Hubby brought home pizza..so I have locked myself in my room infear of eating the whole thing. I am not even hungry but if I smell it and see it I'll want it! Going to read alot of posts right now and chew on some sugarless gum..lol
Oh god this is so hard :rolleyes:

Holy crap!!! PIZZA!!! No way I could resist...you are hangin tough, girl! I think I would kick the crap out of my husband if he brought home pizza right now! I know, I know, I am being selfish...just because I am on a diet doesn't mean he and my son are. But, as my poster above my side of the bed says..."IT'S ALL ABOUT ME". Heeheehee

Tell him to take the kiddo OUT for pizza next time! Does your husband ever struggle with weight/dieting?

Oh Christin it was so hard but I did it. Not one bite. I feel good about myself right now but my mouth is still watering for that pizza but it's all gone so I can't be tempted. I am going to have to find some pizza I can eat like from healthy choice or weight watchers. I could of probably just had a piece of that pizza and it would have been just the same carbs and stuff as the healthly choice and such but I would have ate way more than just one slice.
My husband was an overweight kid so he has some sympathy for how I feel about myself but when he hit puberty he grew tall and slim and I did the exact opposite...lol... My weight really soared though after I had my son. I've never got out of the pregancy eating yet and he's six years old :D
Who am I kidding I have no one to blame but myself. I don't want to make my family suffer because I can't control myself. Its not fair to them and my husband is one of those people that think it's nice to bring me treats...but he has stopped. I told him instead of chocolates and candy bring me flowers:) Hope they don't smell to good or I may try to eat those. :eek:

Oh girl, you make me LAUGH!!! My husband likes to bring me treats too...I guess we can be thankful that at least they aren't being mean about having overweight wives...I don't know how women live with men like that! Well, back to cooking this oh so delicious healthy food :)

Laughter is the best medicine.
What are you cooking yourself
I'm still not hungry...Thank Goodness! But I'm sure the little craving chocolate guy will appear soon. I'm gonna feed him with a chocolate shake if he does. My husband asked me why I call "it" a "him" and I told him only a guy would put me through this much crap..LoL..It really helps to write on these boards. It always lets me know that others are going through the same thing I am although different circumstances and diet plans we are battling the emotional strain of being heavy. Hopefully one day we will be posting here giving others helpful tips on losing weight and eating healthy. Cause we are going to be so skinny no one will even see us... :D I don't want to lose that much. I just want to weight between 130 and 140.

Well, I failed miserably last night. I guess being on this "diet" has made me really unbareable, cause my husband brought home chocolate last night and said he ordered me some phentermine so I wouldn't have to be so hungry all the time. He really means well, but now I feel like crap. The phentermine really works for me, REALLY works, to the point that I don't eat hardly anything. Great for getting lots of pounds off quickly, but when it stops working, I have always gone right back to every bad food habit I have. Maybe I can try again. Maybe I can take them correctly and eat right. I am so confused right now!!!

Anyway, I am back on track today, the scale this morning showed the same as last night, which, btw, I had already lost 2 pounds just in the first 3 days of this :)

Did you read that article about the man who weighed over 1000 pounds? They put him in the hospital on a 1200 calorie diet and he lost over 300 pounds in 8 weeks. Can you IMAGINE??? I feel so bad for him. He couldn't even roll over in bed, much less get out of bed. I need to post that story on my fridge too, cause I know that could be me!

Hey Christin :wave: Sorry things didn't go well last night but I am in the same boat tonight. I failed miserably also. I ate three pieces of pizza(yes hubby got pizza again) and I ate a chocolate debbie cake and for some crazy reason I was craving porkin beans so I ate some. I don't know whats wrong with me today. I have no willpower and just no caring about it at all. Last night I weighed myself and it said 206 whether thats right or not I dunno but it looks like that would make me feel good losing the four pounds but somehow today I started off good and tonight has just sunk my hopes. I have a brother and a sister,My brother is 11 and my sister is 6(same age as my son) and we take care of them alot and after work when they are here my husband picks up a pizza cause thats what they always want so thats where the pizza always comes in play.
I wish I could take the phentermine but I just can't. It makes me so sick but that probably has something to do with my celexa or thyroid medicine. I just feel like if I could lose weight reasonably fast then I would want to continue on a better lifestyle without the phentermine but I know deep down that wouldn't work either.
And I haven't seen the story about the man....I know that could be me also and it's going to be if I don't get some control on myself.
I'm just feeling really depressed today and tomorrow I go to the doctor so we shall see how everything turns out.
Take Care:)

We can't let these setbacks get us down...that is all they are, setbacks! We have decided to change our lives...it took us years to get where we are, and it is going to take a while to get a handle on a completely restructured way of eating. You know, yesterday I felt so bad for how I ate the night before...I was tired and depressed all day, and that made me realize how much better I was actually feeling in the previous days when I was eating healthy! It is really easy to focus on the feeling of hunger and deprivation, but eating healthy made me feel BETTER all around, and it took one day of going back to having the "full of junk" feeling to really appreciate the difference.

I did the same thing yesterday...was good all day, then it is that time between dinner and bed that just hits me like a ton of bricks. But I know I will get a handle on it. Tonight I am going to the store to buy triscuits and rice cakes and the like, and starting tomorrow I am going to cut out all bread completely and replace with those things.

And if I screw up again, then I screw up again. But I know that the screw ups will start getting farther and farther apart because I want so badly to start feeling good! And soon I will be able to have 2 or 3 weeks without screwing up and by the time I can last that long, I know these cravings that lead me to screwing up in the first place will have drastically been reduced to something that I can handle.

WE CAN DO THIS!!!!! I KNOW WE CAN!!!!!

Remember, don't give your doctor any money today so you can come home with no illnesses!LOL!

Suggestion" Try and talk your family into eating healthy right with you. Not only will it help with those nasty cravings and temptations, but it'll also help them keep healthy. :D

Christin, I know your husband loves you very much, but I find it odd that he would bring home chocolate KNOWING that you are struggling with this. Why is he doing this? Does he not want you to lose the weight? You really should have this discussion with him.

Many loving husbands are afraid to let their wives become thin for fear that they will leave for greener pastures. You need to convince him that you love him, regardless of your size, and plead with him to stop tempting your failure.

If the chocolate is for him, tell him to eat it before he comes home. If it's for your son, have him take your son out for an ice cream.

You also need to understand that these setbacks simply increase the time it takes to overcome a carb/sugar addiction. So if you were 10-15 days from accomplishing that goal, now you are back to 15-20 days from that goal...

I am not trying to discourage you, but you need to look at the physiological aspects of this, not just the emotional/psychological side.

Well Christin, I just got back from the doctor and was in and out of the office within fifteen minutes :rolleyes: Set longer in the waiting room than anything else. First of all I am currently taking Celexa and told her I wanted to step down off of it and get on Anafranie if I needed to but I wanted to see how things went with not taking any antidepressants at all. She informed me that when someone has a setback like I did about two years ago that they are likely to have another one without meds but we could see how things went.
Well Duh thats what I had just told her! Then I told her I would like to have a second opinion on what my thyroid doctor was saying and she did order blood work and an ultra sound...so thats one thing accomplished. I then asked her if there was any diet pill I could take that would be safe with my meds and I expected this answer anyway but had to ask...She said I can't take anything like that till we see what is exactly going on with my thyroid because she thinks more than not it's what it making me gain weight like I have. And I think the Celexa has contributed to my weight gain. Oh gosh just to many things to figure out! I don't really know if I am happy or sad right now...LOL
Hope everything is good with you...Let me know how things are going :)

Hey WestVirginiaGirl! How was your weekend? Sounds like you had a FUN doctor's appointment :) When do you get your blood work results?

I am on track, but still feeling the same. Probably because I had a couple of days of bad eating. I feel like Dory from Finding Nemo..."just keep swimming, just keep swimming..." :)

I lost 4 pounds last week, so that is good news. I'm thinking that if I can follow the plan 100% with no slip ups this week, that I should lose even more this week. Hoping. The one thing that I HAVE done correctly is drink plenty of water every single day...never less than about 80 ounces, and up to 120 ounces or even more. Maybe that is why I lost weight even with the bad food days. I feel so water-logged, but I have NEVER been a water drinker...I've probably gone YEARS without drinking ANY plain water, so this is quite an adjustment. Now if I can just find the strength to get off my bum and get active, I'll really be on my way :)

I haven't been @ the HealthBoards for a bit, so please forgive me if I'm repeating something you already know....
Cravings for foods are often a side effect of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) which - in the SAD (std american diet) is most often addressed by eating an empty carb (think little debbie's chocolate cake thingies or ice cream). Problem is, these things perpetuate a vicious cycle of sugar spike followed by sugar crash followed by more cravings.
Eating several small meals a day or 3 meals plus 3 snacks helps keep your blood sugar even and therefore helps to control cravings. Drinking water (LOTS of water) helps too, because most of us are mildly dehydrated (that's why so many of us women have cellulite -IMHO) thus resulting in a sluggish lymph system (think: garbage collector. If your garbage collector is on strike, what happens? :( yeah...the garbage accumulates. dang it!).
Eating whole grains (only a few!), fresh whole veggies and low glycemic fruit, as well as lean protein and GOOD fats (like flax seed or fish oil or anything rich in omega 3/6/9) and limiting your daily caloric intake to about 1200 WILL result in weight loss.
Reduce stress (yeah - i KNOW it's hard!) because studies show that high stress = weight gain.
Get at least 8 hours sleep 'cause studies show sleep deprivation = weight gain (and try to get to bed before your tackled by the it's-hours-after-dinner-evening-munch-monster!)
Laugh a lot ('cause laughter burns calories AND releases endorphins! :D )
and be kind to yourself. You CAN do this. Honest!
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203/146/150 on the Fat Flush Plan for life and perky to the max! :jester:

and limiting your daily caloric intake to about 1200 WILL result in weight loss.I agree with everything in your post BUT the calorie recommendation. Calorie intake must be calculated for individuals and should not be recommended in general terms. Every body has unique fuel requirements, and eating too few calories is one of the biggest mistakes dieters make, weakening the metabolism and making weight loss more difficult.

In this case, Christin needs to be eating about 1800 calories for effective weight loss and should not be eating less than that.

I completely agree with your comment about HypoG. HypoG is much more common than people realize, and the addictive feelings people have towards food are usually related to unstable glucose levels. There are many strategies that will help to overcome HypoG - all focused on strengthening the metabolism. Eating every 3 hours, balancing carbs, protein, and fat with every meal/snack, reducing toxic load to strentgthen liver function, and elimination junk carbs (white flour, bread, pasta, sugar, candy, cookies, cake, etc) to help stabilize glucose levels.

Hey WestVirginiaGirl! How was your weekend? Sounds like you had a FUN doctor's appointment :) When do you get your blood work results?

I am on track, but still feeling the same. Probably because I had a couple of days of bad eating. I feel like Dory from Finding Nemo..."just keep swimming, just keep swimming..." :)

I lost 4 pounds last week, so that is good news. I'm thinking that if I can follow the plan 100% with no slip ups this week, that I should lose even more this week. Hoping. The one thing that I HAVE done correctly is drink plenty of water every single day...never less than about 80 ounces, and up to 120 ounces or even more. Maybe that is why I lost weight even with the bad food days. I feel so water-logged, but I have NEVER been a water drinker...I've probably gone YEARS without drinking ANY plain water, so this is quite an adjustment. Now if I can just find the strength to get off my bum and get active, I'll really be on my way :)



Hi Christin :wave:
I am so glad to hear you have lost 4 pounds. Thats GREAT!!!! You certainly are on the right track with drinking the water. I on the other hand have not been doing well. We have been school shopping and so whenever we go shopping we usually go out to eat:( and my control is none. I figure if I'm going to pay I'm gonna eat. So I'm trying to get back on track.
I figure my blood test are back from the lab already but they probably won't call and tell me anything to after I have the ultra sound on the 19th. Calling the doctors office and actually getting someone to tell you something is the hardest thing in the world. Its my body but they act as if I shouldn't know anything about it till they feel they want to to tell me.
I wanted to talk about where you said if you could just get off your bum and get active........
About a year ago I was really determined to lose weight and everything was going so well. I was walking 4 miles a day and we live on a very steep hill so walking that was enough exercise in itself but every evening religiously I would walk and it started feeling good and the it became a challenge of mine to get up the hill without stopping and I accomplished that goal . I thought to myself I can do this everyday for the rest of my life. I can actually exercise and be healthy. I did this for about two months and kept thinking wow I have did it this long so I can always do it and I went down to 170 pounds from 200 and was so thrilled. But then I just stopped all out of the blue and went back to my bad eating habbits and no exercise and not only did I gain all the weight back but I gained 10 more pounds so now I'm a whopping 210. I just remember the struggle it was for me to start the walking but I also remember I liked it later on. I just don't know how to motivate myself and get out there and do it and the discouraging part is I failed last time and thats always in my mind..I'm gonna do all this work and lose weight just to stop and gain it all back plus more. I don't know how to stop thinking short term with just wanting to lose the weight now instead of starting a complete lifestyle change and accpeting the fact I do have to exercise and not just till I lose weight but also to keep it off.
I am hoping that once they step my thyroid medicine up it will help me lose weight....Still always hoping something easy will come along to help me...LOL
Hope things are good with you and keep up the good work.