Hey ladies, I've not been on THIS April board in who knows how long! Need to stop by now and then cause I see I'm not alone in what I'm dealing with. Successes: Joined a gym with Hubby in Jan. and have gone at ELAST 4X/wk every since. Dropped 1% body fat and gained 3 pounds at my 6wk re-ck. Guess I'm buildign muscle but still do not like seeign that scale go UP!!! Challenges: 1) Gained 15 pounds in the last 9mos. after 2 plastic surgeries and restirctions with workouts.....I know I eat bigger amounts more often now too and am TRYING to stop that. 2) Realtionships: this has been ROUGH on my marriage, have a great man though and have gone from being miserable in some ways and ready to walk away to being happy and STAYING put!! It's still WORK though and some days are better than others. To those struggling with the pounds creeping back in....we CAN regain control, we still have a tool that will help us if we remember to make the RIGHT choices. It's just that old habits die hard. And those struggling with relationships....do what's best for YOUR soul/spirit......that means doing some real inner searching sometimes as in my case. I didn't have an abusive situation so it wasn't so easy to make the choice. Getting to the place I was in though, ready to WALK out and feeling GOOD about it was scary!!! Everything changed when he realized just where my head was. It was a GOOD change. I'm working on ME too....I've found I'm more complicated than I thought! LOL Good luck on the continued journey everyone!!! I've been hanging out on my state board only.....but popping in here, I do see some familiar old faces!!! Hugs, Tami

My success: Left the emotionally/verbally abusive drunk I wasted 8 years of my life on last week thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Challenge: Taking anti-depressants again...seems to be helping, but that may be the 165 lb weight loss from last week!!!!!

There is protein in darn near everything. She could switch from white noodles (the ones void of everything except carbs & calories!) to whole wheat. She can add cheese, peanut butter, beans of all kinds. Yogurt, protein shakes, cottage cheese. There are lots of veggies too that have protein. Also, she may want to learn to like tofu! Just a few ideas!

LOOK AT YOU! You GO girl! I don't pop in here much, but when I do, I always see your smiling face here! I am up about 10 from my lowest, and it is SUCKING ASS! I have upped my protein, lowered the carbs, upped the exercise, had an abdominoplasty (and a revision to it), sacrificed chickens, waved the magic feathers over my head while circling the mailbox three times chanting "booty be gone"....nothing is working. I think my body enjoys being here at 140-145. I think I am going to have to have a serious talk with my body SOON. I am proud of ya, Chicka for you successes!!! Peace, love, and splenda smooches to you and yours!

Lara and everyone Honey it is great to see you and that you are getting back to where you want to be, you have such a great outlook. My lowest weight was about 136-138 and I am maintaining 145. The friends still think I am anorexic and if I could kick this addiction to apple cinnamin rice cakes, I think I could lose the 10 lbs I want. As long as I do not go over 150, I am fine and not too depressed. Went to the high school reunion, #20 in November. Some of my best friends did not recognize me, I kept looking at one of my classmates and asking him if I was HOT. Of course he said, yes. I got so many compliments, and the best one was more of a dirty look that represented ""How dare you look this good." Everyone was more shocked that no longer have my short curly hair but long flowing locks. I had so many people tell me how great I looked. It was refreshing. Love to you all, Keep on lurking. Lori 258 and maintaining 145.