Welcome to the thread H4G – I just love this program. The only thing I caution you on is to not listen to what other people think about the food. Different people have different tastes and something that may not appeal to you may be really yummy to someone else. Also something you didn’t care for at first may taste really good after a couple of months. You get away from craving salt & sugar and the taste of everything changes. I can’t believe how wonderful fruit and veggies taste to me now.
If you should visit the NS boards there are a lot of people who like to talk about the things they don’t like. The fact is there is so much variety that you don’t need to like everything to find foods you do enjoy. I was so sure I would not want to use the chocolate milk because it wouldn’t be satisfying so I didn’t order it but I got it in with my free food. Oh my gosh, I just love that, I blend it with a few frozen strawberries and it is like having a big dish of soft service ice cream.
If you haven’t already gotten one from the friends you mentioned send Sno or I a private message with your e-mail address and we will get you a coupon to use on your first order. It is $30 and worth fussing with.
Twenty-five pounds is very doable, you may not loose as fast as Sno and I are because you don’t have as much to loose but it you follow the program 1.5 lbs a week would put you right at goal in 4 months.
Sno – Woo Hoo on the 5 lbs.
Geez girl you are just flat melting away! I’m down a total of 20.2 lbs since Apirl 9th so I’m not unhappy. My scale did jump back up this morning but it was still a 2 lb loss from last week. I’ve been thinking about getting a new scale, this one calculates your body fat, water and weight for up to like 5 people but you usually need to take the best 2 out of 3 weights.
I use to go to Weight Watcher’s and by doing the 2 out of 3 thing I normally matched right on with the Weight Watcher’s scale so if you know it’s tricks it is accurate and because of that I’m having trouble justifying buying a new one.
I have to agree, this program is the easiest thing I’ve ever done in my life. I feel absolutely no stress; the weight is just going away with almost no effort.
Islandgrrl – If you get to check in on us, I wanted to tell you there is a thread on the NS Website of RNs on NS that work 12 hour shifts. I was thinking if you checked in over there you might get some good ideas on how to balance your program while working your long hard hours.
checkin in!
I'm down to where I was last summer, so at least my summer clothes will fit until I lose some more.
but I didn't panic. I checked the scale the next day and it was gone plus some so right now I've lost 20lbs but I'll believe it if it shows up again tomorrow. 
glad to have you here. Your 25 goal weight loss is very doable--like evangeline says you probably wont lose as fast as people who have a lot to lose--I started with needing to lose 98lbs. But you should lose it all in four months particularly with the fiancee helping. I think they say you will lose an average 1% of your total weight per week.