HAPPY HUMP DAY GIRLS! Eating this week has been great so far. Just following my meal plan... but it is "time of the month" so the tummy is feeling little bloated, ewey that's the worst! Especially when you are sitting at work and just feel like ur tummy, that area right below the belly button is sticking out.

This weekend I am going to visit my boyfriend. I am very excited, but hopefully I won't eat and drink TOO much... He love to cook, but although he thinks what he cooks is healthy it's really not. I try telling him, but he is more interested in taste.

Good Morning ladies!

Well eating yesterday went very well I more than made up for my bad day on Monday. Although I did not get my run in I managed about an hours worth of tennis late yesterday evening. Today the challenge will be eating. When we are broke I make spaghetti for my hubby and I, we make homemade sauce but it is still pretty cheap and keeps us in food for a while. It is not the healthiest recipe in the world (although I have tweaked it to be better than it was) so I will have to be very mindful of my portions.

Need to get a decent workout in today. I am feeling like a slacker.

spill - wish I could get up early, tried today it just was not happening.

michelle - 2 lbs from your goal? That is amazing I am so happy for you.

wasted thermos - Get that workout in and eat well to celebrate those 2.5 lbs hun, great job. I am glad you are finally seeing some progress.

cookie - TTOM is around the corner for me too so I can relate. Great job following your meal plan even though you are on it though. My eating tends to get weird around TTOM.

Yo fellow fat chickies! It's been a nice weekend. DH turned the big two-six and we invited a few friends over to BBQ. Now, OK. I admit, I made some poor choices. BUT I did make an effort, LOL. I ate a big salad with lots of crunchy veggies. Hamburger was open-faced, tomato, lettuce, ketchup, no cheese, no mayo. But then we brought out the praline ice cream cake and it was all downhill from there. I had a slice, LOL. I'M NOT SORRY! Drank 2 Coke C2s, (but did NOT indulge in the beer) and planty of water. Didn't go to the gym that day. Still plateaued at 167, but I'm buckled down today. Hoping to take DS on a bike ride before bed this evening. That would be fun. This heat is insane, so let's hope that Beryl churns up some cool breezes. Shoot, I'd take a C1 hurricane if it meant some rain.

Beans- good luck at the doctor. Hope he's wowed by your progress.

Stephie- I agree with Lizzie, your job must be really cool. Once upon a time before my birth control failed I was going to be a photographer, LOL.

Lizzie- Take those printers outside and show them who's boss. Damn it feels good to be a gangster.

LadyJames- I don't know what M's is. But I'm glad you found a nice dress there. Post a pic.

Jenna- pitch a tent on my plateau with me. The view sucks, but we'll begin our descent soon. Right after I finish my bagel.....

ABakerchick- I only get up at 5:15 if someone neds to go to the emergency room. Good for you, that's A+ for effort. It's hotter than Hades here too, so I feel your pain.

DaisyBoo- good for you for joining a gym. Everyone's doing all these great things this weekend and all I did was gorge myself on ice cream cake. (with pralines. Did I mention the pralines? I'm bad. Very, very bad.)

Michelle- Happy birthday! I apologize for not saving you any cake.

Jen- I've heard that. There might be something to it- I feel my best when I wake up around 6. If I wake up any later I am dragging ***. (Am I allowed to say ***?)

Hi guys!
Well, I weighed in this morning at 139.8. I was soo nervous getting on the scale b/c I thought my low weigh in yesterday might have just been a fluke but I guess not!! I didn't even eat that well yesterday...I definitely need to be happy about almost being at goal, but not go crazy eating. I want to stay at this weight!!
Steph, I must say that I am always so amazed by how you continue working out and eating right and, most improtantly, maintaining a really positive attitude while you are financially strapped. Also, I definitely think things like spaghetti, etc. can be very good for you -- it's all about portion control! I lost a ton of weight just eating smaller portions of normal-type food (you know, pastas, red meat, etc) when I was living at home. I just wanted to say a big GO YOU!

Happy hump day everyone! Cookie, I am so jealous!! The only thing my boyfriend will cook is bbq, and that's only when he has friends coming over to drink!

Miss Michelle!!! Congrats on the big loss!!! You should be very proud of yourself, it takes lots of will power, sweat and tears to lose fifty pounds! You go girl!!!

Steph and Miss M, I'm doing that right now. I haven't been able to afford the better health foods, so I'm eating whatever I can afford, but am watching my portions and drinking lots of water. I am also restricting myself, to no eating after 7pm. So far, so good.

Happy Hump Day...go hump somethin!

Ok just got back from the store loaded up on some fruits so I am feeling a lot better about what is available to eat right now Still working (unfortunately) but I am drowning my sorrows in this icy bottle of aquafina...god it is so hot here!

Candice - you should look into it still. Freelancing is a very profitable part of the market. You can make more money as a freelancer than you can on a newspaper staff that is for sure. And with being your own boss and picking which jobs you take it would be easy to do with kids. Sounds like you did some serious damage control at the bbq, I'm so proud!

michelle - Yeah I am trying to be able to eat "normal" foods and just be able to control myself. Being broke isn't too bad I mean fruit is pretty cheap. It is actually pretty funny when you are broke milk, eggs, cheese, bread and fruit are the things you can pick up because they are inexpensive. I cannot even imagine what a high you must be on right now being so close to your goal.

spill - Water is free, there is always free ground to run on and fruits and veggies are super cheap. Us cheap chicks can stay in shape too it just takes some creativity.

Candice- I must say your post is the funniest thing I've read all day! thank you!!!

I'm feeling so unbelievably fat today. I think I'm getting ready for a doozey of a TOM- ugh and more ugh! Have you seen those pictures where the lady has a bagel around her hips like a hoola-hoop? Yeah- that's me.

wow its been so long since i have been on 3fc that i thought i lost you guys.. it took me like 30 min to find out where you guys were.. i should come back more often


okay heres the dish on whats goin on i was in size 12 maybe bigger i dunno the exact size of clothes i was in before starting to loss weight... anyways a few weeks ago i bought 2 pair of jeans and there are size 7!!!! woot woot woot and there not even stretchy kinds i am soooo happy.. my new years resolution was to get into a size 5 and be 125 thats only about 10 pounds and one size down in pants... anyways better cut this off noiw before i ramble on to it be like 10 pages... out... hows everyone else

Hey Ladies,
Well my running frustrations continue. Got some running, some power walking, stretching, strength training and some stairs in. When things are going wrong I just have to be doing something ya know? Some women clean I workout. Weight is still holding steady.

Today I have to take some photos of a theme park for a story on Monday. Should be interesting trying to avoid all the bad for me food. I would say should be easy since I am broke but it is on the papers dime so its tempting.

Where the heck is everyone? It just keeps getting quieter and quieter in here...

a bakerchick - that is hilarious I can just see the bagel hula hoop now rofl. Sorry it seems ttom is going to be rough for you, we all have our "fat" days where we just feel down.

sugarbutt - welcome back, congrats on the smaller jeans. 10 lbs is totally doable!

How did I get this fat... oh yeah, I ate too much :sigh:

Good morning gals! I love being able to check this thread and have our conversation just keep going and going. I am also on the Jenny Board, but they don't have the ability to keep up a group. So glad to have you girls (to discuss the good, bad, and ugly)

So... I think my biggest problem is that I am constantly struggling over the same 20 pounds. And honestly, no one can really tell when I'm up a little or down a little. It's not like I can reward myself and buy all new clothing cuz when I lose weight I don't actually lose a size, I just look a little better in the clothing I have. It is rather frustrating and certainly unrewarding. I just tell myself that the most important thing is that i feel good about myself.

As I said this weekend i am visiting the bf. I am praying that I eat healthy. Friday night we are doing Japanese, I don't eat seaweed/raw fish/ etc. so I am going to do the teriyaki chicken. And then Saturday he is making meat, but I'm sure it's going to be a big portion. I will have to try my best...

Hope no one minds me joining! So I've tried a lot of threads but I'm hoping this 20 something is the one for me. I'm so proud of how all of you girls have been doing. But I have a little problem which maybe someone can give me some advice. The dieting has been going great these past 2 weeks. I lost 9 pounds in 2 weeks at weight watchers, which is Awesome. Now I'm not expecting those big numbers all the time but I want to continue losing. Well tomorrow I go away camping with a big group of friends and I'm terrified I'm going to go back into the habit of eating tons of pasta salad and burgers. And even worse than that I don't want to go nuts with the beer. But the problem is that's all there is going to be there and it's so hard for me not to be tempted. Any advice?

Unfinished Business-

As I said I am also going away for the weekend. Although it won't be as complicated as camping, I am going to my boyfriend's, you are going to have to just stay strong. My approach was to give my boyfriend a food shopping list. For you, I would just pack your own snacks. Maybe some rice cakes or carrots or dried fruit. Healthy stuff that are "campable."

unfinished business - just bring your own food, water, fruit, bars etc....stuff to keep you full so you wont over do it with the camp food.

unfinished business -- whenever i am around lots of food i like but i know is bad for me, i chew gum. that way i can't just put stuff in my mouth. also, i agree with the other girls in bringing your own snacks. finally, i would pick something ahead of time you will let yourself have -- like a cup of pasta salad at dinner -- and then you aren't totally forbidding yourself from having anything there.