The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[Lauren]

Wow, Jennifer, ask a question, get an answer! Love that!

T., I am so psyched for you! Water AND Exercise! Continued losses are a'comin!

You are rocking it out.

And like Robyn said, I have things I am gung ho energy-fueled for, and other things I am sheer lazypants. I guess it really comes down to what we enjoy, ya know?

Anyway, keep kicking butt, T., I have confidence that you'll see that scale keep dropping!

Lauren

[Tawanda]

LOL, thank you Jennifer. I meant to do web search to look up the saying but hadn't done it yet.

So, yes, weighing 147 in 3.5 days is probably just a pipe dream.....but I won't know until Sunday morning.

I haven't drank any water today so far (not good). It is 2 pm and I spent the day in town. I had 3 cups of coffee so far and that is all of the liquids I've consumed other than 2 RTDs while running errands.

I did have a major victory over my 'mental hungries' and my willingness to pick up a 'little something to tide me over' while in town. I thought about a burger (wouldn't have gotten the fries).....but decided I didn't want to undo the last 2 days' compliance, then I walked around the bakery department of the grocery store while waiting for a prescription to be filled.....looked at cakes, pies, donuts....even considered buying individual servings of one of those items (that would fall under the catagory of a little something to tide me over until I got home). I thought about how I've gotten through the first 2 difficult days (once again!), didn't want to toss that aside but still was arguing within myself about 'just a little something'.....then I remembered the number on the scale along with how darn tight my jeans are.......and I was able to walk away from all of those delicious sugary foods. I did do one last hurrah look as I left the store.....gazing longingly into the ice cream freezer section........but I did not waver. Fresh piece of gum chewed as I drove the 25 minutes home and then I made myself some chicken noodle soup, put some medifast crackers in it.....and I made it through a bit of self-sabotage unscathed......(this time).

Amazing the lies we can tell ourselves when we want to go off program.....but this is important and I do want to stop the gains instead of allowing (easily allowing) myself to gain back 20# or more before doing something about it.

The best thing I have done for myself is when I gave away all of my clothing as it became loose. I will have to go out and buy new BIGGER clothing if I gain more than a few pounds.

I have noticed that these pounds I put back on are 'bigger pounds'. My waist is quite a bit larger, my belly is sticking out more and I'm thicker through my torso. So, every pound I've gained has been sheer fat.....which takes up more space in my clothing.

So far today my pedometer shows 5453 steps. I think I'll grab a bottle of water and go spend some time on the treadmill. It may only be 5 minutes....but I'm going to try to do at least that much every day until 5 minutes is no big deal and I spend more time walking/running because I want to do so.......right now, 5 minutes is the pits.....but hopefully that will become enjoyable and I'll willingly want to do it. (Hope springs eternal ).

Hello Lauren!

[Tawanda]

My weight down to 151# this morning. The scale teased me by flickering 150.5 on the screen but it stuck at 151 more than the other number (drat!).

Steps yesterday 9113.

Guess that is all my news.....

[cydj21]

Hi, T! Glad to see you're headed in the right direction...keep it up!

I noticed yesterday your point about getting rid of the too big clothes so you have no choice but to either buy new or work to keep in your current skinny size. I am going to take that to heart and get rid of all my too big clothing this weekend. That is something I haven't been good enough about and in the last couple of months before I restarted MF, through the holidays etc., I let a few pounds creep back on and because I had clothes that fit it didn't impact my mindset the way it should have right away. This morning I eased back into a pair of jeans that had gotten uncomfortable and have found they are a bit loose again, so I've decided it is definitely time to ditch all of the clothes that are a size bigger and hanging off me.

Thanks for mentioning that.

[DogMa]

I did the same thing, Cyd, and it's definitely helped. Although I wish I'd kept one pair of jeans from the very beginning, so I could do the cliche photo of little me wearing big me's pants. Oh, well.

[katieb920]

HI T,

How are you? Good for you for getting back on track. How many cups of water did you drink yesterday?

Great job on the walking steps. Matthew's whole school is having a pedometer race for the MOnth of May. And the parents can do it to. So my husband, matthew and myself are doing this race. The only reason Matthew wants to do it is because he wants prizes.

But I totally agree about ditching the bigger clothes. The only pair of pants that I have is a size 20 that I kept. I wanted to take before and after pictures.

Hope you have a great day

[Tawanda]

During previous weight loss attempts, I didn't get rid of all of my bigger clothes and it was easy to go back to wearing them. One time I did give away some of my favorite clothes and then was stuck with the 'blah' things when I gained the weight back. This time, as soon as things became baggy or a size smaller would work, out went the bigger clothes. It was a tool to help encourage me to keep going. I did not see a big difference in how my size 6 and 8 jeans fit so kept both those sizes and wore them interchangably. Kept them all together in my dresser and just grabbed without looking at the tags. I debated about getting rid of the 8s but felt that I'd just wear them instead of needing to buy more jeans to replace them. I wore some 6s to church on Sunday but haven't tried them on since. I thought I'd wait until I was back under 150 before seeing how they fit/felt.

I did keep one pair of dress pants (size 18?) and one pair of jeans (18W). The jeans have extra wear areas in the inner thigh---and are a great reminder of what I don't want to go back to needing to wear. I kept one dressy shirt that I wore often because I thought it hid my heft (it didn't). I don't know if I will ever try these things on.......but I did want to keep them as a reminder.

Water yesterday........give me an F on that one. Today I'm doing better but still not drank enough to brag about. ;o)

[cydj21]

Hey T!

I am catching the theme that water intake is problematic for you. That used to be true for me, too. Have you tried drinking it a bit closer to room temperature? Sometimes that helps me. Also, I've committed to putting down a really big glass of water first thing in the morning to get me rolling. Sometimes I have to force it, but it seems to be helping. At work I've been keeping a sticky note every day. I draw a rectangle when I fill a liter bottle with water and color it in with a blue highlighter when it is finished. I try to have at least three blue rectangles before I leave for the day and I stick the Post-Its up along the top perimeter of my cubicle so I can see what I've done throughout the week. My coworkers think I'm crazy, but it is helping and I've noticed a few other people starting to track their water intake around here, too, so it is catching on. Not sure if those ideas help, but I thought I'd pass them along!

[Tawanda]

Last night and this morning have been a struggle. I gave up and willingly went into the Land of the Carbs (where no medifaster should travel). I feel icky and bloated (which I deserve for my trespassing). Drinking lots of water to help flush out the 'blah feeling'....... I won't go into the reason why I ate last night and this morning. There were a number of triggers and I knew when I was making the decision (to take the wrong path that went through the Land of Carbs ) that it was a poor choice but I did it anyway. Then this morning add an hour long conversation with a relative whose marriage is on the rocks along with her mother is dying of lung/liver cancer just made me want to soothe myself by eating (didn't work and, of course, just added more unhappiness/stress to my day).

So........poor choices made with full knowledge of the outcome (weight will go up and I will feel blech for awhile). Stupid, stupid, stupid choices!

[DogMa]

Hey, it happens, T. None of us is perfect.

[jayzoe]

I'm right there with you with stupid choices, sometimes I just feel like "I deserve that carby sticky thing of sugarness" and willingly and STUBBORNLY because I FEEL LIKE IT go ahead and eat it I usually feel all yucky afterwards too, WHY isn't that enough motivation to not do it, right?

At any rate, I usually jump right back on the Medifast wagon without too much issue, but I gather I'm one of the lucky ones in that regard... *shrug* I just tell myself that sometimes in life I'll be tempted and fail miserably, but I shouldn't let that distract me from the larger goal...

I've been slowly increasing my water levels instead of trying to jam it all in at once, I have a bottle that I fill up five times a day and I drink one after breakfast, one at lunch, one with my afternoon snack, one at dinner and one during my exercise session (whenever that might be) and it seems to work for me...

[Tawanda]

I did not weigh myself today (my momma didn't raise no fool!). I knew the Land of Carbs does not let one leave without extra baggage and I really didn't want to 'see' the number on the scale to underscore how foolish and stupid my choices were.

It is going to be a busy weekend which takes some of the fun out of Saturday mornings. Right now though, all is quiet, I have my second cup of coffee at my elbow and I will enjoy. I'll deal with the rest of the weekend as it comes instead of looking ahead, becoming stressed and perhaps heading for non-MF foods.

Plan for today is compliance and lots of water.

[katieb920]

What happened in the past stays in the past. Today is a new day T. I actually think you wrote that in my journal once. You know what to do.

And drinks lots of

[lifelovinaries]

hey t, i know what you mean. I have carried out my share of "trunks full of carbs" , not just a little extra baggage. Take it from a daily weigher, i have avoided the scale all week and i am scared of what it will tell me tomorrow morning, but i will be here with bells on! I haven't eaten a lot but they were the wrong things. I weighed myself earlier in the week and it was up but then i have made REALLY DUMB choices but since it is my fault, i will probably have to run back to the 50# club with my tail between my legs. Oh, well, like katie said, the past is the past. I have said that i don't wanna focus on the scale while taking off this last bit of weight but i think it's a necessary evil to keep me from going in the wrong direction. This journey has me so confused at times, i don't know whether i am coming or going. Oops, sorry t, this was about you and i made it about me! Really, just wanted to let you know that i truly identify with your situation. I thought i was trying to test the "transition" waters but after the last 2 days, I don't think i am ready. All that i have learned is not gone, I just chose not to recall it. Have a great (but busy) weekend.

[Diana]

Go get 'em, T!!!

Remember, it's all about course corrections. This journey is not a straight line.