Okay ya'll. I haven't been on here in a while and the scales show it! I recently moved and gave up on diet and exercise during all of it. I have exercised some, but not enough. I am back again cause this site seems to help me. It is still hard, but this site seems to be a crutch that helps me limp along when I need it and get me back on my feet. I will weigh in in the morning and post my new weight. Ugh! But it's all good. I'll be back to what I was in a few weeks and back on track! I do better as a daily weigher, so I plan on weighing every morning and posting it here. EVEN ON THE WEEKENDS!!! Which, for a lot of us, is the worst part of the week diet wise! I'm sick of letting it be okay for me to over eat. I shouldn't deprive myself but it should NEVER be okay to overeat. No more bingeing. That's NOT okay. No "days off". Healthy eating should be an everyday all day thing. Not saying I'll never have a piece of chocolate cake or a brownie. There's nothing wrong with that. But not eating half the damn cake or 2 or 3 brownies at a time! So....here I go again! Success is on the way! If I work hard I can lose quite a bit before my b-day in August!! I'm not setting an amount, but just enough to be very noticeable. So wish me luck, pray for me, and I'm glad to be back!!

Welcome back, :wn

Just know THAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE WHATEVER GOALS YOU SET FOR YOURSELF .. take it one day at a time ... one meal at a time; and also KNOW THAT HERE AT DIETTALK each one of us IS CHEERING YOU ON :cheer: Always, Monica

:hug: Welcome back. Its not important of what happened while you where gone as much as you are back to fight

Thanks Monica and Small!

Okay, I am back up to 208. That sucks, but I did it to myself. Today will be the last day I will EVER way 208!

That is wonderful. Sometimes doing it once makes us push harder to do it again.

I weighed in at 205.4 this morning!! YAY!

Okay, time for my pity party. I had a binge today. Bunch of choc. chip cookies and swiss rolls. I hate me when I do that. I'm just being honest. I really do hate me at that moment in time! I don't know why I did it. I guess cause I have a docotors appt. tomorrow because I have been suffering from headaches for a really long time. Maybe I am worried over that. It's funny cause I hope that my headaches are connected to my weight somehow and whatever cure the doc gives me will solve both problems. Yeah, I know...that whole sentence should start with Once upon a time and end with She lived happily ever after. I'm just sick of my weight and sick of food ALWAYS being on my mind. A constant battle!! I look back on the binge and think to myself WHY???? You know how you'll feel afterwards..why did you do that?? I have been going thru this for too freakin' long. I'm so sick of it! I want to make the change, I really do, but I just can't seem to do it. I do good for a while and then I dont' know.... UGH! I don't know what else to do. I"ve tried everything. I feel like an alcoholic or drug addict. I don't know how recovering addicts do it! Kudos to them. I just pray one of these days this will be something I look back on and think about how happy I am that I finally made that change and got healthy and lost weight.

Went to the doctor and found out I am hypoglycemic. That explains a lot. Now I have to change my diet for other health reasons than just losing weight. I feel better, but I am craving sweets like crazy!!!! lol

I think once you get past cravings for a little bit (a week maybe?) they will go away. I used to be a total soda fiend way back when, chugging diet pepsi all day long. To be honest, it's been so long since that time, I don't know why I stopped in the first place (probably all the chemicals). Now, I don't crave soda at all. Once in a blue moon, I will enjoy one, but it has to be a good quality "micro-brew" kinda brand, and even then, it is very rare. (and ordering water at restaurants is so much healthier and cheaper (!) than the alternatives)

If you are hypoglycemic, please be careful with your eating habits. I know you said you binged so much a few days ago, I wonder if that would have had an effect on the dr.'s results? Either way, doesn't matter, you have a fragile metabolism that you need to be mindful of. Be thankful that it has not developed into diabetes. Through good habits (diet and exercise), you should be able to keep this under control. And the things that work well for controlling your hypoglycemia are the same things that will cause you to lose weight. Listen to your doctor!

I think if you try to be very strict for a week, but allow yourself yummy fruits for desserts, you will have less cravings for sweets in the future. Telling yourself, it's only for today, it's only for a week, etc. may keep you distracted enough that your body gets the idea and you don't crave anymore.

I also want to second everything MonicaPink said. Best wishes!

I think being told that I am hypoglycemic is the best thing that ever happened to me. It has given me more willpower I guess you could say. When I think about eating the stuff I shouldn't I remind myself that it isn't healthy for me, it will hurt me. And that means so much more than just saying..I won't lose weight if I eat that. I do have to say that the cravings were horrible yesterday. I pigged out on some low carb/low sugar ice cream. Well, I didn't do THAT bad, but bad enough that I felt extremely tired last night and have a horrible headache this morning. Which means my blood sugar shot down again. Lesson learned! I think next time I'll buy the low carb fudge bars instead of the tub of ice cream. That will be easier to control my servings. Although, this headache this morning and not getting anything done last night is really teaching me a lesson! Not sure I would want to overdo it again! It's kinda like the time when I was a kid and I got the stomach flu, but I had eaten spaghetti that night so I associated getting sick with the spaghetti and then didn't eat spaghetti for years after that. The thought of eating too much of anything right now is not appealing at all. UGH But this is how I learn to gadge what I can eat and how much. It's nice to have this journal as well so I can go back and read it and find patterns in how I felt after certain things I ate.

Welcome to my world. Though I still eat junk but yeah, it does horrible things to you. Watch what you eat, and eat mini meals is my suggestion to help keep your sugar up. Keep some sweets on hand. Especially graham crackers, peanut butter, and orange juice if you like those things. The sugar to get it back up and the peanut butter, or any protein really but peanut butter tastes better with graham crackers, for those emergency times.