2008 Resolution

I never make New Year's resolutions, but this year is different. I'm resolved to finally get to my goal of 140. Never did make it so it's about time. I'm amazed how old bad habits have started to creep back into my life. So here's what I did today: Cleaned out all the crap food. My cupboards that were so full I could barely close them are now 1/2 empty. How did all that crap get in there? I threw out lots and gave away the rest. Got a personal calendar to track my food, weight, measurements and exercise and wrote down my measurements and starting weight. Cooked some high protein/low carb foods and packed them in individual containers for lunches and dinners for the next week. Signed up for the discoveryhealth.com challenge. You get a free 8 week membership to Bally Fitness if you register. Re-inflated my exercise ball and did a 100 crunches as long as I was on the floor. Watched The Biggest Loser marathon all day. Wrote my menu for tomorrow and logged it on fitday.com. I just need to focus on my health and weight loss the way I did 4 years ago. Life has gotten in the way and I've lost sight of my health and priorities. Ya'll are welcome to join me in my resolution. I'll let you know how it goes. Big Hugs, Connie

Connie! I love your resolution! I am totally in! I know I have returned to stress eating and with my mothersick and this year will not be an easy one! so I have to prioritze my health, she wants it for me as much as I want it for me. I am not doing it for her, I am doing it so she can see that I can remain healthy and that will take a whole lot of heartache away from her as she fights this cancer. Happy New YEAR and NEW YOU! Nic

Nic, I'm glad you are joining me in this. You've done so much for your family and it's time to take care of yourself as well. I bet your mom will be so proud of you for putting some of the focus back on you. I can't wait to have you along on the ride. Hugs, Connie

I woke up this morning really pissed at how I've let myself and my program go these past few months; steam came pouring out of all orifices when I got on the scale, which screamed back at me: 153.5. I've had it. I'm done letting Life lead me by the nose into the dark hell-hole of emotional eating and eventual serious weight gain. I'm in, Connie. Love you HUGE. M.

Reenie, I'm sorry that you're hating the scale, but I'm loving that you are with me on this next leg of the journey. Just think how much easier it will be with our tools and all the knowledge we've gained. Reenie's Teeny Wonder is chompin' at the bit to help you get back on track. My pouch Bundy will probably continue to try to kill me. Welcome aboard and lots of love back attcha! Connie

I'M In!! As we speak I am drinking water & bought protien shake stuff today & went for a walk. So I guess I have the same thing on my mind as the new year gets started. Maybe we can get there together. As we did before. Love ya all Ladybug Marilyn

Woohoo Marilyn! You're already kickin' butt. I'm confident that we can kick the last of the extra weight if we hang together. Hugs, Connie

Count Pammy in. My cupboards are pretty bare. I don't have alot of crap in the house but I checked anyways. I get carried away with the sugar free stuff. Those protein bars that atkins make are high protein about 220 calories and are ment fora meal suppliment not a snack which is what they have become for me. I'm back to counting calories. I logged into fitday.com on new years day. i'd not been there so long that my computer didn't remember me and I had to create a whole new me. I'm battling 15 pounds higher than my lowest weight. its the fight that has been going on for over a year now. while i accept that i might not get to the lowest weight i want to get at least 10 pounds off. thats realistic. that will make me happy. i also NEED to excersize. time to get off my big flabby butt and work out. thats every night not just 2 a week but every single night. so i guess thats it for me. my 2008 resolutions - excersise, count the calories, weigh and measure. i know my pouch still works now i need to help it. soooooo dinner tonight was 3oz of pork loin and 1/2 cup of corn. I have a snack for later that is freeze dried fruit. its great! plus i will give myself a cheese stick first. AND drink water drink water drink water! WE CAN DO THIS! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS MY FRIENDS! AND WE'LL KEEP ON FIGHTING TIL THE END! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!!!! god i love that song.

Pammie, We are the champions and we can do this. I need to follow your advice about drinking water because I'm bad about that. Hang in there with me and we'll be a couple of hot mommas in the end. Hugs, Connie

last night when i charted on fitday.com what i'd eaten it reminded me of over 4 years ago. Yes OVER 4 years ago. Reenie and my doctor required (like all doctors who did this surgery) to lose a certain amount of weight before they would do the surgery. I had to lose 10 pounds. That 10 pounds might as well have been the 120 that i ended up losing after the surgery. I worked so hard to lose that friggin 10 pounds. I felt like that last night. I wanted a snack last night. but i wasn't hungry. i'm working hard to lose 10 pounds. i'm back to day one. but this time i have gotten the surgery that i wanted so badly and i need to let my pouch do its job. to do that i need to drink water. i reminded myself and i drank tha****er. all while i was drinking it i said to myself this is horrible. i'm at day one again. but thank god i'm drinking this water. i also went into my den and looked at a suvinear i brought home from the hospital. it was the tiny little 30cc cup that i "ate" my first dinner from. it took me over an hour to drink that 30cc. and i was so full i couldn't drink another drop. taking a chopped up pill and sipping 30 cc's filled me up. having a 1/4 of a scrambled egg 2 weeks after filled me up. i long for those days. but they are gone. so now i'm floating in water. alot more than 30cc's! i found something new here. have you seen the small packets of sugar free flavoring that you add to your own bottled water? theres nothing there other than flavor. kellogg has some new protein water that has sugar in it. i still watch my sugar grams but yesterday i found some kellog little packets water flavoring with protein. there is no sugar in it but they have 5 grams of protein. so i tried it last night. it does have 30 calories in it and i dont' know if it was in my head or what but it did kinda fill me up abit. i wonder if i was to pick up some of the protein powder at the healthfood store and added that to the applesauce i use to eat so much of...well would that be more filling? might sound like a silly question. iknow we needed to have it before for the protein but does it also help to make us less hungry? its got to be more healthy than an apple. what are you thoughts?