Hi everyone.  It has been a long time since I posted on this site.  I am still going to WW but it has taken me 6 months to lose 20 lbs.  I keep flip flopping back and forth with the same 3 or 4 lbs.  It is so frustrating.  And.. it isn’t like I am being really bad either.  I have never had this hard of a time before to lose weight but I am not giving up.  I have WW today and I am sure I have gained a pound from 2 weeks ago when I went but I think I will just try harder and journal more.  It seems that if journaling falls apart everything falls apart.  I bought a new gadget from WW to figure points and it is pretty nifty, and its a calculator when you are not using it for points.  I bought WW’s latest quick recipe books and I am armed and ready to go.. yet again.  All in all, I really have been making better choices overall and using good food and not so much junk, but stil need to EXERCISE and eat a little less carbs.  I know what I need to do, but its harder to do it.  I need the motivation like everyone else, to get excited again….hmmm. I am not giving up tho.  Its either this or surgery and I don’t want to do the surgery.  I hope you all are doing okay and are hanging in there when all seems lost.  Seems like we really have to keep prodding ourselves and playing games to keep ourselves moving and focused.  I have been keeping my hands busy when I am at home but its when I am out, i.e. about 3 x a week.  I eat better meals than I did 6 months ago but still too much when eating out.  I will try and keep up here more, maybe that will help. 

Hello everyone :wave: , I hope this finds you all well and on track.  I haven’t posted for quite a while but I have been extremely busy at work and home finishing up some things that I was mid way through and Just didn’t have much to say.  I’m still happy to report that I am just shy of having LOST 15 lbs.  i cannot believe it has taken me this long, but that’s okay.  I have not had any weight gain and some weeks it has only been 1/2 lbs., which is also okay, i’ll take anything I can get.  I really am enjoying trying new WW recipes to cook, I have bought 2 of their newest cookbooks and they are pretty good.  I have tried some really good soup recipes in there that are very good since it has been so very cold here for CA.   I don’t really feel deprived at all.  I am content.  I am also happy to report that I have started walking for 45 minutes a day with my dogs so we are all getting something good going on.  The only bad thing is the dogs wanna stop and sniff out every leaf and every prospect for finding a worm to eat (yes, they think they are birds I guess, WORMs for god’s sake) but once they do their duties, they are learning that they have to walk more and sniff less (I’m so mean).  So….I will try to find some time tonight to see how everyone is doing and catch up and comment.  Have a great weekend ladies! :veggiedance:

I tried this last night and it was very good, except I had to add a little salt and pepper at the table.  Also, it says 2 cups of rice in the recipe (that means cooked rice, a portion for this recipe is 1/2 cup)  I have another one I got at WW the other night for coleslaw and it is almost 0 points and I will post that later.  The people who have tried it said it was great. 

Morroccan Chicken below:

http://www.weightwatchers.com/food/rcp/index.aspx?recipeId=50670

Yesterday was weigh in and I lost almost 2 lbs. last week, 1.8 lbs.  So I am down a total of 11.5 lbs.  It kills me though, I have been really conscientious for the most part about eating correctly, water, etc., but my daughter on the other hand, had several little episodes of eating too much or the wrong thing and she still lost 3 lbs.  It has taken me 4 weeks to lose 11.5 lbs. and it has taken her 2 weeks to lose 10 lbs.  Interesting.  I have decided that this week, I am going to have to MAKE myself get up and do some exercise and get into the habit.  It is just so hard by the end of the day and with all the rain and stuff my body just aches by the time I get home, all I want to do is plant myself.  I don’t think I can lower my points anymore because I will get too hungry at this weight so its a must.  So.. Wish me luck.  I am determined.  I have got to get my metabolism revved up.  The WW meeting was actually very good, and I got a couple of new recipes and ideas and meal planning. 

:wave: I just wanted to check in and say hi.  I have had a pretty good week, not perfect by any means but decent.  I had to go out of town this weekend but I kept track of things and I did okay.  I did eat one meal in a restaurant, Mimi’s, but I chose 1/2 turkey sandwich, a salad and onion soup so it wasn’t too terribly bad, but I didn’t have lunch and had a good breakfast.  I didn’t get in all my water but some.  All in all my choices were 100% better than they used to be when eating out.  We stopped at STarbucks and everyone got something, including a cookie, which I dearly love, but I was not about to have a 750 calorie cookie spoil my efforts and it really didn’t bother me.  I weigh in tomorrow night and have resisted the urge to weigh all week so we will see.  You guys are all doing awesome and it looks like everyone has such a good mindset and such positive attitudes and I’m grateful for that, it helps so much to read all your posts even if I don’t comment every day, I do try to read them every day as possible.   Thanks so much.

Good Morning Ladies;)  I hope all of you have some fun plans for the weekend and can stay on track.  Thats always the hardest time of the week I think. 

I weighed in at WW’s on Wednesday and my total official weight loss is 10 lbs.  in 3 weeks.  I dont think that is too bad.  I notice that a lot of us seem disappointed when it is only a pound or a 2 lbs. loss at weigh in but the heavier you are, the first week you will have a big loss usually.  Then it tapers off.  I onced voiced this disappointment at a meeting and the leader promptly passed around some 1 and 2 lbs. weights.  That put it all in better perspective and now I realize that any loss equals good and that we are not just losing weight, we are learning to enjoy our food, eat new and healthier things and learn to not only enjoy food but use it to actually do our body good. 

Well I weighed myself when I got to work today and I am down 10 lbs. now.  Last night I had a hard time.  I was in an anxious mood (bad for me) and thinking about things I didn not want to think about and so I just went to bed cuz I knew I would start to nibble.  Well, that didn’t work and I got up and polished off some graham crackers and a glass of milk.  Man they tasted so good.  I guess there are worse things I could have eaten but still, it was just one of those things.  I’m okay with it, but it just irritates me.  I still lost another pound but still… late night eating is not good.  Anyone have any ideas on something satisfying to keep on hand for those situations so you don’t eat a bunch of something?