Posts by skyewriting

Wow, I was off for a day and look what happened to this group!  How cool.  Welcome fellow drinkers (abstainers)!

I think that eating sharp cheddar cheese with red wine is better than chocolate. I love my "crisps" with beer instead of wine. But who cares, they are all good together right!

I too can polish off a bottle of wine in one eveneing.  I too eat reasonably well otherwise, so I'm sure the alcohol is my wight problem. I'm on day 6 and have already lost 6 pounds.

I'm 46 years old, have two boys ages 12 and 9, am currently at 183 lbs.

I decided to boycott the whole weekend at my mother-in-laws!  How selfish of me.  I sent my husband and two boys without me. 

Glad to be part of this fun loving group! Thanks pg for starting it.  I'm going to add all of you to my friends list too.  Til later!

Going into the weekend! Good luck ladies - stay strong.

I won't be able to check in until Monday because I'll be traveling. Wish me luck, though because I'm going to my mother-in-laws for her husbands birthday party. There's bound to be a lot of good food, plus the stress of visiting them makes me want to eat and especially drink.

Skye

yah I hate those complainers too. It also irks me when someone says they don't "diet".  Call it what you want, "healthier lifestyle", "new eating habits"... I still don't get to eat and drink what I want when I want!  After typing that I realize that I called this my "healthy living campaign" so I'm a little bit of a hypocrite...woops.

But enough complaining. Makambo is right, short term goals.  My current short-term goal is to do 1000 minutes in the exercise challenge.  Have you guys been there yet?  It's pretty cool.  In this one you say how many minutes you're going to exercise in January, then you try to meet it.  The numbers are up there for everyone to read, so it keeps you on track.

The other one I liked, but didn't like, was the Biggest Loser challenge.  (I did it last year.) Anyone who wants to participate lets the forum leader know.  Then they are split into groups.  You have to weigh in every week... just like the television show.  My problem was I wasn't losing any weight.  I was too embarrassed to put in +1, so I dropped out.  Didn't come back for a year...

 Anyway, those challenges are pretty good ways to stay motivated.

We can all do it!  If at first you don't succeed, try try try again. (I just love trite cliches.)

How about this one...I took off my wedding ring because it was too tight.  This was a month ago, and there STILL is an indentation on my finger where it was where the fat grew around it.

But there's more!  When I got the wedding band, which is a family hereloom, it was WAY TOO BIG! I had to keep it on with the engagement ring.  I took the engagement ring off years ago when it became too small.

I LOVE beer. I (used to) drink it every day.

Two years ago I belonged to one of those weight loss programs. I tried substituting the beer calories for others and was VERY strick about my calorie intake.  I was exercising constantly with the idea, "if I walk 20 more minutes, I can have 2 beers instead of just one!"  But, guess what, the weight just wasn't coming off.  I blamed the program.

I read somewhere (in this forum maybe?) that alcohol slows down the metabolism and that beer especially puts on the pounds.  D@*#!

I think that people who are at a normal weight may get benefits from that single beer or glass of wine at dinner, but people like me who need to lose more than 50 pounds should not drink alcohol and once you are at normal weight, drink only occassionally. 

By the way, I'm on only day two of my alcohol abstention and healthier lifestyle with the objective of losing weight.   So it remains to be seen if cutting the alcohol helps me! It's HARD because I am used to having a drink or two every day.

Hi makambo!  Thanks for replying.  I added you to my buddy list. I think that the reason I didn't stay on last year was because no one was expecting me to.  So if we expect to hear from eachother, we'll have to log on to stay accountable.  And it is EASY to be accountable to friends. so thanks for finding me!

 I walked twice yesterday for about 30 minutes each time.  But I overslept today so I'll have to get a walk in a little late.

The one beer post was a year ago!  I didn't have ANY yesterday and I won't today, or tomorrow, or hopefully never again and if so, only once in a blue moon.  I do have a problem with alcohol and I believe that it is the main contributer to my weight problem.  I REALLY LOVE beer, but I read that on top of converting to sugar it also slows down your metabolism (as does all alcohol)- so it is OFF LIMITS now.

How did you do yesterday?  Any ideas on how you're going to bring in extra money? 

Looking forward to staying in touch.  We can DO THIS!

Skye