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Good Morning everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend!

Rhonda--Wow, I never beat you here! Hope everything is ok!! I want to hear about all the great clothes you bought this weekend!!

So official weigh in this am...not good news, but not suprising either. I am up 2lbs (not changing my ticker yet....it WILL come off very soon!). The way I ate and was so lazy during vacation, really, surprised it wasn't more. Today my knee and foot feel better, not great but better. I packed my lunch (yea!) and will be going to the gym right after work. Tonight is arms/shoulders weights and some cardio--what and how much will depend on my knee and foot.

Have a great on plan day!!!

Morning everyone - another Monday! It's started off ok - breakfast was good with multigrain toast, pb, banana and FF milk. I packed a lunch of a turkey sandwich, FF pringles and grapes. Dinner will be even more of my soup I made.

Tonight I will get a manicure and pedicure getting ready for Texas. I am SOOO excited about seeing my family. Oh -and I bought a HOT shirt for hubby's retirement ceremony next week.

I had an off moment last night - begging hubby to let me go back on Metabolic - KNOWING I can't stay on it. I saw some pics of me when he and I first got married - why in the world did I gain that weight back???? Sighhhh...ok - I'm doing this - slow and easy.

Everyone have a great day!

Good Morning,

This is my first "official" post as part of the 100 lb Club! So happy to have found a group of women who understand where I am!

Well, I haven't had breakfast yet this morning - it's just about 10am and I'm off from work today waiting for the electrician to arrive to install an exhaust fan in our bathroom. So once he and his crew are in and working (should be here any minute now), I plan to have whole wheat toast with low fat peanut butter and some soy milk for breakfast. Lunch will probably be a low fat/low salt ham and low fat cheese sandwich with mustard on whole grain white bread. No chips in the house right now which is a good thing - I'll have either an apple or some carrots (or maybe both if I'm hungry enough) with my sandwich, and a Diet Coke with Splenda. Dinner... haven't thought that far yet. If I don't feel like cooking, then probably a Lean Cuisine and a salad. If I want to cook, then probably whole wheat spaghetti and a salad.

It's a gorgeous day, so while the electrician is working I'll probably take the dog outside to either romp in the yard a bit, or for a walk to get some exercise.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Good morning, Everyone. Krz.

MJ, thanks so much for starting the thread for us! It makes me so happy to know that, even when I'm not here, the thread can go on! This hasn't always been the case in the past.

I slept in again this morning. Woke up with a migraine, probably due to the weather change. Took some excedrin and slept it off. I'm feeling groggy now, but pain free. Today was weigh-in...I'm down 2.4 pounds. I'm now in the 220's. Not bad considering that I couldn't work out all last week. The knee is feeling better, but I'm not pushing it. It does hurt when I've been on my feet for a while. If it doesnt improve, I'll have to get it checked by a doctor. I did find a nearby store that does the gait analysis and will recommend shoes for the way I walk and my body mechanics. I am flat footed and may not be wearing the best shoes. From what I've been reading on-line, this can cause something called "runners knee." I hope the answer is something simple and not something like arthritis.

Saturday, I went clothes shopping. So many sales and I was wearing smaller sizes than I've seen in a long time. First of all, I got measured again for a bra. I've dropped from a DD to a D. I also bought size 1x tops....I dropped from 3x. And, I bought size 22 dress pants..I was in size 26. I can't fit into my size 22 jeans yet, but the dress pants looked great. I was dreading this shopping trip. But, I had a blast!

Yesterday, I cleaned and organized the fridge and freezer then went grocery shopping. Menus are planned for the week and I'm 100% on-plan. My goal for today is to drink a bit more water and to keep switching the Splenda for the agave nectar. I'm still trying to adjust my taste buds.

Hope everyone has a great on-plan day!

Congrats on 220s Rhonda!

WI went well this morning, so I'm going to work extra hard this week to stay 100% OP, since my doctor has halted my cardio. I miss the dreadmill.

...Did I just say that? Haha, the fat girl misses the dreadmill. How scary is that? I just woke up about a half hour ago, also with a headache, probably due to all the freaking dirt blowing here in goold ole West Texas.

Breakfast is two mini pancakes with NO butter and NO syrup and a banana. Lunch is going to be more of my WW garden veggie soup and a sammich, and dinner will either be spaghetti or a Lean Cuisine and a salad. Depends on if I feel like cooking or not.

I was going to go on a nice long walk this morning, but it's stupidly cold and very windy, so I'm going to hold off on that. The last thing I need right now is to be sick.

Today I'm going to work on more water and paying really close attention to calories. My ticker is NOT going to creep back up!

Rhonda Congrats on the 220's!!
Laurie... How are you?
Hi all newbies, and oldies...
I have been in a 2 day rut.. what else is new for the past 6 wks , every other weekend has been a problem.. stress, buying food that I shouldn't so I really need to work on this. I am getting back on track today, still stressing out but not ready to quit. I had to get out of the house early, but did 38 minutes on the elliptical, and am going to do the rest of my exercises tonight!! I will not fail!!
Bkfst was 4 oz of grapefruit juice, Kashi go lean crunch cereal, skim milk,
Lunch , I am making right now a cedar lane burrito.260 calories.
dinner will be greek salad. with some dolmas
snacks.... Kashi tlc bar, banana...
I am not giving up!! cheryl

Don't give up!

You've done so well and lost 65 POUNDS! You can do this! You've already proven you can do this!

Morning everyone!

MJ, those 2 pounds will come off before you know it. I'm up 6 pounds on my ticker weight thanks to the rubbish that I ate in the last few weeks and the lack of exercise. That stops right now. Well, it stopped yesterday, but right now looks a bit more dramatic and as we all know, I like the drama!

Another newbie! My goodness, we're getting so many newbies at the moment - it's wonderful. If there's any other lurkers out there, please do post and join in the fun. We'd love to have you! Anyway, welcome krzwife. I'm looking forward to learning more about you.

Rhonda, yay for getting below the 230s. That's fantastic.

Sara, hopefully you have a chance to have that walk. Good on you for monitoring your water - I really do feel that's one of the major keys to losing weight.

Cheryl, it's great that you've picked up the rut now after only 2 days rather than turning it into a collapse like I did. It's going to be easy for you to get back on track.

For me, well I obviously haven't made it to the gym since I'm here. BUT the gym bag is packed and I'm going after work. I'm going to start posting my menus again because that seems to help me keep on track. I haven't weighed this morning, but last night before bed I weighed in at 254. Taking off the 2 lbs that I usually lose overnight, that makes my current weight 252. It's frustrating, because I now have to lose those 6 pounds that I worked so hard to lose, but given the events of the last month, I'm surprised I haven't put on more. My kitchen is officially a junk food free zone again, so here we go...

Today's menu

B - porridge with skim milk and 3 dried apricots, chopped

S - yoghurt

L - roast beef, salad and mustard sandwich, handful grapes

S - 1 kiwi fruit, carrot sticks

D - chicken and stir fry.

Have a great day everyone!

Hi again. It is SO gorgeous here...sunny and warm--it might hit 80 today, which is really unusual for this time of year (usually 50's is the average). I am going to go to the gym, then take advantage of the nice weather and do a little yard work. It is supposed to rain the rest of the week, so today is the day to get it done! I started to slip back into my bad habit of 'I skip the gym just for today because it is so nice out....' which is really bad for me! One day turns into two... I may have to pop back in later tonight just for the accountability!

Kristina--Enjoy your mani/pedi! What a nice treat! Have a great time in Texas!

krzwife--Welcome! This is a great group!

Rhonda--CONGRATS on the loss!!! Yahoo! Shopping sounds like it was awesome!!!! Great job! Sorry to hear about the migraine. Hope the groggy feeling goes away soon. Good idea getting your shoes checked. (My foot doctor is BIG on the 'right' shoes. My last appt w/ him was the first time that he didn't have a negative comment about the shoes I was wearing. I am totally addicted to Berkenstock's right now, in fact there is a birkenstock show on qvc later....)

Sara--Hope your headache goes away soon! Hope you don't have to go w/ out your cardio for too long--that's great that you 'miss' it though, signs of a healthy habit! I also need to work on my water intake--I didn't do so great w/ that over the weekend.

Cheryl--You CAN do this! Good for you for getting on the elliptical this am!


As I said to Sara, I need to increase my water intake--I did pretty bad w/ that over the weekend. It's weird because I usually drink lots and lots of water w/ out even thinking about it. So far, so good today though.

Hope everyone is doing well!!!

Nicole--We must have been posting at the same time! Good for you for packing your gym back and being all ready to go!

Just checking in quickly this morning.

Cheryl - It does sound like you're picking up a bit of an every-other-weekend habit. It's not enough to derail you, as your losses still seem steady, but I can understand both the fear and the frustration. However, identifying the problem is the most important step to solving it, and I know you got this.

Rhonda - Looking forward to your visit to MN! Sounds like your clothes shopping went well - so exciting to get new sizes. I know that I won't actually see you when you're out here, but I'll think about you since we'll be so close!

MJ - So glad the knee is getting better. Yard work, too. I need to do that, but I don't know that I actually will...

Nicole - Glad you're getting right back to plan. Having to re-lose weight is incredibly frustrating, but six is SO much better than sixty!

It's great to see so many people on this thread!

I had a great, almost completely on-plan weekend, which usually means that I won't struggle again until next Friday. I went to the bank today, and they had fresh baked cookies, and the teller asked me FOUR times if I wanted one. I was not even tempted, though my 3YO daughter had one. Hopefully, before the end of the week, I'll be into the "overweight" category and FINALLY out of the "obese" one! Only a 1/2 a pound to lose before I'm there!

Hi all. So far, so good today. I decided that while I was on vacation, I need to do a lot more planning of my meals. I haven't always done that, just had some "stuff" on hand. I didn't do it yesterday because I was just getting back from vacation, but I'm going to try to plan out my meals on Sunday for the week (or Saturday before I go grocery stopping ---- would make more sense ---- obviously I am still working out the details). I tend to make goals while I'm on vacation and I think that this one would be very beneficial.

Rhonda, how was it being fitted for a bra? I think I need to do that, but it kind of freaks me out to even consider having someone else help me with that. But with losing what little weight I have, my bras are just not fitting right. I went to try some on, but there are so many (I hate underwires!), it takes forever. Any advice??

Welcome to Krz!!

Sara, you killed me with your comment of the "fat girl" missing the dreadmill. Ha!!! Still chuckling over that one.

Cheryl, good for you for catching yourself before it gets out of control. That takes strength!

LaurieDawn - good for you... going for overweight! How awesome!

And a great big HOWDY to everyone else! Sounds like things are going well, overall.

I'm replying to this from the other thread (I included the orignal post so people wouldn't get too lost :P)

Oh me too. I am queen for mumbling. John always wonders why I can't talk to other people like I can talk to him, but it all comes down to the fact that I know him extremely well and I know what he thinks about me.

I go to a really small church that is mostly old people. There is a girl my age that goes there, but she has never even made an attempt to talk to me. I have tried to (albeit awkwardly) talk to her, but she never really seemed interested and avoids me. I can't help but feel like it has something to do with my weight. We've tried to do "young adult" activities and so on but she never comes, so I have just given up on that. I think I'll talk to my pastor to see if he knows of any young couples groups that maybe John and I could attend.

Thanks for the encouragement! I guess it is quite easy to gloss over, but I do try and consider that through it all, I've still been losing at least 1lb a week, and that is far better than gaining a pound a week! It may be slow but at least it is going in the right direction.

BTW, I don't think I've seen you around here, so if you're new... WELCOME! And if you're not... nice to meet you anyway

krz--- WELCOME!

Rhonda! Woman, you are unstoppable! Keep it up!

MJ - I'm always reluctant to change my ticker if I gain weight too. I usually go in and input the information in later anyway, but it's just discouraging to me!!

Laurie -- WOW! 61lbs! Amazing!

As for me, I checked the scale today and it said 282.5. I stepped on it again and it was 283, but I'm claiming 282.5!! Yesterday I was 284.5 - 285... I can't believe 2lbs disappeared like that. I must have been retaining water or something, at any rate, I'm relieved, and feel as though I'm making some progress. I regret to admit my sleeping schedule is off again though... I wonder if this is going to be something I struggle with my entire life. I have been so lazy as far as work is concerned too. I think maybe I have just been overworking myself and I never have any time to relax, and I suppose my obsession with the Sims 2 has been contributing as well. But I definitely don't want to burn myself out. I love what I do, but if I can never take a break then it starts to not become as fun. I just hope that John can get a good job so I don't have to work as much and can do more things around the house. I'm sort of keeping up with my laundry. I have been dutifully hanging up my clothes after they come out of the dryer, and my hamper is no longer overflowing, I don't have a ton of clothes in my bathroom or a laundry basket in my closet full of dirty clothes, so hopefully I can keep it that way!!! I've been going through a lot of stuff -- I've gotten rid of some stuff, and put some clothes that don't fit in those bags that compress the air out to save space -- I need to lose another 40lbs or so before I can wear some of them, but I decided to keep them so I don't have to buy a bunch of stuff when I get there. I gave away or threw out the stuff I didn't really like anymore, or that had holes, huge stains, etc. LB is having a huge sale on regular and clearance stuff, so I was thinking maybe I'd see if I can get some steals on clearance for "motivational and transition wear" sometime this week. Maybe that will encourage me to get rid of some other things I've been holding onto with stains on them ... (I am really good at getting food on my shirts when I am eating, and I am clumsy so it's easy to get pen marks, etc, which ends up making me look kinda dingy.).