Welcome back Britt it's so good to see your smiling face every Monday. I am really struggling with sweets and not exercising. I know why I'm gaining and I know how to stop but I can't seem to motivate myself to stop. I hate it when my clothes get tight. We're so busy with baseball and something going on every night. We're going to the lake this weekend so hopefully I'll get in some swimming. It's been so cold we haven't even been out in our boat. So my goals for the week are to limit sweets and exercise at least 5 times. Deb

CeCe, Don't I know it. Those carbs are just monsters! I had to MAKE myself walk past the amazing bulk foods with the yummiest trail mixes ever aisle at Whole Foods this morning and move on to the veggies. Thankfully Whole Foods has the most amazing veggies too So I'm sitting here munching on snap peas trying to ignore the "give me sugar" urges nailing me every two minutes or so. Ug! this is going to be a tough day. And we are having our quarterly office meeting in five minutes with TONS of bad-for-you food laid out. Including three dozen Top Pot Doughnuts (another favorite). Wish me luck! Corinna

WOW! Deidrah, those diuretics sure did their job but don't discount the work YOU did! Fantastic! You're back and you are STRONG! You are an inspiration to me to keep better track of my intake! CeCe

Hi Corinna - Isn't it AMAZING? I am like you I eat carbs (the bad ones) and gain - gain - gain! You sound like you mean business. Let's see how SERIOUS we are when we hit the scale next week! I want to see a LOWER # -- I know I will if I stick to my plan. Congrats on your PS consult. I had one scheduled for today but canceled it .... $$$$$ let us know what the next Dr says. have a great week!!! Hugs, Britt

Good Morning Everyone!! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We finally had sunny weather in the PNW and it's still sunny and beautiful today. It's days like this that make living here totally worth it because it is just so stunningly gorgeous!! I had an interesting week. I ended up going to my first consult for PS. I wasn't supposed to go until this week but they had a cancellation and got me in unexpectedly. I had been kind of ambivalent about the whole thing but now am totally excited. Of course I have to figure out how in the world I'm going to pay for it...but one step at a time. I have another consult in July. I want to get at least two opinions as this Doc said he recommended a LBL for me to be truely happy with the results and I had thought I could get away with just doing a TT. Anyway, I'll go ask the other Doc the same thing I asked this one and see what he says. I really like this one, he made me feel really comfortable, was very straight forward with his recommendations and why he was making them. Didn't blow off my concern about being able to sing and how long it would take before I could really sing after surgery. It was great. Unfortunately I did not have a better week than you Britt. *sigh* But I"m not at all surprised. Both David and I went off the low carb thing yesterday for Father's day. And while I didn't pig out (I was very proud of myself for that) I did have a lot more carbs than normal and I know when I do that my weight shoots up. Sure enough it did. Back to 155 today. But I know that will drop off again quickly being back on low carb. On Thursday I was at 152 (which was a loss from last Monday) though so low carb is working, slowly but surely. At this point I don't think I can expect to drop the last 10 pounds in a week, darn it all This week I'm going to hit the low carb again. I'm already finding it difficult since I got off of it for a day. I'm not going to let the excuses creep in!! I want to hit the water intake big time this week too. Keeping up with exercise and am looking at changing up my workouts a little bit. The pool at my apartment complex opened this weekend so I think I'll add at least one swimming session into my routine for cardio. I think that's it for me. Everyone have a wonderful week!!! Corinna Q