Minus 45 lbs. !!!!!

After two weeks of working out and NOT skipping a day, I have lost another 5 lbs. NO MORE PLATEAU!!!!!!!!! DRINK WATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's great - keep up the good work! I recently hit a plateau as well and the scale didn't budge for over two weeks...didn't do anything in particular and finally started losing again. Sometimes I think of my body like the ship in end of the movie Titanic - it stalls and stops, then finally gets a move on! LOL. Enjoy your weight loss! Melissa 399/320/180

Congratulations! I was in plateau hell for almost 3 weeks, but the scales moved last week (4 lbs) but so far nothing again this week! I need to exercise more, easier said than done. How much water are you drinking???? How much protein????? I feel so bloated all the time from water, but maybe I still need more. Getting in about 64 oz every day. I'll be postive and assume like you, the weight will start coming off again. Dianne 315/272/150ish.

Am I weird or something?!!! Everyone talks about how many oz. of this they drank or how much protein they are getting. I have never measured. I have two babies and a busy life. Besides, if measuring my food and water intake worked, I would have stuck with weigh****chers or one of the other weighing obsessed diets. Here is what I do everyday(for better or worse, take it or leave it!!!) I get up, shower, take my calcium, multi vitamin, drink my veggie juice, brush my teeth, dress me and the kids and head for the gym. After workout I eat lunch. Wherever! I usually get a chicken salad, or soup. Then I take the kids out to play for 30 min. Then it is home for Dee Dee's nap and Jake's lessons. Then, a quick string cheese snack, and time for Dee Dee's lessons while Jake does chores. Then we all sit down for a snack(them-peanut butter sandwich, me-spoonful of peanut butter) and they play in the backyard while mommy practices flute,piano,etc. Then daddy comes home and we all do our own thing for an hour. Daddy makes dinner(usually fish or chicken) and we all eat together. Then it is bath time and night night time. In between the lines, you should read potty training, checking email, working from home, rehearsals, and shopping when necessary. Of course, everywhere I go, I am accompanied by my water bottle. How much do I drink a day? Who knows? Who cares? I drink as much as I can.

I'm very much like you...have three kids and a hectic schedule. My main exercise is chasing three kids - lol! The only way to make sure I'm getting enough protein is to drink my protein shakes - without them I wouldn't come close to getting in enough. I drink one every morning on the way out the door, and sometimes for lunch as well. Lots of times for snack, I'll have some plain deli turkey and dip in low-carb bbq sauce. And for dinner every night I try to have a protein a vegetable. Some days I get it, some I don't. I'm missing salad terribly, but my pouch doesn't care for lettuce as of yet - otherwise I'd be eating a big chicken salad everyday. I've had quite a few times this week that I've had bad foods, albeit in small portions. Easter candy shopping for the kids was much too tempting - I had a reese's pb egg the other day (didn't make me sick but I regretted being so weak!), and today had a small marshmallow bunny. I hate holiday candy - it's so good! As far as exercise, I make it to the YMCA a few times a week and use the treadmill and elliptical machine...otherwise I try to walk everyday with the kids. I'd like to lose enough to where I "feel" like hopping out of bed every morning and doing a heavy-duty workout. Melissa 399/320/180ish

I have really changed since the surgery. Even my husband agrees. I used to lie in bed all day. Couldn't work; exhausted. Diabetes, circulation problems, muscle cramps, fatigue, depression; I had it all. Food was my GOD! Now, I have energy, energy, no diabetes, no circulation problems, no depression, no medication except for allergies and asthma (and of course the chewable vitamins). Food is a routine to be dealt with like brushing my teeth, or bathing. I do it because I need to and enjoy it but not obsessively. Instead, my addictive personality, which used to smoke cigs. as well as overeat, is enjoying pampering the body. I imagine that when I get smaller I will really go crazy shopping; but HEY!!!! I am allowed!!! I like exercising, and I missed it today (weekend). It really charges me up for the day. Ah well...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! I went camping and was away from my scale and low and behold -- MEEEE TOOOOO -- five pounds and now down 45 -- YIPPEEEEEEEEE -- I feel your joy, My Friend!!! Oh, I also don't measure my food. When I'm full, I'm full... I've learned to gage it now and it works for me