Topic : 200 Pounds or More to Lose

I'm glad  you are going to get a second opinion  (I loved what LInda said about they are only practicing)  I would think if you are still having "excruciating pain" that something is not right!  Depending on who you go to, they might be able to address the bone spur also!  Glad you got some shoes hopefully that will make a difference! 

I am really enjoying the Biggest Loser.  Have laughed and cried with them.  And it most definitely is a question that needs to be asked.  I would like for my answer to be,   "I ate well and exercised"  lately it would not be that.   

I just don't seem to be able to sustain more than a couple of days at a time.  Terrible time at work, Jason is having problems, my mother and on and on......just excuses for me to not be healthy!  So one day at a time, I am committing to be healthy! 

Thanks for your inspiration and everyone else's too!  Cindy 

Just a quick note to say hi and let you know we arrived fine and had a good trip (long, but good==1400+ miles). Our son and his girlfriend should arrive tomorrow night to help us unload the cars and trailer and we should get keys to our new place tomorrow afternoon. We're busy shopping for furniture and sort of finding our way around town--it's really quite spread out but I'm beginning to know my way around now. 

Linda: We've heard some people say their memory foam beds had a smell to them. Did you notice it? Is it just because they are new? Does the smell, if it has one, go away? If so, how long did it take? We are getting a memory foam bed, but will probably go with one of the less expensive ones. It has the same guarantee as the tempur pedic but the cost saves us over $1000, which is a lot to discount on the price of the bed. we also shopped for furniture for the rest of our house, but we'll probably hold off until our Montana house sells before buying much more.  

I hope you all have a terrific day and weekend. I may not be on again until my own computer is online again which might happen early next week. Talk to you all soon. 

Cherie 

p.s. the fresh fruits and veggies available here are fantastic!! I'm really going to enjoy eating healthy and can't wait to get into my own house so i can plan those healthy meals and use lots of the local fresh produce! 

I wish I could understand what my teenager needs so she isn't so angry so much of the time.  I never know when she's going to be happy or when she's going to lose it.   I love her so much and it's so frustrating because I really want to help her.   Life's like that sometimes.  You want to help so much but the communication is really not getting through clearly.  Have a good night.  Dee. 

Good evening ladies (and gent)!  Tomorrow is my birthday and my mother is baking like a mad woman.  I made it through Thanksgiving and Oktoberfest, so now I just need to get through tomorrow and Halloween!  My mother doesn't know that I've been exercising and trying to lose weight, and although I've now lost 71 pounds, she hasn't noticed a thing.  I prefer it like that, actually, because in the past she used to compare my efforts with everybody else.  "So and so lost 20 pounds but you only lost 10" , "if you had tried harder, you would have lost more weight by now" and on and on.  So, I will have some of my mother's cake and remind myself that my birthday only comes once in 5 years (LOL) and not go to war with mom and ruin the day.  She's 75, I doubt that I'm going to win any battles now........ 

I'll post tomorrow night and let you know how it goes! 

Stef 

PS - congrats to Amanda!!!!  Dee, it's good to see you back here!   Millie, I hope your hand feels better soon....... 

This one is a good time to practice some new thinking and chaim your independance!!!!....    Now is a good time to look at the words coming at you from other people and take charge of which words you keep for yourself...and let your mother off the hook for not being knowing the best way to help you...    

 Mother doesn't really always know best... but she's always your mother.... so filter out the words that are not userful....   you know how to do that ... you were a teenager , once !!!!    You might even be able to teach your mother how to support you in this adventure...   or not.  ... either way... it's always your struggle and your victory when you get thin !!!! 

Happy Birthday...   

=b= 

Thanks for the birthday greetings!  You're both right, I won't change my mother now!!   I won't go into the grisly details, but I haven't felt this stuffed in a LONG time!   

Great idea about the introspection Bev - I'm going to do that tonight while everyone else in my household is watching hockey.  I started a journal when I began my weight loss journey and in it I detailed things that I hated about being over 300 pounds and what it felt like.  Now I'm at 267 and already I forget sometimes what it felt like not to fit in a booth and not to be able to walk places and I even forgot about the chronic knee pain that I used to have.   Can you believe it?  So, I'm rereading the journal tonight and adding some more "what life's like now" moments and more goals for myself.  I had set some when I weighed 338 and I've accomplished some of them already.  Like doing an aerobics class, swimming, yoga, walking etc.  At the gym, I used to have to lie and put "299" on the machines because the maximum weight is 300.  I would always be scared during a session that something on the machine would break.  Today, on the recumbent bike, I took my hands off the sides of the bike (they have these heartrate monitor bars there) and put them on the handlebars instead.  I always used to have to put my hands there to prevent my hips / legs from rubbing against the bars and causing me great pain and welts.  Today I let them go and, lo and behold, no more rubbing!   

I still have a way to go, but I'm getting there and I feel confident this time.  It feels like the last time I quit smoking.  Sure, I had done it many times before, but never for long and I always went back to it.  People would just roll their eyes when they heard that I was quitting again.  But I didn't put pressure on myself the last time.  No fancy gimmicks, no pills or patches and I let myself be human.  It's been 3.5 years since I've even had a drag of a cigarette and now I forget sometimes that I ever used to smoke.  I used to smoke over a pack a day and I smoked for the better part of 17 years.  This time, my weight loss journey feels like that time.  Something has finally "clicked" and said "enough is enough" and I'm not giving up - despite faltering many times.   I'm not throwing in the towel because of a slip or two (or 32 lol).   Like you said, Linda, life is out there and there will always be days like these.  Well, I've had 6 fantastic days and one day of indulgence isn't going to set me back!!   

Stef