My best advice to you is drink more water. Increase of fiber can cause this problem if you aren't drinking enough water. Exercise (even just walking) is also crucial.

The weight gain can be from exercise that you aren't used to doing.

Stick with it and Good luck!

Kim, great to see you back! You look great!!

Thanks Melissa. It's great to be back!

-.5 this week

-1 this week.

-1.5 this week.

My Valentine's day challenge:
To start walking on the treadmill again, I'll try 3 days a week
To get below 220
NOT to buy/eat any valentine's candy

Oh, that last one is really great. That IS a challenge! :D

congratulations, tanya. you keep clipping along down that tracker. good for you, girl!

i like the challenge about no valentine candy, too. that's a good one.

melissa, how goes it, girlfriend? are we ready to leave those 190's yet? i am almost afraid to set a numeric goal. i'm sticking to my goal of staying on program. so far so good. i go fri am to ww for wi. (lots of abbreviations here, eh?) wish me success. i'm hoping all this pays off.

good luck on the weigh in today sandra,,,

-2.5 here myself for the week

Patti, that's SPECTACULAR! Congratulations, you must be very proud of yourself.

Sandra, I just saw your message. ;) ;) ;) for w/i today!! And no, apparently I'm going to be stuck in the 190's forever. And to think, I was down to 188 and now I'm back to 193 this morning! TOM did just arrive so I'm hoping some of my bloatedness (is that a word?) is a result of that. You are really doing great. I'm kind of wandering aimlessly. But I do feel like my feelings/thoughts about eating have improved lately.

Patti, :bravo:

My WI is tomorrow morning but I am ashamed to say I did not meet my exercise goals this week - and will try to do better next!

congrats to all the 'losers' :)

Frouf

P.S. Oh ya and I want an extra week for the Valentine's challenge to work off the 'enjoyment' of my cruise! ha ha ha

Congratulations, Patti!! :D

I'm down another 1.5 pounds this week. Slowly but surely beating the scale into submission. (Emphasis on the slowly... :lol: )

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I know I'm a little late, but here are my Valentines Day goals:

1. Consistently drink at least 6 glasses of water per day (yes, even on the weekends).

2. Exercise for 30 minutes each day and stretch at night before bed.

great goals, leeann. and welcome to the challenge.

well after last weeks fantastic loss I gained it all back this week,,,up 2.5 . uuugh I was OP and not eating bread the last two days,,,I did make an oven rice that had a pkg of onion soup mix in it so Im thinking it was the sodium. Not very happy right now but I will go on.....I was so close to my goal!! This week Im kicking butt! (my own)

Don't give up, Patti! If you stayed on program and didn't lose, then it's just the sodium or something else equally weird. You'll lose next week. It used to happen to me all the time.

so far since beginning this challenge, i've had all op days cept for 2. that's amazing for me.

hang in there patti. you'll have a good loss next week.

Hang in there, Patti. I'm sure it was just the sodium.

Another 1.5 pounds for me this week. I'm nothing if not consistent.

Consistent is GOOD!

Thanks, Vickie :)

It seems like it's taking forever, but I hope to be at my halfway point next week. (I notice my ticker factory tickers don't work anymore.) Patience, patience...

*sigh* So of course when I mention it, they work... :lol:

Tanya, 3FC changed things so that your signature only appears once on a page. Was that what you were noticing?

Aha! Now I get it. Thanks, Melissa! :D

You're welcome Tanya! And CONGRATS on your consistent weight loss. You're doing super.

-1.5 this week,,,back down to my ticker loss...Im going to try very hard this week to make my valentines goal. Two pounds this week is doable!

You go, Patti!

Patti, you're doing great, especially with being sick for so long!

I've not done well at all. To be honest, I don't even remember what my V-Day goals were! I need to go look. I've really gotten lax. For pete's sake, my clothes start fitting and I quit like I've achieved something major. It should just motivate me to keep on! So I will, slowly but surely! :snail:

I can't wait to hear about everyone's success!!

Well I just reviewed my goals. I'm definitely not reaching those, except I am very close to fitting in to my size 14 dress pants. The jeans I wore today were new size 14 stretch and were sort of lose. So that's something I guess. :)

sounds good, melissa. i'm still in my 16's.

sounds great Melissa

Thanks you guys. Sandra, I had no idea we even wore the same size. :lol:

Made goal yeah! -2.5 this week

Congratulations, Pattie! That's a HUGE loss especially considering everything that you have going on in your life right now. I'm very, very proud of you.

Patti, Vickie's right! Way to go!! :bravo: