Sheribear68

Well mostly the food in our cart is protein,veg,dairy, and the ever-important food group, iced coffee. The only time I add carbs in any form in my cart is when I’m shopping for an event. I actually do view carts full of soda pop, pop tarts, kid cereal, chips, crackers, cookies, ice cream, bread,pasta,boxes of Mac and cheese., etc to be “fat people food”. I know bc I used to have carts that looked like that and that’s part of why I got so fat. That being said, I don’t judge bc everyone has their story and that’s their business. It does make me sad though that the cheaper food is the stuff that’s mostly garbage. Not saying that only the MO walk around with carts like this, but there’s a much higher incident if it.

Yeah the facelift thing is something I’d love to get done late-spring/early summer. My face is actually fairly slimmed now and mostly it’s the turkey neck and droopy jowels I need gone. Wrinkles,have never bothered me, oddly enough. I just want clean contours around the jawline.

Following this thread also! I too have so many questions. And the party line/panty line mistype left me snorting out some hot tea just now.

Thanks for this insight. Lol, so even though we desire different body types, we can agree that plastics are the final “reward” for all of the hard work and dedication that we’ve gone through. Confession: when I was 13, I first learned about cellulite. I learned about it when I was in a changing room with other middle school girls and I was literally the only girl to have it—massive amounts to the point where one of my friends legit asked me what in the world was “all that”. I was 5’6” and probably not even 120 pounds and I had cellulite on top of cellulite. I also had DDDs, which garnered all kinds of attention I didn’t want and never asked for and quite frankly it overwhelmed me most of the time. At the time I was playing volleyball and that’s probably one of the very last times I wore short-shorts in either public or private. Meanwhile my cousins and siblings are all long-limbed, naturally lean, and have zero weird pockets of cellulite on their limbs. After a much-needed facelift, I’m going to get these damn thighs/knees worked on and I don’t care how painful the procedure is or how long the recovery process it. I’ll be damned if I get to a size 6/8 again and still have shame on half my body. Lol, waiting will be tough, but I do know I need another 10-12 months (outside of a facelift) for anything else. Sigh..., yet another summer of not being able to wear shorts or a swimsuit. 😔

If it were a waist-length coat, then I would love it, but I also think the length just doesn’t work

These stalls suck and do a number on your head. After hitting GW last month, I too decided to just kind of play things be ear for a few weeks and then this last week I’ve gotten a bit more serious bc I want to get a couple pounds below 150 to give myself some wiggle room for vacation. I too think I set a high-ish GW (155, 5’7”) and I’m okay with it bc I’m older and I’ve always had a lower RMR and I want to be able to eat 1200-1500 calories some day and quite frankly I could kill myself to try to get below 140..... but why? I guarantee if I did, then I would immediately gain 5-10 pounds the moment I started eating >750 calories/day so why stress it out? I think your lifting goal is awesome and where I plan on changing my body later is through plastics (for sculpting and skin removal) and through Pilates and running. Okay, so my GW has now shifted to any weight

Interesting thought I just had... In general, we are all our own worst critics. Lord knows I hated on myself more than my fair share of times for bringing home less than the best of choices. It could be we are projecting our own feelings of self-flagellation onto others. At the end of the day, I do very much still remember what it’s like to have people move aside before I could even reach them, or see the look on people’s faces whenever they had to sit next to me on a plane, or other form of public trans. Just physically taking up less space now makes me so happy (hello, my seatbelt snap thingie doesn’t dig into my hips anymore and I can fit into a public restroom stall) and it makes me sad when I see people in obvious physical pain out and about.

Agree with everyone on the dress! It looks FABULOUS on you! I completely sympathize on the heels situation. I can’t wear heels either and it suuuuuuuuucks

Woo! Finally busted through another “decade”. I hit GW of 155 on oct 12, and I’ve been solidly between 150-151.4 for the last 17 days. Today was my weekly weigh-in (I’m almost always semi-constipated and no poo for 3 days) and weighed in at 149.2. Goal for December 2 (trip to DC) is to weigh in at 148.0 to give myself 2-3 pounds flex gain.

Lol, well it isn’t actually a closet, but a bonus room over my garage that I’ve repurposed for my closet/storage/staging area. The apex of the room is only about 6.5 feet tall and the sloping ceilings make for some challenging storage solutions.

Interesting. Omg, I just have to say that the idea of eating even 40gm carbs day gives me severe anxiety, much less eating close to 100!

Okay so had to work late and didn’t get dinner eaten until 7pm. Today was rough. Had to have half a PP and some iced coffee to get through midday as I was about to snap at work. However, the coffee and the teensy bit of calories (about 80) got me through. Not sure if half a PP is as approved as salted bone broth, but that’s what I went with and I’m not trying to be a complete purist, ya know? Tomorrow will be the same except I just found out hubs has a last-minute business trip that will take him out of town until Friday, and he will have to entertain while he’s out. So.... my challenge is to stay “on plan” while I’m finding for myself and hubs is out wining and dining clients. Honestly I’m going to take an extra Pilates class, because I have tomorrow off and run 3 miles on the TM

Love this plan! I find that when I pre-plan indulgences, that I don’t get as tempted at other times bc I know I’ve got “my time” scheduled in. You know what I learned? I’ve learned that if I plan out these things, I eat and drink less than when I don’t have something planned out and life gets to me and I snap. We are not going to be perfect all of the time, but the key is to plan our imperfect moments and if we get caught up in accidental ones to learn from them and move on.

Wow,you guys are so well put together. Dang, I need accessories. So here is another boring pic. Yup, was heading out to work again. Yup another 7am shift.

Yeah, chocolate, pizza, Mexican food, etc I can use mind over matter. My prob is cocktails. I’m finding myself fantasizing about wine pairings with holiday food (and then having just 1 bite of, or skipping the food altogether) I did tell myself zero alcohol between now and next Thursday, so it’s a delayed gratification on that. I’ve already bought my wine and am allowing myself 2 glasses, and instead of dessert, I’m going to have a glass of tawny port I found this weekend.

Good luck! I’ve gone back to some 16:8 lately as I’m thinking I want to go on a very slight losing trend (5-7 pounds between now and Jan 1st) and we’ve got thanksgiving next week, followed by vacation the week after that. I was just commenting to hubs that I was wanting to do a OMAD Tuesday and Wednesday this week and next.

Honestly thanksgiving food doesn’t tempt me all that much. It’s the freaking appetizers that try to do me in. This year I have to work 9-2, which means the fam is eating right after I get home from work which means no appetizer time for me. I will be making Swedish meatballs and ham and cheese roll ups instead of chips and salsa and 7-layer dip. Stuffing I can live without, but I got 4 bottles of gewurztraminer to go with turkey and I’m going to try very hard to limit myself to 2 glasses of that and I found a nice tawny port that I’ll enjoy in lieu of dessert.

So glad to see this discussion. This last week at work was the absolute worst as far as candy,cookies,pie,cake,and brownies at work. ALL OF THOSE THINGS AT THE SAME TIME!!! I seriously thought I might have a nervous breakdown Thursday. Okay, so this isn’t the most pleasant of thoughts, but one of the customers who brought the brownies is MO. to overcome any temptation, I kept mentally comparing my size to hers, and went over my mental wish-list for a Christmas outfit and it got me past a couple of cravings. Don’t ever want to go back to looking and feeling like that again.

Posting to follow along. I won’t be ready for even a consult for a few months, but I figure this time next year or early 2021 will be about when I need to do it

Yes!!!! Yes to all of this! I have a long torso, short stubby and chunky legs. Had HUMONGOUS breast (i also would spill out of DDD) and got my reduction in 2010 after a bout with breast cancer bc finally my insurance would pay for it. Went from G cup to B cup and haven’t regretted one instant of it. I’m definitely an A cup now and I’m actually pretty thrilled with the fact. For me, the ONLY way I’m getting these chunky legs taken care of is lipo the cellulite that covers my upper legs. Then of course get rid of all the loose skin and excess flab hanging on my waist/lower abs. Sadly there’s no amount of exercise or toning that can remove saggy, flappy skin. Oh and sorry sillykitty, I’m kinda jacking your plastics thread, but since I’m nowhere close to a consult I didn’t want to start one of my own and I wanted to vent about frustrations with my bod even after losing >100 pounds.

On this topic, I’ve had a rough few days at work lately and it wasn’t helped by the fact that some customers and employee spouses have been making sweets for us. On Thursday, we had a pie, 1 birthday cake, some brownies, and 2 DIFFERENT batches of cookies on the back counter. I’m proud to say I didn’t even have a nibble off of even one corner of anything, but it brought home just how toxic and dangerous this season is. Last week I ran the gauntlet, but I’ve got at least 7-8 weeks to go *sigh*

Okay so one of my friends almost died earlier this year and she’s currently needing to get on a heart transplant list, but they won’t even put her on the list due to her super-MO ( if I had to guess, I would say she’s at least 350+ pounds, and that would be a conservative guess). The answer her docs have come up with? Bariatric surgery to get off a hundred pounds or more, then she can be on a transplant list. Her prognosis without transplant? Not good at all. She’s 46 years old and they are telling her she’ll likely not see 50 without it. Her response? She’s still freaking “undecided” bc she doesn’t want to “lose her current relationship to food” It was an extremely rough convo for me to have bc she’s a highly intelligent woman, but I just can’t believe that she’s honestly thinking about allowing food to literally kill her. For the record, all I did was go over the pros and cons of WLS, and tried my best to not sound like I was trying to convince her, but dang it was tough bc i know what will happen if she doesn’t do it

Honestly if I’m lucky enough to drop another size, my tummy pooch will look just like that. Right now is still semi-disguised in clothes bc I still am carrying more weight around my hips/lower abs, but with no clothes on it’s very noticeable

Lol. Okay so prior to last nights OU/Baylor game I would’ve said okay. Um...... hubs and I stopped counting calories when we opened wine bottle #3 right after halftime. Lol, at the end of the day though, this mornings headache is STILL worth it

I’m most grateful for my body keeping me alive despite me not treating right by carrying around an extra 100+ pounds on it for over 20 years. I took care of it so poorly, that I got breast cancer in ‘09 and it even withstood a year of chemo and radiation. Quite amazing, really. Oh I still get hangry, but the problem is that I don’t recognize the signs as early as I used to, so I can get pretty mean bf I realize what the problem is