tadaponce, I know what you mean by water weight. I have seen 171.8 twice and each time I think I'm doing well and will possibly move down to the next decade, here comes the water. I hope we all move to the next decade before February Hope you have a great weekend also

Hey everyone!

I'm hanging out at 177 -- a few ounces above, a few ounces below. I'm doing well food-wise, but need to work on getting some exercise. (I hate winter)

My husband was folding clothes the other day and my jeans were mixed in with his--he thought they were our daughter's--he's not used to my pants being that size! (daughter's are smaller than mine, though)

Beth, that's a great NSV, I would have been grinning from ear to ear

Of course! To be honest, I felt like Dukan was VERY strict with their limits on what I could eat (and how I could eat), so basically when I started I did the all protein phase to boost your weight loss, I would do it 4 day intervals. I actually did this quite a few times maybe 4x while I was on Dukan. For the next phase, I ate clean (veggies and protein) but I allowed myself to have sauces like siriracha and blue agave honey on cottage cheese. For me personally, having those little condiments (even though they're calorie packed) really really helped me curb cravings for things like brownies/cake/anything sugar loaded. So I managed to stay on the diet for a while longer, I felt like it was better than going cold turkey. I also ran a mile a day for about 2 months. So you can see it's no really Dukan (I did eat oat bran daily though actually sometimes it was 2x day). There was a point where I was losing continuously that I almost became obsessed with eating healthy, then came October =(

I'm having a rough start this time again, I always hate restarting though. I feel the need to hide snacks, and I also find myself saying "well with how i eat (on dukan) this brownie still keeps me under my calorie limit, so its ok" and then it begins this awful cycle. Did you follow the diet well when you were on it? I feel like I should try it the real way but going cold turkey seems SO hard now!! I feel like I got to a comfort zone, got cocky, now it's coming back to haunt me.

Anyway, sorry for the novel!! I get carried away sometimes in posts! Would love to hear how you did on Dukan!!

hhm I am a chatter box so talk/chat away . I followed it to the letter in the beginning which was really hard because I don't like a lot of things. Then when I started to tweak it (like you) ... adding a thing or two to help me through it the thread I was on had one post-er that thought it was her job to critique every thing I did like she had all of the answers … so when I left the thread I kind of gave it up and didn't look back. I always do really well when I restart, it's sticking with it once I lose like 10-12lbs that I've had a hard time doing. So I know what you mean about getting cocky, I've done that more times than I care to count. We started going to the gym on 10/13 and I weighed 190.8 today I weigh 172.2 so down 18.6 but I chalk that up to not eating any breads, rice, potatoes, sweets and pasta at all. Are you hiding the snacks so that you don't eat them or hiding them because you want them out of sight? I think I am almost out of the snacking stage this time. The only thing that I want is potato chips but they aren't allowed because I am not allowing myself to have snacks. Now I did have some Cosmos creation cinnamon crunch that my son-in-law gave me. They are a snack but they don't leave you wanting more (craving). Non-GMO corn, gluten free, with all natural ingredients that we can pronounce (read that on the bag)

Another visit from the whoosh fairy (which [TMI] corresponds to the bathroom).

I was 175.0 this morning--and it is very exciting for me to start seeing the scale head downwards again after being hovering around 178-183 since mid August!

Beth great job and not TMI, it is what it is

TOM showed up a little early. 177.6 today and *wicked* cramps.

gymrat sorry about the cramps hope you don't have them long

Thanks love2b. I usually get them pretty badly for the first few days thanks to my PCOS. Happy to see the water weight come down though. I was like *why* am I so bloated?

Oh I don't like like when post-ers do that! It's always discouraging, and in the end you have to do what works for you! But that's great that you followed so diligently, even at the start I was tweeking it! I am a little discouraged though, right now I feel as almost my body is used to eating the "dukan" way, but who knows! I have a wedding to go to in April and I have a lot of relatives in the motherland who say hurtful things about my weight, I'm using that as motivation to get me through this, but still something is clearly lacking this time

Oh and I always hide snacks so my family doesn't see that I'm eating them. I know it's awful!! I really need to change those habits!

hhm, I find that with family the ones that always have a comment about my weight don't look the best themselves. The bulk of my friends are over-weight also, when I go on my weight loss journeys they have been my biggest cheerleaders, next to my virtual friends here on 3FC. No one can beat the people I've befriended on here. You all are the greatest. I have five children so I think I have reason to be flabby (though I could have gotten it together before it got this bad) but I never had an issue with my weight until some life changing, eye opening things happened in my life. Now I want better for me and so far 2013 has been the first year that I had been about 85% dedicated. I am hoping to make 2014 the year to Get it right. Get the weight off. Get off the medication for diabetes and feel good in my own body overall. I know I can do it, I just HAVE to STAY focused. No one can do it but me. I need to tell myself this and believe it. I use to tell the family to watch me if I went into the kitchen and into the pantry now I don't need them to, I am watching myself. I know if I eat in secret it will be a all out binge and I will give up. For me all it takes is one time and then it will happen the next day and so on. So I applaud you, though not good, if you can eat a snack in secret and not fall off the wagon give yourself a pat on the back. That is a plus in my book Your body may be use to it, maybe shake things up a little and add something every 3 or 4 days and see what happens. Maybe just add that secret snack and count it in and see how you fair. I know I did calorie cycling for a bit and it definitely worked. It was hard however to eat all of the calories on the high days but I got as close as I could. You'll figure it out

177.2 today. This bloating crisis seems to have ended…for this month.

gymrat glad the bloating is over Nice weigh in I had to get something to relieve mine along with the gas and constipation. So I should be fine for a while

It took some searching but I finally found the 170s thread.

I'm 179 today and will probably still float up to 180 a time or two this week but I am determined to be done with the 180s. Over the holidays I lost some focus and white-knuckled my way back but it doesn't feel so difficult now. Progress should pick back up now!