Check-in

[Guest guest]

EGZmom welcome back. Take it one day at a time. Set a small goal and GO. Do 10% OR in increments of 10 0r 25 lbs. Water, exercise, and portions are key.

NH... Mom to Abby Liz 10/94 Anne 7/99

[Guest guest]

> I am at my heaviest ever today @ 375

It's only a number. Don't obsess over it.

> Today I make the commitment of health for life not just DIET...one

> day, one meal at a time.

Good for you!

> 3x a week even if its just sweeping the porch that day...some

> movement is better than none :0)

That's right! Take those baby steps and eventually you'll be flying high!

>and drink WATER, WATER, WATER

My mortal enemy! And the enemy of all people who take water pills for

various reasons! LOL

.... and lastly I will have the

> courage to go to a TOPS meeting this week!

Great! I know a lot of ladies have gone and loved it. Hopefully you'll luck

into one of the nicer ones.

> Thanks for listen...

Thanks for writing! I hope to see you more often.

Sue in NJ

[Guest guest]

I thought you were out camping. Back already?

[Guest guest]

WTG !!! Keep on trucking LOL (wow 70's flashback - but it seemed right <GBG>) - mamabear <mama_bear_@...> wrote: I've been able to get out walking most days. Didn't lose anything last week, but I guess there will be weeks like that.Live, Love, Laugh

[Guest guest]

Hello All,

I thought since we have a lot of new members, including myself, it

might be time for a check-in, if we all want to:

How long have you been using coconut oil?

how do you use it?

and how much do you use?

and best of all - how has it changed your life?

I have been using coconut oil only since June 1st, 1.5 months.

4 tbsp a day with food usually, 2 w breakfast/1 w lunch/1 w dinner

(sometimes ive been making carob candy with it, but I watch my portions)

The difference in my life is amazing! but the most amazing thing is in

that time I am down for about 300 mcg of synthroid+cytomel to 75 mcg! I

feel better than I have in years!

Another thing is I have had infrequest herpes outbreaks, but i put some

coconut oil right on the red pre-blister spot, and it was 100% GONE in

6 hours, and hasn't come back.

Thanks for letting me chime in, I am looking forward to other member's

check ins!

Any other miracles out there?

Rischa in Seattle

[Guest guest]

Dear Shalom,

The refined oil is fine for use on the skin but does have a bland and

oily taste. When I switched to the virgin oil, however, I found that

I developed a taste for it rather quickly. I now find that I can

enjoy it straight by the TBS. Until you get to that point, however,

some ways to use it that you might find palatable in the beginning is

to use it on veggies instead of butter. It tastes great on green

beans, lending a very subtle flavor, and I absolutely love it on Kale

combined with 1 TBS apple cider vinegar. I cook the Kale with very

little water for only a few minutes - just enough to wilt it but keep

the green color. But experiment with your favorite veggies. Another

yummy way to use VCO is to make grilled cheese sandwiches. I use low-

carb bread for that. The bread will absorb 1-2 TBS of the oil and it

tastes really great with the bread and cheese. Another way that the

VCO tastes great is to drizzle it over popcorn. I use the single

portion 100 cal. size so this makes a tasty treat. Good luck. I think

if you incorporate it slowly you'll find that in no time your tastes

will change. It's worth the effort and ordering the VCO online is

easy to do and no more expensive than your local sources of the refined.

Best,

Dolores

On Jul 24, 2007, at 3:59 AM, Coconut Oil

wrote:

> I need to get CO backin my diet, but I find the refined oil in my

> area. ThoughI know it's not as good as the unrefined it's betetr

> than conola LOL. SO just trying tofigureout how toget it in me?

> will rubbing it on my stretch marks be enough? I don't like oily

> tea and in drinks it clumps up? Just trying to figure something

> out. As it looks like I will have to have this baby as soon as her

> lungs are developed enough to come out. probably 36/7 weeks. I want

> us both to be healthy ofcourse.

>

> I used it a lot last year and it helped with a boil I had this past

> January. But as I said I just can'ttake the taste. i love coconut

> candy's and milk and the nut itself, I just don't like the oily

> feeling.

>

> Any suggestions?

[Guest guest]

Thanks ofr the suggestions. when money is breathing a bit better I will try

something. right now I think my bank account is on life support. LOL

Shalom

Re: Check-In

Dear Shalom,

The refined oil is fine for use on the skin but does have a bland and

oily taste. When I switched to the virgin oil, however, I found that

I developed a taste for it rather quickly. I now find that I can

enjoy it straight by the TBS. Until you get to that point, however,

some ways to use it that you might find palatable in the beginning is

to use it on veggies instead of butter. It tastes great on green

beans, lending a very subtle flavor, and I absolutely love it on Kale

combined with 1 TBS apple cider vinegar. I cook the Kale with very

little water for only a few minutes - just enough to wilt it but keep

the green color. But experiment with your favorite veggies. Another

yummy way to use VCO is to make grilled cheese sandwiches. I use low-

carb bread for that. The bread will absorb 1-2 TBS of the oil and it

tastes really great with the bread and cheese. Another way that the

VCO tastes great is to drizzle it over popcorn. I use the single

portion 100 cal. size so this makes a tasty treat. Good luck. I think

if you incorporate it slowly you'll find that in no time your tastes

will change. It's worth the effort and ordering the VCO online is

easy to do and no more expensive than your local sources of the refined.

Best,

Dolores

On Jul 24, 2007, at 3:59 AM, Coconut Oil

wrote:

> I need to get CO backin my diet, but I find the refined oil in my

> area. ThoughI know it's not as good as the unrefined it's betetr

> than conola LOL. SO just trying tofigureout how toget it in me?

> will rubbing it on my stretch marks be enough? I don't like oily

> tea and in drinks it clumps up? Just trying to figure something

> out. As it looks like I will have to have this baby as soon as her

> lungs are developed enough to come out. probably 36/7 weeks. I want

> us both to be healthy ofcourse.

>

> I used it a lot last year and it helped with a boil I had this past

> January. But as I said I just can'ttake the taste. i love coconut

> candy's and milk and the nut itself, I just don't like the oily

> feeling.

>

> Any suggestions?

[Guest guest]

WTG ! Sounds awesome:-)

[Guest guest]

That is wonderful to see everything in black and white...ever so clear and revealing of the hard work it took to get there! Bravo!

Ann

From: ABrite@...

Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 11:25 AM

ABrite@...

Subject: check-in

Hi Everyone-

I've been back since Tuesday p.m. but it's been a flurry of activity all week getting back into work and helping DS17 to organize his last 7 weeks of school. That's amazing that there's so little time left for them this year and he's going to be very busy for most of those. After school gets out, we'll have a couple of weeks off before he starts his summer school community service class and then if all goes well will be going to the Art Institute of Seattle for their summer Art101 class, which is a week long introduction basically to what programs they offer to help determine if the kids want to go there.

Weigh-in this week shows me at a maintain, which is gladly accepted because it means I lost anything I gained during my trip to CA this past week. I think I was up 2-2.5 lbs, so am happy to have it back off for this week's weigh-in instead of having to work a few weeks for that, you know?

I took measurments today just to see how I have done this year (12.8 lbs and 16.75 inches gone this year) and the amazing thing is the overall stats since I started in Oct 2004, so what's that 5.5 years):

10/2004

4/24/2010

overall stats

Breasts

50

41

9

Waist

44

34.5

9.5

Abdomen

54

36.5

17.5

Hips

54

44.75

9.25

Thighs

32 / 32

26.5

5.5 / 5.5

Neck

15

14.5

0.5

Arms

16 / 16

14.5

1.5 / 1.5

Ribs

44

36.5

7.5

Weight

310

255.8

54.2 lbs lost

67.25 in lost

Hope you all have had a great week and now weekend. I'm still on digest so will try to sort through posts over this weekend.

in WA

310 / 255.8 / 210

[Guest guest]

Sounds wonderful, Maddy. Variety is the spice of life as they say. When I am on the truck, we eat practically the same foods for each meal for 5 weeks. After a year on the road we figured out what foods stored best and what we liked and what fit into our diet. It took a lot of trial and error the first ffew months out, but it finally settled into place. My calories are always higher on home time because we then have wine with dinner and I cook up some really missed meals like curry, or chicken tandoori, steak on the grill and salads.....oh how we both miss salads!

I find that meal planning is essential to success. I sit with my diet program every morning and every evening for about 10 minutes, planning what I can eat and correcting any changes I made during the day. Then I check my average calories for the month to see if I am staying on target or getting too high.

Apricot chicken sounds heavenly!

   elisaannh

-- check-in

Yesterday I spent lots of time on meal plans. I picked up a couple of cookbooks with recipes for one or two. Big lesson was jazzing up simple dishes make the meals more interesting. I don't want to live on grilled chicken breasts and plain salads. Also don't want anything too complicated. For supper I added a tablespoon of Polaner apricot all-fruit spread the chicken and fresh herbs to my half-cup of rice. Very good and very easy.

Maddy

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