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I would have kicked his butt however,my ankle was hurting so much so I took a rain check on it. I weigh in in the am for an 8 week challenge on line on another forum and my goal is to lose 2lbs a week, ambitious am I not? Right now my dog's chew toys are starting to look good.Basically my husband is supportive but weight is also an issue for him. I hope by him seeing that I am sticking with this and losing weight it will maybe inspire him. Despite the pizza he did walk aroung the yard at least twice and our yard is about 1200 feet perimeter so for him that is pretty good.Is there a 12 step program for food aholics? I am not even hungry and yet I could outeat a Marine right now.
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I only just found this thread...I think it's an excellent one! Count me in!
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Shame on your husband! You want us to come kick his butt? :)
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Yeah, it's me again. I have to weigh in tomorrow and my enabling husband cooked a meatlover's pizza this afternoon. I am not touching it,no way ,afraid to even go into the kitchen.All I can think of is food.At least if I am writing on here I am not eating. It's almost like panic attacks,food, food, food, and I am not in the least hungry.
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I wonder if i should start smoking cigarettes, I have to have a bad habit, giving up emotional eating ain't easy.I though giving up drinking coca-cola was bad ,it only took having kidney stones 5 times to get me to give them up.
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That's starting to look good right now.
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Was it parsely and beets for high blood pressure?
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This weekend may be interesting.Momsy dearest had foot surgery thursday and already regressed to a 6yr.old. But post op instructions were very clearly explained to her in detail and at length and she was able to verbalize an understanding of them.I am not going to blow my diet this weekend. I have to weigh in on Monday morning for an 8 week challenge. I really need to do this ,if I don't get this weight off I am going to be on bp meds.
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I will get back on my horse it's just now I am to heavy and out of shape but I will be starting an 8 week challenge on my food group site on Monday.Going for a 16lb wt.loss.
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Timbuktu, that is great success! With your back do you think it is at all possible there can be a horse ride in your future? At least you still have your horse, but I am hoping a miracle for you. Keep up the good work, you have inspired me.
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How's it going jenniferami? Well,I am just decompressing from yesterday's mama drama foot surgery.Fell off the wagon just a smidge but not near as bad as I have done in the past. I am on a diet program that gives credit for different kinds of housework and one is window washing. Well, today was a very sunny day and really showed where all my doggies have been looking out the window. Would appreciate any advice,recipes on what is a good way to wash "doggie" nose dirt from windows because I am going to get a lot of arm exercise doing this.
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I have been so busy getting taxes filed six months late, arranging medical appointments, basic caregiving stuff that I have had less time to buy or eat junk food. Not a chip, cookie, candy or ice cream currently in the house. Hopefully I am on my way to beating my junk food cravings. I am trying to congratulate myself for any little positive step. Enjoy hearing about everyone's progress.
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You are doing your best for 'mama' and you need to also look out for your own physical and mental well-being!! Hang in here!! Doing Great! If I ever start losing will let you all know!
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Still losing. Also still with some mama drama as her foot surgery is tomorrow but I am still on coarse. Hope everybody gets outside at least 30 minutes everyday if all you do is sit in a chair. I don't care right now if mom thinks I am a queen b*tch right now. I will have breaks and be able to exercise,even prisoners get an exercise break.
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WTG, Timbuktu! So proud of you, girl. ((((Timbuktu))))
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Finally,! the plateau has shifted.I will now fess up my starting weight cause I have now lost 10lbs.,happy happy joy joy! and after yesterdays soap opera drama from husband and mother I can't believe I didn't eat the fridge and contents. I came in at 245lbs. this AM! So of coarse you now realize my starting weight was 255lbs. It just hit me when about 10 days ago I hefted up a 50lb bag of horse feed . I am carrying twice that amount of feed on my hips,knees,ankles feet everyday single day,every step I take.3 yrs ago TODAY I got the phone call from mother that changed both our lives, I went from 170lbs and still losing,riding horses, working a great part time job to 255lbs, 2 back surgeries,haven't ridden a horse in a year ,mother is now my full time job in just 3 years. I knew this had to stop, I wasn't going to make it for the long haul.After yesterdays emotional theme I was po'd at both my husband and mother. He can't hear and she is very impatient and I am looked at as the "bridge" between the two. I let them both know I am still going for a walk but I also matter and being that I am the only one in the house that is physically able to bend over and pick up objects that gives me more votes.
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I look quite the site when I walk, have an orange hunters cap and vest,boots that are for riding and walking,hybrid boot.Got my 6 month old boxer puppy in his pink breast collar and off we go.I so take my phone with me ,when walking yesterday mumsy called wanting to know when I was going to soak her foot,I replied it must be difficult to wait but that I would be home in about 15 minutes and then I hung up. My husband was at the house, she is never left alone.When I got back he said she was all in a huff, about where was I and she wanted to go down stairs NOW(art studio).So when I got back home I made it a point not to go to her art studio and proceeded to do chores around the house. I know her foot will get soaked but my health is coming first over foot soaking.
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Wow, way to go!!! I know for myself it's incredibly not hard not to reach for comfort food when stressed, and your day sounded really really stressful!!!
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Well,it's been an emotional day here at the ranch. Momsy dearest got all in a snit about the way my husband "talked" to her. In getting to the nitty gritty basically mom is on hi dose morphine and my husband is basically deaf, not a good combo for communication,also mumsy is very impatient with the "help" which would be myself and my husband.NO, she doesn't have dementia just on a whole lot of morphine and now her social filters don't cover for her so well,her HUGE narcissism is showing.But despite my husband's growling and my mother crying and looking for pity and sympathy as she sits in the little art studio my husband and I put together for her,it also has a 50 inch screen tv I STILL went for my 2 mile walk and I have not gorged on food. I am not going to let these 2 kill me. I didn't survive my mother as a child to be destroyed by her now.
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Afraid to weigh this am, this plateau I have hit is very aggravating,just what I need more aggravation. Making myself go walk this am, just want to see just a smidge of weight loss in the am,something has got to give. I would be the last person on the planet to starve to death. I could live ten years on a loaf of bread.
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You e doing great, Timbuktu, just hang in there and the plateau will break!! Even more importantly, you are feeling better and thinking better!! And Mm is just fine with your Care!!
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Took an 84 minute walk to day, it was great. Hopefully this weight plateau I am on will break tomorrow.
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Hello mica, I also am "stupid" and an "idiot" according to my mommy dearest and she doesn't have dementia.I was already in trouble with her by 7 am as I decided to go walking simply because I wasn't in a lot of pain at the time, I had the energy to do it, I didn't go walking yesterday because I had to make an 80 mile roundtrip to town to pick up Mommy Dearest's pain med so she had to wait to get her foot soaked because of the toes she refuses to amputate that constantly stay infected and she is now on the 10th round of oral antibiotics since Jan. of this year. She is scheduled for foot surgery this week on the toes she needs to amputate and already she is making me aware that she is unhappy with the MD's postop instructions. But I am going to keep this between her and her MD and not get in the middle.She does not like this at all, she wants to take no responsibility for her own health. Well,I am not going to let her kill me so I went for a walk this am and it was great,she will still get her foot soaked today but not at the expense of my health. My energy is limited at present. I hope that by continuing to exercise and lose weight my energy will increase and this will in the long run make me a better caregiver,my mother also wins but doesn't see it that way.
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holy cow, I walked up some stairs and my legs didnt scream at me. I havent lost an ounce, but I count this as a win..... especially since my mother called me stupid about six times in a row yesterday...
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Thank god I am so rural there are no convenient donut places or fast food.I have started to incorporate grocery store runs just for me in all my traveling up and down the interstate for Mommy Dearest's many many MD appts.I now make sure I have my little dinners and salads/soups that I need to make my meals.Don't feel sorry for my mother, she eats out once a week wherever she wants to, I can't remember the last time I was in a restaurant.My husband grills steaks for himself and her at least once a week,I don't really like steak.Weight has hit a plateau but that is to be expected. My walking is paying off, my pup is getting more used to being on a leash and the alone time is priceless.
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My husband and I went to a new donut store, it had door handles shaped like two D's, and a drive thru (used to be a tacobell or something. The donuts were sparsely iced, so little icing, why did they bother, and ugly too, not appetizing at all. Only one each, we felt girgily in the stomach, and for the first time ever, he reports loose something, I didn't hear him right, but I had to inspect the inside of 3 public bathrooms throughout the morning. Just not worth it! Donuts are over-rated, pick something else, or make them at home. How will that store survive after all the grandparents inform their children, "You call that a donut?"
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Sis called me to vent about her problems, I found a kitkat that I had squirreled away. I wonder if there are any more....
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Wish we could send you some warm, cwillie. It's still 90 F down here in the daytime.
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Good going timbuktu!
With all the doughnut talk on the whine thread recently I gave in yesterday, yummy... but when I craved a bedtime snack I had a piece of sugarless gum instead. One win, one loss... we'll call it even!
The dreaded S word is in the weather forecast for the weekend, it's always harder to force myself out the door when colder weather arrives.
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Well,messed up my diet just a little bit yesterday,stressful day taking mom to chemo.Sitting in God's waiting room yesterday,having to listen to the other patient's moan and groan,I know they have every right to feel the way they do, I just felt like a trapped animal listening to all the misery.At that moment I really wanted a pack of cigarettes instead of food for some reason.However, as I write this I am already thinking how to fit my walk in today. Instead of trying to arrange my walk around other things I have to do, I now make my walk one of the things I HAVE to do just like taking medication.
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