Oh Billie....you are going so well....help me....tell me what you are doing....I know you are taking cinnimon....how much? I need help here! I went to my 12 step meeting tonight....I have not been for several months...as I have been so busy with the baby....I left before it started because I started getting really anxious. I know I have gained weight...and I know that they all can see it. I am 50 pounds heavier than I was at 2 years sobriety....5 years ago. I feel so terrible self consience....I feel so fat. I saw a photo of myself today and I was horrified!! I never dreampt I looked that fat. I am 5'1" and weigh 200 pounds!!!!! I know that you have had much success in the past and again now.....INSPIRE ME SOME MORE FANCYLADY.......PLEASE!! Camping season is coming and I love camping but I cannot imagine feeling comfy like I am now!!Thanks Billie! Love Dorrie

Hi Dorrie,

I understand Dorrie. I feel selfconcious too. Lets work on it together with Billie. She has been such an inspiration. You need to do it for little Saffire.

I started the cinnamon this week. It really does help with the food and suagr cravings. You can probably order it on line or get it at walmart or whole foods. I got mine at Whole Foods called Cinnaforce. They are tiny little things but pack a whallop. I take my metformin at the start of a meal and the cinnamon at the end.

We need to start eating sensible and smaller portions. Like for breakfast I have been having egg whites and fruit. Lean chicken for lunch. I have low fat mozzarella cheese sticks and some almonds as a snakc or some lean turkey slices. I am trying to follow the 40% protein, 30 fat 30 carbs (good carbs rule with eat meal.

Next I have to work in some exercise. Maybe you can help motivate me to do that.

I know you can do it. But please promise to never ever take me camping!

Oh Shelley....you are a doll! My Saffire is a good reason to keep at it. I cna tell that somethings gotta give with me! I have never been this frustrated with my weight. I feel it coming on.....this driving force to go for it....I can almost taste it...usually I get the desire to lose weight and it lasts for a few days and then I fall back into a settling for fat mode. I have seen photos of myself just recently and really Shelley, I cannot beleive it is me!!!! I look so FAT....I did NOT think I looked as bad as what I do!! I am so upset about it...I can't imagine summer in shorts....or a bathing suit for that matter! This whole losing weight thing is so stinking hard....I am going to have to go one day at a time and really reach out for help and support....I do not want to feel so awful about myself...I want to feel like I used to feel....slim and sexy...feeling like I still had it! I need to lose weight for me this time....not for a guy........I wish the Easter Bunny would bring me a big bottle of skinny for Easter!!!! Not a camper eh? As long as there is a shower I am OK with it...went last year for the first time since I was young and I really enjoyed it...it was like a spiritual retreat for me!!!Hugs to you Shelley!

Dorrrie, I just wrote to you on the other post. The diabetic one. I have gained 2 pounds back. I feel terrible. Don't even know what caused it. I only eat two meals a day and watch everything I eat. No sugar at except for today then it was punch. had to drink something. Dorrie, I do take Cinnamon twice a day. (1000mgs/ with breakfast & supper) I have some at church on it too. I don't crave sugar at all and feel so much better, thats how I do it. I take no credit for it. It helps me to have energy and I do take advantge if that.

It may surprise you Dorrie, but I have the same measurements you do and the same 5'1. This is the first time I have ever said that. But I have even been bigger. Gaye knows and I hated it. At lease I am going the other way. Its been cold today tho and I guess I feed on being depressed, as bad as I hate to admit it. I want to be outside running like I was. It felt so good! Hugs to Dorrie. We have missed you. Come on anytime whether you are loosing or not & get some off that Cinnamon at Walmart where they keep supplements & vits. Stay strong, May the force be with you.
Billie

Hi Billie! I am definitely going to get the cinnamon!! You say it takes away your sugar cravings....do you still eat some carbs? On Atkins, the sugar cravings go away, but only after you have almost completely eliminated carbs....I tried it and I cannot take how sick I feel and how much sugars get out of whack. I am hoping that you say that you do eat some carbs and the cinnamon still helps! My cravings are so intense I give in to carbs all the time...tonight I finished off a Rolo egg.....then I sat a grapefruit on the counter to remind me to eat a healthy breakfast in the morning!!!!! I really need to get the weight down again...my highest weight is 204....I am now all the up to 200....too close for comfort!! Take Care, Billie and thank you so much!!!

HI dorrie and thanks for sharing...you too billie!
7 years ago I was close to 200 pounds as well...but I am 5'7" and lost 60 pounds following a high fiber low carb diet,...over the past year I have gained 15 pounds back so am on a diet to get back to what I had worked so hard for. This month I have lost 5 pounds and have at least 10 more to go.
WE can do this we really can.
The cinnamin that I bought has chromium picolinate in it as well.
Take 2-1000mg with a meal, mine in the morning with breakfast.
I over did it at the chinese buffet...you know what threw me off?
the egg drop soup! 300 calories in a cup
bizi

Yes Dorrie, I think you could eat carbs if you want to. Since I don't crave them, I just don't want them. I don't even want more than two meals a day. just don't need it and the weigh comes off most daily. I'm so looking forwand to know hoe you do with it. Lets us know Dorrie. Courious said one day, she nolonger craves Chocolate anymore. That was her testmony! Thats saying a lot. When we crave, thst when I do eat! I have eat small amt. before.

Good luck Dorrie, give it about 5 days to start working, okay. hope it works for you. Be strong and it will, I think Courious said, she no longer craves choclaste. Thats saying a lot. LOL

Well Dorrie,I gotta go back to bed agan. Good luck and stay strong.

Hi Gals!! Thanks so much for your responses! I am fine so far....but I have not been up long!!!!!!!! I hope there is somewhere open that I can get my cinnimon....Bizi...I have tried chromium picolate and on its own it did not help but hey..with the cinnimon it would be worth another shot! Thanks! Hoppy Easter

OH yes Dorrie, I sure do know how much Billie and I both wanted to be under a certain number of pounds...can't say how many cause Billie keeps that secret.
I am sooooo proud of my sis Billie for being so faithful in losing...course she has a real good reason to be trying so hard. A goal is always good incentive (spell) to lose. I sure need one myself. froggie

hEY fROGGIE.....I THINK THAT THE GOAL THING IS A GOOD IDEA....I NEED TO SET SMALL ONES.....I THINK MY FIRST ONE WILL BE JUST 5 POUNDS!!! I will announce it when I hit it!!!