STUCK!

Not happy. I have been fabulous on my diet and the scales have said the exact same thing for three days in a row.
:(

Can anyone catch Bob, Mary and Chris?

Tally ho Chubbies...how is everyone doing? I have been so good I dont even recognize myself.
I have lost 14 pounds as of this morning. I started at 216.2 and today was 202. I am quite hopeful it will be 34 pounds by tomorrow morning. :)

Those of you in it for the money need to know that Mary, Bob and Chris are flying. And I dont know about Chris, but Bob is even actually eating normal food and cake and ice cream! What is up with that? All three of these guys are the ones to watch. Marilee joined the gym and has already lost about 15 pounds just on eating alone. Better run when she hits that ol treadmill. She can actually run on it. She swears by her chicken tenders topped with bruschetta sauce (Costco or Sams $6.00) and a thin slice of cheese. Havent tried it yet because I gave up dairy products for the first three weeks, but it sounds divine.

I have a favorite meal idea to share. I LOVE tacos...likeMom used to make...fried corn tortillas with straight unseasoned hamburger, and olives, cheese, lettuce and tomatoes. Obviously the fried tortilla is the worst part. So I take a large romaine lettuce leaf and put a spoonful of the super lean cooked hamburger on it, and the other items (minus the cheese and olives for this first three weeks), and it tastes much like my beloved tacos with a fraction of the calories. A friend suggested that I get baked tortilla chips and crush a few of these inside as well to give it the crunch and corn taste. Lettuce leaves also make wonderful wraps to hold the inside stuff of a sandwich. Just use it in place of the bread.

I also bought on Amazon, a bottle of chocolate raspberry flavor drops. I put ten in a glass of hot water and heated it. It is my "cocoa." Zero calories and zero sugar which is something I am watching closely. Trying to find more interesting ways of consuming more liquids. It would taste even better in a glass of diet cocoa, but that has anartificial sweetner that still raises my blood sugar.

An interesting and exciting sidelight to all this. I have been dieting for 15 days now, and there have only been two days that I took my diabetic meds. And then it was partial doeses. All the other days I have not needed it. I have started a chart to record my sugar levels three times a day to give to my doctor. Obviously I cant eat like I am now forever, but it certainly reaffirms the correlation between lifestyle habits and diabetes.

Good luck to you all. I love to hear your progress.

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I am afraid my week has not been so great. I only lost 1/2 lb at my WW weigh in, and I felt like I had worked really hard! I may have let myself eat a few too many slices of pizza while feeling sorry for myself this evening - DANG IT. Hopefully all will even out in the end, as today was a long run day - 2 hours on a treadmill. Ugh! However, I hope I redeemed myself by spending the rest of the evening, not only planning my weekly grocery shopping, but filling my my food journal with my meals for EVERY DAY next week. I feel like I am prepared to face the week ahead! And hopefully my hard work this week is just waiting to show up on the scale next week and I'll have a totally KILLER weigh in next Friday. Don't count me out yet, Nay! I'm still in this too!

Anyone frequenting the john a little more than usual?????

When I first started trying to drink 80-100 oz. of water a day, I was visiting the bathroom much more than I wanted to. I was waking up at night to relieve myself! It was getting ridiculous! My goal to get at least 7 hours of sleep, was interfering with my goal to drink 80-100 oz. of water/day. I was complaining to someone a lot wiser than me about this one day and he told me to remember this. When you drink that much water, it has to come out, right. When it does, you are releasing:

F: FAT
A: ADDICTIONS
T: TOXINS


So the next time you have to visit the john, remember you are getting rid of F.A.T. And your body does get used to it after a while and regulates itself.

Here I Am

Now that Renee has spoiled my plan to lay low I guess I can disclose my weight loss. As of this morning I have lost 15.8 lbs. It has been a big change for me and Shanna. We have gone from eating anything and everything in sight and going out whenever possible to eating 3 healthy meals a day and exercising. Its amazing how much better you start feeling when you are eating healthy and being active. Shanna has been amazing and is always looking for healthy recipes to cook for us. Still it hasn't been easy. It's sad when each night you finish dinner and you start looking forward to breakfast the next morning. As hard as it is it will be worth it when we are able to shed all the unwanted weight.

If you are wondering how I lost 15.8 lbs in just under two weeks, the secret it simple. Just try some of these workout videos and you will be thin in no time. Good luck.

Chris Puuuurrrdie...where are you????

You need to check in and report.......I know what you are doing.......hiding and trying to get the rest of us to forget..
Are you going to share how much you have lost? Shanna? Tell..tell on him....

I know Bob is ahead of me, and maybe Mary.....but Chris worry me. My goal is to quickly pass you all up so you will quit..

:)

Nay

Im not hiding

News is too good to keep quiet! I have lost 9.2 pounds now.

Now I would really feel better if the following people would exit the game:
Nolan
Chris
Bob
Brett
Jeff

Thank ye kindly boys!