Finally, after 2 slow weeks I seem to finally make a small break thru and hope to hit 21 by Monday morning!!!!

Week 1: 7.0 lbs;
2: 0.8
3: 4.2
4: 1.3
5: 1.8
6: 2.7
7: 2.8 with 2 days left

Good morning! Been off for few days. Feeling like bag of doggie doo doo for the past week. Finally starting to get some energy back today!

Went for my weigh in on Wednesday and am proud to say that I have now offficially lost 41 lbs!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!

Sooo happy that I am now 213! Hard to believe it because I haven't seen numbers on the scale like that in YEARS!!

Have been chronicling my progress in pictures and will post once I figure out how!

Now, off to read pages and pages of back posts!
Have a great weekend everyone!

sWooooohoooooo Ms. Mystical Mamma! :da ncer::wooh oo:

Lots of posts to go back and read........here I go.

Joshb, s: dancer::en core::chee r2::con grat::cheer s: :goo dscale:yay :orry I missed your post, I've been MIA. But this is cause for celebration!

Woohoo on losing 41 lbs Kris!! That's fantastic!!

I hadn't seen you around in a while and I was starting to worry that you'd left the boards or something. Lots of us that started in January seem to be missing lately?

Sorry you haven't been feeling well - I hope you're on the mend

Hi everyone...
I have been reading the posts on here for a few days now. I joined IP last Tuesday. I am on day five today and I feel good. I did have a lot of head aches the first few days but not so much yesterday. I am so hopeful that this will be my last diet!

i weighed myself this morning and since monday i have lost 5.4 lbs! 178.6 to 173.4. I am very excited my week one is almost done and this ALMOST feels way too dang easy. the premades make it so much easier to do. i hate all the food and the drinks, but the premades are delicious. so, i stick to those and one bar a day (split up into two snacks)... and am alll good.

i love reading this site, not only does it make the time go by so i'm not eating... but it definitely inspires me so much more

Novak- I loved your detailed plan while on vacation as I am going in a month. That is inspiring and gives me determination that I can do it too. I am going to a resort that is all-inclusive. Hope that works okay.

Sophie32- congrats! It just gets easier.

MysticalMamma- That's a great loss. I hope to follow you.

Jen- I know what you mean about Mom's cooking. yesterday my mom wanted to know if I wanted a "special" muffin she had baked. I just told her lunch was coming soon and I was going to wait. Not worth trying to explain what I can eat and why.

We are going out for Easter with family. That should be good for me as I can actually get what I want instead of providing it or hoping something will be there.

Honey, The small body/big butt look is soooooo IN! You will be proud to sport that look, very soon. I got on the scale this morning and was down 1.5 from where I was yesterday (my scales are of course a bit different then the drs, so I use his, but I loved mine so much this morning...) I too am in a 16W, some 16 reg, and I have some 14s, but not many. I am going on a cruise May 2, and I really want to NEED to buy some new smaller clothes!!! I don't want to shop until the last week in April though.

Hope you're having a great weekend. I'm so happy you got to buy L in tops! I know how great that must have felt. Keep up the good work. My build is very curvy as well. I am heavy proportionately. I lose pretty much the same way. I dont' care how it comes off, I just want it all off!

It's not this daughter that is a vegetarian. I have 2 daughters, it's the other one, and she has not yet decided to join IP.

So proud of you! Last week I knew I had to cut up a huge cake from Publix for one of our guys who was retiring, and I brought in a bar (1st time I've brought in a bar to work) so that I would have something sweet to counter that cake, and even after serving more than 75 peices of cake, I walked away and had my caramel nut IP bar! It can be done.

Yes! I have been cranky too! I also don't have a brain anymore. I can't remember squat!

stacerp and HopefulTricia - I'm cranky too. I feel like my mood swings go farther up and farther down on this diet. Don't know why. Trying to get happy and stay that way! Some days I am really happy but I am always sort of annoyed and have a short fuse. It's not my normal personality. I too am forgetting things. Some days I am really cranky.

But guess what? I just fixed the garbage disposal! That makes me happy. Last time the handy man came to do it, I asked him for that special little tool that he used and he gave it to me! Most of the time they just look down it and take out any large debris (or spoons as was once the case for mine!) and then they tighten and untighten the bottom part. I did it! I was sure I'd have to call them again. I am a highly-functional single woman who can fix toilets and garbage disposals! Woot!

Ah... well, when she sees how great you two are doing, she will!

Stacerp....LOL forgetful....that sounds like age to me!!!!
I'm right there with you, but it happened before I found the diet...