Posts by elaine911

congrats ....    on the six days no smoking.   we can do this one day at a time we will fight this ugly monster to the end.

he smokes outside.  and yep the drive to work today is going to be rather miserable.  I did just eat a nice breakfast and now of course i want a cigarette but at least i have a patch on and my craving are 1/3 of what they have been in the past when i tried to quit.  I quit once before for almost a month and i felt so good and happy.  then i found out my husband was cheating and smoking cigarettes behind my back, we were to quit together.  and that is how i relapsed.  i have that half marathon on valentines and i just can't smoke anymore.  i have this really bad cough and congestion, i can't even hear anything my ears are all clogged up. i chewed alot of gum.

lynn, your post almost made me cry.  i can't believe people would even think of saying stuff like that.

i am in the same boat as all of you.  I am going to say that since I was overweight ALL OF MY LIFE, my mind is conditioned to think i am fat.  I know i am thin people tell me, but i still don't see it or feel it.  The only way i know is because my scale tells me the truth and the clothes i buy tell me the truth.  How is it possible to have started at 165-170 3 years ago and now weigh 108 but still feel fat.  I have that nasty back fat and extra skin that won't go away. It looks like i am a deflated balloon when i have no clothes on.  Are we all suffering body dismorphic whatever you call it or does our mind need to catch up.  I am still not used to this thin face looking back at me in the mirror it is too strange for me.  I don't think after all this weightloss i could ever get any plastic surgery to my face.  To wake up and look in the mirror and find an unfamiliar woman looking back at me.  ok my rant is over.  Thank you ladies for listening to me.

ok well the walmart brand says 3 oz is 150 calor so i was eating about 5-6  just to be on the safe side thank you for all the replys.  i think i will stay at less than 3 oz portion seeing it is a treat to have them at all in my diet plan.  everyone was telling me i was looking to skinny i got down to 107 at 5'2 i thought i looked good.  They were drilling me saying i was looking sickly and that there may be something wrong with me losing so much weight.  so i started eating a lot too much and bam i gained it back now i weigh 111 and am not happy so here we go counting calories again.  So obviously i was not sick and didn't magicly come down with diabetes, like they thought.  My body was doing a great job at burning calor. why do people have to be so nosey or is it jealousy.

i second the notion

In the end you reap what you sow. He got away with murder, will we ever know the truth.  He was involved with their murders for sure.  He gets what he deserves.  Writing a book like he did how egotistical, he needs to be in jail and think of what a mess he's made of his life and everyone around him.

i started at 145 i was eating more food quantity(bulky items) bananas, apples, whole grain breads light yogurt.  They filled me up as opposed to eating fast food where i would need several burgers to fill me up.  Another trick that really helped me i would drink about 1-2 bottles (16.9 oz of water or crstal light before every meal.  all that liquid would fill me up so i wouldn't eat as much.  I cut my portions in half and ate slower, so if after taking all that time to eat i was still truly hungry i would go for a second. Salads, salads, salads one before dinner and sometimes one for lunch as the meal with some cheese or protein.

please by all means eat more or your body will think you are in starvation mode.  I am 5'2 109 lbs and run about 5 miles 5x a week i eat at least 1500-2000 calories and I am still hungry most of the time.  I have been trying to stabilize my weight but it's not working.  It took me almost a month(3weeks actually) to even see the scale move down when i first started cc.  Your body doesn't know what to think.  When i was at 145lbs i was burning 13o calo/mile then 120 calor a mile all of a sudden i now only burn 70 cal per mile.  Your body will change just give it some time.

the news in sc keeps replaying the snl skit over and over agin it is too funny.

WOWWY ZOWWY,    you did a greeeaaaaat job and definitely look younger.  I wish my husband would take the first step and change his eating habits.  see we can all change for the better :)

i do believe we are both flatchested now.  I am really not trying to make this a competition thing i want to change the way i am dealing with this matter.  I don't think it is healthy for me to be jealous of her.  i have a smaller frame then her that is for sure,  that is besides the point.  Many many moons ago when i was a teenager i would starve myself to no end so i could lose weight, what a vicious cycle that was, i hated myself but there i was 18 years old with a six pack.  When you are emaciated looking with no fat on your body all you have to do is a few situps and crunches and bam there it is a rock hard stomach, but what a sh**ty way of doing it.  That is not how i live my life and i do feel bad for her.  I never see her eat anymore, even during very long hours at work.  Who goes 10-12 hours with no food.  I constantly eat all day long but it's stuff that is good for me mostly raw diet and healthy sandwiches.   This is one of those situations where i just needed to blow off some steam, and now it is time for me to move on and not worry about anyone but me.  I don't hate her, i feel bad for her that there is a much easier way to achieve a healthy body than how she is doing it.  I think this thread has reached it's maximum potential.

--ohh by the way pen-coed, the dirty looks that i get on the beach is probably when i politely ask people to be aware that we are practicing kitesurfing and the wind is an unpredictable thing.  We all need a spot on the beach but why park your chair in a dangerous spot and then ask me questions like will it hurt if it hits us, or do you carry liability insurance??  Come'on people  like i am the one that doesn't belong on the beach, like i am inconveniencing everyone else.  Of course i don't want it to smack down on someone, or closeline you as you walk right under my lines.

Actually they do kitesurf lake michigan go to you tube and check out the videos.  You guys are such a great support .  I am so glad there are people that understand what this feels like.  It just seems so odd that if someone ccompliments me on how i look lately with my little muscles popping out here and there, if she is in the vicinity not ten minutes later she is lifting her shirt showing off her abs.  It's actually kinda funny how it happens just minutes later of her getting an earful.  Ok, i don't hate her it is a bit of jealousy but it does make me work out or run that extra mile when i am at the gym, a little extra motivation i guess.  But I am doing it the right way!!!!!  and there is no other way to do it in my eyes.

i have always had god in my life but i think he worked through my mom to get me healthy.  My mother passed several years ago from diabetes, and i was borderline diabetic heading in the same diection.  It wasn't until last year though i decided i was going to make a change and i needed both of thier help.  Everytime i wanted to get off that treadmill i would ask her to give me all the strength to get through another  mile.  Little by little i started doing better.  I attribute all the greatness in my life to god who has always pulled me out of trouble.  My mother gave me the strenght to keep going,  Just because she passed didn't mean she was out of my life i felt her pumpmg though me everytime i went running.