I am totally obsessed with this diet. I keep looking at Victoria Secret online and imagine wearing a bathing suit(one piece) of course. When i reach my goal my boyfriend and i are going on a trip to Dominican Republic and i am going to wear one of the bathing suits. It will be so nice to get up off my chair on the beach and walk to the water and not wonder if anyone is commenting on my body! I read these boards constantly as they are so motivating and it feels good to talk about my weight with others that can totally relate. No one else knows my weight except for my IP coach. Not my boyfriend, my daughters, no one.

I am obsessed in a different way, I keep wondering why my weight loss is so much less than others. People with less weight to lose than me are losing faster, People with more weight than me are losing faster, People who cheat are losing faster. It is driving me INSANE! I do not cheat and am moderately active. I have a once "athletic" build, still maintain fairly good muscle tone for 53 yrs old. I had my body frame checked at the doctors office and it came back Extra Large and my doctor said "to date, she has not had one other woman's come back XL, even much taller woman" So, I know that I am a larger frame person, when I married 29 yrs ago, I was 135 lbs and still wore a size 9/10, but everone thought I was skinny. hmmm. I will be switching to alternatives sometime next month, because I can see my journey is going to be long. I am trying to come to terms with that. I assure you I will do it!

Yeah..........pretty much.

NOT

I'm totally obsessed, but it's interfering with my sleep a little. I weigh myself every morning and keep wondering whether the scale will have budged a little.

I'm enjoying planning my meals and being more mindful about what I'm putting into my body and how my body is using it.

And I'm looking forward to feeling more comfortable in the airplane seat I have to occupy for 6 hours when we travel to visit our families over Thanksgiving -- and the fabulous clothes I'm going to wear and how great I'm going to look in all of the pictures...

Yeah -- I'm a bit obsessed.

lol I know. I won't have much of a loss when I go to my son's for the September long weekend, and my grandson's 2nd birthday, but when I go for Christmas I hope to be 50 lbs. lighter! I am thinking about what I'll wear and hoping to get some botox before then and how great I'll look. That kind of thought is what keeps me motivated.

Yeppers...I'm obsessed too. I stopped weighing myself every morning as in the second week my lbs just weren't moving. I have been having amazing sleeps ever since.

I am scrapbooking my journey as this is my last diet so I want to journal EVERYTHING and have progress pictures along the way. I'm doing it for me so that I am able to see what I've done.

I also am addicted to this site and told my sister that she will be too when she starts and I get her on here...lol. I even look at the site from my iPhone when we drive to the city (45min drive). I'd say I'm obsessed yes.

Bellamack - I seem to be going the same direction as you, slow loss. I honestly don't know why either as I have been sticking to the program 100%. I have increased my protein to 8oz as I read a lot of posts about slow weight loss. I'm hoping that my third WI I'll see more progress. All I know is that I am doing this diet until I reach my goal, no matter how long it takes me.

ME TOO! I have upped my protein, cut restrictives, etc. I weigh in at 2:00 this afternoon, but not looking too good I am going to continue onward, but will switch over to alternatives because of costs. People seem to do equally as well on alternatives, but I really like my coach. At the rate I am losing, it will take me at least 6 months, since others say it slows down when you near your goal . grrrrrrrrrrr Let's keep track of each other and cheer each other on. There are a couple of other slow losers, but not as me!

I had a great first week but so far in my second week there hasn't been much movement on the scale

Wow what a relief to know I am not the only one, thinking like a maniac about how much I'm going by such and such date.. I did the pound average /per week thing to see how much I can lose by my daughter's birthday ( november 3rd), then by christmas, then by spring.. and it keeps going. but my mini goal for now is really to have lost 40 pound by my daughter's birthday!!

Agreed...good luck today. I love my coach too, she is great.

I don't chart or track too much just my list of weekly WI. I do obsess with old clothes in my closet tho. I have it in sections. I have the try on every other day part and the try on once a week part. I do weight every morning tho. I don't get too upset if it goes up but I need to do this so I can keep track of what foods are best for my loss. I am kinda carb sensitive so it is nice to know what combo of foods works best for me. I did get a little insane the other day tho. My mother in law wants to take a family vacation somewhere tropical and I blurted out "NO we can't go till after October 2012!!" She asked why and I laughed and had to explain that is when I should have all the rest of my weight off and be stabalized in maintenance. OK maby I am a little more crazy than I thought

Im constantly thinking about weight loss..i actually day dream what it will be like to look several pounds lighter and i often think about what im going to eat before i eat it..i also think about new clothes and what they will look like..im obsessed with the whole diet thing..and the scale..i admit to being a scale whore..