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I need all the help I can get on this huge weight loss trip. Seeing what others are doing that leads to success is very important.Just went public!

Hi ladies- I am rejoining this site after a few hard months where I had to step back and refocus.. I am back with a vengence and am more determined than ever to lose weight and get healthy. My goals for the rest of April are to work out everyday eat healthy. I am trying to mix up my exercise. Yesterday I met a friend at…

:tongue: was lost for a bit now I'm found! Okay-I was snowed under at work and am just digging my way out only to be sick. Dr. says sinus infection, broncitus and to top it off a bladder infection. Geeezzzzzzzzzz:grumble: I am trying to stick with 1200 calories but husband has been cooking for us the last 2 weeks so I…

First Pres. I remember was Kennedy! I had my POW braclet up until just a couple of years ago and Ford/Carter was the first I voted in I believe. I was so excited to vote then a few years later got very cynical about politics and force myself to vote even now.:sad: My 3rd graders have been asking all kinds of questions and…

:laugh: Fantastic- congrats on your achievement!

:grumble: There are going to be days that we just screw up on our eating. We are trying to live healthier and not so much "diet". Emotional eating quite frankly is a way of life for some of us. Me- big time.I am trying to reprogram the old brain and when I know I am reaching for food because my emotions are out of control…

Welcome to the group Donna2. We all have to start somewher and those blasted injuries show up all too often these days. Just stay with it. Be sure to log your food intake- it helps to stay on track, drinks lots of water tto. (I'm 52 in April and also young in my mind just the body feeling it.)

:bigsmile: great idea! gotta try that one. Thanks-

:grumble: Hey- spent the better part of the day sitting at the computer trying to finish an online class and trolling myfitness. I decided I better get off my behind so I walked a mile as a warm up and started on a stregnth training routine. I have had a tendancy to baby my shoulders (to my own detriment) due to 4 ops on…

Many of my friends and myself have been yo yo dieters for years so what should be working clues such as hunger/ metabolism seems to have gone the way of healthy eating:explode: . Now we're trying to retrain our bodies into sending correct signals. It is so hard and beleive it or not I actually get sick of eating some…

:laugh: Brushing my teeth after I eat just means I have cleaner teeth for late night snacking!

:noway: I'm not saying I never feel hungry. However since going from 3 meals to 5-7 and filling up on veggies and good food I manage not to get hungry. I am a stress eater and am overweight from not eating good food and being a fast food junkie. Craving are driving me wild right now but I am stronger and more deterimened…

:ohwell: I not sure if I get hungry or not. I am retraining myself to eat 5-7 times a day instead of 3 meals. I feel like I am eating all the time and never really ever get hungry although there are times I don't eat and still don't feel hungry. I am trying to stick to 1200-1400 cals a day. Tons of colorful fresh veggies…

:love: I drank flavored seltser as I was waning myself off soda totally a couple years ago. Finally goodbye bubbles( a couple of chemists I met have told me we are actually additced to the bubbles not the soda itself! Carbon dioxide are whatever the heck they make the bubbles with- I forget). Now I just grab a seltzer when…

:drinker: try flavored seltzer water. O calories but still all the bubbles of soda.

:frown: I am having a hard time getting in my exercise now that Iwinter break is over. I was determined to exercise everyday. I set my alarm to get up at 4am so that I can at least walk on the treadmill for a couple of miles. I did it once and then wake up exhausted and don't walk. Sit and drink coffee before getting ready…

water- tis' an issue for some of us. Force myself to drink it and yet it betray everytime. Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go. I soon learned when to drink and when to hold off somewhat. Need to make it through those walks before-gotta go time. Way to go on the exercise ladies. Keep at it and soon we'll be 50+ but finnnnnneeeee.

I have to watch the fruit intake 'cause of my diabetes 2. So I eat it just in very small amouts. i am a sugar addict also and really want to get that monkey off my back.:devil:

:cry: wow- giving up meat! That would be more than I could handle. I eat healthier meats but still...... Good going. I am impressed.I am tryng to stay off sugar or at least reduce the amount greatly (occasionally) and since hubby drinks soy milk I made that switch a while ago. Not a huge milk person but crave real milk…

you sound like me- go to work when its dark and come home when its dark. I have to do videos when hubby is awake, Too much noise-very, very light sleeper. I am just now adding the walk videos. A friend let me borrow the walk and kickbox one. That sounds good for later when he is off to work.:tongue:

:sad: I miss Fla. a lot except for the big ole roaches! I HATE those things. Nightmare alley with those things. eech. yuck, nasty:noway:

day 7 and ugg- my goals for today- Drink my water, eat healthy, and add 10 minutes to the treadmill. Let's go ladies!!!

Don't do it. Have a cuppa tea, water and get out for a walk. You are making positive changes whether the scales show it or not. Put down that fork and spoon right now! Hear me:angry: Don't cave under self pressure! Tea is ready - now go drink it and eat healthy the rest of the day!!!!!!!!

:flowerforyou: treat yourself to an extra glass of water! Way to go! Keep it up.

:bigsmile: hubby just got woken up by dispatch so I snuck in and got workout clothes. No excuses baby- ( my favorite saying at school when the kiddos have a million and 1 reasons for not doing something). Charging up the ipod and off I go- NO EXCUSES BABY:noway:

:wink: good going- congrats! Keep on going. Created by MyFitnessPal.com - Easy Calorie Counting

Salmon comes to mind. Lots of easy yet tasty recipes. Easy to dress up.

Woke uo to day seven. Ugggggg. I started feeling exhausted yesterday and had my first stress craving for choclate and junk food. I am surprised it took this long. Scales says 4 lbs. lost but I know that is water lost. I'll still take it. All I am doing for exercise is 40 min. on the treadmill and another 20 on the…

:drinker: coffee.coffee,coffee plus 1 turkey sausage pattie and a special K waffle (130 cal)and then a bowl of blueberry oatmeal.(110 cal) I split breakfast into two sitting 'cause I leave for work so darn early that I nibble 1/2 of breakfast in the car then about 8:00 have the rest.

:glasses: Floridagranny- what part of Fla are you? I grew up in Ket West and Pensacola.