The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[MerryMary]

Welcome back Jo .... you were sorely missed!

What a great prescription for maintenance: "Enjoy, but remember to compensate." Must remember that!

Mary

[bikipatra]

You know I am so happy that you are back!!! Hopefully we will have more time to chat now without that troublesome work interfering in your social life here on the board!

[Serendipity]

Had a mini milestone last night. I had 500 club at my house this week and needed to provide munchies. I bought Planters trail mix.....peanuts, cashews, almonds, raisins, cranraisins, chocolate covered peanuts, and M&M candies. I didn't have any that night and my normal thing is to put the leftovers away and forget about them. All was well, until we had friends over for dinner last night and I got the trail mix out for them. I took a handful of nuts only.....yummy.....and didn't take anymore until I was putting it away later. Then I scarfed up a handfull.....more yummy with the chocolate mix. Had to have another. What? Yep, then I took another handful and looked at it. My milestone is what I did next.......I pitched the rest right into the trash! My old self would have continued to munch until all of the chocolate was gone, but I was able to stop and yes, waste the rest. It could have been a disaster, but somehow I found strength enough to avert it.

[bikipatra]

Good for you!!!

[Tawanda]

Good for you Jo!

Much better to waste it than waist it.

[Lizabette]

AMEN!

[DonicaB]

Our destination was Jamaica for a few days and then Ft. Lauderdale. Jamaica was.....ummmmm.....an adventure. Glad to have gone, but don't think I'll go back.

OK Jo, you have me a little concerned. My DH and I are going to Jamaica this summer for our 20th anniversary. I have been so excited about it until I read your post. What did you not like about Jamaica? I guess I just don't want to fork out all that $$$$ and then hate the trip. Then again, I have no travel experience so any trip may seem wonderful to me.

Donica

[Serendipity]

Doni,

We didn't like that the resorts were beautiful, but if you took one step off the resort, there was utter and complete poverty. Our resort was in Negril, 1 1/2 hour by bus from the airport. We saw the country as it really is.

We went off of the resort for dinner the first night and there were people smoking pot at the next table. While walking to the restaurant just 3 doors down from where we were staying, we were accosted by people wanting to sell us stuff, enter their bar, eat their food, take their taxi.....etc.

It just seemed really artificial to be staying at a beautiful resort with so much poverty around us.

You can have a great time in Jamaica.....I just wouldn't suggest leaving the resort.

They say other islands are like that, but I haven't run into it until Jamaica. I've been to the San Juan, St. Thomas, Grand Cayman, Aruba, and haven't seen anything like we saw there.

[DonicaB]

We actually haven't booked our trip yet, so I'll keep that in mind. I'm just so darn excited about taking a real trip, just me and hubby.

Thanks for letting me know!

Donica

[Pashta]

You have to be careful going to places like that for vacation. There are thieves and druggies that hang around resorts. My aunt's friend went to Jamaica (I think it was there, might have been a similar island place) and I guess their room was broken into. I'm fuzzy on what happened, it might have been the cleaning crew.

When they got home and developed their pictures from their camera they found photos of two guys putting their toothbrushes up their butts, then cleaning them off and putting them back in the holder like nothing happened.

I don't know why people would hate tourists so much to do that to people they don't even know and never did them wrong. Anyway, I never leave my toothbrush out when staying in a hotel due to that warning.

[CaribGirl]

where did you stay in Jamaica? My husbanad and I are going there for a long weekend n October, staying in Negril. I am just curious....

[Serendipity]

We stayed at a small resort called "Catch a Falling Star" Our suite was the Gemini suite, get it? It was out of the way and on the cliffs as opposed to the beach. Very scenic. The problem with it was that there was that while they provided breakfast, there were no restaurants on site, so we had to venture off to eat dinner.

I'm feeling all inspired this morning. I've lost the other 1.5 pounds that I had put on with vacation. That could be part of the reason. Another? I have been looking in my closet each morning and seeing that size 6 denim skirt that I bought this spring.....each time thinking "I hope it fits when I try it again". Well, it was such a beautiful morning here, so I decided to pull it out and give it a try. I don't know why I doubted myself, but it fits with room to spare! Paired with my new Ann Taylor faux wrap-around top, I'm lookin' pretty hot.....well as hot as a 50 yr old gramma can look, I spose.

I'm feeling all gushy and sentimental about my life and how it has changed in the last year. Nancy hit it so right in her recent post when she was describing how a fat body confines us. We were prisoners in those bodies with what seemed at the time like slim hope of escape. Medifast came along and released me from that prison and I am so thankful that I was ready to embrace the concept of the 5&1 plan and the BeSlim philosophy. My outlook has done a 180. I am happy now, but the amazing and wonderful thing is that my future looks bright. While before I couldn't find many reasons to get out of bed in the morning, today, I can't wait to get started.

Ok, reverend jo is done preaching for the day. Have a great day everyone, and keep on shakin! You'll be glad you did.

[Mavesse]

Your inspiration is contagious, Jo!

Thanks for sharing

[Lizabette]

Good preaching, JO. Inspired me to start the day running...well, walking!

[Tawanda]

Jo, thank you for such an uplifting post this morning. Glad that skirt fit with room to spare and also am glad that you are having such a great morning.