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Well, I am back to 175 as of this morning.   I had gotten here about a month ago then started messing up.  A little cake here, a burger there and so on and so forth until I had gained back 4 lbs.  Luckily I caught myself before I was back in the 190’s or higher.  Hopefully it won’t take long to hit my next mini goal.  Wish me luck.  Take care everyone.

A few years ago my husband was diagnosed with diabetes.  He was put on medication and through diet and exercise he was able to stop the medication all together.  He thought the diabetes had gone away.  Well, he still works out all the time, but pretty much eats what he wants.  He started having problems again and low and behold his blood sugar is really high again.  The Doc put him back on medication and recommended that he/we as a family follow the south beach diet.  My husband needs it for his health, and I figure it can’t hurt me and the kids to eat that way also.  Soooo, I am now on the SBD and the kids will be eating low carb dinners from now on.  Hopefully that will get me going with my weight loss again.

 Is anyone else on the SBD?

Well, I have been off my “diet”"way of live” since Thursday night when my Father-in-law got here.  It was 5 days of eating, eating and eating. I am back to eating healthy today, and I must say I am kinda glad.  I felt sick last night in bed.  I don’t think it is really a big deal to have one meal that is not great every once in awhile, but when you eat like crap for a few days in a row it really feels bad. So, I am back at it today.  I am back to logging my food and taking this weight loss serious again.  I must say, it is good to be back and can’t wait to see more results.

Well, I seem to be having a problem.  It seems that once I hit my first mini goal I have really been slowing down and have pretty much come to a halt this week.  I did not lose one pound this week.   I know why too, I ate like crap!  I would do really well at breakfast, but sometimes I would break at lunch.  Other days I would do well at breakfast and lunch then really go overboard at dinner or with snacks.  Why am I sabotaging myself?  I was doing so well and I was really starting to feel good about this, now I just feel like I am failing myself and can’t seems to get out of it.  I know I shouldn’t be eating whatever it is that I am eating, but I tell myself that it is ok.  What am I doing? 

 The good thing is that I am still tracking what I eat.  I guess that’s a start.  This weekend will be tough though.  My father-in-law is here to visit and we haven’t seen him in several years because he lives on the other side of the US.  That means I will be doing a lot of cooking.  I love to cook so that is ok, but I also love to eat what I cook.  If I can get through without gaining, I should be ok by Tuesday. 

 Wish me luck and I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Ok, since I started this “life style”(not diet) in mid-July the scale says that I have lost 16lbs.  I think wow, thats great!  I should be at least 1-2 sizes smaller right?  I put on my clothes and they still fit.  They are a little baggy, but not that much and I think the waist is still the same.  What gives???  Am I not drinking enough water, flushing out all the toxins and fat or whatever?

I go to a sale at a local department store yesterday thinking, well I have to be smaller so I think maybe I will reward myself with a new outfit. (Back to school sales)  So I grab a large top and a smaller size pants and head to the dressing room.  I take off my clothes and am horrified to see that I look bigger in that mirror than the one in my bathroom.  In that mirror I look like I have gained weight instead of lost it.  I wonder if some of this is in my head.

I try the pants on, I can get them on, but oh boy they are not attractive.  Tight in all the wrong places, but I buy them anyway.  I am bound and determined to get my @ss into those and look good by next month.

Well, my weight loss is definitly slowing down, and it is to be expected.  I was practically starving myself in the beginning and was seeing fast results but I took everyone’s comments and made a decision.  I need to do this the healthy way so it will stick.  So, I started adding more food to my diet.  Healthy, low calorie, low fat foods, but more of it.  Then I had a death in the extended family (a cousin) and everything that goes along with that.  So I ate.  Southern Comfort foods with the rest of my southern family.  You know fried chicken, potatoe salad that type thing.  I did ok though.  I only a little bit of it and still managed not to gain.  But it seems harder and harder not to eat my old foods now that the fats are back in my system.  I had mexican for lunch with collegues today, but again I tried to eat at least semi-healthy and I am taking the Alli pills.  I stayed within my calories and fat according to my alli plan so maybe I will be ok. 

 I just have to stick with it and know that I can tell a difference in my body.  My clothes getting loose so what I am doing is worth it.  I need to start adding some exercise back into my day.  Maybe walking.  I guess we will see. 

It really does help to read other blogs and see that I do not struggle alone and it is encouraging to see so many who have made so much progress.  We are all hear for the same thing.  We can do it…together.

Ok, I purchased the starter pack of Alli, but haven’t started taking it yet.  I am already on a low fat, low calorie diet so I thought this would help.  Is anyone else on this plan?  The weekly menu they give has more calories than I am comfortable eating everyday, so I think I will stick to what I am already doing and add the pills.  There are some side effects so they suggest starting when you will be close to home.  I think I will start on Friday.

I would love to hear from anyone on the Alli plan.  Do you like it, how is it working and are the side effect bad?

Woohoo.  I met my first mini goal today.  I am so happy.  Now just 10 lbs to meet my next mini goal. 

 I rewarded myself with Mexican food.  I tried to make good choices, but still ended up eating a little over 70o calories.  I just couldn’t resist the chips!!!  I really think that is OK though, because I will just compensate for it at dinner.  All in all, I am proud of my progress and plan to keep going!  I have come to the conclusion that I will slip sometimes, but that that I just have to make up for it and keep on truckin.

I can’t seem to make up my mind how I want to diet, but at least I am sure that I am dieting. :)  In just the last 2 weeks tried the profast for about a week and lost 9lbs, then I ate actual food and cake on my birthday and gained about 4-5lbs back.  Then I decided that practically starving was not good so I decided the 100 calories 5-6 times a day would do it for me.  Then gradually over the week I have changed that to less that 1000 calories a day, eating healthy food several times a day.  I actually had a 6in sub from Subway today and felt kinda guilty.

 My problem is that I want to lose weight quickly and want results NOW!!!  I check the scale way to often  and get upset when I see it stay the same or go up .5lb.  I am back to 9lbs lost, but I was there last week. 

 So here’s to me trying to stick with something and stop changing my mind on a daily basis!

I can’t seem to stop weighing myself and then getting frustrated for not losing enough!  I am being totally unrealisitc and I know it!  I step on the scale every morning and at first all was well I would lose between 1-2 lbs every day.  It was great for a week.  I was eating next to nothing, except meal replacements and vitamins, but I was seeing results.  Then I decided that I really didn’t need meal replacements if I just keep my food to around 100 calories 5 times a day.  My dinner meal is more because I am having lean meat with a salad, but it is still less that 300 calories.  In total I am eating less that 1000 calories a day and for the past few days my scale has not moved.  I know it could be a variety of things and that I need to stay off the scale, but I can’t seem to help myself.  Maybe I will just try cutting back…say 2-3 times a week.  I guess I will see how that works out.