The E-LAB Project

Meece

My focus is on eating less and beter, but this week my weight has been going up.  I am so frustrated!

Jaimieh

Okay so I am a day early and most of my loss is from surgery but I will take is I weighed in at 150.6 and I am hoping that in the next week to be back in the 140's permanently.  So I FINALLY will have a loss.  The great thing is that I am still swollen so I know that there will be more.  Now I just need to make good food choices and slowly start exercising again.  I am currently exhausted from surgery and not being able to take pain meds is not helping my sleeping.  After a good nights sleep I feel so much better but it has been a couple of days since I got a good nights sleep. 

mimi1964

Good Luck Jaimieh with your surgery... I hope you heal fast and have little pain.  Oh yeah, and that the weight stays down for you.  LOL! 

 Renee

Jaimieh

Thanks Renee~ I had it last Thursday so I am good now   Just slow and in pain but I will be good soon. 

Valjean

Jaimieh ~ Hope you get a good night's sleep soon. It will help your recovery & your energy level. So you can't even take a Tylenol PM? Bummer! Maybe a warm bath & warm milk before bed? Smell some lavendar for relaxation?

{{A gentle hug for you}} 

Meece

No loss for me again this week.  I am getting really frustrated.  This last month has been no loss at all!  I don't get it.  The first six pounds came off pretty easily.

PauldingMom

Jameih- You take care of yourself. Forget about weight for a while and just get well!

Meece- I think our scales are in co-hoots! Nothing lost for me either, but I do feel smaller. So I'll smile and keep up the good work, you do the same.
Okay I am done bossing you all around. You all have a wonderful weekend and Happy Mothers day! 

Valjean

No loss for me either. I guess that last posted weight was just a fluke....

On a happier note,

      HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO MY SISTERS !!!

Meece

Happy Mother's Day to all of you as well!

Ainm

Meece - what did I do wrong???  You never up dated my stats last week and now I've gained this week so I've lost a whole week of basking in success!!!! Boohoo!!!!!!

Actually I don't know how you find the time to concentrate on finding all our weigh in info and updating it all the time.   Can you put me down as 162.26 please (up about half a pound on last week).  I am finding it much tougher now, for a long time I averaged 2lbs a week but it's down to 1.8 a week now and disimproving weekly!!!

We had Mother's Day here in March but I do wish all the Mothers among you a very Happy and Relaxed Mother's Day!!!

Meece

No, I will post last weeks, since we are working off our best wiehgts.  Sorry, I don't know what happened!

o2bhealthy

It must be that the fates are conspiring against all of us...no loss this week for me either, actually I would be thrilled to be back at my starting weight...

Ainm

Oh Meece - I'm basking!!!! (slightly dishonestly!!) - Thank you!!!

It has been getting harder so any little perk is great!!! My own official weigh in day is Monday and for the past 38 weeks I have always been lucky enough to log a loss no matter how small on the day but I'm getting perilously close to failing this week so I hope I can hold tough for the weekend!!!  In one way I'm really happy that it's not Mother's Day here!!!

Hopefully the fates will smile kindly on us all for next Friday!!

mimi1964

Meece I lost 1 lb this week so I am at 152...Missing Sheila!  Hope she is having fun!!

Renee

carollynn79

Not doing too well on weight, 214 lots of work stress have to figure out how to manage better.  Trying to decide if I want to switch to a different job at work, will decide next week, boss has more ideas, I want to slow down a bit we will see.

mimi1964

Happy Mothers Day to all my E-lab ladies.  Hoping you all have the most wonderful day ever!

Renee

Meece

I tried to be good today.  One small piece of coffee cake, fresh fruit for breakfast, two pieces of Hawaian pizza for lunch, a piece of cheese bread, and a couple of Cheetos.  I wasn't hungry for dinners, and I worked int he yard for several hours.  I feel good that I wasn't hungry.

Happy Mother's Day, ladies!

Jaimieh

I weighed in on Friday at 150.5   Slowly moving again...thank you ladies for the well wishes.  My PS said that moving would be the best thing for me so slowly scooting around I go.  I can't wait to get running again I really need the stress relief. 

mimi1964

I have really cheated and have eaten tons of oreo cookies this weekend.  Very bad!! I've been depressed over my abnormal labs and when I get down I eat junk food.  Gotta try to get back on the wagon.  It's really hard though not knowing what the low platelets, hemocrit and hemoglobin are from.  O.k. that is my WHINE today.  On a happier note... my daughter bought me the most beautiful white gold sapphire necklace and my DH got me the Fossible Alabama BSC championship watch I have been wanting.  So, overall a very good day.  I am going to try to clean here in a little while.  Thanks to all of you.

Renee

faithandfifty

What a very dear, wonderful group of supportive sisters we have gathered around this simple challenge: to make better choices for ourselves.

Meece. My heart fluttered while reading of your biological sister's interactions thru time. Know that we are here for you. We are here to offer you encouragement -- just as you offer it to us. It is helpful to know where the "tapes" begin that eat away at our self esteem. We are here to help you erase those insults and to build you up. We love you.

Mimi. You are our shining star. You have lost over 20 pounds in the time that I have gained and lost one pound 20 times. I'm obviously not yet dedicated to this project, but your example gives me hope that one day I might make progress. Thank you for your example. I pray that there are answers soon for your test results.

As I have had my two most gradiose weeks of work & travel since my surgery at the beginning of the year, I again allowed myself to gorge on all the goodies that were available along the trail.

This new journey into the swelling in my arm and learning the first tidbits of Lymphodema have been a true challenge to my soul. I will see the therapist three times this week -- in an effort to bring some physical relief. There is still a possibility that this pain is a temporary situation, due to the infection and not the permanent appearnce of LE. Time will tell. In the meantime, I am not sporting a compression sleeve & gauntlet.... yet another constant reminder that all is not well with me.

In the meantime, I will attempt NOT to self-medicate with cookies this week. Knowing you are here as a team, reigns me in from loosing it completely. I am back again to where I started as far as my weight. To that I give this thread all the credit.

This week I will be primarily here at home..... going to appointments and doing my best to do my PT exercises. I only have one school day on the horizon. So I can exhale deeply and attempt to get some perspective on all of my unknowns.

The one sentence that always offers me comfort is from a Buddhist writer, Pema Chodrin. She suggests that whenever we feel a negative emotion (fear, pain, sorrow etc) we intone to ourselves, "Other people feel this." It has always made me feel comfort. I am not unique to this issue -- whatever it might be. I am never alone. This thread reminds of the same thing.

I wish each of you strength for the week ahead. Brilliant insight at the choices as they present themselves. And lots of laughter to grease the week. Walk away from the old habits, walk toward the new.

xx00xx00xx00xx

Strength and courage.

Strength and courage.

Strength and courage.

goodvibesonly

Meece--could you log me on for 132 (again) for Friday.  Thanks. I haven't had time to read or post for a few days. Did OK on eating until tonights dinnner for Mother's Day.  Oh, well. It was worth it!

Happy Mother's Day!

Jean 

cakeisgreat

Hi, all!

Happy Mother's Day!

I have stayed the same for two weeks, and I cant figure out why.  Well, the beginning part I had ONE ice cream sundae.  The only thing that is different is that I have been eating more carbs.  Interesting...

I managed to eat only 1100 cals today for mother's day, which I was so surprised...I had a BLT for dinner...very tasty I might say!  And cereal in the morning...but still only 1100 cals.  I better lose weight this week!  I have so much more to lose!

PS--I use a great website to count calories...posting in case anyone wants to use.  Free and they grade you on how you ate for the day...

http://caloriecount.about.com/ 

goodvibesonly

cakeisgreat--Thanks for the website. I am going to set up my account now!  This looks awesome. I think it will really help me! Sounds like you did really great today!  Keep up the good work.

Have a great Monday. 

Meece

I didn't do well today at all.  I had about 1100 calories just for breakfast.  No lunch, but made my Mother a Pork tenderloin with apples, red cabbage, fresh carrots from the garden, red potatoes, salad, rolls and strawberry short cake with whipped cream for dessert, and I ate some of everything!  I WIL do Better this week.

Faith, thank you so much for your words of care.  It really means a lot to me.  I try not to think about it much, but when I do the memories pour in, and unfortunately, I cannot think of one pleasant one when I think of my sister's intereaction with me.  Some are more bizarre than I care to think of.

(((Hugs))) to you for your special caring and your smile.  I can picture it even when you don't have you picture up!

Valjean

I hope everyone's Mother's Day was wonderful. I talked to my #2 DD on the phone (she is 7 hours from me) & my #1 DD stopped by with a beautiful summer planter of flowers (which is still in the house due to freeze warning out for tonight-when is spring going to really be here!) & a Wacky Cake. The cake is homemade chocolate with buttercream frosting & 1/2 was for this Mom & 1/2 for her Mother-in-law. I only had one piece-yummy-& that is all I will have. It is DH's fav cake & he can have the rest. I had my first grilled hamburger of the year & asparagus for dinner. BAD: As well as the piece of cake, I had some of those little Hostess Donettes for breakfast, the chocolate ones. OM, haven't had them in years, they were sooooo good; I did not look at the calorie count.

Wonderful to hear your words of encouragement, faithandfifty. "Walk away from the old habits, walk toward the new." I think I need to run from them this week!! "Other people feel this.".....I just don't know what I'd be like if I didn't have you all here, I wish I could meet you all & tell you that in person.... "I will attempt to not self-medicate with (  ) this week." That's what it is, isn't it? I need to distract myself, I need to focus on something else, something more.... not on what I will have to eat next... I hope your therapist will bring you some relief this week.

cake ~ I am going to check out that caloriecount website as well. Thank you!

I am thinking postitive, we WILL have a good week!!

PauldingMom

G-U-I-L-T-Y!!! Sunday's I always say NO to the yummy donuts at church. But this Mother's day I caved. It was so delicious. Then I ate 9 hot wings and one giant piece of white pizza at lunch when we went to visit our son at work. He works at a pizza joint. I skipped dinner and went for a walk. I'll be paying for this, I know it. But today is Monday and I'm back up on the wagon  Here's wishing you all a great week full of healthy choices. 

Meece

Paulding, did you end up having a cookie at bedtime, or did you choose the strawberry shortcake?

PauldingMom

Cookie, saved the strawberry shortcake for breakfast.

mimi1964

Oh well let's not feel bad I think the majority of us fell off the wagon (LOL) this weekend!! haha

It'll be o,k. we will jump back on the wagon train this week and hopefully by Friday we will lose a lb or 2.  I pray... (fingers crossed)!!! 

O.k. I guess it's salad for me the rest of the week.  And chicken and more chicken or tuna.  Sigh...

I gotta reach that 150 lb mark.  

Renee

sheila888

Hi Ladies...Im fine. happy and safe.

Weird thing I dont even feel like eating. Not much appetite.

Weather is perfect here.

Had some chocolate cake couldnt even finish it.

Hugs to all my sisters

Sheila