Sorry I was away for a few days getting the OS 5 set up on my laptop, iPad etc I think I finished now lol

Kel great job with your company meal and losing weight did you get the whole menu from there or just the dessert? I tried the stuffed lasagna peppers or lasagna stuffed this week and they are really great .. I did steam the pepper halfs just for a few minutes before I stuffed them because I like my peppers more done for stuffed peppers than they normally turn out.

Sask WHOO HOOO on making your goal and over Thanksgiving to boot - fantastic.

Vi Kel is right blips in the road aren't failure - if you pick yourself up and continue down the road you are a winner ... We have to remember the goal is important but I think the journey is even more important so we learn how to do it..and how to maintain it when we get to our final goal - and I have decided to make the journey FUN this time... So I am playing with recipes and having fun with it.

Good tip on the tea thanks I keep forgetting about tea - I'm also going to look for some flavored coffee to use in my Keurig - wonder if I can find ground pumpkin spice that I can use ... No idea what it tastes like but it sounds good lol

Oh Kel I so understand the perfection/procrastination thing - I am that way too and where it has effected (affected.) me is diet and house work .... I am trying to let that go and develop every little bit helps attitude. I was overwhelmed by both things and thought if I can't do it perfectly why bother - I'm doing better with food now I need to start tackling the house (made a little more difficult by the fact I have hubby's business spilling over everywhere - so I will do what I can around it alll) if I can get things better and maybe turn one room into an office for his stuff it will get better ... Unfortunately the room is the one everything you didn't know what to do with was shoved into lol so it is a major project! Hubby will be gone to a big shoot for a week at the end of the month and I am hoping to tackle it then - wish me luck everyone ... It will feel like a ton off my back even if it doesn't show up on the scale

Thanks...Thanksgiving helped...plenty of leftover turkey to pick at!

the meal was pot roast (no recipe, I just throw stuff in crock pot - no veggies this time), fauxtatoes (I don't use a recipe anymore for this), acorn squash soup (was inspired by a "higher carb" recipe that I tweaked, but I don't know what all I put in it), and the chocolate torte from genaw (which was wicked good if you're a dark chocolate lover)

I totally understand being without computer. Our desktop crashed, then the laptop crashed. I'm on my teeny netbook. Hope to hve laptop back this weekend - fingers crossed....

Rho: there is a theory about a link between messy house and obesity, I think there was even a book "does my house make me look fat" or something. I have a disaster of a house myself. Bad. I don't have guests except those that are very close and forgiving. We have too many critters and my DH is messy. And due to perfectionism, I gave up. I used to keep a spotless house. Friends called me "martha stewart." Now i have chaos (Can't have anyone over syndrome). This affects me socially too. I don't want new friends or old friends I've just refound coming over. I'm embarassed too much. I've been slowly working on it, but I'm not sure I'm even making progress. I'd rather sit in the recliner, watch TV and ignore it. Even as unhealthy as that is, it's true.

Kel I think we are so alike in a lot of things - I was looking at the book I think you mean is it a Peter Walsh one "Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?: An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More". Unfortunately my library only has it in hardcover - so I have to decide if I want to buy it for my kindle ... I can't hold books anymore so I love my kindle And I can read on my iPod or iPad makes me very happy

I have a pot roast going in the crockpot today - seemed like a cooler day was perfect for it. The house smells o good right now

I don't know what I am doing wrong but I am not losing weight I was down to 196 now I am back to 200 this morning. It feels like my clothes are fitting looser but the scale is driving me literally nuts! I hate feeling like this, I feel I am doing everything right and not getting anywhere I want to be.

amb: be patient, could it be TOM? It happens. It would suck, super suck, to yoyo in and out of onderland.

rho: I think that's the book, I can't say I've read it, but I read the premise one time and had a life aha from it. We've been working at it, and I can feel my mood rising as it improves and as I see how far I can get with it, it feels uplifting. I've deep cleaned in small sections and then just tried to maintain the small sections. I don't plan it too much, or the perfectionism starts and ruins it. I also recommend flylady (online program) - check her out. I started her program once, and see for sure how it could work for some.

No, not TOM I do not get that until the beginning of the month. I am going to start doing the 30 day shred starting today and see if that helps. I am at my wits end here. I need motivation and I need to know why I am not losing weight and what I can do to change that.

I wish you well, I think we all have to find what works for us. Quitting is losing, changing your plan is not quitting.

I don't know 30 day shred, what's it like?

Amb measure yourself and keep track of those or get something a little tight and keep trying it on in place of or in addition to the scale - sometimes our bodies can't seem to lose both weight and inches at the same time and will do one or the other ...... I also am totally weird and I weigh myself every day and I know there are patterns in how I lose - i'll lose then stay then gain then hold then lose and hopefully lose again before it's weigh in day - I know I'm doing good in what I'm eating and I'm drinking enough water so I figure it has to be water weight, intestinal content, barametric pressure or for you you're young enough to still have hormone TOM issues ......

Try looking at what you are eating is there any chance of carb creep...or have you added any product lately to what you re eating (protein bar, glass of wine, sugar free dessert of some kind) if so try a week without them there may be something that is making it happen -

Oh and btw I still get nuts when the scale does its increase every week - I mutter a great deal at it.

Thanks guys, I will try the advice given to me. The 30 day shred is jumping jacks, push ups, weights and other basic strength and cardio training with Jillian Micheals. I can't make it through the whole workout yet, but I am not giving up yet. I have been working harder at drinking more water and cut out a few things that I think might have been hindering my weight loss too.

Keep going everyone! I started back on very strict induction yesterday. Amb, you might not be losing because of all the exercise you are doing, especially if it's a new kind of exercise. Hang in there !

Thanks, I have not really been exercising as much as I should. I just feel hungry all the time for some reason and have still avoided carbs and sugars. I know drinking enough water and stress plus lack of good exercise have got to be the culprits. I am going back to the weight loss dr in december.

If your clothes are feeling looser, who cares about the scales! I know, we love to watch those numbers creep downward...I'm guilty of that too. It is normal for weight to fluctuate slightly...mine does it quite frequently. I could be one weight today, and 3lbs heavier tomorrow morning.

Being hungrier when you have incorporated an exercise regimen is normal...anytime I exercise, I'm ravenous!

Scales are a great tool...but the true measurement of your progress is how you look and feel...how your clothes fit. Myself, for example, I may have achieved my goal, but i notice that appearance-wise I am nowhere near what i was 11 years ago at this weight. Back then I was more toned and muscular due to lifting weights, etc. So, for me to aim to reach the weight I was 11 years ago may have not been good enough. I should have aimed for a certain physique...but how do you measure physique?

My point is, the numbers on the scales may be motivating, but they aren't everything...I'm living that realization right now...11 years ago I almost had a 6-pack at this weight...right now, I'm nowhere near that.

Sask is right. I can weigh 3 pounds heavier in the evening than I did that morning.

Maybe you need to add more fats in your diet? You really shouldn't be hungry on this WOE. I have sugar cravings as it's an addiction for me and sometimes I feel like I NEED sugar LOL! Some days are really a struggle for me. For some reason, I'm feeling differently about doing LC this time. I'm feeling like it is what I need to do for a lifetime. I'm not stressing out over how much I lose in a certain amount of time anymore. I still want to be part of the challenges as I love just coming here and talking with other people going through the same thing, but I'm not going to freak out if I don't make the goal.

wow, what great support you guys offer. It's all true! Inspiring me too!

Today, only off plan by 2 bites (moved at work, found peppermint mini patty, ate it after carrying boxes around). Figure the damage was minimal.All else was righ on track.