[sweet4jay]

Alright Lori! You absolutely KILL me...!!!
My name is ALWAYS posted at the bottom of my posts....look! It's right there!
Look above! See! It's Joy! Yea, an ugly name (what in this world was my mother thinking???), but nonetheless, that is my name.
Sorry, haven't been thinking about a name for us, but maybe tomorrow...who knows...maybe it'll come to me in a dream...lol...

You have a good night...and "motivated", please come back & check on us!
We miss you!!!

[sweet4jay]

Hey Lori!
Where you at? My company has left (thank the Lord!), so I am free free free!!!
Think of a name yet??? I haven't... :???:
How you been doing on Phentermine? I'm on my 13th day, & I must say, it DOES help to curb cravings & SOME hunger, but not a miracle like I expected... :x Anyhow, I'll weigh again Saturday to see if I've lost any more. (I only weigh once/week) I've only got today & 2 more days to eat good before weighing again, so I'm gonna try REALLY REALLY hard. But I need your help!!! Please come back!!! *sniff* :( When my company was here, I did ok, but not GREAT. Felt like I was pretty successful overall though...my SIL was here & she's trying to eat healthy & exercise too, so that made it a little easier to stick to my guns while they were here...

Hurry up & post! I miss ya!

[susanpesek]

Hi, Lori, Joy and motivated! I am Susan and have been on a diet using phen to help me curb my humongous appetite, since May 22. I would love to get on ya'll's 'mother ship' ride. I haven't successfully stayed on a diet this long in many years and am real excited to have stayed on board. So far, so good!
I am a scale phobic, too, and didn't have any idea what I weighed when I started. I was just going to judge by my clothing. I was squeezing into a 16. Now it fits much better, but that is just not good enough. :???: I am hoping to be a size 12 by Thanksgiving.
My weight loss is SO S-------l--------o---------w. Gees, McGees! :x
I advanced past 'go' when I stepped onto my husband's scale 3 days ago and again this morning. SAME number, no loss. 155.5. :( I need to weigh about 135 for my height and am ready to continue this diet throughout 2006.
I am handicapped and have to walk with crutches, but do lots of isometric exercises. I have been a slacker the last 4 days, I am ashamed to admit.
Here's a suggestion for a name: FATOPHOBICS
" Hi. My name is Susan and I am a fatophobic. My drug of choice was food."
What do ya'll suggest?

[sweet4jay]

HA! That sounds like a hilarious name to me Susan!!! "I'm a fatophobic". How funny! I guess we're still waiting on Lori & motivated to respond. I'm ready to get this group on a roll!!!

[Debbiewhite02]

Room for one more...?? Not only am I new to the meds but I am new to the Atlanta area with no friends to count on. Seems like I am going to go through a pity party here, We live on a street that has 10 houses and everyone stays to themself. When we first got to Atlanta (hubby military) we had a water gun fight the neighborhood kids came out, then they got into trouble cuz they were wet. Any way, so I guess I have a childish image to the neighbors. So I have my husband supporting me and of course friends who are not on it and don't understand why I can't sit still. But if you can handle having me in your little group I would love to join. This beats going to the freezer for a gallon of icecream, it is just one of those days.

Debbie

[Ryzaroo]

I'd love to join as well if you have room! I have been on for 1 week as of today! Let me know

[susanpesek]

:grin: Hi, Deb! I am not an old timer yet, but still want to welcome you to Phenforum. You will have loads of support here.
My kids are now grown, but I will never forget feeling like the odd-one-out in new neighborhoods. Remember, the neighbors are just regular people and probably much like you are, a bit tenuous about reaching out. I have an idea. Start a "Pass The Love" Basket. You fill a basket with kind words, instant teas, coffees, cookies, Bible verses...anything you like. Put a ribbon or 2 on it to spruce it up a tad. Be sure to include a short direction page and a short sheet about who you and your family are, your address and phone. Each person who gets it keeps it 3 days and 3 days only. They take out whatever they like and put what THEY love back into the basket for the next neighbor. They are required to pass it next door, or, at the end of the street, it goes across the street. Each person adds a page to the direction page, and must take it TO the neighbor. When she passes it along, BOTH gals deliver the 3rd time. When it gets to the 4th, all 3 gals do the delivering...together. You will be amazed how quickly worries melt away and friends are made. Good Luck!

[thischick]

Holy Moly, I'm back ladies!

How the heck is everybody? I don't know what's been going on but I've been having the worst time trying to access this site for 2 days & if I can finally get the forum pages to load, when I try to respond all I get is a "this page cannot be found" screen! It has been so aggravating! I really am here & ready to welcome all you new ladies to the group. I see we have Joy (don't laugh at me Joy, but I thought that was your tag line under your name, everybody but me seems to have one around here & I thought you were wishing me some extra Joy or something. ) It's a great name none-the-less, we also have Debbie, welcome aboard "The Love Boat" (just foolin') Susan glad you could join us, Rizaroo? hope I spelled that right from memory & by the way what's your real name? & we are still on the look-out for Motivated (you must be lurking around here somewhere, hope you are doing alright & you come back & join us soon).

To let everybody in on some background info: I'm 5 foot 11, 115 pounds, blonde & irresistable! Not! :P Really, seriously folks: I'm 5 foot 6, 245 pounds & my haircolor is murky blonde at best & most people tend to go out of their way to resist me! On the plus side, I've been on Phentermine 7 days now & I weighed myself this morning for the first time & I weighed 240.5 (digital scale). I have to make me one of them countdown ticker thingies I think. 5 pounds down, 95 more to go.

Some questions for the new ladies to get us all talking. Susan, have you been on Phen off and on since May or steady all that time with no loss? I'm just curious. Debbie take Susans' suggestion as well as some advice from me, here it goes: Susans' idea is great so give it a go, but if in the end it doesn't work out, you tried, they have the problem & you'll just have to look outside your neighborhood for friendship because you might not want their kind of friendship anyway. Rizaroo, tell a little about yourself. Susan, I'm glad your company is gone (not that I know them or anything) I'm just thinking how stressful it can be to "diet" with others around meddling in your business, routines, eating & exercising schedules, etc. Now that they are gone, don't even think about the missing time just chalk it up to a fresh start seeing as how you are only on Phen for like a week now. How are everyone's side-effects on Phen? Anybody have anything unusual to report? Has anybody here been on it more than once? This is my first time (I'm a Phen virgin!) How does everyone feel on it? Example: just as hungry as before but for healthier choices? Not as hungry as before but eating the same things as before? Not much change in appetite? No appetite? Let me know. I'm not sure what the effect of the pill is supposed to be myself. My experience so far I would say is that it has taken my mind off food. I still get hungry for breakfast, lunch & dinner but I'm not crazy hungry all the time & psychologically hungry all the time. I have confession to make. I'm pretty much a junk-food junkie, if it's in the house I have to have it, I think about it all day long & eventually have it, I think about going out to buy junk-food all the time, I couldn't control it before & Phen seems to have helped in that area at least. Junk food isn't constantly on my mind anymore. Before if I had a fridge full of fruit & veggies because I was gonna "finally go on that diet" I would skip them & head straight for that one bag of cookies or chips I know is hiding at the back of my cupboard. Now that the edge is off that, I see the junk food right there in front of me & I don't feel this insane need inside my body & my brain to have it. I hope that part of the pill keeps working! What is everybody's dosage of Phen? I'm on 37.5 myself & I can't be bothered with breaking it in 2 & taking half morning, half afternoon. I just take it in the morning & I'm fine with that. This post is long so I'll go now.......keep those name suggestions coming in & I think Fatophobia just might be a keeper! We'll give Motivated a few more days to come back & then we'll put our name choice to vote so we can start our "Chick Wagon". Bye ya'll!!!