Tuesday, I love your cropped haircut! That is so cute on you!
When was that picture taken?
I made an Excel file for myself when I started Weight Watchers. At first I used it to journal, then I decided to use it for a daily log so I could keep track of my points. Then it just made sense to throw mmy weekly weigh ins into it. And since I love playing in excel, I also have a line graph showing my progress.
My mom just about wigged out when she saw it, but it is simple and it works for me. She does not function like I do.
BTW, when I started journaling every bite I took and was honest with myself, I was eating between 75 and like 92 points a day!!! I now eat 22 a day and I eat lots of veggies, lean meats and whole grains.
Tuesday, I love your cropped haircut! That is so cute on you!
When was that picture taken?
About oct. Thaks, I love my hair short now.
I also added my pic of me at my start weight of 250 when my 2nd child was 6 months old. so that's in 2005 in a snow stornm in my mil's basement.. Becareul scary!
I wish I had time to reply to everyone right now! I'm running off to school after re-baking a batch of valentines cupcakes (14 year old dog ate the first batch - my stupid fault).
Shellie, hang in there! Stick to your good eating habits & don't worry about the rest. If you have surgery look for a PT clinic that offers hydrotherapy. Either way, your rehab will start with a series of exercises that is essentially the base of Pilates. I love Pilates & it's great for your back as it strengthens your entire core, taking pressure off your back. Ask your doctor if you can start those exercises when you feel better.
I second what Merissa said about the Yahoo group! I need to find my pictures but won't have time today. I should be able to get them up tomorrow night 
EEK!
-Lisa
WOW Tuesday!! You really look great! You really are an inspriation! It is fun to see pictures. YOu know how you imagine people might look and then you see their pictures and they look nothing like you thought! Fun to "see" my friends in pictures. Okay, maybe I will post some more pictures, I feel better about Monika having to accept people into the group. Not that I think tons of people would be looking at them, but you know, the internet....!
I'm gld you posted your big picture! That really gives me inspiration!
Looked at the pic's. What an amazing difference Tuesday! You truely are an inspiration and a great motivator. Makes me realize it CAN be done.
Also Monika some missing stats for me
Age: 26
Occupation: SAHM
Thanks so much for doing this. It's so nice to be able to see the stats and all the progress being made. I've never wrote anything down when trying to lose weight, it makes a difference.
Geez, I go away for a few days and I come back to 12 new pages. I don't have time to go through all of them right now but I wanted to check in. My trip was okay, right up until the part where I got the stomach flu and my period all in the same day. Yikes!
My no cheat Wednesday has been pretty good although not enough water has entered my system at this point. Good luck to everyone and I'll see you tomorrow.
Oh, and as for my stats
My name is Shannon
I'm 33 years old
I'm 5'11" tall
Starting weight was 267
Goal - my mini goal is 20 pounds by April 15th.
Shannon-welcome back! boy you missed a lot while you were gone! LOL! Monika set up a yahoo group for us for our stats and pics EEK! And we had a lot of conversation regarding not crash dieting, not focusing on the scale so much...basically taking the healthiest approach possible so that we dont loose muscle and also dont yo yo diet and gain it all back. You might want to scan through a few pages to get the gist if you are interested!
Haha! That's funny! I did the exact same thing the first time I loaded a pic in Yahoo. I saw that you loaded it into another folder, so I deleted the one in my folder.
Um, yeah, no cheat Wednesday...I have had some soup, 3 tortillas (small ones) and a handful of Twizzlers. My water is yucky to me today. I guess I need to get some hydration in though.
I pass on dieting when I am sick and can't taste anything...
Rambo, I NEVER would have thought you to look like that! I expected dark hair, kind of "hard", (you know...Rambo....)
Someone named tcstoys would like to join Yahoo, but I don't know who they are.
Does anyone else know them?
LOL - Curse that darn nickname. I'm the girliest girl I know. Out of the three of us (I have two sisters) I was, and still am, the only one who likes pink and frilly. I got RAMBO because my little sister couldn't say her "R's" growing up and AmbO got shifted into Rambo.
It's nice to put faces to names. So far Merissa is the only one who looks like I pictured, why that is? Something in your posts that made me think of a girl I knew in college. And Shellie you will forever be the lady I know that works at my gym. LOL, good thing she's super nice, I suppose or I might have inadvertanly (sp?) copped attitude with you. 
BTW I cropped my DH out of that photo. He might have been a little irked to find out I'd posted him 
I love seeing the pics everyone! Everyone is so pretty! thanks Monika for setting this up! Quite a project for your "cheerleader week!"
Anyway I am weighing. even though we agreed that we shouldnt get so wrapped up in the scale, I cant say I am not a little disappointed. I know I "cheated" a few times (went out on Friday and gained 2 pounds! 
Then I ate a couple of choc covered strawberries yesterday and a smallish piece of cake...okay and while I was making the strawberries I ate some candy melts...my conscience is clear now) So here it goes:
Today: 144.4, which means I am up .8 pounds.
As for goals I slacked a bit on the exercise and went only 2 times, but I am heading out this morning. I drank my water but maybe 1 day, and I did well on my diet except what I wrote above.
New goals:
continue with SBD phase 2
Drink 64 ounces of water daily
Exercise at least 3 times, start focusing on wieght lifting
Dont get down on myself about my lack of weight loss this week. Keep going!
Someone named tcstoys would like to join Yahoo, but I don't know who they are.
Does anyone else know them?
Nope, cant say that I recognize the name. I think people in yahoo might be able t seach for groups, so they might not have found it here. There is someone else on there too that I dont recognize.
They seem to know about CC. I have e-mailed them to get their CC user name. Everyone else I know from here. Some Yahoo ids are just different than their CC user name.
Ok, my weigh in for this week is 163.5. The lowest I've been in like 3 years!!! Yay!!!
Goals:
1. Continue the water thing.
2. Get back on plan with my diet, from being sick.
3. Get some official excercise in.
Yay for lost pounds!!!! Well I know we said we shouldn't focus on our scale # But my clothes feel tight and I have stayed the same...126!!! Now that is odd that I have stayed the same but feel bloated and tight. I have no clue but I met all goals so I guess I should be happy or at least content hu? 
It's getting close to that time of month for me so maybe that's it. Thanks for all the compliments on pics guys! It is always so neat to see pics of those you talk to because your mind has a whole another set of pics and they are never right of course! I just want to say "watch out world!" Cause we got some "hot little mammas" on this board! 
Goals for next week:
1.keep making healthy food choices.
2.up exercise time and intensity.
3. keep perspective on weight and food issues without constantly focusing on these.
Ugh, not good. You know, I know what I started at over a month ago, I know I gained a bunch of weight after that, I know I lost all of that and then a little more and here I am today, at the exact same weight I was when we started. I'm a little frustrated with myself because I have let myself down. I'm going to be picking myself back up though, enough is enough.
By the way, I LOVE the gropu page that you set up Monika, I used my husbands yahoo account and now if I could only figure out how to get my own name on there. I'll have to play around with it at home when I have a minute.
So to recap, last week was not a good one in the sense that I gained weight. I'm going to be more active, drink the water and really hold myself accountable. Those are my goals.
I've noticed everyone started off with "I know we weren't going to obssess over the scale" Weighing in is a good thing, it keeps you focused, it tells you where you might have gone wrong. The idea is to remember it's just a number and not the end of the world. Frame of mind has become my bigger issue and thanks to you all I've changed that.
I got sticker shock when I weighed this morning. 217. I lost the 2lbs that I had regained after being sick. Don't know how but it feels nice. So I'm at a total of 7 lbs lost. YAY. 
I've been thinking about the words "life style change" so my goals are for the next month, if not longer - just until I don't notice I've made the change.
1. Walk the puppy every day - she's finally gotten all her shots and this is half the reason I bought her in the first place, to build some exercise into my life without having to think about it. And somebody is relying on me so I can't make excuses.
2. FAST FOOD. There are 14 times or more a week that I'm tempted to grab and go, Lunch and Dinner and a couple breakfasts. I probably give in about 6 or 7 of these times (being brutally honest with myself here) SO....my goal is 3 times a week. This particular goal is a double whammy because it'll also help me keep to the spending budget my DH has been trying to enforce, and we want a bigger house next year so that's good motivation that isn't weight related.
Good luck to everyone this week. Run Fat Cells, Run!
I've slacked a bit since Mon. but now that we're done with V-Day no excuses. Also when I joined this club I weighed myself at night (19
and now I am weighing myself in the morning. Anyway 193 (I'm weighing myself in the morning...I like that number better =D) My clothes feel the same.
Goals are:
-MORE WATER!!!
-Portion control (mainly at dinner, I eat way too much)
This weekend is kind of scary. I'm staying with my sister while her husband goes away but she's trying to lose weight too (and doing a good job at it) so I think I'll be ok.
I'm glad everyone likes the Yahoo page. I am starting to feel like myself again. I just have a nasty cough still. And my house is icky. Yesterday I felt better, but I was so tired all day. I kind of feel it coming on again this afternoon. I just ate lunch and had a warm shower. But, my little guy has been in bed for a while and if I go lay down now, he will surely wake up as soon as I fall asleep. I always get really grumpy when that happens.
We have been iced in all week, on top of being sick. So I am about ready to get out of the house. Our weekend plans have been scrapped due to this nasty cold, so I don't know when we are going to get out of here.
What yahoo group are ya all talking about?? I must of missed that post! Anyway, I maintained: still at 170!
I'm trying not to be depressed about it but I was really trying to be good. Did my bike faithfully 3x a week plus some free weights not to mention the snow shoveling I've had to do this week!
Goal: Water and more water instead of Pepsi
Bike and free weights 4x this week
No junk food snacking!
Great job everyone who has maintained or lost this week I weighed in today at 156 - 1 pounds less than last week for a total of 14 pounds lost. Considering all of the junk I've eaten in the last few days (donuts, cupcakes, NFSC's with MMF), 1 pound lost is pretty darn good!
New goals:
continue to treadmill 5 times a week (met last week)
stop eating junk!!! (not met)
no mindless snacking!!! (not met)
You guys should have seen the load of candy DD brought home from her school v-day party yesterday. You would have thought it was Halloween I am going to be very good and not eat any of it. Fortunately most of it is lollipops, taffy, and things that don't interest me too much. But there's one Snickers in there that I think I'm going to throw out so I don't eat it (I'm the only one in the house who likes Snickers).
DIE FAT CELLS DIE!!!!!!
-Lisa
Christeena, I started a Yahoo board so that I could post our Excel stats. We could chat on it, too, but I prefer chatting in CC. We are using it for pictures, links, stats, that kind of stuff.
I have it set up to where if you want to join in, you have to get permission from me first. I am still waiting to hear back from one who I didn't know. I have a feeling that thye just saw the board online and wanted in, but I'm only letting the CCer's in from this board. I did it that way so we would all kinda "know" each other and not be embarrassed.
I know I don't want my fat pictures wide open on the internet!
Monika, If you approve of me, just p.m. me and let me know so that I can join the group. Thanks!
Took a widowed firend of ours out for a Valentine's supper tonight and I did okay: Shrimp Cocktail, half of a pork chop, salad and water.
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