CC Roll Call ~ Sept 19-09

[Sarina D]

Gooooooood morning everyone!!!!

Man alive I have missed all of you soooo much. I am terribly sorry I haven't been around or very supportive lately....I think of all of you each morning and throughout my day when I'm working...you're always in my thoughts daily.

These last couple of months have been difficult for our family and I've only been able to pop in occasionally, however, I think from now on (till the next serious curve ball is thrown our way) I'll have a bit more time and be able to pop in and say hello more often.

Much has been happening recently.....I will cut and paste part of what I shared with Mick this morning on my Before and During thread:

Btw! Guess what!?!?!??!! I found a fabulous vitamin that I can take!!!! It's called Bone Up. It contains many different vitamins and minerals (that I should be taking daily) and it hasn't given me any problems! I'm pretty excited about that because supplements are important to take and as I mentioned a while back I had to cut a number of them out of my routine because I was experiencing some adverse effects....not with this one! I'm pretty pleased about that!

I took 2 x weeks off from exercising, something I will NEVER do again I can tell you that!!!! I felt I needed a rest, with the incredible back pain from my old injury, helping my mother in law out, feeling rather exhausted and not having enough time in the day I thought taking some time off would be a "good" thing. NEVER again will I do that unless I am absolutely not able to exercise. In two weeks I bounced back up to 187 lbs and my craving for food and my nasty old habit of getting up in the middle of the night to have a weeeee snack came back. August was absolutely horrible for me....the same as May was when I had to take a month off from tearing a rectus abdominal muscle. I have proved three times now to myself that exercise is an integral part of the success I have accomplished to date as well as any continued success that I wish to achieve. I can tell you, I felt more stressed, I stiffened up like crazy and just didn't feel myself. I started back up exercising this week on Monday and I've come back down and actually lost another pound so I'm now at 177 lbs! I am relieved and aside from feeling stiff (I've really worked out this week) I'm feeling fabulous and back on my game again. I'm not craving, nor am I getting up in the middle of the night for the "snack". I get up early and get in a workout before heading to my office and when I arrive home I fit in my other workout....I'm feeling like a million bucks again!

I've changed my workout up a lot and revised it. My old back injury has been really aggravated from running on my glider, so instead of doing that everyday, I have incorporated kick boxing and some other forms of cardio through the week and I'm staggering my workouts on my glider as well as my stationary bike. Of course I still am training my upper, core/abs and lower body with weight training and targeted exercises...in conjunction with the cardio. I can already see and feel a difference in just doing this new workout. I think this will be what brings me to goal in the next six months...here's hoping!!!!!

So that is a wee update on some of what I've been going through. I'm glad to see the scales moving again and I'm on the last stretch, heading head strong towards goal!

I hope all of you are doing well, have a lovely low carb weekend!

Sarina
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Heaviest weight - 403 lbs. (2007)
April 1, 2008 - 387 lbs. (This is when I initially started to lose weight…but was not on Atkins at this point)
Atkins start weight – 347 lbs. (July 19, 2008 – began Atkins)
1st major goal met -----100 lbs. lost as of Oct 2, 2008 - Hit 300 lbs. on this day – From April 1-08 when I initially begin to lose weight.
2nd major goal met - 151 lbs. lost as of Jan 13, 2009 - Hit 249 lbs. on this day.
3rd major goal met - Wed, May 13-09 - Reached losing 200 lbs. in just over a year and a couple of months.
4th major goal met – Reached “Onederland” June 6-09 – 198 lbs.
5th major goal met - My 1 yr. Atkins anniversary - Weighing 184 lbs. this day
Current weight – 177 lbs.
Goal weight - 150 – 160

[FwL]

Good morning low carb maniacs.

[quiltkat]

Good morning Sarina and Forrest,
Have a great weekend everyone.

[RitaCeleste]

I think I broke my rotissere trying to get it to work. I tried adjusting it with the pliers and it pops out of the groove its suppose to turn in. It didn't come with ANY directions at all. It still turns and the chicken doesn't fall. It'll still rotissere a chicken so I guess its fine. It doesn't turn as smooth because the square part is balancing in the notch of the groove rather than the round part. But the chicken seems fine and evenly cooked. Oh, well, I got an OVEN to cook in! And I am cooking a chicken in it. I had a little whoosh and lost a pound this week. I think that means I can add a peice of fruit here and there as long as I watch my daily carbs. Gonna take longer to be sure. So no more thinking of a peice of fruit as a cheat of death! Wishing everyone a good weekend!