Pat On The Back For Me

[MBASS]

I lost five pounds whoo hoo! Just wanted to cheer myself on! LOL!

[Dr T]

5 pounds. :) Great MBASS. How did you do it?

[MBASS]

I am watching calorie intake, water water water, exercise. I am also using myfooddiary.com. It keeps me accountable. I log daily food, daily exercise, and body changes. It gives you reports daily on what you are and arent doing right. I could probably do it by myself, but the site helps me stay a little more organized. it costs 9 dollars a month. So hopefully I can keep it up.....gotta long way to go!

[Dr T]

Good work!

[shanstress70]

Good work, Mbass. I'm struggling with this myself. I've lost 20 and have about 20 more to go. It's a long road, but I'll get there.

I've found Weight Watchers to be helpful, along with working out 3 or 4 times a week.

The big thing is that it has to be gradual long-term changes that you can do the rest of your life... cause what's the use of all this hard work if you're going to gain it all back again?

[MBASS]

Exactly! I keep telling myself no more sugar no more sugar! oh the days when I could just go after school and get a monster burger with cheese combo! Darn youthful metabolism!

[shanstress70]

Exactly! I keep telling myself no more sugar no more sugar! oh the days when I could just go after school and get a monster burger with cheese combo! Darn youthful metabolism!

I don't mean to be nosey and get all up in yo grill, but what I'm saying is, allow yourself some sugar sometimes. If you totally eliminate something to lose weight, you will lose weight, but you will not always be able to do without it, and will most likely put the weight back on once you go off your diet.

Once a week, I go out to lunch with my husband and get what I want. The rest of the week I eat a sandwich. It's OK for me to have little meager lunches if I know that on Wed I get my fave Middle Eastern meal. And it's OK for me to eat an oatmeal bar each day for breakfast if I know that on Friday morning I get to have my Panera bagel.

Not to sound cultish about Weight Watchers, but that's an important thing they've taught me. If you want a Snickers, just eat it, count the points into your daily total, and go on with your day. If you go over today, make up for it tomorrow.

Now that I've written all that, I'd like to say that it's hard as heck to do this. I struggle every single day with it, as I love food! Heck, I watch almost nothing but Food Network. And the weight is not melting away... I'm stuck at a plateau right now... although I think it has more to do with being wined and dined at a business trip two weeks ago, and being on vacation all last week. I'm guilty! When I go through bad weight loss times like this, I just try to be happy with maintaining for a while.

Good luck to you!

[Ray]

I lost five pounds whoo hoo! Just wanted to cheer myself on! LOL!

I found it last month. Do you want it back?

[Dr T]

I found it last month. Do you want it back?

Ray, you are on a roll! LOL.

[StrawberryFields]

I found it last month. Do you want it back?

Ray, you are on a roll! LOL.

I quite agree!

[Ray]

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I found it last month. Do you want it back?

Ray, you are on a roll! LOL.

I quite agree!

Could it be that I'm now getting at least a little bit of respect?

Pardon me if I don't get my hopes up.

And btw, true story, my wife and I bought a treadmill last night.

It has a support for books for reading while treading, so while we're walkiing we can both be holy rollers.

(We got a treadmill because it rains often in the Northwest, otherwise we'd walk on the trails in the forest)

[Jason]

Could it be that I'm now getting at least a little bit of respect?

No, you're still a clown. But at least your funny.