Hey girl.. I am having such a hard time about smoking latley too!!!!! Like super bad. It is taking everything I have to not go light up.. I quit for my surgery.. Hardest thing I ever had to do.. I love it!! the smell of it, everything. My family would be so mad at me if I started again.. But serioulsy, if I smoke one or just one hit, I will totally be up to a pack a day by tomorrow.. I just have to not smoke that one.. but I am there with you.,.. Totally hard!!! hang in there!! Tiff

Oh Patty, I think we have all had weekends like that. Don't beat yourself up over it. Make a plan to eat healthy and get in those fluids for at least tomorrow, and then take the next day as it comes. I'll confess - since I was away and sort of living meal to meal on the road all weekend, my choices were not great either. I too had pizza. I ordered a personal pan pizza and the salad bar at Pizza Hut when we stopped for lunch yesterday (it was litterally the only thing around). I ate a healthy salad and 1/4 of that pizza. I was feeling good about it...until later that night..I ate the rest of the whole dang pizza (but no salad). Just do the best you can, one day at a time! I think it's getting harder for all of us.

Better late than never ... Here are my numbers beginning weight 287 last week 153 this week 152 total loss 135 Getting soooo close to my goal of 150!

Hello sistahs! My thoughts are with Holly. And Lisa, I hope you are feeling better. I just know Felicia is out having the time of her life right now! This past weekend was fantastic. We were up in the Finger Lakes region of New York the entire time....on Sunday we adventured even further and drove several hours west towards where I went to college. Which, is not too far from Olean NY...I thought of you, Holly - cuz..if I remember correctly Oil City, PA is not too terribly far from there, right? I was able to cross kayaking off my "things to do" list. It was fun and we are planning on buying kayaks before next summer so we have our own. Today I am back at my desk - the end of my project is in sight (I promised to have it ready to hand off by 10am tomorrow). After work I have to trek out to a geocache I own at a park near my parents. It was a little too near a beehive and the last person to find it ended up with about 6 beestings. He removed the cache - rehid it somehwere else and sent me the specifics. I need to go retrieve it and find a safer place to hide it. It will be a nice time, just me and the woods and I'm looking forward to some "me time". Once I get home, I plan on just catching up on some much needed sleep after this long weekend.

Welcome Annetta! Please stick around and post more! I think these October gals are pretty cool, I'm sure you will too!