The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[Nova]

A word of warning first. I'm just having a rotten afternoon and needed a place to vent.

I @&$*ING HATE TEXAS!!!!

(For all you Texans on here, I apologize, but ya'll are crazy.)

While I'm at it, I hate hate hate! my lousy neighbors and their thrice-damned dog. Every time I step outside, it barks, it's very aggressive and it attacks the fence. I think it's only a matter of time before it breaks the boards and comes into my yard and attacks me. I've talked to them, and they don't care. I stepped in a fire ant nest today, but fortunately got them off before I got bit. Every thing in Texas either wants to sting you, bite you, suffocate you or make your life miserable.

When I moved here, I was hoping I could enjoy warm winters, but the summers are too hot to handle. I'm allergic to something in the air that's made me sick for a month and unable to breathe. There's nothing like gasping for breath for 18 hours a day for a month to improve your lung power. Mine is 136% of normal and the doc says I'm fine, just take some allergy medicine. *grumble*

And to top it all off, I'm still freakin hungry! I just had my 7 ounces of shrimp and cup and a half of steamed broccoli not 30 minutes ago, and I could eat a whole pizza. I've had 80 oz of water today instead of my normal 4 diet sodas. I'm depressed, I hate it here and all I want is a whole chocolate cake. AND I CAN'T HAVE ANY CHOCOLATE!

I've been so good on this program, and I've lost 24 pounds. THat's fantastic, but on nights like this, it's really hard to remember. I'm hungry, I'm grumpy, I'm depressed and I want my comfort food.

What do I do to feel better when I can't have my comfort food and I spent all my extra money on hurricane supplies for this house that I almost wish would get destroyed so I could move somewhere else?

(rant over, thank you for listening)

[falisamarie]

OK BIG long slow deep breaths! I have had times just like you are having now. It will get better, tomorrow is a new day.

If you are craving something chocolate have a MF chocolate pudding or a chocolate shake, maybe get out of the house and go for a stroll or something. That food is NOT going to make you feel any better and it is not going to make the problems go away......if anything it will make you feel worse. If you are still hungry have a legal MF snack or have your next meal sooner than normal.

We are all here for you and will help you through this!

Lisa

[DogMa]

Wow. Sorry you're having such a bad time. I actually moved to Texas last summer and I LOVE it here. (I get regular bug treatments, though, at the house and I get fire-ant treatment guaranteed for a year because I'm highly allergic to 'em. Plus no killer dogs nearby, and my allergies are actually much BETTER out here than they were in California or Colorado.)

Aaaaanyway, there are so many chocolate-flavored Medifast meals, can you have one of those instead? And maybe make ALL your Medifast meals chocolate till this passes? (And if you're still hungry after dinner - which happens to me a lot, too - try having some Jell-O or chewing some gum. I usually chew sugarless gum almost till my next meal, and then I feel better again.)

Hang in there! The cravings - and the crankiness - will pass.

Where in Texas are you? We're planning a Texas Medifast get-together in June, if you're anywhere near the DFW area (well, we're planning it even if you're not, but you know what I mean).

[Nova]

Thanks. I was reading and looking for some motivation and found a good one. Jan talked about emotional eating, and how food doesn't make you feel better, and I'll only feel worse if I give in. Someone else wrote something about don't sacrifice what I want tomorrow for quick gratification today. Can't find it now.

Yeah, I just made some chocolate-oatmeal no bake cookies out of chocolate pudding and oatmeal, and I'm counting the moments until I can have them. I have lots of chocolate MF meals, but they just aren't the same as a cake or brownie. *sigh*

I'll stick with it. I just needed some support tonight.

[DogMa]

They're definitely not the same, but at least they're better than nothing. And will hopefully get you through till the cravings pass.

And you're lucky you got the ants off before you were bitten. I got attacked as a little kid in Florida, and it was AWFUL. And it gave me an allergy to bees and fire ants so bad that I go into anaphylactic shock. You definitely have to watch where you step out here!!

[Tiolazz]

Nova, my first summer in Dallas, I was mowing the lawn, bent down to pick a weed, and before I knew it I had about 40 ant bites on my knee and up my thigh. I was raised in Texas and had never even seen a fire ant till I moved to the DFW area....

And in the panhandle, the summers were hot, but do-able.. the winters were cold, but not too cold.... Now, Dallas is another story, and it took me one full year to get used it, but now I love it....

I absolutely love it here, would not want to live anywhere but Texas, so I hope it gets better for you here, we are the biggest and best state out there.....

Terri

[supermom]

I am sorry you are having a bad day. It will get better, though. Just hang in there. I have never lived anywhere but Texas. But, I will say that it is incredibly humid in the Houston area. You should start to adjust pretty soon, though. Don't let it get you down. You have done so good so far. We are here when you need us.

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[lauradr]

Nova,So sorry you are having a bad day!! i love Texas born and raised.Hope it gets better.

[Lulie]

Hang in there. I can understand about the emotional eating though. We have had a bunch of stuff going on and it has been really difficult to stay on track.

I just wanted to share with you what I do with my chocolate pudding. I make it as directed, then add 1tsp of Davinci SF Hazelnut syrup. I then put it in the freezer about 45 mins or so. Then I take it out and stir well. Chunking the frozen parts off the side of the bowl and mixing in with the rest. It gives the pudding sorta a fudgy brownie like taste to me. I don't know why, but I love it this way. I am not even a big chocolate fan, but this stuff really won me over. If you haven't tried your chocolate pudding this way, give it a try. It really enriches the taste to me. I feel like I am eating something "illegal!" LOL

[MISSANNE]

I don't know anything about Texas but your welcome here in AZ.

WARNING: The heat is unlike anything else in the summer.

[falisamarie]

I don't know anything about Texas but your welcome here in AZ.

WARNING: The heat is unlike anything else in the summer.

Well you are welcome in FL too but that would probably be going from the frying pan into the fire being that we too are overrun with fire ants and you want to talk about heat......July and August in Florida is enough to kill a person! The humidity is horrible!

That is it.....I am moving to Texas!

Lisa

[MusicalMomma]

Hi Nova! I hope today is going better for you.

I can TOTALLY relate to how you are feeling. Last October, we moved here to WISCONSIN and to be honest, I STILL HATE LIVING HERE!!!! OK THERE! I said it!!! I HATE IT HERE!!!!!!! Phew! I feel better! Maybe that is why I STILL have SO MANY difficulties with cravings! I hear everyone saying how their cravings were GONE after the first few days on the program...but not me sister! No way, no how!!! I am just learning that I have to live beyond my feelings! My feelings LIE to me! My feelings tell me I want a whole chocolate cake, A large Pizza and a 2-Liter of Coke, then perhaps later a trip to the Chinese Buffet!!!! But my feelings don't care about the heart burn, acid reflux, high cholesterol, blemishes and weight gain!!!!! So, I have to tell my feelings "how it's GONNA be". It's not easy, I hate every minute of it, but I'm starting to grow up where food is concerned.

So, from one home sick medifaster to another, Hang in there, we're gonna get through this together

[BoPeep1]

Wow, look at all the Texans here!

First, be so glad you realized your trigger before actually eating some chocolate, that's the first step in overcoming it!

While I've never been to Texas personally (but I do have family there), I've heard before that a lot of people who weren't born and raised there hated it when they moved there.

I've seen a recipe somewhere for MF brownies, maybe give some of those a try? Or a bar! Those help with my cravings.

[Pashta]

I know how you feel! I too am having "one of those days" today. I HATE HATE HATE Ohio. HATE IT. I was born and raised here, but living in Colorado and California spoiled me, I want OUT. I want blue, clear skies as far as the eye can see, I am sick of pollution and city and densely packed people who wear baggy jeans hanging off their butt and FUBU and all that stupid crap. The city sucks.

[BoPeep1]

oh, oh! I love Colorado! I used to live there and my whole family is moving back there about this time next year, I'm so excited!