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September 11, 2008, 6:25 pm PDT

just beginning

Hey there, my name is colleen. I am just starting today to join this club and to follow dr.phils book. I have tried lots of diets, so now i just want to eat right and learn how come i am not just doing this. I think maybe part of me does not want to give up the food, I am addicted to, so if the diet does not work then i think, I knew it, it does not just work. Well time for honesty. I am weighing in at227, and I am five feet three inches tall. Not a lot of space for so much weight. I am my own sabbatoger. I heard the trainer today say. Make an appointment with your workout like a dr's appointment. So that is my second step. My first step is to really believe that this can be done. I believe i can. But not without work and change. I am going to be on here lots for encouragement and to hopefully be encouraging. The second step is to be going to the gym that i spend forty dollars a month on automatically out of my account. And have not been going. I work nights, mostly at a nursing home and go to work for eleven pm. I have a date at the gym at 9:30 pm tonight and every night I work. That is the next six nights. So please ask about my committment. I sleep till supper time so will not be on until the evening. Canada time. see you all then.

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September 11, 2008, 6:58 pm PDT

good job

Quote From: mary_ann1

I have 100 pounds to loose.

I would like to weigh 150.

I am size 22-24. I would like to be a size 11-12. That's half my size.

If I can take this challenge, you can also. Lets go for it. See my progress post tomorrow.

At Nearly 55 and 250 pounds, Once I was a City Princess, a runner, a soldier (Womens Army Corps, Army, National Guard, Retired (22 years or military), now I'm an American Legion Service Officer). My military uniform skirt will not button around my right leg! I volunteer with the Red Cross and have to wear a mans vest. Big Mama with a strong back.

I am FAT, not big boned, not overweight, not obese, buy grossly FAT.

I am excited about Dr. Phils program. I wish he could use his name and put me in the program. I am competitive. I need to be accountable. I watched the show yesterday. I am taking the challendge in hopes my progress gets Dr Phil's attention and Dr Phil puts me in the program. My husband (normal size) does NOT believe I will stick with the program, he states, "you've been on a diet the entire time I've know you."

I walked this morning. Got half way to the corner and my husband picked me up, he was worries about me. I will try further in the morning. I had a half a bagel, grapenuts at lunch and will have a light dinner. I have drank my eight glasses today. Will try more liquids tomorrow. I want those 14 years. Mary Ann

Hey hang in there. Every little change is somethig. I believe you will walk furthur tomorrow. I weigh 227 and would like to weigh 150 as well. I am going to be putting my progress daily as well, as this kind of works for me. My problem, biggest problem is that i am addicted fo food. so I need to think differently to break my addiction. Looking forward to hearing from you tomorrow to see how you do. I need two more glasses of water today. But did not do so good in food department today. Thus while watching Drphil today with a snack of course, all of a sudden inspired me to do better. So here we are. God bless and will be watching for ya tomorrow. My user name on here is trijenjean. Lets watch for each other. bye for now.

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September 12, 2008, 5:55 pm PDT

loosing wieght together

Quote From: vmobray

HI I am 34 yr old female getting seperated from my husband. I have 2 great boys who I need to be here for !!! I am a nurse and work night shift so my eating habits are horrible. I weight 230 lbs and should be 140-160. I need HELP !!!!!!!!!!!

I am 53 years old, my name is colleen. I have been reading through the boards and you caught my attention. I am a special care aide in a nursing home. I also work a lot of nights and the rest evenings. I weigh 227 and also had horrible eating habits. Somewhere along the way, through many programs for loosing weight I learned how to change my eating habits to fit into nights. so this is what I do, I hope it helps.
i eat three meals a day and two snacks. On evenings i eat breakfast, lunch and supper and a snack in the am before lunch, and in the pm, sometime mid afternoon before supper. I eat supper around six or six thirty pm. then no food for the rest of the evening. Just water, tea, etc. Then on nights i change to this. I eat one snack at around midnight, then the other snack around two. Then I eat breakfast at around three thirty or four. This breakfast is usually a fruit and a instant oatmeal pack. Then when I get home at seventhirty or a quarter to eight. I eat kind of a brunchy thing. Today i ate two boiled eggs, one sausage, tomato slices. Then I go to bed about half or hour later then to bed. Supper when I wake up. Nothing in evening again. I hope this will help. Will be thinking of you and pulling for you. You and all of us can do this, me included.

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September 13, 2008, 5:46 pm PDT

same boat

Quote From: barbara1966

Hello my name is Barb I am 42 years old mother of two teenagers.I have been a yo-yo dieter all my life. Sometimes losing allot of weight to gain it back years later and sometimes I lose a little weight.This time I really want to do it because I am tired of being fat and feeling tired and miserable all the time. The only health problem I am being treated for is high blood pressure.I have just recently teamed up with my sister and niece and we are exercising 3 times a week together and the other days we are walking on our own. It seams to make exercise a lil easier when you do it with someone. I recently read the 7 keys and I am doing my best to implement them in my life. I do very well in the morning and afternoons with my eating, however by late afternoon or evening I just want to eat, eat, eat, even if I am not hungry. It is hard for me to go to bed without wanting to eat.Last night I was not the least bit hungry but I had it in my mind that I needed to eat something. Instead I re-did my thinking and I got a book, read it then I just went to bed after that. I woke up this morning feeling like I have accomplished a lil something from the book. I was wondering if anyone else has this same similar problem?

Hi barb, my name is colleen. I am posted on here under trijenjean if you want to read about me. The thing that caught my attention with your story is that I to do very well during the morning and afternoon. Then I can eat, eat, eat, all evening long. So I know the feeling of having that thought daunting your mind endlessly all evening long. I to have just started doing something different in the evening. I work a lot of night shifts, so one of the things i started doing was utilizing the gym I was paying for and not using, on my way to work. It has proved to be 5 lbs less since thursday. I am very excited about that. So keep up the good work and will be looking for you on here.

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September 13, 2008, 6:21 pm PDT

doing better

Hey there today. I had another good day. I am excited to be able to keep my plan going for three days now. I believe for the first time in a long time that I can do this. With prayer and support from this board. I find it a little confusing to use but am starting to find my way. I stayed to three meals, two snacks, eight glasses of water, and an hour of exercise. I am wearing a pair of jeans that i bought at least a year ago, and they were to small. I have them on for the very first time. I found while eating my supper with a pair of jeans that do not stretch is a good way to remind you that you have had enough. I also find that good sleep is also a key. Motivated more than I have in a long time. One of the other things I started in June was to have an accountability partner to email my weight to every friday. I was 233 when i first started that, now i am 221.8, that is a 5 lb loss in three days. I do retain fluid, so that may be a lot of it. But regardless a loss is a loss. I am possitively looking at this. Have a great next 24 hours. Talk to ya all tomorrow. Really enjoying the messages, even if they do take a lot of time to read. NOt eating while doing that. Have made my kitchen table my new eating spot and my computer is in the living room, lol and praise God

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September 16, 2008, 11:45 am PDT

buddies

Quote From: mastudent

I was wondering if anyone would like to be my "buddy" even if we don't live anywhere near each other - kind of like someone to hold us accountable. Anyone interested?

I would love to be your buddy. my email is cgdowney2@hotmail.com

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