Posts by doc_c

Thanks to all of you for your great encouragement.  Like many of you, this is a lifetime thing for me.  Started my first diet at Weight Watchers at the grand old age of EIGHT!  Lost 100 pounds once upon a time only to see it creep back on.  Then I was down 40, now up again, and I'll go down.  There is no option!  I am going to be normal sized again for me, know what I mean?  I appreciate all of the support!

Ah, the wonders of Maybelline (and airbrushing)!  We have to remember that they are human, too, and in real life look a lot like us.  Why should we try to live up to such an impossible ideal?  I'm beginning to break out into a pop song, I think, but we're all beautiful right?  Everyone's got something!  Thanks for the smiles

I lived and worked in NYC when I had my baby, 17 years ago! I was actually in labor at work. I took a cab home that day! But I guess it depends on how far out on the Island you are. Don't want to break the bank to have a cab ride home.

Don't overtire yourself, but I'd work as late into it as you can. Depends on what you do. I am a professor, so I can sit and I have down time between classes. I get bored sitting home, but that's me. I don't relax well. If I were home, I would start some projects and not rest, so I figured, just go to work.

But if you already telecommute, maybe you could talk to your boss about doing more of that.

My two cents for what it's worth!

And best of luck! Congrats! babies are great!!

I totally agree that getting mad isn't worth the effort.  I decided, thanks to my first bad cholesterol test ever, to just change my eating.  For the first time since I'm 8 years old, which is almost 40 years ago, I'm not on a diet.  I am in an evolving pattern of life.  Sounds flowery, but it means eat whatever I want but maintain around 1300 calories a day.  If I want the 300 calories of candy, I'll eat it, but I remind myself I'll be sorry later.  That usually does it.  But I've been eating ice cream sometimes, chocolate, birthday cake and whatever.  I go to the gym 4-5 times a week, and since January I have lost those 30 pounds you talk about.  I still have 70 to go, but I set small goals for myself.  Break it up into 5% of your bodyweight at a time.

Last Friday I was out of control angry inside and I ate french fries for dinner then went to DQ after and ate a 700 calorie sundae.  I annoyed myself then said, you know what?  I enjoyed those things.  I can't eat them every day, but once in a while isn't going to kill me.  And that week at my diet club, I weighed in the same weight.  So it goes.

So while changing your head set is harder than dieting itself sometimes, I think it's the way to go. 

Good luck!  This site has been a great help to me. The sense of community is awesome and folks are very supportive.  And I will now get off the soapbox! lol

I read this in a magazine and have been doing it for eight weeks.  I think I see a difference.  Take a tablespoon of olive oil and add three drops of cypress essential oil.  Massage your abdomen morning and night, first in circles to apply the oil, then up from bottom to top.  It's supposed to get the lymph flowing and be good for the skin.  Admittedly, I also do 40 minutes of cardio 5x/week and 180 crunches and the ab machine at the gym....  But I'm in my late 40s and the skin on my stomach is looking better, so worth a try, I think.

I agree.  You need to see a medical care provider--a nurse, a doctor, a someone.  This doesn't sound healthy at all.  Sending you good thoughts.

 And happy birthday, fellow Aquarian.  Ankle swelling is an "Aquarian thing"   We're also strong in mind, but stubborn.  Don't be so stubborn that you hurt yourself unintentionally.  Hugs....