Tuesday Roll Call

[Sweet Strudel]

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Morning Everyone!!!!

Well it was weigh in day for me and I'm down 4 lbs. Yup...after being stuck at 189 lbs forever it seems, I'm finally down to 185 lbs. I haven't weighed for a couple of weeks because its been so hectic around here. I think that was a good thing as it was a nice surprise this morning. So, I'm happy that I finally made it over that plateau. I know they do happen but it does get hard to deal with when you are being good and exercising and still nothing happens.

Sooooooo hang in there everyone that hasn't seen the scales move in awhile, they will...patience will be rewarded.

Sandy...you can do this, you have done so well so far and I admire your drive!

Have a great and legal day everyone...I'm heading down to the treadmill for a bit!

Later

[Sweet Strudel]

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Morning everyone. On vacation this week, and we are actually taking off for a few days as a family to the gulf of Mexico. I'm more excited than a kid! !

Mickkey....have a great vacation...gonna miss you...can't wait to hear all about it when you get back...have fun girl!

[Theperfect10]

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Morning Everyone!!!!

Well it was weigh in day for me and I'm down 4 lbs. Yup...after being stuck at 189 lbs forever it seems, I'm finally down to 185 lbs. I haven't weighed for a couple of weeks because its been so hectic around here. I think that was a good thing as it was a nice surprise this morning. So, I'm happy that I finally made it over that plateau. I know they do happen but it does get hard to deal with when you are being good and exercising and still nothing happens.

Sooooooo hang in there everyone that hasn't seen the scales move in awhile, they will...patience will be rewarded.

Sandy...you can do this, you have done so well so far and I admire your drive!

Have a great and legal day everyone...I'm heading down to the treadmill for a bit!

Later

Kathy I'm so pleased for you! Those 4lbs are well earned!

[julirama723]

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I'm seeing some great posts this morning. I agree with Jess, for me, my solid foundation is exercise. I exercise basically everyday. Even on my rest days, I walk a few miles, or do yoga. It gives me a sense of accomplishment, mental clarity and peace, and baby when you look in the mirror and see the results, there's no way in HECK I want to sabotage that.

In fact, last night in Boot Camp class, we were doing concentration curls (after we had done about 8 other exercises with basically 1.3 million reps each), and I'm just chilling with my 10 pound weights, like it ain't no thang. The instructor (who was struggling herself, and who also had 10 pound weights) noticed and said "Jeeeeeeeez! Julie's over there doing these like it's nothing!" So she made us do more. Strength training is TOTALLY paying off. If you haven't tried it yet, I suggest you start. Since I've gotten really serious about it, my knee pain has DISAPPEARED completely. Yesterday I ran 5 miles, and today I did a speed run of 2 miles, WITH NO KNEE PAIN.

Ok so that's my advertisement for lifting weights.

The plan works. Stick with it. I get really ticked when I hear people say it doesn't work...my response is, "No, YOU didn't work." So if you're faltering, you've got to find that inspiration point, you've got to dig deep inside you and work until it becomes second nature. I don't feel like this is hard work anymore, but I will say, when I started, there were some TOUGH days. When I started induction, I was FREAKING OUT because I never thought I'd eat pasta again (I won't, but I don't want it either!) or pizza again (I made my own whole wheat crust the other day and it was better than any refined crap I could have had) and goal seemed so far. But I just kept my head down and focused on what I DID have, what I COULD do. And my list of haves/can dos kept growing exponentially until it surpassed my list of don't haves/can'ts both quantitatively and qualitatively. Now it's not even worth making a list. There's no way I'm going back to my old habits.

Have a great day STACers!

PS--There are still a couple more days left to join the Labor Day Challenge...we've got about 30 members participating so far, and everybody is welcome to join!

[LooseShoes]

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Great post, Julie!

Exercise is a key part of this WOL. It helps your attitude, and who wants to cheat when you've worked so hard to get it off?

Everybody probably has a mess up occasionally, but you just have to learn from it and keep trying. Figure out how NOT to mess up next time, and try to think about WHY you did what you did. Once you get control of the mind, the weight is pretty easy.

Have a great day and wonderful 4th!

[apple]

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Amen to exercise is the KEY! If anything, exercise has been THE stress reliever for me. It's so cool to read how folks are doing in the exercise part of life...especially those who are running marathons and circuit training

Isn't it said that losing weight is mind over matter? When you set your mind you get over the matter?--or something like that. Anyways, that's kind of where I'm striving for...getting my mind to focus on what matters so I can lose this body matter (lol).

[Scooterjam]

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Hey everybody!! Just wanted to say have a wonderful atkins friendly July 4th.

God Bless America!

I'm staying home with the wife and son, and enjoying the day off. Hope you can all do the same!!

Scooooooooooooooooter out!!

[hopejoy]

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Hey! Just got off the bike again, and did my abs and stretches... having some muscle cramping in my calves lately... like charlie horse cramps... taking more calcium... Am so tired today, shouldn't have stayed up so late last night... lol.
Have to pack for a little trip. Won't be able to log in for a few days... Hope to stay on track with exersize... It's so hot! It's hard to exersize outside... am so used to indoors biking now... but I'll do it. Feel so good that I'm so much thinner now...
My legs are much firmer now. yeah. Can't wait til it's more dramatic... hope my skin doesn't sag... lol. It probably will though. oh, well.
Have a wonderful 4th everyone. Good luck to Jess and Adena with your race. That's so great that you are doing it together!!!! Have Fun!!!
liz
Celebrating Freedom!

[obkbbby]

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Hey, everyone! sounds like several of us have had a hard time lately. I know I have. But, I just keep getting back on the wagon. I have to keep doing that or I'll just fall right back into old habits and patterns. I know that this is what's best for me and I have to stick to it! Was it MS who said it? "You don't know until you go." Or something like that...

[BLAZING IN FL]

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Does anyone out there feel tense with this WOE. It seems like the longer i'm on it, the more aggrivated I get. My husband says I'm frustrating to be around and I don't seem happy anymore. Maybe It's just having the limitations of food, and watching everyone else enjoy their food, while I pick through my upmteenth salad. I just got off the phone with him and I can feel the tension, he can hear the tension in me. This is not my normal mood...what's wrong with me?????

p.s. I exercize everyday for 45 min...that is a tension breaker, but only during the exercizing....what do i do the other 23 hours and 15 min. of the day?

Want to be happy again....

[hopejoy]

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Michele, I was feeling the same way for a while which is what triggered my last fall... I think it's really important to recognize that stress and strain and do something DIFFERENT to break that cycle. Don't be too hard on yourself. Lay out in the sun, swim, act like a little kid, play a game, sleep in, go to bed early, turn off the TV, plant some flowers, visit someone sick or old... and be good to yourself. You are making a lot of changes in your life. It takes awhile to detox from the old... and easy to miss falling in to a carboholic coma.... or whatever... it's not worth it.
Anyway, you are doing great. Your picture inspires me. Hang in there. Remember you are only human.
liz

[Sherri]

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Yes Michelle, I know what you mean when others are on the sad diet, the "STANDARD AMERCAN DIET", I can remember having to get out of the house when my family would pop popcorn. Oh' my gosh, my favorite! It would send me in a tissy. It's just a stage we all go through. It's a difficult one too. I really had to adjust being around those on the SAD diet. I get by just fine now though. My family has all adjusted to my woe. Needless to say there is no popcorn in my house to be popped. They've adjusted by doing this woe with me. My daughter is better at it than my DH. If he wants something he grabs it at the store or wherever it is that he want's. It's not allowed here. Instead of me adjusting to their woe, they had to adjust to mine. It's just something that works in my household. It took me two of my three years of doing this woe before the actual transition.

[BLAZING IN FL]

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Thank you liz and sherri, you kept me from coming home from work and being bad.

liz, i will take your advice and do something different.

Sheri, Three years is a long time. I have 5 kids who are all skinny as rails, so I dont' think there will be adjusting with the food around here. My husband is not helping, because he keeps offering me food, which he has always done, and still does not understand what i can and can not eat. Last night he kept trying to convince me that crackers were lo-carb....I tried to explain why they were not, and felt like I was talking to a brick wall. I just wish he would take the time to find out more about the diet, especially if he see's me losing weight. Popcorn is my downfall. We went to see 1408 in the theatre last week and he just had to get popcorn (he also tried to convince me that had no carbs) he is clueless. he got a large tub and crunched all through the movie...that drove me MAD....it took everything i had to not stick my hand in that popcorn. I miss salsa and chips, that's my fav food. I did atkins 3 yrs ago for 3 yrs and stayed on track the whole time, my food cravings were different then for some reason. I never felt the urge to fall off... Tomorrow's my daughter's Birthday, and I know that will be hard not to have cake YIKES...HELP!!!! I hope all of you are on here tomorrow.

[Sherri]

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Oh' Michelle I had no idea you had so much pressure around you! So sorry hon! On the chips and salsa, have you tried making cheese chips to go with salsa,guacamolli, and sour cream? How about making a minute muffin with cream cheese, cream and slenda frosting instead of birthday cake? Your husband sounds like he needs to read the atkins book so he see's your view on things. I can understand having five kids with no wight issues, so keeping those kinds of foods they like out of the house is out of the question. Try to make sure you have atkins freindly food around for yourself in place of the foods theyre having that are triggering your cravings. I really had to dig in and educate myself on how to prevent pitfalls. Plan, plan, plan is the upmost importance! If there's a family get together like tomorrow, make sure you have something there for you that's just as good as cake for them. Oh' and Michelle HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUR DAUGHTER HON! You hang in there, it does get easier as we go. KNOWLEGE is POWER. As far as your husband, if it was mine and I was feeling vulnerable around the popcorn at the movies, I would of knocked it on the floor and said "OOPS!" lol

[julirama723]

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BLAZING, the key is to find substitutions for favorite foods. Like Sherri said, try making those cheese chips, or a minute muffin, or clouds. Have you checked out Linda's site? She's got GREAT recipes!

http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/index.html

And you know what? I find just the OPPOSITE to be true. You should see the envy on peoples faces when I eat in front of them. They have this horrid, pouty, "it's not fair" look. Especially when they see me eating steak and they're stuck eating a lean cuisine meal, or when I eat full fat cheese and they are not even ALLOWED to eat cheese on their "diet", or when I eat my veggies in butter, and they're eating raw celery. Or when I say I had real whipped cream (made from heavy cream) or that I had an omelette with cheese and bacon. Or when I get to put cheese, chicken, nuts, and REAL ranch dressing on my salad and they're stuck with ultra-mega-light vinagrette.

And not only do I eat this REAL food, this decadent, rich food, but I am consistently losing weight while I do it, and looking younger and healthier every single day. They can't figure out how I can eat cheesecake for holiday desserts and lose weight. They can't figure out how I'm able to run 8 miles at a time. They can't figure out how I'm able to build so much muscle and burn so much fat.

THEY are the envious ones, not me!