Posts by shapeshifter

stefanie, no if your micronutriants are great, your not losing muscle, your supplying healthy nutrients to your body, keep doing what your doing if your happy at your weight loss... if you are eating junk food you are not getting the healthy nutrients your body needs

Megs, trust me I KNOW your pain, I stayed at about 140-145 for nearly a year before I even got down to the 130's... BUT I have to tell you the first time you see that break, you got such a boost, that it seems to come off quick...that's what happened to me, once I broke after a year of 140's, the 139-135 melted off, or it seemed it did... maybe in a month or 2... which for me is huge! now I'm stuck from 132-135ish and it will take the same perserverance and hard work, it's not easy... it only works for me when I really change up my workout routines and just eat more salads and fruits... it will come off, it takes time... I realized my culprit was sugar, and I had to cut it completely out of my morning coffee that helped tremendously.......

Danielle, that's not fair your bf is doing that to you! have you tried talking to him and asking him to support your weight loss efforts? if anything, WHEN you get past all the cravings and temptations, and lose the weight, you will have achieved a milestone...cuz' he is def. upping your pain threshold! ;) ....

Stefanie, yes micronutrients are extremely important, because it helps your metabolic rate in the body, the sugar and high froctose stuff and salt slow it down... it makes a huge difference....

Original Post by watergirl:

how are you doing?

i would tape those two fingers together once you get it bandaged just to keep it clean and not split the wound back open.

then i would drink a beer.

ahahahahaahaha! this is why I love you WG! ahaahahhahah 'drink a beer'!!!!! my kinda girl 

Ok, I did it! two days in a row working out! feel good! I did Jillian Michaels Kickboxing video...it was good, not as hard as I thought it would be... did Turbo Jam Kickin Core, I realize that I have gotten bored w/Punch, Kick and Jam Turbo Jam... plus now I'm in a plateau and have been stuck so maybe changing up the routine will help... I know I woke up this am w/my stomach muscles sore, and I haven't felt that in months and months! so hopefully that's good... TOM is creeping up and my pasta cravings have been unstopable, but it is whole grain pasta... I know I have lost complete control of my portion sizes, I don't even stop anymore, I just keep going until I give myself a tummy ache...;( this is the reason for my weight gain creeping back up... I must control myself! 

Gina, have fun on teh 10miles!  glad he will be able to help w/the animals while your gone! When you go away I will be focusing on the same thing as well, controling myself w/the food and drink consumption

Thanksgiving going over to Sister's house, mom, other sister, daughter, some friends are all coming over it should be fun and relaxing... I plan on being the older sister who will be sitting on the couch w/a glass of wine and NOT cooking! 

I love how calmly he explains stabbing the guy in the neck! thanks Amethyst, that was powerfully funny! 

She was so very cold, and short w/Mackenzie Phillips...it was hard to watch...I had to go to oprah.com and tell her 'shame on you!' for being so cold to her, some people even said she had been warmer and more receptive to dogs on her show. I'm over her

Danielle, I think if your sedantary for the most part 1400 isn't soo bad, I eat 1700 usually and lose when I work out and gain if I don't... punch in your numbers and see. Maybe just try to keep it at 1500, which is still considered low to me. Glad your daughter is feeling better! sooo scary h1n1! 

Gina call me tonight, I'm home! want to hear all about it! 

Sarah! ofcourse you are always welcome back! nice to see you again, although I'm sorry about the miscarriage, I've had one and it's very emotional so I understand completely. Good luck on working towards the second one ;) 

Megs reminded me of when I first started the thread and I was at about 147 and was stuck there for nearly year, it took me a long long to get past my humps and plateaus and now working on the second biggest plateau been here at 135ish for nearly 3months now, gotta kick it up, but it takes time Megs, try to focus on an accomplishment everyday even if it's little, like getting all your h20 in, those little accomplishments led to big results through time for me, and it will for you too

stefanie, New Rules def. talks about upping cals, I find that hard but Karey had done it before right?

Karey! I'm sooo sad your sick! sounds like an awful virul infection, did you get some antiobiotics for you from the doc? a zpak maybe? Please feel better... as you have told me before it takes time and it may be your body just wanting to heal right now so don't fret about working out, your cals in are probs low, feel better and try to go to the doc please, I know 2 ppl that got h1n1, it's scary...

Okay, I am exhausted from the past week... I just want to curl up on couch and chill out, just had breakfast and coffee and had  long long night, but it was fun. 

Talk to you girlies later... xo

Karey! soo glad to see your back! Oh NO! feel better! chicken stock, rest and rest! I have to commend you on getting those workouts in, and yes the walking in Vegas is no joke! You walk everywhere! sorry to hear that it wsn't as good as SF... Vegas is a place you go to for like 3days tops, then you start to feel suffocated! So I know exactly what you mean! 

When you get back it will melt off quickly, plus since you have no appetite might as well take advantage of that as Gina would say to me... 

Feel Better! 

Me, did a workout today after 4days of no working out, was busy busy and now have a bit of anxiety and just exhausted, I think my daughter exhausts me more than I consider.... anyway, my tummy is bloated and I feel it in my face too, gotta eat as clean as possible, downed 60oz of water so far, flushing it out, hopefully it's mostly water weight... I dare get on that scale, I know it will only make me upset... so tom. another strong and heavy cardio session before a round of meetings again... 

xo's... and hugs all around! S 

Hey Girls, 

Sorry I've been MIA, been crazy busy, but good busy... keeping things moving and shaking... haven't been good on my diet and working out, it's been 2days no working out... today I gotta get something in, got a Birthday party on Tues. and want to feel good in whatever I wear. so gotta get the eating under control too... stress eating is the worst... 

Megs, the Taco Soup sounds delicious, what else do you put in your taco soup? I think I want to make some, oh and lol, my name is Soraya not sonara ;) 

stefani, I have the same goal as you, I have managed to lose about 20lbs and now got about 13 to go! it's the hardest 13 lbs ever, it seems to hold on to me and fight my set point...

Okay gonna try to relax, I'm just tired and exhausted from last week... I may just take a nap 

xo...soraya

I told you peaches! I reported this thread because someone called the family 'knuckle draggers' before and now this! 

Healthisinplease, making statments that the only 'civilized' people in AFrica are South Africans is one of the most ignorant statements I have ever heard... then pretending to not know (unless I believe someone mentioned above..you are slow) that comparing humans to animals is not racist, is even more of an ignorant statement... you my dear are a racist, you believe that a whole race is inferior and uncilvilized because of where they are from... I'm not african but I am truly disgusted by your remarks, shame on you! You my dear is what I would call "Uncivlized" Good for all the people above, that have called you out on your BS... 

Hey girls...

We all fall off the wagon here and there, the best thing we can do is try to stay as consistent as possible, a few days or even a week won't undo months of hard work, but months of bad eating and no working out will def. undo that motivation and drive... 

We all have our moments, don't beat yourself up at all.. heck last night I ate jack in the box at two in the am, finished w/ a dark chocolate candy bar at 3am, why? because I wanted it... today is a new day, I always try to balance myself out by eating salads and staying consisten w/it as best I can... 

I went out last night, and tonight is a friends bday, so will def. be drinking some martini's or something... so I will work out especially hard today and drink as much as water as possible, plus do my P90X Cardio workout... 

For comfort food that is not going to hurt the eating habits too much...hmmmmm... I would have to pass that baton to Gina, she's better at that than me... Low Sodium homemade Chicken soup and multi grain crackers? maybe that... I'm a soup lover so any kind of low cal soup would be good... 

Hope you ladies have a healthy and beautiful day! and Keep it up, today is a new day! :) xo...soraya

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Hi Megs! Welcome!

What I do for workouts is Kickboxing, love it! since I started kickboxing at the top of the year, I broke 2 plateus! plus my bum is lifting and my arms are finally getting back to normal... 14lbs is not hard at all, but don't be too hard on yourself if you don't get there... It took me a couple years to break the 10lb loss and then bam, it started to fall off... I did change my eating, more clean eating, lots of salads and lentils and I stopped having sugar in my coffee in the am... that made a huge difference for me, I was using Coffeemate every morning having two cups and then on CC my sugar percentage was sometimes up to 300 percent!!! I couldn't believe it, it took me a week or two and now just cinammon and skim, PLUS I layed off the Wine that was hurting me too... um, me when I eat carrots and water my stomach aches! and it feeeels like I'm starving so I get that...try to dip your carrots in humus or have some sort of fat w/it, you will feel more satiated.... welcome! our girls are awesome! Gina is a dietecian so she has all kinds of information that is awesome! and Karey is the lifting queen and focused, I'm sooo excited about the new girls here :) welcome welcome all... tell us how it goes everyday and yes it's okay if we slip up, we stay at it and continue to support and care for one another no matter what :) 

tenderleigh welcome! tell us more about yourself...

Karey, Gina where are ya'll at?? Cherry miss you! 

just finished a half of workout, had to jump on business call and now lost focus to keep it up... but atleast I got 40min in... wooot woot