So my goal for July is to hit the 205 mark. I would LOVE to hit 202 (since I havent been there since 8th grade!!!) We'll see...if I want to this 202 I need to lose another 17 lbs! I am going to try and step up my water. Any suggestions guys?

Congrats Karen! That's so awesome!!

Good Job
 

You are doing a great job. Keep up the good work. And I feel you on the start of the new menu. I think today is the best day ever since I started the plan. I started the green menu today. I have eaten so much salad the past 10 days I though I was having the same thing for lunch today until I went across the hall and saw that I had something totally different and than I remember I have options now for lunch besides salad. LOL Well once again good luck and keep reaching for your goal.

Well I have been faithful this week - trying to get back OP. I am going to weigh in tomorrow morning so I am hoping for the best. However everyday that I have stepped on the scale at home it shows a weight gain each day. Could it be all of the water I am drinking? I just cannot seem to lose and it is so frustrating. Its like I cant get my body into ketosis. I drink the max HNS and have been taking Phena-Trim. Well we will see what tomorrow brings.

Congrats to all with your great loses!!!!!! I am so excited for you all :)

angelofsc - it seems that you are doing well too! I am with you on the salad thing, I like veggies, I really do...but all the salad was killing me off :)

Thanks, Good luck and Enjoy your vacation. We are leaving on Sat. for 10 days also. I am not going to stress but I am going to do my best. I am so close to 20lbs.:):):)

Hang in there Lori! Have they done your measurements or run the Tanita lately? You KNOW things are happening, just may not be showing on the scale on WI. That .5 pound is not representative of an extra 1750 calories consumed--it is just crazy physiology of our bodies. Before you know it, we will be high fiving you for your loss!!!!!

thelish and khunter :bravo: on your losses!

Dedge--I am will you on! I need 17 pounds, well 18 really to get me to onderland! Haven't been there in 8 years, but I really liked it when I was there!!!!

Im on day three. (done the program before) I hear yall on the salad part. If you try to make an 8oz salad with just lettuce... its turns out to be one Godzilla mound of lettuce.

Even though it's TOM for me, ive noticed that I am in a better mood and my body feels better (despite the cramps). I don't know if its mentally because Im know Im doing something great for myself or if its physically because my body is doing leaps of joy because of all the nutrition its getting (didnt even take a multi vitamin before). Its prolly both though. The only time I am getting hungry is at night when I am waiting on my husband to get home from the academy... he usually gets home around 10:40. I usually just drink a fiber type drink and im good. Then I do a HNS right before bed... cause your body processes it better when you sleep. Ive noticed that i have been remembering my dreams more.

Speaking of vivid dreams, Does MRC still have 5 HTP? That stuff was scary, especially for me. I have what they call an innocent heart murmer from a surgery i had when I was two... my heart never closed up when I was born... so to put kinda funny had a hole in my heart. lol. 5 HTP made my heart race when I was sleeping and It made me have night terrors. Weird huh? Your dreams are supposed to get back to normal once youve been on it for a while. Its supposed to help produce more serotonin in the brain.
Anyways... I was just wondering if the ADWL had it in their night time pill. Cause if it does... I am going to stay away from it.
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All day does have a night time pill. Check with the center though, I dont know if its the same as the 5HTP. I actually dream...and remember them!! Its fun! hahahahaha new adventure every night. hahahaha

msim
Looks like we are in the same boat. Would like to keep in touch. Let me know!! I have no idea what its like to be under 200....my weight in 8th grade (the number) haunts me! I would love to get rid of it this month!!!

Since I am a habitual weigher... my mini goal will be not to weigh my self til the end of day 10. That will be next Friday morning.
Im doing this on my own and I know that when you go to the center you weigh in one or two times a week. I just want to see if I have the will power to not step on that scale til then. Would be nice to have a 10 lb loss. That would give me 30 lbs to go... and 30 just sounds so much nicer than 40. :dz: However, I will NOT be dissapointed if its not a 10 lb loss. ;)

Dedge;
That number is not going to haunt you in three weeks and one day! That is 6-7 weigh ins away!

We can do it!

Yes, We WILL do it!! :o)

asherdwn...I, too, am a habitual weigher! Every single morning I weigh and then am tortured if the scale doesn't move. Literally. I think my goal should be the same as yours. I get so down if I'm not "down"! LOL

Goose:
I lied. I plan on weighing Sat morning which is the end of my first four days... then I will weigh on next friday which is the end of the second menu. Thats pretty reasonable though right?

Does anyone NOT have the support of their husbands? He seems so skeptical and critical of me sometimes. Like today when he got home, I said "I didnt do so well on my diet today... I didnt get all of my veggies in at lunch." and he was like "hmm. its only day two" in a sarcastic voice. I am done with day 3 thank you very much! lol. I could kinda understand if I had said "I went and had a hamburger and fries and a chocolate shake." But even then... if he were in my shoes I would be more encouraging. Really p*sses me off sometimes and makes me feel like im fat and ugly and will always be that way. ya know? uhg.
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