Roll Call Tuesday March 4

[partytrouble]

Morning STACR's!!!

I am now fully convinced I am having one of my annual bouts of insomnia. Slept maybe 3 hrs last night, 3 night before, 4 night before, and none tonight. This has happened to me once or twice a year since i was a little kid, so I am used to it, but it IS NO FUN!!!! I can take Ambien if I want to, but if I take it for more than one day I get rebound insomnia, so I am afraid of it.

Soooo...here I am at 3am, trying to figure out what I want to do with my day!!

Hats off to Sandy, first day of ReInduction!! So exciting!!

Hope everyone plans their menus and eats well today. I find out about the Biggest Loser at the end of the day...my competition and I are so close, it is going to come down to less than a pound of wt loss between us to finalize it. $600!! Wish me luck!

Have a great day!

[Zarabelle]

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Morning all!

Sorry to hear about the Insomnia Party. When I suffer from that, I get up and tidy the house for an hour and then sends me off to sleep again!

I am feeling a bit down today. I have been 100% on plan (despite a party and my birthday) so it's not food related. I think it's because I got my husband to take some pics last night because although I have lost 11.5 pounds, I still have 50.5 to go and boy, can you see that! I looked lumpy, bumpy and FAT! I was feeling pretty good about myself yesterday too. Anyway, I am doing something about it so will take some more pics (in the same clothes) when I hit onederland and hopefully I will feel better.

On the positive side, someone is very interested in our house (for sale) and is coming to view it later so fingers crossed!

Have a good day everyone xx

[partytrouble]

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zarabelle, i understand it is overwhelming sometimes to look at the big picture and it seems like too much to do. what helps is to break it down into doable segments. for the first 50 pounds or so i lost, i didn't use numbers at all to quantify my success. i used behaviors and time frames, such as '2 weeks clean induction', 'cheat free vacation', etc. then i felt rewarded all the time.

don't be discouraged, you have been so positive the last few weeks and i promise if you stick to the plan 100%, IT WILL WORK FOR YOU!! trust me, i tried to lose this wt off and on for over 5 years before it finallly clicked for me that this is a WAY OF LIFE and not a 'diet'. it seems impossible, but it IS POSSIBLE to lose all that weight!!

you can do it!!

[Zarabelle]

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Thanks hun, I appreciate your encouragement. I am certainly not wavering. It was just a bit of a blow to the self esteem as I was feeling quite good but you know what it's like looking at photos of yourself when you're bigger... Usually I avoid the camera so I think it is healthy to face up to it.

At least you have a new job during your sleepless nights as my councilor!!
x

[OzLover]

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Good morning Stacers!

Insomnia is the pits. Have you tried taking Benadryl? Works wonders for me when I'm having sleep issues. That is the secret ingredient in Tylenol PM.

Hope everyone has a great day.Rainy day here & I have a busy day at work. Make sure you laugh today!!

[BeanPole]

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My weight is all over the place. Can't wait till some of it starts coming off again. Did plyoX this morning and my face is redder than a tomato. I'm trying to decide what to do with my hair as a reward since this week will be the end of Phase 1 of P90X and then a rest week.


partytrouble - Sorry to hear about the insomnia. Good luck on the Biggest Loser thing!

Zarabelle - I always hate looking at pictures of me. I've had the same thing happen - felt great until I saw a picture of myself. I say don't pay any attention to the pictures and put them away till you're ready to take new ones. Keeping my fingers crossed for you to sell your house!

Ozlover - Rainy day here too! I think I'm going to have a time keeping DS out of it while waiting for the school bus.

[Sheepie]

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Good morning! Happy Election Day to those having elections today. I can't wait to go vote!

Partytrouble, sorry to hear about the insomnia. I don't have any home remedies for you.

Yea Sandy, wherever she is! Induction Day! I know you can do it.

Zarabelle, I hate looking at photos of me too. Especially the before photos. But on the bright side, photos will only get better and better now! Great news about your house! We would love to move, but the housing market here is beyond dismal.

Ozlover, you have rain, we have ice. I can hear it hitting the house. Not looking forward to driving in it today. I'll try to get my laugh in before work today!

Beanpole, post a photo after you have your hair done. I always mean to ask dh to take my picture when my hair looks great, but then I always forget!

Have a great day!

[brighterdaysahead]

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Good morning all !!!

Partytrouble you sound like me -- the night (early morning) before I posted at like 3am, couldn't sleep at all, finally slept yesterday morning about 3 hours in a 24 hour period. I have not had insomnia much but lately it has been very annoying. Praying you get some good sleep tonight.

Zarabelle - hope you had a GREAT birthday !!!!

Yesterday, another cheat free day - woooooo hoooo !!! And that is despite my wonderful husband bringing home homemade banana nut bread and date bread -- the AWESOME news......................I was not even tempted. Someone gave it to him for us - he was not being insensitive in bringing it home.

Take care and have a blessed day !!!!

[Outback Jess]

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Well PT, that explains why you are starting the thread in the middle of your night! I was wondering if you were doing some night's at the hospital there girl!
Having a good start to a good day...Been the gym and got in 100 oz of water yesterday and good low carb eating! Today I am out the door in the rain, doing a demo at another school....Hoping to crank up some work!
Have a great day everybody.

[Evermind]

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Morning, all.

Insomnia is the pits. I used to get it where I would go to sleep, but wake up at 3 a.m. and not go back to sleep. Now I take trazadone, which works wonders, but wouldn't be worth it if you just have insomnia a few days a year.....

So, yeah, the photo thing. I'm always suprised at how fat I am. Even now, when I know I've gone down 3 or 4 sizes, I don't want to take my picture, because I know I will still look chubby. But it does occur to me that if I place a new photo next to a photo from July..........It will be a stunner.

I agree with Partytrouble (I usually do.... Go with different milestones, rather than poundage.

Hey, Brighter, congrats on the cheat-free day! It is tough in the beginning, but you're building a tower of strength for yourself.

Today is a long day for me. After teaching, I have to meet some classmates and work on a project, then we all go to the Cerebral Palsey foundation for a look at some of their technology (for a tech class I'm taking). Won't be home until after 9. YUCK! But that's it for this week, so it's ok.

Ever notice that when you just plod along, doing what you do, you get where you're going? That's what this woe is like sometimes. Most of the time. You don't necessarily have the end goal in mind every second of the walk. In fact, it can be quite automatic. No thinking necessary. One foot in front of the other, and gradually the pounds and inches come off, and you end up waaay thinner and healthier. I think that the danger is stopping and admiring. You can admire while you're walking, and praise yourself, recognize your progress, while still moving. If you stop, you're likely to sit down........and then you may actually forget the direction you're going and move backwards when you start again.

So today, keep going forward.

[KayseaLee]

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Good Morning Everyone! I'm here...day 2 of re-induction and getting back on track.

PartyTrouble..Good Luck with The Biggest Loser!! Sorry your not sleeping though.

Evermind...I love what you said in the last paragraph of your post...about putting one foot in front of the other...etc. SO TRUE!!

GO SANDY!! I know you can do this!!

Hope everyone has a great day.

[brighterdaysahead]

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Jess -- just noticed we are neighbors, I am north of Atlanta.

Everming -- you are exactly right, I am building a tower of strength and I LOVE IT !!!!!!!

Have a GREAT day - it is nasty, rainy here but with our level 4 drought I am not complaining but being thankful (gotta have the pool this summer)

[chicamarun]

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Hi everyone!

Zara - I know the feeling... believe me I started with 60 lbs to lose... and I still am a little more flabby than I would like (ok a lot - but mentally I'm ok some days with it) You've done great so far and soon the numbers start to change! I started looking forward to just the tens place changing on the scale and aiming for the next lowest number. For some reason that excited me....

Well we got goats milk today! That was exciting and a work out in itself. But we got a quart and my kids are excited about it and even liked the milk! I can't wait until we get enough to sell and then even make cheese so I can eat it - LOL - I have such a 1 track mind.

Everyone - have a great day!!

[DebOnAtkins]

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Good Morning Ladies,

I had a cheat free day one yesterday. I am kinda sympathizing with Adena today after reading her post in another forum. I've fallen off the wagon and gotten back on about 15 times now! But never fear, I never let the wagon get too far down the road to where I can't jump back on again!

What is it that makes us go back to eating bad when we are doing so well and feeling great? I guess for me old emotions kick in. In our house food was used for relaxation, celebration, depression, sadness...whatever emotion it seems that it was linked with food. It is hard to break those habits, but I am committed to continually working on it. It's hard not too,have seen the "Atkins Light" and experienced how good it feels.

So here we go again.

Party Trouble and Juliarama your photos look amazing!

Debby

[michigander]

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Good morning everyone! Just passing through - and I wanted to add 2 cents about photos. They can really bring you down, even when you're on the right track.

For a while, I used a fat picture for inspiration, thinking that by forcing myself to look at it, I would never want to look like this again. And do you know how it helped me to lose weight? It didn't!!!!! It was constantly depressing me and making me think completely negative thoughts about myself. Things like, it doesn't matter, you're this big - you have too far to go, you're too disgusting to make it anyway. It just made me feel yucky every time I looked at it!

So, I switched to one of my skinny pictures, and let me tell you - THAT motivates me. It makes me say, YES, I can me thin again, I've done it before, I want to look like that again, just keep going, and you'll look like this again.

So my advice, is DO NOT dwell on that picture. It will be good to have, when you're skinny, and can say, wow! I've come a long ways. But for now, you've got to refocus on something positive that's going to get you where you want to be.

Have a great day SCATers!