Just a quick note, cuz I really haven't said much, if anything, about how I'm personally doing. My weight loss journey is only a few days old. Before I embarked on this new way of life, I grazed :moo: all day long. I had my 3 meals a day, but I snacked http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...d/99f363e6.gif endlessly inbetween. I didn't eat enough at any one time that I would consider it to be bingeing. I never felt sick or uncomfortably full, but I also never felt hungry either. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...d/a26bcaa5.gif Now, I'm eating as a *normal* person does. The grazing is a thing of the past, but I guess old habits die hard. I'll catch myself thinking about eating http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...d/6f619b33.gif something just for the sake of eating, not out of hunger, but out of habit. I think maybe the first month is going to be the hardest for me, developing new habits, healthy habits, where hopefully *I* can control the food, instead of the food controlling me. I think I need a lot of that :dust:

Tomorrow I will try to bring myself up to date with the posts and personals. :sorry:

Hello Everyone!

Glad to see 3FC back online, safe and sound. My husband decided yesterday that he wanted to have a cookout today to kind of kick off the summer and invite all my inlaws. Fine by me but of course you know who ends up doing all the legwork, right? So after coming back from our nephew's graduation I planned out what to make, then made a trip to Walmart, another to the grocery store, and then another trip back to Walmart. It was exhausting! :faint: I did hotdogs and hamburgers on the grill, a greek pasta salad, a veggie with dip tray, veggie kabobs, and various side items and snacks. So thankfully, although I had a bit of prep work, the cooking itself wasn't much and I didn't have to even turn on the stove.

I was a bit anxious, since it's the first time since starting our new eating habits that I had things like chips, dip, cupcakes and potato salad in the house. I'm good at resisting stuff when I don't have to see it everyday (I haven't had a strong enough urge for anything to actually go out and get it), but when it's right in front of me I have a much harder time saying no. I did pretty good - no chips or potato salad, maybe a tablespoon of dip but with a lot of veggies. Not so good choices were the two hot dogs and four mini-cupcakes (which would total up to about one regular size one - not the monster ones), but I'm not beating myself up over that and in the scheme of things I don't think it'll do me much harm.

Weigh-in is tomorrow morning so we'll see if I can fare better than I did last week, when I was actually up a couple pounds.

Catherine, I'm sorry that the past few days have been so stressful. It sounds as though your SIL has her priorities screwed up and is a you-know-what to boot. I hope you don't worry over you being somehow accountable for bringing this to a head. You and your husband are a unit now, a partnership, and you have to do what's best for you both. It sounds as though his sister is as toxic as his mother, so perhaps it's not such a bad thing that he won't have to deal with her anymore. Still, I imagine it must be very emotional for you both and I hope everything works out as good as it possibly can. :hug:

Oh, and Peggy, your pics look great! You can really tell a difference.

Hi everyone -- looks like lots of people made the shift over to the new server okay, though it may take everyone a day or two to complete (it seems to depend on how frequently your isp changes info about the domain name servers...) too technical for me!!

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