Diets....ugh!!!!
These are wild fall asters , pic taken at the bird sanctuary.Well, once again the day has gotten away from me. I just don’t know where the time is slipping by me. I started answering journals this a.m. and I kept having to go and then come back to them. I am caught up. I just need to post my own. This will be short.It is now 7:30 p.m. and we have just come back from a 2 hour supper with our friends ( the fri. nite ritual). I am stuffed, not good when one is dieting. But I really didn’t have that much, my tummy must be shrinking. LOL I had homemade turkey/veg soup, a roll and four of us split an order of onion rings ( my only treat). I have been so... good on this diet for 35 days now and I have lost 10 pounds, only half way to my goal and only 28 more days to get there. I have not lost one pound in a week!!!! ugh.... But my clothes are feeling looser. I am going to start measuring myself tomorrow in all the places I want to loose weight. I also battle with bowel problems. Not a nice topic, I know, but a fact of life. My problem is they don’t like to work!! I will go days without going. I am now in day 6 and around this time my lower abdomen gets really hard and it starts to hurt really.... bad. I have to take some laxatives to solve the problem. Even then it might take 2 or 3 days for them to kick in and then I am really a hurting unit. So... I think if I can get the bowels working that the weight will drop too. My friend/hairdresser told me today that a doctor who is a specialist in dieting recommends anyone with issues of not losing weight on a good diet and exercise routine or has reached a plateau take 1000mcg of vitamin B12 a day. So I’m going to give it a go!Anyway, not much else new today so I’ll close for now and see you tomorrow. Debbie
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The day got away from me to. I was on the phone quite a bit. I was also outside enjoying the sunshie visiting with my neighbor. Take care of yourself. I will try to get a journal on tomorrow. Take care of yourself. Big Friday Hugs~~~~~~~~~~~~~Suzanne
Our meds help us in some ways and in other ways it can plug up our bodies. The side effects can sometimes be worse that the reason we are taking them for in the first place!!!
Good job on the weight lose, I would like to lose 10 or 15 lbs. In the last couple of weeks I have lost 3 lbs. Not alot but it all adds up, right?
I like the pic of the flowers. You know you are still teaching, I didn\'t know what they were called!! lol
I hope you have a good weekend.
Take care,
hugs Cathy
ps, How is Danielle doing?
I hope with that dieting and the bowel problems that you are taking something for fiber/bulk to keep things moving along.
I was reading recently that one of the reasons we plateu when dieting is that we\'ve lost weight so we need to do more to burn the same amount of calories as we did when we started, makes sense if you think about it.
The suggeston then was to do something like add those leg/ankle weights when you walk or do some work outs with the mini weights, any thing that will increase the amount of calories your burning in a day.
I\'ve also heard that taking vitamin C is useful when trying to lose weight and at this time of year as we move into cold and flu season that might not be a bad idea anyway. Hugs