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[createme]

I have been around this board for many years now (nov 2004), lurking, reading, dreaming...I had been trying to do this alone. Trying, failing, trying, failing, etc...Today is the day that I will create me. I know I can't do this alone. I will be turning 40 this coming year and for some reason that is a Big date for me. Turning 30 was no big deal but 40...well, you are suppose to have it all together by now, right?!

So, just wanted to come in and say hello. Hopefully with your help I/We can make this happen.

I chose createme because its time for me to take control and become who I want to be physically and emotionally.

39f/5'4"/223.6 (that point # matters, heh)

[SoccerMomof5]

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Hi CreateMe!!


I, too, have "been around the low carb block" several times, but this time, I am moving in!!!

I started back yesterday 12-17-07, and have found alot of support!

You will be amazed at the kindness and support you get here!

Good luck with your goals!!

[jersey]

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Hi Createme ~ I came out of *3rd time around lurkdom* too, today. Welcome Back

40 can be hard I think (speaking from experience....) - and it certainly seems like a time when we make changes. At my ripe old age I'm being to suspect that we never get it together - the definition of *together* keeps changing!

Two things prompted me to jump back on board here: 1) I REALLY wanted a Coca Cola...from a glass bottle no less...haven't had one since '04; and 2) read a really interesting article in the new Oprah mag about how real lasting change only is successful with a supportive environment according to a medical study. Oh, and, uh, yeah, I got on the scale and nearly fainted.

Congrats on making the dcision to create a new you.

Catherine

[spirittalker]

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Well come to the board. Post daily here and you will find it so much easier.

[jrnyback2life]

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Hi createme,

I am also a repeater, i was actually sitting here trying to figure out my motivation that will keep me pumping through this and what i can do to keep me on track. I have the image in my mind, i have the dream in my eye, i have the ability, and i have the desire to a point, but its the extra oomph so to speak. Sometimes i believe i am just being lazy, sometimes i think just don't want to face the reality that it's my poor planning. BUt all in all, it was the fact that i had to "work," but the saying nothing in life is free goes well here, if i want the me to be the me i want to be, i will have to pay the piper and do the work involved.

Thinking won't get me there, it takes work, it takes the ability to step past the place now and not look back because if i do it soo easy to return to where you have been because of familiarity. So i have to put trampolines in front of me to hurdle me over that which will send me flying back to what is comfortable, instead of forging through to the unknown and well, work. I hate work lol. I am a "lazy" person. But if i want this bad enough i have to recognize that work is the only way that i will get there.

Eventually, each step i take in the direction away from what i know, is a step that takes me in the direction i know i want to go.

Perhaps you just haven't found that deep dark hidden motivation until now that is strong enough to move you away from what is comfortable and to motivate you into the determination and focus of the work to achieve this in its continuity.

I know i haven't which is why i am a repeater, i can give you a list of all the reasons why, but until that one that is wriggling around actually flies up and bites me saying okay let's do this, i know it will take mega work to keep myself striving for the desired me i want to be, once the motivator is found, i suspect it will be easier because i will have shed the "weight" of that which is holding me back so i can step through the muck onto an even track of steady and ongoing. As someone once said, constant never-ending improvement. I think its Tony Robbins.

So i think most of us in our life have been at one time or another, some simply found their depth motivator and allowed it free at different times and so you see the succeeders here, and you will be too, just as most of us will when the need to achieve in the future overrides the comfortableness of being now.


journey

[scaleskl]

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Hey and welcome,
This is my second time around and I am motivated and adapting to thie WOE. Good luck!

[createme]

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Hi all!

Thank you for the welcome...I have been having trouble with my internet. Cable company is coming out to repair or whatever is needed.

I have been hanging on barely. My mind keeps coming up with different things I could do instead of this WOE. I know it is the sugar addict in me talking. If I could do any of those other things then I wouldn't be here. If I could reduce portion size I wouldn't be my size. If I just increased exercise, heh, started exercising. (don't get me wrong, I know i need to start and have kinda by increasing my walking) With every little thing my brain comes up with it goes back to me excusing/justifying why I could eat the one thing I want at that moment. You know those fresh baked biscuits or the cake from that dear old lady that you know means well and probably was exhaustive for her to bake with all the ailments she has. I mean I wouldn't want to hurt her feelings, right!?! If I went all natural I could totally have those nuts now not later when I am allowed to add them back in etc...

Hello, my name is Creatme. I am a sugar addict.

221.0 this morning, I survived the weekend...

And how did you do?

[partytrouble]

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welcome all!! and i echo spirittalker, post daily!!! it really does help.

[jersey]

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Oh, I totally hear you createme ~been there, done(do) that. And I've gotten away with those same excuses for a few days but then I start to feel physically bad - so I eat more carbs...then I figure, why bother, what difference does it make? A vicious cycle.

When I started back on the 14th this month, I was physically sick from eating carbs...now I feel better and am reminding myself with each mouthful that this way of eating is more than just weight loss - its a quality of life issue for me

You are doing well - one step at a time.

Catherine

[Outback Jess]

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Createme, it can be done! I did it, I did the whole deal so that when I turned 50 I was healthy, low carbing it, and exercising daily... That day came and went with out the dread of personal disappointment! Use this unction and make the changes so you are where you want to be, and don't quit or compromise ONE DAY

[jersey]

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Hey Createme ~ just wanted you to know I am thinking about you. You mentioned some computer trouble so I guess that's why you haven't posted. How are you doing? Is there anything I can do to help you with this WOE? I know how strongly you wanted to get on track here. You CAN do it - and there's a lot of supportive people here to help.

Catherine