Roll Call Saturday 8/25

**Outback Jess** · August 25, 2007, 05:06 AM

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Great post Michelle....The object of all that we do, is to keep on doing it, and developing ourselves....Shifting from a diet mentality, that is short term, and begins, ends and can be fallen off....well it creates the problems Michelle is talking about, I think...Shifting to a lifestyle mentality, coming to the place of creating a great healthy life that does not end...is the higher road. It's the road with results too, and it's the road where people keep the results...because the hard work begins when you loose the weight YOU HAVE TO THEN KEEP IT OFF...and that road can be more easily adjusted to, if have Developed a way of living to support your efforts...
How many times have I been here with weight loss only to gain it all back again, because I didn't develop a new way of living...
I'm not going back to failure and yo-yo dieting...I am here and I am staying here in this lifestyle....

**guekjian** · August 25, 2007, 05:33 AM

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Good Job Michelle! and good words to start off this saturday...I will be spending the day at my son's football game...hard to bring legal foods without a cooler, but I am NOT touching anything that is not allowed. Hoping everyone has a cheat free day!

**Sheepie** · August 25, 2007, 06:28 AM

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Congrats on reaching 150!!! That is great!

I agree so much with this. Sometimes I think there's a tendancy here for people to think it's all or nothing. Unfortunately that means that one little cheat leads to nothing. I feel the same way about New Year's resolutions. Instead of saying I will totally give up ____, I prefer to say that I will try to _____ more. Be nice more, resist chocolate more. Whatever. I may not be perfect, but I will stick to it even if I make a mistake because it's still progress in the right direction. Please don't think that I'm encouraging cheating, because I'm not. It's just that if we can't be perfect, and nobody can, we can be a lot, lot better and it really does count. Messing up once in a while doesn't mean that you're not doing Atkins. It means that you're human!!

Btw, last night I dreamed that I ate a small bowl of cereal with milk! Not even a big bowl. It's not even something that tempts me. Strange.

**MojosRising** · August 25, 2007, 06:34 AM

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congrats michelle! 150!! wooo hoooo!

you are all so right... one cheat can sometimes feel like a one way ticket to a free for all. the key is to not let it get you down. to remind yourself to keep pushing towards your goal. and to constantly keep striving for what you know you are capable of.

**Evermind** · August 25, 2007, 06:38 AM

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Oh, the tapes that play in our heads! The ways we talk to ourselves - such disrespect and intolerance!

If your child makes a mistake, or falls of a bike, or isn't able to do all of the homework assigned within an hour, do you tell him/her that it's all over, that he/she has ruined everything, that he/she might as well quit?

I didn't think so. But we sure do tell OURSELVES that when we eat the wrong food, or let go of our willpower.

If it takes your child months and months to understand how to carry the ones place over to the tens place in math, or to be able to read two-syllable words, or to be able to climb stairs on two feet instead of all fours, do you start telling your friends and yourself that there's something WRONG with him/her, that he/she is TOO SLOW, that there has GOT to be a better kid out there?

I didn't think so. But boy, if the scale isn't moving as fast as we want, we sure do tell OURSELVES that.

I vow to treat myself with respect, patience, and to allow my body to return to health at its own pace, providing it with as much consistent care as I can manage.

**rescue1046** · August 25, 2007, 07:14 AM

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Congratulations on the 150 milestone!!! Everytime I here of success something inside of me wants to push even harder toward my goals. Whenever I stumble I am always glad that I didn't fall.

**Lynsey** · August 25, 2007, 07:27 AM

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Congrats on hitting your second goal Michelle! And thanks for starting this post this morning. Its just what I needed to hear and what I've been trying to convince myself of all night after a bender. So I'm back on the wagon, though be it with a slight hangover. I had so much energy last night and was so bored, I gave in to temptation and drank 8 beers. I tested with my keto stix last night and sure enough knocked right out of ketosis, but suprisingly by this moringing it was reading "moderate" again, and the scale had nudged down a few ounces from the prior day. So I'm jumping back on where I got off and plowing full steam ahead with the program.

**apple** · August 25, 2007, 07:54 AM

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Yea, Michelle!! I'm so excited for you! Thanks for the reminder about cheating

I haven't cheated, per say, with this woe this week during back to school parent/teacher conferences (I need to go back and read Jess' post about dealing with stresses), but I've slacked off a bit on my exercise that I know and have learned to love (gasp), and I have skipped meals out of not making time to plan ahead. Lesson learned and moving on this weekend with planning ahead for the week to come. It's not like it's a great suprise that school's starting or anything. Kind of had a few month's knowledge of this.

**BLAZING IN FL** · August 25, 2007, 07:58 AM

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Originally posted by Lynsey

Congrats on hitting your second goal Michelle! And thanks for starting this post this morning. Its just what I needed to hear and what I've been trying to convince myself of all night after a bender. So I'm back on the wagon, though be it with a slight hangover. I had so much energy last night and was so bored, I gave in to temptation and drank 8 beers. I tested with my keto stix last night and sure enough knocked right out of ketosis, but suprisingly by this moringing it was reading "moderate" again, and the scale had nudged down a few ounces from the prior day. So I'm jumping back on where I got off and plowing full steam ahead with the program.

If alcohol is in your urine, ketones will not register, something in it depletes the test strip, so never test ketones after drinking spirits. : ) Even in the morning. Get back on the wagon girl!!!!!!!!!

**hopejoy** · August 25, 2007, 08:16 AM

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Morning! Michelle: Congratulations on getting to 150! Whoo hoo! Yeah for you! I'm so excited for you!!!! Can't wait to see that trophy in your siggy!
Good post on cheating...that's so true Evermind about how we treat ourselves vs how we treat others/kids... we need to say nice things to ourselves, be kind, and patient...
Yesterday, I didn't eat enough... I bought a meal at El Polo Loco... the veggies were gross and I couldn't eat them... and didn't have time to bring food from home... ate atkins bar but have to quit doing that...(I had work in the afternoon) today will make veggiies to take with me... Gonna make coliflower this am, then fry it up with some butter with my eggs... yum! But I was good and didn't eat when I got home... just went to bed.
Got my results of my HemoglobinA1C... 5.6 which is normal, but high normal... want to see better numbers... will redo in 6 months... but at least it was normal...
Still waiting for the rest of my lab work.
Anyways, have a good cheat free day everyone!
liz

**AlaskaGirl** · August 25, 2007, 09:10 AM

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Happy Saturday STACers. You guys are doing so great. It is truely inspirational.

Have a great day.

Julie

**Evermind** · August 25, 2007, 10:23 AM

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EIGHT beers?????????????????????????????? Wow....

**Stefanie** · August 25, 2007, 10:51 AM

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Hey all. I always enjoy reading your posts on the roll call. I have so much to learn from the people on this board!

Michelle: Congrats on 150!!! I can't even imagine being 150 right now. I haven't been that weight since my senior year in high school!

I have no words of wisdom to share, I just want to thank all of you for sharing yours. Have a great day!

P.S: I am trying to stay off the scale today. I've always been pretty good about weighing in every monday only. However, I weighed in Thursday and saw that I lost 4lbs already. So then I had to weigh in yesterday, and I had lost another lb. I'd just rather it all be a surprise on Monday but I can't stay off the scale lol.

**meena-beena** · August 25, 2007, 12:46 PM

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Hey STAC. I'm in a BAD mood today. Serious funkiness over here and talk about stressed to the max. It's WAY too hot here constantly--there isn't a break in the weather and it's making me have serious houseitis. It's dangerous to take the kids out in weather like this and I feel like some sort of caged animal!

I'm trying to keep it all in perspective constantly saying to myself that this non stop oppressive heat will pass and the rain will eventually come, but that doesn't help the NOW.

Add to that kids who CONSTANTLY argue over everything and stress is inevitable.

As a result my stomach has started hurting me everytime I eat anything--and eggs are definately permamently out of my diet from now on. I had another bad reaction to them last night.

So here I am with a terrible stomach, arguing screaming children, a baby who constantly wants to be held and won't sleep for more than 5 minutes because of all the noise, a huge raging headache, and a sour attitude.

Well, we can't all be happy all of the time. I'll take the bad day today and hand it off to someone else tomorrow. lol.

Oh, but on the upside--even with all the stress I don't feel the urge to cheat and make myself feel better with food. That has to be a good thing.

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