Good morning ladies!
Down another pound today! Its been 3 weeks now with that trend. I want to see like maybe a 2-3 lbs lost per week but it ok. This is the first time I have seen in 8 months that I am loosing every week. Good thing for me right? Because I have been in a plateau for 8 months. If I was good then and kept tracking regulary and not binge eating I might now have reached my goal. Oh well. I have learned from it and now changed my habits and been seeing good results (slow results).

Have a good weekend everyone!!

On Thursday I weighed in and was finally down to 157.2 - Overweight BMI (no longer OBESE!) So I was silly and decided to celebrate by getting chinese for dinner and then my hubby treated me to oakwood smokehouse the next day for dinner. Last night the scale had gone up to 163! This morning it had gone down to 160. I have to be super good this week and hoepfully I can bring it back down! This is what I get for splurging! lol

Update: Two Day of earning 9 AP each day seems to have gotten me fairly back on track. We'll see at weigh in Thursday!

I went on vacation last weekend and saw my scale jump from 160.4 to 162.6. Oy. Then I got the stomach flu. It was awful and terrible but two days post-flu I leveled back out to my pre-vacation weight of 160.4 (again, that was on my scale, not WW).

NSV!

My husband just walked into our office and laughed. I asked what was so funny. He said I usually had a chips and candy and soda surrounding me when I was entrenched in video games. To see me at the desk with a big bowl of salad and water was just disconcerting.

As a side note, I've recently had a massive cravings for mixing oil and vinegar salad dressings. And our first round of tomatoes are red right now and super delicious.

Holy bananas. I have stopped birth control (got the official go ahead to start trying!) and I'm having my first period without the influence in 15 years. 1) I forgot what my cramps were really like. 2) water weight every where. I woke up 5 lbs more than I weighed yesterday. 3) no massive food cravings.

Oy vay, that doesn't sound fun! But congrats!!

Thanks!

I feel like a baby for complaining, but wow this is ridiculous. The reason I started birth control as a teenager was to help with debilitating cramps (to the point where I couldn't even sit up) so I'm a little anxious that next time is going to be worse as more hormones leave my system (I'm about a month free right now).

I can't say I really relate. I rarely had cramps growing up and only started experiencing them after having children. If I get some pain meds in me before it gets too bad then they are actually quite bearable. I really hope yours don't get too bad... that would be awful!

In other news, I ate like crap yesterday and felt like crap because of it. At least I tracked.

Things I have learned this weekend. 1) I have no upper body strength and 2) I have no upper body strength.

We went tubing this weekend and I just lacked all ability to hoist myself out of the water and onto the tube. To be fair, neither did most of the skinny people either. But it was a little frustrating to have to swim over to the boat, climb up the ladder and then hop on.

The second time I learned this was testing out some local yoga studios this weekend. Downward dog is still my mortal enemy. I just don't have the strength to support myself in that position very long. I do only slightly better with plank, but not really. Mostly it's just my wrists end up killing me.

Hi ladies, hoping I can join the june chat a little late into the month. I joined WW in late May, and it has been awesome. I tried last summer counting calories and working out and I gained weight. I was so discouraged. I've been pretty surprised and excited with my results so far.

I tried a beginner yoga workout a few weeks ago that was basically breathing exercises and I was sore the next day! I am actually going to start JM 30DS today. I've been doing it off and on for the last month, but I want to get my act in gear and get to level 2.

Hi everyone! Hi Turtle

Well, vacation is over and work has been crazy! I come here to admit my sins and the biggest is that for the last two weeks I have done NO tracking. Oh, I did tracking in my head, which probably explains my weight gain. You think???? Anyway, back to tracking today and going to my meeting tonight to face the music.

I was talking with my office manager last night as to why we start out so focused and committed to weight loss only to quickly slip into our mindless eating and lack of control. Her thought was that we could kidnap Jillian Michaels and get stranded on a deserted island and then we would be skinny and sexy in no time. I told her we would last about 3 days and then we would kill Jillian and BBQ her. We get a little weird after a long day at work.

Today was my 3rd day on the plan. I have been hungry alllll day. I did use some of my weekly allowance points, but I just couldn't seem to feel full. But, at least I did not do what I normally would have done, and that is binge. Speaking of binge eating. I have always seemed to binge when I have just awoke from a nap...any idea as to what that is???

basketballmamma23 - you shouldnt be feeling hungry. What are you eating? Maybe we can help!

I'm alive - just exhausted! DH and I are all moved into our house and probably 85-90% unpacked. I'm going crazy with things not in order and DH is noticing my stress level sky rocket. I guess I'm a bit OCD when it comes to that sort of stuff. I just like everything in its place.

I'm up 4lbs this morning. I can accept this though. My eating was terrible for a solid week and I'm stressed. I keep rationalizing this with that you have 5lbs of wiggle room to maintain life time - which is my ultimate goal. So, my 4lbs isn't too bad.

Well I did JM 30 day shred yesterday, so proud of the 20 min. workout... its the little things. She is a tough one, you probably wouldn't get much meat out of her at the BBQ!
5 lbs is definately acceptable wiggle room, could be water weight... or too much sodium or alcohol the day before

Hey basketball mama, If I'm really hungry and can't eat any points, I either have a banana, or a salad with fresh lemon juice (sometimes 1/3 teaspoon olive oil) and salt and pepper or both. It normally pushes the hunger pains back a couple hours! GL