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Fitness	What's your Non Scale Victory ( Brag away )	Jun 07 2009 08:18 (UTC)	239
I've (almost grin) entirely stopped drinking soda!! It's actually gotten to the point that when I open one to drink, I almost gag because it's actually too sweet for me!!! Is that not cool?? For someone who used to drink six cans (minimum) of soda per day to go to going several days between colas is a major achievement, in my book at least!!!
Motivation	Quit smoking 3 days ago... now I want to eat! Ack!!	Mar 09 2009 03:27 (UTC)
Thanks so much for the support, Andie!! I sure hope you keep recovering well from your stroke. It sounds as though you are. I'm planning to get into the accessable gym at least twice this week. :) We'll see, since I somehow managed to get my days and nights flipped around. Oh well, an all nighter won't kill me. I'll just go to the gym early in the day!
Motivation	Quit smoking 3 days ago... now I want to eat! Ack!!	Mar 08 2009 07:38 (UTC)	2
Again, thanks for all the suggestions! My current two things for coping are celery, and nicotine lozenges. Andie, I have lots of reasons for quitting smoking, but my health is top of the list. :) Other reasons include the cost (even driving to Idaho -- Two counties over!-- it was over $100 a month. Not counting gas!), the health of my live-in caregiver, the health of my ANIMALS (they don't have a CHOICE!!!), the stench of the smoke, the improvement of both my sense of taste and sense of smell, my health, and, I did mention my health, didn't I? :D This is actually day five now, and it's going both more easily, and is harder than I expected. I spent all of February and the first two days of March fading my use of cigarettes. So I was able to get through a whole day with ten or fewer cigarettes before I stopped. Also, I'm using the nicotine lozenges to deal with the withdrawal. I have remarkably few cravings... probably because I learned to deal with those while I faded from over two packs a day to under half a pack! However, I'm dealing with an actual grieving process here. The Coaches at the Quit Line have confirmed that, yes, you do grieve when you give up something that's been a big part of your life for over half of it! I've smoked for over 22 years, and I'm only 38! So, I've smoked since I was 16. Over half my life I've been dependant on nicotine, and not only dependant, but simply used to the habit of smoking! Today hasn't gone well on the weight loss plan. I not only had a fried chicken breast (my caregiver brought it from a deli, and I was too hungry to say 'no, please fix me something healthy.' LOL) but I had not one, but TWO chocolate donuts today. And I just added them into my food log and discovered, to my horror... that I'm still under my target calories. Just because I haven't eaten much at ALL today. That's... really scary. Back on the healthy stuff TOMORROW!! As it is, I have celery to munch for the rest of "tonight" (it's about 11:30 P.M. now.) so I don't think I'll be going from just over 1300 to over 1500 from that. Even after I add in the coffee I've had today. Yes, even black coffee has calories, and I add it in! :D Andie, I hope you're recovering well from your stroke! Currently, I have no major health issues (no high blood pressure, no heart problems, nothing wrong with my kidneys or liver, and I'm pretty sure I'm still in remission from my cancer... I'll find out for sure on the 16th. But I feel awfully good for having Hodgkin's Disease again.) other than some asthma, which has been improving as I cut back on the cancer sticks. I have several appointments coming up, and I can't wait to tell my various health-care providers that I've quit! LOL Anyway, other than eating too much junk food and not enough healthy food, it's so far so good on the quitting for me!! Everyone stay healthy and happy! hugs from me! Shay
Motivation	Quit smoking 3 days ago... now I want to eat! Ack!!	Mar 07 2009 03:08 (UTC)	5
Wow, thanks for all the congrats and support everyone!! I don't mind the lozenges now that I'm used to them (at first the powdery texture kind of turned me off, cause it gets sort of gooey) and I DO have to spit them out at times, because I get really, really hyper. Dangerously hyper! Wanting to bang my head on the wall hyper. LOL I've figured out to spit them out when I'm just Really Happy and I'm managing fine at that level. I'm thinking about cutting them in half to make them into 2 mg lozenges. I have a big pill cutter, so that'd be easy. The support and suggestions from all of you mean a lot. It's already easier than it was, and it's only day four. (Three if you count my "slip" of a few puffs off a shortie on the first day. I don't. I count it as a "slip" and I've put it behind me, and it won't happen again!) I'm actually so VERY proud of myself! As for gum, as soon as I get my lower TEETH, I'll very likely become a compulsive chewer. Depression after the accident that paralyzed me kinda wrecked my teeth. I didn't care, so I didn't take good care of them. But I have a full lower denture in the works. That'll help a LOT, cause I'll be able to chew better. :) I'm really looking forward to that. Though, not looking forward to getting rid of my last lower teeth!! But the lower will be ready to go in as soon as the bleeding stops, so I'll have immediate load bearing, and it'll keep stuff out of the sockets and all that. :) I'm celebrating by putting in some single-use black in my bangs (washes out with soap and water) and touching up my black nails. LOL Then I want to run out to a second-hand store and get more pants... my roommate's dog ATE the seats of most of my pants, so I need new ones. That pressure sore drains, and I guess to a chihuahua that smells edible! rolls eyes If I don't make it out tonight, I'm definitely going tomorrow. Wearing a hat if it rains. giggle Or I'll have black streaks running from my hair, down my face! I just figure, I need to celebrate this quit!! So, if some nail polish, wash out hair color, and second hand pants make me happy... where's the harm, right? :) Thanks SO much for all the support, everyone! At the moment, I'm chewing on celery that's been cut to about the size of a cigarette. I'm starving, and that's helping that while we get some food into the house (my caregiver/roommate is at the store for me now), and helping me not smoke!! And I have a lozenge available for when I crave nicotine. Which isn't the same thing as wanting to smoke. Anyway, thanks again. Shay -- Currently unable to find her cell phone. LOL
Motivation	Quit smoking 3 days ago... now I want to eat! Ack!!	Mar 06 2009 09:33 (UTC)	11
Thanks Terri, I'll keep your suggestions in mind!! :) Although, I AM considering making a 100 calorie pack bag of popcorn to munch out on! :D I'm hungry, and reading, and it seems like a good, munchy comprimise to me!

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