Hi all:

Yes the SSRI's just jack up the weight. I tried to get off them with near fatal results. So Diet it is! Love the idea Erika where we can talk and support each other.
Yesterday I had a ceaser salad for lunch with grilled chicked. Very tasty and healthy. I drink water ALL DAY long at the JOB. For dinner i had three cherries. Yep you heard me right. I went to play pker downtown and had a coke with three cherries in it. When I play poker I typically dont get hungry as my mind is occupied. I won $800 by the way. I was up $900 and then lost a little. Dammit, should have quit while I was ahead! Still a good pull though.
I can use this money to eat healthy right?? Today gonna have a light lunch and a piece of grilled salmon for dinner. i might make chicken soup tomorrow. Supposed to be frigid cold. High of 5 and low of 8 below.

Well and lo and behold I lost a whopping 1 lb yesterday. Better than a swift kick in the shins

Martin

hi everyonr...wow Martin wat a haul!!! so awesome you are a big time winner in my book..minus one pound is super! great start...i must stress how important it is to eat breakfast. doesnt have to be a huge one but something. your body needs to refuel after sleeping so that you can start your day off right...remember three meals and two snacks ok.

i made lee breakfast now im enjoying my favorite yogurt and half banana. i stepped on the scale...199 with fleece jammies and a long sleeve thermal top and my loads of silver jewelry on. i wear my heavy fossil watch plus two chain style bracelts on left wrist and six heavy bangles on the right plus six earrings and two nose piercings. with all that extra weight, 199 ill take it, its definitely a start.

for midtime meal it will be a talapia fillet white rice and salad. nighttime meal maybe a yogurt with a handful of granola ...

lets do this!! whoooh whoooh

oh great , my sit n be fit program is on tv on the ksps public station channel...one two three and repeat lol have a good one everyone

weighing in at 198 -1lb ill TAKE it lol for breakfast i had a piece of toast and a yogurt. for lunch its salad with shrimps and a small bowl of fresh fruit. tonight its white beans and ham with a scoop of white rice and a piece of cornbread.

hows everyone doing? dont get discouraged we are right beside you. waaasup???
;-)

hey Martin congrats on the four pound loss!

I am down to 266. Sounds alot better than 270. I just cout out chocolate and snacks between meals. No eating after 6pm. If I could exercise I coudl have it licked. So foar so good but the first 5-10 are easy. Gosh you eat so healthy E. You are great.
I am going to grocery tonite to get some fruit and others. Bananas will be my snack at work.
A question. Everyone says give up pop/soda. But I only have one a day in the morning. I need my coke to get going on my work day. I only have 8 oz which might be maybe 100 calories. Do I have to give up my Coke?

Martini (wiht blue cheese olives)

hi Martin, cutting out thee sweets and stopping eatng after six p.m. is wonderful. i think youre ok with the eight oz of coke in the a.m. i think thats more for ppl who drink more than one thruout the day. you are exercising everyday with simply walking, heck even showering is a good workout in my book. thats my humble opinion. what do you guys think?


excellent on the four pounds down. banana at work for snack is awesome. i had a bean rice n cheese burrito at midnight last night. opps. back on track today with a yogurt and orange for breakfast tuna sandwich for lunch and small tri tip small potato and nice size salad for dinner.
keep up the positive attitude Martin youre doing an awesome job

bumping this up so that we can encourage those of us that need to loose poundage. lifting you up. i weighed in at 196. slowly but surely. hows everyone doing? Mary Ellen great job on the diet. today i will have fresh fruit and a yogurt for breakfast. for lunch beans and dinner fresh fruit. and 3 cups lightly salted popcorn for snack.

how are we doing guys?

you're all doing great. continued good luck!

martini, just one coke is probably fewer calories than the way some folks drinking their coffee.

Hey you're all doing great!

I wanted to tell you about this homemade protein shake my doc that was told me about. Extreme low cal.

Mix:
1/2 to 1 greek yogurt
half of a frozen banana
1 tbsp. peanutbutter
chopped 1 cup fresh spinach

Very good and no you can't taste the spinach. The shake has all the nutrients that you need in a meal with those low cals. She said 1 greek yogurt, I gave the option of 1/2 because to me it was very filling.

Hope this helps and best wishes............

thanks Serenity, i agree with you. thanks Toni that recipe sounds delicious.

throw your hands in the air and wave em like you just dont care!!

beans n rice for dinner out of popcorn so fresh fruit for snack you guys are doing awesome...we can do this!!

Seek, that doesn't work if you're talking about garcinia cambosia and the rasberry key tones. Unless it's prescription diet meds, they're just gafs. You might lose a few pounds, but it's really not if you have weight to lose. I tried that one.

Theres a website called My Fitness Pal and you go on put your height, weight, pounds you want to lose, your age, and how fast you want to lose it. It then calculates how many calories to eat to do that.

You then track all your food, everything you eat goes in as the day goes on and it tells you how many calories you ate. It has a place to enter your water intake and excercise. I find iif you write it down, you see exactly what you're eating instead of saying I only had a bite of this and a handful, I didn't eat that much! You'd be surprised how it adds up fast.

When I did weight Watchers we had to write everything down anf for me, that wirks well. At this site you can talk to coachrs or support other people dieting as well who sre looking for support. I love it and it's free!

I hope we all do great whatever plan you decide works for you. Joanne I see that 21 day fix all the time on the infomercials. It looks like a good plan too.

I don't like Atkins, because it's hard to stay on for the rest of my life. I'm really not dieting, I'm changing my lifestyle. That's how I kept my weight off for the last 13 yrs. Until my neck surgery.

My nephew lost over 100 pounds on Atkins and he's kept it off with watching what he eats and exercising.

I wish everyone good luck. I'll check back tomorrow. I haven't had soda for 4 days which is great for me. I was getting addicted to it or was actually already.

Have a good night!

Love,

Mary Ellen

Hey Martin and friends! Well I definitely can relate and think a weight loss support program would be amazing! I have the same weight issues from meds. I really gained alot of weight on Lyrica and when I discussed it with my doc, she changed it to gabapentin....but that made no difference. My weight is at an all time high and to be honest, I am disgusted with myself.

I think everyone has some really good ideas. I would like to see a special section in our Circle dedicated to this topic. We can all share what works and what doesn't work....recipes....activities....or just to cry on each other's shoulders, if that's what we feel like doing.

Martin, you certainly are not alone with this issue. We all face most of the same obstacles in dealing with chronic pain, and weight gain is probably one of the biggest. Thank you for sharing and I feel we can all benefit from supporting each other this way.

I'm really excited to get started!

Hugs,
Judi

Martin,

Another answer to your question about having 8 oz of coke a day. COKE, I I THOUGHT you lost weight when you took Coke..oh you meant drink it..LMAO

When I lost my weight with Weight Watchers, I drank a can of pepsivat Breakfast, lunch & dinner when I first started. I couldn't give up my Pepsi (a little addiction you think?) I cut it down to 1 after dinner. That was my dessert so to speak. It counted for three points on WW so I made room for 1 a day. Heck when I started, I was doing a two liter or more a day.

Hey Judi. I'm glad you're joining us! Good luck!

M.E.

Mary Ellen, hahahaha LMAO at you for saying "coke" makes you lose weight! Girl, you are too funny! I have a problem with "COCA COLA" too. I don't think I can give up my Coke habit. I drink about a can a day. Love the stuff. I wish I knew of a good substitute.