Do the people at work know you're working on your weight? I used to have people forcing stuff on me but I told them I am really trying to get healthy right now and they stopped. There still is food lying around everywhere but it's easier to walk by when you don't have people trying to force you to eat something.

You're doing great ladies! Watching the numbers on the scale go down was the greatest motivator for me. I also hit the goodwill stores and my favorite clothing stores (clearance racks) and bought myself lots of "pretties" to shrink into. It's been so much fun to discard my old clothes and start wearing my "shrinkies". That keeps me very motivated. I'm packing up my 2x, 1x, 20's, 18's and 16's for the goodwill stores. I have a rack of 14's, 12's and 10's, XL, L and M's. Right now I'm wearing between a 12 and 14 jeans and between a L and XL shirts. I haven't work this size since I got married 27 years ago! I will tell you that when I wore this size all those years ago, I weighed about 30 pounds less than I do now. So much of my shrinkage is due to exercise even moreso than weight loss. So as soon as you can exercise- do so! Just a small warning if you haven't been warned already, after the first couple of weeks, weight loss will slow down to 2-4 pounds a week. When this happened to me, I was devistated and not prepared. I figured I'd be losing 5 pounds a week the whole way through and it's just not the case. So enjoy the bigger number weight losses while you can, but don't think you're doing something wrong- and don't get discouraged- when the numbers go down to around the 3 pound mark. That's how it happens.