Hi, how are you this am? I am pretty good. I weighed in today and had a 1# loss. It's not much but I wasn't even expecting that. You see, I had a pretty rough week. I over ate a couple of days, not alot but not as I'm supposed to. I even broke down and had some white chocolate truffles. In case you don't know what they are, imagine sweet white chocolate in the shape of a  small ball the size of a quarter. Inside is a creamy white chocolate liquid filling. They literally melt in your mouth. They are my only weekness. There are 250 calories for every 3 truffles and I had 12. I know it's alot but it's less than a bag of M&Ms. I had intended on having a few a day but i should have known better. I've tried that before and failed miserably each time. When will I learn? But I did learn this time. I know I just can't control myself around them. I can not have them in the house. I am too weak around them. I'd love to just pop one in my mouth when I had the craving and make a bag last a week but I'm just not that way. I keep returning to that drasted bag, hour after hour, til it's gone. I can control myself with everything else.

I have no other junk in the house. No candy, chips, pastries, pop or chocolate. I but no breads or pastas. I threw all of that stuff out when I found out I weighed 250#s. I just keep SF bars and Special K bars. I will buy light Pringles and have a small amount about once a week with a burger or something. I usually don't eat dinner because I try to eat earlier in the day but I will break down and eat a little if we BBQ. Iwill have 1/2 a burger instead of a double so I allow myself a few chips. They aren't something I binge on. i used to not be able to resist them but now I have no problem.

I am doing great on the eating only breakfast. It is so easy. I get up early and fix my family a big breakfast. I buy a 5# bag of frozen diced red potatoes at Cash & Carry, a restaurant supply store. I get a bag for $4. I also can get a 24 pk of frozen hashbrown patties for $3. I will alternate on the potatoes. I buy precooked bacon or sausages at CostCo. I will serve eggs and breakfast is cooked and served in 15 mins or less with no prep time or thinking up plans or anything. Sometimes I will mke waffles, pancakes or french toast for a change. My family loves it and I can eat whatever I want and still have a good weight loss because I burn up those calories through out the day instead of taking in my cals in the evening and letting food sit in my stomach over night. I was losing 3-4 #s a week this way.

My body loses weigh strangely. I will plateau at a certain weight for a couple of weeks, then have a good loss of 3-4 #s. My dr says this is my body getting used to the changed metabolism. She says as long as I continue to exercise every day, i will do fine. I am a little behind some who are losing 2#s a week but I have accepted that this is just how I work. I would love to lose as fast as, say, SisterC, but that's not how I work. As long as I work out I will do fine.

That's another thing about this past week. I only walked once. I had a very busy week and had a few morning appointments and didn't allow time for walking. My bad. This week I will do better. Get back at the mall every day. It's one of those things that if you stop doing it's difficult to pick back up again. I would love to be able to walk outside again but the weather just won't cooperated.

Swimming with my son went great. He is doing so good. He is loving to sit back and relax for a while in the hottub. It's so cute. He will swim for 1/2 an our and then just float for a little while til we sit him in the chair so he can lounge for a while. But it's a good workout for me. Did I tell you that my daughter and I will probably be coaching Special Olympics swimming next year? I am so excited about it.

Anyway, I have to go. My left arm is killing me from typing.

Laura.

Hooray for your son winning!!! That is so great! My boyfriend has a 5 yr old son who is autistic. He doesn't live with us, he lives in another country with his mother who kidnapped him across the border & no clue where she is. He's hoping to get a divorce attorney soon & fight for sole custody. Long story about the mother, but its a bad situation for his son there psychologically & her parents do drugs as well. Let's just say she is raising him to believe she is his sister & her parents as his parents. Very wacked.

Yes I knew insomnia is part of fibro, I had to laugh when you said what isn't as i know that feeling too. I'm sorry you had such a bad day. I'm having severe pain in my neck today and also hurts to breathe from mid back pain. I would not mix melantonin with your sleep medicine. It's bad to mix herbs/otc meds w/ prescriptions. Check with your dr first to make sure it's ok.

Today was first day of my diet. I weighed myself for kicks & saw I lost 2 lbs. I dont know how lol. Trust me, I know bad days upon waking, there are times I need help out of bed because it's too painful for me. I know what you are going thru. I did ok today on my diet. Did not cheat. We had KFC for dinner cuz I was in too much pain to cook, but I didn't overeat and I'm proud of myself, in fact, i have one snack left and its 12:30am. I will save it for when my meds are due again at 3am if I am up.

Hello, How are you? How was your weigh in?

I am having a rough morning. I woke up in so much back pain that I had to stretch before I could even move to take my morning meds. I took them an hour ago and am still in as much pain. Usually it backs off by now. I am also having something weird going on. I woke up with my arm numb. It got a little better but my hand is still numb. It’s so strange. It’s the almost painful part of having a part of your body asleep. I keep having weird feelings in the rest of my arm also. Almost an ache. If my heart was hurting I’d think I was having a heart attack because this is all happening in my left arm. I don’t like it. Weird.

I can’t walk this am because my son is home for his weekend visit. He is 21 and has autism. He lives in a group home about ½ an hour away. We bring him home for weekends. This weekend was Special Olympics. We usually get him on Friday nights but his events were on Saturday. Since we can’t really get him going in the early mornings we had to put his visit off til after he competed. He has to stay somewhat on his schedule and is used to spending 2 nights with us. So he spent sat. and sun. nights. That means he is still here. He has trouble walking so I can’t take him with me. Btw, he won 2 silver medals. He competed in the assisted walks, 25 &50K relays. I walked w/ him. It was fun. Anywho, about your insomnia, you take ambien? I take Seroquel and melatonin. The combination puts me out in about ½ an hour and keeps me out for 8 hours or more. Before I was taking Seroquel I could be up for days with no sleep. Now it doesn’t even feel like I have insomnia, except if I forget to take my meds. And I don’t have to take anything to wake up. Did you know insomnia is a symptom of fibro? But then again, what isn’t? I am on the patches also. I never heard about the shots affecting the heart but I do know that they will only give a few shots per year. They are painful but really help me. Fortunately my dr. will put me out for the epidurals. My friend’s dr. doesn’t. She also takes Lyrica. My dr. won’t give it to me because she knows I am trying to lose weight and it causes weight gain.

Well, I better go. I want to try to get on the recumbent bike before my son wakes up.

Talk atcha later…

Laura

Good afternoon!  I am usually not up in the mornings as my pain & chronic insomnia prevent that as I go to bed anywhere from 3-8am. Don't be upset at the one lb. It happens.  I think the walking a half hour each day does sound more beneficial. It may seem weird, but it will work.  I live in an apartment so the pool isn't open yet. I am hoping it opens in May because I really benefit greatly from it.

My weigh in will be on Monday. That is when my diet officially starts. I had problems this past week with getting the website to run right & now have got most of my food for the diet so I am ready to go. I have to start on Mondays, it's a brain thing with me, idk why. So Monday will be my very first official day on the diet. I snuck a look at the scale last night and was 316.5 which means I gained a lb, but I can feel my period coming soon, & I always gain 5 lbs with it, when it goes, it takes the 5 lbs with it also.

I am on vicodin es, flexeril, ambien, & lidoderm patches. In the early morning hours I try to sneak in 2 advil if it's been 6 hrs since my pain pill because I can't mix them. Its a bad thing if you do. I think on my good days, I am going to push myself to do things (even though the dr says no) I figure whatever moving around I do is burning some sort of calories and some is better then nothing in my book cuz I cant do anything else but pool.  I'm working on decorating my apartment in pieces, so when my boyfriend goes to work, I sneak in some cleaning til I hurt too much to do anything. I get in trouble for this cuz it gets back to my dr lol. If you lived close to me, I'd invite you to come share the pool with me. Always more fun with a friend then alone. Also, have you tried tiger balm for some of the pain? I like the one in the tin that has a consistency like vaseline. It lasts much longer for me & works real good. You can get it at cvs or walmart, if you don't see the big tin of it, just ask the pharmacy to order it for you, that's what I do & takes a couple of days to come in. Its worth it.

I tried acupuncture, it doesnt work for me. As far as injections, you're only allowed so many because it does damage to your heart I think I heard somewhere, when I was in my early 30s, I developed facsitis on both feet & had to get injections on each foot, the dr gave me more then he should have each time so I dont think i can have injections at all now.

Wish me luck on Monday. First few days are the hardest. :) I am here for you though. Pamela

Good morning,

Well, actually, ok morning. Today is my weigh in day and I had a 1# gain. I am bummed but not too much because I have learned that this is how my body adjusts to losing weight. I will lose a few #s, then plateau out for a couple of weeks, fluctuating a # or so. Then a couple of weeks later I will have a significant loss, usually of 4 #s or so. I just can’t seem to lose the average 2#s a week like others. I discussed this with my dr and she helped me see that this is just how my body and metabolism work. So, this is normal for me.

She also said I would lose alot faster if I exercised every day. She suggested I change my walking from every other day at 1 hour to every day at 1/2 hour. I haven't done that because it just doesn't feel right to quit walking that early. I want to walk every other day and go to the Y on the opposite days for their water aerobics classes. I was going for a while but injured my ankle. I was doing jumping jacks in the water and was hit by severe pain. I had given myself a stress fracture. I was unable to walk for weeks and in pain for months so going back to the Y was out of the question. Now  that I am out of the habit it has been difficult for me to go back. Also, I had been going with a friend and she does not feel like going again. She has fibro and is in really bad shape. She was just diagnosed and is in the position of not having drs take her pain seriously. She takes vicodine but it doesn't work for her and they won't give her anything stronger. She knows I am taking methodone and has seen how that has changed my life so she desperately wants that. I love the methodone because there is absolutely no high medicated feeling. It does not get me loopy or sedated. It did take me a year to learn how to live with it, tho. I noticed that my reaction time and cautiousness had been altered so I had to stop driving. Now I take it at 6 am and don't go anywhere for a couple hours and I am fine. I know being on long term narcotics is not the ideal, but I simply do not function without it and that in and of itself is not acceptable. I am just a better person now and a contributing factor in my family and friends' lives since this med came into my life so we deal with it. Like I said, there's no high so it works for me.

What meds are you taking? Do you get trigger point injections or epidurals? I do and hate getting them but they work so well for me that I deal with them. Also.

Well, how was your weigh in?

Laura

HI, I am not presently disabled but I was. About 5 years ago I became disabled by fibromyalgia. I was not able to excersize let alone clean my house or shop. My husband and kids did everything. I spent most of my time in bed or on the couch. I also used the electric chairs in stores. So I know a little of what you might feel. Fortunately, I am in a  remission of sorts thanx to finding the right concoction of meds. I still have daily aches and pains but am not disabled by them. For the past 6 or so months, I can drive, shop, clean house and exercise. I walk 1 hour every other day, 3 days a week. My goal is to walk everyday, but I am not there yet. I am too sore to work out each day. It takes me a day to recover from walking. I started out walking just 15 mins and increased as I went.

Anyway, I blame fibro and my inability to move and the depression that comes from being in chronic severe pain for my weight gain...

I started my lifestyle change on Jan 1 weighing 250#s. I now weigh 223. I am not losing as fast as most of the peolpe on here but I attribute that to my inability to exercise every day and to my meds.

I am sorry for your experiences and their outcome. You have made a good decision by coming here and reaching out for support. You can do this! Feel free to add me to your buddies if you want.

Laura

I am disabled from 2 drunk drivers & also I was just diagnosed with fibromyalgia on top of my disabilities. My goal is to lose 177 lbs for health reasons & because I am tired of just being fat. It is a struggle for me to diet, although I have done slimfast long ago & lost 60 lbs so I know it works. I cannot exercise except for a few exercises in the pool that is allowed by my doctor. I can't really do any walking exercises because I walk with a cane & walker & if I need to walk further such as in a store, I need an electric wheelchair because of the damage I sustained in the accidents I fall down alot due to nerve damage.

I am hoping to find some diet buddies that are in the same boat as me. Wanting to lose 100+ lbs & unable to exercise due to disabilities. It doesn't matter to me if you are male or female. The only thing I have to say is I am here for friends & support thru my dieting & not here to "hook up" with anyone as I am engaged & happy with that part of my life.

If you think we would make compatible buddies, please send me an invite as this site has changed dramatically from what I'm used to & I'm having a hard time searching for buddies. I can't even find where they all are. (grrr at slimfast for making it difficult from the way it was before).