Institches - Absolutely! Here's that link: http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=99187

That's what I read. It'll take a few minutes, but it's well worth it. If you want to follow what the above thread says your points would look like this:

30/+0
35/+5
34/+4
45/+15
30/+0
34/+4
32/+2

We're not regularly supposed to be going below our base target points. So there shouldn't be days that you frequently go below 30.

Just a tip, I had to make sure the Super High Day was on my Saturday (far away from my WI and on the weekend so I could have some fun!). My WI is on a Thursday, I always begin a fresh new week with fresh new FP on a Friday. So this is what my week looks like:

Friday: 35 (+4)
Saturday: 46 (+15)
Sunday: 31 (+0)
Monday: 35 (+4)
Tuesday: 33 (+2)
Wednesday: 31 (+0)
Thursday: 36 (+5)

It's the same pattern, just shifted to fit my weekly schedule. Hope that helps!

Thanks Faerie, hey if I can do half as well as you did this week, I'd be very pleased

Wow everyone is so chatty!!
InStitches -- good luck. I'm sorry, I have no advice to give, so far, I've been very UNcareful about how I split up my points...if my loss stalls, I'll probably revisit that, though.
Faerie -- your roommate reminds me of my boyfriend/roommate! haha. not funny. but my boyfriend's not just a lazy...well, I don't want to start name calling your roommate, but she does sound lazy. That is crazy!! God I feel sick with guilt every time I've every called out. Well, good luck, if you need a roommate, lemme know, I'm happy to just take off from Boston and land wherever the wind blows (of course, I'm unemployed and in terrible debt, so I doubt I make the best roomie right about now).
Suite -- argh, i forgot to go read about your NSV. Ok, just read it! yay belt!! fabulous!
I know I'm forgetting folks but I'm getting very sleepy...
I do just want to say real quick that I just babysat all morning, took the kiddies to the mall to play in the indoor playspace, and I do not know how people manage to be mommies and still lose weight! I ate fries and a few bits of hot dog, a few bites of pretzel...gah! I just tracked my points and I basically ate all of today's, without have actually ordered any food for myself!!
Gymn later. Nap now.
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Thanks lizzy, hope the rest of your day is better! Yeah, I wonder if we could bottle up kids activity points, Hey wouldn't that be so cool

Lizzy - Aww Thanks for the support. If you wanna know something funny, I'll be moving about 45 minutes from Boston after I get married.

Wow, this thread moves FAST!

Dawn--- I know EXACTLY how you're feeling. I haven't yet had a gain week at WW. Not because there haven't been weeks when I stalled or gained, but because I skipped my meeting on those weeks. I always felt like I wasn't strong enough to endure a gain week. I feared that it would knock me on my butt and I'd be too disappointed to get back up and keep going. WELL, I haven't gone for my official WI yet, but I'm fairly certain that I'm going to see my first gain this week. I am still afraid, but at the same time, I'm trying very hard to be logical about it: I know I've been on plan, I know I've been exercising, I know there's no possible way I've put on an extra 3-4lbs of FAT this week! Instead, I'm trying to focus on what I've done right. I've exercised (and hard!), and I've done a great job of drinking plenty of water for the last couple of days. I figure that my "gain" this week is probably due to being dehydrated earlier in the week and due to my muscles trying to repair themselves due to all the exercise. Like Faerie (and others) said, the body is a mysterious thing sometimes... I don't know that I'll ever understand why I weigh 3lbs heavier now than I did a week ago. But, I do know that I've been doing a great job sticking to the Flex Plan! And I also know that if I continue to do that, the weight has no choice but to come off! That's a pretty long-winded way of saying that I hope you'll keep your chin up (though it may be quivering and stinging with tears for a few minutes) and keep right on trucking. You're doing a great job! Let's not let that scale stand between us and the great feelings of accomplishment that we both deserve!

Faerie--- Sorry to hear about your "dead-beet" roommate! Luckily, I've never had a roommate like this (at least since I lived in the dorms in college), but I have had friends who behave this way. My boyfriend's sister, for instance... She always talks about how she wants people to treat her like an adult (she's 22, but she acts 10), but she absolutely refuses to be responsible for her own actions. She was recently kicked out of school and only works part-time. Her parents still pay her phone bill and other miscellaneous bills... it's so sad. I just want to shout at her "if you'd act like an adult, maybe folks would treat you like one!" But, she's got problems of her own that she's trying to work through, I suppose. I try to understand and be patient with her....I guess that is all you can do. Unfortunately, if you're the one living with someone like this, the situation is probably much more sticky (you have to come up with rent money, after all!). I wish you the very best of luck, though... Wish I had better advice!

Faerie - where will you be moving 45 minutes from boston? just curious i'm from the area.

Hope - Probably Acton/Boxboro area, if all goes according to plan.

Thanks, Aero I hope that some day your bf's sister grows up to realize that being an adult means acting like one. And it is I who am causing this chatty mess!!! My lips are flapping in the breeze, I'm talking so much!

Ooh, faerie, i used to manage one of a small chain of restaurants, one of which is in acton, called O'Naturals.
I don't feel like they are particularly WW friendly, but they have very good choices with salads and soups, just gotta be careful with the sandwiches. Anyway, all hormone free meats and stuff, which I like! And delish! I've been promising myself a trip out to acton some Friday when I have the points to spare. Not this week, though!!
That's so funny! Just as I'm planning on moving out of the area!
Hope -- where are you from? I'm living in Watertown...
Aero -- i'm on a no scale kick, myself, so i'm just sayin, forget the dang scale! though i know it's hard on WW, they're so scaley...

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Lizzy - O'Naturals, eh? I'll have to look it up the next time I'm up in Mass visiting the fiance! Do you have a particular area that you're looking to move to?

Hi everyone! Hope you guys are all doing great! It sounds like you are being dedicated from these most recent posts! Suite, I hope your friend stops trying to sabotage you (that's what it seems like she's doing to me!). A friend or at least a decent co-worker should be supportive of you and not trying to bring you down just because she might be ashamed of her own habits and would feel bad eating whole milk lattes in front of you or something. Good luck! Faerie, I hope everything works out with your room mate and that she doesn't lose her job. That wouldn't just be hard on her, it would certainly be hard on you as well. Good luck to you too! Everyone else, thanks for continuing to write such uplifting and supportive posts. It means so much just to read them all, even when none of it is directed at me since I haven't been around in a while!

I got back from the cruise today and after all that money and effort spent trying to find the PERFECT bathing suit it wasn't hot enough to wear it! We were in shorts and t-shirts but only the more daring (or drunk) people were in the pool. We did have pretty good weather for the whole thing though, didn't get rained on. Now, about the food... it was INCREDIBLE and I ate WAY too much so I will be back on plan tomorrow for sure. I feel like such a slug. I pretty much ate whatever I wanted for the last week but I hope it hasn't done too much to my weight. I would expect, roughly thinking about what I ate, that I maybe put on about four pounds, but I know that with my own dedication and all the helpful support I can get here on this wonderful board that I'll be taking it back off ASAP! Back on plan tomorrow!

Faerie - haha 45 minutes in the other direction from where i am

Lizzy - seekonk... small town near attleboro, rehobeth, mansfield, that area.. dunno if you know. right outside providence, RI i guess.. on the border. 45 mins/hour from watertown.

Well look at all this New England love!!

Faerie -- I am torn...feeling really down about job prospects and my horrible brokeness. Most likely, I'll move home to Jersey for a while, then settle wherever I get a good job, somewhere on the East Coast, though, mostly likely NY, Boston, DC or Philly. I'm pretty tired of setting down new roots in new cities where I don't know anyone, and I'm pretty comfy with all those cities. SanFran, too, but my mom (in Jersey) gets Jewish guilt-trippy on me when I talk about moving that far away.

Faerie and Suite -- i thought of you both this morning, as I steamed up some spinach as a side dish to my breakfast. Faerie, just trying to get some veggies in!! And Suite, because of that post you wrote so long ago about the chick at the grocery store asking about your morning spinach purchase, and I had this funny image of you munching spinach leaves while drinking coffee, but here I am, munching spinach alongside my coffee!! It's not raw spinach, so it doesn't really have the comedic value of you, in your car, just taking bites out of a newly bought bunch of spinach, but still...

Freedom -- welcome back!! that is such a bummer about the weather on the cruise! where were you? anyway, sounds like you had a good time anyway, and we're here to support you getting rid of cruise weight! gosh, just looking at your ticker -- you must have felt GREAT getting into shorts after shedding all that weight!

tarah -- seekonk, i've heard of that. what a fun name for a town. makes me want to get out to the beach...where oh where is the warm weather??

Institches and Aero -- have a wonderful Saturday!!

I have got to get off of this site for the rest of the day. I am such a total addict, but I NEED to get work done for a presentation next week. I know I could leave it all for last minute but I'm doing it with a partner, and I like him, and I don't want him to think I'm slacking off completely. Plus, it's all neurology stuff (hello, heather? where are you) which is pretty dang complicated!
I think I'll go write on the planning board about what I'll do the rest of the day, foodwise. Wish me luck; I'm meeting my partner at a cafe with the most delish sandwiches...and I don't think I'll have time for a workout...I'll pack my gym gear just in case, though.
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Dawn - Not sure if you still need to hear this but who knows if it's really a gain? Could be a million different things. You're doing everything you need to be doing so just keep on with it, and the scale will catch up soon. You just can't know what's happening inside your body at any given time, but I'm sure 2lbs overnight is NOT fat.

Shrink - I don't think I'm ready for the "side of spinach with breakfast" thing. I still remember the look on that woman's face when she asked me if it was a secret to weight loss or something. Though I did have spinach at breakfast today--it was in eggs, though, so I don't think it was too strange! I'm in awe of your commitment to good health, eating spinach with breakfast Good luck with the rest of your day.

free - Welcome back! I hope you had tons of fun, even though it was too cold for swimming. That's a bummer. But you have some more time for WL before your next bathing suit event arises, it'll be even better! I'm sure your travel weight will come off easily, it usually does. Even if you see a gain don't let it derail you and you'll be fine!



So I'm -2.2 this week, I'm so happy with that loss! I'm so close to Onederland I can taste it I'm also just a measly 0.2 away from the 15lb mark (another star! wheee!). I have about 5lbs to my 10%, and 10lbs to my "no longer obese" status... Yay for progress!

I came home and tried on a bunch of pants that have been sitting in my drawer for ages. I feel like I have a new wardrobe - I have earned back rights to wearing two really gorgeous pairs of pants that have been too small for ages! One of them still has the tags on, actually They're just really, really nice pairs of slacks that I can wear to work. Hurray again!

I also just finished a really yummy breakfast and am about to go off and get a haircut. Then it will be back to studying for the rest of the day. I'm hoping the good vibes from all this stuff this morning will make me into a productive studier today, I sure need it

Hope everyone has a great weekend!!