Hi gang, quick check in here after a good day. I spent almost two hours in the pool, swam quite a bit and did water aerobics. Food has been good.

Tonight's dinner here was amazing. One of the women raises her own livestock and vegetables, and she brought home made venison sausage, a hubbard squash from her garden, freshly harvested porkchops and bacon from one of their pigs, and all kinds of organic, homemade canned veggies and fruits. What a treat it is to sit down to a meal made from real food grown locally by someone sitting at the table. We even had fresh milk. My body feels nourished and happy.

I have my first weigh in in two weeks this Thursday at my exercise physiology appointment. I hope the news is good. I feel like I'm losing, and I'm dying to hop on the scale, but I get so weird about the scale numbers that it's better if I don't weigh in. I know is that familiar feeling of panic is starting to rise in my throat, and my response to that panic is to want to eat. How crazy is that? But... instead I'll log my food, do my exercise, and check the group, and just keep going, one day at a time.

Thank you to everyone who posted today... love to read what everyone is doing and especially to see new people joining every day. what a special group of people!

It is not so much that I hate water, it is just I don't think of it lol. I suppose I just need to try and get into the habit of having some on my desk at all times. In fact as soon as this post is done I will get some!

The easiest way i found to fix that is simply to always carry around a water bottle. When it empties refill it religiously, plus your forced to get up and move about. That way you always have it on hand. Can help with food and drink cravings as well.