The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[katieb920]

Welcome back. Also A restarter I finally relized I needed to do this for myself. Like Mike said, When I want to cheat I relize that I would have to go through that 3 day cycle again. And I do not want to do that.

Were Here for you.

Katie
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[sheri1103]

Hi Angel - You have come to the right place!! The support here is amazing.
Like so many others I am back for my second try. And I stopped beating myself up over it. I looked back at what went wrong, then joined this forum with a new determination!! This program works, not only from the product(food) standpoint - but because of the support we give each other. I have never found a program with this kind of support. There are lots of success stories here - so latch onto those and you will succeed. I also print alot of the posts and have them all over the house, on the fridge, bathroom mirror, pantry door....Keep coming back, it works!

[Jan]

Whoooo Hooooo
I was perusing around the forum... I do that a lot And look who I found posting here GOOD for you .. I know you'll part with those pesky pounds once and for all!!! The members of the forum are going to help you .. You're doing great!! Keep Posting!! I'm Watching!!!
jan

[1Angel]

You guys are Awesome! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!

Alex, I'll "p.m." you with my phone number so we can set a time and place to meet and go for a walk. I'd love to work out with you too.


LadyHawke, thanks for your support too. I am drinking so much water that I think I'm going to drown ... I am drinking 1 gallon a day ... I drink and pee the whole day. I know where the bathrooms are in every store I go.
Ok Nickie, I'll keep an on you too ... let's see if I can catch up with you ...


You know, this is a very bad disease ... it's all in our heads... I am so addicted to white flour and sugar ... my drug of choice. I feel so inflammed, bloated and sick when I eat it ... but I keep forgetting how bad I feel and how ugly I look when I am in the wrong foods for my body. It's only a few minutes of pleasure , for hours, days, weeks, months and even years of pain and discomfort . Please, help me God! I need to do this thing right this time.

You guys are so Wonderful! You've being so nice to me. So supportive! I'm very grateful for that! Thanks a million!

I even thought of doing the surgery, but if my mind doesn't change , I don't think that would work either. Besides, it's too expensive and I don't think I would ever do that to my body ... I'm too chicken when it comes to stuff like that. I just can't do it ... So, "Medifast" has to do it for me. And that's why I need all your help!

[ladyhawke]

Angel I look forward to your posts on the board...you know what to do...you are a beautiful gorgeous woman and I look forward to seeing "less of you".

Biki, if you read this I think Angel needs to be Jacqueline Bisset, she really resembles her.

[1Angel]

Hi Katie, thanks for your support too. I am also here for you!

Sheri, I agree with you 100%. And I'm going to follow your suggestion and start printing some of the posts and carry them with me too. Thanks for being there for me!

And Jan, thanks for being such a Wonderful Coach and Health Advisor! I am enjoying listening to the CD and reading those inspiring papers you sent to me. Thank you!!!

I'm so lucky to have all of you writting and supporting me on this very important challange. It's so good to know that I am not doing this alone!

Ladyhawke, I knew I like you ... Thank you so much for all the compliments, but the beauty is always in the eyes of the seer and look who's talking ... you are gourgeous yourself! Thanks again for all the kind words!!! Jacqueline Bisset, yeah right! Would you like to borrow my glasses :roflmao:

Thanks again you all! You guys are the best!

I'm going to play in my backyard with my hubby and plant some bulbs for the spring ... it's such a gorgeous and warm day today here in Southern California ... it's almost in the 80s, can you believe that? I just love it!!!

P.S. Hey Yum Chocolate, I haven't heard from you yet ... are you still hiding!?!

[Nancy]

Hi there 1Angel ~

Wahoo! Good to have you back. I am grateful for re-dos. In my DIEting career, (I used to consider myself a professional dieter), I seemed to muster up just enough courage to go for one more DIEt. Of course I was pumped up at the beginning but never seemed to be able to keep up the momentum and every time I fell away, I fell further and further behind my goal. Eventually I lost all hope and gave up.

As my body began to self-destruct, I somehow got up the courage to go for one last trip down the flabber trail. I truly had no intention of ever having to go on a DIEt again. When I got started on the TSFL Plan, it was after careful research – I needed something that I could do for a long time because when a person is morbidly obese, it takes a while to de-flab. I made a commitment to myself to do the plan the right way – since I had been a cheater at other programs and never reached my goal nor sustained a weight loss, I decided this was THE time to do it right.

Not doing it right results in a not right outcome.

If you want great results, follow the great plan.

This is not a DIEt, it is a new way to eat – we develop a new lifestyle.

If we are to lose weight, we cannot eat the same way we were eating.
We must change.

Sadly, some are not willing for whatever reason, to keep at it – it takes time.
Day after day, same old - same old – same old -doing the right things and then one day, ya wake up and step on the scale and it says, you’ve arrived at a healthy weight.

For weight management, we must choose wisely about what we eat.
A moment on the lips, forever on the hips.

Going off and on the program usually ends up with people going off the program and the weight coming back on.

Choose this day what you wanna do and then do it – the 5 & 1 way.

1Angel, I know you want to reach a healthy weight. You live in a beautiful part of the country, sunny moderate weather and I can picture you now wearing shorts this spring and summer as you garden and walk your dogs, feeling energetic and pleased with yourself, hiking without huffing and puffing, smiling at the world because you chose the healthier way.

Ladyhawke and Nickieluv – yeah! Let’s keep it going so Alpha doesn’t have to whack us all with her flabber stick!

Biki…I know what you mean about peripheral vascular disease….that’s just another nasty thing I endured, too. PVD is horrible. As a result of years of obesity, my feet, ankles and legs are not a pretty sight. They look like roadmaps…hey! Think I see Route 66 on my lower left ankle!

Shake it up, Friends – with every shake you make and slurp, you are three hours closer to your healthy happier goal! You CAN do t, if you will do it.

[Grandmom]

I'm struggling too! Started MF last year and did really well then Christmas came and it was all over. Now, I am trying to get back on track. It's so hard but we have to stay committed - every time we cheat, the only people we are hurting is ourselves. So, decided that it's shakes and water every three or four hours until I get under control. No excuses. Good luck everyone!

[1Angel]

Hi Nancy, I loved what you said to me earlier ...

Hi there 1Angel ~

... For weight management, we must choose wisely about what we eat. A moment on the lips, forever on the hips ...

... Going off and on the program usually ends up with people going off the program and the weight coming back on ...

... Choose this day what you wanna do and then do it – the 5 & 1 way.Shake it up, Friends – with every shake you make and slurp, you are three hours closer to your healthy happier goal! You CAN do t, if you will do it.

Nancy, I love you very much! Thank you for all your support!
I love what you said above ... so true ... I'll print this out and will read every day for this week.

By the way, this first week was the hardest week for me. it was a rough ride ... trying to come back to the program is not easy ... I was falling off and coming back on the wagon every single day. So, I don't know how good I've done so far scale wise. I was 266 this past Monday. When I come back from Church, I'll step on my bathroom scale and will report later.

Grandmom, you described the story of my life. But as Nancy said:<<"... with every shake you make and slurp, you are three hours closer to your healthy happier goal! You CAN do it, if you will do it.">> Good Luck to you too!

[DonicaB]

Hi Angel~ glad to have you back.

I'm quite jealous though.......warm and 80 degrees?........It is freezing in Missouri.......24 degrees currently and the wind is blowing hard......YUCK! I am so ready for spring.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to watching you succeed! We have so many reasons to be successful........I really can't think of a good reason to fail.

DonicaB

[Mike]

I'm quite jealous though.......warm and 80 degrees?........It is freezing in Missouri.......24 degrees currently and the wind is blowing hard......YUCK! I am so ready for spring.

It is amazing the temperature differences one state can have eh?
Fullerton, warm and 80 degrees.
Bay area, cold, damp and 50 degrees
Susanville, cold, wet, 30 degrees.

Can't wait to be in San Diego next week.

Ahhh, California. Gotta love it.

[alpha femme]

i'm always cold-- and i hate it!
right now, it's around 84 degrees outside, and puppy and i are having a lounging contest to see who can soak up the most sun.

[Nancy]

Mike ~ re: temperatures...yep, it IS amazing how they can vary from place to place and as we lose (or, gulp gain...) it can definitely affect how we handle heat.

Alpha, I am usually chilly, too. I thought at this point, four years after the slimmin' process that my body would have adjusted to having less insulation but I still get chilled easily. I used to always be smokin' when I was chunkier but was so ashamed of my arms and legs; I never disrobed in public so summer time was totally miserable. I felt like a dog hanging my head out the window for some fresh cool air and now I have the hiney heater on in the car year-round! I intend to enjoy and soak up that southern Cal sunshine.

Hey, 1Angel ~ about that first rough week. It is rough getting back on the program after a break. I remember how hard it was for me, too. I had a lot of weight to lose and I knew it would take a long while to reach my goal plus I had never personally known or seen anyone lose as much weight as I wanted to without having weight loss surgery. We didn’t have the MMT Forum then so I didn’t have any stories or heroes to look up to. My husband and daughter were very encouraging to me and I needed that so much. Although I desperately wanted to lose the weight, I wasn’t sure if I could lose all I needed to or keep it off.

I really liked to eat – I LOVED the taste of food and I was sad about not being able to have some of those foods for a very long time. I had also become very dependent on food for comfort and frankly, I was worried about how I would handle my personal stressors without turning to food. Psychologically I struggled greatly that first month so I had to do a lotta positive self-talk – and that was totally foreign to me. I discovered I was my own worst enemy; I said wonderfully kind things to others but not to myself inside my head. It dawned on me that to truly get out of Chubbabubba Town, I would have to make a total turn-around in many areas of my life. I decided to do whatever it took to get to a healthier place and I am so thankful that I did not give up.

It is a process, Angel. Little by little, doing the right things every day is how we get to our goal. It is still tough four years later – it’s all about choices and consistency.

It’s a good thing you are doing for yourself; the benefits far outweigh the discomfort.

We'll have to try to hook up for a little personal visit while we’re in California next week.

[Lizabette]

HEY ANGEL, WELCOME BACK HOME!

You have gotten such good advice and council, I wouldn't know what to add, except to say that you can definitely do it if you believe you can!
I believed I could and I did! Maybe not as much as some of the others but it takes the same commitment and compliance for each of us, no matter what stage we're in!
So take it and run with it...
And we'll all run with you!
Lizabette

[1Angel]

Hi Guys , sorry, I got so busy here that I didn't get online for a couple of days.

Donica, Mike and Alpha Femme, I don't have to change cities to have different temperatures here ... a couple of days ago, in front of my house (facing North) it was at 84 degrees and in my backyard (facing South) it was 90 degrees. Amazing huh!?!

Alpha, I do envy you, girl ... I am always hot ... I guess I am a hot Mama here ...

Temperature is dropping and we may have some rain for these days ... hope it will clear by the weekend! Right Jan and Nancy!?!

Nancy, you are so funny ... I loved the ""Chubbabubba Town" ... I am changing my attitude and the way I deal with food here too. This time I am embracing this program as if it were a lifeboat, and believe me, the "ship" over here is sinking ...

Thanks Lisabette, for your love and support! Please keep me in your prayers ... This week is being easier, but I'm having a hard time drinking all the water ... I've been on the road for most of the days lately ... and this morning I was up 4 pounds ... got so scared and upset ... I hope this is just water retention ... but I promise to drink a whole gallon of water tomorrow!