I can't stand the smell of butter, but I'm glad it's working for you, Georgia. Certainly the texture is more palatable than straight oil!

Funky, going grain-free is challenging at first, but once you get through the admittedly rough beginning, your hunger levels really go way down. At least mine do.

I lost about 90 pounds calorie counting a few years ago, but it was slooooow. Giving up grains makes my weight loss quicker, but it's hard to stick to long-term. Even finding something to eat when you're out and unprepared is a challenge. Everything's gluten free these days, but that just means a different kind of grain, so it doesn't really help.

Anyway. Work today was crazy stressful because my full-time employee called in sick for the second Monday in a row, and it's our busiest day. All I wanted to do after work was stress eat, but instead I ran around in the back yard with the dog and then took her for a long ride. We picked up a salad at the end of it and I'm indulging in a Diet Coke. A handful of cashews for dessert and I'm done for the day.

'ello all, new to the thread. I'm a new reloser, managed to get down so close to goal and lost motivation and tried maintenance. BOING up with the weight again. So I decided I had to do something before it all came back on! So I'm here again, trying to use the 3fc support system to get motivated and STAY ON TRACK!

I've been back on the band wagon for three weeks, its been easy until yesterday. I had one of those days where I just want to eat crap, lots of crap. And I'm still feeling it, I haven't been completely denying myself but man do I have a hankering for some chocolate decadence. So I'm here, trying to get through it.

Welcome jitterfish! Glad to have you join us. I have become a food snob (due to my food allergies/intolerances) so that I can have my chocolate. That means I have to buy some very good chocolate that is more expensive, I get it in the higher cocoa percentage varieties so that there's less sugar and more chocolate flavor. I like some good French dark chocolate with a 70% cocoa content. I seem to only need a square of it, and I put it on my tongue and let it melt right there. Yum! Sometimes, to get my chocolate fix, I nibble on a few roasted cocoa nibs. No sugar in them at all. I get the cocoa fix, and the finish is roasty. Took a bit of getting used to, but it works for me!

Okay, so today, my scale says 309. If I get below this, there will be celebratory dancing!

My sleep has not been so good lately. I wish my sons would go to bed sooner and leave me alone! I go to bed, then one of them comes in my room to tell me everything they forgot to tell me earlier. And the other one seems to not understand that he goes through the house LIKE AN ELEPHANT! Bang doors shut, turning on all the lights and leaving them on. Clueless child! He wakes the dog up, and she in turn whines until she settles down again. But they are 16 and 21. Not sure how to force them to bed earlier.

Coffee...must. have. COFFEE!!

Welcome jitterfish! This is a great place to be if you're trying to get back on the wagon.

Georgia, I have trouble with sleeping and I don't even have kids, so I feel your pain. Fingers crossed for 308 soon!

I screwed up my courage and got back on the scale this morning: 214. Not as big a regain as I expected, so that's something. Daily weighing is helpful for me, so I decided to stop putting it off and just get it over with. Now I know and hopefully it will help me stick with this no grains thing. It's been hard the past couple days thanks to work stress, but I'm hanging on by my fingernails.

.7 lbs away from 30 pound loss!!! might just tick on the since I'm so close I can taste it

Sleep, the one thing we never seem to get enough of. I have a 2 and 4yr old, they go to sleep easily which is a blessing, but come the weekend they seem to know Mum and Dad don't have to get out of bed so they wake up at 6am!

Raworz so close, do you have a plan to celebrate? My 10kg re-loss (22lb) reward is going to be a facial, have some pampering

Welcome Jitterfish Thanks LoseToAll for your welcome way-back-when.
I'm just now getting back to the forum after joining in mid-July. I was having a really hard time making myself get back on the scale in order to set my true-updated-starting weight. Finally got on the scale on Tuesday after purchasing a 4 dollar app for point tracking like WWs. I can't begin to tell you how much money I've donated to WW over the years, so I don't want to kid myself anymore that membership=weightloss. I say "donated" bc I was paying the monthly fees without doing the work. Sigh. My sister just turned me on to another app today that's even better bc you can just scan the barcode on things and it inputs all of the nutritional info. Pretty nifty. Just the act of keeping track of what I eat is helpful. I've lost a little weight already and I actually exercised today. This is a good thing cuz I've been spending way too much quality time with my couch lately.

Keep up the good work Thistoo of staying away from those grains. I've been trying to stay away from wheat and cut way back on my sugar. It's tough. Several years ago I cut both of those out and it made such a huge difference in my energy level. It also made a huge difference in the way "hunger" felt to me. I stopped feeling it in my stomach and started feeling it in my energy levels.

Geoblewis. Would a fish oil pill work for your oil intake? Butter sounds better than oil but still.... I am interested in hearing how it works.

Church is tomorrow and I have a new dress that fits but I had to return a 16 and get a 20. It was cut funny across the chest and I am amply endowed. But at least it fits last week I wore too tight a dress. The consequences of my regain. Made chocolate zucchini bread and have eaten it all week. Used splenda but it also takes a cup of brown sugar and a cup of oil. Very tasty but an over indulgence.

One more week of swim lessons then my kids will be in school. I am starting a rigorous exercise program next Monday. Nervous about the kids going back... School stress and homework stress but it will be nice to have my own time again.

Planning a major hike in Sept and I need to get in some shape. Plus I have a cruise in Oct and I would like the airplane seats to be comfortable so I have to get going. I just can not get my head together. My mind thinks about food all the time. I do not know what to do with that.

Have a great on plan day.

Lose, from the SLD forum I've read that the fish oil gel caps don't seem to work. You can't really get enough oil from the little caps.

I did get down to 308 earlier in the week, but my sleep cycle was messed up again, plus I switched up my weight training so my weight bounced up to 310 this morning. I'm okay with that. It'll go down again soon!

Hi all! From July 2011 to march 2012, I went from 232 to 187... Then hit a six month plateau in which, seemingly no matter what I ate or did for exercise, I could not lose or gain (floated between 187-190). I failed the test and stopped caring, not to mention moved to a place which brought me into a pretty deep depression... And ended up at 229 here in July 2013. After finding out just how far it had gone, I got back on plan with WW this Monday and am at 220.5 as of Friday. Hopefully the initial loss will be pretty big so I can have a nice "starting point." I'm more motivated than ever and pray I can keep it off this time. I've also started several exercise routines to keep my body and my mind guessing, and have been having a lot of fun! My fingers are crossed, y'all!

Welcome back chel, great to make that re-start even though its so hard. But getting past the kicking yourself for ruining all your hard work stage and moving on to lets get this weight gone so helps when you have that first great loss, well done!

As for me, I'm four weeks in to the restart, 15lb lighter and starting to notice the change. Clothes are starting to fit better again. On the downside we have an event coming up at work is Sep and I had them order me an XL, today I'm wearing an L and size 14 so I'm wondering come Sep how an XL will look on me -LOL-

Did well with calories yesterday. Exercise program starts on Monday when kids start school again. Up two lbs. just need to put things into perspective.

Jitterfish. Thanks for the great cookie quote on your post. I have been taking commands from food for a long time. This quote really hit me. Thanks for sharing.

LoseToAll I can't take credit for that quote, a 3FC member said it once and like you, I found it really resonated with me. I let food rule my life, I obsessed about it so much (waking up excited when I knew I was going to eat lots of junky food because I was going to some event etc.). Now I obsess in a different way, but I'm hoping to find the happy balance.

Hi everyone , I went from 246 in `07 t0 180 in 2008 and got to 179 in 2009
Then began gaining, i got to 226 in 2010 i had a baby, then in 2011 i got to 195 thenn i creeped back to a new high, 250 at the start of this month. I was really quite sad, im down to 241 now and hope to get down a hundred pounds. I'm taking baby steps but I feel exhausted when I think of the work I have just thrown away.

Welcome to our little enclave, cheeriloos. There's no judgment here! We all know about the disappointment of having gone so far in our weight loss journey and to have lost ground. Onward and upward!

I've been sick for the last two days, with a bad stomach flu. Such terrible knots in my stomach! Finally feeling a bit more energy today, plus am able to get something into my stomach. I'm down 3 lbs. Hope I can hang on to that loss!