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Ohhhh I have come to a conclusion today. I have been trying to decide what am i going to do for myself when i reach 50 lbs off. I wanted to reward myself then today i came up with the answer. I am going to go get an hour long massage then a pedicare. I am 8 lbs away but i will reach it with in 2 weeks i am determined. Then i am going to enjoy the Deb day!!!

Deb, that sounds wonderful!!!  Actually I think I might make an appointment at the spa.  I haven't been there since my husband got home and I'm long overdue.  After all that work on the house, I could use a good massage.  You have been working on that deck for awhile too!  You deserve a good massage too! 

Jesika, congrats on your loss!  You're getting closer each day!  To heck with junk food!  Look how close you're getting to your goal!  Soon you will be in onederland!

Bobbi!  I just remembered your post... Oh my God...I could never work 24 hours straight!  I feel like pulling my hair out with 2 12 hour shifts 2 days in a row... I cannot imagine working straight through!  You are one tough (on plan) cookie!!!

I worked one night a 21 hour shift by time i was done i was so over worked i was finding everything giggly funny. I relized i am not safe working that long so my limit is a 16 hour day and i dont do those often anymore. I tend to work one 8-12 hour day then 3  12s in a roll.

I'M MELTING......

Taking my lunch break and then have to go finish the yard.  Dear LORD, it's hot out there.  I just came in the house to find dear BF doing a painting chore inside and I'm sweaty and dirty and burnt to a crisp, and ole boy cheerfully says, "We should go somewhere today!  Maybe the beach!"  all with a grin.  I grunted and moved on.  Yeah!  That's what I want today!  Some more HEAT, oh please! LOL.  Men...they can be so oblivious...

Val

lol Valerie send some of that heat my way PLEASE... Its been dropping down to the 50s and 60s at night here. Not helping my pool heat!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not that i can enjoy it right now due to working till monday.

I would be ecstatic to send you some heat.  Are you in Washington State like Helen?  I lived there for about 3 years when the ex was serving Security forces over at the Bangor Subase.  Lived in Silverdale.  Beautiful, but chilly.  I'm from Florida originally, but claim NC as my home.  Too hot in Florida for me!

I'll send Dragon over to warm your pool when you're ready.

~Valerie~

Valerie no its sad to say i am in the SOUTH it should be warm here. I am on the Ky/Tn border. Was saying on the news last night that this is one of our coolest julys so far. Sigh. ... I was reading where you posted on the recipe forum i sooooooooo want to make that chicken but i will have to wait till i can drive the hour to where i can get to a store that sells wine. LOL that or go to one of the few resurants here that sells it and sneak it out in my purse after buying a glass... think i better not do that.

Hi Deb! I am so glad you are feeling better doll! I had a revelation last night that has kept me from posting today. So sorry about that but it was very important to me. I wrote to Heidi on another thread and I am gonna post it here. It took me forever but I had to do it for myself! I am sorry I wont have time to do personals right now but I am so happy to see you all posting today. It warms my heart and makes me feel all warm and fuzzy! I love you all.

Oh and BTW… I am NO LONGER WORRIED ABOUT EATING ICK TOMORROW!! YAY! I am pasting the post that I wrote; it will explain the reason why. I am sorry if it is too big or even boring. To be honest it was meant to help someone else and it ended up helping me the most. I don’t say it all the time or maybe never, but all of you here, and yes that includes you Helen are very important to me. I firmly believe that this website and all my friends here are the actual key to making this plan work for me. I love you all and I am fully committed to helping anyone I can because it always helps me too.

Keep on POPPING ladies, and don’t let that ICK MONSTER stop you from being able to paint your toenails, bend over and pick up your keys, feel sexy in your new outfit, fit in an airplane seat or a public bathroom stall, lose your breath while walking up 5 steps, having the energy to get out and live life… what has the ICK MONSTER cost you??

I want to appoligize to you all for this huge post but I felt moved and I had to do it. Thanks for your patience!

Oh Heidi! Don’t you go getting discouraged sweetie! There have been comments about me losing fast. I guess I have in a way but geez look how big I was. I have lost 105 pounds and am just now at your size. The more weight one has to lose the faster (it can) come off. The reason I am writing you is to tell you about the really hard part of my journey to a new lifestyle… so far.

I have been a yo-yo dieter my entire life. I had tried every diet except 6WBMO. I was on WW so much I knew the plan inside out. I would lose for awhile real well then a family get together would come along and I would say well I will eat what I want today and get right back on it tomorrow. Sounds easy, but for me it was NOT! I would do ok one day and then the next day there would be some little thing I would take a bite of and so on until I just said to heck with it. I had a relative tell me that every time they saw me I was on a diet. What they did not say out loud, but was painfully obvious is they never saw any of the losses. Yep that hurt my feelings and it stuck with me in a big way. I guess cause I knew they were throwing me an insult but apparently they though it was all right. The funny thing is right now; I am smaller than the person that made that comment. S-S-S-SNAP!! Woops did I say that out loud?

Anyway the point of all this is I had ruined my metabolism all these years with the yo-yo dieting. I struggled the first couple of months. The more I struggled the harder I dug my heels in. I had seen all these wonderful success stories on the threads so I knew it would work. I just had to figure out what they already had. I PMed a few for tips and I talked with the gals on my threads. Of course I called on Dolores a few times. She is amazing and I am really gonna miss her being BMOS. (Absolutely no offence to any other BMOS!)  It was all about learning what works best with my body type. The other thing that ended up making the most dramatic difference is staying POP! I finally realized the longer I stayed COMPLETELY POP the faster and better my metabolism worked. (That is one of the TRUEST  things I have learned!) That is after I hung on by my fingernails during the weeks that my metabolism seemed too damaged to ever work right. I got so depressed and upset and I came within a fraction of a moment of doing what I always do and give up. I got up everyday and put one foot in front of another to stay on plan while seeing no results or very little results. All these things kept running through my mind like, its just me I’m not as good at it, or my screwed up body just does not work like everyone else’s. I could go on but you get the idea. Then something happened!!

 I started setting at the puter and feeling sorry for myself and I started “again” reading every single success story on this site I could find. I read details and I looked for myself in the words. I was there in almost all of them in one way or another. I read about people that were losing good and on their way too. It was all inspirational to me! I read my black book again over and over. I researched things that I had heard about here that I thought might help. I got out Michael Thurmonds Emergency CD and put it in my car and played it for a few days. Although it did not all apply to me, there were a few things in there that were VERY helpful and when I applied them to myself later on it was another tool in my arsenal to making my metabolism work the best it ever has. I recorded the infomercial and I sat and watched all the lovely people that had been where I was before and I just cried tears of joy for their accomplishments and tears of torment because I could not do what they had. (For all of you that are on the newest infomercial, how does it feel to know your stories and success will change the lives of people who are setting at home depressed and hopeless and decide to try it because of you… THAT’S POWERFUL!!) I noticed when I got to my very lowest point and was ready to call myself a loser in the “bad way” I suddenly had this blanket of warmth and understanding reach out to me and held me up when I could not do it myself. Yep you may have guessed it… this website and all the wonderful people just like you that come here to help each other or share a laugh, encourage each other, vent life’s frustrations that make us falter, cheer us on when we reach any milestone that is important to us whether it is that very important first 5 pound avi or a sparkling 95 pound avi “YAY Rhonda”. It is all important to all of us. We understand each other in a way no one else does.

My friends on the site I was on in the beginning pulled me along for a while. I was a mess with fear of failing. I had one friend that really hung in there with me and I truly believe that her understanding and her willingness to always be there when I needed her to vent or just tell me to be patient was the actual key to keeping me coming back everyday. For me it was my dear sweet Brenda from another thread. You have many people here that are WONDERFUL but Sam I think is this threads Brenda. You know the person that is always there even when some of us slip away for a while. If our threads slow down and we don’t post as much when we do come back we are greeted with kind words very soon. Our Brendas and Sams don’t realize how important they have been to many of us. I sure realize it! Thank you Sam for always welcoming everyone and me.

OK all this post has led up to this… I hung in there through the hardest times for me. Everyone kept saying you can do it, hang in there, it happened to me too, and so on. Well I took their word for it and I stayed POP and I kept coming back and I surrendered to the fact that if I want to be healthy and slim I had to give up things I did not want to give up. With every pound I lost I was being freed from a prison of fat. I don’t even know when it happed but my metabolism finally started working right. Sure I was losing all my weight 1 or 2 pounds at a time but it started being steady. I WAS SHOCKED AND ECSTATIC!! I could not believe my eyes. If I wrote down how dramatically this weight loss has changed my life in a million ways I would never get done. I am now officially OFF MY TYPE 2 DIABETIC MEDS. WOOHOO!!  I did it I am no longer a diabetic because of this plan. One thing I can tell you is true, if I can do this, ANYONE can.

Now Heidi I want to tell you one last thing about why you are so important to me doll! There are 3 holidays a year that I usually go into a feeding frenzy. July 4^th, Christmas, and New Years Eve. I did not want to do anything this year but I have a big family and they really wanted to. If I told you what they have at these things it would drive anyone crazy! I have been trying to quietly talk myself into eating “a little something” all week. I know myself and I was heading in that direction. Every time I ever went off another “diet” it was after a big family event. I found your post late last night and I started this note that turned into a book…sorry. I had to stop because I was so tired. But I did notice while I was writing it that I kept thinking about eating on the 4^th and how stupid I was for even considering it. It reminded me how hard I had to work to do what I have done so far. It is with a full heart that I want to thank you for the timing of your post because it changed my thinking and snapped me back into reality. There is no way I am going off plan on the 4^th. I’m gonna fix me up a pretty chicken and veggie packet for the grill with a new seasoning a friend told me about. I am gonna make the prettiest OP salad you ever saw, and I am gonna take me some sweet potato steak fries. For my snack I think I’ll have a nice smoothie. Oh yea Heidi I owe this new found motivation to you sweetie! And that my dear is why this website has saved my life. People just like you and me saying something we need to hear at just the right time. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU HEIDI!!! Thank you to everyone else for being patient with my overly big post. I’m not trying to hijack the thread I was just so moved I had to say it. I think I will copy this to my other thread so the folks there will know I have conquered the problem this time too thanks to you Heidi. You hang in there Heidi, I read about a woman that lost 1 pound a week for 40 weeks until she got to her goal. She never gave up AND SHE NEVER GAINED IT BACK! We are all different and no one way to lose is the right way. You all have a happy Independence day! Independent from ICK that is! Keep on POPPING!!

I gotta say this post left me feeling kind of naked. It is hard to put so much out there but for me the payoff is not having to worry about making a bad decision in an ICK filled environment tomorrow. Was it worth it?

You betcha! 

Hey Jesika,

Great job on staying POP this week, seems your as new to this as I am. 

Your Ticker isn't showings.  Just thought I'd let you know.  I was having a problem with mine until I figured out how to do it.

Happy & Safe 4th everyone!

Maria

Hi Ladies!  I am back!  I have been doing some reflecting the last couple of days because of what the doctor had said...  I did a calorie counting program (which I HATE!  Its too much work!), and I gained weight!  This is so riduculous!  I am Back poping with you ladies now!  I figure I need to get healthy and lose weight, and after I get to goal weight, I will increase my calories a little to maintain the weight!  I am so sorry I have not caught up on posts yet!  Hopefully I will have time soon! 

Hey Lindsey!  I hear ya!  My doctor told me to become a vegan.  She told me that might help me to lose the last few pounds that I couldn't seem to get a hold of.  I took her advice and that is what led me into getting off plan and putting on 30 pounds!!!  In the beginning I was eating all whole grains, etc.  I lost maybe 5 pounds and yet my belly kept getting bigger!  I was like "uh, no!"  Then I started adding other things...and then I got so discouraged that I gave up trying to figure it out...  I know for me, the ONLY plan that works is this one.  That's not to say that your doc is wrong.  I'm just saying what happened to me. 

When you did the calorie counter thing and put in your on plan meals, were you getting some really small numbers?  Because I used to do this thing online that counted calories eaten and calories burned from exercise...I almost always was over 1000 calories a day...and sometimes WAY over LOL!

 Bella!  I love your post!  You know, sometimes putting things that we feel in writing is so liberating!  Write on!  I love your posts and this is no exception.  So gimme your hand, let's trot through this holiday on our way to onederland!!! 

Well ladies, 60 oz water out of the way so far!!! Yay!  This is always the hardest thing for me...besides exercise.  Today we have to continue our search for pillows and curtains...so we will probably be walking around shopping a few hours again.  It may not be cardio, but it's something...I think another 10 pounds and I should be able to get moving easier...my ankles are just killing me, even at this slow pace!

Well gotta run, will check back later!

Bella, with the spice mix, throw on your balsamic vinegar or lemon, it will give it a nice kick and a "salty" flavor to enhance all the other spices!

Deb, your reward to yourself sounds fantastic.  So many people when they loose weight, first thing they think of is going out for a meal (off plan of course) which just defeats the purpose.  But your thinking the right way.  Reward yourself with something that will give you pleasure but won’t hurt you.  Great thinking!!
Deb, when I did 3 - 24's a week I got loopie, too.  But boy was the money good.  No way now.

Narina, it took the stuffing out of me, I’ll tell you.  But I didn’t go off plan, at least with what I ate.  Just probably ate too often through the whole period to keep my strength up.  Now my body hurts like I got a major toothache all over.  I know that it will go away after a time, but oh boy, right now, WOW.

Val, where do you live in NC, again.  I know you told me, but can’t remember.  The temperature at night has been beautiful.  When I was coming home from work tonight it was only 79.  That’s pretty cool for this time of the year.

Bella, Bella, our sweet Bella, I’m so glad you don’t feel threatened anymore.  Your post was beautiful.  I love the way you worked it out.  Very inspiring!!

Lindsey, this program isn’t about counting calories.  It’s the combination of foods for your particular body type that works so well.  Believe me you’re getting just what you need to stay healthy.  This works and you feel great on it.  Just let it work!!

Alright Helen: July 2, 5 stars, OP meals and snacks, on time, drank my water, 30 minutes of intense walking, sleep 9 hrs (at least bed rest), my motivation for the day: The most beautiful gift we can give each other is the truth! 
Today is another 5 stars, OP meals and snacks, on time, drank my water, 30 minutes of walking, am going to bed
at 8:30 for 8 hours sleep, my motivation for the day is:

Isn't that beautiful!!  I love it.

bobbi

Hello everyone WOW! I get my cable,internet & home phone all through the same company and since MON. afternoon I've had no internet we had nothing for 2 days then they finally got the cable lines fixed and just got my internet back today! WHEW! did I miss you all LOL 

Well HELEN as far as the super star challenge you can chalk me up for 16 stars mon-thurs My only trouble has been writng down my meals. I don't know why it's the simplest task lol I did buy myself a lil notebook today at the grocery store so I will be writing it down.

Well I hope everyone is having a POP day! Bella I also have been stressing on my plans for the fourth lol but I decided that I'm just going to pack my OP meals and try my best and if I happen to slip I'll just pick myself back up and keep going! I will only fail if I let myself!

I started to dwell on the fact that my last 2 slips may have costs me my mini goal of 40 lbs before HAWAII but then I decided NO matter what I loose I'm going to Hawaii less than what I was  when I planned the trip! My dh is being so much more encourageing now also it's great. The whole family had  a POP dinner with me last night and they loved it want to have the same again tonight LOL 

This morning after I got dressed my husband who was watching me lol said "do you feel it,the weight you've lost?" I ofcourse said no lol he said "well I can see it,you can tell in yor waist and the way your clothes are fitting" I just love him! lol

Well I guess thats enough rambling,I'm just happy to have my internet back! lol

DEB-I sure hope your arm is feeling better! 

WELL HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT DAY & KEEP ON POPin!

You don't know me and I am new to the site.  I just got done reading your post and it made me cry.  I could see my self in every word.  For me the 4th don't mean much food wise, I am not going anywhere.  But the side comments from family and friends do.  My Dad bugs me about my wieght my husbun is worried I am spending to much on fresh food, he lives on hotdogs and coffee and hasn't gained a pound in 20 years, (JURK),  My activiea level is though the roof and still I am 100+ over wieght.   I have everything I need in the house to start over on Monday, and I have everything planed out for haveing as much as I can ready ahead of time.  I am on the road from 9 am till 3 pm so I have to carry alot with me.  I guess what I am saying is, Thank you for opening up, now I know there are others out there who have the same problems as I do.  I realy am not alone!

Hi Bella,

Your post totally moved me, you are my inspiration!  I admire you!

Maria

Hi Y'all,

Just checking in....to tired to focus or do personals. Just wanted to say hello.

Maybe Sunday night I will be better.

Have a POPPIN 4th.

   

Deb, my Deb, how is the arm.  So sorry for your pain and really hope it is feeling better.    
Can you get in the pool to shoulder height and try to move your arm in the water?  Gently, gently, gently.  Water therapy is one of the best healing methods.

Helen, What you just wrote, is what these forums are all about.  Letting others help you as well as helping others.  You aren’t the only one who has these feelings.  I think for me, going out and seeing people that haven’t seen me in years is so painful for the exact same reasons you gave.  I don’t mind seeing people that I see all along because they know what I look like, but those people that haven’t seen me, scares the living **ll out of me.  There is nothing wrong with telling your true feelings, here.  No one is going to take offense.  We all are here for the same reason, for help and encouragement and maybe to help someone else.  So all I can say is go and enjoy yourself, knowing that you are getting back to healthy and skinny and don’t feel like you have to explain anything.  Just remember they will still be ugly and fat when you will be skinny and beautiful.  

Hello Kimberli, hopefully Sunday will be better and you’ll feel more like coming and talking.  See you then.

Hi there, Maria, Bella really wrote from her heart, didn’t she?  I love posts like that.

Alishstar, welcome, and know you are not alone.  Come often and post with us.  We’ll be glad to welcome a newbie.   Fresh foods do cost more, but they’re worth it in the end.  Dad just loves you and wants what is best for you.  Make your husband the same food you’re going to eat, so you’re not having to cook two different meals.  Just tweak his up a little.  And maybe when he realizes fresh taste better he’ll stop gripeing.

Michelle, great attitude, you’re going to Hawaii less than when you started.  Enjoy you’re trip.  When is you’re departure date?  The way you’re going on the challenge, you might be surprised and actually get down to where you want to be.  Keep POPing on the challenge.

Talk back at you later.

bobbi

Happy 4th to all you great friends I hope you each do great today. And most of all enjoy your day.