Anyone elses visit ticker reset itself? Mine did so I was curious to see if I was the only one or not? Or does anyone know why it might reset?

Well back to my last topic as it has gotten a lot of posts. And I still haven't gotten the hang of the extra kid during the week yet. The gym is good I liked it but I need a babysitter so that was why I had bought various workout tapes at home. My youngest the other morning wanted to do one of my tapes nad got bored in 5 minutes. It was a walking program that does a mile in 30 minutes. I had told her I had some workout tapes she might like to do with me - I was talking about the sweatin to the oldies 1 & 2. She would basically end up dancing along which is not a problem. My other thought is when I do have the extra kids to set them up with a movie in the girls bedroom and do my exercising then after I drop off any kids to the bus stop.

Yes I do realize that I have asked your opinion on this topic before. I don't think I had as many responses before but I do value what you all wrote. :)

SO different topic now. I love the feeling of your pants falling off. hehe That's how you really know that the weight and inches are coming off - when your favorite pair of pants won't stay up. I guess it was a good thing I ended up buying a couple of $11 jeans at walmart. Otherwise pretty soon I would not have anything to wear that would fit me. Not that that is a problem. I do have smaller sized clothing just not enough in the next sizes down. Had a gap from 22 to 18 and even then I think I only have size 18 shorts. Good thing summer is coming up.

Ok so here is a question I haven't asked before: Do you keep your smaller sized clothing packed away for when you do lose the weight? Or do you throw it away because you can't fit into them anymore and don't know how soon you will?

As always I love to hear from you and I promise not to circle back to a subject too many times. :)

A day later..........

Well I was going to write again the other day and then yesterday it kicked me out before I could post. So here we go again and hopefully I can remember everything. :) lol I started watching another kid during the week so i am adjusting to having  another kindergartner that I watch - but this one is a boy. Big difference from what I am used to!

ecco69 posted a response that she works out better at the gym. That she can't do a tape from home because she just won't do it. Well i have to agree with her as far as I go. I have tapes......collecting dust. I will do them maybe two or three times and then I just can't find the time again. I have to get up early enough to watch kids that I can't get up much earlier and get enough sleep. If I go to a gym and pay for a membership i will go and  it is fun. But i can't afford that either. So what is the alternative?

maybe getting a group of friends together to do a video together. that way you have the accountability and at no cost. either find the best spot to accomodate you or rotate through each others houses. this saves money can be done during time that you would normally see each other too. ok now that i have come up with this i gotta try it and see if my friends would be interested in it. probably not but you never know. :)

well i have to get to the bus stop. everyone have a great day!

Thanks again Fishead1028 for your comment and in reply: I know it didn't seem like a lot that i lost but like I said I still lost something. my energy level wasn't bad because of the Herbal Concentrate - it is a green tea which is awesome. As far as it being a lot of products to take - for the LaBomba program it is something that I did because I have the distributor discount and got them for a good deal. But other than that all the products i take do a different thing and there are days that i can't live without them. Truthfully it is really only healthy to lose about 2 lb a week - if you lose more than that it might not be all fat.

I run myself ragged trying to keep up with three girls aged 7, 6, 4.5 during the day and the few extras that I have during the week. It doesn't leave me much time to exercise. I have been looking for something that can be done even with distractions. I had a curves membership and that was great - until I couldn't afford it anymore. I get up really early already for the kids that come over.....and i know these are mostly excuses as to why i can't do it. mainly i am lazy but i know when i was working out i lost a few inches but gained 3 lbs. it was frustrating at the most.

So a question to those of you out there reading this: Which is the easiest way to exercise - at home or at the gym? Which place keeps you more disciplined with your routine?

that will be my topic for tomorrow. so tune in for my answers and responses to any comments posted. until then forgive my speling mistuks (on purpose here lol) in this post. have a great day!

LaBomba

OK Fishead1028 asked me what LaBomba was so here goes. I found it during some training with another distributor. My upline did this and she has lost 92 lb in 7 months 3 weeks and has kept it off for 6 yrs now. My sponsor in the company did the program about two days before me and dropped 3 lbs. I did the program and dropped 2.8 lbs. But there are peopl who have used it and lost anywhere from 4 to 7 lbs doing the program.

 It is a three day plan that can be done monthly using Herbalife products to lose weight. One the first day you eat nothing but drink 2 gallons of a drink mix consisting of 8 packets of Herbalife Beverage Mix (15g protein in each packet), 2 tsp of Herbalife's Herbal Concentrate - green tea, 12oz. or 9 capfuls of Herbalife Herbal Aloe Drink (12 oz. is ready made drink, 9 capfuls is concentrate aloe drink). This is to drunk 16 oz. every half hour or so. It totally flushes out your system of all the bad crap *literally* you have been eating. On this day you would also take your Herbalife tablets three times a day like normal. *Day 1 is best to do when at home due to being in and out of the bathroom a majority of the day. It got to be annoying towards the end but that was the day I dropped down to 231.6 by the next morning.

ON day two you are to drink five shakes made with Herbalife's Formula 1 Nutritional Shake Mix (9g protein per scoop). My shakes consisted of two scoops of Herbalife shake mix and 1 scoop of Personalized Protein Powder (5g protein per scoop), 1 heaping tsp of peanut butter and I use 10 oz of skim milk or sometimes soy milk. Again you take your tablets three times a day. This day you ONLY do the shakes - no snacks.

Day three is a normal day. You do three shakes a day with tablets and you can have your protein snacks up to twice a day.

When I say tablets I mean my Herbalife products - Formula 2 MultiVitamin Complex, Cell Activator, Cell-U-Loss, Aminogen, Xtra-Cal, and Tang Kuei. These are what I take three times daily. I am in the process of finishing up my website otherwise I would link it here for you to see more info aobut these products. hopefully I'll have it on here later today - so check back please if you would like more information on these products. :)

Well that's it for the LaBomba program at least what i know about it. If you have any questions I can try to answer them or ask my uplines to get a better answer for ya!

Sorry this was so long! Hope you all have a good day!

All i can say about that little diet trick is that it still worked and I did lose some weight. but definately not as much as it said i could. needless to say i am still closer to my goal than i was before - so i can't complain. besides it is my body that is causing the increase not what i am eating.....i won't go into details but it has to do with daily functions not being the same. need i say more to potentially gross you out???? i hope not. lol :)

well anyways hopefully this time next month the number you see under the scale up there will be doubled. I finally know exactly what i should be doing and so hopefully i won't sabotage myself and wreck my diet again! the nice thing is that i just ended tom and i really didn't gain any weight during the two weeks you normally have to worry about - so i don't have to take off extra. kinda sad it has taken me 2 months to reach 10 lbs. so my theory is if i stick with it for the next few months regularly i should hit 50 lbs in about 5 months hopefully.

well nite all and hope you had good weekends!

Well as you can see I went up slightly yesterday - but only by 0.2 lbs. Yesterday was still part of this LaBomba diet thing. I had to drink 5 meal shakes and could not snack or eat any real food. It wasn't too bad - but it would have been better if I had more than one flavor of shake mix. I ended up drinking chocolate peanut butter shakes for 4 out of my 5 shakes the other was just plain chocolate. But either way I am still down 3.4 lbs since starting my diet again. Well worth it I think. Today is a normal day I have two shakes and a sensible meal. And I can have snacks when I need them.

Hopefully I won't be bad today. it will help that I have a training meeting out of town ot go to. That means they are providing me with my meal shake for lunch and will have good soy snacks there atthe training.

hope you all have good weekends. I gotta dash - see ya!

OK I'm Bad

SO here it is another week has gone by and I am just getting around to writing here again. But the good news is that I am back on my diet and as of this morning....DRUM ROLL PLEASE...... I weighed in at 231.8 lb.! Here is the kicker. Even with being off my diet for a month i was eating better than before. I ate the right foods more often than not - Broccolli is now my friend (this coming from someone who only ate corn and canned green beans!). If I snacked it was the 10 calorie snacks you can buy at the store and I only ended up gaining 2.2 lbs and 3 inches back. Not bad considering that I have already taken the weight back off again. Will know tomorrow about any inches lost.

I have changed my diet. I am still doing Herbalife but instead of doing one of the ShapeWorks programs like before I am doing this new-old thing. It is called the Gold Plan. I call it a new-old thing because basically what it is is the products that the company started out selling in the beginning. Which means the shake mix, vitamins, herbal concentrate and I am also using a few of the newer things. I also am doing a program called LaBomba. It is a system that uses Herbalife products to decrease insulin release and increase glucagon release (stuff that burns fat). You end up drinking 2 gallons of the mix on the first day. It is a once a month program as you end up in the bathroom like more than ever before in your life. lol! but so far it seems to be working.

Ok I know there are those of you out there that have done this - How the heck do you add a picture to the "about me" section? I am stumped and frustrated with websites at the moment so advice or instructions are appreciated. :)

Anyone out there have problems with their cat drinking out of your drinking cups? Mine keeps doing the regardless of weather he has water or not to drink. I think it is a habit he learned while he was my sister-in-laws cat. She worked a lot and left it up to family and roommates to make sure he had food and water. He gets REALLY pesty if he doesn't so he usually doesn't have to wait long. But it is a really annoying habit.

Anyways. One to diet related matters. I have been listening to a call by Dr. Steve Komadina about health and our bodies. In this call he says that there is no scientific evidence that says we need to drink 8 glasses of water a day. What we should do is drink when we are thirsty. And people are different - some need more water than others do. A good way to know if you are getting enough water or not is to drink a glass of water. If you have pleanty of fluids in you system you will go to the bathroom about a glass of water an hour later. If you don't go to the bathroom - you maybe dehydrated. We were compaired to animals in the wild and how they are not fat like people. They eat only when hungary, drink only when thirsty and exercise only when they are threatened (run from hunters, etc.). It was definately interesting to learn this as well as that animals in the wild don't have the diseases we do. It is only when they are kept in a zoo that they come down with things like diabetes because they are eating like we do.

He also explained that eating less and exercising more will actually cause you to gain weight. This is from his own experience and that of what he has seen in patients. Dr. Komadina went from weighing 275 up to 300 lb by not eating much during the day and exercising. When you starve yourself and don't eat your body goes into survival mode and actually stores more fat because that is what it can live off if it needs to.

Now I am sure some of you are not going to agree with that. I was very doubtful when I heard it too. But when you think about it - it makes sense doesn't it?

Hugs and support - Jen

Not as bad as I thought

Well I thought I had gone back up to 238 lb but when I weighed myself this morning I was at 235.6 lb. Which means that I have only gone back up about 2 lb over the past three weeks that I: fell off the wagon, got lost, ended up in a different town and finally made it home yesterday (attempt at humor here is ya got confused. lol)!

I am going to start doing my pilates in the morning nad see how that starts off my day. I don't have a mat yet but I am thinking that the rug I have in my living room will work just fine for the next few days. Any one know how essential the mat is to yoga/pilates anyways? I am curious about this since you are basically already on the floor. What difference does a thin piece of materal make? Are we being suckered into buying something that isn't needed or does it somehow provide support the the floor beneath the mat does not?

Hope you all are having a great week and pleawe forgive nay spelling mistakes as my hands are tired from note taking (any in this sentance left on purpose. haha). I hopefully will be getting back into writing everyday as I am feeling much better than I had been before. Thanks to all of you out there who read this and post comments - you help to keep me sane.......er I mean on track. Man I am in a punchy mood tonight. lol

Hugs and support - Jen

Ugg.... darn colds

Well I hate being sick. It keeps me from doing the things I want to do. I have felt so yucky most of this past week. Got back into my diet yesterday. I have been making better food choices so I haven't gained all the weight back but I am up to 238 and not happy about that. The really sad part is that I know only I can make myself lose the weight but I see food I like and miss because I can't eat it and I end up doing the emotional eating. It sucks being female sometimes - especially when dieting.

But I have had some good news otherwise. I won second place in an online game and will be getting some money from that. How it worked was a stranger contacts you to help them solve riddles to come up with a 10 digit passcode to get their 1,000,000. If you answer it correctly first you get 25,000 of the money. Second place prize money is split between all people who answer correctly before the contest ends. You get daily emails and have to read or watch a video to get the answers. It wasn't too hard and was really fun. If any of you are interested in looking into the game you can find it at www.strangeradventures.com.

I never really knew what yo-yo dieting was until I had to lose weight - I hate it. I know I had seen people do it before but it never clicked before. I got my mother-in-law into the diet I had been doing and she has lost 35 lb and 30 inches since April last year. I have been doing this for three years now and i can't even keep off 10 lb. So frustrating!

Any advice on how to stick to it and break the yo-yo cycle?

Please forgive any spelling errors - too small keyboard to type right. lol

Man I TRY to send the kids to school  today but we had the nice freezing rain here in MI and everything from 1/2 hour away to us was closed EXCEPT the school district for the city we live in. Good thing my kids are not in that district due to a little boundry difference. We are right on the edge of the city so they ended up in another district - but at a very brand new school so I can't complain too much. But darn't they are here again and I still am not feeling well enough to watch over them totally.

But of course this is what I get for living in MI. Of course the last time we had a school closing OUR district was the only one open in a 1/2 radius of us - everything else had closed. Some of the teachers were shocked that thy didn't close but that other districts they had worked in before (and usually they wouldn't close) had actually closed but we didn't.

Anyways SORRY to rant at you ladies like that but I gotta vent it somewhere so it doens't go to the kids. :) but this means more frustration and trying to avoid the cookies that are hidden in my house from the kids.

The one thing that I haven't slacked on is drinking my water......may have something to do with the sore throat I have. lol so even though my foods haven't been that great I am still keeping off the weight or rather getting off the extra I had put back on. :)

Thanks for the encouragement - I really need it!

Morning all. :) I have been so distracted with getting the kids back on schedule for school I have neglected this. That plus I seem to be coming down with a cold so I haven't been feeling to well the past few days. So when do I decide to get back to it - the day the kids have off school this week. lol It seems that the school district gave them a cirruclium (I know this is spelled wrong - too tired to look it up lol) day on Ash Wednesday. But who is going to remember this when they just had the week before off school.

My journey has slooooooooooowed down to a crawl. My hubby got off hs diet and so now there are cookies and ice cream in my house. BAD BAD BAD things!!!! I love ice cream and the only way to get me not to eat it is if he gets a kind that I won't eat because I don't like it. That's a challenge right there. Part of the reason why he isn't allowed to do the shopping anymore. lol

Gotta get back on track. Thanks to those of you who added comments to the last addition. That always helps me when I can hear from you. :)

I hope that you all have a great day and are doing better than me. Keep up the good work. :)