Taurie I can't keep ice cream around, either. I just can't resist it. And even if I'm eating it within my calorie limits, that means there are other good, healthy foods being pushed out of my diet.

Shrinking Girl Sorry to hear you're sick . Getting someone to come into clean is the BEST thing I ever did. I couldn't afford it when we lived int he US, but it's SO cheap here! My cleaning woman comes once a week, and she's a life saver, especially with as many physical issues as I've had lately.

NightAngel26 A trampoline sounds like so much fun. I can't use one right now because of my back and girl parts, but I hear they are a great work out.

Ms Perception 5 days on! I'm impressed! Sorry the scale isn't moving, though. It'll happen.

Brittany1988 Let us know how Attkins goes!

Summer2010 Good luck excercising!

Not much going on here - just checking in to say hi!

My TOM is usually very erratic, but I'm on the Nuva Ring birth control.... been on and off with it for years. Because if the way it's designed when I take it out...within like 2 days I get my period. So, generally I know when it's coming and it's usually shorter than before because it used to be a 7-9 day run. It's been very good to me.

Hi ladies!

As you may have noticed I've been away studying and Monday we took off to the city to go shopping for a new Cancun wardrobe since I have no summer clothes yet. Found a bathing suit, and a million awesome things, so excited now and it's still three weeks away! But I've had my nose to the grindstone since studying hours a day to try and get stuff finished before vacation.

I'm still OP, MsP! Fighting it some days but the weight's holding too, I'd love a three pounder tomorrow but we'll see. Ran a 6 miler today in 62 minutes so I'm almost back to before the injury and it felt like perfection. It turns out I don't feel like eating so much when I'm running everyday either. It's the days I'm home in the afternoon that I wonder into that pantry too much.

No time for personals though, gotta head off to re-read chapter 14.

And Taurie you're too sweet, thanks

Dancer - I have never tried to run with her, but we live in the country and the roads I run on are gravel and mud and all manner of grossness but I've thought of it. We were thinking of running a family 5k but I was going to make dh push her, lol, he's tough.

I'm coming to confess....
I'll be back to day #1 OP tomorrow since 4 servings of Girl Scout cookies were definitely NOT on my plan for today. I did get in a fantastic swim workout tonight and will be flushing the toxins out for the next day or so, but I had a terrific "AHA! moment" following my idiotic eating, so it may have served a purpose.
Take care ladies!

Morning,

Oh no MsP! You have 10 boxes of those things too! I hope you're not up too much today, dang things. I'm still alright, I won't say great b/c my brain is somewhat preoccupied with eating these days, it takes a couple days for it to stop cravings stuff after I eat garbage. Weight loss is not for wimps!

I have another run planned for this afternoon but off to study until then and eat some more. Has anyone else noticed that eating 2000 calories of healthy food takes all day, my goodness.

TG: You're even cuter than your previous avatar! Maybe some day I'll be brave enough to slap my own photo up there and not just my cat. How fun to get a new wardrobe. You're doing awesome on your studying and exercise in preparation for the trip. You've got it together, girl!

MsP: I still think you're Wonder Woman for being able to have those Girl Scout cookies in the house at all. ****, I wake up thinking of them sometimes and I haven't eaten a girl scout cookie in years. I still know just how they taste though, oohhhhh. I had my own off plan meltdown last night...unfortunately no aha moment presented itself; only frustration and disappointment.

Really, since I started my serious weight loss at the beginning of January, I had my first "disaster" last night. It was our final week of season 2 in the 46 week local food csa we organize, so major cause for celebration. I drank wine and prosecco (on plan, boy do I miss my beer), then my husband brought food back from the pickup site he delivers to--they had a potluck there--and we put the dinner we started making away and ate what he brought back. Schnikey, that killed me! I'm so pissed at myself! I had to guess at the calories in everything since I really don't know what amounts of anything they put in there. But you know, tastes of this and that really add up. And I'd already eaten my snacks before the evil other food arrived.

Then, on top of it, my bad knee started hurting again. I'm nervous, but not freaking out yet, and am going to exercise as if I am injured so I don't over-do it.

So this morning I expected a gain or the same (I still only ate around 2000 for the day). Instead, I'm at 191.6, down .6 pounds. And I got the phone call from Aunt Flo. Her flight arrives tonight (but she shipped the back pain to arrive a day early. Thanks, lady.), so I have no expectation for the next week. I'm sure I'll be back to piss and moan often though!

Sigh. I think this is going to be another low loss week for me. I've been bouncing around between 244 and 243 all week long and not really making any downward progress. I've been eating OP every single day. I know it's probably that I'm injured. I'm sitting on my butt all day because it hurts too much to do much else. I think I'm finally going to suck it up and get back into the doctor and get some real pain meds - ibuprofen is just not cutting it. I'm at 243.4 today (up from 243 a few days ago). I'm trying to focus on the fact that I'm down a pound for the week with two days left, but I'm just feeling a little discouraged today. The pain is really affecting my moods and my sleep, and my kids are moody because I'm moody, and then I get moodier because they start driving me crazy.

On the plus side, my housecleaner is here today! I will have a clean, organized home for at least a few hours after she leaves, before the three kid tornadoes rush though!

good morning girls!
It must be something in the air, I had my diet derailment last night too! With the dreaded potato chipsBOOOO!!!! So Iam back to day #1 too. But if i can string some of these long runs together, I think that will work out just fine.
WARNING: GIRL SCOUT COOKIES ARE OF THE DEBIL!!!!
MSP- Can you share your AHA moment wisdom with us? Maybe we can all benefit from your moment of clarity in our moment of Carbs BTW- I think you Rock Too!

Tummy girl- I know you are gonna have such a good time! You will be feeling your "New Hotness"! Maybe someone should call ahead and warn Cancun! The 3 weeks will fly by!

Dancerindenver- hang in there, you are bound to have a whoosh!

Brittany- good luck on Atkins.
Taurie- are you talking about using a netti pot? My husband loves his for his allergies. Also, I got the "GO gurt" from Yoplait, and put them in the freezer. they are so yummy, and refreshing. You can eat them like an Otterpop. That might help you with the cold craving.
Ok girls I HAVE to get my butt moving today, I am still lacking on sleep because of this crazy schedule. I hope to have a routine figured out soon, because this is killing me......... I am one girl that cannot live without my Beauty sleep!!! Hope everyone has a great day!

Uh-oh, it's starting to sound like a system-wide melt-down out there. This stuff is soooo hard - wish it were super easy for all of us. The one good thing that I'm sure those of you who have been doing this for a while are super clear on is that a small slip doesn't have to mean the beginning of a landslide, right? That was always my problem in the past - "absolute perfection" until the first slipup and then I would give up completely. NOT a good strategy of course.

lewis - potato chips are dangerous, aren't they? Salty crunchy things are my biggest weakness so I feel for you.

eclipse - woohoo for a clean house - that's the best! I swear I look thinner when my house is all straight. Weird, I know. There was a good Oprah a few years ago called 'does this clutter make my butt look fat?' - funny idea but kind of true.

louisa - sorry to hear about your knee - that's so hard. What kind of issue are you dealing with? I have knee struggles too - mine seems to be the typical 'runner's knee' but I can't seem to make it go away by doing the quad exercises I read about.

tummy - love the new pic - you are beautiful! and what a slender face! I can see why you opt not to push a stroller through mud and gravel. Nice to have a softer surface to run on though.

msP - sorry to hear about the cookies. Can you bring a bunch in to the office or to a social gathering to remove the temptation a bit? I couldn't have them around without it being an issue everyday so you're clearly way stronger than me

All good here - movers come tomorrow so it's kind of crazy but at least it's good exercise. Still hoping for a mini-whoosh as I've been sticking to plan this week. Fingers crossed!

I bought Girl Scout cookies last week. I was running a work-related errand at Safeway and they were setting up as I was leaving and my willpower left me. A box of Samoas and a box of Thin Mints. My savior was that I was returning to work anyway, so I kept the cookies there, knowing that my coworkers are sugar fiends and by not bringing them home, I wouldn't turn into the Cookie Monster of yore. So I did get my GS cookie fix for the year without doing too much damage.

It is great to know that I’m not the only one who can’t bring the GIRL SCOUT COOKIES to home.I’m not alone (lol).
Hi how are you? I’m here to update my March progress. After 20 days of binge free yesterday I have fallen so I’m on day 1 today. I do not think that I will be able to lose 5.4 or 7.4 pounds by the end of March but anyway I will keep trying.
SW: 187.4
CW: 182.8
GW: 177.4/175
WL: 4.6

Morning, ladies! I'm heading out to deal with the movers but wanted to say a quick hello. Walked five miles with my buddies last night and finally saw movement on the scale this morning. 167! So that's one pound out of the four that I wanted to lose in March so I need to kick it up a couple of notches (sp?) or I'll never get there...

Hope you all are doing well...

Ok, dunno if it's the TOM coming or what but I just did not CARE what I ate yesterday!! When that happens I eat everything... I'm technically a binge eater, and I fight it normally, and I've been winning most days but I just couldn't care yesterday.. I ate leftovers from dinner, cereal, chips, drank whatever, ate 2 helpings of dinner, etc.

Either way, I'm kicking this into overdrive! I'm going to overpower my period and make progress this coming week! I WILL exercise my butt off! I WILL eat my vegetables!! and I WILL NOT binge!

I'm done yoyoing these lbs! I'm done with the 230's they're going to go!!!!

Good luck to all of you who apparently jumped off of it too! Let's pick it up a bit!!!

Uugh! Girl Scout Cookies!

I planned it this year. My Sweetie and I had a discussion; we would buy two boxes of cookies, Samoas for him and thin mints for me. 2 boxes. 2!!!!!

I can home one day to discover he had ordered 5 boxes of cookies! 5!!!!!! Not 2, 5!

It isn't so bad for me. Fortunately I am blessed with the ability to challenge myself to restrain and live up to the challenges.
I.e. if I wasn't thinking I could eat a whole box of thin mints in about 15 minutes, but when I an journaling, I can keep myself to one serving at a time. Which usually means I only eat one serving, cause I get the immediate feed back of what it is doing to my calorie allowance.

My Sweetie on the other hand, not so much. Since we got the cookies, he has eaten 3 boxes, my himself except for one serving of tagalongs I ate.
3 boxes in like 2 weeks!
He does not need those kinds of calories, especially since he has a major deadline tonight and he has been eating fast food recently to "save time".

We live in the country. There are no fast food places around here, you have to drive to them. Grrr!

I try not to nag. He has a mother for that. But sometimes I have to vent.

hello ladies I had my WI this morning and here I am stuck at the 213.5 again I don't know what is wrong with me..... I know I have been extemely tired this week and not drinking enough water could that be my problem? I just don't know I want so badly to lose the weight and I am making some great changes in my life but can't seem to get under this hump... I really need a good kick or something ...Please help any advice?