Personal Proof the Scale LIES !

[jlacotta]

Gwen, Congratulations girl!!!!!!!  You have made me a believer and I am taking my Ticker off of my profile!!


Gem, you are a hoot, with your postings!! 

[Ritarh]

Way to go Gwenna!!  I know this has been a long road to haul for you, but God is with you and you are gonna make it girl!!!  So many of you are such an inspiration to all of us newbies out here.  Your postings keep us going and we know that we are going to make it, all of us working together towards a common goal.....healthy and happy!!  To heck with that ole scale (although I'm not sure I can give up the ticker just yet).  I have a pair of pants that once a week I try and when I put them on this morning, I could get them buttoned and zipped!!  However, they are still a little tight on the backside, so will try them again next week and see what happens. 

Keep those wonderful postings coming, we need you!!

Gem - It was so much fun being in the parade for Gwen!

Rita

[niki]

asking God to bless you and that you have a speedy recovery from your surgery....with todays technology....its wonderful how fast one can heal...My good neighbor friend had a much needed hip replacement last year....kept putting it off but finally did it and she is soooooooooo happy she finally went through with it....you will be too....

that's what i am, gwen, btw, a rehab nurse...i take care of people in rehab after they have hip and knee replacements...let me know if you have any questions...........

[GEM]

Gwen, Congratulations girl!!!!!!!  You have made me a believer and I am taking my Ticker off of my profile!!


Gem, you are a hoot, with your postings!!   :)

All kidding aside, when I read in Gwen's journal the reasons why she was taking off her ticker, they made sense.  Enough so that I immediately took mine off, too.  Gwen's a wise woman, and if she's willing to teach, I'm willing to learn.  Did it help?  Today, on my 28th day of living the LDL lifestyle, I climbed up on the back of that Demon scale for the first time in a month.  I tilted my head, held my tongue just so, balanced my body, leaning a little to the left and forward towards the towel rack, and then, making sure that except for my feet, no body parts were dangling, hanging, touching, or otherwise misleading the SCALE, I looked down between my amazing twin bunions and saw---black...nothing but black.  I finally realized that I'd been so nervous about what I might read in my SCALE'S Cyclops's eye, I'd squeezed my peepers shut when I first stepped up on the vindictive, temperamental piece of junk! That's why this crazy old lady was standing blind and naked in the dark, wearing nothing but a wrinkled birthday suit that looked like it needed a good steaming!  I slowly opened up my baby blues, still dreading the news, and then I couldn't see through the crying, because just before the tears started flowing, I saw that I was 12.5 pounds lighter than I was a month ago.  As I wrote in my journal today, the first sound out of my lips were the words of an old dinner blessing I learned in Sunday school years ago:  God is Great...God is Good...Let us thank Him for this food.  And I did.  Right there, still standing on that SCALE.  I thanked God for Roger, for Ldl, for all of you wonderful, supportive people, and most of all, for His Divine Intercession.  Good food indeed.  Praise God!  And then I added an extra thank you for Gwen, who inspired me to go tickerless. 

GEM

[GEM]

Way to go Gwenna!!  

Gem - It was so much fun being in the parade for Gwen!

Rita

Thank heavens you were there, Rita!!!  If you hadn't caught that majorette's twin flaming batons when she missed them, they would have landed in the middle of that huge drift of ticker tape and confetti, torching a blaze that would have spooked the New York Mounted Police Regiment's horses, setting off a stampede into all those poor Shriner clowns stunt driving around in their mini jalopies, and that would have traumatized all the children along the parade route for life, especially after seeing the trampled balloon handlers let their helium kiddie cartoon favs fly away into oblivion.  But Rita, who knew you could twirl?  You were doing great with those flaming batons, well, until you slipped in the horse poop and fell.  But hey...at least the wet stuff put out the batons.  And Gwen knows an orthopod who can get you a new set of knees.  Yep!  It was a great parade.

GEM

[omigosho]

I want to thank you too Gwen.  You are so kind and have sent me many encouraging emails when I first started this path in February.  I kindof think of you as my LDL  Fairy Godmother.  I have read so many of your posts and it has helped me navigate this journey. I know that your pain and success has helped so many including me.  I am so happy for you and I know you will do great with your new knees when you get them  
Love
Omigosho AKA Jennifer Goshow

[MaryB]

I can't wait for you to get your new knees. You already inspire all of us and with new knees... look out!!! You will be on fire. Thanks Gwen for all your posts to those of us that are still learning.

[Gwennaford]

WOW -- And I thought I was excited !  I never thought I would be so happy about someone wishing my clothes would fall off of me! ! !  LOL  I want to thank each and every one of you personally for such a warm and heartfelt celebration. 

I have marked my calendar and set an annual reminder on my cell phone.  Every year from now on, June 20 will officially be my day to be loved - by official proclamation of the Chief of Food Police!  I shall don my cowboy boots and my tutu and do the official HAPPY DANCE in celebration of the best friends a Luncher could ever have.  Perhaps Ginny will give me clogging lessons during my rehab with Niki!

About the flaming batons being extinguished in the horse poop... well, what more could a girl want?

Niki, I already have a thousand questions.

I've got to get to bed.  Don't look at the time stamp on this.  You all already know I ain't got no sense.

Loves, Gwennaford

[margo]

Congratulations Gwen!!

And COngratulations GEM....

The General was complaining that he was gaining weight -- but i could see his tummy going down and see that some of his "hind parts" were melting away...I just told him that we were staying on LDL and that he would see the pounds come off eventually but that it looked like he was losing weight.  Then later yesterday he came running out of the bedroom (half near scared me to death!) shouting about how his pants were falling off....those were a pair of pants that went to his bestest blue suit that he had to have let out while he was in Egypt last time.....there was about 2 -3 good inches of space in the waistband...He sure was so happy and i encouraged him to stay off that scale...(he doesn't want me to take it out of the bathroom!)

sO That's more proof that you can't trust scales!! 

GEM....you should write a book.... a journal about your  impressions about your weight loss and tell it from your swingchair on your front porch - interacting with all the passersby -- pastor, neighbors, friends, talking to your husband who has left THIS realm.....YOU ARE Funnyyyyyyyy and are a wonderful story teller.... 

God bless
margo

[GEM]

Congratulations Gwen!!

And COngratulations GEM....

Then later yesterday he came running out of the bedroom (half near scared me to death!) shouting about how his pants were falling off....

Merciful heavens, Miz Margo...

I'm just thrilled all to pieces at the glorious news your General's hind quarters is a fallin' off.  But honey, I been a Wider Woman nigh unto 20 years, and even I can still remember that when a man comes a running out of the bedroom "shouting about how his pants are falling off," it's his front quarters you got to be worried about!  (Course, it's been so long, I might have been "half scared...to death," too, but by crackey, I'd be real quick to put my fears behind me!  )

GEM

[bethp]

Congatulations, Gwen!!!  I am sneaking on the boards at work!! Hehe!  but I am so glad I did. I have missed so much while I was out of town. You are so awesome! and such a LDL hero to all of us! You are paving the road, and discarding pounds along the way...but as you tell us, the number doesn't matter. I took the battery out of the scale but I think I, too, will take off the ticker. I think you are right! With the ticker we are still focusing on a number, not on health and WOL! Thanks so much!! It is fun to see the numbers go down for everybody, though, AND it is JUST a number!

And Gem, as always, you are a hoot, and it is so much fun to be on this train with you. Its a wonderful journey.
Bye-bye for now....back to work!
Love ya'll, Beth 

[GEM]

This is a test.  This is only a test...  I would never talk so vulgar...

This just proves what I set out to with that fake planted post--your porno filter is as outdated as a cowcatcher on the Skinnytown Express.  If Roger hadn't spent all that money on Neet's Vita-Mix 5200, he could afford to update the system.  Maybe Mynx would help.  She seems to know a lot about computers--and graphics!  She's even more graphic than I am!

GEM/AKA Prudence Pureheart 

[margo]

Gem.....you're a reaaaal Gem!!

You really gave me a good laugh today!!

Thanks

margo

[EnJae]

Being an unmarried, celibate woman-- I gotta say  "I am NOT OLD ENOUGH for this conversation!!!"
lol
NJ
(Everyone at work laughs at me 'cause I am always over-hearing 'married' conversations and turning beet red.)

[GEM]

Being an unmarried, celibate woman-- I gotta say  "I am NOT OLD ENOUGH for this conversation!!!"
lol
NJ
(Everyone at work laughs at me 'cause I am always over-hearing 'married' conversations and turning beet red.)

So when's your next birthday?  In case Miz Margo and me has us a similar situation, GENERALly speakin'?

Love,
GEM

[aaa]

Gwen, All I can say is WOW!!!  You Go Girl!!! I've seen your picture with your beautiful hat and I see a beautiful woman.. inside and out. You truly are a beautiful woman... You are an inspiration to me.  Keep on keepin' on... I will remember you in my prayers. I see you walking with ease. Forget the walking... I see a  running, jumping and dancing Gwennaford!!!  Yeah!!!  God is good... All the time...All the time... God is good... Love and prayers, Annamaria  P. S. Now I REALLY know the scale is not my friend...

[margo]

Being an unmarried, celibate woman-- I gotta say  "I am NOT OLD ENOUGH for this conversation!!!"
lol
NJ
(Everyone at work laughs at me 'cause I am always over-hearing 'married' conversations and turning beet red.)

Don't feel bad Enjae....even at my age and marital experience...i also am finding myself  blushing beet red at GEM's gems!  YIPES!!



margo

[GEM]

Being an unmarried, celibate woman-- I gotta say  :blush: "I am NOT OLD ENOUGH for this conversation!!!"
lol
NJ
(Everyone at work laughs at me 'cause I am always over-hearing 'married' conversations and turning beet red.)

Don't feel bad Enjae....even at my age and marital experience...i also am finding myself  blushing beet red at GEM's gems!  YIPES!!  Margo

Whoops!

Please accept my sincere apologies.     Now I'm the one with the red face.   It won't happen again.

Love
GEM

[turkkm]

I am soooooo happy to have found this thread.  However, did I miss it???  Gwen, dear Gwen, you rock!   I am at a stand still with weight loss right now, but I keep being able to fit into smaller clothes.  I sure couldn't figure out the phenomena, but you have explained it all so clearly.  You are such an inspiration to me! 

Gem, I read your scale story and I am so glad you opened your eyes!  Woo hoo, 12 pounds, way to go!  I don't know if you remember, but it was you who told me in my journal to focus on my inch loss.  So, have you taken your measurements or found a piece of clothing you want to fit into?  Today it was a blouse for me...haven't worn it in awhile.  My daughter complimented me on it and I told her it was old. 

I am inspired to clean out my closet tomorrow ladies!  Thank you my 2 LDL heroes.