How is everyone doing?

I'm struggling on a daily basis.. I am finding certain foods are trigger foods for me and when I eat one I have to eat a ton of them.. like granola bars (cereal bars etc.) I can not eat just one and be satisfied... I have to eat like 4 or 5 of the stupid things, can't control myself after one goes in my mouth, so they have to be off limits I guess. My brain processes them as candy bars I guess, because I'm the same way with chocolate.

The scale has stayed the same.. but it's time to get my rump in gear and get it moving south again! Doing great today, trying to get creative with my food choices so that I someday I get to goal!

This week has gone horribly exercise wise :-( "TOM" is here this week, Lydia (my daughter) is cutting a tooth, and its midterm exams at school and I just have been soooo tired... the only exercise I have done so far is a medium length walk.... Calorie consumption has been right on track but I know this Saturday (weigh in day) I'm not going to see as good of results I have been seeing... I have lost 8.7 lbs so far and I"m hoping to get to 10lbs *crosses fingers*

I hateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee exercising :-( :-(

Another bad, bad, bad week for me. DH and I made the AWESOME decision to get into the halloween candy this week. Not the most brilliant of plans. Apparently I can't control myself around chocolate... I'll be glad when it's gone!

I have weigh in tomorrow, I'm betting I'll be up about 2 or 3 lbs in the last 2 weeks. *sigh* Oh well, just gotta keep on truckin'.

I've been doing really great this week and am totally proud of myself. So proud that I want to keep doing what I've been doing and feel even more proud of myself! I have a feeling today is going to be a little iffy. I got almost no sleep on account of there was a terrible accident in the parking lot of my apartment last night. The Mazda SUV jumped a curb, hit a tree, and flipped onto its roof, all about 30 feet from my front windows. One man was ejected and died on the scene. His body was obviously visible from my window. I was so shook up, that and all the cops, people, cars and trucks kept me up a better part of the night.

I was DOWN .2 today at weigh in! It's not much, but it's way better than the +2 or 3 I was expecting!

Goodness, I may not be on this thread very much longer! Caleb is really wanting to wean and I just might let him. He's 11 months old and already diggin' the milk we're giving him from a cup. Nursing seems to be an irritation to him these days. And, the little stinker bit me today... hard! He bit me once before, but nothing like this, it actually made me screech and cry.

We shall see...

OMG Kayla... I would have not slept either.

Gale, I'm not looking forward to the kids bringing Halloween candy into the house. I have tried to convince them all that we don't need to go, but they said if we lived in town and kids came to our door they would be more interested in staying home... but we don't live anywhere near where kids would trick or treat so I guess we are going. As far as weaning.. I'm not looking forward to that at all... but I would rather wean than be bit!

As for me.. well I had a BAD weekend.. but it was a planned bad weekend. Saturday was my birthday and we went to my mom's. The menu was all my planning and I decided I wanted to enjoy some of my very favorite pizza from a little bakery near her house. I love that pizza and now live too far from it to have it more than once or twice a year. I also gave her the recipe for my very favorite cake in the world... it's a copy cat of Cracker Barrels Coca Cola cake... OH MY GOSH.. that cake is soooooo chocolatey it's to die for. I only have it once a year, and I wasn't going to not splurge on it this year. I was down 2 pounds this week.. I seem to lose only every other week and usually 2 pounds at a time.

Hey guys! I hope everyone is doing well. I had a pretty good weekend, didn't go very far off track if at all. I'm so glad my kids are too young to go trick or treating, but my MIL and FIL are always sending my DH home with candy. "Give this to Kyla, she'll eat it." I HATE that! I've told then numerous times and on numerous occasions that I can't be eating so much crap. (You should see how THEIR kids eat. My 7 yo SIL has a mouth full of cavities) I know they mean well, but that doesn't mean I care much about hurting their feelings when it comes to my goals and aspirations, so I don't mind so much saying no. I had 2 fun size Snickers, shared the 2 fun size M'n'Ms with my sons and was done at that. Which totally amazes me because I am such a chocolate hound it's ridiculous.

How old are your kids Kayla? I think I started taking out my oldest when he was 4, mostly just to family and neighbors, now we spend hours roaming the town I grew up in, it's much better for TorTing than the town that we live near. There is also a huge Halloween parade here in our town, it's like 4 or 5 hours long! and the candy they get from it is disgusting!! I will have to make sure it goes straight to work with hubby... the parade is Thursday evening and the candy will have to leave the house on Friday.. I will put my foot down there.

Hi ladies joining your thread! I'm 6 mos postpartum and haven't lost a pound since the birth. So much for breastfeeding being a calorie burner.

Why is it that he's not interested in nursing until I want to wean him?? Grrr...

I am excited to go trick-or-treating this year with Lydia.. even though shes only 9 months we are just going to see friends and pick up NO candy (shes obviuosly young enough to not eat any and therefore we don't need any in the house!!!) Shes going to be a flower hehe I have been really bad this week eating really late due to midterms at school so my weight on saturday probably isn't going to be as low as I would have liked it to have been :-( PS I did get past 10lbs total loss last Saturday so that was good!!


What costumes are you children waring for halloween?!

gosh excuse all the type-os I'm not on my computer and this is a really old keyboard.. it doesn't pick up all the strokes!

Welcome Kriket. I had to litterally start counting the calories of everything I put in my mouth and start eating healthier foods for me to start losing. Good luck, we are all here for you.

Gale, I think most nursings go through "dry phases". If you are ready to wean then just do it, but if you want to let him choose then you just have to take the highs and lows.

Brittni, my 10yo ds is going as a motorcross driver (motorcycles), my 4yo dd is going as Cinderella, my 3yo ds is going as a race car driver, and the baby is going to be a pumpkin.

I've weaned him down to one feeding per day. I'll probably stick with that for about 2 more weeks and then wean completely. I think we're going to have to change up the bedtime routine a little to get him to drink milk at night... we'll see.