gain goal regain How was your 5:2 day today?

[Sydney Susan 333]

Coops, have you had your thyroid checked - both TSH and T4??? After months of stalling I did and sure enough the darned thing was in a funk again.

[clk 3,519]

CGJ, your arms look awesome.

GT, I have nothing to say except CENTCOM sucks and I hope your internet gets worked out.

Coops, hang in there buddy. It's hard. I know it's hard. Remember me, sitting in maintenance more than a month ago only to bounce sky high again and have to lose it all again? SO FRUSTRATING. I just want to not feel like I'm sabotaging myself if I eat a damn slice of pizza. I miss maintenance (real maintenance) and I miss my clothes being big and I miss having boobs. Okay, unrelated but baby Shevi ruined me. I get sad every time I think about it.

I'm seriously annoyed today. I just...do not want to deal with people. I wish I could support people here but I just want to scream at them today. I am so sick of the "don't post this" or "don't say that" or "we should all do this" B.S. on the forums. I just want to shout at people to go the hell away. Half of them won't be here in six months, even. I sure as hell don't need or want condescending or holier-than-thou comments. I'm sick of it.

I'm completely and utterly burned out with this garbage.

Weight is holding steady. I did a fast today - kinda. Screwed it up a bit at dinner by sitting at the table too long and mindlessly eating part of a dinner roll. Still logged in at 580 though, so I'm calling it good.

Feast tomorrow. As if I feast anymore. I feel like all I do is eat Protein. No, I'm not *really* hungry but I'm PMSing and feeling extra b*tchy...so the fact that I don't WANT to eat pizza and popcorn doesn't mean anything. It's the fact that I CAN'T that I'm going to focus on today.

I'm going back to my hidey hole until I stop hating people.

Hope you ladies are having a more sunshiney day than me!

~Cheri

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

I'm so glad we have our own little corner of the board where we can talk to each other and  be ourselves. I know the entire board can read it, but we can only talk to each other and I like that.

 

Yeah, I have several variations of profiles. It's weird bc before I was always worried when I went on an online date that I was too fat and that they weren't going to like me. Now, (remember I've had a face lift)  I have these guys that look like little old men wanting to make 2nd dates when I meet them and I want to run away from there as fast as I can. I feel really bad. It feels better than being rejected but it still feels bad rejecting them.

 

Okay Coops, you're going to get several profiles to choose from and feel free to make up your own. I am being to think the less said the better. All they do is look at the picture anyway.

[swizzly 901]

Wish I could be of any help! I'm fat and depressed and angry and lost. :-(

Loves to you all...

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

Coops I can't send any pms. It said I have too many stored so I deleted and delelted and it didn't do any good.

 I think it's another glitch in here.,

 You can email me and then I'll email back my profile

 

Thanks!

[CowgirlJane 14,261]

Ok, I am feeling a little insulted. Several of you feel fat and discouraged and yet you weigh in my general ballpark. I think we are all pretty hot actually! Everyone in this group is hugely successful and ruthlessly self critical.

I plan to be rocking a LBD soon -SLEEVELESS- and I don't want no rain on my parade....

[CowgirlJane 14,261]

I wrote a post about I internet dating and it went POOF.

When I restart it, thinking about hiring someone to get good natural photos. More then one date has told me I am prettier in person and need better photos. Most men pick on that basis really.

I am picky and found I am not attracted to most men who contact me. I don't know why but I guess many just seem so old- of course I am too!

I don't know what to put for body type so I always say average. I think I am athletic but never obese athletic women ... well I don't look that good even after plastics.

[Globetrotter 1,340]

okay so whatever technical stuff they have done to VST, it now comes up as personal pages and so gets blocked. I cannot go into any threads, and the only reason I can get into this one thread is by clicking on someone elses post that is listed on the lefthand side of 5:2 home. So I have basically been robbed of my VST, which has been my biggest and most important support network out here.

Had some AMAZING olives last night, my Mom sent them, Cat Cora's Kitchen by Gaea snack pack, green pitted olives with oregano and lemon. So incredible! Only 15 calories for 4 big olives! I had 8 and still came in at under 600 cals. However, right after eating them, I got a crashing headache that lingered until after bedtime. The salt? This brand is very clean, no additives. Oh and by the way, I can't even click on that banner for if there are technical problems, it's blocked. It's going to be difficult without VST.

[Globetrotter 1,340]

oh and PS, I get almost no notifications, and the ones that I do, I click on it and instead of taking me to the thread, it just takes me to the new VS Forum homepage so I have no way to get to the thread.

Some of you have said that you are listed as LapBand. how do you know? I went to my profile and saw nothing, not lap nor VSG.

[UK Cathy 977]

Ladies we need to lift ourselves up, the changes on the site seem to have got us in a funk or is that just a coincidence? Let us Celebrate our achievements. I will start it and this is coming from a woman who likes to hide in the crowd: I have lost 92lb and have 8lb to go to get to my goal ( that could change). YEH I can fit into some size14 garments in M&S ( don't know what the Us equivalent size is) YEH I exercise YEH I wore shorts in public for the first time this year YEH I own a swimsuit YEH I love my sleeve YEH Come on post your own lists, nothing negative only positives. Let us lift ourselves high.

Edit: one more - I don't need a seatbelt extender on a plane YEH

[feedyoureye 3,087]

I'm so glad we have our own little corner of the board where we can talk to each other and be ourselves. I know the entire board can read it, but we can only talk to each other and I like that.......

I just answered a gal who posted on our movin and groovin page.... so outside peeps can post here now.... ALEX!!! Help!

Globe! That is so unfair! I hope this can be worked around... Im glad you can get here somehow, even if it is the crazy back door!

OK, lifing up now.... fasting today, planning on birdwatching on saturday with a couple of friends... will post pics of the beauty! I am solidly in an 11(junior sizing because I must dress like a teenager instead of an adult....) pant now (that must be a UK 13 if there is such a size there!) A uk14 is a us12. I am finally getting some of the things on my list done, including giving away another giant bag of clothing. Happy day now ladies!

[clk 3,519]

Way to cheerlead Cathy and Jane!  

 

Yes, I think some of us are feeling the funk.  Maybe weather related?  It's darn cold here (to me) and overcast and gloomy.  And yeah, hormones.  I'm a bit prickly just now.

 

GT, those olives sound lovely - for my hubs.  I'll be looking that recipe up for him for sure.

 

Dee, I hope you are feeling better today.  Come share with us when you're feeling up to it.  We all have days where we feel defeated and angry and blue.  

 

Oh, and ladies, my fail safe to always reach my posts is to go to my profile and from there to my content.  Boom, I can get to this link with no problems every time.  If you can do that, you might have less issues.  It won't help with posting to new content, which I cannot do at all from the app.  From the app, every single post only shows the first page and then tells me the other pages don't exist.  Bah!  Thankfully, I only use the tablet to see what's happening on things I've already posted.  I'm also only getting a handful of notifications - but it you go to your content, you can see it all anyway.

 

Weight is holding steady.  Glad for that.  

 

As for the positivity we so desperately need, I cannot call myself fat.  I'm not fat.  I'm just not at goal yet.  However, I'm doing quite well.  It's all perspective.  And it's hard to hang on to that the farther out you get.  With time you forget what it felt like to have more than one hundred pounds to goal.  You're focused on the now - on the ten or twenty that refuse to budge.  

 

You almost become like a normal person in this!  You know, those "normal" folks that pack on fifteen to twenty in a rough spot in life and then moan about it until it's gone again.  I used to hate those people, back when I had more than one hundred pounds to lose.  I suppose it's easier than I'd like to forget that.

 

Take care gals.  Have a good day.

 

~Cheri

[sarsar 824]

Hi! Glad I found everyone again. I was gone Friday-Monday and wanted to post that I was leaving but I couldn't get on the site. I had to make an emergency visit to a friend in Tx. She needed me and it was a very emotional weekend. My eating the first 2 days was ok but the last 2 my eating was terrible! Emotional eating at it finest.

I am fasting today so I'm back at it. I didn't even weigh this morning. I'm scared to see what the scale says.

I need to get used to the new format here. I was nervous when I couldn't get on bf I left for my trip. When I was gone I was able to log on but didn't have time to post or read. It was a relief just to know you were all still here!

I came home to snow on the ground. I am trying so hard to not let this get me down. It's going to be a long 6 months.

Seems like a lot of us are in a funk. All I know to try to do is put one foot in front of the other, take one day at a time. This is for life and we will have these ups and downs forever. I just keep trying to march forward...

My positive for today is that even though this journey is hard and emotional I am still so thankful for my sleeve. At least I am going through all of this minus 115 pounds. Having that much weight gone makes it so much easier to live life. I have hope when I felt hopeless before. I am in a much better place now and for that I am thankful.

I'm not good at putting my thoughts into words like a lot of you are so thanks for reading even if it doesn't make sense to any of you.

[No game 14,437]

I just answered a gal who posted on our movin and groovin page.... so outside peeps can post here now.... ALEX!!! Help! Globe! That is so unfair! I hope this can be worked around... Im glad you can get here somehow, even if it is the crazy back door! OK, lifing up now.... fasting today, planning on birdwatching on saturday with a couple of friends... will post pics of the beauty! I am solidly in an 11(junior sizing because I must dress like a teenager instead of an adult....) pant now (that must be a UK 13 if there is such a size there!) A uk14 is a us12. I am finally getting some of the things on my list done, including giving away another giant bag of clothing. Happy day now ladies!

I've talked to him about it yesterday again and we are on the bottom of the list of fixes they have to do, it could be weeks!!

I just noticed another one on the moving and grooving...

I feel we need to stay positive too. But quite honestly I'm having a hard time. I'm a little shocked as to how these changes are negatively affecting me! My fast was not good last Thursday

(No contact with you guys) so I'm going to try and pull it together today for my fast.

 

Happy happy happy (yes if I keep repeating it, it will be so ) happy Tuesday!

[sarsar 824]

Cheri, thank you for your words! I love that you said you will not call yourself fat. I feel the exact same way. I refuse to call myself fat. I did that for years and years and I will not do it anymore. I may still have a few pounds to lose but I am in no way fat! I even go so far as to call myself thin or skinny! I am compared to what I used to be. I AM NOT FAT!