Also, I 'd like to apologize to merissa for jumping ship on her 10lb challenge the first day! I AM SORRY.
But I am here and ready to fight !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Weigh in today: 157.8, down 1.8 pounds. Hopefully I can keep it up. I got all my water in yesterday and then some because I know I put in the extra 20 oz and I drank all of it except for a small part that was still frozen. I have my bottle filled up again today.
Managed both sugar free days. It wasn't easy since I don't have much in the way of food in the house.
I have to overhaul the grocery shopping in order for this thing to work. Meaning that I have to go with hubby to shop. Also not easy.
Awww, that is okay Tuesday, you still have time! But get to work. Just kidding. sort of. LOL!
Congrats Otter on your 1.8 loss! Yea!
I weighed in this morning at 152.4, so that is I think 2 pound loss. Which is great because I didnt do that well over the weekend at my family reunion. I think if I can really focus and not over eat during the weekends I have this in the bag. I am in the ZONE! I didnt do great on the exercise, but I have drank all of my water the last 2 days. Once this wedding cake is over, I am going to feel a lot less stressed. I hope!
So goals for this week:
Keep up with my sugar free days and stick with the diet.
Drink 64 ounces of water daily.
Plan my daily meals and snacks.
Exercise 3-5 times this week.
I'd like to nominate Otter for this week's cheerleader! She did so well focusing especially with having her daughter leave for the Air Force.
and I know giving up that coke was a challenge for you! way to go!
I lost 2 pounds this week!! Down to 151 
I will fess up & admit that I had that pretzel yesterday afternoon, even after I had my rice cake snack. But I did also have a smaller than usual portion of spaghetti for dinner with a big salad to fill me up.
Now for the real test - today we're making a cake so DD can do a Course 2 cake, and tomorrow we're making Harry Potter cookies. I know I'm going to eat them. There's no getting around that. So I need to continue to treadmill every day and keep up the salads & fruits, and hope to maintain this week. We're going grocery shopping today so I can get more salad stuff (and whole milk for DD's cake).
DIE FAT CELLS, DIE!!!!!!
-Lisa
SEE, THAT'S WHY I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!! YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!
You all seemed to latch on and loose....I just took my measurements and am down:
I lost 1/2 in. in waist and 1 inch in hips!!!!!
So I guess I have accomplished something, and it is thanks to all this love and support!!!!
WE SUPPORT BETTER THAN AN 18 HOUR PUSH UP BRA!!!!!!!!
AND THAT'S SUPPORT MY DEARS!
SO GO GIRLS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well my scale says 226 which is up 2 lbs BUT I "started" today so I'm going with the 224 from Monday. I said farewell to my plus size life last night and woke up a size 8 this morning...A cranky, bloated, tired, size 8 but even skinny girls have that problem.
DH comes home tomorrow night (thank heavens) So I'm cleaning most of the day but I definately need to get on the water train, I'm actually really thirsty which I'm sure you've all heard means your already like 4 glasses worth of dehydrated. NOT good at all, it's time to Chug on.
WE SUPPORT BETTER THAN AN 18 HOUR PUSH UP BRA!!!!!!!!
Man if we ever decided to Advertise this would make a great slogan 
I know right, it so fit our group I had to share it!!!!!!!
I am proud to be on with the loosers this week.....so keep it up girls.......
Loss of a 1/2 inch in the waist and 1 inch in the hips is very good, Tuesday.
Merissa, I'll be the cheerleader this week, but you are a hard act to follow.
Ok, first challenge will be to write down everything you put into your mouth BEFORE you put it into your mouth. Then think about whether you really want to eat it before you make a decision to put it into your mouth. 
Great challenge Karen, and I am having such a bad day for it! Started off good - granola bars for breakfast with diet pepsi. Went shopping & bought lots more salad stuff. Came home, sipped water all morning & got one 32 oz. bottle in. Made cake for DD. Tried new scratch yellow cake recipe. Looked great until the tme came to flip it out of the pan. Both layers stuck 
I don't know why - I greased the pans as usual & waited the usual 10 minutes before trying to flip them out. The bottom 1/4 of both layers stuck in the pan. HMPH. I was mostly upset because when I tried it, it was really good! All of the white/yellow scratch recipes I've tried so far have come out really dense and dry and icky. This one was fluffy, but still firm. So guess what I did? Ate the whole darn thing, almost. I probably ate one layer by myself & the others & one of the dogs ate the rest. On the good side (if there is one), they were the little oval pans from Course 2 & not an 8 inch or anything bigger 
I haven't eaten anything else today either because I feel so grossly full & sick. Blah.
I will do better tomorrow!!!
-Lisa
I too eat cake gone wrong. Did I post what happened to me last week? If I did just disregard. I started baking my wedding cakes. I had a 12 inch (the biggest one!) cooling on the counter. I got up for a few minutes and was messing around in the closet. My littlest one comes walking up to me with a spoon in his hand and says "mommy cake" I almost died when I saw that he took a big chunk out of it! The worst part was that I was so frustrated it ate a ton of it.
I'm slinking in for weigh in, finally... I maintained this week which was a little disappointing because I've been swimming A LOT and not really eating too bad.
On to another week, though!! I need to be very strong this week, it's DH's birthday Monday and he always wants a homemade, irresistable cheesecake. It's going to be a challenge!!
Not too bad today, smoothie for breakfast and salad for lunch, but then I had hamburger helper for dinner. I'm a sucker for an easy meal. I've been planning to clean house tonight, but maybe I can squeeze in some Tae Bo instead.
Good morning, All!
How did yesterday's challenge go? I realize that it is hard for everybody to get on during the weekend so I will give you a weekend challenge now.
I want everybody to slow down and actually pay attentinon to what they are eating. Turn off all the distractions, put down the book, and concentrate on your food. Smell it, taste it, think about the way it feels in your mouth. If you take your time with your food then your body will have ample time to signal that it has had enough. Once you get that signal push your plate away. I know about all the starving children in Africa but your overeating won't help them. And no snitching off the kids' plates on the way to the sink!
I have been doing well with my water. I fill up my 64 ounce bottle and have it gone before the end of the day. The problem is that I have it gone by lunchtime and then have to buy a bottle of water because the water at work here is horrible. I think they have bad pipes or something because the city water isn't bad. Haven't had a Coke since Monday!
GO OTTER!!!!!!!
I feel you on the coke, I used to be addicted to mountain dew, not diet either. When I worked 16 hour shifts at the ER I used to drink 1 2liter and 1 12oz. mountain dew every shift! 
If I took in that many calories now I'd be as big as a house!
It was hard to give them up, I used them calories and caffeine for energy.
So I had to over come the caffeine addiction too and boy is that hard!
So deff a big accomplishment there.
Also your write it down and examine it method kept me from eating 2 packs of fruit snacks late last night.
WE GOT THIS GIRLS.............DIE YOU STINKING FAT CELLS AND CELLULITE!!!!!!
Haven't had a Coke since Monday!
Great job! I know how hard it is to break that soda habit/addiction.
I felt pretty sick last night after eating so much cake yesterday, so I'm hoping that will help me not eat too many cookies today. We'll see 
I'm heading downstairs to treadmill now, and then it's cookie baking time!
-Lisa
P.S. Merissa, when is the wedding?
Lisa,
Sorry to hear you aren't feeling very well. Hope you are better. I know when I bake I can't even stand to look at food, and not because I eat it. A lot of times Hubby has to make me eat.
Speaking of eating, It's time for me to get my mid-morning snack going. I feel so much better now. I think I have gotten my sugar stabilized some and my metabolism going. Of course, it is with the help of all of you. Thanks!
Tuesday, great going not eating the fruit snacks (which wouldn't be so bad if they were actually fruit)! Keep up the good work!
yeah, I have found some that are mostly fruit at our health store but they still have added sugar..... 
So for now I grab some fresh apples and strawberries with a dash of lime juice and munch away.......
I have a seedless watermelon on ice for dessert tonight...yummy!
Sounds good, Tuesday. I'm not a big fan of apples but fruit is always good. Once the dust settles I am hoping to be able to keep fruit in the house myself. Right now all I have is some frozen strawberries.
frozen strawberries just scream for a smoothie!!!!! 
Good plan!
Don't forget the challenge for the weekend, and remember to think before you eat anything!
Have a good weekend. Not sure if I will be on at all.
How is everyone doing this weekend? Not too too bad here. I did have some pizza friday night and last night I went out to dinner to celebrate my first wedding cake delivery. I got a salad though, so not bad. But then I had a dove bar (the ice cream kind). I am going to have to work really hard this week though. I better get my butt back to the gym.
Hope everybody had a good weekend. How did the weekend challenge go?
Merissa, you can't beat yourself up every time you eat something. You can't let yourself feel deprived and you do need to make sure you eat something. Hope you did do your challenge and stop to enjoy every bite of it. I know I would have!
I had a terrible weekend We had pizza, cake, cookies, more pizza, & more cookies. I told myself I was going to be good yesterday, but then we had lunch with my in-laws & got a chicken cheesesteak for lunch. I couldn't resist that - we were ordering from this little hole in the wall that I love, and no place near me makes chicken cheesesteaks so I gave up & got one. So good & greasy. And no treadmill at all.
So, I am going to be very, very good the rest of this week & we'll see what the scale says on Thursday
-Lisa
Oh I am not beating myself up. I realize we need a treat sometimes. Just can't be all the time unfortunately. I woke up this morning to a 2 pound weight gain though. So back to where I was last week. But the monthly visitor arrived yesterday so I am hoping maybe that is all it is. I also did not drink much of my water this weekend, so I am back on the plan monday. It is a lot easier for me to stick to my diet during the week!
My DH is back and bless his heart he's been so much help. I have noticed my neck and back problems returned now that I'm sharing my bed again......hhmmm....Sanity or aches and pain?
I'm having trouble getting back into my size eight mentatlity, too much outside intrusion. But I'll get there it's just going to take more effort than I've been giving. I've got 3.5 weeks and that's plenty of time, IF I get on the move.
I survived this weekend but......well saturday I had 3 cranberry and greygoose vodkas.
But on the up side we danced saturday night watching a friend of our play out.And we danced for 4 hours!!! And I mean ALOT!
So that had to be good for me...lord knows my thighs and calves are killing me enough today!
Scale said down 2 lbs but as soon as I eat today and these achy muscles firm up a bit I'll have at least 1 lb of it back.
But we shall see come thursday how good I really did.
So keep up those exercises girls and chug-a-lug that water!!!! I know I am......
Ok, everybody,
Challenge for the week: Coose one thing each day that you would like to change to improve your life. Accomplishing that one thing should help you get motivated to change other things.
Good challenge. Well obviously I always want to change my eating habits!
But beyond that....I have one. I don't think I am a particularly mean mom. But you know being a SAHM of three young boys, they are so messy and loud etc etc, that sometimes I lose it, right. Anyway last week I was bickering at my kids about something. Part of my excuse is that I was premenstral. Anyway I said something like "I don't like to be angry with you." and my oldest said, "I think you do." I said "why would you say that?" and he says "because you do it all the time." 
I felt badly, maybe I am more angry with them than I want to be. Sometimes i wish I would handle things differently. And I do know better ways to handle the situation, but for some reason often I choose to handle things the wrong way, usually when I am stressed about other things. Don't get me wrong, I think my children are happy children, but I could do better...I know I could.
Merissa - I know what you're talking about. I raise my voice and get angry way more than I'd like. I've looked online on how to control my anger (giving myself a time-out, or counting) but can't seem to practice all that.
Just last week I was pissed off because I was babysitting my sister's kids alot while trying to make her best friends wedding cake and I turned into that crazy lady you see at the store. I hate myself when I'm like that. Anyway good challenge and I think that is what I'll work on too.
On the other hand, I just got back from my trip and hate to say I didn't too well at all. I'll have to lose more than 1olbs now to reach my mark by the 14th.
At least today with it being 2pm and I haven't had lunch I skipped the chips and am eating pita bread and hummus. No water yet though...oops.
well I grazed like a moose yesterday.
I just got in this I'm starving all day long mood. The girls were off the wall for some reason. My 14 year old is having a hard time with her periods and is very emotional and up and down all time right now.
Then the 2 almost 3 year old is going through a jealous "my mommy and my everything" phase and fighting with her 1 1/2 almost 2 year old sister who we found has autism so that has it's own issues right now.
My hubby's business is growing huge and now I have their books and pay roll to get out every week as well as home stuff.
Woo, sorry for unloading like that. That is why I had a graising day yesterday. Just feel a little in the weeds ya know?
And I am so afraid this big bar-b-que at our house on the 4th is gonna get here and here I'll be still chunky as a monkey and all these little skinny chicks in bikinis are gonna be prancing around with my sagging 32 year old mother of 3 chest, and short fat cellulite ridden legs and I'll just be embarrassed to be here.
Oh, my. Guess I am not the best go getter today.
But I am trying and I will do something to help myself......even if it's just eating right and getting my exercise so I don't loose it completely.
So that's what I want to change...all those neg. feelings!
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