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Weighed myself this am (using Sparkpeople.com program) and I lost 3.5 lbs. Yipppeee!

I doing okay on the food front, but I have to get my a$$ in gear on the exercise thing.

Thanks for the inspiration folks!! Everyone is doing great.

Good for you, bigsigh! I am three pounds below my WW goal this morning, but I will now go do the treadmill thing for awhile since I need a break from the computer anyway!

Hi guys, I'm in this. Haven't posted since the first day. I actually gained like 5 lbs. I think I have been depressed. But am feeling better so I want to get this show on the road.

I did start exercising this week. 30 min on the treadmill and I have an ab lounger I have never used. I am trying it out for the first time and definately feel it.

I'm in awe of all of you that have lost so much the first couple of weeks. You are kicking butt.

Bigsigh-on sparkpeople are you using their meal plans or are you substituting your own stuff? If you don't mind me asking.

Keep it up everyone.

findingme - I'm substituting. I tried to follow the meal plans but for me, some of the meals were just odd or stuff I really didn't like or have on hand.

You can turn the "meal plan" off using the button right next to the add food button. Then it gives you a clear slate to enter the foods you want/eat.

I found the meal plans helpful at first to give me some ideas about quantity and types of foods to eat so I didn't have to think too much

Good luck!

Thanks big- I substitute a lot on it. Dinners usually work but the breakfast and lunchs are just not things I have on hand. I'm on a budget also so I can't buy stuff willy nilly. It also has to be stuff my kiddos will eat.

Findingme..... I too just turned that meal plan off. And like bigsigh I looked at it long enough to get a good idea of what I should be eating and then just planned around that. So far so good. Way back Threnody mentioned not being able to fit in all the food she was supposed to eat in a day. I am in exactly the same boat and I am consistently coming in just a tad under 1200 calories every day.

I think part of the old mindset is at play... and I really need to be vigilant about eating enough to support the exercise I am doing.

Post d-day I dropped 40 pounds in about 3 and half months. I just didn't eat. And my eating disordered self got way to big of a kick out of seeing how many days I could go without eating.

So naturally when I started coming out of d-day hell and eating again I gained it back with lightning speed.. and then some.

So this time though I am being strict .. I am eating really well... but I need to step it up a little... perhaps protein shakes are the answer.

Anywhoo... after all that wordiness.. my official self weigh in was this morning and it is 4 pounds down. (was 5 yesterday ).

I'll take 4 pounds in a week!

So the goal now is to keep it up and hopefully shed 2 lbs a week give or take and be at my goal in time for June 1st (getting married on the 14th).

Then i get the joy of listening to everyone screech in panic at altering my dress or how I'll never find one .. blah blah blah. (I plan on loking next month). Put me in a potato sack.. I don't care.

But I'll tell you what..

I am going to *ROCK* that Potato sack. I am too damn tired of hating my body and treating it like crap.

So there

Meta and Thern- What are you guys eating? Like what does a typical day look like for you? I would love to be able to have calories left at the end of the day. I feel like I'm doing good but I'm still getting too many calories.

What have you guys really had to cut down on in you diet. The hardest part for me is I'm not really a snacker so I don't have issues with that but I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. I have lost 3 of the 5 lbs I gained this week. But I'm still struggling with the calories.

Any input or advice always welcome.

And I'm sure you will rock the gown Meta!

Pm for you Findingme...

I'm still on plan, but I'm tired today and feel like eating. I've been near the bottom of the points range so tonight I need to kick it up a bit and eat more. I'm sick of salad.

But I've been eating more fruit and varying it every day so that's good.

I'm so impressed with those of you who are exercising so much! FANTASTIC!!!

I'm not going there just yet - for now I need to get comfortable with the food changes and stay on track with that. I can't add something else that I may "fail" at right now and I don't want the added pressure so I'm taking the exercise regimen slow.

Well .. that was interesting.

Notice how I posted earlier in the day how I was coming in just below 1200 calories everyday but I needed to eat more?

Well it must have been my body telling me something because shortly after I was RAVENOUS. And craving crap. Like McDonald's. No mere craving... I was almost in tears I was so bloody hungry and sick of this.. it came out of nowhere.

Sooooo.. I ate 3 pieces of Melba toast while I cooked some chicken and puttanesca sauce and whole wheat pasta. I could not wait for dinner or I would have eaten something awful.

I only ate about half of what I made but I am deliciously full and no more craving.

Phew.

Okay don't laugh but D8 got dance dance revolution xbox 360 game for christmas. I was just reading up on it and it has a workout mode.

So I tried the regular mode and for me this is a big deal because I am left/right challenged which makes any organized movement difficult. But I passed the first song and it was a good little work out. So I am going to try to incorporate this into my daily exercise. Plus I can play it with the 2 kiddos.

I am so not laughing! I am extremely jealous!!!!

I could get so into that but we don't have a video game system

I LOVE ddr!!!!

I had a rough couple of days but I survived them. I was really hungry yesterday and the day before. I don't know what my deal was but not only was I hungry but even when I satisfied it, I just wanted to EAT....lol. I stayed on task though.

Today a drug rep brought lunch in from Chevy's and I don't know the point value of what I ate. Because of that, I'm not sure what to eat tonight. I am actually not really hungry so I might just have a few strawberries and forget it.

I worked out hard tonight just in case there were more points than I'm guessing. The thing I really have no idea about is the little taquitos from Chevy's. I wish I had an idea of the point value.

I worked off five points worth of calories tonight though so I'm feeling pretty good about that. I walked vigorously for two miles with a 2% incline and I did over five miles on the stationary bike. I'm figuring about 240 calories burned according to the machines.

I'm feeling pretty good about the exercise. I worked up a good sweat tonight I've exercised four nights since I weighed in last Thursday.

I am going to do this if it kills me. I want to be fit and healthy again.

I am going to do this if it kills me. I want to be fit and healthy again.

Word.

CB

Where is everyone today

Your all having a party without me aren't you? With real food. I knew it!!!

O.k.. kidding obviously.

All is well on the new me front. More craving than usual.. and I'm very bitchy so I am guessing maybe it is PMS time? Or the low carbs?

Not sure.

But I'm hanging tough (although I am sure members of my immidiate family would love to shove a cheeseburger in my mouth.

Change is tough.. but everyday feels a little more permanent which is good.

LL and I was just schedueling our evening and we're pretty busy but not going for my walk didn't even occur to me.. we just made the time.

Oh and NA... I had a sweets craving yesterday which is rare (i am a meat and potatoes girl) so i rummaged and found the kids "Healthy Choice" pudding cups. Double chocoalte flavor. And only 120 calories for one (or somewhere around there). Not an everday food .. but it sure did the trick with minimal guilt.

All right, all right. I've been lurking on this thread long enough. I don't post much anymore because of strong suspicions that WH and/or OW are coming here looking for postings of mine.

But, be that as it may, I too have started this year with a few resolutions... one of which is to lose all this awful weight I've put on since being married to WH (and mostly since the A came out).

So... I attempted to lose some last year, but that didn't last. I started again this January 3rd. So far I am down 10 pounds. (Lots of water weight loss the first week due to time of the month). I'm not doing WW. Just a modified low-carb that has worked for me in the past. I'll check in as progress continues.

Hey Meta... you're going to look STUNNING come wedding day!

sw,

The thing I really have no idea about is the little taquitos from Chevy's. I wish I had an idea of the point value.

You might be able to find nutrition info on Chevy's website that would let you figure out points. Or you can try www.calorieking.com

Checking in for Thursday. Still on program, and the hunger/ cravings seem to have subsided some today. I figure it will take another few days.

This is hard, but it is definitely worth it! Think of how much better we are all going to feel by Spring!

Yay for us.

Another hard workout. I was down 8.5 lbs this morning and worked out hard again tonight. I'd be thrilled to see it go down again but I won't rush it.

I'm doing it !!!