I agree. If you stick to the program, it will work! I started a month ago and am LOVING this diet! My only complaint is that my clothes don't fit now and I don't want to go into debt buying clothes every few weeks. lol

Congrats to everyone and welcome newbies. Today is WI for me as well. The start of week 5! I have a facebook blog if you call it that is private for a couple handful of friends. I promised them a month of updates and a new picture so I can't wait to see a side by side myself.

As for as clothes shopping nat1015 I fully agree on that complaint. I however do have a goodwill that is minutes from work so my plan is to take clothes in and purchase new there while my body changes. That way I am not forking out $35+ for dress pants etc. I recently bought 4 pairs of dress pants *look new* for $4.00 (total). I feel as long as I am donating, taking out I don't feel so guilty. have a great day all and keep the water chugging going.

I started on June 12 and have a WI on Friday. I'm really hoping I hit the 20 lbs lost mark then (I'll only have to have a 2.2 lb loss to hit it). I've been 100% OP and yesterday was probably my first day that I really just felt insatiably hungry LOL. I fought through it though and feel good today.

the last day of week 7 for me and I blew it. I had a very bad day yesterday and was very stressed out. Still am.

I had a dinner party to go to last night and they had food and wine that was not OP and I ate and drank it to make myself feel better. I didn't work and now my stomach is upset and I feel guilt, shame, and angry at myself. The scale is up 1.5lbs.

Getting back on track today for week 8.

Sounds like the dinner party was with people you may not be totally comfortable with, I understand the feeling as I sometimes have anxiety issues when mingling at official events. Ahh well, today is a new day and you are 100% again, so just keep going but remember how you felt physically afterward - it helps to keep us on plan. Just drop the guilt, shame, & anger, and move on from there. You will do fine and will drop the 1.5 quickly, I'm sure.

Well I just came back from WI. I am a little sad though. Today meant so much to me as being one month mark. I wanted measurements to post along with my WI achievements (next week for my page). My coach was backed up in the office so the staff has to do my WI/get my weekly food. I am however excited to change my little chicky there on the left from 10 pounds to 15!!!! Next week I should hit my first mini goal of going below 200! It's been years..so crossing fingers. I will drink MORE water this week if that will truly help. Just need another 3 pound loss. Also messed up my food order..meant to get vanilla pudding and I ended up asking for vanilla shake..oh well I will deal with it. Not going to drive back and try to exchange it LOL.

Congrats on the new chickie!! sdhinds
I can hardly weight (intended, lol) to see your post of measurements as I'm sure we will all be excited for you! Check out the recipe threads for things to do with your mistaken vanilla shakes. I'm sure there's something out there...
Liana

Are we allowed to post a link for a video? I found one I think we can all relate to and probably most have seen it..it just cracks me up! If we can't look up: How women put on tight jeans. It's a women in a black tank and undies. I die laughing at her shoving lettuce in her mouth.

Try a copy & paste, lol. I look forward to a laugh today, perhaps you can post on the humour thread a little further down the list. I do remember the lying on the bed, coat hanger trick to haul up the zipper (1980's what can I say...).

Found it... wipes tears, blows nose with romaine, lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRxsweDq0FE

OMG I SO NEEDED TO LAUGH TODAY!!!!! TOO FUNNY!!!

Hello my IP peeps!!! Its my first period on IP . Should i expect no weight loss this week? Last week if you remember i cheated and had a few dates and when i had my WI on Friday the needle had not moved an inch!!! Come monday I have my period and coach said that ten days before the period our body starts retaining water so that its ready for the period. Now does that mean that I will gain weight by this friday or expect no changes at all? I am so angry at myself for cheating! I am going on week 4 and so far have lost 10 lbs and that includes no loss for week 3 ..had i not cheated i might have lost a few more..but hey i still have ten lbs less fat and i do believe that regardless of weight loss, I am losing inches though. A shirt that i had recently bought which was an XL and was quite snug on me and i deliberately did not buy the plus size, today was quite loose on me. YIPPIE YAY!!!!!

Yaaaay, Bull, on your NSV un-snug shirt! Period sux, I always gain about 3 lbs about 3 or 4 days before, some gain up to 5 my coach said, so that may be true of you, especially if you used to gain with bloat before IP. I have usually lost it by day 3 of my period though.
Dates & figs are hugely full of sugars - lol - if you decide to cheat with fruit have a 1/2c of fresh berries instead, BUT you didn't hear that from me!!!

Keep goin' it will get better!
Liana

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! So thrilled to find others in the same boat as me. Thursday is my WI and restock! I really am starting to see the difference as is my husband. I have a lot to go, so I need to stay the course. I have a vacation coming up to Disney and I know I am not going to be able to be 100% all the time. I certainly will do my best but if anyone has been OP please suggestions are welcome.. I plan on packing my shakes and having breakfast in our room. (we own a vacation club) Bringing my morning snack / shake with me to the park. Lunch - dinner will be a different story. Oh and we are traveling with a group of 20 all family but only my Mom. son and husband know I am on IP. So many other failed diet attempts I am not ready to let the cat out of the bag and listen to everyone gripe about how much money it cost for another program that wont work......SO Help LOL....

There was a recent thread about vacationing at Disney that had lots of great suggestions in it and ways to stay OP. Let me see if I can bump it for you.