Sounds like we need to remove the "struggling" out of your name. That is just the best thing. Congrats.

Wow that is awesome! I'm looking forward to when I can fit a size 10 again...*sigh*...wishful thinking

Amazing! It is just melting off of you! Congratulations!

Congrats Nicole.

I didn't go to weigh in today, i felt like i needed another day. I had to go to a concert in Lakeland this weekend, so had no provisions.

But I did watch what i ate, but still by the end of the day I had 1400 cals. So needless to say my scale at home went up. That was Sunday. Today it's still reading the same.

One bad day of 1400 cals make you gain 3 lbs on the scale? In one day?

Holy cow Batman!!!

Congrats, Nicole!

I"m bummed. It was my own fault--chocolate and cookies at my training last week, then chocolate over the weekend while taking care of mom--but I'm up a pound, and it sucks!

My consultant was pretty cool about it. She said at least I know what caused it, it's not like this was a surprise. She said, too, "it is what it is," and rather than being super-hard on myself, I should at least be proud of the self-control I exhibited even when I went off-plan. 6 months ago, I would have eaten 8+ cookies at my training (or as many as I could without others noticing), but I stopped at 2 cookies on Friday, and went right back OP with my next meal.

So, I'm just going to have to be extra-careful this week, so I can get the 2 lbs off and sign the 50 lb board!

It does make me really nervous though...that going off plan just a tiny bit can cause me to gain right away. Makes me nervous that this will be hard to maintain when I'm done actively losing. But, if Debi can do it, I can, too! I guess I just need to trust the program--it's brought me this far, after all.

No...3500 calories is one pound of fat and you won't see it the first day. Most likely, the carbs and sodium in the food made you retain water. CarboHYDRATES are mostly water, which is why you lose so much the first week or so on program. Just drink lots of water and get right back on plan. The worst days like that can do is make it hard to get back to the program. At least you learned that you need to be prepared and take charge of your own health!

I went to WI yesterday and I was down a 1/2 lb but the really surprising thing was my inches. In total I am down 13.5 lbs and 27 inches!!! That's 2 inches for every pound! WOOHOO!

Wow! That's cool. I'd never noticed the "Hydra" in there before.

Yesterday, I had my first weigh-in after starting the program. The lady that "helped" me really got on my nerves. I loved the first lady I saw when I first signed up, and I'm wondering if it's just different personalities, or if they're really nice at first and then become really manipulative after you've paid them your money.

First off, I wasn't expecting to buy HNSs when I went in yesterday. I thought I would be getting them on Wednesday. My husband is paying for this out of his money, so I called him to make sure he was okay with an early purchase. When I got off the phone, she snidely remarked, "you talk to your husband before spending money? My husband is on a need to know basis."

Then she proceeds to ask me why I "did that" to myself... referring to a couple of purple streaks I have in my hair. It was like she was trying really hard to make me feel bad about myself.

So, then we go into the room to get the HNS, fiber, etc. She picks a bottle of minerals up off the shelf and tells me I need them. I told her I already have some at home. She insists I don't have the same thing at home and puts the bottle in my basket. I take the bottle out of the basket, put it back on the shelf and tell her I'm not buying the minerals, I really do have them at home. She shrugs and tells me I'll be sorry.

Then, when we go to the room with the scale. She shows me the slip, but takes it away really quickly and puts it in her book, and then tells me I've lost 1/2 a pound and she's "not impressed". Here's the thing though... I'm pretty sure she lied about how much I lost. I'm pretty sure that when they first weighed me, their scale said I weighed 196.6 and that the slip she showed me said 195.5 (a loss of over a pound, but she took it away so fast I'm not sure).

The morning I started the program I weighed myself (after bathroom, before breakfast, naked) and weighed 193.6. Yesterday morning when I weighed myself on my scale the same way, I weighed 192.2... which again is more than a pound lost.

Is this kind of behavior common practice?

On a brighter note, based on my scale, I weighed 190 exactly this morning... so a 3 1/2 pound loss in 4 days... amazing! I've never had weight loss like that. :-)

It is absolutely NOT common practice! In fact, to be honest, I would ask to speak with the site manager about it (or call corporate, if it turns out she is the site manager). Her behavior and comments were completely unacceptable and rude.

One of the best tactics I recently learned for standing up for myself: when a person is making rude comments like that, just flat-out say "Wow, I really feel that what you're saying is rude/offensive/hurts my feelings." Adult bullies are so used to adults just letting things go that they are usually shocked when confronted--especially with "I" statements that aren't accusatory. And, sometimes, people think they're being funny or have developed enough rapport with you to joke around like that, and they don't even realized that they are crossing a line.

And also, as Debi has pointed out, people just aren't used to overweight people sticking up for themselves, so they just continue with these types of behavior patterns.

Regardless of the reasons, her behavior was unacceptable, and I would definitely speak to someone about it.

So sorry your experience sucked--it is a great program, and most of the consultants/centers are awesome!

Mandiana,

teacherlady is so right. I have just NEVER had such an experience at MRC. Your counselor is positively immature and rude and is not there to help you, but rather to frustrate you. You sure don't need that. I am so sorry that happened to you. UNACCEPTABLE!

I'm so glad to know this isn't common, because I'm really liking the plan. She is the site manager, so I will take your advice, give her the benefit of the doubt and use your statement if I feel that way again with her.

Actually, I just might use that in lots of areas, lol. I really like that.

Thank you

So I had my weigh in today before work, and I lost 2 lbs!

Mandiana-I feel your pain about that one consultant. Where I go, there is one that I can't stand, she is just always so negative, and unfortunately I had to be with her today. So after I weighed, I asked her if she could measure me because I was just curious since my clothes are fitting really loose. She didn't want to and told me that I should just wait until 30 days are up because I probably haven't lost a ton of inches just yet. So I told her that I just wanted to see, and then it turned out that I lost 32 inches! 32 inches in 3 weeks of being OP! I was shocked, but in a good way, but then she was shocked in a negative way. She asked me if I was wearing different clothes the first time I got measured, and I told her I was wearing the exact same outfit, and then she asked me if I was wearing a different bra because I lost almost 8 inches from my bust, and I told her I was wearing the same bra as well.

She measured me 4 times because she didn't believe the results that I had, and each time she measured, she just kept saying "this can't be right, this isn't right, someone must have measured you wrong the first time..." It was really irritating...

BUT, I still LOVE MRC, and I'm not going to let one person bring down my whole experience, because everyone else is fantastic!

32 inches! That is fantastic! What a great feeling! Congratulations!

That's awesome! Congratulations on your success Mila's Mom

you know, this is just another perfect example of how much we truly know about ourselves (instinct maybe). I mean, we have all been to the doctor where you don't get a sense that they listen, or think you could possibly have a clue about what is going on with your own body. Good for you and your insistence that she measure you cause now you get to keep running on that success and that can make the difference between making a slip up or NOT. CONGRATS CONGRATS!