Christina, I just know that I have been where you are a million times. Never worry about whining with me. I do it myself. Yesterday, I had a very blue day but I pushed through it somehow. I really do want to succeed this time very badly. I'm scared for my health. My BMI is positively frightening. I was feeling very sorry for myself yesterday and didn't want to exercise. It took me until 5:00 in the evening to get on the treadmill but I finally made it.

I walk on my treadmill 4 or 5 days a week. I'm just starting out and am just under 300 pounds so I'm taking it easy. I usually start out too ambitious, injure myself to the point where I can no longer exercise. I started out quite slow and short but now I am walking at 2.0 mph for 28 minutes. My plan is to get to 30 minutes and then increase the speed slowly. Then I'll try to stay on longer. My treadmill is in the middle of my living room in front of a 36 inch TV with cable and a VCR/DVD. No excuses for this chick! Well, none that don't sound lame anyway!

I'm SO happy to hear that you haven't given up. You are so close to your goal. I need to know that it is possible to reach goal and maintain. So do it and I'll live vicariously through you for now. How about that?

I forgot to mention that last Monday's weigh in got me under 300. That was a great feeling. Still.....a LONG way to go. But, milestones are still fun.

Hello! I found this site literally years ago but believe this is my first post. 13 weeks after my first and only baby was born, I broke my ankle which required surgery and months of staying completely off the ankle -- I not only retained my baby weight but gained too. I am a married working mother -- very little, if any, 'me' time after work and family obligations. A couple of years ago I tried WW -- it worked for awhile but I lost motivation and gained back the weight. The last several months I have been thinking about hypnosis, acupuncture, therapy...and then I read an article about how weight loss businesses are struggling and Jenny Craig was mentioned as being a program that offers one-on-one coaching. Ding! I went last night and signed up for their Premium Success Program

I like to cook and will miss being creative in the kitchen but I feel I need to do something drastically different and Jenny makes eating healthy very easy. For now I am thrilled I no longer have to spend energy making meal plans for the week only to be sidelined by "I feel like Thai take-out tonight." I left with two big bags of food, stopped by the grocery store for a few more items -- I love that they give you the shopping list! -- and now I can concentrate on taking care of myself without worrying about 'what should I eat?' I feel a tremendous sense of freedom!!!

Of course this is Day One so the motivation is strong....the trick will be keeping the momentum going. I hope to connect with people on this board that will help me on the journey to a healthier place.

Stacy, Congratulations on beginning Jenny. I think, based on your description of your life, Jenny will work for you. I've got 148.8 pounds left to lose so I'll be here with you. My intention is to stick with JC until I lose it all. I always did Weight Watchers but never really took it seriously. I'm enjoying the one on one counseling.

Cute tracker! As they say...a picture is worth a thousand words.

Welcome Stacy! I, too, have done WW. It is a great program, but I had the same experience. Lack of motavation leading to weight gain. I think their principles are great, though. If you are looking for a lot of structure and easy of use, Jenny is the place for you. You sound like you are starting off with a great outlook.

Hi Vickie! It sounds like you are doing great. Slow and steady does win the race. So keep on doing what you are doing.

I weighed in last Sunday and gained a pound. This week I still continue to struggle, but feel like I'm doing a little bit better. I'm not excercising as much, but trying to get my mindless snacking under control. I'm not sure that it will show a loss on the scale this week, but hopefully it will contain the gaining.

Hope you are all doing well.
Christina

Feeling better is great, Christina. How come you aren't exercising? Just curious I hate it and have to force myself.

Thanks for the welcome Vickie and Christina. It's great to communicate with others going through the same struggle. Today is day four for me on Jenny and I feel things are going great! The food is tasty (although I did not much like the chicken carbonara) and I feel like there is plenty to eat. As a matter of fact, I can't always get to the snacks. I know I am in the honeymoon phase and the real work lies ahead -- starting a lifestyle change is easy for me, making it stick is the challenging part! I have not started any exercise program as of yet but I will work that in soon. The part I love about Jenny the most is that everything is planned for you -- it makes it so easy!!! Tonight I roasted a bunch of veggies for the week. Taking care of myself is finally becoming a priority. w00t w00t!

I saw Debbie H. speak today at a Jenny Craig Center in Seattle (she is a featured success story -- I can't post a link because I am so new). She was very inspiring and stressed how important it is focus, plan and believe in yourself. During her 17 months of weight loss she did not stray once from her food plan -- what determination! She is going to be featured in a commercial for Jenny to begin airing in April.

Good for all of us for wanting to make positive changes to our lives!

Hi Stacy! I'm so happy that you feel things are going great. I'll try not to nag but you do need to make sure that you eat all your food.

I didn't like the chicken carbonara very much the first time. I bought it again and liked it better the second time. I think you'll find that your tastes change the longer you are on program. I don't eat it every week, but it's definitely in my rotation. I tried just about everything once and gave them all a rating of 1 to 5. Some got "X's" through them because they didn't even deserve a 1 to me. If you are reading on the JC board, try not to be overly influenced by other peoples opinions of the food. Even the things I didn't care for, I was still able to finish. I had two exceptions....anytime bars and the soupitizers.

My favorites are the chicken fettuccine, meatloaf, turkey and dressing, and fish and chips baked in the oven. My lunch favorites are the turkey burger, chili con carne, and the personal pizza. I like the chicken sandwich too but it needs dressing up.

I can't believe you saw Debbie H.! She is my hero. I saw her poster in the Center the first day that I was thinking about signing up. I just learned what her name was yesterday and I just got to read her success story. I'll post the link. She lost 221 pounds. I'm so excited that she is going to have a commercial.

As a good friend of mine says, "Life is Good".

Here's Debbie H.'s success story and before and after pictures.

http://www.jennycraig.com/successsto...etails/200623/

I do know I need to eat my food and a gentle nudge to do so is not a problem. Debbie H. said that she tried dropping her calorie intake down to 1500 and actually gained weight so had to bring it back up to 1700. Whoduthunk you would have to eat to loose weight?!!

I have glanced at the Jenny boards and the overwhelming thumbs down for the Anytime Bars is obvious. I don't find them unedible but I do eat them with a cup of tea which probably helps. I have really liked most all of the food in spite of leaning towards being a vegetarian -- the portions have so little meat its been fine. I agree the meatloaf was great, I liked the macaroni and the loved the mesquite chicken. Tonight I am going to try the fish and chips which I was told to cook in the oven.

We have a family birthday party tonight where everyone is meeting up at Claim Jumper for dinner. I am going to stay home and meet up with the group at an inlaws house for the present/cake part of the party. I am certain some family members will take it as a snub but I can't worry about them -- yes, I have been down this road before but (hopefully) this time will be different. My inlaws eat horrible food (pizza, chips, pop, chocolate) but somehow manage to maintain normal body weight. Prior to meeting my husband I successfully struggled to maintain my weight, after marriage and prekid, it was a difficult struggle to keep my weight 20 lbs. above what I felt was comfortable and then after the kid and broken ankle I just gave up and ate, ate, ate. One of my most difficult struggles is going to be coming up with creative ways to eat healthy when in the presence of my inlaws which is a frequent occurrence. I don't necessarily think they are saboteurs as much as I don't believe they have any idea what it is like to struggle with a weight issue -- they are just clueless. And even though my father-in-law has diabetes, his attitude is "I eat what I want and take insulin. No big deal." Of course he frequently crashes and his overall health is abysmal.

But back to me, I need to focus on what I need when these events come up and by not attending dinner tonight I am taking a huge step. The good news is my husband is perfectly ok with it -- whatever I feel I need to do is ok with him.

I promise to keep my nudges mostly to myself, Stacy! And when I can't help myself you can count on the fact that they will be gentle. Nothing worse than a know it all.

I did my fish and chips on a cookie sheet sprayed with pam spray for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. I flipped everything half way through. The fries were awesome and so was the fish. The fries got a bit crispy but the fish did not. It tasted good anyway, despite the fact that I am just learning to eat fish. I do the yogurt in place of the anytime bars.

I'm proud of you for putting yourself first in stead of caring what your inlaws think. Clearly your husband is very supportive and honestly, that makes all the difference in the world as far as I'm concerned. Awesome hubby!

I have an awesome supportive hubby too. He's doing Nutrisystem. I tried but could NOT eat that powdered food. He's already lost 21 pounds to my 11.2. Those darn men lose faster. Plus, he's on the treadmill for an hour every day. I'm only up to 40 minutes 5 or 6 times a week. I'm not competing with him. I'm proud, though!

Good luck tonight.

That is great you have a supportive hubby that is actually working his own program. My husband is willing to be supportive to a point but he does not want to go to any Jenny weigh-ins, etc. I am hoping I can purchase extra dinner entrees so we can at least have a similar dinner -- and he has agreed to bring a sandwich, sun chips and an apple for lunch at work.

Tonight went well. I did not get grilled about why I was not at dinner which made me happy. While they ate cheesecake, I had my chocolate walnut brownie and milk that I brought -- easy since I prefer chocolate over cheesecake any day of the week!

I have my second Jenny appointment tomorrow evening and I know I lost a few pounds -- I won't feel any sense of accomplishment until I get below 175 since I have lost these 20 lbs. over and over and over the last several years. Nonetheless looking forward to getting more food *lol* and having my first real appointment with a coach -- last week's meeting was essentially a sales pitch which was really not necessary since my mind was made up to join.

Cheers to a great week everyone!

Congratulations, Stacy and good luck at weigh in. Mine is today. Interestingly enough, my JC Center said Jim could join for $99 and they would not force him to weigh in every week nor would they make him come in for counseling. Essentially, they said he could just come in and get his food. I was surprised.

I'm not a big cheesecake girl but I love chocolate like you do. I LOVE the triple chocolate cheesecake. It tastes more like chocolate mousse than cheesecake. It has a chocolate cookie kind of crust and hard swirled chocolate on top. I order two a week. The cherry one is good too but reminds me more of cheesecake. I love the lemon cake too. Very moist and lemony.

I understand how you feel about the losses. I feel I'll need to lose 25 pounds before I'll feel a great sense of accomplishment. I lost 45 recently on WW and gained it all back. Sigh.

Come on JC members! Jump in with us.

I lost 6lbs! w00t! w00t! The large drop is due in part to mother nature -- last week when I started Jenny Craig I was at the beginning of my cycle which means lots of water retention. Nonetheless I am happy because I felt like I got to eat a lot of food, I was never hungry and yet I lost weight

Tonight I had the turkey dinner and it was pretty good -- all the Jenny food is surprisingly tasty -- with a salad. For 'dessert' I had a sliced banana, a few sliced strawberries, a clementine orange all mixed with some strawberry yogurt and a couple dashes of cinnamon. I feel STUFFED but in a good, healthy way.

The thing I need to work on is making sure I drink lots of water -- I have been drinking it but sometimes the day gets away and I don't consume as much as I would like.

How was your appointment Vickie?

Stacey, GREAT first week! 6 pounds is awesome and you should be very proud of yourself. Your dessert sounds good. Do you not eat the JC desserts? I'm enjoying them very much. I like the turkey and gravy. I eat it once a week. I do miss my own mashed potatoes though. I make great ones.

I lost 2 pounds this week. It was my best JC week so far. I don't know why I'm losing so slowly. I had TONS of blood work done today so we'll see.

I drink 8 eight ounce glasses of water a day. I just try to think of it as flushing the nasty fat away.

Let's both have another great week.