Posts by helplisa

Original Post by sammii08:

Hi helplisa

Thanks for the congrats, not doing too bad so far which is mainly due to me being the only smoker in the house so I havent had to be around anyone thats smoking in front of me yet. Hopefully by the time I stop avoiding my friends and family I will be ok.

 Oh you will for sure.  I know when I quite before I did it cold turkey.  But I immediately replaced it with the gym, road biking and mountain biking with my ex-husband.  He didn't smoke either and was a strong person and quite encouraging - so it helped.  In fact I can remember just when I went cold turkey, I had a bad day at work - went directly to the store and bought a pack.  Didn't open them, but came home with them.  Ex-husband found them laying on top of my purse right out in the open (stupid me, should have hid the darn things) and tossed them out into the garbage - after he broke them up.  

Don't get me wrong, he wasn't being mean or anything - heck I could have stopped him, he did give me that chance.  But I let them go.

It does help to have others around you to help STOP you when it comes to addiction.  Just like with bad eating habits too.  

Now that I'm single I'm really doing this on my own.  I have supportive parents, a brother and sister-in-law who don't smoke and are healthy and thin.  But living alone is something different and demands more control and discipline.

What's strange is when I entered adult hood, I think I rebelled more then than I did as a teen!  lol  Then especially after the divorce, I thought - "cool, now I can eat what I want, when I want, do what I wish anytime - without feeling bad that I'm not doing what's healthy for me!"

So probably hundreds of McDonald's later - I realized one winter that I couldn't fit into my size 8's anymore.  Didn't bother me too much until I hit the 12 size mark.  But of course at that point it was too late to make a quick fix, or apply makeup that puts the shadows in the right place so your face doesn't look heavy ... etc.

Anyway...before I ramble on more without a cause...LOL  It's cool to have a place to come chat about it and put yourself out there.

But my point is; you'll be able to hang around friends soon, if not now even that smoke.  You may even discover that it burns your eyes and it makes you feel kind of sick to be around it too much.  That's the best smoke repellent if you ask me - nobody likes to feel upset to their stomach.  Or have their clothes stick to high heaven - you'll notice it more the farther along you go - you'll start to smell things better and notice when another smoker was "just" in the room but is now gone.  

You'll see!  

See ya'll later!

I guess it can be looked at like this; 40lbs isn't much to lose compared to others.  A friend of mine was 210 and only 5'7" and she had to lose much more than that and did it within a year and is now back to her normal weight.  So I figure if others like that in my friends situation can do this, I and we all sure can as well.

It's sheer determination that gets me and then I lose that when I get upset over something.  Then I have a bad habit of going into a "forget about it" mood.  Which when I write this, is actually pretty sad.  lol

I just need something to look forward to (hence the makeover and night out on the town after shopping with the girls) and also a place to confess and post updates so people can hold me accountable (I will hold myself to that as well, but it helps for others to read what my goals are too I think). 

All my friends now are in a size 3 to 8 and most of them around a six!    Only two had weight gain after they berthed their children and the rest bounced back to skinny bones.  I have one who is overweight but she's been as such since a child. 

I don't know...I just want to get back to me again and feel good, look good and be able to run around like a 17 year old without feeling like my knees are going to bend in half!  lol

Times coming and just around the corner.  I just wanted to post and share and also become accountable for my efforts or lack there of to "push" me into success for once. 

I'll stop by each day - so I'll see ya'll tomorrow!

I'm a little late, but I'd like to join too!  182lbs today - goal 140lbs by August - may be too soon, but I'm walking each day too.  Just started the weight loss today!

CU all around soon!