JennaGermain

I've lost 3.8 lbs this week!!!! I had a really crappy day yesterday and this was the only thing that lifted my mood & stopped me from eating a bucket of cookies. I had a goal to lose 5 lbs by the middle of September and now it looks like I might need to come up with a new goal! LOL!!!

Add me, too. I'm trying to lose at least 110 lbs, but according to Wii Fit, to be in the ideal range, I'd actually need to lose 131 lbs so, we'll see...

Also, thank you everyone else so far for the suggestions, and feel free to keep adding to them and hopefully I'll end up with a workable solution that takes all the best advice in mind.

Ladyofivy, both replies were helpful. Truly, I'd love to be able to reward myself with a new tattoo and I thought about making that a reward for when I've gotten to the halfway point of something (with the hope that I'd have money for it by them) It sucks trying to combine eating healthier with not having any money (it…

I'm with you there. That's one of my key problems, too. I -know- it will do me good, but I have trouble forcing myself to actually do it. It the same problem I have with social gatherings. I usually have a pretty decent time, but I always find myself trying to find excuses not to go.

How do you attach the legs for the straps so that they are on strong enough to hold the weight of the purse when it's got stuff in it? (I want to make a purse like this, too and I don't want it to rip away from the straps and dump my stuff lol)

It was a dry roast.

I had tooth pain last year and I went to a dentist that decided the problem was a baby tooth that had never fallen out. They started removing it and found it was fused to my jawbone so then they went chisel happy and instead of just removing the tooth, they removed a LARGE chunk of my jawbone. It turned out that the tooth…

OMG! I thought you looked awesome already (which you do) but to see how far you've come to look that awesome is...well, I need a word that's farther than awesome...like super-awesome!! You give me hope that someday I might be able to look down w/o seeing my stomach in the way. I know part of your amazing success is how…

I tried low carb once but there are so many carbs I love that it isn't feasible for me to do longer than a couple weeks or so (though back when I did it, I lost 9 lbs in 3 weeks) Plus, at least for now, my difficulty with chewing means I can't really add on any other food type restrictions for now.

First of all, hypochondria is strong in me. I get a pain in my stomach and automatically worry it's cancer or a bleeding ulcer or etc. If I get a pain in the abdomen (that likely turns out to be gas or something) I dwell on it that it's cancer or my appendix or some other horrible thing, so I can totally relate to…

:flowerforyou: Thank you everyone for all the suggestions! :happy: I really appreciate it. I'm going to combine several suggestions (and OMG, there's an angelfoodministries right in my city!!!! and they take food stamps!!!) and hopefully, I'll not only get myself to better health, but perhaps make sure my niece gets better…

Oh yeah, we do have an Aldi. It's only a little further away than the Kroger. I don't know if we have any Amish markets in Michigan. Would brown rice cook in a regular rice cooker?

There's a Sam's Club a few miles away. I don't know if we have any Costcos locally. There's a Meijer and a Walmart real close and a Kroger a couple miles away. I hadn't thought about smoothies. That might be a good idea if I can find a way to make ones that taste good but aren't too high in sugar. It's a shame the veggies…

My food diary's public, but it just shows what a horribly unhealthy eater I still am...

I'm sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. I want to be better able to focus and to not hurt so much. I think my main wake-up call has been my mother having to up her insulin (she's been ignoring a lot of the dr's orders) from once a day to with every meal and right before bed. I decided I'm a hypocrite to be telling…

To me, at least in your picture that's up here, you seem skinny. I mean, only one chin, I can see your neck, etc. I think you're already probably doing better than you think. What's nice about this site (among other things) is that you can track all the different things you might eat. I often find that I haven't really…

One of the things I like about this site versus a site like fitday.com is that on fitday, if I add a food that's not in the database, I don't think it adds it anywhere that anyone else can use it, so you end up having loads of food that you have to manually enter. I also didn't like that if I typed in "Boiled Eggs" it…

Belleville, Michigan

You might possibly have done something that I have a trouble with. I try to eat super-duper healthy but then I rebel and end up chowing down all kinds of bad stuff because I feel preemptively deprived or I'll stop exercising because I do too much & then hurt too much the next day so now I know that I have to moderate some…

Depression Panic Attacks PTSD to name a few issues I'm on two different meds right now but I'm not always consistent at remembering to take them, which I know adds to the problems. I also have sleep apnea so I often don't get enough sleep (even when using my CPAP) and that just makes things even harder.

It's sad that so many people actually fall for these things. I mean, I'm not doing the best financially right now & I understand that if you're desperate, you might jump on anything that looks like a way out, but in this day & age, how do people still fall for such obvious scams? Maybe more schools need to add critical…

Oh, and thank you everyone for all the suggestions & comments. I am reading each & every one you post & doing my best to use the knowledge to be good at this whole "being healthy" thing.

Even though I always had loved cherry-flavored things, I'd always assumed that I'd hate cherries. About six months ago, my boss was eating some Bing cherries & asked me if I liked them & I started to say no, but then went "You know what? I don't know because I've never had them". I tried one he gave me and was like "Yum!"…

I got taken to a restaurant once where the side dish was asparagus. I tried it & it was totally delicious, but I have no idea how they made it & the sauce they used probably made it unhealthy (& I can't just go eat that at that restaurant because it's like an hour drive away) I like strawberries, but usually would dip them…

Maybe you need to rethink your shoes? It seems that there must be some that would help to cushion things to the point where your ankles & stuff would be more protected?

Welcome, though I don't know if I can say that since I've only been on this site for like a week or two so it seems weird to welcome somebody who's about the same level of newbie as I am