I am sick of my excuses for not exercising!! And I am sick of being on this bloody plateau that I am on and have not budged...!!! I am the only one to blame for this!!!! No one else!! So after I get off of work in about one hour, I will do some form of exercise and try to get those scales to MOVE!!! Ahhhh that felt good to get off my chest!!

Such a timely topic, Julie! I weighed in today and had another gain--almost another pound. I was coming into work and I just said to myself, "this is freaking ridiculous that I cannot get ahold of myself!" For crying out loud, I have a toddler who needs me. I need to be able to keep up with him. WTH is wrong with me????? So today, starting right now, I am declaring war on the weight. I am sick and tired of losing a couple pounds here and there and then just regaining them. I am just plain mad and sick of the back and forth. If I dont make some serious changes, my son is going to grow up with the fat mom who his classmates make fun of. I REFUSE to let that happen to him.

My lunch is planned and packed. I left my bank card at home. I have had nearly 4 glasses of water so far today. I am down to breastfeeding only at night now so I went ahead and took a 5-Hour Energy this morning to help me get through the day. My son is super sensitive to caffeine, but this will be out of my body by tonight.

Ugh, I woke up in the foulest mood this morning and the weigh-in didnt make it much better. My last day at my job is next Monday the 16th and I start my new job on the 17th. Very excited about that, but this last week here feels like torture. I am doing a lot of training this week on my stuff and the main person taking stuff over learns things at an excruciatingly slow pace. Training him is so mind-numbing! I am only able to get a couple sentences out at a time before he stops me, takes copious notes and asks questions about such minor details. He's a great guy, but ohmygod I just want to poke myself in the eye with a dull pencil.

I intend to be back later to see what other things we will be declaring war on!

~Becky in Florida, where the muggy humid weather makes me crazy

Such a timely topic, Julie! I weighed in today and had another gain--almost another pound. I was coming into work and I just said to myself, "this is freaking ridiculous that I cannot get ahold of myself!" For crying out loud, I have a toddler who needs me. I need to be able to keep up with him. WTH is wrong with me????? So today, starting right now, I am declaring war on the weight. I am sick and tired of losing a couple pounds here and there and then just regaining them. I am just plain mad and sick of the back and forth. If I dont make some serious changes, my son is going to grow up with the fat mom who his classmates make fun of. I REFUSE to let that happen to him.

My lunch is planned and packed. I left my bank card at home. I have had nearly 4 glasses of water so far today. I am down to breastfeeding only at night now so I went ahead and took a 5-Hour Energy this morning to help me get through the day. My son is super sensitive to caffeine, but this will be out of my body by tonight.

Ugh, I woke up in the foulest mood this morning and the weigh-in didnt make it much better. My last day at my job is next Monday the 16th and I start my new job on the 17th. Very excited about that, but this last week here feels like torture. I am doing a lot of training this week on my stuff and the main person taking stuff over learns things at an excruciatingly slow pace. Training him is so mind-numbing! I am only able to get a couple sentences out at a time before he stops me, takes copious notes and asks questions about such minor details. He's a great guy, but ohmygod I just want to poke myself in the eye with a dull pencil.

I intend to be back later to see what other things we will be declaring war on!

~Becky in Florida, where the muggy humid weather makes me crazy

Becky - You can only do what you can do for the training. In a week, you will be DONE with it all and won't have to worry about how it all ends up, it will be out of you hands. Don't drive yourself crazy over it. You will also win this war. Don't give up!! ♥

Angie - you too will feel better. YOU ARE losing weight. Your joints are going to feel so much better around the 40lb mark. Yeppers, I know this!

I am tired of not seeing a steady weight loss. I am tired of night time eating which I am sure is causing the scale to be frozen. I am tired of allergies and feeling like I am going to cough up one of my lungs. I'm just plain tired.

Angie - you too will feel better. YOU ARE losing weight. Your joints are going to feel so much better around the 40lb mark. Yeppers, I know this!

Heather, (I think it is Heather) I CAN'T WAIT!! I hate the fear that goes with doing things..."will I regret this tomorrow?" "Will I be able to walk by the end of the day?"

Yep. It's Heather. I'm so bad at signing my name. I'm sorry. It's what the H stands for in Blondage H. Lol. I'm not into kinky stuff it's a nickname I've had since 12 because I've always had bleach blonde hair.

I didn't know not having a gallbladder did that bile upchuck thing in the middle of the night. Back in my real good binge days, sweets would definitely cause me to wake up in the middle of the night choking on my own...yeah. icky. Now I take a spoonful of baking soda and push all that back down.

Plateaus are definitely frustrating but they are going to happen. I just had a 16 day one even though I was no where near maintenance calories, I just wasn't killing myself everyday at 1100 or below. Definitely frustrating when it seems like that is what has to happen.

Morning everyone.

Afternoon here on the east coast.

I'm feeling overwhelmed! I will not eat. I will not eat. I will not eat.
I hate feeling overwhelmed. It doesn't happen often because I can usually take things in stride.
Today they are piling up.
But I will not eat!

THanks for letting me vent.

I'll be back later to catch up!

Diana in ME

((Hugs))

Eat if you are hungry.. Something good for you. Try not to eat because you are overwhelmed! :flowerforyou:

Just checking in. I don't have my phone with me today, so I haven't been able to obsess and post numerous times, LOL.

I am TIRED today from spending yesterday afternoon in the lake (Diana, it's Forest Lake, in between Gray, Cumberland, and Windham) with the neighbors' children. In addition to jumping around, swimming, playing surfer on the floatees, and general tomfoolery, we discussed recipes for cooking smurf with eyeball dipping sauce, spiders that fall from the trees and fart on you, and shark-nadoes (tornadoes full of sharks). Yes, I do love six and seven year old minds.

I am declaring war today on whatever the hell is going on in my brain and body. I don't know what is happening, but since my birthday last week and then hearing from the nurse practitioner that I don't need to lose any more weight to get my bariatric surgery, I have been on a nonstop food bender. I haven't recorded half of what I shoveled down my throat and I don't DARE get on the scale to see what damage I've done. I know that I need to weigh in either on Friday or, at the latest, Monday of next week, and I can already feel the panic setting in.

My battle plan is to, once again, start my carb detox. Today's victory will be to stay away from sugar. Tomorrow's will be bread. Once that stuff is in my system, I am out of control.

Hello to everyone and thank you for sharing your wars! Love this group!

Karen in Maine

Hello there Karen!! Sounds like fun and a lot of activity yesterday!! I know the 2 days of swimming for me had me running to the fridge all day yesterday. I managed to finish the day at 1300 something, but I felt like I was constantly going in there for something to eat. I call it "Garbage Gut". It's when you keep going for more food because you are bored or antsy or something. For me, I think it was the swimming just had me wanting more and because I was trying not to eat carbs, the protein I kept shoving down wasn't doing it.

You need to weigh in soon Karen if you want to do lose 15lbs by July 16th! How are we going to start our challenge if you don't know where to start from, silly!?

Yeah, I got in trouble once or twice because I couldn't bite my tongue about the girls who weigh 105lbs complaining about how fat they were or something. I was just kidding... but I try to to not read too much in general sections just for that reason.

But, I found a lot of people like us today who really need supportive friends and invited them to this group. I hope they join!

I too want to declare war on heat and humidity! I mean really. WTF am I supposed to do with this hair!? What is the point of having a straightener if Ingo outside and this happens?


5 more months, only 5 more months. Oh God help me 5 more months of summer.

Looks like you have great hair! I wouldn't straighten it...lol

My hair is spent up all the time. My new nickname is ponytail girl. Hello, I'm 36 year old. Its really frizzy. Its bad.