Bev
05-27-2008, 03:31 AM
Hi Everyone = first week, and first post
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Am painfully shy but wanted to say “hi”, and tell y’all how much I’ve enjoyed reading your posts. Everyone is so encouraging and supportive!
A bit about how I got here:
I’ve tried everything these last few years to lose weight… - all the big names, little names, starving myself, eating only one food group, eliminating only one food group, unique combinations of food groups, exercise, no exercise, liquid diets, shakes, drugs (prescriptions), pills, shots, you name it, I’ve done it all – seemed like nothing was working anymore… I was getting pretty despondent, to say the least.
I pretty much felt doomed to failure, and decided to give up when I ran into someone I hadn’t seen in several months – OMG! It was like looking at ½ of her! Unbelievable! She looked absolutely fantastic! Just Incredible – She’d lost over 70 pounds! Of course I asked how she did it! She told me it was an internet diet, based on hormones, and you got to eat “regular” foods… WOW!! (Not sure why she didn’t share the correct website – maybe a wee bit of competition between us? LOL!)
Took several days of playing Sherlock Holmes to find it – it was actually my DH who found the correct website. When he showed it to me – I practically knocked him off his chair to get into the site - I couldn’t type fast enough to sign up!
Then the waiting game began… Painfully long waiting game… It took 4 days to get my blood test request, had to wait another day to take the test because I’d eaten by the time the email arrived, then more five days to get the results, and another 5 days to get the diet info. Seemed like YEARS! LOL! I was in agony waiting to get started! So impatient, like a child before his birthday… counting the days before I could open “my very special present”!
Read through the material quickly YIKES! Seemed like the food allotment for one day was what I’d eat in a normal meal! I was going to starve to death! Nevertheless, I made a quick run to the grocery store, and could hardly sleep waiting for morning to start my new diet that I KNOW is going to work!
Amazingly enough I’ve survived my first week. (Didn’t starve to death LOL!) And thanks to the forum, I’m learning new combinations of food for my meals. Have to admit, I made a few mistakes this week, stumbled a couple of times, and I’ve got to get the timing between meals down, but I know it will all come together, shortly, especially since I found the forum! (Help!) I’m panicking a little bit that my days will expire before I lose all the weight. 41 pounds may not sound like much to anyone else but it’s a lot when you’re hovering around 5’ tall and the weight is held on with superglue!
Thanks for letting me stop in and introduce myself. This week I’ve been silently cheering all of you on, and will be (hopefully) posting a few times a month or so.
~Bev
:hiding: {uhm}
Am painfully shy but wanted to say “hi”, and tell y’all how much I’ve enjoyed reading your posts. Everyone is so encouraging and supportive!
A bit about how I got here:
I’ve tried everything these last few years to lose weight… - all the big names, little names, starving myself, eating only one food group, eliminating only one food group, unique combinations of food groups, exercise, no exercise, liquid diets, shakes, drugs (prescriptions), pills, shots, you name it, I’ve done it all – seemed like nothing was working anymore… I was getting pretty despondent, to say the least.
I pretty much felt doomed to failure, and decided to give up when I ran into someone I hadn’t seen in several months – OMG! It was like looking at ½ of her! Unbelievable! She looked absolutely fantastic! Just Incredible – She’d lost over 70 pounds! Of course I asked how she did it! She told me it was an internet diet, based on hormones, and you got to eat “regular” foods… WOW!! (Not sure why she didn’t share the correct website – maybe a wee bit of competition between us? LOL!)
Took several days of playing Sherlock Holmes to find it – it was actually my DH who found the correct website. When he showed it to me – I practically knocked him off his chair to get into the site - I couldn’t type fast enough to sign up!
Then the waiting game began… Painfully long waiting game… It took 4 days to get my blood test request, had to wait another day to take the test because I’d eaten by the time the email arrived, then more five days to get the results, and another 5 days to get the diet info. Seemed like YEARS! LOL! I was in agony waiting to get started! So impatient, like a child before his birthday… counting the days before I could open “my very special present”!
Read through the material quickly YIKES! Seemed like the food allotment for one day was what I’d eat in a normal meal! I was going to starve to death! Nevertheless, I made a quick run to the grocery store, and could hardly sleep waiting for morning to start my new diet that I KNOW is going to work!
Amazingly enough I’ve survived my first week. (Didn’t starve to death LOL!) And thanks to the forum, I’m learning new combinations of food for my meals. Have to admit, I made a few mistakes this week, stumbled a couple of times, and I’ve got to get the timing between meals down, but I know it will all come together, shortly, especially since I found the forum! (Help!) I’m panicking a little bit that my days will expire before I lose all the weight. 41 pounds may not sound like much to anyone else but it’s a lot when you’re hovering around 5’ tall and the weight is held on with superglue!
Thanks for letting me stop in and introduce myself. This week I’ve been silently cheering all of you on, and will be (hopefully) posting a few times a month or so.
~Bev