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Hi everyone! Still here... still plugging along. Been sooooooooooo busy with the holidays. I had a total maintain this week. Everyone keeps bringing in goodies. I am not going crazy.. bite here, bite there. TOM also showed up so that didn't help at all. I did notice the scale moved a bit today but it isn't official until Monday, then I will update my ticker. There is one thing I have been thinking about though. I am hardly getting fruits and veggies. I know even when I eat them it is in such small quantities that I need more. I am thinking about juicing. I usually want something in the afternoon. Not necessarily hungry, but want something. Thinking that may be an ideal time to have a fruit/veggie drink combo. I am sure my doctor wouldn't like it. She doesn't want me to 'drink calories'. She advocates no protein shakes but I drink one every day and it works for me. So I think I will try it. Will post food intake later today!

Hi everyone... Today B: usual shake L: grilled hot dog (was surprised I ate the whole thing) with a couple bites of a bun but then took the bun off snack before gym: one cracker with chicken salad and sliver of fresh pear D: gonna have half a slice of meatloaf walked/ran on the treadmill at the gym for 45 minutes with an incline of 6.0! woot!

Hi everyone.. Made bad choices today. Snacking. Too much snacking. Will stop the snacking immediately. B: usual shake L: a quarter cup each of meatloaf, gravy and mashed potatoes S: 2 reeses pb cups dark Also had a cup of cafe mocha D: slice of garlic bread and half a meatball

Hi everyone... I lost 0.6 lbs this week. Need to focus and STOP SNACKING!!! NO MORE SNACKING!!! ok... I am all better now.. :thumbup:

Hi Bobbie... I am so sorry this has happened to you. You have been so frustrated with this process that I hope you are at least a little relieved that it is nothing you have been doing wrong. I hope they get this fixed for you quickly! good luck!!

Hello, hello.... Kind of a bad day today... Woke up had a cup of coffee in my new machine- YUM B: (at 1030am!) a third cup stuffing with chicken and gravy Threw the rest of the stuffing away! Bad, bad, bad! Anytime I eat it, I make bad choices the rest of the day L: none really... picked on chicken salad while I made it and ate a few bites of my roasted sweet potatoes while I made that D: was overly hungry! had maybe a third cup of meatloaf and a third cup of mashed potatoes. I wasn't sick or anything but I really felt like I ate too much. Almost feels like the food is in your throat...no pain just a weird feeling. Went away after a few minutes. Today I made meatloaf, mashed potatoes, chicken salad, roasted sweet potatoes with apples. Tomorrow I am going to make a pot of meatballs and some chili. That way I am stocked and ready to go for the week!

Congratulations on getting to onederland! It is soooooo awesome to see that first number be a '1'!!!

Hi everyone! Today: B: usual shake L: two crackers with turkey salad D: half a tostada (made with beans, ground beef, cheese, sour cream and cilantro) and 2 tablespoons refried beans YUM! I should be getting my new Keurig coffee maker from UPS shortly.... will be making myself a cup of something to enjoy! :wink2:

Hi Kerri, great to see you post!!! Today: B: usual shake (drank it later than normal) L: no lunch, had late breakfast and then was in a meeting S: so of course I was hungry in the afternoon, had 1 reeses dark chocolate pb cup D: a third cup stuffing with diced chicken and gravy mixed in wanted something sweet so I had a bite of a hershey bar (only one bite though!)

Hi everyone Weird day for me B: usual shake L: couple crackers with about a third cup turkey salad D: tried having the inside of homemade pot pie.. wasn't really working so after a few bites I made myself about a third of a meatball. Band feels really tight today. I don't think I am drinking enough water. Going to sip, sip, sip tonight and see if that helps.

Hi everyone... Today: B: usual shake L: turkey chili with cheese- had 1/2 cup but didnt finish it S: two crackers with turkey salad on them D: not quite half of a pan-seared tilapia fillet, one slice yam Not enough water today. Going to try really hard this week. I want to lose 1.8 lbs... really want to get to that 60 lb mark!

Hi everyone... Updated my weight since I weigh in on Mondays. Lost 1.4 lbs this week.

Hi everyone. Not a very good day. My routine was screwed up from the get-go. I had to run an errand first thing this morning. By the time I got home it was 10am. I decided to have lunch instead of breakfast. Then in the afternoon I was snacking. Bad choices!!! Today: B: ate late... had 1/3 cup stuffing with turkey and gravy L: 1 small cracker with mouthful of chicken salad Obviously not enough because then I wanted to pick at food... ate 1 reeses pb cup, 2 pita chips D: 1/3 cup stuffing with turkey and gravy Oh well.. tomorrow will be a better day!

100 lbs in a year?! Yay, I would say MUCH better than last year! Congratulations!!!!

Hi everyone! Today: B: usual shake L: stuffing mixed with turkey and gravy- total of half cup (I thought it looked like so much when I was heating it up so I put it in a measuring cup!) and one slice of yam D: 1 scrambled egg and half a piece of bacon S: 2 cookies- not sure how they snuck up on me! :thumbup:

Mimilou, Your success is inspiring!

Hi Barbie! I am doing great! I am feeling great! I am loving my band! I really thought I would resent not being able to 'pig out' yesterday. But I really didn't. I ate what I wanted, I ate a tiny bit. I felt great after my meal and I didn't even want anymore. That was a very nice surprise. I love that food doesn't 'own' me anymore. I can eat it, love it, enjoy it and then walk away from it with no guilt. :thumbup: I have lost 58 lbs (not reflected on my signature because it won't be official until Monday). People are really starting to notice now at work. I just smile and say 'thank you'. Part of me is sorry I didn't do this sooner but the other part knows I wasn't ready. Even with a physical barrier in my body, this journey is still mostly mental. At least it has been for me. I am interested to read others experiences!

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a great day with your family! Today: B: usual shake L: chicken salad on a cracker D: tiny bit of turkey, stuffing, gravy and cauliflower in cheese. If you put it all together and put it in a measuring cup it would have been about 3/4 cup. I did have dessert. We had pumpkin and apple pie. I had the 'point' of each kind. They were probably about 1 inch pieces. I feel really good about today. I ate what I wanted. I ate enough to be satisfied so I didn't feel deprived. I wasn't stuffed like the rest of my family. Oh.. and my tiny amount took me LONGER to eat than the time it took my family to snarf down 2 plates each! :thumbup: I was loving my band today!!!!

Hi everyone... I am trying to remember what I had to eat yesterday.... B: usual shake L: chicken salad on a cracker D: half a meatball Today- I cooked the Thanksgiving day luncheon at my work so I prepared turkey, stuffing, hams, sweet potatoes, vegetable casserole, hash brown casserole etc etc etc for 130 people. I do it every year. It is a LOT of work but I really enjoy it. B: usual shake L: from the luncheon had small piece of turkey, tiny scoop of stuffing, mouthful of hash brown casserole, couple bites of veggie casserole and about four bites of sweet potatoes. D: wasn't really hungry, just a few bites of chicken salad

Hi everyone... I am 1.80 lbs under my turkey day goal! WOOT!! I weigh in on Mondays so this will be my offical starting weight for the Valentine's Day challenge.

Hi everyone... tomorrow is weigh in.. hoping for a good weigh in this week. Today B: usual shake L: about a half cup of chicken salad D: half a meatball trying to drink lots of water! glug... glug... glug

Congratulations! That is awesome!

Hi everyone... Today- B: usual shake L: turkey chili with cheese and sour cream.. total of a half cup D: third of a turkey burger, quarter cup mashed sweet potatoes and about 4 bites of broccoli No snacking today! YAY! I have been bad about grabbing a bite here and there. It is just unnecessary and a bad habit to start so I need to nip it right away! TOM is gone now so I am hoping for a good weigh in on Monday.

Hi everyone... Today was an odd day. I went and saw New Moon and then I had some errands to run B: protein shake L: just bites of samples at Costco... brie, cheesecake, breakfast wrap D: quarter of a turkey burger with cheese and onions, about a quarter cup of mashed sweet potatoes I really made too many of the mashed sweet potatoes last weekend. It is taking me too long to go through them. Oh.. New Moon was really good! Good adaptation of the book.. much better than the first!

Hi everyone... I haven't posted because of computer issues... :bored: Today: B: usual shake L: skipped S: handful of pita chips D: quarter cup mashed sweet potatoes, about a third cup chicken salad and about a tablespoon of cauliflower with cheese