I *appear* to still be on track, although Easter was pretty difficult on me, and tomorrow I have lunch with my sweetie. We'll see how Friday morning looks.

Did I mention how much I missed this place? :)

Actually, my cold helped to keep me from over eating.

OK I've been goofing off but now I am facing surgery and need to drop some more weight pronto!!!!!

I have to be better about fitday. I got lazy. Which is really the entire problem:)

Welcome to our thread DB!

Ooooo Lil ... hope the surgery goes great when it happens! But it does sound as if it may be a major motivator!

For me, yesterday I was still a little off, but not by much ... was over my range but by less than 100 calories, so it wasn't too bad. Looks like to today I'll be able to end well within my range ... will report on if I did it when I'm getting ready for bed .. still a few hours away from now.

I was kinda bad today...ate a piece of cake and a cookie, but I redeemed myself by having a small lunch.

Tomorrow is another (better) day. It's also time to get back to the gym -- I took the past 2 days off!

fzzy -- you continue to be my inspiration

Lil -- Best of luck on the surgery

finally ended a day within my calorie range ... just over 1600 calories to be exact .... it's taken me almost a week, but I'm there again.

osuche, I'm glad you feel that way about me ... I feel the same about you, so great about being off the pain meds ... and you do such a great job in your workouts!!

Of course all of you inspire me, IAKG ... with the great loss and doing so well without the diabetes meds ... Lil just keeps working at the process ... it's hard to do that and making progress with the blood sugars as well. maddy and the treadmill work ... jenna, consistency and having lost a lot so far, aqua and wildirish with working on soda/coffee consumption, steph keeps walking the walk (pardon the pun) sugarsprinkles, back on track again ...(hope I didn't miss anyone!!) I think we all are inspiring ... just doing the day to day work at trying to make healthier choices, that's not so easy .... so let me pat you all on the back and I'll enjoy the pats I receive in return ... I love you guys!!

Oh, and by the way, went down to a lower bra size and lower pant size just this week ... and they are both feeling loose in places again already! I love that!!!

Can we get a total pounds lost from the inception of this thread so we can see how as a group we are making progress?

Me currently 17.5

Depending on how my official weigh-in tomorrow goes...I'm somewhere between 29-30.

Me currently at 9 lbs. :( I *had* made it to 12, but in the past 3 days I seem to have picked up 3 -- and my Hut visit ended yesterday!

<sigh>

Back to work. :(

Don't know the answer to that Lil .. but at a guess probably between 40-50 lbs for me (figuring from my conservative educated guess of my starting weight) ... I have a scale now, but know that I still am well above the maximum capacity .... will hopefully be able to start using it in June or July. Sorry I can't be more exact!

Holy Guacamole!!!!! You are so awesome fzzy!!!!!! What an accomplishment. You must feel so good and proud!

LOL ... Lil it sounds good, but when you know that I need to lose over 300, it's not so great! .... but it's a start and I intend to keep at it this time! And yes, I'm thrilled with the results and pleased with my progress to this point, but know that there's a long way to go yet.

It's more than a start! It's a huge step towards being a healthier, longer living you!!!!

Well, I'm ending my day at under 1700 calories, so it's been another good day ... now I know I really am back on track ... at least through today. :)

Lil ... the 17.5 pounds for you is a big chunk out of the 70 (if my memory is correct) that you've set as a goal for this..... congrats on that!!

IAKG ... wow... what a great accomplishment ... you are doing so great!

osuche ... you are doing great as well.... congrats to all of us!!

and happy Friday everyone!

fzzy, I, too, am amazed at your loss. What a wonderful, satisfying achievement!

And Lil, fzzy's right. It's all in perspective, you know. And remember that your sugars *are* better. From everything I've read, even losing 10 lbs. can be helpful for diabetics in controlling glucose levels.

osuche, as has been said before, you've had some unique challenges since beginning your program. Stick with it--you're doing great.


As for me, the "official" weigh-in has me down 29.5 lbs. since 12/30/05. That leaves me 18 more to go if I want to get to my goal weight, the weight it'll take me to have a 25.0 BMI. Funny, but as soon as I rounded the 50% mark of my progress, the whole thing seemed more real, like, "Wow! I really AM doing this!" Of course, I had some stray thoughts yesterday about when I do reach goal, if it's going to be difficult to get out of "loss" mode and into "maintenance" mode, since this has been a minor obsession for me for nearly four months. :)