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Hi everyone!
I am new to 3FC, and am looking for some support in my weight loss journey. I read the posts on the site, and you guys seem like a great bunch of girls! I lost about 40 pounds a couple of years ago, but am still 20 pounds away from my goal weight. I decided that I need to start watching what I eat more as I am starting to have a hard time fitting into the pants I was so proud to buy :( I have the hardest time at work with my eating..even when I plan everything out, there is always candy around..and when I get stressed out and working late..that candy jar doesn't know what hit it! It's funny, but really not :( Looking forward to getting to know you girls!

Michelle

:welcome3: sfrunner!! This is the best place you could be for support on your weightloss journey!!

Welcome!!! I too know what it is like to lose out at work when it comes to watching what you eat-I work in a grocery store! Whatever I am craving is only a few aisles over! These days I look at the calories per serving on whatever I am craving and that usually turns me off.:p Good Luck and hope to more (or less I guess!) of you.

Thanks, Happy Momma :) Congratulations on your weight loss so far!!

I hear you. I need motivation as well. I try to keep the snacks out of the house unless it's the fat free pudding or something I can feel like I'm cheating with but isn't that bad in reality. Ha-ha. So, what is your plan to lose the weight? I'm curious how others are doing it.

hey, thanks!!

Florida Native: I'm on the Sonoma diet. I really like it even though the first 10 days are pretty tough. It seems like when I start losing, it's hard to gain it back even if I cheat a day or two. Unless my cheating day or two turns into a month or two.

Welcome around, Sfrunner!

Welcome!!!!

Glad you decided to join our forum.

Ugh, I hear you on the hard to eat right at work. that was always a big hurtling stone for me. I can eat fine and dandy at school, no problem. But work would always just drain me and I wouldn't be able to resist buying that chocolate bar (I worked at a health food grocery store, and there is nothing better than organic chocolate... hmmmm. yummy.) at lunch... It was bad.

Do you have a plan idea for those last 20lbs?

HappyMomma, thanks for the info. I'm going to have to look into that one! I haven't heard of it before.

Welcome sfrunner! We're just about the same size. I lost 30 pounds in 2006, now I'm trying to lose 12 or at least to get rid of the pudge around my stomach.

Thanks for the support guys :)

Happy momma, I totally feel you with the off plan one to two months..I feel like it's been an off-plan year!

Cats, I am kind of at a loss for how to lose the rest of this weight. Redlight, what is your plan? We are just about the same size :) I generally eat pretty healthy, but I know there are a couple of things I can improve...1) not eating chocolate in the afternoon...we have a huge candy jar at work, and whenever I am at work late (which is often) I sometimes totally od on that candy. 2) i have NO self control sometimes..when we get muffins on friday mornings, sometimes i'll have three throughout the day even if i'm not hungry..its like they're there so i have to eat them.

So basically my plan is to have more common sense! And stop letting my coworkers convince me into cookies in the afternoon :) I already work out a lot (usually every day), so I think I'm really going to have to focus on food..I read in Abs Diet, that a great body is 80% diet, 20% exercise!

Redlight, what's your plan?

Hello and welcome!! Congrats on your weight loss so far!! I'm doing the WW at home program and it's wonderful!!! Good luck with the rest of your Wloss!!

Hey sfrunner! I've done a couple of plans before like south beach, but works best for me is moderate eating and getting plenty of exercise. I also really have to cut back on drinking alcohol (to like almost none) to lose.

Have you tried having only one muffin?

i'm pretty new too-- honestly... i've learned that writing down my calories every single day works best for me. i've done weight watchers in the past (which has given me a good basis for calories to fat to fiber ratios) but when i take the time to look up the calories in what i eat- I learn the quality of the item and whether it's worth it or not.

i try to keep calories between 1200-1500... i use calorieking dot com to look up everything.

i also only weigh myself in the mornings... it's a much better reading for me to go off of than the end of the day :)

Welcome to 3fc, for anyone who is new! :wave:

Michelle, your story is very similar to my own... my highest weight was 180 and I lost about 60 pounds and hit goal 2 years ago. Since then, I put about 25 or 30 back on, and I got back on the diet at 150. Now I'm working to get back to that goal (or even a little above where I was before, which was very skinny), and I am so excited to fit into my skinny summer clothes!!

I am doing Weight Watchers. I have tried many diets (Atkins and grey sheet were probably the two most successful next to WW), but this diet fits my lifestyle and has taught me invaluable lessons on how to be healthy, even when I'm not trying to lose weight. I lost the 60 pounds in a few years with WW, and I will never try another diet (although I do drink Slimfast as part of WW, so you could say I do the Slimfast diet too ;))

As for battling cravings at the office, what I have found most helpful: let's say your coworker brings in a box of pizza for everyone (this happened to me yesterday doing inventory). I was so tempted to eat it because it was THERE, but then I thought, "if I want pizza, I can always buy a slice later today. I'll wait a few hours and see if I still REALLY want it." And of course since it was just a fleeting craving and not true hunger, I didn't want a slice later. Try telling yourself to wait for a few hours, and usually the craving will pass. Also try to pack healthy lunches/snacks so that you don't get so starving you have to eat junk.

Hope that helps! Good luck!!