For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Still at 155 today, which is 'ok'. So I have a 'new' goal. It is 150. That is just five away. I have reassessed my weight goal and I think 150 would be fine. I've been doing well this winter at holding off 10 pounds I lost last year. So now it is time to get to 150 and hold to that for a while. I think it is very doable. I plan, Lord willing, to drink more water. That is the first step albeit a small one. I want to make more homemade soups, protein and vegetable-based with a lot of liquid in them. I'm still doing the 100 cals fudgecicles and popcorn, which have helped me to maintain 155 that I currently weigh. Today I wanted (again) to buy an 8 pack of cinnamon-iced buns in a container but told myself no to that (again) when I saw it in the grocery store (why do I go look at it???). Why I have been craving that, I do not know. But I do know that when I used to have that, it was definitely a weight-adder because I could eat 4 of those 250 cals each cinnamon buns at one sitting. They tasted so good, especially the very fresh ones. I will be sticking with what I know works for snacks instead. I also still crave potato chips but they are definitely a no-no. I always loved the high-fat kind and could eat half of a big bag easily at nite while watching tv or reading which meant adding 1000 calories quickly just for that snack. No thanks. The fat-free popcorn and fudgecicles are doing well now and I thank you all for your suggestions. Btw, if any of you have any suggestions to help me get to my new 150 goal, please let me know them. Your suggestions are very appreciated. Congrats to all of you on your weight losses. I see that there are quite a few of you celebrating losses recently as well as those who lost, then regained (been there, done that) but have worked to get rid of a lot that was regained. Congratulations to you! And to those who are maintaining where you are, hang in there!
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Hope you are having a blessed day.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 52 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16&17
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Hello to you...
Still holding on to 155. Still enjoying reading your posts.
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Hope you are having a good day...
Remember, every day with our Lord Jesus is a good day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 50 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16&17
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Good morning to you. I am on my second mug of coffee over here. Have some coffee?...
I did go to the grocery store the other day and got my low cal, low fat snacks and I am back on track.
It is a rainy day today and was yesterday, too. But the temps are pleasant. It was 59F degrees early this morning. I walked around the yard, looking at the flowers, the yellow Jessamine, blooming on the fences. The peach trees are covered in beautiful pink blossoms and the plum tree is covered in white blossoms. Hope we don't get a big freeze like we did last year that killed the peach trees' blossoms and also a couple of little peaches that were already on them. The apple trees don't have blooms on them yet and I am glad of that since winter is not over yet officially that is, which means won't know til sometime this month or next that the possibility of a big freeze is most likely over. The day lilies are coming up and are about half a foot tall now. I really love the orange tiger-striped ones. A couple of the rose bushes have new leaves on them. Spring is on the way!
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Hope you are having a good day.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 50 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
With all the changes in my job locations all Winter, this Winter season overall passed quickly and i notice being able to start going outside and doing more walking! I'm thankful it's not as cold these days.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16&17
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Good morning to you. I am having coffee after breakfast over here.
I let myself run out of low calories snacks and my weight is going up. I ran out of my 100 calories chocolate fudcicles ice cream and replaced them with Hubby's high-cal, high-fat little chocolate snack cakes, which btw, are so non-filling. You can eat 6 of the little cakes and not feel you have eaten anything and they do nothing for sugar craving.
I let myself run out of my 60 cals tootsie roll pops, too. Finally I let myself run out of 100 cals popcorn. I have gone back to pancakes fried in oil with lots of high-cals syrup. I think I need to go to the store.
Top it off, instead of going to bed early like I had been doing I am finding myself staying awake til midnite or later, watching tv, reading online and continuously snacking....the ole-time nite-time food-party habit has returned. All of this just within the past few days.
So these are my confessions and I hope I get 'woke-up' out of this going backwards-behaviour cause I am now wearing some of my vintage 100% cotton Levis jeans, size 12, and won't be for long at this rate.
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Hope you are having a good day.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 50 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
I hope you were able to restock today on your safety net foods. Sometimes that's motivation enough, to know that you're going to be able to do it.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16&17
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Good afternoon.
Just got home a little while ago from spending some time with Mama
at the nursing home today. I took her to the bathroom in her wheel chair and I washed and rolled her hair at he bathroom sink, then I made up her bed with fresh linens. I took her some of her favorite treats. We had a good visit, then I came home.
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Hope you are having a good day...
Remember, every day with our Lord Jesus is a good day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 51 lbs lost so far, only 6 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello, Everyone! Have a mug of coffee with me? Already on my second one this morning...
Have now rowed back to the island of '154'...
Hubby and Daughter have just left for work a little while ago and I am fixing to get ready to go check on Mama
at the nursing home and go to the grocery store for a few things.
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Hope you are having a blessed day.
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 51 lbs lost so far, only 6 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16&17
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Happy afternoon to each of you. I enjoy reading your posts. Cheering you on, too.
I am still holding at 155. The 100 cals popcorn has helped me a lot that were suggested a while back. Very filling and no fat. Good for fiber. A healthy snack. I have also discovered recently that I can buy a bag of loose kernels popcorn and simply pour about 3 tbs. into a plastic bowl and put the lid on top and microwave about 3 mins or so and wa-la! Real good popcorn! Much cheaper than the prebagged kinds in boxes and I have now bought some brown bags that are usually for carrying lunches in and intend to use them instead to put popcorn kernels in and fold at the top of the bags and microwave the popcorn in them and have popcorn in a big bag too, thus saving money on popcorn.
Tootsie roll pops are 60 cals each and they are really good for a sweet snack...a couple of them satisfies that sweets craving and only a little over 100 cals. for two of them.
For breakfast, turkey sausage at 40 cals per link or 60 cals per patty is really good. I fry it in a little oil, not much, though, because I like the 'crispy' of fried.
I seem to have finally gotten to the place where I can eat and be full and satisfied and not gain weight, which is a new thing for this Maria. Used to be the only way I could eat and feel full was to keep gaining weight.
Not staying up too late at night eliminates some of the junk-food nitely cravings.
I know I want to at least lose another 5 or 6 pounds but I am in no big hurry right now.
I thank you all for your suggestions for good low-cal substitutions when I was on a high-fat popcorn binge and eating ice cream by the tubs not too long ago. Your suggestions really helped a lot.
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Have a blessed day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 50 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
I may look into making my own popcorn too!!!!!! Good idea and then I can start to flavor it how I want to
I also do the turkey sausages and chicken sausage bc they are good protein, flavorful, and small portions not like eating a huge hamburger 1/4 pounder
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16&17
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Happy Valentine's Day to you! When I think of LOVE, I think of GOD. I think of His great LOVE for you and for me. I think of His gift of eternal life available to everyone, through His Son, Jesus Christ. And I am so thankful to Him.
I have been reading your journals and I see that a lot of you are really doing fantastic in getting to your goals. Congratulations to you! Happy for you!
As for me, looks like I have found my 'comfy weight' for this winter. A long time ago, when I weighed 205, my first goal was to weigh between 150 to 160, so I guess I can tell myself I am at least at that goal. I am also at the same weight I weighed when I first keyed an entry on DD in December of 2000. Long time ago, eh? I am very thankful to the Lord as well as the DD webmasters who have kept this site going. I have enjoyed it through the years, making a lot of friends on this site and we all sharing in our journeys and accomplishments with each other. You may ask me, "Well, what have you accomplished, since you weigh the same amount you weighed when you first began at DD?" My answer would be that I have gained the friendship of all of you, for which I am thankful, and have very much been enjoying journaling my experience as well as reading about yours, here. My answer would be that through your many encouragements, I have not regained the original 50 pounds that I had lost 2 years before coming to DD. And why do I write this? Because I thank you all. Not that I have 'arrived' by any means, but because I feel so blessed and because I am so thankful, to the Lord for each of you.
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Have a blessed day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 50 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16&17
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Good morning to you!
It is cold outside (31F) and warm in this house and I'm on my second coffee...have a cup?...
Supposed to get up to around 68F degrees here today. Sunny. Will be like springtime.
Altho I am currently not where I would like to be weightwise (and size-wise), and am not pushing it right now during this winter season, I am still lower than I was on the first of last year, so that is better than having gained weight. My calories have been too high to lose for weeks now. I have been averaging around 2000 calories or so, daily. Wayyyy too much for this girl to be losing, ha. May get back on board next month...as for now, I am just 'hanging in there'....
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Hope you are having a good day...
Remember, every day with our Lord Jesus is a good day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 50 lbs lost so far, only 7 lbs to go!
like you, i'm trying to make it thru winter without any gains and just to try to keep a regular schedule activity-wise.
Winter does require more rest i think.
That's my plan too.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16&17
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Good afternoon.
Just got home a little while ago from spending some time with Mamaat the nursing home. Since we have both been a little under the weather, she took my hand and prayed and asked the Lord for healing for us both. I took her a new sketch pad...she loves to draw...and package of colored pencils, her favorite brand, and also her favorite magazine and her favorite treats, too. We had a good visit.
I am still enjoying the 100 calories chocolate fudgecycles, having replaced the (tubbed high-fat) ice cream with them as well as also enjoying the 100 calories per bag of popcorn, too. Really takes care of snack cravings and much more manageable calories.
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Hope you are having a good day...
Remember, every day with our Lord Jesus is a good day!
Love, Maria
Progress as of today: 51 lbs lost so far, only 6 lbs to go!
I'm wondering if I should check out those Fudgecicles at the market today. The popcorn packets have really helped.
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I highly recommend drinking more water, as you already have planned. Also, I would encourage you not to dwell over the unhealthy foods... naught be nice to think about but for me it just reinforces a can't-have-that mentality, which can lead to frustration or worse.
Horn_of_plenty on 03/11/2018:
instead of the pack of cinnamon buns, you can make something at home, with cinnamon, but healthier??? like toast with spray butter and cinnamon? and an egg? that's VERY healthy....toast even with regular butter, cinnamon, and egg whites even...or an egg...
i agree with donkey...something i need to do right now - is to not keep thinking about unhealthy foods...
graindart on 03/12/2018:
Every time we go out of town my mind goes directly to all of my food cravings. I think part of it has to do with road trips requiring me to go into gas stations that are filled with the foods I'd like to eat, but should avoid. When I'm around town I'me eating at home and when I need gas I just pay at the pump to avoid any temptations. Grocery shopping happens once per week, but I rarely need to go down the aisles that would be my biggest temptations. I guess I don't usually obsess over food unless I see it.
Low calorie substitutions seem to work for some people, but for me it rarely works. If I get a craving and try making a healthy alternative it seems to make me crave the real thing even more. That usually means that I end up eating the healthy alternative and also end up eating the real thing I was craving. Why can't I be the one person in the world who craves water & celery?
trishpiglet3 on 03/12/2018:
I love that you're thinking of us even as you tell us how you're doing. Thanks Maria! :)