Oh my goodness! There are so many of you!! I am so happy to have found this! I can't figure out how to put a weight tracker on my entries, though. help?

I live in Canon City, CO...so I am roughly an hour southwest of Colorado Springs. I mostly go to the Pueblo MRC office, and love my coach there! In fact, I see her tomorrow, and must admit feeling a bit nervous. When I left her last week, we both knew I would be going on a couple day getaway with my family. I did not make good choices for basically 2 days in a row, and I think it is gonna show on the scale. I have a tendency to be extra hard on myself....which doesn't always help, but at times it is just plain hard. Any program takes big time discipline....including this one! I quit smoking almost two years ago, I can honestly say that losing weight and staying on track every day is harder for me. Maybe just because that is the "moment" I am in...lol...cause I do recall quitting nicotene was no cake walk!

Anyway, so glad to have all of you doing this with me!! Thanks for the warm welcome to your discussions

Tami

Well, tomorrow is my first official day back to school. The luncheons and snacks I faced at the end of the year will return! In fact, tomorrow, we are being provided breakfast AND lunch! I'll join everyone for the socializing, but will bring my own food! So, I've spent the last hour and a half making a big batch of MRC chicken salad (enough for 3 days' lunches) and measuring it into daily portions, measuring out spinach, cucumbers and blueberries for my lunch salad each day, and making a cheesecake to eat for breakfast for the next four days. I think I'm ready to face whatever comes my way!! I'm too close now to blow it!

Luvs2read yes it was awesome seeing that I lost so much, especially on pre-conditioning. I guess I expected maybe one or two pounds so I am stocked about this.

Got my new menu and I'm a little worried. It actually is more food that I eat normally. I don't start until tomorrow but for a test I measure out the protein and veggies I'm supposed to eat. I couldn't eat it all. So now I'm a little worried about that. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

I'm back from my weekend trip, and it did not go well at all. I had thought about it and had planned to go off, but I never set any exact parameters for how far I would go off. That was my first mistake.

It was awful. I ate almost every meal off for three days. To make matters worse, I totally binged. I think it was more that I knew I was "off my diet" and felt like I should take advantage of it.

We stayed at an inn/b&b type place, and they set out snacks and dessert. That was my biggest problem. I'm not a snacker, but food was there all the time, and it was baked dessert type stuff. To be fair to myself, my husband, who doesn't really have food issues did even worse than I did. We both felt half sick for most of the weekend.

I realize it's totally stupid to eat like that, and it wasn't even all that enjoyable since it made me so uncomfortable. I think it was worse because my system wasn't at all used to food like that, but now I'm up at 4 am because I'm still miserable. I'm just disappointed in myself overall. In fact, I think the lack of self control bothers me worse than teh weight gain (7 lbs, most of which is probably water that will go away in a week). It just makes me worry about maintenance.

Anyhow, tomorrow is strictly back OP, possibly metaquick. I definitely don't have the desire to cheat anymore after feeling so gross all weekend. The other sad part is that I wasn't at all having cravings or excess hunger before I cheated. Now I'm going to have to get it all out of my system again.

tkdtara, you will get it together because you already have a plan, just stick to it
Now u know what it feels like to over do it. You're doing great!

Monday morning renewal...Goal is 3 pounds this week. I really need to reach the goal for myself and stay motivated.

Drink LOTS of Water everyone!!

On my scale I'm down 2 lbs, but we'll see what my official WI brings tomorrow.

My concern is......I missed lunch yesterday and can barely "choke" any food down today. Just a stressful time, but I don't want my metabolism to shut down.

ok changed my goal weight last week from 155 to 145 so I have made it to the half way point again yeah me! Think I am finely of that rollercoaster ride R at least I hope I am. lost 2.5lbs over weekend.

Lostcause ~ I think you're gonna have to change your name to something like: "HaveHope", "GotMeSomeMotivation", "AlmostThere" or something!! Keep Going.....You Can Do This!

tdktara- I went far OP when I went to NYC. I gained 9 pounds but lost 11 over 5 days time. I drank more water than usual and went back to a basic plan. You'll be fine.

Tamikl- welcome. You're going to love it here.

Goneforgood- you are SO close. I know you'll get through that first week fine. What a way to start the school year!

Connie- I hope that 2 pounds sticks for your official WI tomorrow. I had a day like that yesterday. I got up late and wasn't my usual hungry self. Needless to say, that feeling didn't last long.

lostcause- congrats on a great loss!

fluffy- it seems like a lot of food at first. But you'll get used to it.

I'm up .8 pounds today. Just TOM so I'm not worried.

Well....Here's what I faced today: Chick-fil-a breakfast, chocolate candy on the table in front of me all day and lunch was TGIF chicken spaghetti, breadsticks and cookies for dessert. I am happy/proud to report that I had already eaten my MRC cheesecake for breakfast, didn't munch on the candy, and ate my OP lunch! One day down, 6 to go before the kids come!

GoneForGood ~ What a Fantastic job you did not letting the tempting food win you over! Did your coworkers comment on your weight loss?!

Thank you, Connie...Yes, the few who I had not already seen over the summer did take notice! We'll see what the rest of the week brings!!

Thank you for the encouragement, Little Edie! I'm attending the preparing for stabilization/maintenance class tomorrow night, so I may have a lot of questions next month for you and Patzi and others who've "been there!"

Hi...
I had my maintenance weigh in and I lost the 1 1/2 pounds I had gained, so 4 1/2 pounds under my goal, which is good.

Last week ,
I added bagel, one full one, vs. 1/2
homemade healthy oatmeal cookies( had two during the week, vs. 1)
Added an additional 8 oz. of soy milk.

I told the center, that for one month I am not going to take any supplements or HNS and want to see how I do. They were not happy with that, but I am use to that, and said that was what I wanted to do and would decide after a month on where to go from there. So that case was closed.

Also wanted to try a few vegetarian days to see how I do, as sometimes, eating meat protein, just gets to me. I was vegetarian when I was in college,
so it is familiar . If I find myself becoming hungry or gaining, then will forget it, but it is something I wanted to try. Will let you know next time on weigh in.

There are so many new people. I want to wish you all, the best in your challenge, congratulations to all the losers, and for those struggling, hang in there, it will all work out at the end.. When I have the time will go thru the
posts to see if I can help anyone. Hard to do at work..

Patzi

stone3973: I understand now what you mean about the compliments hurting your progress! It's nice to fee confident now with yourself, isn't it?

Patzi, thank you but it wasn't me who hit goal. I am still stuck at the same weight! Let us know how the month without supplements goes for you. It will be nice to get to the point where I don't have to buy HNS any more!

tkdtara84: Good luck getting rid of those cravings. I know how hard it is once you go off track. Sigh.

luvs2read79: thank you! Good luck with the swimming. At least you are trying to move forward and do something positive! What do you want to use the Fat & Carb blockers for? I initially got them to use at restaurants. But now I am using them when I got off plan. :-O