Hey there HappyGirl, and welcome! You don't get a ticker until you've been a member for 20 days. Mine doesn't seem to be working right now!? There are some really good recipes here:
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=170512

Add some of your fav's too.

Hey HappyGirl! Tickers are earned. You go to user cp and if you have the 'signature option' then you can put a ticker in there ... but you have to have reached the minimum number of posts and have surpassed ... umm...20 days? I forget. Put in your time and you will have your ticker asap

If you go back several days you will find the link for HM recipes ... I think Witchie and Chantal are frequent contributors on there.

Michele: I feel your pain regarding the French Presentations. Way to make it work in spite of it all. What grade do you teach? Another question for you... is your centre in Winnipeg? If so, which one? I go to the one on McLeod. I am a once a weeker too and I live out of town.

For my stats: I am only 1.8/week ... but I am still impressed with myself because I am losing weight in spite of my circumstances. Yes.. I wane at times ... but overall that number on the scale is going DOWN!!!!! Whoohoo! I can't dance for real right now so I figured I'd let this little guy do it for me. I have also crunched the numbers for my future successes... if I do this hard core (not slip up as much as I have in the past) I will be very, very close to my goal weight in spite of what my centre has to say about me being behind.

Witchie: Make a new one! www.tickerfactory.com the 3fat chicks one seems to currently be disabled.

Thanks mememe!! I have been on the program 7 weeks, and have lost 17 lbs & 24 3/4 inches. So, what does that average out as? 2.4 lbs per week? Something like that anyhoo.

Ah ha...now I understand. 20 days it is! I can use that time to carefully design a special ticker for myself! LOL

Thanks for the tip on the HM recipes. I'll take the time and read the older posts as those are motivating too. And I can learn alot from all of you out there.

My center had given me a goal of 2lbs per week. I am hoping to exceed that goal for the first few weeks... I bought a new keychain the other day that read "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." I feel this is very true for me at this point in my journey.

On another note...do any of you purchase the Snack Bars from HM or the Meal replacement shakes? I just tried the coconut snack bar from my starter pack and think it's good.

Have a great day,
Cari

I love my bars and shakes........
I love love love the chocolate shakes.... then the strawberry then vanilla dont much care for the vanilla ones. I know lots of people mix fruits with their shakes.... I just like mine plain. And I find a shake at lunch time really keeps me full til supper. I also like having my shake are lunch with a veggie..... cukes carrots... or an apple or banana or etc

THe bars. LOVE THE BARS tastes like chocolate lol I like the honey nugat (sp) and the chocolate cereal bar snackers choice YUMMY!

I had a honey nugat bar at lunch the one day with 1 oz of cheese and a cup of celery and I was STUFFED full til 6:30ish... so they dont seem to be much sometimes but they sure do pack a punch

I hope everyone is doing well... sounds like it!!!

Went for my weigh in today and I lost again for a total of 14 pounds !!! But my inches are not budging!!! I only lost an inch this time for a total of 8 inches. What gives???? Again they mentioned the cla's but I don't want to take anymore supplements if I don't have to.

My center told me to put organic lemon juice which comes in a bottle in my water to help rid the body of sodium to.... also I drink alot of green tea to. Not pure green tea but I drink tetley mint/green tea and I love it.

I too have the bars, I bring them to work when its coffee break to Tim hortons that way i am not tempted by the cookies etc. I have the shakes too but I don
't use them that often... hard pressed to give up starch a protein and a fat.!! LOL I will if I am in a real hurry.

Take care

lee2lee

Start HM April 20/2009 228.6/214/140

Lee I know that sometimes when you lose the weight fast on this you dont see the inches lost til a week for two later. No worries! it will come!!! Your body kinda plays catch up with what you have already lost

Meme: I teach a wide variety... grade 9-12 split French, Grade 7 Science, 1/2 time resource and adult ed. evening classes. We'll see how/if that changes for next year I guess! I actually live about an hour form the Sask. border so I go to the clinic in Brandon. It's not bad because I usually visit with my mom when I'm in the city.. just sometimes think that if I was going more often I might be doing a bit better.

HappyGirl: I was not a big fan of teh texture of the bar they sent me home with so I went shopping for some others. they said that the slim down almond coconut was almost identical and that I could use it instead. However, since moving onto QLPI they have taken away a protein so I find that I rarely eat the bars unless I'm on the road.

What flavour of shake do they send with the kit? I still haven't tried my sample package. Maybe I ought to do that some day soon...

Lee: Congrats on the continued loss!

Thanks for the bar/shake recommendations.

Organic lemon juice...interesting. I love to put freshly squeezed lemon juice into my water from time to time. Good to know about it flushing out the sodium. You know, since I've been on this plan (only 3 days) my fingers feel slimmer and my wedding rings are already fitting a little looser. Feels great. I think it is from the lack of sodium water retention. Whatever it is I LIKE it!

Is this the only on-line HM forum/support that's out there? I was expeting the HM website to have a forums like the WW site does. However, I really like this forum.

Have a great day ladies! Off to lunch and another few glasses of water!

~Cari

I cant wear my rings.... havent been wearing them for a month. been running around like a single lady :P
I miss my rings

See funny how my center told me not to touch the CLA's until further along in the program... I don't get why some centers are so pushy... sorry to vent...but I can't help myself

I agree I think theres many other things to try before going on more pills!!!

Is it the centre that is pushy or the particular girl who you were speaking with?

The owner of my centre is pushy, the other girls not so much. They do work on commission sales though, so you can see why they push.