FREE videos! I have this set on VHS, with audio cassettes and a book. Nice if it is available free, but it is a pain for me to watch videos off the internet--my clearwire connection is terribly slow.
http://www.weighdownathome.com/
I think the way Gwen Shamblin promotes thinking about food is a good thing.

Did an hour on elliptical machine yesterday. I think I'll alternate that and the treadmill. Weighed 202.6 this morning--YAY! It's so nice to see a downward change, even if it's "just" a fraction of a pound! I almost broke down and went on a chocolate binge yesterday--glad I did't. I did have a Trader Joe Dark Chocolate Bar. I think the only other chocolate I have in the house is chocolate chips. I cooked some vegetable stew night before last and bulgur yesterday, so I'll have something healthy to eat (PORTION CONTROL) whenever I'm hungry. I also have some "Old Fashioned Cucumber Salad" (basically cucumbers and white vinegar with a little sugar and pepper and should be about zero calories. I need to cook some squash casserole today, too. I like my okra sliced and sauteed in butter with some salt. I like bell peppers and onions cooked together with eggs and toast. I have few tomatoes. Don't know why I don't have more tomatoes. They taste good, though.

Ingredients 2 to 3 medium cucumbers
1 3 tablespoon salt
3/4 cup white vinegar
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon pepper
How to make Old Fashioned Cucumber SaladWash cucumbers.
Pat dry and score with tines of fork. (I PEEL THEM)
Cut cucumbers into transparent, paper-thin slices to measure 4 cups.
Place cucumber slices in deep bowl; sprinkle every few layers with salt.
Cover cucumbers with a plate and weight them down with a heavy object (a can of fruit or coffee).
Let stand at room temperature 2 hours.
Drain cucumbers thoroughly and press out remaining liquid.
Stir together vinegar, sugar and pepper; pour over slices.
Cover; refrigerate at least 4 hours.
Drain cucumbers before serving. (I SERVE WITH SLOTTED SPOON)

202 lbs this a.m. I'm so excited--think I'll maki it work!

I'm still 201.6, after being down to 200 on 8/2--don't know why the above entry said 202.
I really am disappointed, but I know I am doing good things. I need to journal my food. I have been pretty much having one can of coke a day. I cooked a pot of beans and cornbread last night to eat off. I am not getting tomatoes like I'd like to. Plenty of okra.

I ate lunch when the baby was napping, so when she got up and ate her lunch. I had about 1 cup more beans and about 1/3 cup cacik and i little square dark chocolate. I think i"ll have some watermelon

4:30-craving something sweet---3 pcs. french toast w/syrup

Cacik? What is that? What are you doing to lose weight? Special diet or just excerise and healthier food?

9:15-had a coke earlier with excedrin---got a headache in anticipation of meeting Sinan. Just had more watermelon and will have more strawberry milk. Think I did okay today, but could have used more vegetables....

Okay, Crystal...Here's what I'm doing. My sister, Susan, and I are both about 80 lbs overweight. She's taller than me,and about 240 lbs. I'm about 205. I have a serious self-discipline, portion control problem and I am struggling with my emotional/stress overeating. I have had the Weigh Down Workshop "at home" program. I like that I can eat anything I want on it. But I'm going to HAVE to limit my portions. According to Weigh Down, if you listen to your body--true "stomach hunger" you won't overeat. But I think my body isn't working right. I eat WAY too much and rarely seem satisfied. I am going to try to exercise 1 hour 5-7 days a week, as much for my mental health as weight loss---I'm fighting off a depressive episode again. I think I eat pretty healthy most of the time, but huge portions of healthy food can keep you fat.

Cacik is yogurt, garlic, cucumbers, salt, mint. I use drained yogurt so it is thick like a dip, but the way Turkish people seem to eat it is watered down like a soup. I find the thicker, the less messy. Dilara loves it. The Greek "Tzatziki" seems to be VERY similar, but I don't think I've eaten it. Cacik is pronounced ja jik-the Turkish "c" sounds like "j"

I have NEVER been successful at losing more than a few pounds. I have an hourglass figure buried under all this fat, but I'll probably have to lose 40 lbs before you can see it--I think that was about the time I lost my proportions--around 160-170. I was around 120-125 in my early 20's. I disgust myself. I don't think God wants me to look like this, and I'm sure it isn't healthy.

Hopefully, I'll stick with it long enough and carefully enough to see some results this time. God willing, and prayer is a big part of my effort.

I REALLY like Tzatziki! Adam and I have done Weight Watchers before and been sorta successful. Perhaps you could try that...you can eat pretty much as many veggies as you want, just have to limit yourself on the other stuff. (Adam's mom has lost a LOT of weight and kept it off using that program.) You don't have to buy any special food with it either. Are you still going to the Y to excercise? It's SO HOT outside right now!

It's way too hot to exercise outside. I do the Y, treadmill or elliptical trainer or step machine when I'm at a place that has one. I was going to classes last fall/winter. I should be doing some resistance exercise, too, but I'm not doing it yet.

Scale isn't cooperating. (sigh) and I went crazy eating today, for the first time in 3 weeks.

Okay, here we go again....another weight loss attemp.

My strategy- 1 hour exercise 5 -7 times a week (elliptical, walking, etc.)

Weigh Down workout-eat when hungry, focus on God, turn to God instead of food.

Portion control ( I really think my "hunger" signal is faulty and needs to be retrained.

Today, weight 204.2.

Breakfast, 1 cup (measured) of shredded wheat, milk (about 1/4 c?), and a cup of milk with strawberry quik.

Inspiration---the hourglass figures of Sophia Loren, Raquel Welch, Elizabeth Taylor, Dolly Parton. Especially Elizabeth Taylor, since she was such a big hog and Dolly Parton.

Diet buddy/Support--Susan.

It is a SHAME that God gave me such nice proportions and I have ruined them. They are still there. I am expecting some sagging skin, but I should be able to look great in fitted clothes.

Breakfast-1 cup shredded wheat, 1/2 c. or so whole milk then about 1 cup whole milk with a Tablespoon strawberry Nestle quik

Lunch-1 2/3 c white beans, 2 pieces cornbread, 2 T. butter, 1/3 onion

Darn. 201.6. I haven't exercised in 2 days, have been stressed. I don't think this is fat, I think it is a water fluctuation. i was 200 even the other day. I am tempted to dehydrate myself to get the scale to drop below 200, but that is cheating and my milk may dry up.

Instead, drinking lots of water, exercise, watch my food! I think I have been eating okay, but a little too much salt can make me gain- I can easily gain or lose 2 or more pounds of water weight overnight.