[veronandez86]

Originally Posted by Kevi12

That would work, but I'll find where haha. Man, first time cooking dinner in months! And I'm amazed how much I can pace myself and good the food is . Veronica it's adobong manok :-P

Yeah, I told you I was barely getting it down. At least people know what I mean. LoL. Dang, the only word I know and I didn't even get it down right.

But my stepdad switches which dialect he's speaking in. He'll go from Tagalog to Pangasinan dialect like I would go from English to Spanglish. Oh, and I dont know why, but he always sounds like he's yelling when he speaks it. Are there some dialects that are agressive sounding?

[veronandez86]

So, I've been needing a workout buddie and I think I just got my mom onboard to workout with me.

She's around 280+ and the other day, my stepdad seen this super morbidly obese lady who was using a walker and gave her a dirty look, then looked at my mom with the same nasty look. Let's just say this caused some unneccessary ripples in an already wavy water. She was hurt by this, so she decided she would work out with me.

We joined sparkpeople and I like how it gives a strength training program that seems simple enough for us to do. Plus, it's seems way easier to track weight and measurement loss on there than for me to keep creating Excell sheets for it. I hope this all goes well.

I'm super glad she's on board tho. So, now instead of being, 'Sit / Lay on the Couch and Watch TV show Boxsets Buddies' we will be morphing into 'Workout buddies'. Woo Hoo! Then maybe even 'Shopping Buddies'!

Good Luck eveyone this week! We can all do it!

Veronica

[Hope2]

veronandez,

Grate NEWS!!!!! That is super that you and your mom have eachother as buddies!!!!

My mom is remotivated now that I'm passing on new info, but we live almost an hour a way... So we are like "verchual buddies", lol... So happy for you!

I've been useing sparkpeople, for most of this month, it's great, I love it, and it's way easy! Glade you found it!

[pink clouds]

Originally Posted by Kevi12

Haha pink, I really can't say what the recipe is. I just go base on my taste you know? I cook without thinking with the measuring and stuff.

Yep its what true chefs do

[pink clouds]

Originally Posted by spartacus26

Sorry to hear you're in the dumps! I wish I had your problem, though. I only sleep well if I've worked out, but when I work out I eat like a horse.

Here here....I cannot sleep worth a dam! I am a true insomniac!! I even have strangers telling me what sleeping pills i should take


2 Amber and Hope you guys are there for each other and we are all here for you too Everyone is doing so well!! Keep it up guys

[Kevi12]

I went to the gym today and ran for 1 lap haha man, I sure did get winded, but w/e i worked out today Man tities is getting smaler hehehehhehe, but still got the flab

[pink clouds]

Hmmmm....guys tell me what you think....

Last week I had to start back some meds (2 different medications to be exact) that cause weight gain and some other side effects (which I am having as well..BTW none are mental....I am naturally crazy). Now believe me when I tell you I have been doing my best, shunning soda, unhealthy foods and exercising when I am able to, but I noticed I was looking puffy everywhere....so I went on the scale tonight and I gained 7 lbs I am expecting TOM in a few days and I know that the meds cause weight gain...there are some people on the internet that even recommend taking diet pills when taking them....but I am wondering if I should adjust my weight or wait until I am back off the meds and TOM leaves. Otherwise I will be losing 7 lbs really fast and it will not have anything to do with my efforts but rather coming off of the meds....and I wonder if that is cheating. What do you all think? I would really appreciate your input

[pink clouds]

Well I slept on it...and I know you guys did not have a chance to respond yet because I go to bed late and wake early....but I decided to count it. I don't think it can be cheating because it is the truth. The reason I was concerned about it is I am challenging myself to lose 25lbs by 07/04/08 and I did not want that loss of whatever kind of weight this is to skew the numbers :-/ I lost one pound since yesterday already

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I finally started a diary
Here is the link: http://www.weight-loss.fitness.com/w...hing-nice.html

[nataliejo]

Hello everyone,
Im sorry I havent been responding to your posts and I have been kind of MIA... I have just been so depressed. I have gained weight in my stomach and I can tell. I went back up from a 18/20 shirt to a size 22/24...

I feel wicked ..
I just ugh I know what I have to do, walk! but I don't seem to have the courage to do it as much as I used to. BUT Tomorrow is supposed to be nice and I am going to go out around eleven am... its supposed to be sunny and in the fifty degree there abouts ... so I am trying to get back on track

I have beennn so down, just down... it has been pouring literally buckets for the past two days and no sun three days ago, this really has sucked butt.

What an awful three days weather wise...and Peter is a bum. I just can't deal with him. I have met a new guy and he is calling me and is nice and I am going to go on a date with him Saturday, because he is actually really cool. I am six and half years younger, but he says I am worth driving up to see and spend time with and that he is looking forward to tonight when we talk. I think its awesome I am not the one initiating phone calls ...

And I have found my strong and independent side. I have been working on it. I think I am good, but I need to really work on the weight and not get down on myself, but take my frustration out on the pavement. I just need and want to do it. So tomorrow is a beginning to lose more pounds, another twenty pounds. And I will just think in increments of ten to twenty pounds ..

thanks for listening guys and gals

love yas
always
natalie jo
and I will be replying to your posts in the future ...
sorry for being hardly around, just down, really down, I gained weight ...ugh ...now I have to try and lose it again lol and I will ... I just wish I was more psyched about it than I am .. I feel like I am trying sometimes and not getting anywhere, but my mistake was I was looking at how much I need to lose to get to my ultimate goal weight and now its seems so big ..lol

but I shall ttylater lovies

love you all
natalie jo

[pink clouds]

Nataliejo its okay hun. Losing weight is like a war filled with many battles, you win some u lose some but the war is not over until you either give up or reach your goal I am there with you hun...I gained 7 pounds which confused me because i have been doing well, but i did some research on my meds and found out that they cause weight gain. So we are in this together hun. We will lose weight. I have a long way to go as well, and like you focusing on the big picture seems overwhelming at times...so I set a little challenge for myself to lose 25lbs by 07/04/08. You can join me if you'd like Even of we do not lose 25lbs its still cool...its like the saying, if you shoot for the moon and miss, at least you will be among the stars.

Keep hanging in there hun. Sorry to hear about Peter, but I am happy you found someone else

[nataliejo]

Originally Posted by pink clouds

Nataliejo its okay hun. Losing weight is like a war filled with many battles, you win some u lose some but the war is not over until you either give up or reach your goal I am there with you hun...I gained 7 pounds which confused me because i have been doing well, but i did some research on my meds and found out that they cause weight gain. So we are in this together hun. We will lose weight. I have a long way to go as well, and like you focusing on the big picture seems overwhelming at times...so I set a little challenge for myself to lose 25lbs by 07/04/08. You can join me if you'd like Even of we do not lose 25lbs its still cool...its like the saying, if you shoot for the moon and miss, at least you will be among the stars.

Keep hanging in there hun. Sorry to hear about Peter, but I am happy you found someone else

Hey Pink Clouds!!
Thanks hun for your kind words and you are so right. My actual goal for July is five pounds. I know that sounds insane, but at my rate, if I can pull off five pounds, that will be a big triumph for me, because I have so been bad on the lifestyle changes, I have reverted back to the old me, the food addict who always needed her fix to fill time or to self medicate and the motivation level has been blah, but my goal is still close to what I wanted to be by October, which is funny! I want to be 263.2 by October seventh, I put that down in January or February on the Birthday Challenge. ITs kind of funny! So if I lose two pounds per month I will lose ten pounds by the time I get to October and I will be at the goal weight I set up for myself in the challenge. So I am trying to be reasonable with myself, I would love to lose four pounds in one month, thats the most I have ever lost in one month. Lost one pounds per week. I would absolutely love to do that, but in the month of April I only lost 2.8 pounds, I guess at least its a loss, I have to keep it off and lose at least another two pounds in May...

so here is to another month full of Happy times!!
Cheers!

I cant wait till they set up the May 2 pound challege.

ttylater
love yas
natalie jo
hugs

[Hope2]

Sorry guys, I've been soo darn busy the last couple days..

Pink, I wouldnt count it! Seriously I doubt you gained fat back, since you are taking all the measures you can, I'm sure it's just TOM. I hold about 5lbs of water weight during TOM. Watch your salt so you don't retain any more water at least what you can control, and drink a lot of water during the day, and don't worry so much. I don't think weight packs on that fast with meds, I think it takes a long time, and anyway it's not the medican that makes you gain. It's that it increases your apitite, which inturn makes you gain. If you are watching what you eat, etc.. Then I'm sure that gain is not a real gain, and I wouldn't weigh yourself again untill the bloat is gone... But that's just me...

Yeah for staying in control!!! And loosing another pound!!!!!!! GO PINK GO!!!!

[Hope2]

natalie jo,

Don't be so hard on yourself. What happens happens and it couldn't have happened any other way because it didn't. All you can do is start over every day. You are not your past.

Just curiouse, do you use a program like sparkpeople.com to keep track of your food, and total your calories? You are alowed to eat, and you can eat quite a lot (of healthy food) and still loose weight, it doesn't have to be torcher. If you aren't, maybe you could give it a trial run. The one tool that is keeping me on track is that program. The exercise doesn't get in everyday in the way I would like, I move way more then I was, and I exercise way more then I did (which as never), but keeping track of my food is really great.

It sounds dumb, like you aren't going to enjoy your food etc. But that's not true, I enjoy my food way more, because I don't have to feel guilty. Even when I'm eating pizza, or haveing icecream. Because I know how many calories my body needs to eat to loose at a healthy rate. If you don't do this, and you need someone to figure this out for you, just let me know. I've already figured it out for like 4 other people in my life, and a couple people on the site that wanted quick help. Anyway, it might be something to really keep your motivation up.

Any tips, or anything you think we can help you with, PLEASE just ask, even if it's emotional stuff ok. We are here for eachother, and this will work. You can't fail at something if you are commited. If your commited, then weather ups or downs you will see it through!!! We are commited to you!Shoot you already lost so much weight, you know what to do, I'm sure you could teach us a couple tricks!

Well this new guy sounds like a real keeper, I hope everything turns out great!!!!



Hope2

[Hope2]

Lost another 1

[pink clouds]

Originally Posted by Hope2

Sorry guys, I've been soo darn busy the last couple days..

Pink, I wouldnt count it! Seriously I doubt you gained fat back, since you are taking all the measures you can, I'm sure it's just TOM. I hold about 5lbs of water weight during TOM. Watch your salt so you don't retain any more water at least what you can control, and drink a lot of water during the day, and don't worry so much. I don't think weight packs on that fast with meds, I think it takes a long time, and anyway it's not the medican that makes you gain. It's that it increases your apitite, which inturn makes you gain. If you are watching what you eat, etc.. Then I'm sure that gain is not a real gain, and I wouldn't weigh yourself again untill the bloat is gone... But that's just me...

Yeah for staying in control!!! And loosing another pound!!!!!!! GO PINK GO!!!!

Hi Hope

I was doing good but yesterday i had a little lasagna for dinner and fast food for lunch today ... oyyybut I am determined to stop this. I got in 30 mins on the treadmill this morning and am hoping to do 1 hr tomorrow...I woke up too late so I was rushing for work today. I think you are right and maybe it is just the bloating...I am puffy everywhere and boy do i feel it!!

Congrats on coming down one more pound!!! woooooooohoooooooo