Pinksapphire74

I always weigh naked, once a week and at the same time in the morning before I eat or drink anything;)

Hi I'm Alecia and I am on my second quest to drop over 100 pounds. Back in August of 09 I started my first journey and lost 65 pounds, but after some marital issues and a lot of stress I put it back on plus 10 more pounds:( Now I'm trying to get in shape and loss as much weight as possibly by 08/10/13 to do my first 5 mile…

I use stevia raw to sweeten my tea or whatever else I wish, it is all natural and comes from a plant so it is not processed like the others:)

I found this great website for diebatics and they have great low cal brownies and other wonderful recipes and because it is dieabtic it is low in sugar too! I use stevia as a sub for sugar makes it even lower in cal's. www.dlife.com Enjoy!

Running and jogging are harder on your joints, the elliptical gives you less inpact on your joints:) I do know how you feel though, I can do an hour on my elliptical, but try and jog for 15 minutes and I feel as though my legs are going to give...lol

Thanks for the post. I would drink powerade when I was pregnant and had sever morning sickness. It worked great as well:)

I agree, I like the Lara bars and Mrs. Mays trio bars better! They are around 200 or so caloires, but there is only 3 to 4 ingredients in both and are great tasting!! I get mine at Costco, a box of 20 bars is around 15 dollars and I only allow myself one a day as a mid morning snack:)

Welcome back and good luck!

Don't be to hard on yourself hon, I know the feeling. It is hard to contorl what you eat when you are out or at someone elses house. Just drink a full glass of water before you eat and remember to eat slowly, also if you feel the need for seconds, wait 20 minutes all this will help you to feel full faster, you could also…

This has a father tool belt filed with diapers, wipes, nose plugs, gooles, tonges and a few other fun things to make dads job better!

This is my cousin Lisa's website http://www.customdiapercakes.com/, she is located in WA but does ship, if nothing else it would give you some great dad gift ideas! Hope it helps and Congrates!!! Alecia

I found a wonderful dark chocolate (which is saying alot cause I think dark chocolate is bitter) that is gluten free, sugar free and inexpensive. I found it at Walmart in the candy isle with the dove bars, it is called simply lite I believe and I eat two pieces which is about 58 calories! I also like Lara bars and Mrs.…

When I started I was doing alot of dance workouts, eliptical, walking, mowing the lawn with a push mower, rebounding, jump roping, these are all great starter exercises. Good luck and have fun with it!

Here is a creditable website that talks about eating enough calories. I myself was eating around 1000 calories a day and lost 50 pounds in 5 months ( starting weight 235). However more resently I started to feel very slugish worked my butt off for two week and lost not 1 pound! Found this website…

My trainer has told me to find where your RMR is (that is your Resting Metabolic Rate) there are free websites to help you. Mine is about 1400 cals a day, but I exercise 40 to 60 minutes a day and am pretty active. I only eat the 1400 cals no more and I average a weight lose of about 3 to 5 pounds a week if I stick with…

I eat a lot of salads, fresh fruit, I love earth grains multi grain bread with 2 slices of avacodo, sliced roma tomato, deli sliced turkey breats and a little garlic powder! You can find great low cal and fast recipes on allrecipes.com, I make coconut milk soup in my crock pot so it is ready when I get home. You can also…

When I am working out and want to give up, I start to remind myself why I am doing this, how good I will feel to be in those skinny jeans and how good I have felt everytime I was able to put on a pair of pants that I could not get over my butt before. I physic myself up. I too work out every morning at 5:30 and some days…

When I have a craving for chocolate I get the sugar free jello mousse chocolate indulegence, it is only 60 cal's:) for sweets I look for the skinny cow ice cream bars or weight watchers stuff. Another thing I do for sweets, is buy the low fat or fat free ricotta, pure vanilla extract, stevia and sliced almonds. What you do…

If your periods are messed up since dieting, it could be you are not eating enough calories for your body, which is very bad for you. It can start to eat muscle, make you tired, cause missed periods and all sorts of other unhealthy things. Here is a website I would like you to check out. I was doing the same till I found…

I have found what works best for me on the back of my arms(which seems to be the hardest spot to tone for me) is standing with my back to a chair on workout bench and placing my arms on the seat, lower your body down than back up. It kills, but well worth it! Good luck and I know you will look hot in your dress in August!!

If you are not losing one week and than having a big lose the next, thats great! But you may need to up your calorie intake. As we become more active our bodies will start to abjust to what we are doing, so we need to increase our calorie intake and mix up our exercising routine a litte.

I would just continue to eat they way you are. Find out about where your RMR is, eat that amount of calories everyday, then when you stop losing and hit that plauto, step up your calories a little. You will always hit a plauto at some point, it's just your body getting use to what you are doing, so you need to change…

There is a new noodle out called the maricale noodle, you should look it up online. It is kind of spendy, but worth it! It has no carbs, no glutin, kosher, and just all around wonderful, a firend is using it because her son is allergic to glutin and they love it! Good luck and maybe this would help you feel like you are…

I have a very over weight woman in my chair and it is very hard for her to workout because of it, she will sit in a chair and do arm weights or elliptical because it is easier on the joints then walking or jogging and the elliptical can really burn calories, but it is all about the calories and portions. So just watch what…

Good luck ladies! You all can do it and are doing ssssooo good so far:) God bless you all

In the tools section of this website there is a BMI check and BMR check, the BMR will tell you from your weight, height and how active you are, what you would burn if you did nothing the whole day. Hope it helps you:)

Do you have netflix? They have some great 10 minute workouts that you can watch right from your computer! I love them because they work and only take 10 minutes:)

I'm in!:happy: Start Sept 13, 2009 221 Today 191 Goal 130

Wow that i ssssooo exciting, I not help but cry reading your story. Thanks for the encouragment and reminder of how great it feels to be on a weight lose journey! God Bless you

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