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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Friday, July 11, 2008 - 11:17 am
LOL Pamy, my CHOICES are starting to piss me off. No smoking, no pigging out, must exercise 4-5 X per week.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, July 11, 2008 - 1:51 pm
LOL. Better slap her with the cheerful stick again, Pamy.
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Friday, July 11, 2008 - 3:53 pm
Juju your the best!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, July 11, 2008 - 6:24 pm
LOL Bo....I understand being pissy about it but wait til you start seeing you clothes fit differently..in a good way! 
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Geri
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 6:18 am
Bo, I hear you loud and clear. I am so disgusted with my weight gain that I can't stand it. I look like a model for Botero and it is not pretty. Yesterday I seriously considered starting smoking again to lose the weight. Really, how much will power is a person supposed to have? I seem to have used it up on not smoking. And, I realize that I have quite often used food as a reward so that now that reward system has gone into overtime. I am starting to outgrow the bigger sizes I bought and that is not particularly encouraging. I have never weighed so much in my life. (telling myself there is more of me to love is not working like it used to either!!!) thanks for letting me vent.
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 10:53 am
I hear you Geri, I hear you! BUT DON'T. Imagine exactly how you will feel 10minutes after lighting that cigarette. Girl you will feel awful! Now you will just be a FAT SMOKER, you will SMELL again, you will have to ARRAINGE YOUR LIFE AROUND SMOKE BREAKS, you will be smoking at your old rate again within 2 weeks, BURNING LOTS OF MONEY, $5 PER PACK, even just one and you will be right back where you were, EXCEPT it will be even HARDER TO QUIT AGAIN. Instead we need to find other ways to fulfill ourselves...I am not sure what yet. I am thinking maybe some sort of charity work that will keep me busy, give me something to look forward to, and make me feel good about myself while helping someone else. Don't do any hurrah's or take that to the bank cause I ain't sure yet...but I think I need to find something else I find fulfilling and purposeful and maybe that would help me not feel like I am having to give up so much that I enjoyed. PAMY please hit GERI really hard with that "cheerful stick" and hit me once more just for good measure. TIA
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Geri
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 11:24 am
Bo, charity work is a good idea. I do that during the winter when things actually happen in florida. I don't mean to rain on your parade but it was easier volunteering and not smoking but it didn't keep me from eating. I almost wish I still lived in Houston, then you and I could help push each other to do the right things. Thanks for the encouragement. 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 12:29 pm
Pamy? Slap 'em again with that cheerful stick! The weight does eventually come off by itself in a couple years. Of course, you have to stop the compensatory eating as soon as you can. Or switch to something low cal like carrots and celery. But don't beat yourselves up too badly that you have done the weight gain TO yourself. It is just Whammy still trying to get you back one way if he can't get you back another. Here is an interesting factoid I have always found somewhat comforting and a little amusing. When Mel Gibson quit smoking he gained 14 pounds and all he ate was apples! I have no idea why I know that.

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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 12:34 pm
Geri, I felt same way. I find eating green apples and chewing stride fruity gum helped me with sugar cravings. You will find a weight loss plan that works, remember to use the support thread for that too, it really helps!! just a little walking 5-10 min a day can help get your weight loss starting good luck!
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Geri
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 12:40 pm
I picture the Cheerful Stick as one of those styrofoam noodles you use in a swimming pool and it is painted to look like a cigarette. Then I picture Pamy walking around with it slung over her shoulder ready to bop us on the head with it. (that made me chuckle as I ate pretzels 
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 1:56 pm
LOL good imagery Geri!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 4:49 pm
LOL I posted above without having read ya'all's posts about the cheerful stick!!! LOL about the noodle!! I use a noodle daily at the pool, that is too funny.
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 7:01 pm
My method is to eat anytime anywhere anything as long as it's raw - seems to be working ...
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 7:09 pm
That sounds gross to me. Ick!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 7:39 pm
now is a good time for that since so many good fruits are in season 
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 8:47 pm
I love fruits but I don't like raw meat or veggies.
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 6:24 am
Dahli are you trying to tell us you don't cook? LOL Sounds very healthy and like a big change. Can you give a typical days intake?
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Geri
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 2:02 pm
If I don't personally cook it, is it considered raw? I know I can't give up certain foods but I could try to raise the % of what is raw. What about sweet potatoes? They are supposed to be really good for you but they need to be cooked. I have 60 mangos on my dining room table ripening as we speak. That should help in my eating more raw foods. Nothing better than a mango smoothie--just the mango, ice and a little water. no other added calories and mangos aren't all that high in calories and are high in fiber. I bet the problem I am having is that I don't watch what I eat, I just shove all kinds of food blindly into my mouth. Maybe if I looked at it as it is going in, I wouldn't eat so much of it!!!
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 8:57 pm
HAHAHA! Geri! I don't think it works exactly that way It's what you eat not what you cook silly! The mangoes are fantastic, how did you get 60!?? Lucky girl... and yes looking at it and even keeping a food diary will help you a lot. I cook for my hubby, but most of what I eat is raw.... a lot of smoothies and Pamy is right, this is the time with all the berries and fresh fruit I can eat all I want and not feel bad about it. If it has a label I don't eat it is the simple answer I guess. Boberg, a typical day would be a fruit smoothie for breakfast, with lots of spinach frozen berries and bananas, sometimes a raw egg or sometimes raw goats milk if I"m lucky. Lunch is a salad or soup - gazpacho (these days) which is my favourite in the summer, and a fruit salad or just more fruit. Dates nuts seeds etc for snacks and supper is usually another smoothie and a huge veg platter = the farmers market amd all the kiosks right now with fresh fruit keep me STUFFED! The other night I made a spaghetti squash with marinara sauce ( which was on the cooked side) but most of my food is raw with the occasional cooked sweet potato etc and really keeps me quite full. Hope that helps!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 10:16 pm
Geri, those mango smoothies sound like exactly the ticket!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, July 14, 2008 - 4:50 am
I need to get up earlier and make me some smoothies! I love them but I am always rushing out door at 5:30. I guess I could do them on wkends. Mangos..yum!
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Geri
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, July 14, 2008 - 5:58 am
I wish I could send everyone mangos. Our tree this year decided after 3 years of hardly any, let's make up for it this year. Sadly, the tree is being hurricane prepped today and I am trying to get the guys to save the mangos and I will give them half. Pamy, make smoothies the nite before and stick them in the freezer. They thaw pretty quickly. I told my tree guy that I had stopped smoking and he was so thrilled for me. I complained about gaining weight and he said he had noticed but that quitting was more important. Vain person that I can be, my brain grabbed onto the "he noticed part" He then told me to walk. Pamy, you can't get up any earlier and keep up with your family and BB. You need sleep to keep the weight down too.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, July 14, 2008 - 8:42 am
See, Geri? He hadn't noticed. If other people aren't even noticing, then no need for you to obsess about it. You know we also have a walking thread here at the clubhouse. It is called The Exercise Log.
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Dahli
Member
11-27-2000
| Monday, July 14, 2008 - 9:25 am
Fresh smoothies keep more of their nutrients but they are so quick to make!! For sure sleep is very key for keeping weight at a normal level, but so is muscle... building muscle will make burning fat even more effective. I have a twenty minute workout that gets me so out of breath it's called anaerobic. I think I should post about it in the weight loss thread.
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Geri
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, July 14, 2008 - 11:09 am
Juju, he did notice that I had gained weight but said it wasn't too bad. not to be too obsessed with mangos but there are alot of fruits that freeze well. for those with limited time, why not put the fruit in a blender, pour into a single serving storage bag, freeze it and then grab one, throw it in a glass in the morning and enjoy it. that's probably easier than freezing them in pieces. it would work with strawberries and blueberries. an added advantage--the smoothie is so thick that sipping it through a straw provides a very familiar inhaling-type situation.
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