The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[DogMa]

Almost forgot. Did the full hour today again, ran intervals for about 15 minutes and walked uphill the rest. Didn't do the treadmill yesterday because I was up so late the night before, but walked at work. Monday, I did both.

[smartipantz]

Sounds like a nice car. I know what you mean about not having the luxuries. Once you have them, hard to let them go. I have a BMW with quite a few bells and whistles. But the heated seats.... OMG, I couldn't do without them!!

So glad to hear your brother is doing well. Hopefully it's an eye-opener for him to get healthy.

But most of all, hoorah to you for not turning to food during a stressful time. We are all proud of you!

Smarti

[Lauren]

Hey, Rob -

I am SO sorry for not jumping on sooner to acknowledge the health scare with your brother! I have been totally out of the forum loop for a few days now, with just absolute craziness and meetings at work. I am sorry to hear it happened, but it sounds like he's out of the woods, and maybe, just maybe, it will change some of his daily habits (even if he's too stubborn to admit it!).

Mazel tov on the car! Regardless of the absent luxury items, I can only imagine in this economy that good gas mileage will go a long way towards keeping you happy.

Enjoy the holidays? I fasted this year, and I gotta tell you, I don't want to do it again. It TOTALLY messed me up, it was almost shocking how out of sorts my eating was for a good 48 hours. Can't exercise in the morning of a fasting day, bc that would be foolish, so already I feel icky, and then spend the day in synagogue hearing my stomache growl, which is rare, since I usually eat all day long, and then was just absolutely famished for break the fast - which is fine for the folks who don't watch what they eat, but for me, I just could not seem to get satiated. It was really weird, and I didn't like feeling so out of control. Anyway, remind me of this next year when I say I'm gonna fast, okay? :-)

I think you said you weren't going to...right?

Anyway, hope all is well,

Lauren

[DogMa]

Yeah, I had my cortisone shot that Wednesday afternoon and then started new meds for my shoulder. The meds had to be taken with food, and given my previous problems with any kind of anti-inflammatory, I didn't want to chance it. So I just ate my normal stuff all day and tried not to enjoy it. LOL.

[DogMa]

PT went well yesterday, and no real pain today, so I can continue with my stretches and exercises, and one of these days I'll be able to do real workouts again (although the therapist says he doesn't expect me shoulder/back to be back to normal for several more months; sigh).

Got in a good, uphill walk this morning, and my new shipment of food comes today, so - YAY. It's like Christmas morning every time it comes (or I guess what I imagine Christmas morning is like for people who celebrate Christmas; ha).

[DogMa]

Creeping downward. 127.2, despite going out to dinner last night.

[smartipantz]

WTG Dogma. You are wasting away to nothing I'm envious that you have done so well keeping the weight off. Maybe this time around I'll be better at that phase. The losing I've got down; the maintaining is the issue.

How are you liking your new car?

Smarti

[DogMa]

Hey, Smarti! Maintaining is definitely harder than losing, at least for me. Having all those choices can be tough. I've found that I do a lot better on a program, and I think once I get down to my new goal weight (ummm, YEARS from now, at the rate I'm going!), I'm going to continue to eat a lot of foods from my new program. Just seems to work better for me. Although I'm encouraged about my progress on fighting emotional eating.

You did it before, so you can do it again. I still highly recommend "Joining the Thin Club." I think it really helped me.

And the car's great. I still miss a few of the Jetta's luxuries, but I keep finding new features to love on the Corolla, and it drives really nicely. And the new-car smell is fading a bit (I think I'm the only person on the planet who HATES that smell!!).

[smartipantz]

Like I said.... I'm envious! You are doing soooo well!! It's a battle we'll have to fight forever but this time around, I'm not going to get carried away again. I deal with that emotional eating issue as well.

As a fellow workout person, I have a question. This time around I'm working out much earlier in the program than I did before. I've been mainly walking on the treadmill (60 min @ 3.5.. no incline cuz I pulled a tendon in my foot) and this week I did this 5 days plus 2 days of weight lifting. As you can see, I've been working out alot.

This is my 3rd week, which I have heard can be a slower weight loss week. I have only lost 1.5 pounds this week. I'm going to continue through the next week as normal to make sure it was the 3rd week "slowdown", however in the back of my head, I'm wondering if I should throw in another shake or something because I'm burning too many calories and putting myself in a starvation mode.

I'm definitely losing inches.. YEAH!

[BiggerInTexas]

Hey, Robin! Just stopping by to say hi! And congrats on the continued losses and on the new car!

[DogMa]

Thanks, Tex.

Smarti, I dunno. You probably don't need it on the walking days, but maybe on the weightlifting ones it couldn't hurt? Hard to say, cause for me, 1.5 pounds in a week would be fantastic. I usually didn't lose like that even on MF, except the first couple of weeks.

And yeah, on the new program's boards, there's a whole long post floating around about the "rule of 3's" or something. And how things are slow in the third week, third month, etc. Heck, I'm winding up my third month, so maybe that's why I'm so slow, too.

[smartipantz]

Ohhhh thanks Robin! I'll check out the 3-thingy. Have a great one!!!!

[DogMa]

Sorry, I meant the boards from MY new program. I'll go see if I can find it for ya and steal it for our board.

[SuzyQ66]

Congrats Robin on your success. You are truly an inspiration.

[nickieluv]

Thanks for mentioning that "Thin Club" book again, Robin. I remember wanting to read it when you mentioned it before, but it was too new to be in our library system yet. Now it's there, and I've put in a request for it.