Thank you everyone for your support! I feel it's not going to be a good weigh in Friday (trust my about how my clothes fit right now), but I stayed within points today. It was HARDDD, when you've eaten excessively for ten days, it's hard to do normal points, but I made it. I'll keep it up this week, and just ask for no judgement Friday lol.

I send support to the others who have fallen off the wagon recently, it's hard, but it's life and we will make it through!!!!!! So I am trucking on, I am being proud if myself for my short term accomplishments (...eating well today).

OK Chickies we have picked ourselves up and dusted off the the chocolate dust and are ready to move on!

Tomorrow is the middle of the week and the best time in the world to have a do-over. Of course tomorrow is my MOT (moment of truth) the scale but I am ready and braced for what ever it brings (GD there had better be no gain---did I just say that.....wrong attitude) You know it is funny I look forward to weigh in's each week and get so tempted to peek but don't.

I am confident that all of us are not only going to get on track but stay on track

btw what should the title of our Aug thread be???? any suggestions???

OK... Here's my strange thought for today.

You know how when you're body is the same shape and size for a while you get used to the way it feels. I mean that bumps and lumps and all that. Yesterday I was sitting in front of my computer and the urge to strech came over me so I did. And for some reason I ran my hands down the sides of my chest. I noticed two bumps that were not there last month. I was stunned and couldn't figure out what it was. It took me close to 2 mintues and some serious thought before I realized that the 2 unknown bumps where the bottom of my rib cage. I couldn't believe it. I was so used to not being able to feel them that when I did I didn't know what they were. I've lost enough weight that the fat isn't hiding my rib cage anymore. Well, at least not as much that I can't feel it .

AND another good thing about yesterday, my cute guy friend made a comment that he could see I've lost weight. Always nice when someone comments on your weight loss.

Nancylmrn - how does the weigh-in thread work? (I know silly question). But I noticed that you track losses for the month and everyone is posting what they lost for the week. Should we re-edit our same post with weekly weigh-ins or post our weekly weigh-ins in a new post? Or do we keep track for the month and give that to you?


As with WW, coming to this board daily is going to have to be a habit I get in to. No doubt that I can do it! I know that when I was active on this board before, checking in every day, it really helped me.

Any of you get the latest issue of WW magazine? I have been making recipes from there left and right and every single one has been DELICIOUS! Made the Broccoli, Cauliflower & Swiss quiche earlier this week (made it a second time yesterday). Made the East Indian BBQ Chicken & Corn bake last night (Oh. My. Word!). And made the cream pops (vanilla pudding, bananas, choc. shavings frozen in popsicle forms). I have 4 older issues of the magazine I'm going thru to pick out recipes that I'd like to make. I'm going to try to get some kind of a binder or something to keep them in like a make-shift recipe book. Any of you have any WW recipes from the magazine that you have tried and loved?

Hope you all have a great day!

ALSO! What day of the week do you weigh-in and why?

I do the opposite of Ragsy lol. I weigh in on Fridays because I know I will behave worse on weekends. Just the way my life is right now I am more likely to have my higher point, higher sodium, higher alcohol meals on Friday or Saturday nights, so I try to obviously stay with points, but then my weigh in is farthest away from any bloating or water weight from the higher bloat foods I may eat those days.

Chrissy that is so awesome -- you felt your ribcage! huge milestone and to get compliments, don't it make you feel like all this hard work with counting pts, watching your portions and working out is paying off

LondonJulz it is easy to use the weigh in thread just post any changes in your weight in a new post on the thread that way I know I need to go in and make a change on the first entry I check every day, usually twice a day Oh and I don't get the ww mag but have read a few at the dr. office and gotton some great stuff from them. I keep a folder in my kitchen with recieps I have collected and about once a week I will thumb through them to see what I would like for the week and if nothing strikes me I pull out my 3 ww cookbooks or go here and look at all the reciepes

Ragsy & Katier I weigh in on Wednesdays becasue I do know the weekend I go a bit overboard so then I give myself M & T to get back on track

Today was weigh in and no loss no gain this week so it looks like this was not my month but there is Aug!!!

Well today we still have this heat wave going through so I did not work out. I tried to last night and lasted 30min then got dizzy, kept drinking water but my pulse would not go down then --bam intestinal craps that about incapacitated me.....Lesson No. 1 do not exercise in excessive heat unless you have a/c

I will be back on schedule tomorrow with promises of cooler weather

Nancy, I so feel your pain. Unbearable heat was the reason I stopped walking at my favorite park. We've been hot all summer. I think today was the first day in I don't know how long we didn't get up in the mid 90's and I think that's because we had huge storms last night. Hopefully the temps will start going down soon for ya and you can start working out again without fear of getting sick.

Ughhhhhh up 3.2 in my first weigh in since the two weeks of travel. I expected it because I ate so many bad foods, but I still am frustrated. I look at my total weight loss for June and July and it's only four pounds. I think I am realizing when I did WW the first time 2.5 years ago I didn't follow it to a T and still lost weight. I guess it's the difference in metabolism from age 22 to age 24, but I really need to buckle down. Last time I never counted veggies or dairy or any of that AND I used to weigh in Fridays after going out every Thursday night and I STILL would lose. So having my moment of self pity, then looking ahead to August.

Well after posting last night I ate 4 big slices of pizza and ate 3 slices of cheddar cheese there went my flex for the week and I still have 5 more days to go. But tonight exercise yeah!