i too just hurdled my 9 month plateu (see my previous post on this message board). I hadn't moved the scale in nearly 2 months. I went back to the basics, food diary to log all protein, calories and fluid. I increased fluids to 90+ ounces, 80+protein....dropped nearly 5 pounds in 2 weeks and most of all....I finally passed the 100# mark. I suggest getting back to the basics ( I think I was grazing a little too much...thinking I had to eat protein all the time). It worked for me....good luck! Stephanie

Well Jennifer, I was losin' it last week as far as exercise goes.... I tried to go to the gym on Friday, but it was closed for "EMERGENCY CLEAN UP". I gave in and went and sat in an air-conditioned salon and had a manicure and pedicure instead. Saturday morning, I woke with the resolve to exercise. I made it to the 9AM water aerobics class and still had energy at 10, so I went along and did all my cardio exercises for another hour. We had tickets to go to the home opener of the New England Patriots last night and I knew there would be walking involved, and boy - was I right!!! We walked from the parking lot to the stadium (~3 miles), then up to the highest level to our seats (Gillette Stadium holds 68,000 fans - the tickets were a present from our daughter for mother's day and father's day), then we walked back to the car. I certainly did get my exercise in on Saturday. Hope you had a great weekend! Diane

Hey Janet, I was struck by the comment you made "if you would lose weight your..." I have had psorisis for decades! Over the past 15 years, or so, I've had many dermatologists tell me that losing weight would make the psorisis much better, if not "cure" it. WELL... I'm here to say that almost 9 months later, and 112 pounds lighter, the psorisis is worse than it's ever been!! so to those doctors that said losing weight would help this darn skin issue. Of course, we now know that psorisis is a result of an auto-immune disorder, and I've been on methotrexate and will soon start injections of Enbrel. Good luck on your gyno issues... no fun there either. I had a full hysterectomy 3 years ago! Take care, Tammy

I decided to take Wednesday off from physical exercise (although I did walk the mall in heels for an hour and made a huge batch of home made salsa - standing for well over 2 hours). You're doing great on your exercise! Keep it up, you keep me motivated! Diane

This is great!!! I have lost 135 pounds I feel terriffic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!