JenCM

Glad I found this thread - I'm a DD/E and I was thinking tonight while I was doing the stairclimber....Dang it!! These things are gonna give me black eyes!! lol. And we live around some uppity people, so holding the puppies down with the hands gets some not very nice looks. heehee. So I'm DEF going to check out some of…

I have been there, done that....a Lot. Just forget it! It's over, it's done, it's in the past. Don't let your past dictate your future!!! :) I think just about everyone struggling with weight has done this...and the best thing you can do is just move on. The day after a binge is a new day, a clean slate. It's a chance to…

I'm so glad no one has yet asked me if I was pregnant.....I get enough of "WHEN are you going to get pregnant?!" from everyone the last 3 years since we got married! haha. I tell then, as soon as I lose weight and spend a year or two enjoying being thinner!! ;) So I've got a few years to go I hope!

I ditto the water - drink a lot of it, it helps. I have lost most of the urge to snack, but what helped me was soft ice. I know, I know...not supposed to chew ice. But, it helped me personally. I'd get sparkling water or water high in mineral content and make ice out of those because it makes the ice sooo much softer to…

I agree with the statement that I don't reward myself with food. This time around, I was thinking about that and it suddenly dawned on me how utterly silly it seemed to me, to reward my GOOD habits and behavior, with the very thing that got me heavy! I don't have cheat days, what I do is very very occasionally (a whole 2…

I've been like that since I've started and I'm trying to stop doing it because I've had so many fluctuation days and days where I'm the same...it's been bumming me out! So I'm trying to fight off the urge to hop on! Sometimes I feel like I've been giving up a food addiction, only to gain a scale addiction. =/ lol

I feel ya! My hubby is a bit chunky (if he lost 50 lbs, he'd be golden - which I'm trying to help get him to do because I know he'd feel sooo much better) and he's a FOODIE. He went to culinary school and he's a food nut. Me adjusting my eating has been VERY hard because we flat out cannot buy different food for us both…

One of my allll time faves - What a Feeling by Irene Cara. That song makes me Mooooove mah booty!!! Same with Maniac from Flashdance! Scar - Def Leppard Barracuda - Heart Don't laugh (ok, laugh if you want!) The Climb - Miley Cyrus. I love the lyrics to it and I can sing along to that while I'm working and I feel like it's…

I will Not miss... -Not fitting/squeezing into a seat at a theatre or worrying about overflowing into the seat next to me -On that same subject, I won't miss not being able to sit in a booth if we go to a restaurant and wondering when I sit in chairs, if I might be heavy enough to break them -Having to buy all my clothes…

I live in this mode of frustration! lol. Ironically, I've seen less impact on the scale since I started working out more the last two weeks. Same thing, up a pound, down two pounds, up four pounds....Everytime I step on the scale. So I've hovered around the same weight for nearly a month now. It is frustrating...but I take…

I can't give you much advice, but I can sympathize because my ideal weight is about 104 lbs! Now personally, do NOT see myself ever weighing that. It's so tiny. I want to be smaller and thin and healthy, but not that small! I personally feel like I'd be good between 145-155, which still makes me technically "overweight". I…

*raising hand* Me too. =( Now granted, when we got married, etc....I wasn't thin, I weighed the same as him....which is bad enough. NOW (after I've lost a bit over 50 lbs) I still weigh 60 lbs more than him. That also means, for the last year or so, I've been weighing 100 lbs more. That's just sickening to me to think…

I'm doing low carb also, and I just discovered the Flat Out Lite Wraps with whole wheat and Flax. 5 Net carbs...9 grams of Fiber. You could do so many different wraps. Bake them into chips. Do quesadillas! If you have a way to heat something up - I'm also always all for a meat and veggie chili. Do turkey, add lots of…

Sounds delish! This is nearly exactly like my Aunt's recipe for fresh peach pie - which is totally awesome. The Only pie I truly LOVE! Fresh fruit that hasn't been cooked, is a billion times better in a pie/dessert I think!

Cheeseburgers. Never been a cheeseburger fan. Or potato chips. Now, everything else in the thread....cheesecake, chocolate and breaded....I sadly do love. haha

Like everyone has said...I guess it changes from person to person. Me - Oh yeah, I lose it there. My bra is getting looser, and not the strap - the cups. Hubby is particularly saddened by this and wants to know if it can be stopped. lol. I told him by the time I'm done losing weight I'll have probably gone from my DD/E…

I've loved John Cusack for...oh, ever! haha. And Jack Black. It just figures I ended up marrying a oddball goof like him. lol.

I regularly use Grapeseed, Jojoba or Coconut oil for my skin. Sometimes alone, sometimes mixed in with my organic lotion. I'm an "oil nut" though...lol, I also oil my hair for moisturizing and such since it's long. :)

On a "diet" - Someone told me I should try eating crackers and Gatorade to help me lose. So I stupidly did so. *eyeroll* Nothing like lots of sugar and processed starch and nothing else to help you....er...lose. Regular food - I've got a couple things...One is peanut butter and mayo on Ritz crackers. My dad ate that and I…

Haha. I had to laugh when I saw this thread! I'm SURROUNDED by Girl Scouts here...between people we know and are related to. So I'm just going to go ahead and get a few boxes. I know I can be good and not eat them (There's been a couple leftover bags of Snickers - my fave, and Reeses in the house since Halloween and I…

I totally get you here. I've spent many years now being a Mountain Dew ADDICT! That was one of the hardest things for me months ago, giving that up. I think I'd easily drink 2 liters a day. Just horrible. And I gave it up cold turkey because I knew that "weaning" myself off it, would not work for me personally. The…

My reasons are several-fold. I don't want to die young. I've watched cancer and illness take almost my entire family away from me and I don't want to be at a higher risk for those things anymore. I promised my Dad I'd get healthy and I'm going to. Also, I did and have gotten tired of not being able to do anything "normal".…

I was never the super skinny kid (of course, the 10 lbs more I weighed than other kids now, seems like NOTHING!) but I grew up in the country, was very active...rode horses, played soccer, etc. The first thing that happened was my mother took a job where I was constantly with her at work when I was about 11-12 and all I…

Thanks all. I'll measure myself today and write everything down so I can keep track. I've been meaning to do that and just haven't. What did help is I just took a small break and went into my closet and starting yanking out clothes and trying them on....I thought, what the heck! I'm 50 lbs lighter, something in here should…

I do - I talk to my younger brother about it, he's also losing weight and he's a wonderful "cheerleader" and such. I just feel almost bad calling him at times because I get all emotional and almost start crying...lol. Stupid, but I just get so upset at times. I've just been so generally disappointed in myself for ever…

Thanks again everyone. I truly do hope to find some more support here. :) My younger brother has been wonderful and I know he's helped me a lot, but I figure you can never have too many "cheerleaders" when it comes to something like this! @smilestb99 - Sorry to hear about your year as well. =( *hug* Losing my dad was just…

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Thanks Kimmyh70! Yeah, I get the loving to eat part! I have days where I just want to do nothing and eat a bowl of mashed potatoes with gravy. *sigh*