:bravo::hat::cheer3::congrat:yay!!! Congrats dixiemom! Awesome!!! You're an inspiration.

Dixiemom that is awesome!! Congrats for making Lifetime!:carrot:

Yayyy for you Movielover! What did you buy? :D

Well, I have two days of vacation left but my overeating ended last night with pizza and a beer. Today, it is back to hardcore tracking and processing the junk out of my body. I didn't even bother to weigh-in this week so I have to work hard to show some kind of loss.

I have had a great time. Except for the semi truck that decided, without blinkers, to come into my lane and force me to jump the curb or risk losing our lives. Very scary but we and my tough little Honda Fit are fine. This happened within a mile of my home, after we had spent three days driving in crazy Atlanta traffic and the North Georgia mountains. :dizzy:

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Hi Ladies - Do you mind if one more joins the discussion? I haven't posted in 3FC for a long long time. I'm still a WW member, it's the only trust, tried and true diet for me. I had a recent success of getting down to my lowest weight in years a few weeks ago. Not sure what happened but for the last two weeks I've been stress eating again and back up almost 5 pounds. I sure wish I could stop this roller coaster ride!

Sweetykins Good for you for early prevention! Lol. I sometimes day dream, or day nightmare, about losing a bunch of weight and then suddenly its two years later and I am exactly where I started. I read a lot about people who lose a bunch and then celebrate their goal for 6 months to a year, and it scares me!!! I need to make an extended extended goal in maintenance.

Either way, welcome!!

Working on a paper that I have been putting off for WAY too long this weekend. I weighed in on Friday and only lost .6 of a lb. SO ANNOYING. So I got home and did the typical after weigh dinner of pizza. The pizza was filled with MSG or something because it put me in a pizza coma. I woke up and ate a yogurt and some cereal and some candy... and pretty much anything else I could fit in my mouth... Because...well I can't get it to come off, maybe I can mess around and get some to come on, right?! Yeah, I am insane. ANYWAYS. I woke up this morning and the scale said I was down a whole pound. Its good! Maybe that little binge I had last night nudged somethng in the right direction. Maybe I wasn't eating enough? Who knows. I am not going to count the weight for anything, and I will stop late night binging, but it felt good to see a shift in the right direction FINALLY.

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. :D

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. :D

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 :)

Woo! NSV!

A pair of pants that could be gotten on last year, but were really too tight to do things like sit actually went on my body, no problem and a roomy.

This is kind of amazing to me because it takes so long for me to see any kind of clothing difference. Especially as I wear scrubs to work and then yoga pants around the house. I really only put on real clothes once or twice a week.

I pulled them out of the closet because all my other shorts/capris were in the wash and it is too dang hot for jeans. I figured it wouldn't hurt to try.

I'm doing a little victory dance. Now if only I can get into my favorite pair of jeans that I've kept lurking in a drawer. 2 sizes down to go!

Hey folks! I have been lurking and lurking, but not posting due to technical difficulties. But I am here in spirit, supporting all of you and finding inspiration from your posts. :)

Jilu: Your tubing adventure sounds fun! I hear you about the upper body strength. I have been running and walking a lot, but now it's time to focus on my arms as well. Last night I bought some weights from Walmart and plan on starting a new routine this week. Excited! And "Yay!" for the pants that fit you! I haven't dared try any smaller clothes yet. I am going to wait another 20 pounds to do that. Isn't it cool, like getting a whole new wardrobe, when you fit into your smaller clothes!

Turtle: How is 30DS going for you? I have it and tried it a few times, but realized exercise videos are not for me. I really wish that weren't the case, because they are so convenient and can be very effective. But I just can't get excited about them. I hope you are doing well and that Jillian is kicking your butt. :)

SoMuchFattitude: Glad to hear you got moved in! That is definitely an exhausting adventure for sure. Though it sure provides lots of physical activity, so even if the scale moved in the wrong direction, I'm sure you'll get right back on track this month.

Teresa: Yes, tracking is the key! I know about being motivated early on and losing it at times. I think it's probably important, while you are highly motivated, to recognize the cues that tell you your motivation is starting to wane, then do something before it gets too bad. Or recognize it's a cycle and tough it out. I learned that from the Success journal from WW. As for BBQing JM, I think she would be too tough. No thanks, I'd rather go vegan! lol