind in the left half of each eye, and he needed near-constant care. I just abandoned any pretense of taking care of myself and devoted all my energy to taking care of his.

On New Year's Eve, I suddenly couldn't breath, so I was rushed to the hospital where I was diagnosed with "probably congestive heart failure." Since then, I've been dealing with cardiologists, tests, medicines. I'm tired of feeling bad and being overweight and taking medicine.

So I'm coming back here to this board where I got so much love and support and encouragement when I was doing things right. I can't wait to get back into the swing of things!
 
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