StarPrincess: YEAH about your husband. That will be great to have him join you. My husband is so skinny.....he has high cholesterol but he is very careful about what he eats....except for Brigham's Vanilla ice cream. He wants to start working out and I wish he would join with me but he doesn't want to work out with me. I told him "don't worry...I'm not going to bother you" I figure he can do the nautilus machines and I will do the treadmill and some classes.....and apparently BOTHER other people.

woo hoo Star! Way to go on being such a huge inspiration on your DH!!!!!! That's got to be a great feeling.

I'm all sorts of pumped right now because my boss and I just got together and rewrote the affidavit that our lawyer wrote for me..... the lawyer's version made me sound like I was 12.... my boss and I are pretty proud of ourselves right now. Yay! I'm so glad I have such a supportive boss!!

I'm glad it's Friday too! This has been a slow...stressful week for me. Tomorrow is my sister-in-law's baby showeer so I'm looking forward to that.

My best friend got engaged last night. I'm really happy for her! THey want to have the wedding sometime this summer. I'm one of her maid of honors, so I need to lose some serious pounds before then!

I weighed myself today and I gained 2 pounds again...I almost wanted to cry and give up but then I remembered, "it's that time of the month Allison" SO, I hope I didn't gain any REAL weight.

I am finding Atkins to be a long journey for me as far as weight loss goes. I totally love all the great food I can eat and I'm definitely commited for life to this, but...it's slow...and sometimes I hate slow.

I have totally given up on all the fake sugars, including Slenda, for now. I think it's helping. We'll see next week when I weigh myself again.

Good luck to all you newbies! Stick with this WOL!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! ANd, i just want to say thank you all for giving me such great advice and for all your support. I truely think this site has given me inspiration to keep going because of everyone! THANK YOU!

Yeah, Allison, I suck at being patient! Instead, I just try and distract myself. Closet spelunking always makes me feel better! I've kept one pair of jeans from my pre-atkins days and tried them on the other night. The fell right off me and onto the floor! No sticking on the hips or anything! It did wonders for making me forget that the scale hasn't moved in 3 weeks.

My DH really is pretty wonderful The funny thing is while I was typing about his terrible eating and total disregard for his health, I realized that that used to be me. It was so strange! I can barely remember that girl.

Allison: I know slow, too. And, I'm not the least bit patient. I'm trying, though. I have been fluccuating between the same few pounds for months! Argh! I try to be happy with the fact that I am making positive changes, but sometimes that just doesn't do it for me. I'm trying to realize that I will get to my goal eventually. No matter how long it takes.

Star: You and your DH are the sweetest couple. I love hearing stories about what you all do for each other. So cute! You've definitely got a keeper, and he does, too.

Happy Friday! Work is over and now it's all play (ok I'm dreamin, still have mommy and wifey stuff to do)... My beautiful rain has turned on me it's now sleet and snow. *sigh* and the fog is moving in so it looks soooo gloomy out there. So much for my spring wishes.

Brenda - take your weather back darnit!

Star - It's really great DH decided to join you. I really wish mine would, I think it would make this journey for me a bit easier. He was telling me the other night, gosh I need to lose some pounds, just as he shoved the last little bit of Fudge Round in his mouth .. MEN! But he tells me all the time that he's proud of me for sticking to this, even though he can tell it's not always the easiest thing to do.

Jdogg - Our walmart carries about 10 items for low carb and they are all the bars! I'm hoping that will change once the remodling is finished and it turns into a Super Walmart. I would really love a place to go that has a bit of variety.

Cat - Lucky you with the nice weather, would you mind blowing some of it my way? Good job on staying OP! I don't think my cravings have gone down much, I still long for all those nasty foods, but I have to admit it is getting easier to say NO!

Shimma - Sounds like things are easin' up on you over there, very nice you have such an understanding boss! Have a great time with BF tonight I'm doing some shopping of my own but I can almost be assured I'll be on my own..(which is nice too, sometimes ya just need a break from the family)

Linda - Your back on track now, you will be feeling better for you know it! Good lucky on the new beginning.

Tomorrow is one month for me since I've started Atkins. I really can't believe all the changes I feel in such a short time. So tomorrow I'm doing a special Weigh In day... and IF I have dropped at least one pound since Wed. I bought some Atkins Banana Nut Muffin mix and I'm going to make up a batch and have ONE.. the others will be donated to the bottomless pits surrounding me. That is my planned little treat for me, and I am just drooling thinking about it! I plan on staying on induction for a month or two more, so I figured this little treat wont hurt too much. I have followed all guide lines except for a few minor slips.. such as my tomato sauce steak and the jello/ pudding whips. IF I haven't lost at least one pound, this treat will be postponed until I have lost a total of 20. Is this bad of me?

Trazzie: Good luck on the special weigh in. I will keep my fingers crossed for you.

Allison: I am the worlds slowest loser!!!! I decided when I started this woe I was going to stay with it for as long as it takes. I had about 25 to lose and I figure if I lost 1 pound a week I would be at my goal in about 6 months or so. Not such a bad thing. I will be happy even if it takes me a year.

Shimma: I keep meaning to ask you...you are teaching and going to school yourself? Going for your masters?

Catbird: Yeah on the 4 days no cheats! I am there too and feel very proud of myself. You should too.

jdoggmartin: Bagel did you say bagel? I am a freak for a good bagel.

Star: That must have been awesome with the jeans!!! I would love for that to happen. You are amazing.

I'm sure I forgot some so...........

I haven't had much of a chance to pop in today...they had more layoffs today so it has been a little scarey around the office. I am glad the day is over and I came away with my job.

I am off to try my darndest to continue with my cheat free days for the weekend....I am a little worried but I really want to do it. I think I can, I think I can......

Have a great weekend everyone.

Hi everyone!

Jane: glad you got through the layoffs with your job!

Hmm...I don't think I've been around for a couple days. Yesterday I had a big meeting and basically planned out the rest of my thesis work ... the next 4 months are going to be absolutely insane. It's really my own fault for not working harder earlier on, but this whole past year I've just been in a really 'not caring' mode - about anything you know ... like the extreme end of 'easy-going'. It's hard to get out of. Probably partly because I've already decided that what I'm doing now is not what I want to do later, so it's hard to really crack down and do the work.

Then today I went to do some tests, but alas, copious technical difficulties. I'm using really old equipment, so it's running a DOS program and I got loads of errors that I have no idea how to address. My command of DOS commands is limited. Basically I got about half of my tests done, but then the program wouldn't let me do any more. And it also wouldn't let me access the data from the tests that I had *already* done. So basically, I have no results for today.

And last night, I was up until nearly 3am marking assignments - it was so difficult to mark because *everyone* was doing things wrong - it makes it so complicated and frustrating.

The only thing I can say, is TGIF! My bed is calling me ... from across town....

And I can look forward to going skating both Saturday and Sunday!

good afternoon ladies.... so happy to see everyone in such good spirits!! I am gonna say a quick HI and then i will be back...I GOTTA GO OUTSIDE AND ENJOY THE SUN!!! yippeee you gotta do it while it is here!

I am down 1 more pound today to 245!!!! I am so happy that is at least my 30th pound!!! I am not sure how much heavier I was than 275, so I just started counting from there, that was my last documented weight!! I feel soooooooo great! Work has sh*tty but I went to the gym and forgot all about the old people yelling at me today about their cable! First time that has happened! Crazy people act like the cable is life support! ANYWHO!! I am so happy to read all of your posts and see how many people we have now!! Its great and you all are such inspirations!

PS: did any of you watch Extreme Make over last night and get a load of that trainer that says Atkins rots your brain?? What a dork! His people probably would have lost ALL of their weight if he hadn't made them eat those gross yam balls!

Hi all!! I've pretty much vegetated w/DH and DD's today. We did venture out. I needed to return some DVD's, stop at the grocery store (needed more lettuce and eggs), needed a gun case (have to pick up DH's 22 from my dad's house and of course it's illegal to transport w/out a case), and then of course stopped and got my rings. YIPPEE!!!!! umm...I should have had the new ring sized a 1/2 size smaller it's not falling off or anything, it's just really lose. It's so GREAT to have that feeling for a change I'm hoping this was the last of the crappie weather cuz I'm REALLY wanting spring!!

Hey Catbird---a fellow NC'er here (I'm just west of Raleigh)! It was a gorgeous day today (and yesterday, and tomorrow too)! Y'all don't begrudge us having this beautiful weather, ok, we've had our share of crappy weather of late ( and more on the way next week :S ).
I broke down today and went shopping, and bought a pair of .....drumroll please.....FOURTEENS!!!!! Yahoo! This from 22's and tight 20's when I started Atkins little over 6 months ago! So with beautiful spring-like weather, being off work, and buying the smallest pants I've been able to fit into in about 18 or 20 years, I'm pretty blasted HAPPY!!! Just had to share my landmark shopping day!

congrats tjw!!!! Keep up the good work!!

WOW twj! I would be dancing for joy if that were me.. Great Work! I just finally made it to a size 22 (tight 20's w/tummy overflowing) this past week.. your little story there just gave me more inspiration then you know !

Just got done with a 30min workout.. Dang! I must be the most clumsiest, most uncoordinated person there is. I know the moves, I watch these guys and gals do em no problem.. and here I am jigglin and wobblin.. stumblin all over the place what a site I must be.. thank heavens I can't see me or I'd get more of a workout laughing my arse off.

Congrats!!! TJW!!! 14's awesome!!

Trazzie all that matters is you are moving girl!!! Great job! Are you still doing Richard Simmons?? I love all of his tapes.