Program derailed, and having trouble...

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Program derailed, and having trouble...
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Tue, 04-06-2004 - 2:06pm
getting back on track. I'm frustrated, and irritated with myself!! I was doing great for a montyh -appropriate calories, and working out every night (alternationg weights with stationary biking for an hour). After all that, I had not lost ANY weight. GRRR!!! (another hypo-thyroid here). SO..I let that get me down and slid badly on my eating - had some potato chips, chocolate, etc. thankfully I didn't GAIN any weight! Well, I got back on the plan yesterday, but I haven't worked out in nearly a week. I tried last night and can't do it - I have a mild case of "walking pneumonia" and my chest is so rattly and wheezy that I can barely breathe at the best of times. Then this morning I woke up with the best of intentions, but just ate a chocolate bar - one of the big ones! Feeling really weak and disappointed right now. :-( I've tried SO many times in the past and always failed, so I know I'm battling a sub-conscious expectation that I will inevitably fail again. And as if to add insult to injury - in the middle of my hypnotism CD, my Cd player broke - talk about a sign! I guess there is no advice other than to get right back on the eating plan, and save the exercise until my chest is clear, but I had to confess my sins :-)
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Registered: 05-19-2003
Tue, 04-06-2004 - 4:09pm
hi, so u feeling better since you talked about it? I have had the same feelings but i'm sure as soon as you feel better you'll be back in the routine you had set up for yourself.

I have had days when i go over in my alloted calories or didn't eat healthy(cupcakes this weekend..lol) i have a moment of guilt then i remember that this is a life change for me and i won't go through life without occasional sweets. I don't myself on a diet too many diets fail. I know i am doing something right since i am losing so i just repeat that to myself when i get down.

Take care of yourself and feel better we got that challenge coming next week =)
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Registered: 04-08-2004
Thu, 04-08-2004 - 6:50pm
A big chocolate bar? You mean one of those 1 lb Hershey bar types? Good lord, those things have over 1,000 calories and god knows how much fat, mostly saturated the heart clogging kind. How could anybody do it? This I don't understand, even the swallowing that much part????????????????/ Why?????????????

And if your CD player broke, you still have a CD drive in your computer, right? Ever think of listening to your CD from the CD drive in front of you?

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Registered: 05-19-2003
Thu, 04-08-2004 - 7:01pm
good lord get off your high horse, this is a support board
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Thu, 04-08-2004 - 7:04pm
LOL!!! Ha ha ha ha!!! Not that you actually care, but no, it wasn't that big a chocolate bar - it was one of those that is about 1/3 bigger than the regular ones. And the idea of trying to do hypnotism sitting at a desk chair in front of my computer is hilarious!! Although, come to think of it, you DO sometimes put me into sort of a trance....

Tell me, doesn't it get really time consuming having to switch all your user names back and forth like that? You must not have much of a life to dedicate so much time to amusing the members of this board, but thanks!

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Thu, 04-08-2004 - 7:07pm
Thank you, angelinoh, but don't worry about her crap. *I* certainly don't - she's just comic relief. Sad, really - I don't know if she enjoys being the board joke or really doesn't know that she is, but either way, she LIVES to get people upset, so it frankly isn't worth it.
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Registered: 04-08-2004
Thu, 04-08-2004 - 7:18pm
I care in that it shocked me, and so I'm glad it wasn't one of those 1 lb candy bars. Why is it funny to put your tape into your CD drive? It is after all just an ordinary CD player which happens to be part of your computer. Works the same as any other CD player. Or were you looking for reasons NOT to listen to your tapes?

The user name thing, I don't get though I'm sure you do attach some meaning. It sounds like you are very angry, and have many excuses for not doing what you claim to WANT to do. But no matter the size of your candy bar, eating one is not in keeping with losing weight now is it? And if you wanted to really listen to your CD, then you had a way of doing that too. Obviously you didn't WANT to lose weight badly enough to lay off the chocolate, and you didn't WANT to listen to a tape which, for some reason, you think could have helped you reach your objective. In other words, it couldn't be much of a goal if you set up roadblocks in order to keep yourself from reaching it. But it's not my problem, it's yours. CD drive before you, if you want to listen to tapes. Garbage can probably near desk if you want to stop eating chocolate and doing things which are counterproductive to reaching the goal you SAY you want. Your choice.

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Registered: 11-04-2003
Thu, 04-08-2004 - 10:45pm
Sorry to hear that things are difficult right now.