Hang in there silverbelle!! It can be really hard when you are around temptation on the time but keep remembering why you started this program in the first place and that should help. Hope you have a happy birthday!

What a fun NSV!!! It feels good to see that kind of evidence!!!

This is a lot of extra stress in your life. Hang in there and try to do the best you can. I'll be thinking of you and your daughter!!

Little update on my daughter, Nothing really new from the Dr. other then more blood work, he knows her potassium is still low do to her feet craping and her being so sleepy. I did stay Op all day and took the meals one meal at a time. I see my scale is down today...

New thought! One Meal At A Time!

Thanks so much for letting me vent! and for thinking about Alex....

Good job staying on plan.

Hope they get some information as to what's going on with your daughter soon....! Keep us updated.

:hug:

Please keep us updated, we are all thinking about you both!
Great job staying OP all day, i know that must be so hard with everything you have going on.

Okay ladies I'm surprising my daughter tomorrow night for her 16th birthday we are going to a local pizza place and then bowling. My plan is to have a huge salad and then maybe a 1/4 slice of pizza. How far off plan will that throw me? I think I can refuse the birthday cake but it's the pizza I don't think I can deal with! I'm hoping maybe they have some great salads and I can order that but........ Let me know what you guys think. We are headed to Texas next weekend and I know that will be a hard weekend eating out every meal but I'll try to stay OP as much as I can and use my MRB for breakfast each day.

Tina

Aloha!
 

Just spent two hours reading all the posts. I'm amazed and inspired by all the successes, the great advice and the motivational notes to keep everyone on track. Here's a big :bravo: to all of you who are doing so well. And good to see so many of you back who have been missing for awhile. :hug:


To those of you who are re-committing to this, I'm right there with you! I fell off the wagon big time, so had to make that u-turn, too. :o

Our 40th anniversary trip to Hawaii was great -- lots to see and do and so easy to make poor food choices. At my first WI yesterday since coming back, I was up 2.5 lbs., due to eating badly at the airports, not to mention the Pina Colada's, Chi Chi's and chocolate macadamia nuts that I just couldn't resist. I was on week 5 and 6 of stabilization and just got too cocky with what I thought I could eat. The hardest part was getting in enough veggies (I hate lettuce, so salads don't work for me) and water, plus having to add a 4th meal (a breakfast later at night on the advice of the MRC staff) on the two days we had long flights. I ended up shorting myself on protein for breakfast most days, skipping several of the noon veggies, eating white rice for my noon starch (it's definitely a no no), then eating ice cream for a milk at dinner. The upside was that we walked like crazy, so at least I was getting in more exercise than normal. So I'm back on the wagon to get those 2.5 lbs off again. Damn...I was within a half of a pound of my goal weight, too. :tantrum:

The highlight was volunteering at the Ironman triathalon. We stayed at the Hilton Waikoloa, and they needed help on their crew for the biking leg of the race. It was the most fun thing we did on the trip. They shuttled us to a tent with a live DJ, fantastic food for both breakfast and lunch (did I mention the macadamia nut pancakes made right there on the side of the road by the chef from one of the hotel restaurants???), and just an overall party atmosphere. Our job was to hand off bottles of water to the bikers. Picture this...standing to the inside of the white line marking the shoulder of the road with 8 other people, screaming "water, water" as the bikes approached going full out, then if they pointed at you to indicate they wanted water as they were coming, you had to take off at a full-speed sprint along the white line, holding out the bottle of water for them to grab as they sped by without looking to see where they were. We dropped a lot of bottles, as it really took a few tries to get into a groove. Never in my wildest dreams could I have done this six months ago, so I credit MRC with being able to do it now. It was truly a kick, and we ran off and on for 5 hours! I'm sure that is one of the reasons I didn't have a bigger gain.

As a result, I am repeating stabilization week 5 this week to get back on track, plus drinking a boat load of water. Here's the lesson I learned -- once you start cheating, it is way too easy to justify that as a failure, using that as an excuse to keep on that downward slide. :(

Judy
Gma to 4

Oh, Judy! You make this sound like such an adventure!!! I'm so glad you had such an amazing time in Hawaii. I'm sure you'll have those 2.5 lbs off and be back on track in no time!

I had that same thought for my sister's birthday back in August, and I have to say that I felt like **** for a couple of days after eating 2 slices of pizza. Seriously...I felt like I had gone on a pub crawl, and I hadn't touched the alcohol. I started struggling with making off-plan choices at that point, but I don't know whether that was just as the crack in the dam, or if it was just a coincidence because that was when school was starting back, things started getting more hectic, and all my eating out buddies came back. If you go the pizza route, try to get lots of water.

Bless your heart! That sounds so scary and so stressful! I like your One Meal at a Time mantra. Sounds like the way to handle it.

Congratulations! :cheer:


Welcome to the board, Angel!

Personal Update-I'd like to tell you guys that I'm plugging along and sticking to my menu 100%, but I got stuck coordinating a :censored: bake sale at work this week, and I've had to come up with a new baked good every night this week. I must confess--I've been licking the beaters! But, I haven't actually bought anything from the table, and I've been pleasantly surprised that while some of it is just adorably packaged, none of it has really been tempting. The problem seems to arise when I'm in my kitchen with the raw material. I think I'm going to have to find a new job. The last two weeks have been borderline neurotic.

I also had a crazy Shannon moment this week. I decided that my dishwasher wasn't getting my dishes clean enough and that since it was just me, there wasn't any reason why I shouldn't wash my dishes by hand after eating. So...I attacked my salad plate with my scrub brush, assaulted the fork with the scrub brush, and went after the steak knife with the scrub brush...except I missed! And the steak knife got me! I ended up having to go to the doctor and have the wound glued closed. Ugh! I really need a keeper.
Until then, I'm going to keep trying to up my water intake.

Welcome back! I love hearing your stories, as it makes me feel like I'm enjoying it all with you!!! I love the triathalon piece.... Did you take lots of pictures? I would love to see them! Hawaii is one of my favorite places. How can you not just melt into relaxation and go right onto "Hawaii time" when you are in paradise? AND! 2.5lbs is not bad! It will come off in no time.

So glad you're home, and back to posting!
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Hello everyone!
I have been Off plan every weekend for the last 3 weeks. I am wavering on a 2 pound gain. I have one more weekend to go before I can get back and get serious about this plan. Plus, we have had cool weather hit as well as PMS hitting me. So this week has been terrible! I haven't been to WI for 3 weeks. I will MAKE myself go tomorrow and just stand there and say, "yes ma'am."

But to everyone else: Congrats on the losses!

JStuckly: I hope your daughter feels better soon!

I also had a crazy Shannon moment this week. I decided that my dishwasher wasn't getting my dishes clean enough and that since it was just me, there wasn't any reason why I shouldn't wash my dishes by hand after eating. So...I attacked my salad plate with my scrub brush, assaulted the fork with the scrub brush, and went after the steak knife with the scrub brush...except I missed! And the steak knife got me! I ended up having to go to the doctor and have the wound glued closed. Ugh! I really need a keeper.
Until then, I'm going to keep trying to up my water intake.[/QUOTE]

I am so sorry about your finger!! Every time I put the knifes in the washer I think of Shannon now I will add you to that thought

Thanks Shannon, also don't say yes ma'am, say your scale is wrong!!!

I went to WI one time and was up like 1lb, they lady weighing me in was new, the next time I went back I was down 2 lb so I told them the new girl could not read the scale! Just for my own laugh....

Just got back from WI... down 1 LB since Tuesday, and I even ate breakfast and drank HNS before WI, which I NEVER do :) ( like the breakfast is really going to weigh that much...)ha ha.. Now I'm still stuck at 200 !! I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed that next Tuesday when I go in i will finally be below that!!

wow, I haven't been on since Friday. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the great comments. It feels so good to be at goal weight. I tripped myself up the last couple days, but at least I recognized it quickly. Been eating on plan perfectly, just caught myself adding some things I shouldn't! But I did finally get back to exercising. It's been 2 months since I've done anything gym like & I was a little afraid of how far this set me back endurance wise. I just bit the bullet & went straight for the full 30 minutes on the ecliptic. I thought I would blow a lung out, but I pushed through :D

Congratulations to everyone who had great losses - especially you Denise! 140lbs!!! You are getting so close to goal weight. It's good to see you back on board Crystal - I've been wondering where you have been. And Bonnie too!! Mrs. Phibes, and so many other faces popping back in. It feels so good to hear from everyone.

I love how vulnerable people are with their struggles too. It really helps keep it real. This is a simple plan, just not easy to do. Working through all the mental blocks seems to be the hardest part.

gmato4 - I love your Hawaii story. Don't stress about the 2 1/2 lbs. That's nothing compared to the great memories you had and it's only a 1 week repeat. You are amazing and you have done such a wonderful job!!

Everytime I get away from this board for too long, I feel myself starting to drift off ever so slightly. Thanks for keeping me in line!