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Adulting is Hard, So I'm Running Away! ~ An Oct 2016 PTR ~ Update 10/19: Peace Out, Yo!
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Chrystmasangel
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You changed your Avatar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
figmentedfollies
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I see you there, sneaking in on my coattails. And yes, I just realized that I get to plan an October trip too...
Yes, you enabler...but really - adulting is no fun and we should all run away to Disney....with a stop over at Universal for HP fun times.
*goes back to thread stalking*
Elevationist
Princess No-Pants
- Joined
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Yay!
Hooray for more October travelers! We can definitely help each other pass the next 8-9 months until it's Disney time! 
I did! I'm really feeling the BB-8 love lately.
Elevationist
Princess No-Pants
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59 days until Park Hours! 
96 days until ADRs!
216 days until FP+!
276 days until WDW!
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Hey, ya'll!
Work has been busier than expected for this time of year, so I know my updates have been fewer and further between. But honestly, there's also not a lot to report as far as trip planning lately. I did tweak my spreadsheet a bit after I posted it a couple weeks ago, and opened it up so I can stay at HS after Fantasmic and watch the Star Wars fireworks, if they're still happening in October (fingers crossed)! There's just too much night time stuff now that I need to see!
Which reminds me! I came across a really interesting article about the addition of the Star Wars lands to the parks. It brings up some excellent (and also some kinda dumb) points, and I would love to chat about it and hear some of your thoughts!
(EDIT: Turns out that the website which the article is hosted on, the DIS won't allow me to post a link to. Booooo!)
Speaking of Star Wars... BB-8 gives me life. He's better than all the things. (And I'm totally not just saying that because I wanna be his new stepmom.)
I went solo to see him (and his Daddy) again on Saturday night, since last week I did my big binge-rewatch of the first 6 films. I'm glad I did, I caught things and references that I missed the first time! I also noticed that I was the only person laughing out-loud at the funny bits and jokes, sitting there in the theater on a date with myself. Good thing that being adorably awkward doesn't bother me in the least.
In other "real life" news, I thought I'd talk a bit about my struggles with my health and my weight...
I've avoided dieting for years because, frankly, life is too short to be unhappy every day. And a lot of people struggle to understand this, but I really am HAPPY, even at my size! I have zero issues with my size or weight or body! However, I was BEYOND unhappy while dieting, mainly because traditional diets leave with me nothing to eat that I actually like.
And those of you who have known me on the DIS while know that I likes to eat. Food is a big deal to me, and delicious food brings me so much joy. And never actually enjoying anything that I was allowed to eat meant that dieting was always a miserable experience during which I was constantly hating life. 
People would tell me that I would "get used to it" and that it would get easier in time. But for me, it always seemed like the longer I tried to stay with it, the more difficult it became. Needless to say, these diet attempts always failed, because I just couldn't live like that. I decided that being fat and happy really had to be better, so I quit even trying.
But one of the drawbacks of being fat and happy emotionally is that I feel like CRAP physically.
And already having not one but two pain disorders, the weight just makes it that much worse. And I've known for years that if I can get some of this weight off, I'll feel much better and have so much more energy, I've never been in denial about that fact.
Another drawback I discovered is that when you quit caring about your weight, it starts to climb. And mine did... Up and up and up and up. Until I looked at the scale in November and realized that I was the heaviest I've ever been.
And scariest of all, once or twice a day, I started getting these weird heart palpitations. For just a couple horrible seconds (but it always felt so so so much longer), it almost felt like my heart was stuck, and struggling to take it's next beat... then I'd feel one strong beat followed by a series of fast fluttery ones, and then I'd be okay. It was TERRIFYING. 
Then after all that, December arrived. It was Disney time, and I went and did the vacation thing Dec, 4-11. Came home with a chest cold and my second toe on my right foot had weirdly gone completely numb, which added to my worries. So I went to my primary care physician on Dec. 14th, who gave me some stuff for the cold, and fussed at me for not keeping up with my hypertension. I'm HORRIBLE at remembering to take pills daily, and it was another way I have been thoroughly neglecting my health. Bad Billie, I know. 
I told him about the heart palpitations, and he said it is most likely related to my high blood pressure, and that it's a warning sign that I really need to take better care of myself.
He also sent me for an x-ray on my toe to see if it's hairline fracture causing the numbness (which came back clean, no fracture), but he says it seems perfectly healthy. It doesn't appear to be vascular, the circulation is just fine. If it were a nerve thing, it would be effecting all three pf the toes in the middle of my foot, not just one of them. So he said give it some time, and see how it does... but there's been no change in the last month. Mysterious!
So ANYHOW, I'm getting off-course here... That night when I got home, I decided to make some changes. I made a list of all the doctors and things I need to be doing better for myself medically but have been neglecting for far too long, and spent the next day calling around and looking for doctors that are in my insurance's network, and setting up appointments. (Turns out my insurance is awful and very few doctors will agree to be in their network.) I even had to set one appointment an hour away in Savannah, because no Sleep Apnea (another of my health conditions I've been ignoring for years) specialists in my town are in the network. But I sucked it up and I did it anyway!
Part of getting myself healthier is, of course, deciding it was time to try again to get some of this weight off. And I was inspired by @Chicago Mo and her immense success with the Atkins diet. And I've tried everything else out there over the years, so why not? Now I wasn't about to try and start a weight loss program right before Christmas, so even though I'm not normally into New Year's resolutions, I decided that January 1st would be my start date. I also decided I wouldn't do it cold turkey, that I would spend the first week or so slowly phasing the carbs out of my life, reducing them a little more each date. So that's what I did.
As those of you who follow me on Facebook already know, at this time of this writing, I've been avoiding carbs for 19 days, about 2.5 weeks... and I've lost 11 lbs!
But check this out, this is the best part... I'm NOT miserable! Whenever I get sad about not being able to have cake, I just go console myself with some BACON. (Okay, not really, but you get the idea.)
There's enough things on this plan that I actually ENJOY eating that I'm not finding it a struggle to stick with it. On other diets, I could have a salad, but I had to leave out a lot of the stuff I love and that makes a salad enjoyable to me. Now I can have my ham and turkey and bacon bits and boiled egg and cheese (in moderation, dairy carbs can add up fast) and ranch dressing, and it's OKAY! I can have the cuts of red meat that I love, like rib-eye steaks! I can have my beloved cheeseburgers, I just ditch the bun! I know it goes against conventional nutritional and dieting wisdom, but it WORKS!
Now I do realize that it sounds from the above example like I'm just pigging out on artery-clogging fatty meats, but it's really quite the opposite. For a girl who hates most veggies in general, my green leafy vegetable consumption has more than DOUBLED due to all the spinach salads I'm eating instead of sandwiches at lunch, and all the broccoli and brussel sprouts that I'm eating with a protein at dinner to replace those pastas and potatoes and rice that I can't have anymore.
And yes, I've taken my pills every day since seeing my doctor last month. I am going to him for a follow up tomorrow, and I am hoping that between the medication and the diet changes that my blood pressure will be looking much better. I'm curious about my blood sugar, too! (And I intend to ask him about the toe mystery again...)
Oh! And I haven't had the weird heart palpitation since I went back on my pills, either. So that's a huge relief!
Anyhow. When I decided to include this news in my update today, I didn't expect it to get so lengthy! So if you're still reading, thank you!
I'll go ahead and wrap-up here. I'll hopefully bring home good news from my follow-up appointment tomorrow!
Okay, I'll shut up now. Love ya'll!
96 days until ADRs!
216 days until FP+!
276 days until WDW!
****************************************************
Hey, ya'll!
Work has been busier than expected for this time of year, so I know my updates have been fewer and further between. But honestly, there's also not a lot to report as far as trip planning lately. I did tweak my spreadsheet a bit after I posted it a couple weeks ago, and opened it up so I can stay at HS after Fantasmic and watch the Star Wars fireworks, if they're still happening in October (fingers crossed)! There's just too much night time stuff now that I need to see!
Which reminds me! I came across a really interesting article about the addition of the Star Wars lands to the parks. It brings up some excellent (and also some kinda dumb) points, and I would love to chat about it and hear some of your thoughts!
(EDIT: Turns out that the website which the article is hosted on, the DIS won't allow me to post a link to. Booooo!)Speaking of Star Wars... BB-8 gives me life. He's better than all the things. (And I'm totally not just saying that because I wanna be his new stepmom.)
I went solo to see him (and his Daddy) again on Saturday night, since last week I did my big binge-rewatch of the first 6 films. I'm glad I did, I caught things and references that I missed the first time! I also noticed that I was the only person laughing out-loud at the funny bits and jokes, sitting there in the theater on a date with myself. Good thing that being adorably awkward doesn't bother me in the least.
In other "real life" news, I thought I'd talk a bit about my struggles with my health and my weight...
I've avoided dieting for years because, frankly, life is too short to be unhappy every day. And a lot of people struggle to understand this, but I really am HAPPY, even at my size! I have zero issues with my size or weight or body! However, I was BEYOND unhappy while dieting, mainly because traditional diets leave with me nothing to eat that I actually like.
And those of you who have known me on the DIS while know that I likes to eat. Food is a big deal to me, and delicious food brings me so much joy. And never actually enjoying anything that I was allowed to eat meant that dieting was always a miserable experience during which I was constantly hating life. People would tell me that I would "get used to it" and that it would get easier in time. But for me, it always seemed like the longer I tried to stay with it, the more difficult it became. Needless to say, these diet attempts always failed, because I just couldn't live like that. I decided that being fat and happy really had to be better, so I quit even trying.
But one of the drawbacks of being fat and happy emotionally is that I feel like CRAP physically.
And already having not one but two pain disorders, the weight just makes it that much worse. And I've known for years that if I can get some of this weight off, I'll feel much better and have so much more energy, I've never been in denial about that fact.Another drawback I discovered is that when you quit caring about your weight, it starts to climb. And mine did... Up and up and up and up. Until I looked at the scale in November and realized that I was the heaviest I've ever been.
And scariest of all, once or twice a day, I started getting these weird heart palpitations. For just a couple horrible seconds (but it always felt so so so much longer), it almost felt like my heart was stuck, and struggling to take it's next beat... then I'd feel one strong beat followed by a series of fast fluttery ones, and then I'd be okay. It was TERRIFYING.
Then after all that, December arrived. It was Disney time, and I went and did the vacation thing Dec, 4-11.
Came home with a chest cold and my second toe on my right foot had weirdly gone completely numb, which added to my worries. So I went to my primary care physician on Dec. 14th, who gave me some stuff for the cold, and fussed at me for not keeping up with my hypertension. I'm HORRIBLE at remembering to take pills daily, and it was another way I have been thoroughly neglecting my health. Bad Billie, I know. I told him about the heart palpitations, and he said it is most likely related to my high blood pressure, and that it's a warning sign that I really need to take better care of myself.He also sent me for an x-ray on my toe to see if it's hairline fracture causing the numbness (which came back clean, no fracture), but he says it seems perfectly healthy. It doesn't appear to be vascular, the circulation is just fine. If it were a nerve thing, it would be effecting all three pf the toes in the middle of my foot, not just one of them. So he said give it some time, and see how it does... but there's been no change in the last month. Mysterious!
So ANYHOW, I'm getting off-course here... That night when I got home, I decided to make some changes. I made a list of all the doctors and things I need to be doing better for myself medically but have been neglecting for far too long, and spent the next day calling around and looking for doctors that are in my insurance's network, and setting up appointments. (Turns out my insurance is awful and very few doctors will agree to be in their network.) I even had to set one appointment an hour away in Savannah, because no Sleep Apnea (another of my health conditions I've been ignoring for years) specialists in my town are in the network. But I sucked it up and I did it anyway!
Part of getting myself healthier is, of course, deciding it was time to try again to get some of this weight off. And I was inspired by @Chicago Mo and her immense success with the Atkins diet. And I've tried everything else out there over the years, so why not? Now I wasn't about to try and start a weight loss program right before Christmas, so even though I'm not normally into New Year's resolutions, I decided that January 1st would be my start date. I also decided I wouldn't do it cold turkey, that I would spend the first week or so slowly phasing the carbs out of my life, reducing them a little more each date. So that's what I did.
As those of you who follow me on Facebook already know, at this time of this writing, I've been avoiding carbs for 19 days, about 2.5 weeks... and I've lost 11 lbs!
But check this out, this is the best part... I'm NOT miserable! Whenever I get sad about not being able to have cake, I just go console myself with some BACON. (Okay, not really, but you get the idea.)
There's enough things on this plan that I actually ENJOY eating that I'm not finding it a struggle to stick with it. On other diets, I could have a salad, but I had to leave out a lot of the stuff I love and that makes a salad enjoyable to me. Now I can have my ham and turkey and bacon bits and boiled egg and cheese (in moderation, dairy carbs can add up fast) and ranch dressing, and it's OKAY! I can have the cuts of red meat that I love, like rib-eye steaks! I can have my beloved cheeseburgers, I just ditch the bun! I know it goes against conventional nutritional and dieting wisdom, but it WORKS!
Now I do realize that it sounds from the above example like I'm just pigging out on artery-clogging fatty meats, but it's really quite the opposite. For a girl who hates most veggies in general, my green leafy vegetable consumption has more than DOUBLED due to all the spinach salads I'm eating instead of sandwiches at lunch, and all the broccoli and brussel sprouts that I'm eating with a protein at dinner to replace those pastas and potatoes and rice that I can't have anymore.
And yes, I've taken my pills every day since seeing my doctor last month. I am going to him for a follow up tomorrow, and I am hoping that between the medication and the diet changes that my blood pressure will be looking much better. I'm curious about my blood sugar, too! (And I intend to ask him about the toe mystery again...)
Oh! And I haven't had the weird heart palpitation since I went back on my pills, either. So that's a huge relief!
Anyhow. When I decided to include this news in my update today, I didn't expect it to get so lengthy! So if you're still reading, thank you!
I'll go ahead and wrap-up here. I'll hopefully bring home good news from my follow-up appointment tomorrow!Okay, I'll shut up now. Love ya'll!
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cinderkelly
DIS Veteran
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Ok I kept meaning to get here to comment on your last update, but obviously I have not, so just gonna say real quick...
You got a Disney Dooney!!!! I'm so excited for you! I really like the pattern and how it represents all four parks. A girl's gotta splurge on herself every once in a while. Plus your Disney math was very logical.
In my opinion, no. I don't think the addition of Star Ward Land will ruin Disney Parks. And I'm not even a huge Star Wars person. When we were at HS last time I have to admit I wasn't too impressed. It was kinda sad to me the lack of attractions and excitement there. Now I know the opinion may be different to long time Disney visitors, but that was my first visit and I was just a little "meh" about it. I think HS can really use the resurgence of some exciting new stuff to help revive the park. Star Wars has such a huge following, it will be great for those who love it, I'll probably even sneak in and check it out too!
Billie that is awesome!!
I'm totally with you about diets it's sucking and being happy with you. I have always admired you and your confidence. But with that being said that is some scary shisnit with your health and I'm super excited for your lifestyle change so that you can feel good. I'm all about "it's not what the scales tell me" but how you feel and I'm excited for you that you are starting to feel a difference already.
Edited to add.... Sorry I know the Dooney was on your TR, I got cornfused and cross referenced them
You got a Disney Dooney!!!! I'm so excited for you! I really like the pattern and how it represents all four parks. A girl's gotta splurge on herself every once in a while. Plus your Disney math was very logical.
I would love to chat about it and hear some of your thoughts!: Will The Addition of Star Wars Land Ruin Disney Parks Forever?
In my opinion, no. I don't think the addition of Star Ward Land will ruin Disney Parks. And I'm not even a huge Star Wars person. When we were at HS last time I have to admit I wasn't too impressed. It was kinda sad to me the lack of attractions and excitement there. Now I know the opinion may be different to long time Disney visitors, but that was my first visit and I was just a little "meh" about it. I think HS can really use the resurgence of some exciting new stuff to help revive the park. Star Wars has such a huge following, it will be great for those who love it, I'll probably even sneak in and check it out too!
Billie that is awesome!!
I'm totally with you about diets it's sucking and being happy with you. I have always admired you and your confidence. But with that being said that is some scary shisnit with your health and I'm super excited for your lifestyle change so that you can feel good. I'm all about "it's not what the scales tell me" but how you feel and I'm excited for you that you are starting to feel a difference already.
Edited to add.... Sorry I know the Dooney was on your TR, I got cornfused and cross referenced them
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figmentedfollies
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Nov 26, 2014
Congrats on the weight loss and doesn't everyone love BB-8?
Chrystmasangel
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 17, 2014
So awesome on the weight loss! That is a great start! Before I had bariatric surgery, I had to be cleared by a psychologist. He told me that addiction to food is one of the worst addictions to over come. Like a lot of other addictions you can't just quit cold turkey. I am glad you have found a diet that works with your losing weight but not make you miserable.
Working on being better about taking your meds. That is good!
Blood pressure meds don't do you any good sitting on a shelf. I was having issues remembering to take mine so I set an alarm on my phone to remind me to take them. I also make sure I always have at least 2 doses in my purse incase I leave home and forget my pill organizer at home. Also the pill organizer helps a lot too depending on how many pills you have to take. I got 1 for morning and 1 for night time(which I keep on my night stand). I have a really bad memory (prolly all the meds I take lol)and will forget if I have taken my current dose. Using the organizers... I can check that days pills and see if they are gone.
Working on being better about taking your meds. That is good!
Blood pressure meds don't do you any good sitting on a shelf. I was having issues remembering to take mine so I set an alarm on my phone to remind me to take them. I also make sure I always have at least 2 doses in my purse incase I leave home and forget my pill organizer at home. Also the pill organizer helps a lot too depending on how many pills you have to take. I got 1 for morning and 1 for night time(which I keep on my night stand). I have a really bad memory (prolly all the meds I take lol)and will forget if I have taken my current dose. Using the organizers... I can check that days pills and see if they are gone.
DonnaBeeGood
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- Joined
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LinderInWonderland
DIS Veteran
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Exciting news re: your new style of eating and commitment to better health!59 days until Park Hours!
96 days until ADRs!
216 days until FP+!
276 days until WDW!
****************************************************
Hey, ya'll!
Work has been busier than expected for this time of year, so I know my updates have been fewer and further between. But honestly, there's also not a lot to report as far as trip planning lately. I did tweak my spreadsheet a bit since I posted it a couple weeks ago, and opened it up so I can stay at HS after Fantasmic and watch the Star Wars fireworks, if they're still happening in October (fingers crossed)! There's just too many night time things now that I need to see!
Which reminds me! I came across a really interesting article about the addition of the Star Wars lands to the parks. It brings up some excellent (and also some kinda dumb) points, and I would love to chat about it and hear some of your thoughts!: Will The Addition of Star Wars Land Ruin Disney Parks Forever?
Speaking of Star Wars... BB-8 gives me life. He's better than all the things. (And I'm totally not just saying that because I wanna be his new stepmom.)
I went solo to see him (and his Daddy) again on Saturday night, since last week I did my big binge-rewatch of the first 6 films. I'm glad I did, I caught things and references that I missed the first time! I also noticed that I was the only person laughing out-loud at the funny bits and jokes, sitting there in the theater on a date with myself. Good thing that being adorably awkward doesn't bother me in the least.
In other "real life" news, I thought I'd talk a bit about my struggles with my health and my weight...
I've avoided dieting for years because, frankly, life is too short to be unhappy every day. And a lot of people struggle to understand this, but I really am HAPPY, even at my size! I have zero issues with my size or weight or body! However, I was BEYOND unhappy while dieting, mainly because traditional diets leave with me nothing to eat that I actually like.
But one of the drawbacks of being fat and happy emotionally is that I feel like CRAP physically.
Another drawback I discovered is that when you quit caring about your weight, it starts to climb. And mine did... Up and up and up and up. Until I looked at the scale in November and realized that I was the heaviest I've ever been.
Then after all that, December arrived. It was Disney time, and I went and did the vacation thing Dec, 4-11.
He also sent me for an x-ray on my toe to see if it's hairline fracture causing the numbness (which came back clean, no fracture), but he says it seems perfectly healthy. It doesn't appear to be vascular, the circulation is just fine. If it were a nerve thing, it would be effecting all three pf the toes in the middle of my foot, not just one of them. So he said give it some time, and see how it does... but there's been no change in the last month. Mysterious!
So ANYHOW, I'm getting off-course here... That night when I got home, I decided to make some changes. I made a list of all the doctors and things I need to be doing better for myself medically but have been neglecting for far too long, and spent the next day calling around and looking for doctors that are in my insurance's network, and setting up appointments. (Turns out my insurance is awful and very few doctors will agree to be in their network.) I even had to set one appointment an hour away in Savannah, because no Sleep Apnea (another of my health conditions I've been ignoring for years) specialists in my town are in the network. But I sucked it up and I did it anyway!
Part of getting myself healthier is, of course, deciding it was time to try again to get some of this weight off. And I was inspired by @Chicago Mo and her immense success with the Atkins diet. And I've tried everything else out there over the years, so why not? Now I wasn't about to try and start a weight loss program right before Christmas, so even though I'm not normally into New Year's resolutions, I decided that January 1st would be my start date. I also decided I wouldn't do it cold turkey, that I would spend the first week or so slowly phasing the carbs out of my life, reducing them a little more each date. So that's what I did.
As those of you who follow me on Facebook already know, at this time of this writing, I've been avoiding carbs for 19 days, about 2.5 weeks... and I've lost 11 lbs!
But check this out, this is the best part... I'm NOT miserable! Whenever I get sad about not being able to have cake, I just go console myself with some BACON. (Okay, not really, but you get the idea.)
There's enough things on this plan that I actually ENJOY eating that I'm not finding it a struggle to stick with it. On other diets, I could have a salad, but I had to leave out a lot of the stuff I love and that makes a salad enjoyable to me. Now I can have my ham and turkey and bacon bits and boiled egg and cheese (in moderation, dairy carbs can add up fast) and ranch dressing, and it's OKAY! I can have the cuts of red meat that I love, like rib-eye steaks! I can have my beloved cheeseburgers, I just ditch the bun! I know it goes against conventional nutritional and dieting wisdom, but it WORKS!
Now I do realize that it sounds from the above example like I'm just pigging out on artery-clogging fatty meats, but it's really quite the opposite. For a girl who hates most veggies in general, my green leafy vegetable consumption has more than DOUBLED due to all the spinach salads I'm eating instead of sandwiches at lunch, and all the broccoli and brussel sprouts that I'm eating with a protein at dinner to replace those pastas and potatoes and rice that I can't have anymore.
And yes, I've taken my pills every day since seeing my doctor last month. I am going to him for a follow up tomorrow, and I am hoping that between the medication and the diet changes that my blood pressure will be looking much better. I'm curious about my blood sugar, too! (And I intend to ask him about the toe mystery again...)
Oh! And I haven't had the weird heart palpitation since I went back on my pills, either. So that's a huge relief!
Anyhow. When I decided to include this news in my update today, I didn't expect it to get so lengthy! So if you're still reading, thank you!
Okay, I'll shut up now. Love ya'll!
I have had my own struggles with weight and fitness since I was 14. It took me until I turned 30 to be okay with myself, but in my 40s I have started to deteriorate. My knees are garbage, but I can't do anything about them (not seriously, anyway) until I shed more pounds.
I am a big fan of exploring until you find what works for you. I do better on a high protein diet myself, but what really works for me is tracking what I eat. I dusted off my handy dandy MyFitnessPal app when the new year started. This particular thread of yours inspired me to do it. Magic Kingdom and I turn 50 the same year and I want to celebrate by having a sumptuous trip to the World that year (perhaps when the Christmas decorations are up, but we shall see what Disney has plans for). To that end, I have more than 5 years to prepare my body for the best health I can give it and I am going to toast that health in MK!!
As for Star Wars at Disney, I am an enormous fan, but DH is an enormous-er fan. Much of our travel over the next 10 years or so is Star Wars-centric. DH likes Disney, but he'll love it once Star Wars Land opens. Me? I am so ready to go to Pandora, first!
Lifelong_Dreamer
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Congrats in the weight loss and good for you for having the courage and strength to make a change. It is a very hard thing to do.
cajunfan
Welcome to the DIS where wishes come true.
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OH, oh!! I got the chance to try the Kale Salad at Chick-fil-a yesterday! OMG!! It was so good! And I HATE KALE! I am going to be looking for a copycat recipe for this one...although I suspect the dressing on it is not allowed on Atkins...it tasted on the sweet side (but not sure of the carbs in it)
Yo know I think your success on this is AWESOME!!!
Yo know I think your success on this is AWESOME!!!
Chicago Mo
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I cannot begin to tell you how happy i am for you.. Like had a tear in my eye.
Losing weight had nothing to do with looks. Yet i saw how your health was deteriorating! Pretty soon you will see some of your aches and pains will go away (SLOWLY) Today is not my day the weather has taken it's nasty toll on me my back and knee is in sever pain... BOO.
I cannot agree more! Yes "dieting" has the worst food and YES you are MISERABLE!!! At least this this you have SO many options you normally eat! and BACON LOADS OF BACON! I might have clogged arteries but damn i enjoyed it! HA HA HA..
My doc said that yes it will burn off.. BUT if you add a bit of exercise it will melt off..
Yeah i haven't started that yet.. HA HA!
OK so the holidays? NOT A GOOD TIME for a change of healthy ways.. I need to get back ON the wagon. carbs were my BFF since November..
But that's the beauty of this. don't need to pay anyone don't need special frozen food that a rat wouldn't eat you just do it!!! LOVE IT!
I am so so proud of you! and I almost didn't recognize you! you changed your avitar!!! LOL...
Yep BB-8 is the BOMB!
going to read the star wars article now..
Losing weight had nothing to do with looks. Yet i saw how your health was deteriorating! Pretty soon you will see some of your aches and pains will go away (SLOWLY) Today is not my day the weather has taken it's nasty toll on me my back and knee is in sever pain... BOO.
I cannot agree more! Yes "dieting" has the worst food and YES you are MISERABLE!!! At least this this you have SO many options you normally eat! and BACON LOADS OF BACON! I might have clogged arteries but damn i enjoyed it! HA HA HA..
My doc said that yes it will burn off.. BUT if you add a bit of exercise it will melt off..
Yeah i haven't started that yet.. HA HA!
OK so the holidays? NOT A GOOD TIME for a change of healthy ways.. I need to get back ON the wagon. carbs were my BFF since November..
But that's the beauty of this. don't need to pay anyone don't need special frozen food that a rat wouldn't eat you just do it!!! LOVE IT!
I am so so proud of you! and I almost didn't recognize you! you changed your avitar!!! LOL...
Yep BB-8 is the BOMB!
going to read the star wars article now..
Chicago Mo
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Umm says web page not available?!?!
Bethislucy
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- Oct 14, 2009
Congrats on 11lbs. That's awesome!
Tinkerbell's Mom
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- Jul 18, 2005
Congrats Billie!!!! Weight loss is so hard and so frustrating, I'm not a meat eater so weight watchers has always been my best friend when I need to lose weight, but the recipes are time consuming and the food isn't great, so I understand your struggle!! I'm glad you have found a diet that you are enjoying and that is working for you!!!
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