Day 3 - Making Small Changes

Hi One and All! How goes your small changes this week? I have NOT gotten in the 64ounces that i wanted to but i know i'll be able to by the end of the week. I have gotten into the 50 ounces wise and i'm proud of that. The scale started moving again, albeit slowly (i'll take it). I think one of the niftiest things to have started moving again is my bowels, eww that's gross i can't believe i wrote that but there it is for all to see! I don't need the colace, the smooth ease tea, the other nonsense i use(d) to make me go when all i really needed was to increase my liquid. Have any of you noticed any positive changes from making your small change this week? Hugs, ANDI

I haven't gotten to 64 oz yet either but I also made into the 50s Monday and Tuesday. I hope to get there today but we'll see. I had 4 oz of water with my vitamins. I'm drinking 8oz of milk now and then I'll start on my 160z of Crystal Light. Current Time is 8:07 a.m. here in SE Georgia :D Oh btw - I've always (since surgery) noticed the increased liquid aids the bowel movements!

I've had 5oz of hot cocoa with milk so far and i'm sipping my pink lemonade right now so that's 16.9 ounces. I didn't realize that the increased liquid aids in the anything! HA good to know! I think we should try to make it to at least 60ounces today. It's 8:12am in New York right now and i'm going to commit to 60ounces of liquids today...find me the bathroom and no one gets hurt. Hugs, ANDI

I am so excited that everyone is trying their best. I have taken my meds, vitamins, and I have not eaten any forbidden food. Which by the way is soooo hard since my baby is home with the flu and I have been baking Christmas cookies and freezing them. The hardest thing was last night when I was making mashed potatoes to go with the Turkey meatloaf, but I could not taste the mashed potatoes to see if they needed more seasoning. It was rewarding though, the scale moved to 159!!! I just need to lose 4 more lbs. by the 15th for a Christmas party. Think good thoughts!!! Danice 5/24/06 258/159/160

Hi Danice! I'm now writing this whilst i sit on the potty...it was just too tough zipping and unzipping my jeans all the time! Sorry, i hope that made you laugh i'm still laughing as i type this. The liquid has been tough today, i've spent the day in the car going from highway to byway and alot of t hose roads dont' have bathrooms, now THAT"S an issue! I was on a country road and actually knocked on someone's door and asked to use her bathroom a complete and total stranger and she said sure i think she was jsut as freaked out as i was. I gave her my license and said i had to pee bad....too funny thankfully she wasn't a cereal killer! Good luck on that Holiday Party Weight. Hugs, ANDI

Andi, That is too funny. I would have been too scared to do that. I did NOT get all my fluids in..I've counted and recounted and I keep coming up 36!!! BAD day I guess. I'll do better today. Mandy

Now that i think about it BOY was that a stupid move but i had to pee so very badly. Where i was, out in the country, it's all onion farmers and you are talking about good hearted, work the earth people (could be cereal killers though) but i had to trust my instincts and not piddle down my own leg. We are going to work on hte liquids together ounce by ounce we'll do it, y ou and I until we get to 64!!!!! Hugs, ANDI

We'll make it to 64!!!!

Im trying too - its so hard...but our sugar free hot cocoa and such does count right???? I sound like a dippy ditz ( I think Ive lost more brain cells than weight sometimes )

All we can do is our very best, change is never easy. I swear to you some days i feel so brilliant and other days dumb as a stump! I'd count the cocoa, milk, decaf coffee whatever as long as it's decaf and liquid i t hink it should count! I am definitely not doing well with my liquid intake today but i was the last three days. I'm so busy at work today that there just isn't time to sip sip sip i could probably chug chug chug but that makes me ill.