Robyn Owens-Miille

Take some Vick's VapoRub for under your nose. No cadaver smells!

4 pounds a week is the average loss. You're ALL doing great. Quit beating yourselves up and thinking you're losing slow!

Now when else would 26 pounds in less than a month be slow???? You're doing AWESOME!!! That's more than 6 pounds a week! You aren't going to lose 100 pounds in a month.

I made pumpkin and turkey sausage Soup and pureed it smooth. It was wonderful. I also made a "taco" soup and did the same with it. I needed spice and flavor at that stage.

Ok, so my recipe definitely needs more protein. Divided it into 6 servings for 129 calories, 11.8 grams of carbs, 4 fiber, and 7.2 grams of protein.

I took an 8 oz block of Weight Watchers cream cheese, 1 cup of non-fat Oikos plain yogurt, 1 box of sugar free cheesecake pudding mix and 1 cup of Almond Milk and mixed it all together with my hand mixer. I added in a little almond flavoring and some SF Torani Vanilla. Yummy! This afternoon I had 1/2 cup of "cheesecake" with some sliced strawberries and a few almond slivers. I haven't sat down and calculated calories and Protein yet. I figure I can throw a scoop of vanilla protein powder, some additional almond milk and some frozen strawberries and use the rest up making smoothies for Breakfast.

Fiber one (the twigs stuff), pulsed in your food processor with your favorite seasonings is a great FIBER-loaded, but tasty, coating for meats.

I love, love, love fluff recipes!!! Totally having some this weekend.

I still cook for family functions. And, yes, the recipes have changed to adapt to me. Many times, they don't even realize what I've done to change up the recipe. I just say I'm trying something new that I thought everyone would like. For example, for our gathering tomorrow I am taking pulled pork (sauce on the side), deviled eggs with light mayo, a couple of different side items (probably a black bean salad and a veggie tray) and a sugar free lemon pudding dessert and fruit. My mom will cook and so will my sister. I want to make sure I always have healthy choices available.

Brush it off and get back on track. Don't beat yourself up. Let it go.

Almost forgot.... I put sliced strawberries and other frozen berries (no sugar) in my greek yogurt nearly every day.

I like cantaloupe, watermelon, apples (no skin yet), pineapple (canned). All have been fine for me as long as I chew, chew, chew.

I still see myself as "the fat chick" too. I am just now starting to realize that I'm "normal fat" instead of "super fat." One thing in your post struck me... "I'm annoyed and angry that my mom still looks at me when I eat and I can "see" her butt hole clench." Sounds like maybe you need to avoid your mom! You have to eat to live and you're not overeating these days (and probably not eating junk food with your excellent weight loss). Good luck, Robyn

As long as you don't start justifying a "treat" every day, you should be ok! It's the "I deserve this treat every single day or two or three or four times a day" issue that leads us back to where we were. I had a 1/4 of a roll at the pizza place (along with some salad and the toppings off of 1 slice). I had vowed I would NOT eat that roll, but dammit it smelt so good!

There is very little you can take. You need to figure out why you're having hte pain and that's going to take a consult with a doc.