The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[holberry]

Lizabette, you rock, seriously rock! 6-7 times a week exercising. WOW.
Your duck is darling. I have 12 peeps, chicks, in the barn right now. I tried to get some baby ducks too. The ducks grow quicker than the peeps and keep the peeps warm with their wings.
You are an inspiration to me as I head off to my 1st day of working out since starting MF.
Have a great day in Arkansas!
holberry

[DonicaB]

May you have a beautiful day, even if Momma Duck is keeping you from boating.

I think I may need to get my eyes checked. When I first read this, I read....."even if Momma Duck is keeping you from bloating."

I thought.......how can that happen? Maybe I should get a Momma Duck????

Then I slowed down a hair and read it again. Whew!!!!

Lizabette~ You continue to daily inspire me.

Donica

[MerryMary]

We hear so much about how hard it is to maintain, and that almost everybody goes right back to regaining their weight.
But guys, it doesn't have to be that way!
It takes the same kind of commitment and determination to maintain as it does to lose the weight in the first place.
So we have to accept that, or why bother?
It is worth it, I'm here to tell you...

I absolutely agree with you Lizabette! It is not rocket science--if after losing our excess flab we go back to our old ways of flabulously eating ... we will become what we eat! If we simply want to lose weight without the commitment to maintain a healthy lifestyle we are just spinning our wheels

Thank you for your honesty and frankness, Lizabette. For me, I want this MF journey to be a life-altering experience.

Mary

[DonicaB]

Lizabette~ I hope you don't mind, but I copied what Mary quoted and put it in my journal. I want to be able to refer to that often, when I reach maintenance.

I think sometimes, at least for me, during the losing stage we tend to think that when we get to our goal, we can eat whatever we want again. I need to start preparing myself now for the fact that that will never be true.

I am going to need the same commitment and determination. Thank you for helping me prepare, even if it is a ways off. I still need to be thinking about it.

Donica

[nickieluv]

It is not rocket science--if after losing our excess flab we go back to our old ways of flabulously eating ... we will become what we eat!

It sure isn't rocket science - but it's like giving up a dream. I know it's sad that food is so important to some people (me) but that's another great part of MF - it really works. So as you lose the weight, you learn that there is indeed more to life than junk food. I think this summer is going to be full of life lessons for me in that regard - I want to get out and LIVE and I know it's going to be more fun as a smaller me.

It's important to remind us all, Lizabette, that while MF sort of is a quick fix for some of us, it's not a TEMPORARY one - a new way of eating must be kept for life to keep reaping the benefits of weight loss. Keep posting, please - you and all the maintainers - we need you!

[Lizabette]

APRIL 24, 2007 - 129.7#

MISS T, HB, DONI, MARY! AND NICKI, TOO!
I appreciate you all very much. You will be surprised at how fast the time goes by and you will be there at goal yourselves.
And then the fun of transition/maintenance.
Oh, that food that we used to take for granted tastes so gooooood!!!
HB, a word about exercising. It is not really that hard...and it gets to be a habit just as staying on plan does.
Our usual schedule is:
3 days a week we go to the Y, and I do water aerobics, DH does the walking track and weight machines.
The other days I try my best to do the treadmill for 30 minutes (about 1.33 mi.),
Then every evening after dinner the girls demand (yes, they do!) that we take them walking for 15 min. or so.
So it gets to be a routine. And it is certainly not as strenuous like some of our maintainers do.

I am happy to post my morning weight which is just under 130#, because I know it won't stay there, fickle as my scale is.
I may have said it before in my journal, that I weigh each morning and record that, along with my foods that I eat,
exercise that I perform, etc. etc. just as I did during the weight loss phase.
This is something that I never did before in my whole life!
I believe it really is what keeps me accountable to myself.
It may be that in time it will be so ingrained that I will not feel the importance of doing that, but I'm not there yet!
It is another one of those habits that I have aquired and has become routine.
Thank you again, my dears.

[bikipatra]

Lizabette, I agree with you that once we start exercising it becomes a habit. And those are hard to break! It is a healthy one though. It sounds like you get more exercise than I do but even when I felt so poorly yesterday I got in my mile. It is just part of my routine, like you said. If I had been really sick I would have just taken care of myself but I just did it first thing in the morning before I had a chance to realize that what I was feeling was more than just normal grogginess!~

[holberry]

Thanks Lizabette for your thoughts on goal. Even tho IM doing swimmingly, perhaps one time a day I kind of shudder to think how much weight I have to loose.YIKES With your thougths put down on this forum, it truely gets me off that way of thinking. Thanks,
HB

[Lizabette]

APRIL 25, 2007

If you look closely you will see a wren perched on the basket hanging on our front porch.
She has hatched some little ones in the nest she made there. Sweet, huh?



Our precious duck is still on our boat, (day 7) protecting her eggs, through a big downpour (we call it a 'gully washer'!)

Today was a doozie. First event this morning was our trip to the Y for the usual exercise there.
After lunch we took some of my clothes (nice, but too big, etc.) to the Gently Worn consignment shop.
As something sells, I can pick me up something nice from there to replace them. YAY!
Then to the Trophy studio to have three (3) graduation plaques done for our graduating grand kids coming up soon.
We include their graduation pictures and invitations on them. Kind of a tradition.
This makes six all together, and the last one for several years. Yippee!
Some shopping for groceries before coming home to have dinner.
As we took our girls out for their walk, it started pouring again! So...
Well, I felt the need to do a little more exercise and walked a mile on the treadmill on the deck, watching the downpour. So nice.
Now I'm in and ready to relax and watch a movie or something...but I ended up here doing some posting, instead.

Thank you HB, BIKI, for your input on my journal. Always love it if someone jumps in to say something nice...

[MerryMary]

Cute Wren, Lizabette!! God's little creatures must feel safe around you to build their nests and hatch their young!

I had a Wren that nested in a hanging basket last year and it was so neat to watch the fledglings leave the nest! Hope you catch that happening

Mary

[Tawanda]

Lizabette, I love seeing your journal updated and thought I posted to you yesterday...I've been doing that alot, thinking I replied and then not seeing it. I bet I'm hitting preview instead of submit and then closing that window to go on my merry way.

Do you know that seeing your weight go below the 130 number makes me smile and feel as puffed up with pride that it seems that I was the one who had that weight? LOL I don't understand it, but I do get a chuckle out of myself whenever I notice that I've done it again.

I enjoyed seeing the finch and sure hope Momma Duck will hatch her ducklings soon. I wonder how she plans to get them to crawl out of the boat and into the water? You or your DH may have to help her with that one.

[holberry]

wow, you a have a lttle sanctuary going on how soothing is that
hb

[Lizabette]

APRIL 27, 130.3#

Hey, I did a long post once this morning and just as I was ready to 'submit', my computer power went 'off'!
And we were just getting ready to leave the house for the Y for our exercise! So now back again...

Lizabette, ...Do you know that seeing your weight go below the 130 number makes me smile and feel as puffed up with pride that it seems that I was the one who had that weight?
I enjoyed seeing the finch and sure hope Momma Duck will hatch her ducklings soon. I wonder how she plans to get them to crawl out of the boat and into the water? You or your DH may have to help her with that one.

Thanks, T. It is nice seeing the scale go under the 130#, but it is not that consistent.
But happy that it is hanging in there at the lower end and not knocking on the 135# door as it had been doing.
I guess if the eggs do hatch that mama duck will push her babies out of the boat into the water.
Just as the baby wrens will be turned out of the nest, where they will all fly joyfully to their new life of freedom.

Thank you, MARY and HB. You are doing so good.
Soon it will be that you will be at your goals where you will enter into a joyful new life of health and thinness.
Don't worry. It will happen!

After coming home from the Y for lunch, DH and I did some errands.
Then we stopped by a huge church rummage sale, where I found a few useful things.
Did I tell you that I love sales and almost always come away with something.
Found a great hardback historical coffee table book about the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
We'll both enjoy reading it, having visited the landmarks several times.
Before settling down this evening, we walked the girls in the sprinkling rain.
What we don't do...

[bikipatra]

APRIL 27, 130.3#


We'll both enjoy reading it, having visited the landmarks several times.
Before settling down this evening, we walked the girls in the sprinkling rain.
What we don't do...

Awww, that was very nice. I was just posting in my journal yesterday that I liked walking in the rain. I have always hated that phrase "Doesn't have the sense to come in out of the rain" because I never have!

[nickieluv]

Must have been something in the air yesterday. We did our yarkwork in the rain and I got completely soaked - and I loved it. It was a warm-ish light rain and I haven't been just out in the rain since I was a kid. Biki, my sister brought up that very phrase when I told her about it!