Any Current Jenny Craig Members?
 

I'd love to have someone to chat with here about Jenny Craig. I don't find the JC boards to be as friendly as the chicks here.

Hi Vickie,

I've been doing JC this time around for about 2-1/2 years. I've reached my goal and then added five lbs. to it. I still haven't got there and gained a few pounds since then.

Jenny has really helped me with structure, which I seem to lack. I am trying to motivate myself to take off the extra lbs and then hopefully get to my ultimate goal.

How long have you been doing Jenny Craig and how do you like it so far? Looks like you are off to a good start!

Hi Chrstna! Sorry, I'm not sure what your name is. I'm SO excited that someone responded. I hope there are other JC lurker Chicks here.

How wonderful for me to have found a JC expert who has been so successful.

I've been overweight and/or obese most of my life. I've lost 75 pounds on a bariatrics diet, 60 pounds on Optifast, and 45 pounds on Weight Watchers and always gained the weight back. Clearly, I need to learn portion control and have someone help me learn how to get to my goal and then keep the weight off.

I'm 52 years old with a wonderful husband, family, and friends. My husband is doing Nutrisystem and everyone else in my life is completely supportive. I feel like Jenny Craig is my last chance. I don't want to have surgery. I feel like this weight has me as a walking time bomb. I have high blood pressure and who knows what else.

I know this sounds like a downer. I really am hopeful and feeling good about the program. But I'm also scared of failing again. My Center director and first meeting was awesome and supportive. And, I like my Counselor very much. I intend to follow the program faithfully for as long as it takes but I'm awash in emotions; some good and some bad.

AND emotions make me eat. Any suggestions for someone like me who has SO much weight to lose?

They have me on 1700 calories plus one starch. I'm still trying all the food and am pretty confident that I'll be able to come up with enough that I like to have some variety. I haven't been REALLY hungry which is important for me. I don't do hungry well! I couldn't get all the fruit down; 1 cup servings just seemed huge for cut up fruit/grapes, etc. so they cut me down this week to 1/2 cup. I'm in my third week and just incorporated exercise so I'm hopeful that I'll have a good third weigh in.

It was great to hear from you. I'm SO impressed that you've been on program for 2 1/2 years and have lost so much weight. It gives me hope.

Hi Vickie,

Please know you aren't alone. Our stories are very similar.

I was always the fat kid. As my earlier post said, this isn't the first time that I've used Jenny. I think I've been on this program 3 other times beforehand. The first time I had great success, but put the weight back on. I also did really well with Weight Watchers and there again, put it back on. In between there have been many, many attempts at other at-home/fad diets.

Even though I loved Weight Watchers, and I'd recommend it to anyone, I found myself joining the first of the year with everyone else, fatter every year. For ME, it gave me too much freedom and after the first few weeks of my own motivation, I was always back to cheating.

I believe I was born to be fat. Whether it be genetics or plain old socialization, I'm wired to be overweight. BUT, that doesn't mean I can't do something about it. I might have to work a lot harder than the skinnies out there, but if I did the work I could help change it.

This go around I tried to work very hard on forgiveness. That has been difficult. I have always had these ideas of fat/cheating/bad; skinny/deprivation/good. If I had fallen off the wagon and I was a bad person, why continue? But then I thought about how silly that thinking really is. How often had I quit? How often did I put the weight back on? Um, every time. I needed to quit the cycle. If I had a bad day or bad week, oh well. I couldn't go back, so I needed to just get over it and just keep doing what I had been doing before my "bad" episodes! I think that is what has helped pull me through this time. So far.

Vickie, I don't mean to get too "Dr. Phil" on you, but I do struggle all the time. In fact that's where I'm at right now. I'm hoping, perhaps, we can help motivate each other.

Take care,
Christina

Hi Christina! Thanks so much for your post. We do have very, very much in common. You seem to be faster about putting the brakes on than I am. That's something to be proud of. I love WW too. My plan is to lose all my weight on JC and then use a combination of both programs to keep the weight off.

I've definitely been socialized to be fat. Food is love in my family. I'm trying to break that cycle. I'd love to change from being a live to eat girl into a eat to live one instead.

I love your introspection. I, too, am working hard on not letting lapses become collapses. One bad meal or mistake doesn't mean to throw it all away. I'm sorry to hear that you struggle all the time but it's good for me to hear. I need to get over the thinking that this will ever be done. I will have to be vigilant for the rest of my life. That used to depress me but it doesn't any more.

The second week I lost 1 pound and the third week I only lost .4. I'm hoping for a really big loss this week. I haven't been able to exercise much and my life is very sedentary. I know that's hampering me. I only walked on the treadmill once last week, but have been on 3 times already this week. I'm following the program to the letter. That's all I can do.

I'll help you in whatever way I can. I have a feeling that you will be much more inspiring than I. So did you lose all 58 pounds on JC this most recent time?

Another JC member!
 

I'm on JC also! It's slow gowing but steady, and I feel pretty good about it. I'm down 16 and need to lose another 56, maybe more, but I'll wait to decide that when I get there. I have a great JCC, she's been very helpful and keeping me on track. The thing I like the most about my experience with the program is that learning to change my approach to weight loss and food in my daily life - finding a way to stay on track and also manage social situations and other times that staying OP won't work.

Even while continuing to "have a life" I'm making decent progress. I'm averaging about 1 lb per week, and that's fine with me because I'd rather go slower with a managable lifestyle than power diet and gain it back after I can no longer maintain the lifestyle.

I'm glad to see this thread, as there is very little JC talk on the site, and this is my favorite WL board. I'm glad to have some folks to talk to!

Hello Ladies,

I weighed in yesterday and lost 0.4 lbs. I was hoping for more, after increasing my exercise, but alas not to be. Oh, well a loss is better then the gain I had the week before. Onward!

Vickie, yes I lost this 58 lbs. this go round. I think I tried Jenny about 16 years ago. The food is much better now. What are your favorites?

Welcome, Kimana. Sixteen pounds is a great start! Sounds like you have a great attitude. I have never been a fast loser, so I try hard to be patient.
How are you liking the program?

It's been raining here off and on for several days. I'm a walker, so it's easy for me to make excuses for not exercising. I usually walk at lunch, but since it was raining I forced myself to drive to the mall and walk there. I'm glad I did. Now I need to convince myself that I need to do a little more tonight. Perhaps, walk on my Wii Fit while watching TV.

Keep me updated on your progress. Hopefully we can get this thread going again!

Take care,
Christina

Hi Kimana! I feel the same about 3FC's. I've always liked the people here better than on other boards. I'm glad to meet you. I'd be delighted to lose an average of 1 pound a week. I'd love more, but who wouldn't. Like you, I don't want to become completely obsessed with this....just partially obsessed. I do want to have a life too! I have a menopausal body that gets in my way occasionally. I'm determined not to make excuses this time, though. I'd love to know more about you. Where are you from? Kids? Hubby? I'm 52, married to my best friend, with no children. We got married late in life (I was 35 and my hubby was 41). First for me, second for him. We met at work....I know!....and became great friends, then dated and got married. We'd been living and working together for years, now we are early retired from the Federal Government after working there for 30+ years. Now we are together 24/7 while retired. We like each other and that makes a difference. As I said earlier, I've been fighting my weight all my life. This time I am going to win. I'm going to lose it AND keep it off.

Great job, Christina. You were concerned you weren't going to lose at all. .4 is what I lost last week. I understand how you feel. Any loss is great but we always hope for more. Don't we?! AND, 58 pounds is just positively outstanding! Did you walk last night after the mall? I don't make myself exercise on my weigh in day. NO good reason. I'm just getting going again. I went from one day of exercise to 5 days last week. I do the treadmill in my living room. I'm starting out very slowly since I am VERY heavy and VERY out of shape. I'm up to 22 minutes at 1.8 mph. I'm going to keep increasing the time until I get to 30 minutes, then I'll increase the speed. Slowly of course. I usually injure myself by trying to do too much too soon and then I quit exercising all together. Not good or effective. So what's you life like?

My weigh in is on Monday. I lost 2.2 this week. My goal is to lose 1.6 or more next week so that I can be in the 200's!

Talk to you all soon.

Just joined 2 weeks ago!
 

Hey!
I just joined Jenny Craig two weeks ago and so far so good. I have lost 6 lbs so far so I'm pleased but it is VERY expensive so I'm not sure I can stay on it for as long as I need to because I have so much weight to loose! How do you like it so far???:woops:

Hello Lady Bug! You are doing great! We are both at the beginning of our journey, aren't we? I have 160 pounds to lose so I'll be here a long time.

I'm liking Jenny so far. I haven't tried all the food yet but I'm working my way through the order sheet. I'm going to try almost everything once. I thought I would like some things (the stuffed sandwiches) and didn't and I AM liking things I didn't think I would (chili, rotini and meatballs). I'm eating mostly frozen. I've read some at the JC board and didn't like it there very much. Everyone has different tastes/opinions about the food so I just decided to try the stuff for myself.

I joined the rewards plan, so I was able to save money on my food. Apparently, they only offer this program to people with certain health insurance plans. It would be expensive to eat healthy on any plan because fresh produce and fruit is expensive. My husband is doing Nutrisystem so I KNOW expensive. We've convinced ourselves that this is important and we are worth it. We'll cut cable or something else if we have to.

Hope everyone is having a great week.

6 lbs..but motivation is wavering
 

:?: Started JC end of Dec08. My motivation is wavering..I haven't been in 2 weeks will try to get back this week. I am embarassed because I gained back a pound or two.sigh

Hi Lisa! Can you explain why you feel your motivation is wavering? If you give us details, maybe we can help.

Hi Vickie!

How's it going for you? I'm glad you are still keeping this thread going.

I, too, am wavering. I wish I could put my finger on it, but I've been a total binge eater. Last night it was almost a whole bag of mini rice cakes. I was going to eat the whole thing, but I stopped myself. Even though there were only a few left, I felt like I needed to at least leave a few in the bag to show myself I have a modicum of self control. Whatever!

I have been in this vicious cycle of trying to "start" over and then I sabotage myself with the binging.

Maybe it's boredom? I don't know. I just know it needs to stop.

Christina

Oh Christina, bummer! You weren't happy with your last loss so maybe that's derailing you. Just brush yourself off and get back on program, one meal at a time. Rice cakes, huh? Not such a bad binge. I know a calorie is a calorie but it's better than what I used to binge on. I know you think you're worth this, right?

I'm plugging away. I lost 1.8 last week and am down 10.8. I'm just trying to be the little train that could. I don't even entertain eating other food. I'm just on JC....that's the rule. I eat one dinner out a week and even that is healthy.

You are doing SO good, Vickie. Thank you for the words of encouragement.

You sound very focused. This diet thing can be pretty easy when you are focused, isn't it? Can you rub off a little on me?

Yesterday was still challenging, but my scale was down a tiny bit, so maybe I just need to stop stresssing so much. I need to stop feeling sorry for myself and try to channel that energy on something more beneficial, like exercising.

Eventually I'll get back on track with you. I haven't given up completely yet, so I know there is still hope. Just be patient with my whining.

It was raining last week so it made it harder to get motivated with my walking, but we shouldn't be getting any more rain for a few days. It is very beautiful outside toda, we can see a lot of snow in the mountains, so I know that will help me.

Are you doing any excercise?

Christina, I just know that I have been where you are a million times. Never worry about whining with me. I do it myself. Yesterday, I had a very blue day but I pushed through it somehow. I really do want to succeed this time very badly. I'm scared for my health. My BMI is positively frightening. I was feeling very sorry for myself yesterday and didn't want to exercise. It took me until 5:00 in the evening to get on the treadmill but I finally made it.

I walk on my treadmill 4 or 5 days a week. I'm just starting out and am just under 300 pounds so I'm taking it easy. I usually start out too ambitious, injure myself to the point where I can no longer exercise. I started out quite slow and short but now I am walking at 2.0 mph for 28 minutes. My plan is to get to 30 minutes and then increase the speed slowly. Then I'll try to stay on longer. My treadmill is in the middle of my living room in front of a 36 inch TV with cable and a VCR/DVD. No excuses for this chick! Well, none that don't sound lame anyway!

I'm SO happy to hear that you haven't given up. You are so close to your goal. I need to know that it is possible to reach goal and maintain. So do it and I'll live vicariously through you for now. How about that?

I forgot to mention that last Monday's weigh in got me under 300. That was a great feeling. Still.....a LONG way to go. But, milestones are still fun.

Hello! I found this site literally years ago but believe this is my first post. 13 weeks after my first and only baby was born, I broke my ankle which required surgery and months of staying completely off the ankle -- I not only retained my baby weight but gained too. I am a married working mother -- very little, if any, 'me' time after work and family obligations. A couple of years ago I tried WW -- it worked for awhile but I lost motivation and gained back the weight. The last several months I have been thinking about hypnosis, acupuncture, therapy...and then I read an article about how weight loss businesses are struggling and Jenny Craig was mentioned as being a program that offers one-on-one coaching. Ding! I went last night and signed up for their Premium Success Program:D

I like to cook and will miss being creative in the kitchen but I feel I need to do something drastically different and Jenny makes eating healthy very easy. For now I am thrilled I no longer have to spend energy making meal plans for the week only to be sidelined by "I feel like Thai take-out tonight." I left with two big bags of food, stopped by the grocery store for a few more items -- I love that they give you the shopping list! -- and now I can concentrate on taking care of myself without worrying about 'what should I eat?' I feel a tremendous sense of freedom!!!

Of course this is Day One so the motivation is strong....the trick will be keeping the momentum going. I hope to connect with people on this board that will help me on the journey to a healthier place.

Stacy, Congratulations on beginning Jenny. I think, based on your description of your life, Jenny will work for you. I've got 148.8 pounds left to lose so I'll be here with you. My intention is to stick with JC until I lose it all. I always did Weight Watchers but never really took it seriously. I'm enjoying the one on one counseling.

Cute tracker! As they say...a picture is worth a thousand words.

Welcome Stacy! I, too, have done WW. It is a great program, but I had the same experience. Lack of motavation leading to weight gain. I think their principles are great, though. If you are looking for a lot of structure and easy of use, Jenny is the place for you. You sound like you are starting off with a great outlook.

Hi Vickie! It sounds like you are doing great. Slow and steady does win the race. So keep on doing what you are doing.

I weighed in last Sunday and gained a pound. This week I still continue to struggle, but feel like I'm doing a little bit better. I'm not excercising as much, but trying to get my mindless snacking under control. I'm not sure that it will show a loss on the scale this week, but hopefully it will contain the gaining.

Hope you are all doing well.
Christina

Feeling better is great, Christina. How come you aren't exercising? Just curious I hate it and have to force myself.

Thanks for the welcome Vickie and Christina. It's great to communicate with others going through the same struggle. Today is day four for me on Jenny and I feel things are going great! The food is tasty (although I did not much like the chicken carbonara) and I feel like there is plenty to eat. As a matter of fact, I can't always get to the snacks. I know I am in the honeymoon phase and the real work lies ahead -- starting a lifestyle change is easy for me, making it stick is the challenging part! I have not started any exercise program as of yet but I will work that in soon. The part I love about Jenny the most is that everything is planned for you -- it makes it so easy!!! Tonight I roasted a bunch of veggies for the week. Taking care of myself is finally becoming a priority. w00t w00t!

I saw Debbie H. speak today at a Jenny Craig Center in Seattle (she is a featured success story -- I can't post a link because I am so new). She was very inspiring and stressed how important it is focus, plan and believe in yourself. During her 17 months of weight loss she did not stray once from her food plan -- what determination! She is going to be featured in a commercial for Jenny to begin airing in April.

Good for all of us for wanting to make positive changes to our lives!

Hi Stacy! I'm so happy that you feel things are going great. I'll try not to nag but you do need to make sure that you eat all your food.

I didn't like the chicken carbonara very much the first time. I bought it again and liked it better the second time. I think you'll find that your tastes change the longer you are on program. I don't eat it every week, but it's definitely in my rotation. I tried just about everything once and gave them all a rating of 1 to 5. Some got "X's" through them because they didn't even deserve a 1 to me. If you are reading on the JC board, try not to be overly influenced by other peoples opinions of the food. Even the things I didn't care for, I was still able to finish. I had two exceptions....anytime bars and the soupitizers.

My favorites are the chicken fettuccine, meatloaf, turkey and dressing, and fish and chips baked in the oven. My lunch favorites are the turkey burger, chili con carne, and the personal pizza. I like the chicken sandwich too but it needs dressing up.

I can't believe you saw Debbie H.! She is my hero. I saw her poster in the Center the first day that I was thinking about signing up. I just learned what her name was yesterday and I just got to read her success story. I'll post the link. She lost 221 pounds. I'm so excited that she is going to have a commercial.

As a good friend of mine says, "Life is Good".

Here's Debbie H.'s success story and before and after pictures.

http://www.jennycraig.com/successsto...etails/200623/

I do know I need to eat my food and a gentle nudge to do so is not a problem. Debbie H. said that she tried dropping her calorie intake down to 1500 and actually gained weight so had to bring it back up to 1700. Whoduthunk you would have to eat to lose weight?!!

I have glanced at the Jenny boards and the overwhelming thumbs down for the Anytime Bars is obvious. I don't find them unedible but I do eat them with a cup of tea which probably helps. I have really liked most all of the food in spite of leaning towards being a vegetarian -- the portions have so little meat its been fine. I agree the meatloaf was great, I liked the macaroni and the loved the mesquite chicken. Tonight I am going to try the fish and chips which I was told to cook in the oven.

We have a family birthday party tonight where everyone is meeting up at Claim Jumper for dinner. I am going to stay home and meet up with the group at an inlaws house for the present/cake part of the party. I am certain some family members will take it as a snub but I can't worry about them -- yes, I have been down this road before but (hopefully) this time will be different. My inlaws eat horrible food (pizza, chips, pop, chocolate) but somehow manage to maintain normal body weight. Prior to meeting my husband I successfully struggled to maintain my weight, after marriage and prekid, it was a difficult struggle to keep my weight 20 lbs. above what I felt was comfortable and then after the kid and broken ankle I just gave up and ate, ate, ate. One of my most difficult struggles is going to be coming up with creative ways to eat healthy when in the presence of my inlaws which is a frequent occurrence. I don't necessarily think they are saboteurs as much as I don't believe they have any idea what it is like to struggle with a weight issue -- they are just clueless. And even though my father-in-law has diabetes, his attitude is "I eat what I want and take insulin. No big deal." Of course he frequently crashes and his overall health is abysmal.

But back to me, I need to focus on what I need when these events come up and by not attending dinner tonight I am taking a huge step. The good news is my husband is perfectly ok with it -- whatever I feel I need to do is ok with him.

I promise to keep my nudges mostly to myself, Stacy! And when I can't help myself you can count on the fact that they will be gentle. Nothing worse than a know it all.

I did my fish and chips on a cookie sheet sprayed with pam spray for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. I flipped everything half way through. The fries were awesome and so was the fish. The fries got a bit crispy but the fish did not. It tasted good anyway, despite the fact that I am just learning to eat fish. I do the yogurt in place of the anytime bars.

I'm proud of you for putting yourself first in stead of caring what your inlaws think. Clearly your husband is very supportive and honestly, that makes all the difference in the world as far as I'm concerned. Awesome hubby!

I have an awesome supportive hubby too. He's doing Nutrisystem. I tried but could NOT eat that powdered food. He's already lost 21 pounds to my 11.2. Those darn men lose faster. Plus, he's on the treadmill for an hour every day. I'm only up to 40 minutes 5 or 6 times a week. I'm not competing with him. I'm proud, though!

Good luck tonight.

That is great you have a supportive hubby that is actually working his own program. My husband is willing to be supportive to a point but he does not want to go to any Jenny weigh-ins, etc. I am hoping I can purchase extra dinner entrees so we can at least have a similar dinner -- and he has agreed to bring a sandwich, sun chips and an apple for lunch at work.

Tonight went well. I did not get grilled about why I was not at dinner which made me happy. While they ate cheesecake, I had my chocolate walnut brownie and milk that I brought -- easy since I prefer chocolate over cheesecake any day of the week!

I have my second Jenny appointment tomorrow evening and I know I lost a few pounds -- I won't feel any sense of accomplishment until I get below 175 since I have lost these 20 lbs. over and over and over the last several years. Nonetheless looking forward to getting more food *lol* and having my first real appointment with a coach -- last week's meeting was essentially a sales pitch which was really not necessary since my mind was made up to join.

Cheers to a great week everyone!

Congratulations, Stacy and good luck at weigh in. Mine is today. Interestingly enough, my JC Center said Jim could join for $99 and they would not force him to weigh in every week nor would they make him come in for counseling. Essentially, they said he could just come in and get his food. I was surprised.

I'm not a big cheesecake girl but I love chocolate like you do. I LOVE the triple chocolate cheesecake. It tastes more like chocolate mousse than cheesecake. It has a chocolate cookie kind of crust and hard swirled chocolate on top. I order two a week. The cherry one is good too but reminds me more of cheesecake. I love the lemon cake too. Very moist and lemony.

I understand how you feel about the losses. I feel I'll need to lose 25 pounds before I'll feel a great sense of accomplishment. I lost 45 recently on WW and gained it all back. Sigh.

Come on JC members! Jump in with us.

I lost 6lbs! w00t! w00t! The large drop is due in part to mother nature -- last week when I started Jenny Craig I was at the beginning of my cycle which means lots of water retention. Nonetheless I am happy because I felt like I got to eat a lot of food, I was never hungry and yet I lost weight:D

Tonight I had the turkey dinner and it was pretty good -- all the Jenny food is surprisingly tasty -- with a salad. For 'dessert' I had a sliced banana, a few sliced strawberries, a clementine orange all mixed with some strawberry yogurt and a couple dashes of cinnamon. I feel STUFFED but in a good, healthy way.

The thing I need to work on is making sure I drink lots of water -- I have been drinking it but sometimes the day gets away and I don't consume as much as I would like.

How was your appointment Vickie?

Stacey, GREAT first week!:bravo: 6 pounds is awesome and you should be very proud of yourself. Your dessert sounds good. Do you not eat the JC desserts? I'm enjoying them very much. I like the turkey and gravy. I eat it once a week. I do miss my own mashed potatoes though. I make great ones.

I lost 2 pounds this week. It was my best JC week so far. I don't know why I'm losing so slowly. I had TONS of blood work done today so we'll see.

I drink 8 eight ounce glasses of water a day. I just try to think of it as flushing the nasty fat away.

Let's both have another great week.

2 lbs is right on track :cp: Good for you!!!

I am following the Jenny planned menus -- I want as little 'thinking' involved as possible. In a 7 day stretch, you get three decadent desserts (ie. Jenny desserts), three fruit/yogurt desserts and one popcorn/peanut butter/veggie dessert (I chose celery and peanut butter and never got to the popcorn). I look forward to the decadent desserts but the fruit/yogurt/cinnamon combo is really good and has a lot more volume than a Jenny dessert.

I am surprised their are so few on Jenny Craig but at least we are here :carrot:

I should look at those planned menus. I think I thought I wouldn't eat everything on there since I'm a fussy eater. I heard that people who follow them lose faster. I'll have to consider that. Maybe having a dessert every night is a problem?

I think lots of people on on the Jenny Craig site but I didn't want to have to deal with so many people. Plus, I've always found the people on 3FC to be nicer.

Celery and peanut butter sounds great to me.

I would imagine Jenny desserts are a small enough portion that it would not be a bad thing to have one each evening, especially if that is important to you. Do you eat a Jenny breakfast, lunch and/or dinner? Right now I am in that 'I don't want to think about food all the time' mode so their menu plans totally work for me.

For dinner I had the chicken fettucine and added a TON of broccoli to it. I even had some broccoli on the side -- I feel very full after that and a chocolate chip snack bar and milk. YUM!

I made an effort today to drink more water too :D

Hey Stacy! I eat JC with the exception of three meals a week. I got permission from my JC Counselor to have shredded wheat one day and old-fashioned cooked oatmeal another day for breakfast. I used to eat them on WW Core program loved them and missed them a lot. Because they are so healthy, she lets me have them as long as I measure the portion. All my lunches and desserts are JC, and 6 of the dinners. My husband and I go out to eat once a week for our date night. It was very important to us and I wasn't going to give it up, nor was I going to eat just veggies and salad. They agreed and I order a very healthy local meal. I guess considering that one dinner out, I'm lucky to be losing at the rate I am.

I love the chicken fettuccine. I did a happy dance when I first had it because the flavor is so great. I also like the lunch chili a ton also. It's a good thing I like the food so much since I'll likely have to be on plan for 2 years to get to my goal.

Oh well.....what else do I have to do?

I'm glad you were full and satisfied. It's what will keep us going.

Super busy day today, glad it's winding down. I managed to stay on track even though I had a parent meeting to attend -- I ate before I went and brought some fruit/yogurt/cinnamon to snack on while everyone else grazed at the buffet. I had the chicken pasta parmesan with lots and lots of broccoli. I should have eaten more veggies but I only had a handful or two of baby carrots -- I did not have time for a salad and don't have any veggies cut and ready to go.

I want to mention that on the Jenny Craig site there is a coupon for a day of free food...and for the life of me I can't find it now although I did print it out. Poke around and see if you can find it -- I think it expires early next week. I will look for it too and let you know if I can find it again.

Wow, Stacy. I never saw a coupon like that but I will look for it. They did give me a free day before I signed up so I could try the food. I was pretty impressed. They let me pick 3 meals and a dessert, whatever I wanted. I'll see if I can find it for you. I just filled out a questionnaire after week 6 and got a coupon for a free entree. Pretty good since all the entrees are $5 to $7.

I think you did amazing staying on program yesterday. My DH and I have talked about how much determination and planning it would take if a person was working or had kids. I haven't decided how much I like the pasta parmesan or not. I just bought it to try again. I think I liked it better than some of the other Italian entrees. I'm not a big oregano fan and that doesn't have too much for me. I'm looking forward to trying the new chicken parm entree.

Here's one for a free entree.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/Util...WEB2266VHPUNPA

Hey everyone, i am also on JC and im glad to see some other are as well, i hear a lot of talk about WW and i was considering that because im only 20 and being a college student and going on vacations with my friends and all that good stuff, its hard to always eat jenny meals with a place to cook and store them. However, ive been on jenny for 3 weeks and 2 days, i like the structure, the food isnt too bad and my counselor helps a lot. The only thing i find is that there are only a few things for each meal that i like, and i'm getting sick of eating the same stuff all the time...

Welcome xpink! This is only my second week so I am still working through the Jenny menu. I am not a big meat eater but I am going to give most things at least one try -- so far most of the things are surprisingly good.

I realized the coupon for a free day of food was part of a welcome email -- sorry I can't share it.

Did better today on veggies and water -- 2 big salads and lots of water. Feeling thinner but also more hungry than I was last week. C'est la vie - I am still sticking to the planned menu.

Welcome Pink! Congratulations to you for working on your weight while you are still young. I wish I had done it then and kept it off. I, like Stacy, am slowly working my way through tasting everything on the menu, even some of the things I wasn't sure I would like. I get bored easily too. That's why I've gotten some no or low calories sauces and things to help change the taste of the food a bit. I bought a hot garlic chili sauce to add to my szechuan pork and some salsa and taco bell hot sauce to add to the cheesy enchiladas. I like garlic and spicy, and find many of the ethnic foods to be too bland for me. I understand that they have to be that way for the masses. It's surprising how much they change the taste of the food.

Good luck and feel free to hang out here with us whenever you want. Stacy and I are both pretty new to JC too.