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Fantastic cielo!

How's everyone doing?

I'm a little disappointed - I had a mini goal for Memorial day weekend. (x is picking up the kids - first time since Nov., and I wanted to be down to a certain weight by then. I'm about 3 pounds up from that weight, but since I'm getting close to goal, it's coming off really slowly, and the last few weeks I haven't lost anything. That 3 pounds would knock me down a size - right now I'm in between and nothing looks right.

I've given myself until Labor day to reach my ultimate goal, realizing that the last 5 come off very slowly, but I really wanted to make my mini goal. I know that I still can, if I really kick it up the next 2 weeks. This weekend I have a barbecue and a mother's day lunch out, so it will be a challenge.

yay cielo!!!

I've been awful and I'm up 3 lbs to show for it.

I haven't exercised in 10 days, and I haven't been watching my diet.

I worked out this morning, so I'm getting back on track.

Haven't done so good in the eating department, but I find that as long as I'm working out, I don't have to be as strict with the food.

I'm taking the weight off slowly, and not depriving myself. Being strict, but not deprivation.

[This message edited by imokay at 5:12 AM, May 12th (Monday)]

ok,...

I went off the reservation this week. My niece's first b-day was 2 days ago and it was all fried food. ick Blew all my point and half my freebees by the lunchen. Dinner was of course a plain salad.

Yesterday was Mom's day and we did brunch for WW's mom, used all my daily points right there, then that night we went across the state to see The Police with Elvis Costello in concert... there went all the rest of the freebees and then some. LOL. I have pilates tonight so I hope I can undo some of the damage. Not looking forward to weighing in.

I guess we all go through these bumps in the dieting process. It sure can be difficult. I think exercising really is the key. Even if you splurge one or two days, as long as you exercise in between, you will at least stay where you are and not put on any weight. I've been trying to keep moving daily, even if its only for a 10 minute walk.

Tonight is weigh in for me and its also that time of the month.

I started South Beach today. The first 2 weeks are going to be utter hell. Big time veggies on this diet and I'm just not a big veggie eater. Each meal there is a minimum (yes, I said minimum) veggie portion. Breakfast calls for 1/2 cup. I cut up a yellow pepper and put it in my scrambled eggs. Yuck. I barely got it down. I gotta figure something out, or I'll cave on day 2.

brohl, once your taste buds adjust it will be MUCH easier. I never thought I could do what I'm doing now. I was the worst junk food eater alive.

I'm now happy to report, as of today I've lost a total of 11lbs in 6 weeks. Its a slow weight loss, but I'm liking it because I haven't had to starve myself and I've allowed myself to slip up now and then.

My mom said she noticed my face thinner and that's the one thing that I want gone...the double chin.

I entered a physique competition. I have 14 weeks to get ready. I'm competing in the over-40 group, the smallest weight-class.

Time to get serious.

Good luck annben, you can do it!!

I stepped on the scale this morning. 4 lbs down. I even cheated a bit on Sunday.

Whooo hoo!! Doin my happy dance!!

Good for you!

I did almost the same thing when I lost 4lbs the other week...I did a jiggy dance.

Happy Dance for me too! I reached my "memorial day goal."

Yippeeeee!! Is it silly of me to even care? x hasn't seen me in 6 months and I really wanted to lose this weight before he came memorial day weekend. Hey - any motivational tricks that work!

click, congratulations! That's great. You're doing really well.

Brohl, I've done SB - it was really hard for me to stick to but if you have issues processing carbs then it's a pretty good diet. Good luck! I've ramped up the veggies - I buy them frozen and throw em in everything. (I never used to get frozen, but having them always available really helps.) With fresh veggies - roasting them with a little evoo and different spice blends helps give you different flavors.

annben, good for you! One of my coworkers was seriously competing a few years ago and still enters a few now. I don't want to get in her way ever!

I don't do it "seriously" and this one is at a very local level, so I'm hoping most of the other competitors are like me. You know, normal.

I know some people at the gym that ARE serious. They compete to try and get fitness modeling contracts, and sports-suplement contracts, and guest-posings at gym openings. They compete at under 8% bodyfat. That's LEAN. The striations in your butt-muscles become visible at that low. Oh, and your cheeks hollow in, too.

Huge test of determination the next four days. A wedding... family dinner one night, wedding breakfast the next day, and the reception the night after that!!! Ugh!! Plus, we have to drive 10 hours to get there and leave from the reception to drive 10 hours to get home. So, not a lot of time for walking or exercising or anything.

Not looking forward to it. But... at least I've got my exercise plan in place for when I get back.

I have not really been counting the calories the last week or two. "Dieting" was just stressing me out too much. I have not skipped a workout, though, so I am still losing weight. My total is 19 pounds lost- not sure on the inches right now as I have not done measurements in a while.

I was thiking today that I suppose I could stop slacking off, go back on the diet, and maybe still make my goal weight by my birthday.

But I'm not feeling terribly motivated, probably because I had gotten so frustrated. Maybe I should just work out more.

DCK, 19 pounds is great!

I know what you mean - it's hard to "track" and figure out everything you eat. For me, I know that if I don't, I'll run amok and start eating tons of junk again.

I think that focusing on exercise is terrific. If you don't think you can count calories now, why not just focus on one or two "healthy eating" goals - like avoiding a few particular foods you know are highfat/high cal - or cutting out the "white carbs" and sticking with whole grains/ high fiber choices?

What seems to work best for me is to have a "rotation" of menus that I know are diet friendly. That way, I don't have to figure everything out all the time.

Imokay, we all have days & weeks when we feel like we're off track... the key is to get back on and start new the next day.

I was starting to get really obsessive, thinking about food way too much.

I don't eat fast food anymore. In fact I don't even crave it! I don't drink non-diet soda anymore (and honestly I prefer coffee now when I need caffeine). I make a point of eating fruit and veggies daily. I don't drink anywhere near where I used to and my tolerance is such that anymore than 2 glasses of wine is kinda too much now.

I think my eating habits have become fairly healthy. I still fight urges to overeat, though. Mostly when I'm bored.

dck, sounds like you're doing great then.

Ok, so the weigh in wasn't as bad as expected. I still lost 1b. Any loss is good loss right?

Anywho, I am back in full diet mode and hope to get back to loosing more than 2 per week.

Hi everyone! Today is a new day - a new day to recommit to a healthy lifestyle.

It's raining here today. I've been walking on my lunchbreak every day for the past 2 weeks and I'm bummed about the rain. I may have to run stairs in the building instead.

Hope everyone is doing well.

I don't know what my problem is. It's like I'm afraid to succeed. I was doing so good on the new diet. Feeling much better than I've felt in awhile. The scale was finally going down again. The past 3 days I haven't been able to control myself. It starts out with just alittle cheating. Then it turns into full blown out indulging. WTF?! Sometimes I hate myself.

Need more inspirational success stories, please. It's only 8:30 in the morning and I'm starving to death.

Help!!!!