My UP DATE

[eye]

Girls have you noticed I have not been going off because of my aches. I have been doing so well.Once he moved my neck 73 % I feel great. All those aches in back ---gone. I even have gone from 12 migranes to rarely---now that was a bonus.I feel so much better.Now I have Sheena going--- trying to improve her posture.We enjoy going out together.Sort of like a day out with the girls.I can now stay on computer for many hours without any aches yipee. That is why I am learning things on my photo shop X1.Spring will soon be here and my garden will be blooming.

[*eng*]

We are trying to do a fitness drive .......... walk the dog, get fit, family get together :) Hope we achieve it. Sounds as though you are havng fun eye :)

[Marion]

Good for both of you!:)

[Marion]

I forgot to ask again Eng, how is you son?

[Winnie49]

great to hear this news!!!!!

[Granny]

Congratulations, you two! That's wonderful!!!

I have lost 27 lbs, in Weight Watchers, since August. Lowered my cholesterol by more than 100 points. Now, if I could lose another 20 lbs.... :rolleyes:

[crops2dawn]

Thats awesome Eye glad to hear things are looking up for ya!
Isnt girls day out loads of FUN!!!??

Granny WOW!! This is TERRIFIC! Way to go!! I used to do WW with my mom... many, many years ago... lots has changed since then.... I got another 25 to go myself, hopefully this year...sometime....LOL

[eye]

Congratulations, you two! That's wonderful!!!

I have lost 27 lbs, in Weight Watchers, since August. Lowered my cholesterol by more than 100 points. Now, if I could lose another 20 lbs.... :rolleyes:

wow Granny excellent Bravo xo.I am so proud of you.My hubbie is trying not to smoke since yesterday and at the end of the month we are dieting together.Nice to have someone with me.

[wolvsie35]

Congrats EYE, it is so great to hear everything is better with you...Just don't over do now...but you can keep the freebies coming...lol...<wink> :D ((HUGS))

[omajo]

Good to hear this !! I need all of these overhaul too,...need to loose 30lbs, need to get rid of pains and aches too.!!

[Granny]

Thank you, thank you. Just think, we can sheer each other on!!!!!! Go for it, girls!!!

:D

[pkdoll]

Oh MY! That is great Eye!! I noticed that you haven't said anything about your back pain in quite a while. Feeling good for you!!

Granny that is awesome that you lost weight and have been able to keep it off. Cheering the weight watcher cheer for you!! Congrats to both of you!!

Now if I could lose weight, quit smoking and get rich I would be in heaven!! I don't drink very often at all or I'd give that up too!! But I am very rich in friendships. You guys are great for ones ego and self esteem!!

Doing the happy dance for you!!!!!

[eye]

You guys are so funny.Hope I am alive by the end of the month. If I should die before you know who did it ha ha.Poor Laurie.:)I would like toloose 100 pounds but that will never happen.:D

[O2BNGdHope]

I volunteer to stop drinking and quit smoking...............ummmm.......I've never done either, so it should be a snap! The losing weight............. ummmmm......I've never done that either. Ha Ha! Could stand to lose about 70 lbs but not enough will- power yet. Maybe soon.... Congrats to Granny for the weight loss and Eye, I'm so glad you're not in pain.

[Smile]

If we can have a gift exchange why not a diet and exercise exchange.....I don't mean "hole hog" but just start small. We could pick partners or just put our progress and suggestions in here. I am going to start Monday and my goal will be 10lbs and a walk at least three times a week for half an hour or more. How about it gang. Will you join me?????? My husband said he would do it with me and it will be a cholestorel diet which will mean just counting fats and eating more vegetables...so who is going to join me...???? Pick your diet and partner and lets get going.............xoxo.........Smile...click on my picture

[womanw/anedge]

Great eye..keep doing what you need to take care of yourself..sometimes it little things to get us back to feeling good...great for you granny..ww is awsome..I have been w/it for awhile and as aways theres a little to finshing losing..keep doing your things one day at a time and it will come to completion...smiles to you all....:)

[fourfoxes]

I'm glad to hear you are doing better Eye. It is awful having pain all the time.

Granny, I am on WW as well and have lost 20 lbs in the past 14 weeks. Keep up the good work.

I'm looking ahead to a year of more healthy than ever before! My whole family is on the band wagon. YEAH!

[Smile]

Thankyou Eye, Granny, Crops, Eng and every one else for starting this. You have inspired us all....xo...the new Smile....

[rosana brito]

I am happy in hearing that well! I cannot say the same !
My leg not this well! it came back with plaster!
I have many pains in the coasts! perhaps column!
The worse one of everything I fattened 3 kgs more, I have eaten much chocolate, I love this!
Now I need a good one I medicate to help me with this obesidade! hehehee

Kisses
I love ya

[Jenna's mommy]

I am so glad or all of you and that things go better there, i will join in on the diet lol. Soon i will downlaod all those wonderful freebies of yours just wait for the moove and set-up that side.

[eye]

Well girls I lost a few calories just laughing. I have to wait till pay day at the end of the month to start our diet. Mine will be 1200 calories.Hubbie is now into two full days and no smokes.I am not dead as yet.You might know I want to loose and the veggies are going up. A cauiflower is $5----just wicked and a 50 lb. bag of potaoes $9.99.I know to eat proper foods will cost but yah think they would give us a break.I guess the price of food will be going up. Thank goodness I will not be eating much.:D.

[omajo]

This is an encouraging thread !! Hope I can loose some kg (lbs)..., is it easy to do the WW program? Hmmm,..I love ice cream and chocolates and I still have sooooooooo.. many at home, from Christmas presents. What should I do with that,...?? Give away,.. or eat it ??..:confused:

The prices of vegie and fruit has gone up here as well, apples which are usually about A$ 3, now its about over than A$6.
Oooh well, no complain,...just adapt to the situations at the moment,.........:D

[eye]

This is an encouraging thread !! Hope I can loose some kg (lbs)..., is it easy to do the WW program? Hmmm,..I love ice cream and chocolates and I still have sooooooooo.. many at home, from Christmas presents. What should I do with that,...?? Give away,.. or eat it ??..:confused:

The prices of vegie and fruit has gone up here as well, apples which are usually about A$ 3, now its about over than A$6.
Oooh well, no complain,...just adapt to the situations at the moment,.........:D

Your making me hungry ha ha

[Smile]

[I still have sooooooooo.. many at home, from Christmas presents. What should I do with that,...?? Give away,.. or eat it ??..:confused:

Omajo what are friends for. I will send you my address and I promise to eat it all.....lol....boy don't you love friendship...xo...and if you are worried about the cost of fruit and vegetables try pricing the icecream, chips, pop and chocolate that you won't be adding to your cart and I think that you will agree you have saved by eating the (crappy) I mean good and healthy foods. Since my diet starts Monday I may stay up all night and eat just because I can....lol....Cheers to the new Scrappy dieter's..xoxoxo..Smile

[O2BNGdHope]

Smile!!! Where did your big happy, smiling fish go? The new you is not very smiley. As a matter of fact it resembles me when I look around my dirty house...

[eye]

She lost her fishy look after getting my sardines all over her:D

[nanwu]

Glad to see that you are so well. I to have been watching what I eat and have lost about 3 kilo's (don't know what that is in pounds). Hope to loose a few more

[eye]

Well Laurie has hit 8 days today--no smoking.Yipee.Next week we start the diets together.Had to wait for money to come in.Hard to get used to one pay a month.Sheena is getting x-rays to see if her spine has improved and if it has then she will only need to go twice a month instead of 4 days a week.I also go twice a month now.It sure was expensive but wow it has changed my life.:)How is everyones diets coming along----are yah hungry.

[sacannon]

Where have I been, I missed this thread! Congrats Eye and Granny! Good to hear some good news.

I have been wanting to get back on diet and I am sort of being forced to. My blood pressure has been up and so has my pulse. It soared to 221 the other day and I was put on a beta blocker. So, I have to cut back on salt and fat. Which isn't to hard when I am not around my mom! I have to run her around a lot and she always wants to stop for food. Whether it is eat in or pick up. Either way it is hard to control the salt and fat that way. Even if you order a salad, If you have chicken on it, you don't know what seasoning they used on it or what is in the dressings.

Much easier to control at home. But I would be happy to join in here. It might help me to stick to it. A few years ago I took off 30 pounds and felt great. Unfortuneately I found it again! I think it was following me around and one pound at a time they hopped back on... LOL

Anyway, I am in!

[Marion]

I know the feeling Sue! It keeps finding me too!:)

[Smile]

Sue, you and I can be partner's on this diet adventure. I started Monday but I will only weigh in once a week. Then it may make it a little easier. So far I am doing the tredmill twice a day for 20minutes at a time. I also picked up some audio books from the library so that I have something to occupy my mind while I am walking. And I also have a Mp3 player for music. It all helps a little. I am drinking lots and lots of water, (so much that I seem to have high tide coming in at about three in the morning) My weight started at 173 Lbs which is alot for someone just reaching five feet....:eek: Wish me luck guy's and girls.....xo......look forward to all of your progress on this subject in here.:D

[O2BNGdHope]

Oh bother......ya mean we're really gonna do it??? I was hoping this was a lot like scrapsville. Darn and here I sit with my every morning breakfast of bacon, egg and cheese bagel, hash brown and large Coke. I am so gonna miss this.:( Oh well, maybe I can get rid of my big, fat, round bug face! :)

[wolvsie35]

I am so happy for everyone trying out the diet thing...It is not easy...I have been doing it all me life...Since my first heart attack when I was 28...I have lost 67 pounds....It is easier to gain pounds back then to keep them off...lol...Since I am a Diabetic as well, and 5 insulin shots a day, it isn't to eat...What I eat for the Diabetes can affect the heart, and vise versa...So....I don't eat a whole lot, period...hehehehe...
I lost another 5 pounds while I was so sick..and still could lose another 50 pounds..I was at 265 at the age of 28...So if you do the math, you will know what I am at now..lol...hehe..
So I am in, everyone here is so encouraging...and I wish the rest of you luck too....:D

[O2BNGdHope]

Ok, so we ALL have to scrap this, too, right? Like a before and after shot on every page.........I SO don't know if I can do this. It's so hard to cook for 3 infants and then cook something diet for me.......I'm tired already.

[sacannon]

Sue, you and I can be partner's on this diet adventure. I started Monday but I will only weigh in once a week. Then it may make it a little easier. So far I am doing the tredmill twice a day for 20minutes at a time. I also picked up some audio books from the library so that I have something to occupy my mind while I am walking. And I also have a Mp3 player for music. It all helps a little. I am drinking lots and lots of water, (so much that I seem to have high tide coming in at about three in the morning) My weight started at 173 Lbs which is alot for someone just reaching five feet....:eek: Wish me luck guy's and girls.....xo......look forward to all of your progress on this subject in here.:D

Well Lois, I weigh more than you but I am about 3 1/2 inches taller, so in the scheme of things we probably need to loose about the same amount of weight! I don't have a treadmill, but I do have a total gym and a ab lounger in the basement. I have an older nordic track, but it is sitting out in the garage. :( we have short ceilings in the basement so we can't use it down there. It is a little too cold outside to use that right now!

[O2BNGdHope]

I don't have a treadmill, but I do have a total gym and a ab lounger in the basement.

I have a total gym in the basement, too!!! <looks down sheepishly> But it's a little out of reach. <looks up and down the pile of junk sitting on the total gym> Maybe I could get to it next month.

[eye]

Great we are all set them.I would love to loose 100 but that will never happen:D. Wewill have to keep this thread going .

[sacannon]

I would be happy if I lost the 30 that I gained back. Anything extra would be a bonus!:) (As I sit here eating a salad) Have to go to the grocery store momentarily for my mom, better to go on a full stomach! less likely to pick up things I shouldn't if you know what I mean!

[pkdoll]

Everyone is going to get so skinny I won't recognize anyone. Sue and Eye you don't look at all overweight looking at your avatars. Eye you can't possibly be 100 overweight!! You will fade away. I definately should be in this too-but I don't have the willpower!! Good luck to all of you-I know how very difficult this will be.

[lila2002]

A cauiflower is $5----.

WHAAT??
5 for a cauliflower??
how big is that thing???
:-)

this is a great thread. so good to hear of your pains going eye and granny's wheight loss..........

i am joining in...........well i was already doing the wheightloss thing.
dont know about lbs and pounds and such.
we do things by the kilograms here!!

was at the doctors last year and they told me i have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. shock!!
now i have to lose 10 kilos before the 23th of april.......
and i lost 5 already
i am not doing a diet however. just watch what i eat ( although not much change there cause we already are really fruity-veggies lovers anyway.....)
i drink at least 2 liters of luke warm water a day. ( i start with a glass of warm water every morning....good for the bowels to!!!) next to the herbal tea and non-sugar juices.
and i walk, and cycle everywhere.
never really had weight problems before, but since i stopped working it just flew on! ( i worked with the environmental police department so did a lot of walking in those days :D

anyhoot.
all who want to lose weight
YOU CAN DO IT!!!

(wow i stopped smoking over 5 years ago!! so i know i can do this!!)

sUCCES ALL!!

[lila2002]

and ok lets have it all out
i am 5.6 feet
i was around 200.2 lbs
now 187

( and just came to the conclusion that i didnt lose 5 kiloos but 6!!!! thats 13.2 lbs i lost)

wow and 200.2lbs seems enormous..........
and people kept telling me i wasnt fat!!???
problem is that it is just all on my tummy (fatty liver)
my legs and torso are fine.

but i am making it my goal to be back in my old levi's 501 this summer. i cant do it
started my morning excersizes again this morning
and next to cycling outside i use my training-bike. started with 15 minutes per day. ( as i do a lot of cycling outside anyways....bringing and fetching my girl from school 4 times a day for 5 days, and shopping etc.
excersize is so important
dont forget to move!! and I dont mean just shifting you know what in your puter chair
hahahahahaha
i am going to ride my indoor bike now
good luck all!!

[lila2002]

i cant do it


DUHH
I MEANT TO SAY
i CAN DO IT!!!!

[eye]

Welcome aboard.I also was tolda few years agothat I have a liver of an alcolholic.I blame it on meds.At that time I may have drank 3 times a year.Do not drink much this year either.I do not go anywhere.But my best friend----computer and I work together,It puts the fat on me.Soon as the weather gets fine I will be outside working.I have a big piece of land to transform into beauty I think.But I do intend to eat less.I may start 1200 calories again.That is what I was on when the dietician made one up for me.I worked on that amount.Hubbie is into another day of not smoking.My son is getting anxious for his schooltrip.He is going on a Caribean cruise for 8 days.I hope he does not get lost.If he does I may be calling on one of yous to help me.This is a trip of a lifetime.I will never see it.Went up to the hospital to see my co workers and boy what stress is in the air.It sure went to pots.Glad I am out of their.I am making a some layouts for a friend of mine and she is coming by to see how it is done.Well that is enough gossip.

[Smile]

I am off course on a diet. Nothing special except counting fats and calories. I also have been walking on the treadmill for 20 minutes twice a day. I have lost three lbs. this week and am very pleased. It may not seem much to some people but as long as I have not gained then I am happy. We can do it my friends...................xoxo................Smil e............:D

[lila2002]

I am off course on a diet. Nothing special except counting fats and calories. I also have been walking on the treadmill for 20 minutes twice a day. I have lost three lbs. this week and am very pleased. It may not seem much to some people but as long as I have not gained then I am happy. We can do it my friends...................xoxo................Smil e............:D

sure we can
and hey i didnt loose those 13 lbs overnite.....have been buzzy with getting rid of them ( and more :D) for a couple of months now.......
and they way i know it.......
better to loose weight a little at a time
and that way make sure it stays of
if you go for the crash course
and then stop it will double back on ya!

so keep going you are on the right track
we can do it....

[Smile]

I have lost nine lbs since going on a diet last week and doing the treadmill three times a day, for 20 minutes at a time. My husband has lost seven lbs. also. I am very supprised because I don't feel like I have lost yet and sure don't look it...lol...I am so excited because I wasn't sure if I was loosing. I promised myself that I would only weigh in once a week so I wouldn't get too discouraged. I sure hope that some of you will get on track with me. Let us know your progress. And no I am not on any special diet except making healthy meals with low calories and fats. The computer is a great help for recipies..........xoxo...Lois :D:D:D

[O2BNGdHope]

Yahooooooo, Smile!! Way to go! I promise to start my diet..........uhhh soon!

[sacannon]

A big congrats Smile. I am going to start getting serious tomorrow. We had dinner at my moms Saturday and had some left overs. They are gone now so she will have to get with the program now for what she makes if we come over.