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Awesome job CarrieAnn. I haven't weighed this week yet and don't plan to until Sep 1st because I have been WAY to negatively influenced by my obsession with the scale. I haven't found as many meals that would be nutritionally the same as salad for this week as I had hoped but there is always tomorrow and the next day, etc.…

Shannon, have you tried a fruit smoothie? You can hide some kale or baby spinach in there quite easily and depending on the fruit you use it will still be sweet or tart enough to mask the taste of a cup of either of those. Any dark green veggie will give you so much nutritional benefit that it would be worth doing what…

Thanks Meadow I know you are right, no doubt about it. It is a great help to get these reaffirmations, I do truly appreciate your support. I am so glad you are feeling a little better and will keep you in my prayers for your second surgery :-).

Hello All! Happy Check In Day! Okay time to fess up! The last couple of weeks have been a real struggle for me. I can't seem to get my stuff together and get the noise out of my head. It's been causing insomnia and some weight flux so over the last week I've lost 4 lbs but I think it was the same 4 lbs I had lost the week…

Shannon, Girl I understand your frustration! Personally, I think there are quite a few things you could do but I don't know how much effort you want to put into it, I mean is this a venting frustration or do you definitely with no reservations what-so-ever want to get off that 4lbs and start bouncing back and forth on the…

Hello Brandi, welcome! This is a great group of people and they have been so very supportive of me and each other so come on in to family we got a place for you right here. Shannon - yay on camping and sorry you gained but it sounds like you have an idea of why that are keeping the faith that things will right themselves…

Shannon don't despair you'll lose that you gained in no time... seems like every time I log in you've lost weight, so keep doing what you're doing and trying to improve a little each week and I'm totally sure you'll be back to losing soon! Meadow - glad the surgeries aren't major, scary ones but, I'm still gonna keep you…

Good Morning Everyone! Happy Accountability or Check In Day! First things first... the progress report: 1. I did 9,200 - 11,163 steps each day this week. So definitely exceeded my goal here. I'm starting to be able to walk faster for greater durations of time so the physical activity is really starting to pay off. 2. Lost…

Thanks Meadow! I am coming around to the realization that my expectation were grossly overestimated. I think I'm over it now. This weekend helped but not in the way I expected. Usually when I try really hard and don't do as well as I anticipated I would I get that rude, nasty voice in my head saying well if this is all…

I was happy dancing for you at 40 and I blinked and it was 41... you totally got this... 50 will be here soon. Keep doing what you're doing cause it's working.

Oh good point on the veggies... thanks. You are doing awesome girl! Every time I log on you lost more weight, you're really doing well!

Okay good to know... I'll have to keep an eye on that... cause I'm over my sodium again today... who knew roasted veggies with no additional salt added had so much sodium... yeash.

Thanks Shannon :). I will give it another couple of weeks before I do anything drastic to change up my diet. I know the bacon pancakes over the weekend didn't help things but I guess I didn't realize how long they would effect my weight loss.

Carrieann - Whoo hoo way to go girl! Shannon - glad your body is going back in the right direction again :wink:. Great accountability on the exercise front, you assessed the situation and know what you can do to improve there so that's great! Alanabanana - I know what you mean about the weekend! Right now this early in my…

Oh wow, way to take the bull by the horns with the OA meetings! Good luck and let us know how it goes! Congrats on making the month a loss overall! I know how you feel about the struggle with sodium and fast food. I've been successful in keeping that tile the weekends so far but I'm not ready to do without it entirely…

Hi Everyone just a quick check in (logging in from work shhhh). Stats this week: Lost 4 lbs yay but I'm really very, very disappointed by this number. I think it was due to the cheat days I actually went up 1.4 lbs that I had to lose again but the amount of weight loss to me seems to be lessoning drastically each week. I…

Welcome Sugarfemme! Carrieann that is most wonderful news! Don't let them label you girl! :-) I really like this group post, love reading all your responses, I agree with everything! Hope everyone has an awesome night Virginia

Meadow, you are totally right, two pounds is two pounds and that is so wonderful that you met your goal! Congrats! I had Chinese last weekend and I was so looking forward to it, I loves me some Lo Mein and have been eating so light on the carbs that I was almost salivating thinking about it. When my family and I got to the…

Depending on how much exercise you're doing and close you are to your goal you might just want to look at your calories burned for your height, age and weight at a sedentary rate... cut those calories by 500 a day and you're on track to lose 1 lb a week. Add an additional 500 calories burned in exercise a day and you're up…

Hey There, this is an awesome idea, count me in. I'm right there with you, so far having the support of friends with similar goals has been very beneficial. Anyone with similar goals feel free to add me also: SW: 445 CW: 422.2 1ST GOAL: 398 2ND GOAL: 320 3RD GOAL: 270 4TH GOAL: 198 5TH GOAL: 145 END GOAL: Be healthy and…

Wow, so I might be able to say CONGRATS on gaining weight (baby)! How long until you find out? I don't know if you've ever experienced this before but I ALWAYS weigh something different at night versus first thing in the morning. I couldn't say why but I try to weigh at the same time for consistency sake. Great Job staying…

Good Morning Lovely Ladies! This week I've lost 6.6lbs. I keep wanting to add a but there because to be entirely honest I was a little disappointed in that number because the previous weeks had been 8lb weeks. I have been kind talking to myself this morning and reminding myself that it is a very, very good number AND that…

Thanks Lexie... Love that photo and the slogan, words to live by

Awesome, thanks so much! So Wednesday is the stats day, right? I'm really looking forward to this :).

Can I join in? Sorry I'm late but I'm new to the group.

I'm in, we can all use some positive encouragement. :)

Hi Kim, Sounds like you have some really reasons to motivate you and a plan on how you're going to get there. Congratulations to you! My name is Virginia and I'm just a little over 2 weeks into my new plan/goals. So far things are going a whole lot better than I anticipated so I'm super grateful for that. Hope you have a…

Hi Izzy! Nice to meet you I'm Virginia. I'm just at the start of my journey, looking to surround myself with people on a similar journey or those who have succeeded where I want to be. Congratulations on breaking the 300 barrier, I bet that felt really, really good. Hope you have a great evening and we can help motivate…

Congratulations on trying to find a way to resolve this before it gets way out of hand, I wish I had been as smart many years ago. All of my previous attempts at losing weight have ended in a similar fashion to what you described in your post so I believe I know what you're going through. The biggest thing I'm doing…

That sucks! I know how it is when you try really hard and see little to no results, want a little empathy and instead get a hurtful or flippant response. Reading your post I think that was a really poor choice of words and actions on his part. That being said you've been with him for 6 years so he must have some redeeming…