Re: To my WONDERFUL WW Friends!!

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Cindy, huge congrats on

being smoke-free. Way to go!

Fiona Young-Brown

Kentish Maid Candles

www.kentishmaidcandles.com

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Good morning, everyone!!!

Well...I have been smoke-free for 6 days,

3 hrs, 47 minutes, 28 seconds. You guys have been my

inspiration!!!! This is such an awesome place for advice and support!!

Because of not smoking, I have to drink

LOTS and LOTS of water. I think that is also helping my weight loss, but I

have not weighed in for two weeks. (I'm not sure if I'm going to

continue going to meetings or if I am going to try to do it at home.) I

also have not been keeping up with my journal---but I am watching what I

eat. I go to my doctor next week. I can't wait to tell her I am a

non-smoker!! <HUGE SMILE> I will let you know what my weigh in

is....I still have 40 lbs to loose!

Love,

Cindy in NC

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Sharon,

That was an AWESOME letter!!! You don't know how much it touched me. (By the way---it was worth more than 2 cents! LOL). I watched my mother die (at the age of 64) a brutual, short death from cancer (small cell). It was a sight I never want my children to see me. It has been six months since her death, and I have finally run out of excuses. I was always saying...well, I am still under stress...I am still depressed...it's the only comfort I have....yada yada yada.

Finally...because of THIS group, I found the strength, courage and support!!!

OK..I am going BACK to my Monday WW meetings. Enough procrastination! LOL

Cindy in NC

[Guest guest]

Congrats!. Not counting, are you? ;-)

By the way, just some encouragement (from personal experience).

At around the 1 week mark of quitting, I'd feel strong, and I'd know

I was over the physical addiction.

The first handful of times I quit (evidently I failed at it a few times

before I got it right ;-) I'd always trick myself into letting myself

smoke at about the week mark. Because I was "no longer

addicted".

PLEASE please please: DO NOT BELIEVE YOURSELF if you

tell yourself that. You will be a liar (no offense, it's not you, it's

the addiction talking).

Good luck, and get through it! I know you can do it!!

Oh, and congrats on the eating well. When will you start

journaling again?

*cheers*

Elissa

To my WONDERFUL WW Friends!!

Good morning, everyone!!!

Well...I have been smoke-free for 6 days, 3 hrs, 47 minutes, 28 seconds. You guys have been my inspiration!!!! This is such an awesome place for advice and support!!

Because of not smoking, I have to drink LOTS and LOTS of water. I think that is also helping my weight loss, but I have not weighed in for two weeks. (I'm not sure if I'm going to continue going to meetings or if I am going to try to do it at home.) I also have not been keeping up with my journal---but I am watching what I eat. I go to my doctor next week. I can't wait to tell her I am a non-smoker!! <HUGE SMILE> I will let you know what my weigh in is....I still have 40 lbs to loose!

Love,

Cindy in NC

[Guest guest]

Sharon,

I am "patched." LOL

Cindy

[Guest guest]

Congratulations, Cindy. You are an inspiration to us also!

SharonM

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Subject: To my WONDERFUL WW Friends!!

Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 10:22:57 EDT

Good morning, everyone!!!

Well...I have been smoke-free for 6 days, 3 hrs, 47 minutes, 28 seconds.

You

guys have been my inspiration!!!! This is such an awesome place for advice

and support!!

Because of not smoking, I have to drink LOTS and LOTS of water. I think that

is also helping my weight loss, but I have not weighed in for two weeks.

(I'm

not sure if I'm going to continue going to meetings or if I am going to try

to do it at home.) I also have not been keeping up with my journal---but I

am

watching what I eat. I go to my doctor next week. I can't wait to tell her

I

am a non-smoker!! I will let you know what my weigh in is....I

still have 40 lbs to loose!

Love,

Cindy in NC

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WOW Cindy! That is great. Keep up the great work.

~

To my WONDERFUL WW Friends!!

Good morning, everyone!!!

Well...I have been smoke-free for 6 days, 3 hrs, 47 minutes, 28 seconds. You guys have been my inspiration!!!! This is such an awesome place for advice and support!!

Because of not smoking, I have to drink LOTS and LOTS of water. I think that is also helping my weight loss, but I have not weighed in for two weeks. (I'm not sure if I'm going to continue going to meetings or if I am going to try to do it at home.) I also have not been keeping up with my journal---but I am watching what I eat. I go to my doctor next week. I can't wait to tell her I am a non-smoker!! <HUGE SMILE> I will let you know what my weigh in is....I still have 40 lbs to loose!

Love,

Cindy in NC

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Cindy,

Congratulations on still being smoke-free! I really commend you for trying to quit smoking and lose weight at the same time. I really want to quit smoking also, but I know I could not tackle both the quitting and trying to lose weight at the same time, so am going for the weight loss first.....lose the weight first, then lose the cigs.

Sandy G.

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If I could offer my two cents worth here (which may be worth only one cent

after all), I think Cindy has the right idea. If you are going to do both,

I think you are better off either quitting smoking first, or working on both

together. In 1989 I lost 90 pounds, and kept it off for five years, within

ten pounds this way or that. Then I quit smoking, and slowly but surely

over a period of a few years I gained back every single little pound plus

five extra! I couldn't believe it! I mean, seriously, you would think I

would have been able to put a stop to it somewhere, but it just crept back

on, one cookie at a time, one bite of ice cream at a time, one Carl's Jr

Superstar at a time.

This time I have been smoke-free for so many years I can't count (eight, I

think), for so long I can't even imagine smoking. My metabolism and

lifestyle are adjusted to being smoke-free, and that's the way I am losing

the weight and that's the way I am going to keep it off. It was faster and

easier to lose weight as a smoker (I'd lost all 90 pounds in less time than

it has taken me to lose 57 this time), but this time I will keep it off.

Also, smoking is a far worse health hazard than being overweight. Take it

from me, as I watched my father die from lung cancer and emphysema, and am

now watching my mother gasp for breath every time she leaves her seat, from

advanced emphysema. When I started gaining weight after I'd quit smoking, I

knew that as much as I hated it, I'd rather be fat and able to breathe.

JMHO,

SharonM

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Friends!!

Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 13:34:36 -0400

AOL EmailCindy,

Congratulations on still being smoke-free! I really commend you for trying

to quit smoking and lose weight at the same time. I really want to quit

smoking also, but I know I could not tackle both the quitting and trying to

lose weight at the same time, so am going for the weight loss first.....lose

the weight first, then lose the cigs.

Sandy G.

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You're welcome, Cindy ... it is so difficult to watch someone you love

suffer and not be able to do anything about it. I can't personally think of

anything much worse than gasping for breath. No amount of morphine in the

world can make that any better.

Meanwhile, keep going, girl! Don't want to put too much of a burden on your

shoulders, but you are in a position of being able to show others what CAN

be done (no matter how long and how much hard work it may be). If you have

a harder time losing after you quit, remember IT IS WORTH IT! BTW, did you

use the patch or anything to help you quit?

Sharon

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Subject: Re: To my WONDERFUL WW

Friends!!

Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 14:47:32 EDT

Sharon,

That was an AWESOME letter!!! You don't know how much it touched me. (By

the

way---it was worth more than 2 cents! LOL). I watched my mother die (at

the

age of 64) a brutual, short death from cancer (small cell). It was a sight

I

never want my children to see me. It has been six months since her death,

and I have finally run out of excuses. I was always saying...well, I am

still

under stress...I am still depressed...it's the only comfort I have....yada

yada

yada.

Finally...because of THIS group, I found the strength, courage and

support!!!

OK..I am going BACK to my Monday WW meetings. Enough procrastination! LOL

Cindy in NC

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YEAH CINDY!

Way to go!

June

-- To my WONDERFUL WW Friends!!

Good morning, everyone!!!

Well...I have been smoke-free for 6 days, 3 hrs, 47 minutes, 28 seconds. You guys have been my inspiration!!!! This is such an awesome place for advice and support!!

Because of not smoking, I have to drink LOTS and LOTS of water. I think that is also helping my weight loss, but I have not weighed in for two weeks. (I'm not sure if I'm going to continue going to meetings or if I am going to try to do it at home.) I also have not been keeping up with my journal---but I am watching what I eat. I go to my doctor next week. I can't wait to tell her I am a non-smoker!! <HUGE SMILE> I will let you know what my weigh in is....I still have 40 lbs to loose!

Love,

Cindy in NC

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Cindy in NC

I'm so excited for you, it brings back memories of when I first quit

(all six months ago), everytime I said I was a non-smoker i grinned

from ear to ear and felt invincible. I was wondering how you were

doing and was going to post this morning to ask.

Please, please stay with your weekly meetings as they are more

important than ever. The second to last time i gave up cigarettes i

was going to weight watchers but decided to just focus on quitting

and because of it i put up the weight i'd lost on the program and

went back on the cigarettes because i was upset about the weight gain

and thought going back on them would help me loose again (DID NOT

WORK, DO NOT TRY).

You're taste buds (sense of smell will increase as well) are waking

up after being suppressed by smoking and everything will taste so

much nicer so you will need a way to be accountable for what you are

putting in your mouth and it will help you with portion control.

Keep up the excellent work and give us an update once in a while to

let me know how you are doing. Feel free to email me any time you

need to talk. You will be successful, remember you don't ever want

to be that person again.

Kat

170.6/164.8/153.6

> Good morning, everyone!!!

>

> Well...I have been smoke-free for 6 days, 3 hrs, 47 minutes, 28

seconds. You

> guys have been my inspiration!!!! This is such an awesome place

for advice

> and support!!

>

> Because of not smoking, I have to drink LOTS and LOTS of water. I

think that

> is also helping my weight loss, but I have not weighed in for two

weeks. (I'm

> not sure if I'm going to continue going to meetings or if I am

going to try

> to do it at home.) I also have not been keeping up with my journal-

--but I am

> watching what I eat. I go to my doctor next week. I can't wait to

tell her I

> am a non-smoker!! I will let you know what my weigh

in is....I

> still have 40 lbs to loose!

>

> Love,

>

> Cindy in NC