[Hope2]

Pink,



"BTW if you can afford starbucks, you can afford fast food...DOLLAR MENU!!! The one true menu of all that is evil >:-/"

Could , the word is could, when I was with my husband, lol... The dollar menu is evil! To funny, but makes sence!! Down with the dollar menu, oh God what am I saying, with 5 kids, it's our savior with fast food!lol!

"I could never eat bugs unless it was a necessity for survival or if i was somewhere in the world that the people would be insulted if I did not"

What is really funny is I felt the same way even that very morning, my sister and I "ironicly" had a conversation about her eating a bug, and me saying the same thing you just said to her. I could never do it, etc... Survival etc... But when the opertunity presented its self. I was like, ok, you can do this, your allways the chicken, JUST DO IT! And I did!

"I think tonight I will research where those places are and ensure that I do not go there Were they crunchy, slimy and sweet? "

LOL!!! Too funny! CRUNCHY! Like chocolat crisps.. No tast, just CRUNCH!

[ali]

Originally Posted by spartacus26

Has anybody here seen the fat rant on youtube? The girl in it is gorgeous and she has a couple of good points. I'm pretty sure it's just called fat rant.

I watch it every now and then when I'm down.

Congrats to everyone on where you are now and where you're goin'!

I just watched it - she does have some really great points, although that statistic on regaining the weight you lost three years out was more than a little depressing.

I have no intentions of being a part of that statistic.

[nataliejo]

Originally Posted by Hope2

nataliejo,

Your right, you know exactly what worked for you before, and you can get back in the groove! That's really great with all the walking keep up the good work!!! That's great you are going to push the two pound a week challendge. I'm to scared to do the challendges, maybe I'll get brave enough soon.

I think what I said about "your not your past", may have been misunderstood. So I'm sorry I just said a statment like that, I didn't think it could be looked at in a way I didn't mean, but I was wrong...

What I ment by that, is for me, it's a great statment. Yes our pasts shapes us, both good and bad. And personaly even with really crapy situations, I try very very hard to find some positive meaning for them. And I seem to be able to do this, every time. Something, even if it's that I'm wiser for it happening (which in the end, is the biggest greatest gift from life!) What's really cool though, is we don't have to repeat the past. I totaly agree with looking at the past, analizing it (though I tend to over analize), learning from it. But I really like the idea that, allthough I was x,y,z last year, or YESTERDAY, I don't have to be x,y,z today. So you have a chance, in the present and future to live life, a life that is unshaped as of yet...

I totaly need this, I have to tell myself this now, because like you Nat, I get caught up in past circles. These past six years have been ridiculouse, it's rediculouse that it's been six years! The only reason my life has been pritty much totaly stagnet (we are talking personal life here, not my kids growing, learning etc,just me) is because the tape in my head of the past i.e. my short comings, my husbands shortcomings. Promises, hopes, failures, dreams, expectations, lies, etc etc.. Over and over and over going as a mater of fact I was torchuring myself with this just before I got on this board and luckly totaly had to laugh because everyone is so silly. (thank GOD!)...

I even play the tape in my head over and over of last week verses this moment in my really screawed up no point now unforchunatly relationship. I really like the idea that we aren't our past, because we can redefine ourselves. Keep the good stuff, learn from the "bad", and be fearless. I am tired of holding myself back. I have no reason now, no "excuse" not to sucseed with everything and anything I want to. Except me, and fear. I'm practising being something I am not, which is fearless.

I'm sorry I just made a remark like that without an explaination, of what I ment.

I didn't see it that way Hope, I definitely understand that, but never looked at the world in that light. I will have to practice this. I have a hard time changing. I try to change in better ways, but find myself reverting to old way... I am however back down in size, because I took some zantac for the acid reflux at night and didnt eat last night. I really hope I can reshape the future into what I want of it or to do with it. I think I can, but it can be so hard with this depression looming like a dark myst over dank waters ..

thanks hun for clarifying

love yas
always
natalie jo

[pink clouds]

Hi Hope
I actually did not read the post that you sent to Nataliejo so I was not referencing the way that you meant it but the way it has always been meant in the context I have heard that statement...that is why I also added the statement "Leave the past behind you." So nothing personal at all hun Thank you for explaining your point. I will clarify what I meant a little further but I really want to stress that I am not a professional...I am just talking about my perspective and what has worked for me. As we all know, what is good for the goose is not always good for the gander and people handle negative things differently in order to survive. Everyone is different and if I disagree with anything it is totally not with a bad attitude or with malice. I respect everyone's opinion and I actually prefer to be around people who do not think exactly like me all of the time...it is the spice of life

"What's really cool though, is we don't have to repeat the past. I totaly agree with looking at the past, analizing it (though I tend to over analize), learning from it. But I really like the idea that, allthough I was x,y,z last year, or YESTERDAY, I don't have to be x,y,z today. So you have a chance, in the present and future to live life, a life that is unshaped as of yet..."

I totally believe in living without regrets and I agree with what you are saying here. I just look at things differently. The past made me who I am now, yet I am constantly changing, expanding (which is why i am on this forum j/k), and growing. So I do not equate being a product of my past as meaning that I have to consume my life with the past and relive it or repeat the cycle, I am actually adverse to that. I just totally celebrate myself, past and present, and I use my experience and current endeavors to empower me for the future and I hope for the best. It was not an easy road to this way of thinking, but this is what works for me and gives me peace. I understand your points and I encourage you to adhere to what works for you and gives you peace as well

Nataliejo hun, I really commend you. You will make it through this. I would have never thought that you had a mental disorder if you did not say so. To me, this is an indication that you are truly overcoming so many obstacles and are even more courageous than I thought. Do not underestimate yourself or your accomplishments. I know sometimes it is tempting to go back to what is familiar, but you have shown me that you are powerful enough to make it through I mean that 100% and do not mean to sound mushy or anything like that.

Ali Good to see you stopping by!!

I forgot to tell everyone that I lost 2 pounds last week. Yayyyyyyyyyyy!!

I hope everyone has a good night and a wonderful tomorrow...and best wishes of weight loss this week

[Kevi12]

wooohhhhhhooooooo pink good job losing 2lbs!!!!! Im missing out so much been busy lately. Man posting here w/ my ps3 is a pain lol and btw ill be gone for 4 days starting thurs =) gonna visit my friends in FL

[spartacus26]

Originally Posted by ali.smedley

I just watched it - she does have some really great points, although that statistic on regaining the weight you lost three years out was more than a little depressing.

I have no intentions of being a part of that statistic.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. Didn't you know, 83.5% of statistics are made up!

[pink clouds]

Originally Posted by Kevi12

wooohhhhhhooooooo pink good job losing 2lbs!!!!! Im missing out so much been busy lately. Man posting here w/ my ps3 is a pain lol and btw ill be gone for 4 days starting thurs =) gonna visit my friends in FL

Thanks Kevi So you're coming to my neck of the woods eh? If I forget to tell you by then, have a safe trip. I love Florida lotsa fun.

@Spartacus I did not know that statistic about statistics, I have always looked at them as a bunch of foolishness.

[Hope2]

Kevi,

Florida ehh, it's going to be HOT pritty soon, it may be 90 when you get down here! Are you going to be on one of the coasts, beaches and that jazz? My brother is 17 and plays basketball, that would be sooo funny if you two were friends somehow, and you were coming to see him, lol.. Major long shot, but stranger things have happend!



spartacus,

LOL I had nooo idea, thanks for opening my eyes, lol!!! Well sham on them, making us belive a bunch of bull!

Nataliejo,

"I really hope I can reshape the future into what I want of it or to do with it. I think I can, but it can be so hard with this depression looming like a dark myst over dank waters .. "

Of course you can do it! Even with depression! I promise, oh my God girl, if I can do this you can to.. If I disclosed the absolute horror which is my current life on here, I would make your day! There is ALLWAYS something, even if it's something really tiny that can make you smile.. Baby steps, Nat, baby steps, they add up to major acomplishments! We can do it! You can do it!

How are you today? What's going on with the new guy?

Pink,

No offence taken at all..

"I totally believe in living without regrets and I agree with what you are saying here. I just look at things differently. The past made me who I am now, yet I am constantly changing, expanding (which is why i am on this forum j/k), and growing. So I do not equate being a product of my past as meaning that I have to consume my life with the past and relive it or repeat the cycle, I am actually adverse to that. I just totally celebrate myself, past and present, and I use my experience and current endeavors to empower me for the future and I hope for the best."

Yes this is something that I subscribe to definatly. And I completly think this aswell, but like with many things, you can belive one thing, and then with sertain situations handle them in a different way. With the "negative", wether it's a behavoiral pattern I have or someone else in my life, and it's something I'm strugling with in the moment, then reconfurming that I get a second chance, and so does that person i.e. we are not our past. Is for me freeing... Now as in looking back on my past, I have no regrets, because everything is a learning experiance etc, you can get positives from any tough situation. But that's highn sight.. Highn sight for me plays by different rules then current issues.

It takes a very mature, deepend, detached, individual to, while in the middle of a problem or change,a habit, behaviorl issue, to remove themselves from there own emotiones/problems to then be greatful for them that second. Maybe like one of the Prophets, would be able to do that...LOL... I catch on pritty quick, but it depends on the level of the issue, past or present, creaping in. I totaly belive that we in the big picture should be greatful for our past because altimatly we wouldn't be who we are today if it wasn't for it. I think truth is truth, and there is no other vershions, just different peices of the puzzle... I think our peices fit...

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger right!

CONGRATS ON THE 2LB LOSS!!! PINK!!!!!!

CONGRATS ON BEING DOWN A SIZE NATALIEJO! MAKE SURE YOU EAT THOUGH GIRLIE!!!

Nothing new with me.. Did my measurments (posted them in my diary), that was pritty cool.. I love measurments! When I look at them though the number for my hips/butt jumps out, a lot of my measurments don't look to bad, but POW that big old booty number jumps out! Like Aunt Fanny on the Robot movie!!! Gees!!! Ok, maybe in a couple years, I'll be a pritty pear! With less junk in the trunk!!!


Well guys love ya!

[Kevi12]

Haha, I lived in FL before It is very hot, but i'm used to it.

[pink clouds]

Originally Posted by Hope2

Kevi,

It takes a very mature, deepend, detached, individual to, while in the middle of a problem or change,a habit, behaviorl issue, to remove themselves from there own emotiones/problems to then be greatful for them that second.

I think I've seen you do this before

Thanks for the congrats Hope!!

Well guess what everybody....I ran today! It rocked I need to go to bed now so I can hit the treadmill in the morning. I wrote about it in my diary so here is the link if you want to read about it

http://www.weight-loss.fitness.com/w...tml#post438124

Have a GREAT day tomorrow everyone!

[spartacus26]

Originally Posted by pink clouds

Well guess what everybody....I ran today! It rocked I need to go to bed now so I can hit the treadmill in the morning. I wrote about it in my diary so here is the link if you want to read about it

Hurray!!! I love the wogging (that's walk/jogging... I made it up (I think) and I'm waiting for it to catch on...if you can think of a sexier term, let me know and I'll change!)!! I was supposed to yesterday but I got all down and poopy and tired (stupid Mondays), so I didn't. I'll do it tomorrow, though.

Yay!!!!

[about2loseit]

Hello, all, I'm Angela. Quite obvoiusly a newbie. I have been cruising around this site for several days now and came across this thread. The posts are so fun and lively! I think the way you all (ya'll ) encourage and praise one another for successes is wonderful! Hope you don't mind if I join in from time to time.

Not a whole lot to tell about me, really. I work full time in a law firm, I am a student (thankfully taking the summer off!!), a mommy of two girls, and I am getting married in August. And, now I am working on getting to goal and quitting smoking (yup, it's nasty, I know . . . but I said I was working on it!!). Apparently I just didn't have enough to do. I like challenges, lol.

I've been as high as 260. (Ugh! It was hard to even write that!) I joined WW in the Fall of 2006 and got down to 201. So close! Then I was rear-ended last June and my daily gym visits dwindled to nothing. I managed to regain half of what I'd lost. So, I am back on the wagon. For good! Currently I am 228. My immediate goal is to hit onederland by the time of my wedding. Seriously, if I'm gonna pay all that $ for a photographer, I might as well look good for my pics! lol. My long-term goal is to reach 135, which is right smack in the middle of my "ideal" range.

Anyway, it's nice to "meet" all of you and I hope to "see" you around sometime.

[Hope2]

Welcome Angela!!!

Glade you wanted to join our little group!

Boy you have a lot on your plate don't you! Well we will help you with what ever you need, info, encouragment, what have you!

I just quite smoking in Jan, and it has litteraly changed my life! Anything I can do for you let me know, it's really hard, but it's really worth it!


What are you doing to meet your goal?

[Hope2]

Pink,

You are just awesome!

My God woman running, holly smokes! That's one of my goals, I so can't run yet! That is too great!


spartacus,

So wogging ehh.. Hmm so do I have to pay you a quarter every time I say wogging?lol! That's about all I can do, wog! Gees there has to be a sexier word then that, for the act of wogging... Hmm can't think of one though Wogging it is then....



Where are you nataliejo? I hope you are ok hun!!!!!


Well guys I went to the Goodwill book store, and got a book, but allso picked up the Billy's Bootcamp dvd... I was so excited, but unforchunatly my player wont read it, there are blachy spots on it (how does that happen?)... I'm so disapointed.. (like I don't have enough exercise tapes, lol, still though )

So it looks like I'm getting more responsibility in the family buisness.. I'm a little nerviouse actually, but you have to fake it to make it sometimes. So I think this will be a really great experiance for me. It's what I wanted, it's just going to take some time to get used to this.. But I really don't have time to get used to it, I just have to jump in and run the show... Wow six years ago I was to shy to even order pizza (I kid you not!) I have really come a long way! (as I chant over and over in my head I will not let fear run my life, I will not let fear run my life, I will not let fear run my life... Ok I'm better, sorta!!!)

Guys kick my butt I have NOT been exercising, just eating the right amount of calories!!! I need to exercise!!!! Wog or something!

[about2loseit]

Thanks for the warm welcome, Hope! I'm happy to be here!

I am doing WW and counting points again but this time at home. I'm not attending meetings. I am also starting a new exercise regimen, so it's a little slow going. I've done the treadmill, the stationary bike, and resistance training for my arms (I wanna look good in that spaghetti strap wedding dress! )