Hello everyone Sorry I haven't posted.

I have been totally stressed out. My birthday is near the end of September so always as it gets closer I start getting more stressed out bleh. and my cat who I have had since the day she was born, about 11+ years ago has been very sick. and we are having her put to sleep this Wednesday.

I have been totally using all the stress as an excuse to just eat everything in sight. bleh

But on the flip side my husband finally bought me Wii fit and I am loving it.

Anyways goodluck everyone!!!

moonkissed- i'm so sorry to hear about your cat!! i have a cat too and they sure do grow on you fast. we adopted her 8 months ago.

i just made the most yummy thing ever! i saw it on tv a greek yogurt parfait. 1 cup frozen berries, 1 cup vanilla (or whatever flavor) greek yogurt and 3/4 cup of honey nut cherries (whole or crushed). it's 6 points (i calculated everything separate even though you're not supposed to so maybe technically 7 but w/e lol

moonkissed: don't worry about it, I think you have a pretty legit excuse! I've added you to the list already I'm really sorry about your cat. It's a pretty horrible thing to have to do. My best friend came home at Christmas to find that her family had had to put her cat (who she's had since he was a kitten) down a couple of days before she came home, she was devastated. At least you get to spend time with him and make his last days happy ones right? I hope you're OK!

Haley: that sounds GORGEOUS! :O

So I had my leaving dinner with my friends from my old theatre group yesterday. I decided I couldn't stress too much over what I was eating this week. Obviously if I'm at home I'll have salads or veggie soup or whatever, but I've been meeting up with friends and catching up before I leave for uni on Thursday, so I've been off-plan quite a lot. And I haven't been exercising much.

AND YET. I weighed myself this morning. I'm down a pound. HUH? Exactly. Isn't it weird how that happens sometimes? You can be angelic for a week and gain, or eat whatever, not exercise and lose two. Sometimes this thing makes no sense to me at all!

But I know I WILL gain if I carry on like this, so next week it's back to turkey and vegetables!!

hey ladies!!! sooooo my 8 yr old nephew came back in town today after being away the entire summer and instead of saying "hey auntie i miss you" i get a "stop eating so much your fat" omg way to throw a curveball into my day...

Hi team! I'm real sorry I'm late posting here (and in the weigh in thread), my youngest daughter is cutting a tooth and has a cold on top of that, so I've been worrying about her and completely spaced about this challenge!

I'm a 26 year old mom of two girls (2.5 years old and 9 months old). I am a stay at home mom, but I am currently in school to get my certificate in phlebotomy. I'm only taking an online course this semester, but between that, my everyday job as a mom and helping my spastic (but lovable!) hubby with his homework, I'm a pretty busy woman right now. lol

My weight loss plan has actually been fairly undefined thus far. I started at 270lbs right before I got pregnant with my youngest daughter, had her in November of last year at 250lbs, and have since lost about 30lbs. But after being stuck between 213-225 for months now, I think it's finally time to give my plan some definition. I'm doing my Turbo Jam workouts four times a week (plus the ab routine twice a week), have a brand spanking new membership to the local YMCA and am working on hammering out an eating plan. It's the eating that gets me, I'm a compulsive over eater and a binge eater. Trying to fight it is hard, but challenges like this really help.

So hello to everyone. Hope everyone is doing well and is on plan today!

At 169.0 for two days now. Good news though - I finished P90X & since last week I lost 1/2in in my chest and hips; 1in in my waist! I missed my rest day yesterday since I helped work on a barn for 5 hours (sore!)...I think I'm just going to relax today and start round 2 of P90X tomorrow.

jennieloveskisses- how do you like the p90x...i've been going back and forth now trying to decide if i want to buy it or not...do you think that it gives you better results then other workout programs on tv or about the same??

I do P90X everyday except for Sunday which is rest day. P90X has a set schedule that I printed out and follow. I just completed the classic version, I'm going to be doing the Lean Version now. Yes it is definitely better than of the other dvd workouts I've tried. 30day shred was also a great workout dvd but it got boring after a while.

ok thanks.....i believe p90x has won my vote

That sounds like an interesting program. I'm really broke but my gym does offer muscle confusion as a class I might take if the concept is giving you such awesome results!

i snuck in a weigh in this morning, it says i gained 2 lbs what the ****, that can't be! the only thing my scale knows how to do is go up! my friend said she's going to join WW too and we're gonna go to meetings together. Hopefully that helps cause I'm getting pretty darn frustrated!

All moved, now to unpack! The crappy thing is that we haven't unpacked our kitchen yet, so it's pretty difficult to eat at home. We did a few boxes last night, so now I have plates available as long as I'm willing to use plastic utensils. Not sure which box the real utensils wound up in...

Because of the move, I ate pretty badly yesterday. Or at least, that's what I'm saying, but the fact is that's a silly excuse. I ate REALLY badly. What do you guys think about occasional fasting? I know there's a whole theory on intermittent fasting (you can google it, lots of interesting information). I'm not sure how much of it I believe. I'm considering fasting during the day today and then having a late dinner. It's something I've been thinking about doing a for a while. It's NOT about punishing myself for yesterday's transgressions, but about convincing myself that I do have the mental strength to say no to temptation. I'll still be drinking lots of water, and I'll eat before dinner if I feel particularly crummy. Oh, and no working out today either if I'm not eating.

Well done JennieLovesKisses! that is awesome! I've been reading a lot about this P90 thing. Does anyone know if it's available in Europe? Or only USA?

Haley: don't get discouraged!!! Sometimes fluctuations can happen during the week. Maybe try sticking to your ONE weigh-in a week and see how it goes? Maybe it's just water weight Don't worry about it too much though!

Callahan: Moving. Ugh. I've got to do that on Thursday. I'm flying back to uni and moving all my stored stuff up two flights of stairs to the new flat. That's going to be my workout for the day!! And then unpacking everything can be my workout for Friday!

But we don't have the internet in the flat sorted yet, so I might not be around much until next week. Lippy100485 is my sub so she'll be in charge of taking down your weigh-ins and posting the results for this first week ok?

Hope you all have a good week!!

I'm going to join a flag football team on my campus to get out there, get accountable, and play! I"m kinda excited

Hey Team today is my first WI at weight watchers, my friend and I are going to the meetings together so i'm nervous because it's a different scale, a different day then i was weighing in so we'll see. i'm going to try to get in exercise and my weights but i also have a lot of homework...ugh..lol