Hi Everybody, well it's been a tough week, health wise, just getting over strep throat, so for the last 4 days it was like swallowing broken glass, so I've been living on activea and ff/pudding, so I thought weigh-in today would be a gain, but happy to say it was a 1.4 loss

I did do some reading on the wendie plan, I going to give it a try, tomorrow starts a new week, and I'm finally feeling like chewing again, my tummy has been screaming for some real food, so before the weekend gets here, and I'm tempting by all the goodies, need to plan my plan of attack

Faerie, Thinking of you, that you get the results you wanted

need to get to sleep, have a great day everybody!

Institches - Ouchies! I'm happy for you that you were able to lose even though you were not feeling well. I hope that you continue to get better! And thank you for thinking of me

Heather - Congratulations on an amazing loss!!!! And wow, taking food home for dinner & planning a cadbury egg! I'm so proud of you You're do so well!!!

Congrats to everyone on your losses! Always good to hear!

I had a bad day earlier today.. Well, kinda. The man asked me if I wanted to go to the mall, (duh?) so I went and when I got there he said I could pick out any outfit I want! He says he's proud of me for deciding to try WW and knows how stressful it can be for me, so for that and for Easter, he said he's get me an outfit to make me feel good about myself. So Sweet! So anyhow, I was all excited and when I started going around the stores, nothing that I liked fit me, and even though I've got 13lbs gone so far, I guess I figured I was going to see immediate change, but I got really worked up about not being able to fit into anything. It's been so long since I've shown this butt around clothing stores I had no idea what size to buy, and only to find out I still wear the same size everything. I got a little teary and told him we could do it another time, when I lose more weight... BUT - chances had it that he had to go to walmart to get something and while I was waiting for him I found 3 shirts in the PLUS section that I really liked! And got them! YAY bad day turns to good day. Just a little more motivation for me I'm guessing.

Before I go, Judy, I MADE THE MUSHROOMS! They were really good but by the last one I was having the 'ughhh' feeling, so had some fruit and was done. But good recipe, only thing is I think I like them when I have like 3, but if I only have 2 I love them, but if I have 4 don't really like them........... I'm a reallllly big weirdy. Thnx!

Institches and THEHeather: Congratulations on the losses!

Tendalaya: Like your pictures! Glad you found some new clothes and that you had a good day! Nice to feel you SMILING!!

Faerie: thanks for keeping us all going! You are a great cheerleader!

Had a good day: drank my water, journaled, walked 5 laps around the school

B: 2 eggs, 2 toast
L: spinach salad with bacon vinegarette
S: popcorn
D: stuffed cabbage

Was up in the middle of the night thinking about my son returning this morning to fininsh deployment. I have faith that all is well. Have a great evening everyone. Bethz

Tendalaya - First of all... oh my gosh you are SUCH A CUTIE!!!!! Squeeee!!!! You are so frickin' pretty Secondly, don't worry too much about the sizes (and I'm glad to see that you felt better after Wal-Mart), because it took me 50 lbs before I felt my size 24's were really loose. (That's right... 50 frickin' pounds.)

Bethz - Sounds like you had a nice day! I like seeing your food typed out. It's good to see other people planning & tracking

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Soooooo... week 1 results of the Wendie Plan: I'm down 3.4!!! This tells me a few things (thinking in feedback mode) that the Wendie Plan did not cause a gain or did not cause me to stagnate. That it's OKAY to use my Flex Points. That it's even better to plan out my Flex Points.

This also tells me that I'm glad I stuck it out though the past few months have felt a little tough. I just finished my tracker for 12 weeks so I figured I'd share some results.

Number one, over the past 12 weeks I've lost a very nice 16.2 lbs. That's about 1.35 lbs per week loss. I also noticed going over my tracker that the weeks that I've tracked, I've done well, or stayed the same. The weeks that I do not track at all, I gain. A lot. Lesson learned... track. The past 5 weeks I have lost every single week. While I may have only lost .2, or .8 a couple of those weeks it was still DOWN. I tracked those 5 weeks, and I got in all of my water, most of my fruits & vegetables (I'm working on this small thing right now) and most of my exercise.

I'm really learning about myself and the way that I eat. It's so great!

Anyway, so here's to a new week on the Wendie Plan! And I'll be sure to update you all on those results as well. We'll see if I can get more feedback

Have a good night everyone!!!

You guys are great!!

Poor stitches! Being sick sucks, I just got over a nasty cold and with the travelling, bleh!

Great job dealing with the stress and such, Heather

Tendalaya, great pics, you're so cute!

Faerie, as always, inspiring, 84 lbs. and still working it! Great job!!

You guys talking about getting in your water and fruits/veggies, that's where I'm at, trying to get in that dang water. I'm drinking a big glass right now, I don't care if I have to get up during the night!

YAAAHOOOOOOO it's Friday!

Heather - I think we had similar meetings! (I wonder if they're planned out by the WW HQ.) I loved the nibble it/scribble it one. Made me giggle.

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Tonight I'll be going out with a friend for a birthday dinner. It shouldn't be a big deal at whatever restaurant we choose to go to. I'll just check out some items beforehand. However, I'm going to have to refuse cake again And I feel bad... but it's because people sometimes say things like "Oh but it's my birthday it's a special day, you can have <whatever>." And I'm thinking "Yeah... your birthday isn't that special to me..." but I just try to say "No thanks, I'm pretty full." But, I'm most certainly not going to gain weight & eat something just to be polite and easygoing. I'm too stubborn & rude for that.

So mental prep, "No, thank you. I'm not hungry." "No, thank you. I'm not hungry." "No, thank you. I'm not hungry." Whew! Isn't it better when we can prepare ourselves for these things? Much harder IMO when it's a surprise.

Bah. I forgot my cell phone at home. I hate it when I do that. :/

Well. I should probably try to get some work done. For once

Have wonderful Fridays all!!!!

Hey ladies,
So I'm not so good at posting here for some reason...but just wanted to pop in! I'm still Flexing, decided not to switch to Core. I am really liking it this time around, too -- definitely seeing results that I hadn't seen with just calorie counting.

I have a reunion next weekend. I am so glad that I've lost what I have (although clearly I'd love to lose more!), and I'm so glad I haven't been bingey, and that I have given myself the gift of confidence. I am so glad that I will be able to sit with all those people and not have to rationalize my fat rolls silently to myself. Perhaps by then, I will even have lost the 2 lbs that are keeping me "overweight." Ooh I just got butterflies in my stomach thinking about that!

All this as I enter into a food fest weekend (purim = silly parties and yummy cookies). Thank god for activity points.

S

Thanks to everyone on their comments, we're all very beautiful people, being so nice to me!

And Faerie, you saying that you had to lose that much to see a difference made me feel alot better, I was starting to think I was doing something wrong! And good luck Lizzy on your reunion, we're all very proud of you.

As far as my own journey is going this week, I was supposed to do some exersize yesterday but never got to it so I'm making myself do it today, was really snacky last night but just tried to keep all the nibbling on healthier choices.. The man's home today from a bachelor party he had so I'm tending to him for the first half of the day, the rest he's on his own, lol, it's his own fault anyhow haha. Hope everyone is having a good Good Friday, and everyone has a great Easter weekend! I don't know about you guys but I'll be trying to convince myself I already ate a chocolate bunny, so I won't eat one.. (uh, another one... lol).

Tendalaya - Those are great photos! The portobello caps I used when I made them were about twice as big as the ones you're holding, and I only ate one per meal. I could see how you could get tired of them if you ate too many but hey, sounds like a good way to control how much you eat! And that's really sweet of your man to give you the gift of clothes I'm waiting for my first size drop too, even though I feel like I should shift I can't yet. But I can wear a wider variety of my size (before I guess I was between 14/16, now I can wear almost any 14). It's frustrating but patience is the key

bethz - good job with the walking and the water

Faerie - WTG!! That's an awesome loss, good to see your hard work paid off! I'm so happy for you that it worked out so well

Heather - love the new avatar

Sonja - Hi! Pop in whenever you can, it's good to get little updates. Good luck with purim, and with the reunion!! You've made fantastic progress, you must be so proud of yourself!



Well I'm off sick from work today. I started feeling dizzy and shaky and nauseous yesterday afternoon and pretty much ended up sleeping the rest of the day (left work early). Sleeping was actually to keep me from doing something stupid -- I think my physical symptoms are not necessarily due to sickness but to stress and just being overwhelmed by a lot right now. I came home and wanted to go find solace in the arms of the drive-thru. I talked with DH about it... Told him how this is just how I deal with things. I eat when I am stressed/need comfort. Talked about how difficult it is to change such ingrained habits. He obviously was encouraging me not to go do it, and I was unwilling to go through the 'hiding' behavior (you know, where you go eat a ton of crap without anyone knowing and hide the evidence - this is far more unhealthy than plain bingeing and I told myself I got past that last fall). So I made a grilled cheese and a cup of soup, watched a movie, and slept for 12 hours. It was tough there for a while but I made it through the day. Today I'm just kind of mentally exhausted and needed a break from the office. I'm using today to take care of myself as best as I can, catch up on some reading, maybe spend some time out in the sunlight (even though it's chilly). I need to tap into some internal source of strength to help push me through the rest of the spring term... hopefully once I have my degree in hand the demands on my time will lessen and I will have more "me" time. Then maybe in the fall I can start looking at a career change too... that would be nice...

Annnyway, I'm just rambling. Tomorrow's WI and I'm pretty confident that I'll see a loss. It kind of blows my mind that I'm so close to the 100's again, and that I actually have *less* than 10 pounds to go to my 10% goal. (I mean, I'm only just over half way there, but anything under 10 sounds very achievable). Progress!

Good one you Judy, from a previous post you learned how I use food for comfort, and now I'm reading one from you and that helps me to understand and learn to control them. It was very good that DH was there to help you too, the support is sometimes needed very much even when we don't think so.

I hope you feel better soon, and seeing a loss tomorrow will definitley give you a good boost I think. And, if you don't see one, don't sweat it. I believe in you!

I feel great, that extra weight fell right off OP. This a.m. I was only .4 off from when I left.

Sorry you're going through all that stress, Suite, it's amazing what physical manifestations stress can have. Sometimes I guess your body just kind of shuts down as self-defense.

Funny, I've been noticing how many times when I'm out trying to come up with something to do, like when I was in Phoenix, all I can think about is stopping at this place and getting something to eat, going to that place and getting something for dessert, it's a constant battle.

poo