Hi everyone! Doing ok here. Not losing anything, so a little frustrated. Haven't weighed in about a week. It's been a huge disappointment lately, so have layed off. Going to try the Atkins Fat Fast for a few days with Lynne :drinker: Hopefully I'll get 3 or 4 days in...5 would be great, but one can only eat so much fat :laugh:

Not having the best last 2 days. When I fall off the wagon, I fall HARD. I am back on today though. Threw away the rest of the leftover ice cream and bread. I'm done and back in the game! I am going to do the FAt Fast starting Monday and do 2 or 3 days and evaluate how I feel and if I need to continue. It always takes something bug to get me back in the game. It's so hard for me. I have absolutely NO willpower. This Fat Fast will be what I need. Once I get back on, I'm always hardcore at it until I fall off. I can have a bad day sometimes and get back on, but it's really hard for me. If there are temptations around, I cave. Without the temptations, I can't cave, right?

Hope everyone else is doing well and keeping the August no cheat challenge going. I failed I am going for September!

Looking at Dr. Oz, talking about Safflower oil and/or GLA( 800mg), calcium Pryruvate 1,000 mg/day(helps to release the fat in our cells), Chitosan 1,000mg/ before each meal (blocks carbs), suppose to help you burn fat and stop the cravings. I am starting to look like a pharmacy over here.:noway:

Yep, looking all those up RIGHT NOW!!

I've been offline about 13 days now, I had company and since my pc is in my living room, didn't want to appear rude, I hate when people do that to me. Anyway got a big surprise, I lost some more weight when I wasn't looking. I think I plateaud for a couple mo. there and finally dropped another 8 lbs. I'm happy about that. I think if I'm going to keep losing I'm going to either have to cut my intake more or bump up the exercise more. Exercise is hard for me with my physical problems, so I've pretty much stuck to walking about 25 minutes at a time. I try to just keep moving, even if it's puttering, at least not sitting constantly. I had an eggbeater omelet this morning for breakfast with sharp cheddar and a slice of that 30 calorie lean deli ham, and a sliced tomato, and for lunch, 2 nathans beef franks with sauerkraut and pickle and spicy brown mustard, not sure yet about dinner but leaning towards taco salad minus the taco chips, or maybe I'll make some chili meat and just put some of that over the salad, works for me. Anyway just trying to stay focused. I'm going to keep my carbs real low the rest of this weekend and see if I can shake loose another pound or two Hope everyone is doing GREAT!!

Thanks Linda, I'm doubting I'm doing 10000 steps but I'm doing alot more than I use to. Exercise is not my favorite activity for the sake of exercise. I'm enjoying being out in the open air more though since I've lost some weight. I've been trying to get back into gardening--something I really loved but kinda gave up on for a long time due to problems getting up and down from the ground, not just from weight, but knees, hips, bad back, bad neck, bad balance, etc. But I've been doing that again a little more, too, and
really enjoying it and makes me tired and sore but it's a good tired and sore and accomplishment because last year I couldn't do these things at all. In a way I feel like I'm being reborn a bit, rediscovering a part of me I had tried to just forget for a long time because I was so busy worrying about my now ex dh and trying to fix. Now I can focus on fixing myself at least as much as is in my power to do so, and leave the rest to God. Do I hear an Amen LOL