Aliya! It's like I was drawn to this board today, and this is EXACTLY what I needed! I'm up 10-12 pounds and have been drinking too much wine, along with not exercising at all. I'm up for the challenge, count me in! I'll be checking in daily, I hope more people join in, we all need it! Update on me: Life's been good, but LOTS of stress. I'm a grandma! My daughter had Elizabeth Jane on Feb. 1st. She was a month early and it was stressful, but she's here now, and she is perfect! Things are starting to settle down a bit. Now I just need to re-focus and take care of ME again. And I need to cut down on the pinot noir!! I'll be checking in....

Hey Tracey, Thanks for checking in! Congrats on your loss, and healthy choices. Keep it up!

What are you doing today to support this helluva journey that we are on. So far I have drank about 40 oz of water, and had 1 23g protein drink Breakfast- strawberry, and orange lunch-1/4 c of steamed brown rice-threw it up snack-grapes dinner-grilled eggplant snack-nuts Note: I am doing a fruits and veggies fast for 21 days. I will ahve another shake with my workout. 1/2 hr treadmill, 1/2 hr elliptical

What is Daniel's fast? I too am in a bad place . . . eating for purely emotional reasons, totally disconnected from hunger, not exercising, drinking too much wine. I definitely need help! I'd gotten to a good weight and nice size (10, close to 8); now I am back to a 12 and very thick in the middle -- the stressful kind of weight. I don't have much control over my sources of stress right now, but must find more appropriate ways to handle it.

I'm up for it. I need to do something. I won't be able to exercise but I sure can watch what I eat. I'm celebrating my 3 year surgiversary by having more surgery. Oh boy. I'm having the first part of a 2 part back surgery - spinal fusion. 5/20, I have the discs removed through my belly and bone put in to cause fusion and then 5/22 I have rods and screws put in through my lower back to stabilize things. Its a two-fer. Two surgeries - one hospital stay. Yippee. I hope this is the last surgery. I see my gastro next Tuesday about abdominal pain that seems to have improved with probiotics. I believe (self-diagnosis here) I have small bowel/intestinal bacterial overgrowth. My belly gets extremely distented, I get severe gas and pain. It's been an ugly couple of months. Hopefully he'll be able to help me. Boy, I'm sunshine and roses, eh? Brighter days have to be ahead. Kathy