Made it to Onederland ! 70 lbs in 6 months , pics included .

Sabine_Stroehm

I'd be curious if your body would react the same to cola with regular sugar versus high fructose corn syrup.
All I know is: everyone's happier when I avoid HFCS. It causes my blood sugar to swing like crazy and causes me major cravings.

Congrats again!

AmyZ46

I'd be curious if your body would react the same to cola with regular sugar versus high fructose corn syrup.
All I know is: everyone's happier when I avoid HFCS. It causes my blood sugar to swing like crazy and causes me major cravings.

Congrats again!

I try to avoid most sugars , as well as most carbs ...but Carbs are in so many things .. bread,potatoes, sweets ...soda ....all make me crave so much more sweets and carbs I was always feeling hungry when I ate those things . I cut them all out as much as possible . I eat dessert once a week - except for sherbert pushups mmmm I love them . I use stevia in my coffee.

I don't generally have any cravings anymore , except during my TOM .. and I just do the best I can during those couple of days ...

aggieanne04

love, love, love

retirehappy

Congartulations on your success. That's an awsome accomplishment in such little time!
I'm just baffled as to what is the " North Slope "? I'm a south Floridian and never heard of the place.
Thanks in advance.

The North Slope is where they have the Alaska pipeline and oil production . It's kind of like driving through Freeport Texas with all the oil refineries everywhere and nothing else. Everything is either for the pipeline or a supporting company . so no resturants , movies or anything . We stay in " camps " which are kind of like hotels but they are mostly made out of what I call storage containers lol there's a name for them but I don't remember ... Of course it's very cold it can get to 60 below but not always .. in the winter it's usually 10 or 20 below 0 . summer time for a couple of months its usually 45-60 degrees ... its ok though .

the name of the " town" is either Deadhorse or Prudhoe Bay for some reason it has two names lol but it's the same place. I fly to work every three weeks from Anchorage . You can drive but it word take 2 days ... I am a Licensed Practical Nurse and I work for a company that does Drug testing as well as hearing tests and lung and respirator testing for the oil companies employees .

Amy,
You are just so very awesome. I had to give up soda too, but it wasn't my only issue so while that helped me before, I gained the weight back. Hopefully with MFP logging and friends like you, I won't have to lose the same lbs again.

Love hearing your story it is very inspirational.

Stay warm I am whining because it has been about -15 last few nights, can not image what it is like up there.

My husband actually has been to that part of the world, he worked on a NCAR scientific research project in the Arctic Circle for 3 months.

Here is to your further success! :drinker:

Naaer

You look terrific! And happy!


Reaan

Sharon_C

Congratulations! You look great. And to think it started with you cutting just one thing out of your diet. It's the baby steps that matter.

melfitnesspal13

Congrats!!! Keep it up.

:flowerforyou:

changingmystory77

Wonderful! You look great!

elleboroughs

That's awesome! Great job. You should be very proud of yourself.

red_road

you look beautiful. its going to be so much fun to get shocked reactions from family/friends you havnt seen in a while. great work girl

rejordan

YOU LOOK SO HAPPY AND GETTTING MORE FIT BY THE DAY!!! AWESOME JOB!