Good News!!!!!!!
 

the dr. just came to take my vitals for life insurance and she weighed me. i was NERVOUS because I weighed myself this morning and my scale said 149!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: I have had suspicion that our scale was off because last time i went to the dr...i weighed myself before and when i got there, it was a lot different than my home scale...well...hers weighed me at 141!!!!!!!!!!

so, i will be looking for a new scale LOL

Wow, what a nice surprise. Congratulations. That's 8# less that
you have to loose:p

I know...isn't that GREAT!! I'm very happy about this :)

That's 11 pounds to lose and boy those are the toughest to lose - K - since we are being honest here(hehehe)...I started in January being 175 at 5'6:eek: :eek: ...I have no idea where all that came from - I was always thin and never needing a diet until now. Plus my bloodwork is what pushed me to start the "year of me.".

Today I am 140 and my goal is 135 but boy if I could go to 130 I would fall over. I am now a 9-10 but some 7-8s. There - I "said" it out loud:eek: so for lunch today I have my oatmeal the new Quaker Simple Harvest with all the fiber/barley; my Gala apple and that's it. But don't forget I eat 6 small meals a day. So at around 3-4 - I'll have my 150 calorie Southbeach bar which will fill me up until dinner around 6:30ish and then my late snack around 8:30pm. Lots of water is key too! (in my 20s/30s always between 125-130 but those days are gone!)

Oh, this is a great post! I recently lost about 30 pounds on NutriSystem, it took about a month and a half. Ive been off of it for about a month now and im STILL loosing weight. I learned that my problem was not eating regularly and not really excercising. So now I use the treadmill everyday for 45 minutes and I eat every 3 hours. Not starving yourself and realizing that things are good in moderation will help you stay on the right track. Not allowing yourself to have little "treats" is just going to make it harder. So reward yourself when you meet little goals! I wish everyone good luck! :) :)

#30 in a month and a half? Wow you must have really worked hard.
Good for you. See, with all this encouragement we can all do it.

OK, let's weigh in on Mon. Remember this over the week-end. Good luck
everyone. I'm staying off the scale until Mon am.
Don't forget, let's post our losses on Mon.

Good Luck to all,

will do :)

Yup I REALLY did...I was determined! I just woke up one day and made a decision....Ive never had the best will power - but something just came over me. I used to starve myself in the hopes that would work but that just did the opposite! I would eat twice as much as I usually would....I KNOW we can all do it - support is a BIG part of beginning a healthy life style and attaining our goals!

Monday it is.

Must remember to get new batt for the digital scale........

My mother lost a kidney and then her life from cancer. She never smoked. She swears it was all those years using saccrine and then sweet & low.

She made me swear to nevr use artificial sweetners.

I use stevia or good european sugar.

Breakfast:

2 eggs with spinach & some chedder

Lunch:

little red sweet/hot peppers-- 7 ---- stuffed with fresh mozz cheese

Snack:

Sliced tomato and red onion with a drizzle of balsamic

Dinner:

Steamed Jumbo Shrimp with lots of steamed fresh veggies and whole wheat cous cous.

Milo will be so happy---he loves shrimp! :animal-pa

Welcome. Come join us. The more the merrier.
Weigh in on Mon am.

I have been on Weight Watchers since March, so has my son, I have lost 26lbs. so far and he has lost 21 lbs. I love WW, it is so easy to follow and it has taught us good eating habits. I really eat what I want, just not as much as I use to. I was exercising 1 1/2 hrs. a day 5 days a week, but i haven't kept that up and I still am losing. Although I do need to exercise more, I always feel better when I do. I still want to lose at least 25 more lbs. Drink PLENTY of water, it helps fill you up. I also try to eat as much fiber foods as possible, they fill you up too. I LOVE Weight Watcher yogurt with some ground flax seed and grape nuts mixed in, this is part of my lunch every day. I have been eating healthy for so long now I actually crave healthy foods instead of sweets which use to be my downfall. Get some lowfat cookbooks or Weight Watcher cookbooks, that is all I use to cook with now.

Im In!!
 

OK........ I have always thought I would never try to get in with a "lose weight group", but I am in!!........ With the holidays on its way, I defintely need to lose & NOT gain anymore. It seems like every winter I always gain a few more pounds!!!
I really like Vi's suggestion on eating more melon. I LOVE any kind of melon.......... but I will have to stay at home more..... It makes me Pee!!!:eek: :eek:

Don't forget to post about your weight loss successes!!!!

So what did everyone have for Dinner?
I had chicken that I cooked in my new pressure cooker...man ,I love this thing! Black eyed peas and about 2/3c. mac and cheese. I know thats bad,I had small portions of everything I ate. No seconds.

i'm bad. i didn't have dinner. i had a late lunch and am just not hungry. i know that is a MAJOR no no. but i'm just not hungry and this headache makes me NOT want to eat. i am scared I will get sick if i eat.

so for dinner...I had water and vitamins :( I really was going to eat dinner...but i took my dd to girl scouts at 6:30 and we didn't get home until almost 9. now it is waaaaaaaaaay too late to eat anything. so i will start fresh in the morning :)

i'm still psyched about only weighing 141 for the dr. today !!!!!!!!! :jump28ib: :jump28ib: :clapsmile :woof: :woof: :yay_jump: :yay_jump: :yay_jump:

I'm glad I found this thread. Count me in!!! I need to lose at least 30lbs. I started walking when the kids went back to school beginning of this month and I'm definitely not snacking as much as I used too. My next step is to start watching what I put in my mouth. I need to get back on WW. I lost 20lbs on WW in the past but put it back on. I'm going to commit to you all to get back on it and hopefully with us encouraging each other, we will all get to our goals.

Good luck everyone!

i didn't have a good dinner, i had little ceasar's pizza :( BUT my ex boyfriend took me to meijer's to get some food for the weekend while he is gone. I am having a hard time doing too much with how I feel, so the frozen dinners was the best route. I got a few by that kashi brand plus I got kashi brand cereal and crackers. I guess that brand is suppose to be all natural so healthy and all that. Never tried it, so hope its yummy. Making sure I take my relacore with my meals. Water is very important to weight loss and I drink more water than anything anyway. I have to drink at least 10 8oz glasses of water a day with the kidney stones, doc would perfer even more than that. My ex suggested I fill a pitcher with water and ice, since I have a hard time moving alot when pain gets bad, plus I get dizzy.

I don't think I can do my workouts on the slant board with the stint in. The doc said I can't go to the gym. I love my carmen electra fit to strip dvds but those are off limits too :( Hopefully soon I can get back to working out, I am sick of being stuck on the couch.

I noticed someone mentioned weighing in on mondays, I am in.

1/2 ounce of water for evey pound 160 lbs/80 oz's
 

Hi again,

I saw all the tips, so I thought I would put this one out there. Drink your water girls. I got a rubbermaid jug that has the oz's marked on the side. It helps me see my progress.

I exercised today on the ball for 30min's. I also lifted weights. Lifting weights helps burn fat and build muscle. When you have more muscle the metabolism speeds up, so your burning more calories. Yeah!

Congrats of your weigh in at the doctor! Fabulous!!!!

I will stay away from the alful scale for the next couple of days.

I had potato soup, and bread for dinner.

Thanks girls for helping me keep it real!!!

Breakfast:

1 toasted Thomas' English muff--- the 8 gr of fiber one---- with a touch of real butter and a schmear of Cascadian Farms, organic reduced sugar jam.

A cuppa PJ Tips with stevia

8 oz of fat free, organic milk


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I have a brisket in the oven--- the best recipe ever. Fatty bit of meat but I will load up on vegs and go easy tonight.

I am stocking my freezer in prep for going into PMS mode next week---I will want to do nothing, so the food will already be done!

On the agenda:

Jamie Oliver's roasted pork loin w/ apples, pears, carrots, baby potatos

JO's beef stew

JO's chili

Split chix breast and boneless chix breast, grilled

I use very good, lean beef cuts and cook low and slow in the oven for all.

Brown rice will be made and then just a trip to my fav farm stand to fill up with fresh fruits and veg and I will be set for the week.


This will save me from myself as the hairy hormones take over. I won't be able to rationalize going out to eat all week because I can't be bothered.

And we all know how the eating out thing can kill you---- not to mention the fried food cravings of those hormones!

:rolleyes:

That's interesting - didn't know that - did WW tell you how much sodium is ok on a daily basis? My nutrionist told me to only weigh myself 1x week - and important to weigh yourself - same day each week - same time. So every Saturday morning when I get up is when I jump on the scale and that is pretty accurate - also weigh yourself with same clothes (or off!!):eek: .

Hi All!

Last night for dinner I had an applebees WW salad. I skipped their dressing and went with plain old olive oil and vinegar. I checked the soduim content, and it was 400 with their dressing, so I'm thinking what I ate was less.

For a snack I had a whole weat Kashi Waffle (150 sodium) with no sugar added jam (1 tsp).

And I had 3 dark chocolate hershey kisses.

This morning I had 3 egg whites and 1/2 a grapefruit.

3 hours later, my morning snack -- I had a waffle whole wheat Kashi brand with 1 tsp jelly and a wedge of Laughing Cow cheese.

Lunch will be 2 oz of chicken with a cucumber soaked in vinegar, yum! LOL

As far as sodium goes, I think it's supposed to be under 2500 by the AHA, but I believe that they are trying to get it down to 1500, if I'm not wrong.

Im REALLY watching the sodium I'm taking in. I have soups that were "healthy" and low points on WW, but the sodium in a can is 1900!! That's nuts!

Last night was a real test for my forgotten willpower. I use to have
the best willpower but it went down the tubes somewhere along the
line. Anyhow, it was a friend's birthday and 6 of us went out for dinner.
I ordered baked scrod, broccoli/plain, salad w/vinegar&oil, white wine
spritzer and a decaf cappacino(bad). No sugar but a drop of sambuca.:D
No bread and butter or desert.
I think I did good.
Don't forget the weigh in on Mon and be careful over the weekend.

Kashi products are delicously good.

Do you have room for another? I need to lose the 10 pounds I gained after high school and college!! More than that, I need motivation to keep working out b/c I go in spurts - I'll work cout consistently for 2 months and stop for 3...not good :(

I think this thread will be good for me.. I am fifteen and just started sophmore year and had a REALLY REALLY stressful summer after 8th grade then an even more stressful freshman year.. I weighed about 115-120 at the end of 8th grade.. I am now 148.. I gained 28 pounds in a year and a half :( thankfully though because of sports I don't look it and I have alot of muscle but I still wanna go back to atleast 120-125 :)

Hi everybody...My name is Kathy and I'm a food-aholic. What can I say I love to eat!!! So.....I think I want to join this thread and learn how to control my over eating, and shed some extra baggage. I will set my goal for losing 25 pounds...lets make that 26 pounds...LOL...I weighed in at 151 pounds this morning and I'd like to get down to 125 pounds. Thanks for the thread...and I will really try to control my hunger pangs. Good luck to us all!!!

Count me in! For the last couple months I've been going to WW but still have some more (about 15) to lose. One hint-eat sitting on the couch, your furbabies will absorb some of the calories! My weight loss has slowed now so I have been trying to increase my activity by going to Curves 3 times a week and walking. So far today I have had: a papaya for breakfast, a Jersey Mikes turkey sub for lunch, pizza for dinner and a WW ice cream sandwich. I'm still within my points. The pizza was easy-just used a low calorie, high fiber wrap toasted as the crust, a little sauce, peppers, onions and fat free mozzarella cheese. yum! So far WW has been easiest for me. I go to the meetings and find it very supportive.

I utilize that one quite often!:p Milo is a very supprtive diet ;) helper.