Wow it took like 3 weeks to get the pics on my profile but there they are!!!!!! I also wantted to show off my Hubby Justin Who stuck by my side thru everything! ALMA

I never thought about putting the bottle of water between me and the keyboard. That is a great idea and I will have to try that this week. I drink an Atkins shake or protein shake on the way to work every morning. I had not thought about drinking one on the way home. I might try that. I found a snack bar that has 10g of protein and sometimes I eat that on my way home. Snacking on my way home is a very old habit for me. It is funny in a way. You go many months without doing any bad habits and then one day you realize you are hungry on the way home. You have nothing in the car with you so as soon as you walk in the door you start snacking on something. Bang! The bad habit is back. It amazes me how fast it comes back and like always it is extremely hard to stop. This one thing reminds me that this surgery is just a tool. If you don'****ch yourself you can be right back to all your old habits in a very short amount of time. I will not allow that to happen to me. It sounds like most of us have had a few set backs. But we have each other and understand what each other is going through. I think as one of us finds something that works and we share it with the group it might help others. One thing I started last week and I will let you know how it works is drinking water when I am hungry. I heard somewhere that sometimes when we are hungry it is not because we want food but because we are thirsty. So I am going to try this all week and let you know how it works. I always have a bottle of water with me on my way home from work. I am really going to try and concentrate on drinking all the water and see if that helps with the urge to eat. I think I am going to have to put it over some ice. I find on my way home that I have this urge to chew/eat something. Maybe if I eat ice while drinking my water that will help. I will let you all know how it goes. I have tried Fitday before and really liked it. The problem is I get so busy sometimes that I would forget to enter what I ate. I will have to start back on that again. Sounds like it is working for others. Thanks for the advice.

Went to the ER on thurs with 2 days of abdominal cramping and pain. was really worried that i was developing a bowel obstruction but the er dr thinks its my gallbladder. he gave me some bentyl to take for the cramping and a pain pill for the pain which helps as long as i keep taking it. gonna have a gb ultrasound thurs am. was wondering if anyone else has had any gb pain yet..if so what were your symptoms and have you had to have it out yet..if so how long after you were diagnosied did you have to get it removed. thanks for your help. Barb

Tanya, Your post sounds just like me. I started at size 32 and now I am at 22. Yes I am happy about that and I do feel so much better. But like you I have hit a plateau. I have not gained any weight but I have not lost either. I feel like a failure because I have not lost anything in over a month. I feel like I am letting this opportunity pass by me. I know that we have a year to lose the most weight and I feel like since I have wasted over a month of this time that I am a failure. I do no exercise on a regular basis and I know that is part of the problem. Somehow I need to get myself back on track. My problem is I snack in the afternoon between 4:00 and 6:00pm which is on my way home from work. I know I need to increase my water. My problem is I get so busy at work I completely forget to drink the water. I have it sitting on my desk and I even have a sticky note on my monitor that says Drink Water. However, I am in and out of meetings all day and I just get busy. Any suggestions would be great. Kristy...how do you get 100 grms of protein in a day? Is is all from food or do you drink shakes? I find it hard to get all my protein through food. Please advise.

I need help. I do not exercise on regular basis. I have always hated to exercise and I still do. How can I get my mind into exercising? I know I love how I feel and I know I would feel even better if I could get to goal. I have lost 120 lbs and I have another 80 lbs to go. I have been at a stand still for a month so I have not dropped a lb. But the good news is I have not gained either. I want to keep this weight loss moving but I seem to be stuck. Please give me advice on how to get mind into exercising. I think if I could get on a routine that would help. But I do it for one or two days and then something happens like I have to work late and if I miss one day I am done for. I can't seem to get back on track. I started parking at the back of the parking lot but that is about it. Please help.