NO Dead line... Wear healthy not a swim suit.. Support GROUP.

Hello everyone.

This is an join in anytime support group. No topic off limits. You are welcome to share your day to day challenges, and personal goals. I'm looking for people who has no dead line.

I'm sick of this dead line weight loss talk.

I want to release some weight, and gain some new friends to walk this journey with me.

Here's what you have to do.

Join in..
Share your name.
Your reason for losing weightg.. NOT CLOTHING RELATED PLEASE...
And what was your wake up call to get on the right track.

This is a new start.  I don't want any weekly weigh ins here. I just want conversation.. Congrats if you have good news.. SHARE! If you need to vent.. Go a head.. If you need to cry.. Shoulder's are right here..

This is a support group.. No more fashion dead lines.. Let's make this a non dead line.. We are going to get to healthy. That's the goal here. To make it to healthy...

I hope to hear from a lot of you.

Original Post by lynnhaslost:

I got my first bottle of alli, and is thinking about starting them this sunday.

OH! Cricket..... When you do upload the pic... Let me know..

 

i've got some on my cell but didn't download them yet. I'll do it probably later today.

Lynn , you know my take on weight loss pills:  A BIG NO! I've seen the commercial for Alli , it says it adds 1 lb more of weigh loss to the NORMAL 2 lbs loss you can obtain from diet and exercise. And i've read a lot of horror stories abt it . Only obese and overweight persons are allowed to take it, btw. I surely hope you know what you do! (and i'm telling you this b/c I really care abt you!)

As for me, being at a healthy weight means I can only hope my body is going to lose some more weight.

Brrrr we've got 57F today so I'm in the house, bundled up and abt to brew a hot tea lol

Hello again ladies. (I think we're all ladies, right?)

Not much going on here. It's hot. Really I feel like so much of my life right now is rush like crazy, then be bored and patient, then rush again. I'm pretty sure I'm stuck at boredom til the first week in July. I've been getting flamed in the forums a bit, but what's new about that : )

Thanks for all the well-wishing for my upcoming job interview, I'll let you know how it goes if I don't die of impatience waiting for it to get here. I've always enjoyed traveling, though mostly in the US (financially easier). My friend I took a 3 week long road trip to California (from GA) a few years ago, and it was great. Got stuck in a blizzard in CO, which shouldn't be fun, but we're from GA, so we're like little kids in the snow. Loved San Fran. And just a couple months ago I got to visit new orleans while drinking age, which makes it much more fun : )

My wish list of places to visit is pretty much everywhere. I'm hoping to hit most of asia at some point while living in Japan. My first choice was actually to live in thailand, but the exchange rate is so bad that it would take half my salary just to make payments on student loans. So I'm planning to spend christmas there : )

Mash-Mash: There is something so.. refreshing about the idea of moving to a completely new, strange place (its a little scary somedays, but still cool). I don't know, it's like reincarnation. You have to learn to speak again, learn customs, meet new people.

Lynn: My stepmom-to-be (my dad's fiance), has had the lapband surgery a year or two ago. It worked out great, and she's lost over 130 lbs. The thing is now, she has to try just as hard as the rest of us to lose anymore. Well, except that she's incapable of bingeing. Plus somedays she almost can't eat. I would be so annoyed if I wanted to eat something and couldn't physically do it. Obviously it works for lots of people, I would really just stay annoyed all the time. My favorite thing is, she's currently like 220 lbs, and she works out at the YMCA. Every now and then someone feels the need to approach her to give her advice on weight loss and/or exercise and she can respond with 'Yeah, I know, I've already lost 130 lbs.' I can't wait til I've lost enough weight that I can use it as a comeback : D 

As for father's day, I got my dad some bike gadgets. He just bought a bike because he's caught my contagious healthy kick, but his knees are bad so he needed something no-impact. So I bought him lights for it (because of the heat, he'll never ride before dusk), and a little thing that tracks speed, distance, time and all that.

cricket: I hate you a little (in the nicest way possible) for having to bundle up. It topped out at about 100F degrees yesterday, and doesn't get below 75F at night. Some nights it doesn't get below 80F here. There is something disconcerting to me about walking outside at night and it being hot and muggy. Because the dark LOOKS cool.

Original Post by minda_spk:

cricket: I hate you a little (in the nicest way possible) for having to bundle up. It topped out at about 100F degrees yesterday, and doesn't get below 75F at night. Some nights it doesn't get below 80F here. There is something disconcerting to me about walking outside at night and it being hot and muggy. Because the dark LOOKS cool.

I live in a temperate climate so summers are hot but not humid (at least not all the time). We had 85-90F for abt a week b4 the rain so it's a nice break. We'll probably have over 90F in July & August though.

Job interview...haven't been to one in years and i'm glad I don't have to lol my latest was "online"...sort of. I was asked to write some samples and two weeks after submitting them I got the contract ;)

Best of luck to you!

Cricket ~ Bundling up.....can't wait for the day again!  I'm not much on this hot weather.  Summer is not my favorite time of year.  I like cool days when you can wear a hoodie and sweat pants outside.  So I suppose Fall is my favorite.  I don't like winter at all.  I'm terrified of falling and hurting my back even more.

Minda ~ What's going on with the forums?  I don't respond to alot of them bc someone out there will have something bad to say about it.  There's always someone out there who has something to say.

Well, gonna go watch Hammer!  ttyl

tryin2lose25

I like summer but after a week of 80-85F I can really use a break. It's abt 64F right now but it's going to be gloomy/rainy/cold until next Mon including. It's a blessing b/c TTOM is due within the next 2 days so at lest I know I won't be hurting from sun bathing withdrawal LOL

Hopped on the scale this A.M. 130.7 lbs which is 0.5 lbs less than last Monday. I think I'm breaking the plateau eventually but it takes ages to get under 130 lbs and STAY THERE!

Lynn

photo's up :) and a bigger one on my SP page . So feel free to check it out there as well. comments welcomed

Hey Cricket, Well.. I started them, and I understand what you are saying.. I will be careful, and I went on and got my doctor on board as well as my mother and they both support this 100%. I went with the care of my doctor because.. I read a few replys on here about things that had or has happen to some fellow Alli users.. He's going to keep an I on me every month, and I was told.. Not once, but twice. I have to eat around 1200 not under, and for my weight.. I need to eat 1600 calories perday. I'm too active he said for a low number of 1200, so I went with the Dr.'s care. As well as using the product. He also told me to make sure I drink 10 glasses of water. So, I got all my guide lines from him, and I am ready to do it. So after my appointmet today.. I took the first pill, and it went well. Not as bad. He said as long as I watch my fat gram intake. I will be find. This is to help you be mindful of what you are doing, and I need that extra help.

I love your new hair style.. In a few days.. Well after the first or on the first.. I am going to be uploading my new hair style, and a lot of you will be like.. Oh my stars when I tell you what it is and how it was done.. I just want be move forward again with my weight loss. I will keep everyone updated. I promise, because I do know you care..

Well, I'm off.. I will be back later.. 

Lynn

i'm glad you talked to your doctor. Alli is a weight loss pills and they are known to cause more harm than good. Glad you are careful.

And thanks for the comment ref my new hairstyle.

Cricket, you are welcome.. It looks great. I really do love it, and the close up of it. I will not do something to hurt myself. I know sometimes it may sound like I'm doing something a little crazy to lose weight, but what I am doing is under a doctor's care. I could have gotten something else from my doctor to help. But as of now. I have a issue at hand, and I need to get it under control. That's control of the eating.. The wrong things, and on top of that... Keeping my sugar under control. So far.. Everything is good. I have to lay off the sugar for a while now, because It was a little high. My blood pressure was fine, and I had to really get a full check up before I took the first pill. All those things I was reading is true in most cases... BUT! I had to think of the people I take care of, and as of right now.. I can't do anything to hurt myself, and not only that.. Seeing a doctor was the only way I was going to get my husbands support.. FDA Approved drugs sometimes get pulled off the market, but my doctor is with me 100%, and if he see any changes in my health as in blood work.. He's pulling me off alli..  I'm going be okay.. I have faith.. OH! And since I've been on Alli. For the first day.. I've craved more water than anything.. And I was so mindful of what I was eating it was out-standing to my mother, husband, and I.. So I'm fine, and I don't want you to worry. Trust me.. I will stop if I notice any thing before the doctor does.. My doctor told me.. First week I might drop 3 to 4 pounds, and he said.. Then I should go from 3 to 4 to maybe 1.5 pounds a week. Just an guessamate he said, but.... He said give it a shot, and don't knock it until I get the first 30 days behind me..

I will chat with you all later. I'm up late, and my body has been trying to get rest for hours.. I just had to work. Something came up, and this is my week off..

I know you wouldn't do anything to harm urself ...and as you said, even FDA approved drugs end up being harmful.

Speaking of, there were a hoast of "diet pills" on the market -- pretty much appetite supressents. They just withdrawed them from the pharmacies b/c they caused high BP and fainting. Things aren't so regulated here so the persons who take diet pills most often end up wt some problems. *sigh*

The close-up photo is taken by me wt my SE C905 phone (8 mb camera). It was taken right after i came from the stylist. i'll have to see if it stays like that after i wash it lol :))

ok, need to work now :D

Yeah, I know. I heard.. My doctor was so happy I went to see him today, before I even started the alli.. I was lucky to get in, because I told my mother.. I would not start without him. So she went on and started them without me, because she has been put on them before in 1997, and it helped her for a while. She just could not stop eating the wrong foods, and went on and had the GBP done in 2003. SO I went on and lost over 56 pounds back then on my own, and she did the Operation.. I was hurt at first, more afraid of being fat alone- you know, and then she made me promise before she did it. I would get control and lose weight or she would not do it. SO I made that promise, and I've been working at it ever since..

I have a question for the girls, because it's on my damn mind.. Is anyone have the early......... HOT FLASHES! I'm 2 months away from my B-Day, and I will be 32 this year, and what's pissing me off is this.. I'm getting hot flashes, and they are kicking my butt. I said something to the doctor about it, and the first thing as a joke that came out of this mouth was... She burning calories and fat.. HAHA! I was like.. BUTT HOLE in my mind, and wanted to say it out loud.. BUT THESE flashes are getting on my last one you know.. I mean damn.. If that's the case.. I should have had my ass at 130 a long time ago you know with the way I flash..

Anyway! I love the pic, and I take a lot of pics with my BLACK JACK2 or my black berry, and I hate the both of them.. WHY in the hell I get these phones that are a pain in the butt.. OH! I know why.. One for work, and one for the kids and texting to the hubs.. My hubs asked me to turn off my work cell, but guess what... I turned it on and had to go in.. No matter what. If it was on or not.. They still would have gotten in touch with me.. All my workers has all my contact numbers down to my brother...

I'm going to shower and try to get under the bed. I have 6 miles of running in the morning, and I will not pass on that. I have to get my body in the best shape. I want to do a cancer walk next year.. Every mile you walk for cancer a dollar is donated, and I would like to be apart of that. My works did it this year, and I didn't. So next year. I would like to be a part of that and walk 10 or 15 miles.. Well Cricket.. I'm going to try to relax and get some rest. The hubs has told me twice. He's going to get rid of the net.. Over my mother's dead body.. She loves the internet.. She's new to all this PC stuff, and she loves it..

Later...

Hot Flashes at 31? YIKES!

Mom got them at around 50, right b4 she started menopause (early start b/c of a family event - her father died of cancer ).

Maybe you need to get your hormones checked and consider the pill...[you know I LOVE LOVE LOVE mine LOL]

Yeah, the doctor has talked about BC to help balance my hormones, and I'm thinking about it. I have nothing to lose.. If I miss one it want mean anything. I had my tubes tied in 1999, and it was the best thing I ever done for myself. So.. Getting on the pill will not hurt me at all.

So far. Day one on alli was good. It was fair.. Nothing bad happen, and I was very mindful of what I had yesterday, and today.. NOT SO Mindful. I had some fries, and nothing bad happen yet. Just a small fry and a chicken sandwich for lunch. I don't like Wendy's salad dressing so I had the fries with my chicken sandwich. Everytime I took a bite.. My hubs would look at me with his eyes wide open like I was going to jump up and run to the bath room, but that never happen. I'm doing okay.. Everything is fine. Or should I say... OKAY...

Well, I'm going to have to do something about these flashes, because they are driving me nuts. I took a nap today, and it felt good to rest after my 9am run.. At the gym. I was not going to the track in this morning heat.. Well, I will be back later..

Hey Lynn, it takes 24-72 hours to have a treatment effect sometimes.  I had mine 2 days after eating popcorn!  Watch out! LOL

I have to go to the dentist at 1pm today (Thurs).  Wish me luck!  I had my back top molar break.  The one side is missing!  So all I've been eating is jello and pudding.  Sugar free, of course! LOL  I'm hungry though!  I really need some good solid food!  Ya know?  I don't know what she's going to do with it.  I'll find out soon enough.

ttyl!  I'm getting some rest now.  ;)

Well, it happen the treatment effect happen yesterday.. I was like. Okay.. It wasn't so bad, and on top of it.. To see it doing what it said it does for you was a plus for me. I took a peak on the scales today, and I got 149.2 I was not at all shocked, and I was happy to see that number on the scale. I told my girl friend about the treatment effect, and she was telling me about her out break with the treatment effect as well. She told me.. It had lasted 2 days, and with those 2 days of running.. She said. She was down 4 pounds the next day. I'm not looking for big weight loss numbers with this product. I'm looking to reduce some of the fat I eat.. Well, I have to go.. I have 3 more decor covers to sew. I would like to get done with my room so I can upload my step 1 as finished.. Well, I'm off of here.. I will chat you all later.. OH TAM! I want you to know that you are in my prayers, and everything is going to be alright.

lynn

ewww! glad your scale is moving the right way, but still...ewww lol

The scale is still moving. Took a peak again and saw 2 more pounds down. I feel pretty good. No more effects of Alli happen to me.. I've been good.. Very good, and I can't afford those mis-Haps.. Everyone.. I have to say this, because I am and still will be a big Fan of Michael Jackson.. Rest In Peace, and may your music live within all of us..

WooHoo, Lynn!

My weight is stuck at last Mon's # (130.9 lbs) but I've upped both my cardio and intake. I'm making Greek beans soup today, btw:)

Oh, the news abt MJ's death really shook me on Fri morning. I've been a fan since I was 10 (I'm 28 now). I still cannot believe it :(

I have been a fan of MJ since he was with the Jackson 5!  Yeah, I'm old! LOL  I'm also sad about Farrah Fawcett.  I was a fan of her too.  I use to Watch Charlie's Angel's every week.  I cried when I saw the special when she documented her treatment.  I will miss them both.

OK, now listen up!  I have NOT weighed myself in 2 days!!!  Can you believe it? That's a biggie for me.  I have to get away from the scale a while and go by how my clothes fit me.  When I get out of these 12's, I'll weigh myself again. At least that's what I'm trying to do! hehe

I took my Goddaughter shopping today for college. What a day!  My leg was killing me with all the walking on concrete.  She loves my hair too.  That was the 1st thing she said to me was did I color my hair. LOL  We had fun.  It's been a long time since we've spent the day together and we both enjoyed it.  Went out to eat too. I got the salad bar so I did good.  :)

Anyone cooking out for the 4th?  I can't wait to see the fireworks!  I'm a kid at heart! LOL

I'm not in US so 4th is not a holiday ...I used to get the day off last year but I switched to the Romanian holiday schedule starting this Jan so...I'm working LOL

Hubby's got next weekend off again . WeeHee Nothing much planned though.

On July 12 we have to go to a baptism...in the country. YUCK. Don't like folk music or the atmosphere at such things but we sort of have to go (a colleague/friend of hubby's is baptising his daughter). Not planning on anything fancy, just manicure and plucking my eyebrows. I don't need any expenses now considering our vacation comes soon :)

Thanks good, Tammy and I liked him when I first heard ABC as a kid.. My mom use to play all his stuff.. She was in bad shape behind it, and I am too.. We all are working hard to lose this weight. Up loading the off the wall sound track to my MP3 player 2morrow after noon. I'm getting my hair done on the first, and I can't wait to post the pic. I'm going to take lots of pics of my family on the 4th.. I miss them all, and guess what. When I got into my skinny jeans last sunday from the few days of watching my weight... Or should I say.. What I ate. I was so mad I didn't upload a pic.. HELL.. I didn't take it.. I'm slippin on updates.. I felt good, and it does feel good. The effects from the alli.. Gets me from time to time, but it's a good thing in my eyes.. I know I have to do better the next day when I do have a mis hap, and it's not as bad as the ads I heard on the radio.. It's good... Everything is great... I feel good about it all. Keep up the good work girls...