Yesterday:

1. Take a Multivitamin daily - Yes
2. Drink 12.5 cups of water a day - Yes
3. Check in here every day - Yes
4. Stick with food plan (no specific diet just make healthier choices, eat smaller portions) - Did ok.
5. Do not obsess over weight fluctuations - Feeling calm

Weigh in down 1.6 pounds. Total weight loss 21.2 pounds.

Don't usually post in this one, but I just walked into the kitchen at work to get my low fat greek yogurt, and what do I see? A giant chocolate cake for anyone and everyone to enjoy.

I avoided, eating my greek yogurt. Daydreaming about chocolate now.

But still OP!

Stick with it!! :carrot:

Hey everyone!
I fly back home to the country (think of the smallest town you know and the cut it in half) next Wednesday for my dads wedding. Now let's just say healthy eating no where near their list of top priorities- what I'm wondering though is, do we think my soon to be step mother will be offended if I choose to eat my IP packets over her home cooked meals? Also, when everyone is at the wedding, will it seem "snooty" to not eat there? (they may have some protein, but I'm thinking it's gonna be a lot of pastas and stir frys) I know I shouldn't care but I only make it home once every two years so I'm over thinking :?:

Successfully avoided the cake jm! I let the guys in my department know about the cake, and before you know it, the cake had vanished!

always count on hungry IT guys to steal up all the free food that tempts me.

Good morning everyone,

:welcome: to the group Shrinkme & Tray Team! Nice to have you posting with us.

Tray Team - Congrats on avoiding the cake and sticking with your healthy options. Don't you feel so strong & empowered when you make those kinds of choices. Keep up the good work.

Shrinkme - I hope you successfully make it through your visit home.

Hoopty - Congrats on your NSV and on your whoosh:carrot:

I am almost at 2 weeks of being 100% OP and I'm feeling so strong. The scale is finally back down to 222 and hopefully, before long I'll see 219 and then the countdown to onederland.

I hope you all have a great OP Thursday!

Hello friends,

I've been away for several days, have just gotten out of the habit of posting. It was my birthday on Sunday and I had great celebration with lots of friends, and while I had a piece of cake and ice cream, wasn't too terribly off plan. Also, in looking at the photos that people took of me at the party, I think, "hey, I look pretty good" - which is great because I was wearing a sleeveless dress. :)

Since my birthday I've been working to get back into lower carb eating since I know that is what works for me - I've been having eggs for breakfast, planning ahead and bringing mashed cauliflower or veggies and baba ghanoj (eggplant dip - we have eggplant from the garden!) or sunflower seeds as a snack to work. It helps because there are lots of great veggies from the garden - tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, cucumbers, etc and I can build my meals around that. I got on the scale this morning and it said 194.6, which is still higher than I was a month ago, but lower than I was last week. I think with a few more days of OP eating I can get back down to 190 and then be on track to get out of the 190s in August - and reach my goal of having lost 30 pounds with BMI under 30! I'm feeling more emotionally centered - still some definite sadness there around my break-up, but it's not as dramatic as it was a week or two weeks ago. It is so wonderful to have a supportive friends and a positive work environment.

Welcome Shrinkme and Tagteam!

GettinFit - I love Stone Mountain! I visited a friend in Atlanta a few years ago and we went hiking there. It's beautiful - and a good workout! Best wishes in getting out of the 220s!

Shrinkme - it is tough going to a place where you're not in control of your food and you have to deal with people who may get offended if you don't eat what they put in front of you. In those cases I always try to find some middle ground and compromise - maybe just take a taste of something and then rave about how good it is, and try to fill up on the healthier options that are available, or to be sure to bring some healthy snacks so if you do get hungry you know you can make good choices. Good luck!

Julia - congrats on your loss! You are doing great!

Hello girls,

jm474 - Wow, down 21.6 lbs, what a great achievement so far! :cheer:

TrayTeam - Whenever there's candy or chocolate at work I always tell everyone to go eat it all up :rofl: Good thing you managed to resist. And welcome to the thread :wave:

Shrinkmeplease - There's nothing wrong with having certain types of foods in moderation and like you said - it's a wedding AND you don't get to fly home that often so I'd say just enjoy it as much as you can but stay focused and be conscious of what you're eating. Like SuperCecilia said - Try to load up on the healthier stuff, have a bite or two of something else and you're good! Good luck :)

GettinFit - Yay for being back OP! :cheer: Can't wait to follow your countdown soon! You can do it :lifter:

SuperCecilia - Welcome back and happy, happy belated birthday! :celebrate: I'm glad to hear that you had a great day and that you are feeling better!

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I was OP for the day and went for a 3.2 mile jog. I'm making my 15 min stretching session part of my daily plan (as long as I worked out or did some cardio) as I feel like it's already paying off.
Got another stupid 6-hour-no-break-shift tomorrow so I'm gonna attempt to eat a few bites of something really quick while everyone thinks I'm just using the bathroom.

My yogamat got here yesterday and I love it! Now I need to get a leather jump rope but dang, I didn't know they were quite expensive? (For a jump rope anyways) Also, it's finally starting to get cooler outside so hopefully I get to run more often.

Friday already! Well, have a great day everyone!

Hello Everyone!

It's been a whirlwind week. I spent Monday with my MIL--oy vey. Tuesday I can't even remember what I did, oh took my MIL out to dinner and she stayed over night. Wednesday spent the WHOLE day driving her shopping which required enormous amounts of patience and then she came back to my house to make cookies for a charity project and then I had a meeting until 9:30 where our fearless leader sucked the life out of me. I seriously have ZERO patience left for anyone and I spent today making posters and coming up with activities for girls camp which starts on Monday. I am overwhelmed and have had zero time to myself. UGH!!!

Not OP, I was fine until we were delivering 140 dozen cookies and it took us almost two hours to get there and by that time I was starving so we went to the first place we saw in this po-dunk town in the middle of corn fields in NJ and of course it was a Wendy's.

I did do 37 minutes of zumba! and 23 minutes of wfp though--so that should erase the 900 calories of fat, grease, and carbs that I just ate right?

TGIF Everyone.

Good morning and happy Friday ladies,

Cecilia - Glad you were able to get back on track. You are so close to the 180s!!! Sure wish I was where you are. Yes I love walking/hiking at Stone Mtn. I always get such a good workout when I do. Keep up the good work and you're going to be in the 180s soon.

Thanks Hoopty - YES I am going to do it!!! Great job on your OP day too!

I was OP yesterday and the scale is inching down. So close to the two teens.

I hope you all have a great OP Friday :)

Hello girls,

I'm so tired and can't wait to get good sleep, hopefully. I was OP for the day, didn't work out so no stretching. After work and dinner, DH and I went to a tiny mall and after a while I started getting hungry. Unfortunately, I was craving a Lion bar (I don't remember if you guys have it over there? It's a chocolate-crisp-caramel-waffle-bar sort of thing). Anyways, I wanted it BADLY but they only had king sizes and I picked one up anyways. Then I thought about how I could just wait another 20 min and then I could have a small slice of pumpernickel with peanut butter and some strawberries and I ended up putting the Lion bar back to its place. Yes! I saved myself 320 calories, empty ones that is, and ate nutritious food instead.

I managed to gobble down a small sandwich at work, though it wasn't too satisfying since I had to hurry, but it held me over.

Okay girls, time to go to sleep. Have a great Saturday!

Hi everyone - I have not been doing well, but I am trying to get back on plan.

Hello girls,

BonnieL - Good luck, you can do it! Think about where you wanna be in a few months from now and how you can start right now!

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I was completely off plan today. My whole day pretty much sucked. Work sucked, I got into an argument with my Dad earlier this evening, I was tired and weak and lazy and of course I had the biggest cravings. I binged on chocolate, cookies and my Mom's coconut-rice-cake and I feel so full and sick right now that I think I'm gonna pop. I'm trying to count how many calories I had in junk food. Let's see:

- ice cream at work (vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, peanuts, chocolate, cookies) probably around 600
- coconut cake, probably around I'd say another 600
- 1 whole Marzipan chocolate bar, around 485 calories
- Cheesecake, maybe 150
- cookies, 120
- pudding, 120
- pistachios, holy gazoly, probably 400
- 1 slice of bread with Nutella + peanut butter, 500

So that's around 3000 calories (estimated), plus my healthy breakfast and lunch, green beans and a few chicken breast strips. My heart's beating so fast right now and I'm not even gonna get any good sleep tonight because I have to get up at 4am.

My number one thing right now, and I am really, really serious about this, is to NOT GIVE IN TO CRAVINGS TOMORROW because I know I will have them and if I give in then it's over. That's how I always ruin it for myself. The day after a binge is always the hardest for me and it will take so much willpower and commitment to say no. I have work from 6am - 2:30pm and I know that if I fail at work then I will fail at home. So no ice cream or milkshakes!!! My best friend tomorrow will be water, tons of water. I need it, badly.

I weighed in at 137.4 lbs this morning and decided that it was time to change my ticker since I've been weighing between 137.2 lbs and 139 lbs for the past week now. I consider myself officially out of the 140s and back into the 130s :cheer: and I do not want to mess this up.


I hope everybody else had an OP day! Happy Sunday!

Feeling stressed this weekend as the kids go back to school tomorrow and we will have a new schedule. My oldest starts high school and all the changes are making me feel anxious and hungry. I'm holding on but will be glad when the next couple of days are done and things start to settle down around here. Old habits are hard to kick but I will!

Good evening everyone,

jm474 - You can do it! I hope you feel better soon and that your kids have a great start of a new school year.


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I was OP today, lifted weights and did 15 min of stretching. To my surprise, I didn't have any cravings. I gotta say though, as soon as I opened my eyes this morning I was super duper determined and felt really committed. The scale was up by 3 lbs :eek:

I'm off for 2 days. Got a few appointments and DH and I will be looking at an apartment. We need to move out of my parents', I'm already starting to go nuts here.

Hope you all had a great day!