Reesa23, Thanks! The only tip I really have is to find what works for you and that will make it easier to stick with. Find an eating and exercise plan that you enjoy and that you can live with long term, even if you design your own plan.

Bringing this up.

Everyone is doing great! I hope to report a loss again on Monday, but I haven't peeked so I don't know. At least, I'm being "good!"

I lost 3 more this week. That is a total of 40 now. WOOOO HOOOO!

yay howie! even with your so-called "screwup"!! guess it wasn't as bad as you thought, huh?

awesome!

The results were not bad but I really did stuff myself and that was bad. The key as everyone knows is to get right back on track and that is what I did. Just like you all were saying one meal is not going to destroy you just if you let it turn into a week, month or year of eating. Thanks everyone for all the support.

I know I will have gained this week. I wasn't able to weigh in this morning, but I will tomorrow.

Work has been extremely stressfull and I haven't had time to really eat properly or exercise much. I'll let you know what the damage is...

lost .2 lbs.. not bad for being on vacation

sometimes bad news is better avoided than faced. I just looked at the scale but didn't have the chutzpah to actually step on it.

there is always next week.

Matt, LOL. Don't worry, you won't have undone all of your good work with a few bad days. I know what you mean though, I have this fear of regaining all of my lost weight with 1 or 2 bad days. It can't happen though, so don't worry.

Isn't it funny how we feel that way. I felt lousy Sunday after pigging out and I still lost 3 pounds this week. Sunday night I would have thought I gained all 40 back. LOL

I lost 2lbs this week

This is the first time I've put my cw and goal in for the best part of a year. I found the numbers too daunting for along time so I just concentrated on losing what I could each week without looking at the big picture. Now all of a sudden I have less then 10 pounds to go! I'll post some before n afters when I find them.

Great Job Howie 40 pounds ! wow!

I've been following a 'diet' for a few weeks now since getting off my carb-protein diet that I was on for June, I lost 20 pounds in 3 weeks on that diet and it was great, but now it's taking what seems like ages to take off more weight and I'm getting to that bummed state like Holly was talking about up there a few posts back. The one guy that is my inspiration for even starting to try lose weight hasn't called or emailed me in a week and I know he's had time. When I don't get to talk to him or he doesn't email me back, it depresses me but I still keep working out and dieting and stuff, but it's like, when I have ANY communication with him, it reminds me of what I set out to do when I started trying to lose weight and I get this energy from I don't know where and I get really really hyper and wanting to work out. The longer it takes to hear from him, I can tell it's like the energy is sucked right out of me, causing me to get on the 'diet' that my parents and brother are on which is basically eating whatever's in the kitchen. My weight has gone back up to 240 this week alone. *sad* My mom doesn't know that I get like this. She does know that I like the guy and all that, but as far as his influence on my weight loss, she has no idea. I began the diet and exercise itself because my mother, my mother's dad, and my grandmother on my dad's side all 3 have/had diabetes. My mom found out 4 years ago while I was at college that she has Type II diabetes and high blood pressure. Her father died when she was 12 years old because he was diabetic. My grandmother is 74 and has been diabetic for almost 15 years now. But now it's turned into so many reasons I don't even know where to start. The only way I can even tell that I've lost weight is because of the way my clothes fit and how about once a month, I have to keep going and buying the next size down. Other than that, I still feel and see in the mirror the same person I was when I was 304 pounds:-(

I lost 2lb this week.

I was really good on my diet last week so seeing those pounds shifting is a great motivator!

Here's to another week of successful dieting.....

Amanda xx

For some reason the local radio stations I listen to when I workout were playing really good workout songs tonight I usually do a 30 minute stationary bike ride and a 20 minute free-weight workout. Tonight I was able to ride the bike for AN HOUR (!), complete a 15 minute ab workout, plus the 20 minute freeweight workout. I feel really good now actually. Still miss my man though. I wish we lived closer. I think that's what my deal is. I'm going Saturday to talk to a local cosmetology school admissions director and should everything work out and I commit to going, it'll be the next 10 months of my life and I know I will barely even have time to talk to him anymore. But oh well, maybe we'll meet up on my birthday again this year or something. I said in my earlier post that my weight had gone back up to 240. Today I went and got another filter for our water pitcher, so I'm able to stop drinking caffeine free diet Coke (yipes to sodium--I think that's what caused the weight gain because my food intake never changed or was less). I checked my weight a few minutes ago and it's back down to 235 and hopefully the rest of the sodium weight will come off quick too and I can get back in the routine.