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Hello everyone i had a great week end . I got to go to the fair and see a Rodeo , See Some Great singer John Gracin , Chris Cagle  they both where good . I enjoy Josh more though . he down and shook hands sing pictures after it was over and Chris didn’t . I still ended up losing 2 pounds this week . I did ok at the fair had one bite of a funel cake .Just to see what it tatse like . and one small hambuger . I try to eat before i went most days but the last day we went early to ride the rides . i sure was draging my wagon by time it was done for the week .

I hope you all had A GOOD WEEK TOO .  well here to another lost this week .i lose slow but as long as it keep rolling off that find with me .

It’s a new day.
It’s your right to be
fit and healthy.
And it’s well within
your reach.
You want to be healthy.
You want to be strong.
You want to be beautiful.
You can be all that
So do I so let go for it !

wow! I never knew i had so many friend here . It was a ruff day yesterday and brought back lots of bads memberies .But i got to say Life has gotton better through the years .
Mom and dad give there life to christ and thing changed greatly . So after i was older . Dad and mom both became very special to me and try there best to make up for the yearier years . I know they figure they where helping me .but as you see it still came around at time to bite me lol.
I still know i got to fight everyday to not go backwards and stead of forward but i know it can be done .
you all give some great advice and i’m very thankful . it good to know other care and or there for you .God bless you
your friend  Linda
Ps I found this and though maybe other mite like to see it .

There are SMART Goals and then … there are SMARTER Goals.

When I first started by journey on the road to Sveltesville with Our Lady of Weight Loss at my side, I did not have a number in mind. I had no idea that I would permanently remove over 50 pounds.

I figured I’d take it 5 pounds at a time and see what happened. Taking five pounds at a time was smarter than I realized. If I had thought of it in terms of 50 or more pounds to lose, I may have felt completely overwhelmed and consoled myself with a trip to the bakery!

SMART goals are indeed smart - BUT Our Lady of Weight Loss’s SMARTER goals are that much the smarter!

S – Goals must be SPECIFIC and the more specific the better. State your goal in as exact of terms as possible.

M – Your goal should be MEASURABLE. Think about what will be the measurement of your goal. (It’s not always about pounds lost. Could be to stay away from candy bars today!)

A – Goals should have ACCOUNTABILITY. Who or what are you accountable to for your goal? Our Lady of Weight Loss, of course!

R – Goals must be REALISTIC. Unrealistic goals will lead you off the path of health and happiness and straight into destruction valley! Yikes.

T – Targets should be TIME based. What’s your time-table for completion, and stick to it. FYI, when it comes to Permanent Fat Removal, I generally advise that one’s goal be: I will eat healthfully and stay on plan for (period of time). This way, I’m not driven mad by the scale, knowing that if I am eating healthfully and on plan, the pounds will have to move out.

E – Goals should be EXCITING! Woo hoo EXCITING and you will meet them faster. So now add on a reward or an event or something that links your goal to excitement. Or just imagine what’s at the other side of the rainbow. Wow, that IS exciting.

R – Goals should be RECORDED, as in written down, in a place where you can look at them every day. It’s amazing how little credit we give ourselves. Proof positive that you ARE making progress and reaching your goals.

What are your today’s goals? Make them SMARTER!

I used to think that no one could understand my pain, that no one had gone through what I had. That every fat kid had understanding parents, except me.

It was hard growing up fat. I felt I had an especially difficult burden to bear. You see,all My mother side were big people and most of my husband side or small people .Most people don’t know how much it hurts when they say hurtfull words .Just How long it stay with you.

So yes, I am bitter.

I thought I suffered alone. Until I read an article written about the BBW supermodel, Emme. She recalled growing up fat and a stepfather who would force her onto the scale. He would then draw circles with a magic marker around any fat or cellulite he felt she needed to lose.

When I read it, of course I was horrified. But I was relieved as well. Someone DID understand me. And if there is one, there must be more.

As for my story, the scale was my enemy, or even more so, a traitor. When I was dragged and forced to stand on it, it would always produce these high numbers, making my father scream and making me cry. Who did I hate more, him or that scale?

My birthdays were hard because I had my yearly check-up on this day. Which meant a yearly weigh-in. Another chance for the doctors and my mother to gang up on me. I remember one year I saw a new doctor. It was the first woman doctor I had seen, and she was also fat. She weighed me, and that was the end of it. In the car, on the way home, my mother vowed never to see THAT doctor again. She hadn’t lectured me on my weight. That was the first time .that i seem there or people out there that can be nice .

Then I mite my husband ,and he didn’t seem to care i wasn’t a size 10 .He thought i was pretty anyway. I had just turned 16 and he had come to a party that some friends were having .he ask me to dance and that was it i was hook . we fell and love and been married for over 30 years . the onlt time he says something is if he think it is hurting my health.

I can’t believe how many hurting souls or out there .I’m not alone . Before you say something that mite hurt someone .Put yourself and there shoes ,and see how you would feel . No matter Big or small we all feel and we all bleed if were cut .

If you have been hurt .I’m here to say your not alone .you got a friend who know your pain.God Bless

I’ll Start By Telling you about myself .I.m 5 foot three inches . I used to weigh 299 Pounds I’m A mother and Wife .I have three children. Two Girls One Son. And A weight Problem. So for I have managed to lose 77 Pound and After 43 years of dieting, I d0 know portion sizes and the exchange lists quite well. I believe that there are 6 food catagories for a reason…and I don’t believe in eliminating any of them. I ate from all catagories, in the portions recommended on the pyramid. I mostly chose the lower caloried options and the lower fat ones, but I NEVER denied myself ANYTHING…it’s the first thing you are going to want if you don’t ”get to have something.”We go out for pizza once a week, but I chose the vegetarian pizza…and have fallen completely in love with that. The greasy ol pepperoni doesn’t even appeal to me anymore. If I decided I wanted a candy bar, I would have one. My ”food-cop” hubby would say ”what are you eating” and I would respond, ”A candy bar, is that OKAY with YOU?” and he would back off.
I used to do a lot of eating a lone. So no one would know Just how much I did eat . I would go to a fast food place and order as if there were more people .enough for two or three People then go home and eat till I couldn’t hold any more. Buy time supper came alone I could still out eat my husband .But even though I overeat in private, my excess poundage was out there for all the world to see, how foolish I have been.”the First time I got on a scale after not being on one and a long time .I was shocked to see the scale say 299 pounds .and the scale only went to 300,how and God name could I have let this happen to myself. I knew I had to do something
I all ready had a bad back .and now my Doctor said, I was a Diebatic. I tried but Still it took seeing my mom Die of it from Damage to her Heart .She also through her later years Lossed a toe and her eye site . All her Family has it but one brother so for .And all of them suffer from bad eyes ,Heart trouble , kidney trouble and all the other things that go with it .I finely got put on shots and that scared me enough to try again to loss weight.So I took all the information I had gather throughout the years and set out to find what would work for me. so I come up with a 90/10 diet. I seem one and woman world about the same but mine just a little different. I also cut most of the fatty food out. and a few more trick that I have learned along the way.I finely got wise I’d eaten in private most of my life. With having a candy bar and letting my hubby see me eat it, meant ”I” was in control. It meant I could eat that one candy bar and be satisfied and not feel as though ”I blew
it.” I never let myself feel guilty if I had a little too much of something. I’d tell myself that ” tomorrow is a new day and I will try harder.” After all, it took me 33 years to pile this all on, and it’s not going to all come off overnight. I would tell myself, stay in control and really enjoy the treats that I do have, when I have them, but try to behave as much as possible. It got to the point where I was loving fruits and veggies so much, that if I wanted to just be ”munching”, I’d pig out on fruits and veggies. I’d tell myself that if the scale is up this week from veggies and fruits, that it would balance out the next week, and it always did. Some weeks I’d be totally ”good” and barely have a loss, (kind of disappointing but I never let it get to me), then other weeks I’d have a few ”extra” treats, etc. and have a great loss. There was no rhyme nor reason to the scale. It had a mind of it’s own, but I’d just go by a ”monthly” average as that seemed more fair. Our bodies all have a life/mind of their own too….retaining fluids, etc. at certain times, so you can not just judge the weekly numbers.
When I initially joined, I thought, ”I’ll wait until I loose the weight to exercise (even though I knew I should, for many reasons). #1-to lose weight faster, because the metabolism speeds up, was the biggest factor for me. #2-to firm up as I lost and improve my health.
Everyone knows by now, the importance of WATER. I drank Twelve eight oz glasses each and every day. It’s a MUST and not just to lose weight…your body needs it every day, whether you are thin or heavy.
One thing different this time around, I did it for ME. Not because of ”this event, or that event” or for my ”hubby/family”. ‘I’ was my #1 concern now, and ‘I’ was going to do whatever ‘I’ needed to do to get to my goal. ‘I’ no longer fixed two meals (one for them and one for me). If they didn’t like what ‘I’ was fixing/serving, TO BAD, they were big boys and girls and could fend for themselves. Surprisingly, I never got one complaint and they actually liked what I was fixing. I still do some baking and bought treats, etc. but I tried to choose treats that I wasn’t real crazy about, but that they enjoyed. I also realized that no matter where you go in this world…there WILL be treats, and it is up to me to say no. Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don’t. If I do indulge, I try to enjoy if for what it is and move on. If I am at an event, I try to think about just enjoying the moment for what it is and have enjoyment in being with loved ones. Food will ALWAYS be there, but our loved ones may not be.
It was about 25 lbs. lost before people started noticing my weight loss. It seemed as though it would never happen but, I didn’t let it bug me. I knew they would eventually notice. One gal asked, ”are you wearing your hair different?” They’d notice that something was ”different” but weren’t sure what . Of course, my 25 lbs lost came at winter , so I had a bulky winter coat on whenever I was out and about, so obviously they wouldn’t notice too much. But, when they finally did start noticing, they’d always ask, ”what is your secret?” I’d tell them, it’s no secret, the answers are all the same thing you read in most weightloss books. Moderation, water, excercise and lowfat. But I would add that the most important part of the equation was ”consistency”. Don’t diet today and not tomorrow, or this week but not the next. Time goes by so quickly, regardless if you’re dieting or not. Trust me when I say, it’s less stressful to be eating healthy than to be pigging out–wishing daily that you were thin.
I WASTED 43 years ”wishing” for that ”magic” pill or genie to arrive. You have to learn how to eat healthy for LIFE…not as ”just a diet” that will be over with when you reach goal. You’ll have to ”watch” what you eat forever, or we all know the consequences if you don’t. You CAN still have that ”goodie” but in moderation.
It’s awful to say, but when I was about at the 200 lbs mark, as I was on the UPHILL gain years ago, I was made to feel just awful by friends/family. I thought I was the biggest HOUSE in town at the time. Well, I tell you, Now that I am Nearing it again. on my meltdown, I don’t think I looked that horrible. In fact, I had several people that asked me if I was almost getting skinny…HUH…I’d tell them I was at 222lbs yet and they could not believe it. For them people out there that ”used” to weight 120 or 130 in HS and have gotten big…forget that ”little number” and try for a sensible goal. Just to get to 150 and be able to maintain it i will be a great feeling. I will still weigh more than any of the charts tell me I should weigh but SO WHAT. as long as I feel good, and look pretty decent in clothing, and that is what will matters the most.
I wish I could have back the 43 years I wasted (all my young days) being obese and not enjoying life to the fullest. I will be forever grateful Just to be able to look forward to enjoying the next 43 years. I truly believe, if I hadn’t Began losting it when I did, I would have pretty much been done in by age 60. And , what would have been worse, is knowing that I was a ”burden” to my husband/family.
As almost EVERY person that has lost a phenomenal amount of weight says: If I can DO IT….ANYONE CAN. I used to say ”yeah right”. Well, now here I am saying just that. I still can’t believe I have Loss 77 pounds so for That over half all ready . Now I can see the goal ahead . And I’m heading forward to it .I know where the true motivation came from, That God .I learn to Put it in his hands and get strenght through him .Taking A Day At A time and kept on kepting on .
I’ve also vowed that if I am EVER able to help motivate someone that needs it, that I will do all I can, or help in anyway I can. I used to buy EVERY magazine that showed a ‘’success” story, in hopes of finding ”answers” I needed for me. What I did, was put together all the ”positive” things I knew I ”could” do, for starters and then worked on the ones I needed to, in order to be successful. I did have many bad habits, but I also have a few good ones….like drinking water. I also hope that in writing all of this down, that each person that reads this will be able to walk away with a least one ”positive” idea that can work for them.
Good luck to you all, and Think Thin ,And Know You Can Make It !!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi and Welcome to my My Site,  I have just started Weight Watchers again and I Am  doing it on my own,
So Far so good, as I have learnt a whole different way of eating and it taste great at the same time!
I hope you enjoy my site as I have enjoyed making it and hope you get inspired to loose weight too.