Wowzer! Well, great job on the weight loss and keeping to your diet. Do you get to eat regular food or is it mostly shakes and soups? How would you keep doing this for life once you lose your weight? Just wondering. Wow... I'm so amazed and I have so much weight to lose. It's discouraging BUT at least I'm going down instead of up.

Down is ALWAYS better than UP! I got to the point where I didn't have to do a thing to go UP...didn't even have to eat very much. On the UCLA RFO Diet, it's mostly soups and shakes, although they also offer something very much like candy bars, but they "cost" 140-160 calories, so when I can stand it, I stick to the shakes and soups. They also have cereals, which I haven't tried, and oatmeal, either plain or with apples, and mornings when a shake doesn't cut it, I go for those. The whole idea is to keep it approximately 800 calories. I can also have some veggies, in moderation, i.e., celery, broccoli (steamed), lettuce--you have no idea how great lettuce tastes after nothing but shakes and soups for a while. If I really want to get wild, I can slice up a small tomato and add to the lettuce. For dressing, I've discovered Balsamic Vinegar with Splenda!!! I know--some people are retching even as they read this, but I've got a sweet tooth and I'm not above sprinkling Splenda directly on the lettuce if I need a "sugar" hit. All in all, whatever works is what I go for, as long as the pounds keep coming off. The problem is that I'm just a tiny bit hungry most of the time, but I've gotten so used to it that I rarely think about it until I realize that I'm ravenous and it's been more than two hours since my last bite. You eat or drink something every two hours but sometimes I forget if I'm involved in something or especially if I'm at work.

Hi Sandi,
Can you tell me as a new poster and registered user what I need to do now? Do I just read posts and post as I want to? This is all new to me. Thanks for any help.

New to the 100 plus listings, so I'll jump right in and hope I'm putting stuff in the right place!

August 8th, starting weight 246 (goal is to lose 106 pounds)
As of Saturday, November 11th, 207 pounds....down 39 pounds...YIPPEE!

That is fabulous, B's Wife! Congratulations. How are you doing it? (And how do you get those ticker thingies?)

Hello

I am new here so hope I am doing this correct.

Please count me in as I need all the help I can get.

Thanks
Memaw7533

Hey. Is anyone actually counting to see how many pounds we loss as a whole group?? Guess I need to read back in the thread. I have lost 36 pounds to date. And have about 120 more to go.

So glad you are staying with it! I have so fallen off the wagon hope in January I am back and at it. No excuses.

Why wait till January??

Megan
current weight 236
i would luv to lose at least 75# this year!