Looking good Betterlife! Thanks for posting those. I think I just may post a before and "right"now". Guess I better go digging for photos!

Thanks Alberta!!

Yes please post pics....want to see how your doing!! I think we all should to show our success thus far....and then we would also know the face behind the name!!

Looking forward to weighing in tomorrow!! Cannot wait!! I just want to bypass that 177 pounds...LOL...then onto my next mini goal of 169, I know I was hoping to be in the 160's by Halloween but I don't think I am going to hit that goal...oh well as long as the scales are going on a downwards spiral that is okay with me!!

Okay off to battle the scanner and see if I can get those pics on the computer.

Have a great day...be back later!!
BL

Well I weighed in yesterday and I was down so thats good!! I am hoping to be down again tomorrow!!

I just can't seem to get past the stress eating.......not sure what to do about it!

OK SO I got th scanner figured out, very easy actually, I could upload the pics right to my memory card...HOW SWEET IS THAT...LOL Now I have to get the pics here...too big right now.

WANNABE.....Way to go on the loss!!

I know exactly how you feel about the stress eating, I have been there many a times, back around the first part of September(I think that is when it was) I was really struggling...I think it was at that time that ALBERTA joined the group and she and I really hit it off and just by coming here, talking about it and refocusing myself, I did managed to pull out of the funk I was in.

Maybe you need to come here more and reach out to us, not everyone is here at one time but someone has got to be around to give you some words of encouragment. You can do this my dear, you are worth it, we all are!! Do you have help at home/friends etc? If you want I can give you my email and you can fire me off an email at anytime...even if it just says..TODAY SUCKS...getting that off your chest just might be enough to push you on!! I always have my cell on me, even at work, I check it on breaks and I have access to email so I could respond at some point.

My heart goes out to you, I know what it is like to be a stress eater, I got at my highest all time weight from stress eating about 4 years ago. I weighed 227lbs, which just happens to be pretty much where you started, and on a frame of 4'11...it was very hard on me.

YOU CAN DO THIS.....I know you can!! Just refocus and think back as to why you wanted this in the first place, I have to ask this but...do you think your ready? I have tried and failed at so many diets/WOL/WOE...you name it I failed it...it wasn't until I seen the pictures from the concert I went to in June, the one that has my before pic in it, that I realized what I had become AGAIN, and then I hit an all time low with myself AGAIN. And I knew I was ready....and here I am, it took me a couple of weeks to get going because I researched both Herbal One and Herbal Magic...and chose the HO way for personal reasons.

I don't think if I were ready that I would be down what I am now....look deep inside yourself and refocus.

OMG... I'm not so computer smart... how do I do it? LOL. I went to the little picture thing and it tells me to enter the URL of my attachment. My photos don't have a URL....HEEELLLLLPPPPP!

K I will help you

okay go to ADVANCED SETTINGS when you hit the reply to post...then in the on the left side it says ATTACH FILES..click that button, then you will have to browse for the pic on your computer, the thing is that the pic has to be a certain size...I have to resize mine 3 times to get the one I have posted here now.

This was my start pic at Herbal One, the pic beside it was taken last Saturday. I DON'T LIKE HOW SMALL THEY LOOK...you cannot see the difference that well.

Okay I think I got it! LOL

So the first picture was taken in December, probably a little under what my heaviest was. The second one was taken TODAY!

WOW you look fantastic!!!!

I added the side view now as well...almost a pro at this picture thing...LOL

Thanks betterlife!! I feel fantastic!!

You're looking smashing as well!! It's amazing that once you actually see before and after pictures how much of a difference you notice. Once my husband gets home I'm gonna make him do a photo shoot so I can have some better pictures as well!! Can't wait!!

Where is everybody else's photos???!!!

Thanks....I have been doing pics all along, but trust me those are ones you DON'T wanna see....LOL

It is a real eye opener once you see the difference...I suggest that everyone do this and you will see and feel so much better about your success.

Everyone looks great! Keep up the great work guys.

I'll have to see if I can find any pics. Unfortunately I'm always the one taking the pics LOL. I wish I had taken some pics before I started. I'll see what I can dig up

Good Luck today Betterlife!! I hope you reach your mini goal!

I need some breakfast ideas. What do all of you eat? I am only allowed 2 proteins so I try not to eat them for breakfast

I hear ya on the no proteins for breakfast. I'm pretty boring. I either eat
cereal with milk and fruit or 2 3oz yogurts and a fruit. Sometimes I have cottage cheese ( used as a dairy) with some tomato cut up in it with a fruit also. Have you tried that diet bread? You can have 2 slices for 1 starch. Toast?
Breakfast is hard for me. I usually eat a light breakfast at like 830a and have a snack at 1030a which usually is enough to carry me over till lunchtime.