I wanted to let yall know that I had surgery tuesday night.. An appendectomy, nothing too serious.. I was discharged last night and I get to stay a few days at home!! But from all the saline I got I think I'm retaining a lot of water; I wasnt able to eat at all tuesday, bc of the CT Scan and then surgery, not until 11pm and I have actually gained 2lbs.. So That sucks!! Hopefully I'll be less by weigh in day!! Hope yall are having a great week!!

Yikes! Glad to hear everything went alright!

CW: 154.0

Exactly the same as last week... which is good considering the terrible, terrible eating I have done this week.

I am still an emotional mess. I'm leaving in about one hour and won't be home until Sunday night. I have to spend today and tonight at the hospital for new tests related to this bad news. Then I'm going to drive 3 hours Saturday night to go visit my boyfriend and come home Sunday evening. It's only been 3 or 4 weeks since I've seen him, and I know thanksgiving is in 2 weeks so I'll be seeing him then, but I really just need to keep myself busy and away from reality this weekend.

I'll still be updating my food, but I can't get on the boards from my phone, so I'll catch up with you all soon.

Starting to lose hope of making my goal of 199. I'm back up from 214.8 to almost 218 again. :grumble: And that was before I got all grouchy and ate 4 days worth of calories today! Sometimes I think as much as I want to lose this weight in a timely manner, that its just not meant to be. I seem to lose at about half the rate that I "should" be losing...usually because I derail, but sometimes just because this fat is stubborn. Thinking maybe I should have made my goal 210 or something.. (and even that is looking so far away right now).

All I can do is keep trucking away right?

I know what it's like to start to lose hope. It's really hard and then, if you are an emotional eater like I am, all you want is food... hence overeating.
I've been teaching a parenting program, and in it, we discuss the think-feel-do cycle. I just googled it online, and this is used more then just in a parenting program. So, here's how it works:
1. You encounter an event in your life
2. That event makes you have some thoughts
3. Those thoughts will create a feeling
4. Those feelings will make you act or react a certain way.

If you can interrupt the cycle in a certain way, by changing your thoughts, you can get a different outcome. I think that is something we all need to focus on. Let me give you an example in my life right now.

My only dream growing up, has been to become a mother. It's really hard for me, since I have PCOS, which means that my body doesn't always ovulate. (They do say that if you lose weight, people with my condition may start to ovulate again.) So, needless to say, I've taken tons of pregnancy tests and they've all been negative. Here is my usual think feel do cycle.
1. Event: negative results
2. thinking: Why??? Why can't I get pregnant when people who don't even want kids, don't even love them pop them out left and right??? Why did I have to be born in this body?? I hate my body!!!
3. Feelings: Anger, frustration, depression
4. Do/Actions: Really moody and snappy with everyone, eating whatever I want... not caring about anything... Crying all the time... feeling a lot of self-pity!!!

Now, keeping all that in mind, today I took a pregnancy test again. This time I was certain that I might be pregnant... I've had all the mood swings (hormonal imbalance). I just felt pregnant. It's hard to explain. When I took the test, it showed up as negative... but for the first time ever, I changed my thought pattern.
1. Event: Negative test results
2. Thoughts: Maybe I just took the test too early, next time it will show up... Maybe I need to lose a little more weight first. Maybe God wanted me to make sure that my body was healthy enough to take care of that baby
3. Feelings: a little sadness, but mostly hope and motivation
4. Actions: I'm going to go and complete my daily exercise challenge, eat something healthy and keep positive. I can't give up on my dream.

I don't know if this helps any, but I hope it does. This think-feel-do cycle helped me!

Thanks, but my spirits are up this time. I changed my thinking cycle and feel better.

I wanted to report that I did complete the daily exercise yesterday (Thursday) and just finished for today (Friday). My body is sore, and knees are hurting, but I am pushing myself because this is important to me. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to make my knees feel better?

Still the same here! no weight change

CW = 166.2 )

Thanks, but my spirits are up this time. I changed my thinking cycle and feel better.

I wanted to report that I did complete the daily exercise yesterday (Thursday) and just finished for today (Friday). My body is sore, and knees are hurting, but I am pushing myself because this is important to me. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to make my knees feel better?

Put ice on them (not directly on the skin) for 10mins 3x/day for a couple of days or until they're not longer sore. Don't overdo it in future workouts--you don't want to end up with an injury!

Glad to hear you're feeling better

CW 184.3 :noway: :frown: I will have a BIG loss next week! I have to get going.....funeral today:sad: I wonderful man I worked with my age with young kids..... cancer. So this will be a long day....I was busy and eating like crap yesterday ..but it was fun!!! Today back to business and that's the way it should be!!!!:bigsmile:

I look forward to catching up with you all over the weekend!! QUESTION... now that we are a group....will we have a new tread or will this just continue?????

Have aGreat Day

Wt today: 186.8

Down 3.6lbs, yay!

Wt today: 186.8

Down 3.6lbs, yay!

Yeah Pinkita...we are weight twins...too funny, the same weight to the ounce!!!