Trying hard to lose the pounds!!!!!!!!!

Hi everyone - weighed in this morning - lost 2 last week. I'm glad this is on-line and I can weigh naked, wouldn't be as good with clothes!

Am down to 197 and am still doing well with the points - I must have ate like a field hand before because this is plenty of food that I get now! Total loss is 12lbs in 4 weeks.

Hope everyone has a great week!
Kari

Great job Keri.

Denise - do you have any kind of arch support insert in your shoes?

You might give these a try - have been using them for about a week and the pain is much improved.

Insoles

In the health section of the washington post they had an article about this today.

www.washingtonpost.com

KariLynn,
Thanks for the link-I did order the insoles and I appreciate your help.

Rose-thanks for the Wash Post link. That article is the most informative that I have read yet about Plantar Faciitis.

Heck, with you ladies, who needs doctors?
Just send me your bills, please.

Denise

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You Gals are making me hungry. I have been doing GI diet for 2 weeks and its doabble, real simple. losing a pound a week and i am also cheating on the odd goody. some days more than others

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I really like the GI diet too Floss. I particularly like this low GI banana smootie recipe, it's really tasty.

Mango

Hi Gals:
Just wanted you to know that I am going to be off the boards for about a month - going to be babysitting. First I'm taking care of my grandson in Chicago and then going to Milwaukee to help out with my granddaughter while my daughter/son-in-law move to their new house. I may be able to get on the computer at times but not sure how much. We'll see . . .
Anyway, in regard to losing weight, I'm very discouraged since I've lost only a pound in about a month. I know alot of it is my own fault with "cheating" but golly, didn't think I cheated that much!!!
Anyway, my goal is to try very hard while I'm away and then come home with at least a four or five pound loss. Sound reasonable???
Good luck to all you divas - I'll miss you but will get back online when I can.
Blessings,
Pat

Okay, so today, I did my week's worth of errands and shopping and my plantar faciitis is killing me. I haven't yet received the super insoles that I sent for, but I did have my energizing massaging gel heel for my shoe. But it doesn't help much at all. My foot just burned really bad all day. So I got to thinking-what I really need is something soft and cushy to put in my shoe and it came to me-the cotton boob form that came with my Softee camisole.
I filled it with the fiberfill to make a little boob, and put it in my walking shoe! It is great!!!!!
Lets see, now I have a real saline implant, a prothesis, a soon to be back expander boob in my back, and one in my shoe!
Anyone else know someone with 4 boobs???
I am so smart.
Quasi

195 today!! Yeah, two more pounds. I was at 193 Sunday am but made myself eat more of my allowance points so I wouldn't get the computer-generated reprimand. Got it anyway.

I rarely use all of my weekly allowance - do you guys use them??

I'm not on WW but I think I'm using your extra points.

Yeah KariLynn!!! I think sticking to the 2 pounds a week pace is a good idea. You want this change to be longlasting so changing your habits SLOWLY is better. Keep up the good work.

Denise - what kind of a reaction do you get from the cortisone? That was mentioned to me in connection with my foot nerve thing- does it keep you off your feet?

Hi Denise (Quasi!!)--

You are cracking me up all over the discussion boards!!! First a boob in your back, and now a boob in your shoe. OMG!!!!

I have plantar fasciitis in my left foot. It started 10 years ago and I kept feeling inside my shoe heel to try to find the nail that I was so sure was in there. I finally went to the doctor and was sent to physical therapy.

The physical therapist used some kind of ultrasound on my heel and also had me do exercises for the back of the calf muscles, ice packs, and whirlpool soaks, and she had me get arch support inserts--the kind that you get in medical supply stores, NOT the kind you find in drugstores. I have had absolutely flat arches all my life and my left arch is much worse and quite painful compared to my right arch and the left foot is the one with the bad heel too.

The arch supports, from the minute I started wearing them, really helped my heel get better. The arch supports hold your foot up in such a way that does not make your heel roll in your shoes. I also was advised to always wear shoes (like running shoes) with at least one inch of thickness under your heel, with heel stabilizers built in on the sides to keep your heels from rolling side to side, and with the kind of rubber that you find in running shoes, but don't find in cheap shoes.

In five months I was in much better shape with my heel and I wore arch supports for probably about five years with no repeat problems in the heel. I have stopped wearing them and only occasionally feel slight pain in my left heel when I am sitting in my recliner with my feet out and with no weight on them. But I have no problems with my heel otherwise.

Now, if the physical therapy I am getting for my degenerated discs in my very painful back would just get better, maybe I could walk long enough to lose weight and get back into shape.

The inserts that you ordered may do the trick, but if they don't, maybe try the harder (but cushioned) arch supports to see if they work. They took a little bit for me to get used to them but they really worked for me. I can't remember the brand name of the arch supports but I could look on the internet and try to find the name if you are interested, so let me know.

Good luck with your heel pain. Hope something works.

Hugs,
Celia088