Take off Weight in 2008
 

:eek: - No one has posted here for at least 6 weeks!! :eek: :eek:

I have been so bad thru the holidays - I don't remember ever eating as many high calorie foods in a few weeks than this yr!!

I have spent the last week on vacation at my mom's eating ham, sweet potatoes, lobster, chicken tortillas smothered in cheese sauce, sour cream & salsa. We've had pie, Birthday cake for Jesus' birthday & I just made those Oreo Snowballs to eat tonight, after we eat scallops with baked potatoes & sour cream.

2008 is coming & I need to whip this little 4'10" body back into shape with a better exercise program - which is tough to do in the cold (ok - I'm already finding excuses!) & I need to get back to sensible eating.

Who's going to join me & "take off weight in 2008??" -

To the OP - Mandee you can't join in anymore - that baby needs you to eat!!

I would join in...but I have been trying to lose the same 20 pounds for a really long time...and it ain't budging. Soooooo...I guess I'll have to be satisfied with the weight I am, I feel good and that's the most important thing to me.

I will join on the first. I am beginning by doing the adkins for two weeks.

Ok, here goes!!!! This was sent to me (maybe a hint) but I thought it would be great to share to start those DIETS!!!!!!!

"Twas the week after Christmas, and all through the house
Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.
The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd taste
At the holiday parties had gone to my waist.

When I got on the scale there arose such a number!!!
When I walked to the store (less a walk, more a lumber)

I'd remember the marvelous meal I'd prepared;
the gravies and sauces and beef nicely rare,

The wine and the rumballs, the bread and the cheese
And the way I'd never said "No thank you please."

As I dressed myself in my husbands old shirt
And prepared once again to do battle with dirt

I said to myself, as I only can
"You cant spend the winter disguised as a man!"

So away with the last of the sour cream dip,
Get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip

Every last bit of food that I like must be banished
'Till all the additional ounces have vanished.

I wont have a cookie-not even a lick.
I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick

I wont have hot biscuits or cornbread or pie,
I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.

I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore
But isnt that what January is for?

Unable to giggle, no longer a riot.
Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet!!!

Ohh I just found this, I want to join.I need to loose 20 pounds. I done this over the summer but gained it all back when the kids went to school and I had to stop walking. When I first started in the summer I gained for the first 3 weeks. My problem is I quit smoking last year and now I have nothing to do so I eat. When it gets cold outside I hate to go out. I love the heat, I guess thats why I live in Texas. I sat and read through all of this thread. I got some good ideas so off I go to loose loose loose.

Ohh and for the people over 50 that cant seem to loose, I got to tell you my MIL is almost 60 and she lost 40 pounds. It took a lot of work but she done it. Keep trying!!!

But...but...but...it's sooooooooooo hard. Yep, I'm 50 plus in years, I really feel like I eat pretty good (healthy)...but I do an office job, sitting at a desk 8 hours a day, and the only exercise I can say I enjoy is walking...so walk more, right?

LOBSTER ! You had lobster ? I'm coming to your next holiday !!

I want to join - I got too thin and now am where I want to be but - I'm getting into a bad chocolate addiction at night...it's starting to show :(

what's the plan since we're so close to New Years ? Now or wait till the holiday is over ?? I'm too lazy to read every thread lol -

I'm SO IN for "Losing Weight in '08". I've always said I'd like to be a little thinner (about 20 lbs), and I'm young so it shouldn't be that hard, but I guess I never cared THAT MUCH. Well, now I do! I'm going to lose that 20 at least in the first 6 months of 08 (good goal, I think!). BF and I are starting our diet on January 1, and I'm so excited! It's going to be not great food and bland and sometimes boring, but I'm giving myself one night a week to CHEAT so that I don't go CRAZY!!!!!! BF also just quit smoking (cold turkey - my Christmas present :D) so it will be extra hard for him to lose pounds, but he's a strong-willed guy, so I don't think it'll be that much of a problem! Anyway, good luck to all! I'm actually REALLY REALLY REALLY looking forward to eating a ton of spinach salads :D

I had recently lost weight and was the size that I wanted to be....then came the holidays. :rolleyes: Now,I need to lose about 10lbs. I plan to do Weight Watchers and would love to have a WW buddy. If anyone is interested, drop me an email.

We can do this! :)

Tammy