Seriously. Who needs potatoes when you have rutabegas?

Sorry about the remark, but great comeback!

Frustrating. But maybe this will give you time for the inflammation to go down. Hope your back feels better.

Ragdoll - you know the drill - there is no rhyme or reason to the weight loss. Stay OP and it will come off. :D

Little Star - cute charm bracelet!

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Good morning! Not looking forward to today, too much work to do and not enough time.

Good weigh in this morning, down 6.4 pounds. I'm seriously thisclose to starting a thread that is called "STOP! BEFORE YOU POST ABOUT A STALL, PLATEAU OR A SMALL LOSS, READ THIS!" In the body of the thread I would tell them to just look at my weekly stats. Worried about "only losing" a pound or two in your second week? Look at my 2nd weigh in. Worried about not losing anything this week? Look at my 16th weigh in. Worried about not losing anything for TWO weeks in a row, look at week 28 and 29. Worried about two one pound losses in a row, look at me in week 32 and 33. And guess what. I didn't stress about it. I just stayed OP because in 34 weeks, I've lost 109 pounds (down 120 total, but 11 was prior to IP). That's an average of 3.2 a week. If I freaked out or cheated every time my weigh in was zero or "just a pound," I guarantee I wouldn't be where I am today.

Okay, end of rant. I know I'm preaching to the choir here. :D

:bravo:

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The choir will sing and clap along!

I have a weigh-in record that looks like yours on the "slower" weeks but not quite as fast as yours on the high end. This will be my 26th WI. I'm averaging just over 2/week. I blame the thyroid that became sluggish, but ya know what? It is STILL faster than any other time I've tried to lose weight. It is ALL GOOD!

Losing Lawyer -

Great weigh in! Great weight loss overall! great advice! great attitude!

I love being reminded that this plan works especially with success stories like yours.

I made it to my weigh in and was down 3.8. So glad I went even in the snow. Weight loss is a great motivator.

Now to figure out how to update my ticker!

Go to the top to "User CP" -- someone just posted how to do this in the dailies maybe?? You need to click "Edit Signature" to change the ticker , and "edit profile" to change the numbers on the side there.

I should go change mine too! :)

Well after weeks of not feeling well I went to the doctor yesterday and found out I have mono :( But the good news is my blood pressure is no longer on the high side and I have a huge pot of chicken soup on the stove!! ;)

Well, not good that you're sick, but at least good that you KNOW and now have a plan for healing.

Isn't it exciting to have rotini to make chicken NOODLE soup! Small joys in life. Gonna do that myself tonight!

Very pretty!!!

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I am soo excited to finally try it, hope it's yummy!

You should try an Epsom salts bath. It helps pull out inflammation. I swear by them and for my kids when they're sore!

That's why we got YOU nurse Pattie, to help us out!
I'm eating my chicken veggie soup. Didn't bother with the rotini as I'm using my Southwest curls as crackers. DEEE---LISH!!

I'm tellin' ya, my Fridgebottom soup is never the same, but has never been disappointing. Poor hubby always says "This is good! Can we ever have it again??".... NOPE so enjoy!

Good afternoon everyone! Well, I am finally getting some of my medical issues figured out and THANK YOU to all of you who PMed me with concerns. You are amazing! I had a misdiagnosis and now I have a new doctor. I will probably have a hysterectomy in my future but for now I am on the pill AGAIN which my body doesn't like. :( Oh well. I did gain a few during my feel sorry for myself days and as soon as I started taking the pill but my new doctor approved me to go back onto phase 1. I am so relieved to be getting things figured out. I am on day 2 and feeling great. A friend of mine is starting IP tomorrow so I am excited to be going through this with her and able to help her. Sorry for my rambling. I am actually all caught up in classes and do not have any homework tonight so i thought I would check in versus lurk. :)

Thank you for keeping us in the loop. Sending big :hug::hug::hug: your way.

I'm a teacher too, and I have to say, 'JEALOUS', not one snow down here! I love a snow day. We've only had our storms on the weekends. :)

That's a bummer! Hope you feel better soon!!

I have had a hysterectomy and I feel SO much better than I did before!!

You know what I find interesting, is that people think they are going to lose 8 pounds (ex.) per week because that's what they loose the first week, and then are totally bummed when the losses slow down. Wouldn't it be nice if we could lose that much every week and be done in 4 months, etc. Oh well!!!:dizzy:

Going to go make supper. I have burger out, so think we will have taco salads. I love 'em spicy!! :)

Thanks for the hugs. :) I am really, really good now.