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

Hello Divas,

Well you'd think after walking 7 miles I would have lost at least 1 pound - NOT!!!!!!!

I had a bad day yesterday, went to see primary dr for the joint stiffness in hands and wrists (onc has me off Arimidex now for 3 weeks thinking that was cause - but it hasn't gotten better only worse!) So saw primary to get a jump on this whatever it is, gave me script for prednisone until I can see rheumatoligist. Had bloodwork done yesterday, my veins are now totally shot. My good spot is trashed after a year of blood draws for chemo - she stuck the needle in and nothing, she finally got some to come out but very very slowly (not enough - so she trashed it). Gave up there and tried the hand - not much better but was able to get what she needed. So I stopped at the favorite mexican down the street from work on my way back (oh - I was at the lab for 1 hr 20 mins - they only had one tech). After work, needed to do grocery shopping to shop for the diet food - veggies and fruit etc. and decided too hot to cook - too tired . . . so got fried chicken from deli.

Happy to report, that today is a new day and I will be good today!!!

Janet, how long will you be in San Diego???? I'm here in So. Cal a few hours away - my Mom & brother live in Carlsbad, which is only about 40 mins from SD. Marsha's down that way too. Be nice if we could arrange to meet. Congrats on your weight loss.

Eileen, good job on your pounds gone.

Thanks everyone for the kudos on my walk.

Marsha, where are you?? Training for your walk???

Diane, enjoyed the poem.

Hugs,

Lois

Janet,

Enjoy your trip - the weather will be great. I'm sure you've got your sight seeing all planned, but one place I always enjoyed was Balboa Park.

You might be right about the retention - makes sense. Problem is I'm on the stupid steriods now - so I'll probably be in "retention" for awhile now! LOL

Hugs,

Lois

Hi Divas--hope you are all doing well and gearing up for the Labor Day Weekend. My Birthday's on Saturday (I was an actual Labor Day Baby back in 1961). I'll be weighing in on Sat. a.m. and not expecting good news with the week I've had. Oh well, there's always next week!

Lois--congrats on breaking a new barrier! By the way, steriods do increase your appetite. My 10 yr. old has asthma, and when she's sick and using the steriod inhalers, her appetite is just incredible. Hope your joint stiffness/pain improves!

Patti--you've got the right attitude--just hang in there no matter how long it takes. I have a friend (hope I'm not repeating myself here), she has been going to WW for the last 3 years and is now down 40 pounds (wants to loose about 10 more). Anyway, it took her 3 years but she just stuck with it. She says if she had been perfect the weight would have come off much faster, but she never gave up when she had a bad day or week or even month. So when I'm in a rut like this past week, I look at my friend for inspiration and I refuse to give up!!

Have a safe and enjoyable weekend everybody! Can't believe the summer's over :-(

Eileen

Hellooooo, Divas!!!
Sorry that I have been among the missing. I haven't made time to visit...too much going on.

Patti, I was stuck last week too. Do you think eating Chinese food for three straight days could have done it? I weigh in on Sundays, so I am hoping that I will show a loss this week. I'm sure you will start to lose again too. It's normal to have a week here or there where we don't lose. Have you checked out the WW discussion boards? Some of those people have plateaus that last MONTHS...I hope that doesn't happen to me.

Lois, You are my hero with the walking! You are doing so well despite the joint pain. And, you're right...you enjoyed your Mexican food and fried chicken for the special treats they were, but as a general practice, you are eating lower calorie, healthier foods. That's a great way to go through life. Congratulations on your pound loss.

Eileen, Great weight loss!!! And, HAPPY BIRTHDAY tomorrow!!! Here's a virtual cake for your celebration...no calories!!!

Janet, six pounds in six weeks is a terrific weight loss record, particularly on Tamoxifen. Keep it up. I wish you were going to be here on the West Coast a little longer. Lois and I would try to come down to see you. I'm sure you will have a terrific time in San Diego. There's so much to do there and Balboa is lovely.

Have a safe and happy holiday weekend everyone. See you next week.

HI Divas as usual on the run here. still doing ww and staying with flex points. Hurt the ankle on treadmill so am sidelined for a week or too but am having physio to that. Hope you all have a restful weekend with your families and enjoy what is left of our warm weather. My weigh in day is thursday so I am a little late inposting. here is agood site for ww points.www.quiddity.cc/rachel/diet/wwfoods

I'm 73 and 3 weeks ago had a MRM with reconstruction. I had lost 60 pounds with a combination of Weight Watchers and Curves over the past 18 months and was in the best shape I had been in in years (no pun intended). I can hardly wait to get back to both, especially if I have to have chemo--which I won't know until this Friday when I see the oncologist.
Exercise alone wouldn't do it for me--I had been going to a gym. But WW and Curves together really made a huge difference.
It seems so ironic that when I was in such good shape the cancer showed up. But I'm sure it is helping my recovery after the mastectomy. I can't imagine what it would have been like 60 pounds ago!
Good luck, all of you. And by the way the WW web site has lots of great recipes..and so do a lot of other sites. Just look for "recipes" and "diet" on the web. Love you all....
Jeri

I started the core plan at weight watchers.I've lost 6 pounds & I really like the plan.I start rads in the next week or so & the dr says I can only lose around a pound a week.My friend & I walk at the mall for an hour every morning before the mall opens.I just read an article about keeping the weight down to help prevent bc so I'll try anything

Welcome Judy and Jeri--there's always room for more Divas here!

Thank you all for the birthday greetings. In honor of my birthday I gained back 1.6 pounds And then of course spent the Labor Day weekend going to BBQ's and eating birthday cake--not calorie free like the cyber kind! (Thanks for my cake Marsha--glad to see you posting again!). Okay the party is over and it's back to business now!

Lois--It sounds like you have broken through the weight barrier--good for you! Hope your wrist starts feeling better soon.

Dawn--great weight loss, glad you like the core plan. I'm thinking of trying it one week--just have to get organized and stock up on the right foods. They don't want you to loose a lot of weight during rads (I used that as my reason to not join WW's until I was done!), it throws off the calculations for the machines.

Welcome back Janet--so glad you had a great trip. I think we could allow a strawberry daquiri as a fruit--what do the rest of you Divas think? I'm looking forward to the Jones Beach Walk--I'm going to start "training" with one of my sisters--we're going to meet on Thursdays at Eisenhower Park and walk. I'm hoping all 3 of my sisters will join me at the walk--do you know where I can pick up more sponsor sheets??

Patti--I've been on strike where cooking is concerned for the past 10 months!! My kids are always shocked when I actually prepare a meal these days! I've got to get back in the swing of things. Lots of water will definitely help with the Chinese food! Love your singing!

Have a great week everyone!--Eileen

Diagnosed in August; no treatment yet. Terrified of gaining more weight. I've had a problem all my life. I started Weight Watchers & it was seeming to work. Does it work for BC patients? Can they give you appetite suppressants? I thought you were supposed to be unable to eat& to vomit if you did during chemo. Isn't this true? Can you just stop eating? Gaining weight would make me lose what little sense of self worth I still have being so out of control.

both my onco & rad dr let me stay on weight watchers.I start rads in the next week or so(hosp has no openings)& made sure I asked.She said as long as its only 1-2 lbs a week it is fine.I had a hard time on chemo doing it as I was sick the week of the chemo.I'm doing the new core program

Patti: I just want to remind you of my favorite saying from a Disney book my daughter had as a baby: "Slow and steady, steady and slow, that's the only way to go." I keep repeating this quote to myself with WW. It definitely helps to try to keep me focused even when I have small gains. I also found another old WW recipe that I think can be used on the Core Plan, and definitely on the Flex Points Plan. I'll have to post it.

Dawn: You are lucky your rad onc. will let you lose. I was told no more than a lb. either way for the 5 weeks, or it would throw everything off. Good luck with the Core Plan. I'm still doing the Flex Points, Core seemed to regimented for me. Let me know what you think it. Many people in my WW group have lost weight the past few weeks with Core.

I had a small gain this week (1.2 lbs.) but I know it's from my vacation and it was so worth it. Now I'm back on program and hopefully it will be all gone next week.

Hope everyone has a great week. - Janet

Hello Divas,
Welcome to all of the ladies who have started posting here. We are definitely in this together and the more women we have here, the more support we all get.

Patti, your quotes are cracking me up. Thanks for the laugh and congratulations on your weight loss. Have you considered the "Walk Away the Pounds" DVDs? They really are great and you can walk even when it is raining...just a thought.

I'm still losing. It's been so hot that I'm definitely overeating on the popsicle front, though. I can't switch to Core, Janet, because it doesn't have popsicles and I would use up the 35 flex in about 35 hours. I'm glad that you enjoyed San Diego. We had our hottest weekend of the year just for you!!! And, I'm sure you are right that you will lose any weight gained on vacation right away. I always gain a little when I fly because I tend to retain fluid when I'm not moving around.

Eileen, glad you had a nice celebration or two. You deserve to enjoy yourself. Now we just need to invent food with no calories...or figure out how to have the metabolism of a hummingbird!!!

Lois, How are you doing on your training for the 3-day walk? You are fantastic to take on such an incredible challenge. I am really looking forward to meeting you.

Well, onward we go. I can't wait for autumn. Unfortunately, we don't start to cool down until Halloween.

On another topic, I have been off Femara for about two weeks now and I'm already starting to feel more normal mentally. I'm still having some cognition issues, but it's not as bad as it was. No change in the hot flashes, but I took two Benadryl Tuesday night and slept about five hours without waking. That's the longest uninterrupted sleep I have had since I hit chemopause. I couldn't believe how good I felt. Sleep truly "knits the ravel'd sleeve of care" or words to that effect.

And, on even another topic (my, I'm chatty tonight), I'm going tomorrow to see my hair stylist for the first time since diagnosis. I still have bald spots, but I'm going to see if she can put some color on this salty, peppery mess so that I can stop using mascara to color the edges that show when I wear my wig.

And, finally, I am providing the food for a party on Saturday for a get-together of some of my friends. We try to see each other once or twice a year when everyone can get to California at the same time. I hope it cools down just a tad in spite of the weather forecast for no change. (The party is another reason why I would like color on my hair.)

Okay, I'll stop twittering on and on and on. You now are privy to all of the minutiae of my life... That is how I picture you ladies as you read this post...talk to you soon.

Patti,
Bought them at Target. Be sure you get the set with the Get up and Get Started, High Calorie Burn and Super Fat Burning. She has some old sets out there that I don't like as well. I think you can buy them on-line, too. Check out the Fitness Getting Started forum on the WW boards. They usually list a couple of web sites that people find stuff on.