[pissyinpa]

Well, I wish you a happy new year. I lost my first 80 pounds (20 in 2006 the rest this year) by giving up all kinds of flour, any kind of flour. You can still have oatmeal, cornmeal.... but if the word flour is in the ingredients you can not eat it. I didn't really notice the pounds melting off till they were gone. Now the husband is back from Iraq and I have whole wheat pasta, next day I have gained up to 2 pounds! I don't eat any flour for a day or two and I am back where I have been stuck for the last 4 months. Dr Gott has a no sugar no flour diet. I still ate small fries, a serving of chips with my meat rolls (like those wraps you get but no wrap just meat, cheese, lettuce and fire roasted peppers - which the dollar tree has been carrying). I know it works and I am back on it. Hard though. I make a Quiche with only 2 yolks all the other 16 eggs are whites but the crust is what kills me. I tear the edge off but the bottom is still there... and I like that part. I fill it with healthy stuff, fat free cheddar cheese, fresh spinach, stewed tomatoes, mushrooms, shredded turkey ham (all measured out mind you not just willy nilly) and healthy stuff. I could do worse I suppose but not the point. I KNOW what works damn it why is it that I can't keep doing it? Why is it that my number one resolution is about my weight yet again when I have come so far? June 2005 I weighed in at 262 pounds AFTER chemo!!! (steroids and lots of them) I ate what I wanted when I wanted as long as it 1. had NO flour of any kind 2. was under 10 grams of fat per serving. If it was more, I had it as a treat occasionally. 8 pounds a month is more realistic and that is being faithful to your diet and exercise. I know, I was shooting for 10 a month and was thrilled to get the 8. Sometimes I made it by having to do the circuit, drink a gallon of water and then bathroom like crazy and go back for my weigh in. THEN only making it by 10ths of a pound! I don't know if I will ever reach my goal, I should be thrilled with what I have done. But like I said, never having been happy in my skin I can only try to lose more weight and see if that does it. You are welcome to come and talk to me or privately email. I would love to have a buddy to go through this with. Know one thing is for certain, you can diet all you want, starve yourself, if you walk, ride a bike (stationary or outside) join a gym.... exercise is the magic trick. I HATE to exercise but I am going to so I can look the way I want to. I can wear a large now. I am not afraid chairs won't hold me or I won't fit anymore. I do compare always, to see if I am the biggest person in the room still though. I don't want that. I just want to be marginally acceptable and blend in the crowd. Never have. Good luck to you if I don't hear from you again.