Welcome Susie!!! We are so glad you are going to join us! the ladies in this forum are amazing and I couldn't be where I am today without them. 2011 will be a great year for us all and I look forward to seeing all our success!!

Welcome MyChoice - dont worry about that number right now, all you can do is go forward and work hard to not see it again ...good luck !!!!!

Carri

Susie - WELCOME!!!!

Drive by post, getting ready to go out - hope everybody has a wonderful New Year's!!

Happy New Year everyone!

Time for my official weigh in and its not good.....198! So I am up almost 3 pounds bc of this holiday lol Guess it could be worse and will glad to see it go in 2011. Let's make this a great year ladies!!

Mel - It will definitely be a great year!!! You are going to rock it traveling down through onederland.

auntie g - Doesn't it suck how quickly it can come back on?? I'm so worried about that. Happy New Year!!

Well, did pretty well yesterday - and the scale rewarded me big time, 2 pounds down this morning!! Pretty crazy really - so I'm expecting to bounce back up but hey, I'm enjoying it for now. Hope everybody has a great day, I spent the day so far steam cleaning my carpets - I can't believe how dirty they were!! Need to do that more often....

Thank you all for such a warm welcome! and for the encourgement and support as I start this journey.

I've been enjoying today by puttering around the house, putting this away, that away, reading through past issues of my Shape magazines. Tearing out articles I feel inspired by so that later when this feels hard, I can inspire myself again to keep going.

I'm logging my food and calories again starting today. My goal is to stay between 1,600-18,000 calories a day. I know from past experience that I loose pretty well if I stay in that range and get in 4 days of exercise. I will go to the Y tomorrow when they are open and get back on the treadmill to get moving again.

We are going out to dinner with some friends tonight to celebrate a birthday. I have already decided what I will have and it's not "diet" but it will still be in my calorie range and I'll enjoy that good food and the good company.

sept15lija: What a nice loss to see at the scales! Steam cleaning your carperts is a GREAT workout! and when you are finished you have burned calories AND have clean rugs..that has to feel great!

auntie g: I'm right there with you: 2011 is gonna be the year to succeed!

Rtsmme4life: sorry about the holiday gain; the good news is that you are still in ONEderland.

Satine: A number is just a number right? Thanks for reminding me what I can do about it and to forget what I can't do about it.

Hope everyone is having a great New Year's Day!! I am feeling especially beat down today. I ate a kids BK fry, and a sugar cookie. I went out without eating lunch(that was my first mistake) and was REALLY hungry on our way home, so I ate a small BK fry, then when I got home I was giving my kids a cookie...usually I am fine with letting them have some without having an cravings. NOPE! Not this time. I hadn't drank enough water today and have just been having awful cravings of everything! Yuck.

Well now I am drinking a huge glass of water and I hope I can get myself straightened out.

T - At least it was a small fry and not a whole meal or something! It's hard when you are really hungry - I try to plan ahead but sometimes it's impossible. And yes I have done the whole throw one in my mouth too as I feed the kids...usually I'm really good but we all have our moments, don't we??

Susie - Sounds like a great plan to me! And hey, as long as it fits into your calories, who cares if it's a "diet" food? I ate chinese food last night, which is probably the furthest thing from diet food, but it did fit into calories so in my book that's A-OK. I tend to fit in some kind of "treat" food on a regular basis - be it a chocolate or a cookie or whatever. Anyways that's just what I do, thought I'd share! And yes the steam cleaning was a real workout, my muscles are sore!!

Thanks Liz, I need a few supportive words. Tonight was a BAD night. My first bad night in awhile. I didn't even slip up with all the yummy Christmas food all around me. But once I had my slip up earlier it was like there was no stopping it. I have eaten a TON tonight. Granted it wasn't terrible food, ff cottage cheese and pineapples, ff yogurt with banana, 100 cal popcorn etc. But I still ate way to much and I am sure I went over my points and just didn't stop when I was satisfied. Ugh. Stupid trigger foods. I even had a handful of gummies and a small laffy taffy. I really fell off the wagon. But you are right, we all do slip up and I just have to put it in the past and move forward and strive to do better tomorrow. I will be hitting the gym for an hour to make up for it too.

Hi Everyone. I did good with my food yesterday; even at the Mexican resturant--I passed on the chips and salsa so I didn't fill up on them.

I was hopping to get to the gym today but I work up with a migraine headache so I took my meds and went back to sleep. Feeling better now but they close in 30 min so I'll just have to skip the treadmill today. I will do some yoga instead--it will be better for my head anyway. Even though the pain is gone I get really sore on my head, neck and upperback afterwards.

I did spend sometime today downloading some new workout tunes to my Ipod so that tomorrow I'm ready to go--and I'm looking forward to listening to my new downloads.

tschaff04: Sounds like you are getting your head back in a good place and drinking the water and going to the gym will get your body there as well. You can do it! Just "keep swimming"--I LOVE that quote from Nemo!

Evening ladies!!!
Well I officially just ate my last really bad meal for the next 6 weeks. I feel like **** now but I got it all out of my system. I joined a challenge on here and it goes from today until the day before Valentine's day so I have 6 weeks to get my butt in shape! Here's to me losing 8 pounds by then!

Hope you all had a great weekend (even though it went by way to fast like always).

My big dilemma is whether or not to have a piece of cake tomorrow for my moms birthday.....need opinions! We are going to Applebee's for her bday dinner tmw so I will plan it out so I know what I can eat. I am starting to strictly count calories tmw so should it be ok if I leave enough open calories or should I just say no? I am also going to take one day off a week instead of two for this challenge. Sorry for the long post, just wanted to give you all an update.

Mel - I'm of the opinion that if you have the calories, and you want it, go for it! As I mentioned to my post to Susie - I do include treats as long as I have room for them. I usually feel like a whole piece of cake isn't worth it, because I have to forego so much food to eat a whole one, but I have regularly allotted calories to 1/4 - 1/2 piece that I share with DS or DH. Anyways in any event have fun!

Ok, now I am just being silly.