[mgonser]

HELLO! HELLO! HELLO! HELLO! WOW WHAT AN ECHO IN HERE

Try, try again is my motto along with what the "H" was I thinking when I stopped???? Reality is hard to keep alive sometimes. Denial is so much easier but so harmful to my health.

I just gave up on myself totally about 10 months ago and I have been paying for it miserably. My ills and function depleted until i ended up in the hospital scared and home with nurses, more scared. I did it to myself and now I have been turning around and determined to keep on Stella styled no matter what ills I have but the bottom line is I need to eat this way in my life and get back to fresh and healthy foods with a few modifications per doctors. They, the hospital at one point had to stop my heart so they could start it again and boy did that room go quiet for that minute or two.

Yes today is the day, I've been creeping here for a few weeks and already I see a positive change in me and my eating life style. Tomorrow I find out if I can start exercising and moving around a little more.

It is much too quiet on SS. I am going to need all the support I can get now and just when you think I done needing you all, I will need you that much more. I am going to do this. I just need to make it happen, key word there being I but it is nice to have others help too.

Joyce, David, Dinah, Debbie, lemon drop, Stacy, everyone else, don't make me start a cheesecake walk around!

For recent joiners my name is Marylyn, from Michigan, and I hope I can convince everyone to get this site running fast again.

Love ya all
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[joy828]

Well, we will see if I can post this. For some reason, I have had an awful time logging in and posting.

Hi! My Marylyn!! Happy to see you here and I apologize for being absent. I'm also in desperate need to get back to basics and stick to it! I let myself get depressed and stressed out and sorta quit trying (except for brief spurts of eating right). You are right. This has to be the way we eat for the rest of our lives if we are going to have a life.

I can't follow the whole low carb plan like Atkins, but I can follow 'my' plan and come here for support.

Also, I'm going to start posting 3 gratitudes a day - it helped me keep my perspective when I was doing it before. I'll be back soon .... promise!!

Grats:
1. Marylyn posting on here and back on track!
2. Stella Style website to come "home" to
3. My computer, where you all live .......
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[mgonser]

What heros we have, above us and all around us. Our pastor did a wonderful job and really gave a great message of forgiveness. We have so much to be thankful for, especially our spirits.

JOYCE!!! Hi! Hope Sonny is mending well and you are ok. Yes, like you, I have to revise the low carb for my needs and it seems to be working already. Funny, I forgot that we used to do gratitudes on here and I am also going back to doing that. It is a good reminder for me to not be such a "doubting Thomas" and remind me of the good things in my life. Many, like you said, live in my computer too!

Can you do any of the low carb foods? Right now I'm sticking to protein and veggies and fruit smoothies. Last night I readies 2 roast chickens (so we would have leftovers), 2 pans of various kinds of veggies which were roasted and when we came home, boy did the house smell good. I had not done that for a very long time and then would end up grabbing anything.

I pray everyone had a glorious Sunday.

Grats:
Our church service
It is a beautiful day out
Joyce is joining us again
A roof over my head

Blessings, Marylyn
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[joy828]

Sorry I'm so late in getting on here today (yesterday, actually). Seems like I've been busy all day and not accomplished much ... but I did only eat what I should, so that is something accomplished.

I'll post more tomorrow - (actually, today) - but I wanted to post Sunday's gratitudes before going to bed.

Grats:
A medical bill that was overwhelming was "forgiven" or paid by an organization that does that kind of thing. Very grateful for that one!!

My grandaughter and her fiance were not injured when they had a wreck on Sat.

The glorious cool evening after the rain yesterday!

Take care everyone!

Joyce
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