The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[Lizabette]

APRIL 28, 2007

Yeah, BIKI & NICKI,
The rain felt good and the 'girls' loved it. Thank you for being here. Luv ya!
We just got home from a Southern Gospel Quartet convention where many groups of singers and musicians performed. Wow! Fantastic talent!
We left before it was over sadly, but the lateness of the hour, you know...

I worked today on the Medifast Testimonial competition, and it is coming together.
One thing that will come out of this if nothing else...I have focused on what this journey has meant to me, my life and my health.
I believe the benefits of it will continue with me the rest of my life.
Right now it seems immeasurable to me.
I hope that I will be able to convey that.

Well, I am thinking of you all and Sunday Roll Call tomorrow, where we can each be accountable to one another.
And also to enjoy the positive results of our journey this past week. WTG!

[Tawanda]

Lizabette, I look forward to the day that you can share your MF Testimonial with us (I imagine you can't do so until after they've done their judging or however they chose whose stories they wish to use). Your journal has been inspirational, I would imagine to have your journey condensed into a testimonial would be even more inspirational and powerful.

The Southern Gospel quartet sounds like it would be enjoyable to experience.

[Lizabette]

APRIL 30, 2007

Thank you, Miss T. I'll see what works out concerning the testimonial. Of course, it would be nice if it were chosen, but among so many others it would seem not too probable.
Anyway, as I said, it is a good exercise to focus on the weight loss/maintenance journey, and the tremendous effect it has had on my life.

Mama duck is still residing in our boat, hopefully getting ready to hatch some little ones.
She looks so vulnerable crouched in the corner of the boat seat. Seems that everytime she leaves, and comes back she is in a different spot on the seat.
Now I am wondering if she plans to take up homesteading there on a permanent basis, rent free!



She is a good example to us of patience, determination and commitment...
The baby wrens have taken their flight, unseen by us, but I think there will be other affairs going on in that nest.

Tonight, I am really, really tired. We did our usual exercise at the Y, and then after dinner, I went to a Strong Women training meeting of weight/resistance.
And my muscles are telling me aboutl it!
But I'd like to alternate days for aerobics and weights throughout the week. Just so I get a little exercise in most days.
I know it will get easier...
You are doing really good, T, I really admire you for sticking with the program and being such a good example... like mama duck.

[Mavesse]

Hi Lizabette...

I really enjoyed the picture of your duck!

I had a family of pigeons on my balcony last fall--though I wouldn't recommend letting pigeons move in. I felt sorry for them, because it was getting cold, and the babies were darling. But you don't want to know about the mess they left behind

Well done with all your exercise! You are a real role model

[pinkbugs471]

Lizabette,

I cannot wait to see the baby pictures. I wonder how much longer she needs to sit??

[Tawanda]

Lizabette, thank you so very much for comparing me to mama duck! I would have never guessed that I'd ever feel such happiness over being compared to a duck sitting on eggs -- but patience, determination and commitment are what I want so badly during my MF journey--and I felt like I was losing ground these past days...last night and this morning I was trying to figure out what happened, what stole my drive and deflated my happiness & determination......and I figured out that it is my attitude. Somehow, I began changing my thinking and my new thoughts weren't filled with the same 'can do' attitude. I began letting 'what ifs' creep in and those 'what ifs' and 'what would it hurt' robbed some of my momentum and made me feel like I was trudging through mud in my journey instead of gliding easily along.

Mental attitude.......that seems to be what makes MF easy for me to follow and do, if I play with the 'what would it hurt if I ate this bite this one time' or 'what if I went off program just for this one meal'.......that robbed me of my energy and took my focus from being successful and turned it over to focusing on the possiblitiy of going off program.

Thank you again, for your kind comparison.......I've gotten back to my mama duck mentality and will once again begin gliding towards goal instead of trudging through the mud.

I'm so very glad you are here on this forum!!!

Now, I'm going to go add this to my journal.....may your day be especially blessed.

[Lizabette]

MAY 1, 2007

TEE wrote: Mental attitude.......that seems to be what makes MF easy for me to follow and do, if I play with the 'what would it hurt if I ate this bite this one time' or 'what if I went off program just for this one meal'.......that robbed me of my energy and took my focus from being successful and turned it over to focusing on the possiblitiy of going off program.

TEE. I remember once writing somewhere on this forum, "If I don't take that first bite, I will be fine." Keeps me in control!
You are going to be fine!

PINKY and MAVESSE. I am not a connoisseur of duck behavior and biology. So we are just letting what will happen happen!
I hope we get to see the babies after all this.
This morning our crane came back to check it out...sauntered around on the boat dock,
peered in and probably wondered like we do, "when are you gonna get with the program and get the job done!"
I'm convinced that mama will be happy to have it all over with, too.
But for now, patience, determination and commitment is where it's at..

[Lizabette]

"I often wonder, what would I be doing, and where would I be if I had not somehow found the means to do what I never dreamed I could---
after so many, many attempts and failures at trying.
It seems now that I appreciate how vital it is not to allow my hard won victories to be swept away by neglect or overconfidence,
as I admit I have in years past. I am thankful for that."

This is one of my own quotes from my journal written some months back.
As I was skimming through my journal doing some preparation on the Medifast Testimonial Competition,
I felt I wanted to share it with you again.
I am thinking specifically about some of you who have been fighting the good fight...
though struggling and sometimes staggering to reach a successful conclusion of your health/weight loss journey.
Let me assure you that you will know then that it was worth every scar and tear...
My heart is with you.

[bikipatra]

"I often wonder, what would I be doing, and where would I be if I had not somehow found the means to do what I never dreamed I could---
after so many, many attempts and failures at trying.
It seems now that I appreciate how vital it is not to allow my hard won victories to be swept away by neglect or overconfidence,
as I admit I have in years past. I am thankful for that."

I really thank you for sharing this with us. For some reason, as I was reading it occured to me that I could insert the word "God" in place of the phrase "my hard one victories." I guess I read things that way because of all my 12 step brain washing (my brain needed washing!) that reminds me that as alcoholics we forget that we need God's help every day not to drink. It is 5am and this was a wonderful entry to wake up to-Thanks.

[Lizabette]

OH, BIKI-BABE, Thank you and you are so welcome.
Yours is my first post this morning, and it gives me joy to begin my day with it.
Coming from you, my dear, who have had such stuggles, makes it special...
and you were specifically one of those I had in mind when I wrote it last night.
Yes, please go ahead and add God to the quote, because really He is behind every victory that is yours and mine.
Fight on, Babe!

[Mavesse]

Lizabette,

I'll bet your testimonial is the catalyst for a lot of life-changing experiences. Thanks for sharing that bit of writing with us

[dede4wd]

"I often wonder, what would I be doing, and where would I be if I had not somehow found the means to do what I never dreamed I could---
after so many, many attempts and failures at trying.
It seems now that I appreciate how vital it is not to allow my hard won victories to be swept away by neglect or overconfidence,
as I admit I have in years past. I am thankful for that."

Thank you for this, I am printing it out and posting it! I love my silver fox!

D

[DonicaB]

Lizabette~ That truly is a thought-provoking statement. I really don't want to let my hard work slip away because of laziness.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us!

Donica

[Lizabette]

MAY 2, 2007 - 130.3#

Usually when I post my daily weight, it goes UP the next day!
So since I expect it, all I can say is, "Well, it is what it is."
But good that it is still in the lower 130's.

Thanks MAVESSE, my journey here has been life-changing for sure.
When I think about what my "condition" might have been...I shudder at the thought!
DONI, you are doing so great, I don't think there is a danger of your hard work slipping away...
Now, DEDE, you have given me heart palpitations, but
I read in your journal that you are not that far away from your goal...you just like to keep us in suspense!
So here... ...it hurts me worse than it does you!

...and then take this, ya'll!

[Nancy]

Dear Itsy Bitsy One ~

How lovely you are and so special - see?

Even the critters recognize your tender spirit and nature, they flock to you.

Bill must be eager to haul the Party Barge into deeper waters and party-on with his golden bride and friends but he must remain dockside for a while longer while Mama Duckster does her settin' thang!

It reminds me of how I felt tethered to my chair all the years of my flabbiness. I was meant for sailing freely at sea and spent most of my years in dry dock, a self-imposed tie up because I could not let go of the safety of the chair. I wanted to wear a bathing suit, to slip into the summer waters or don pretty sandals and explore the paths of the green woods at picnics or ride a horse or…all the things I never ventured to do because I was self-conscious and sad by my inflated buns and hanging jowls.

You are a sparkly and youthful One – how cool that you enjoy your body and march about in the ‘hood with your handsome hunk and the wee little girls. That you can strengthen your bones and look fetching in your garage sale finds or consignment shop recyclables! When you march your tiny hiney on the ‘tready at the Y, surely others are saying to themselves, “Y not me?”

Those of you who read Lizabett’s journal who are vascillatin’ about the program…You, too can enjoy a healthier today and a much happier healthier tomorrow if you do the things today that lead to a healthy life.

We must choose each day what we want more – health or a hunk of pizza, a walk in the park or park on the couch, a slice of pie once a week and pie a day…a decision about what we wanna weigh and how we wanna look is a decision about how we will live.

Doni, I so know how you feel – I used to think I could diet for a few months, endure the of denying myself temporarily and then return to my foody faves. It does not work that way; it takes restraint.

We can have some of what we want but not all of what we want all the time or else… flab happens.

Thanks for lettin’ me pop in here and write a teensy, Itsy.

You are a prize.

Love ya madly and forever and ever after!