You had a GRRRRREEEEAAAAATTTTT Day!  Pam, it's wonderful that you were able to go three hours between eating, what a great accomplishment! You do whatever you need to do for YOU - and I need your ideas, encouragement, research findings - anything at all you can throw our way will keep this path we're on together paved with the stuff we need to continue succeeding! By the way, I was thinking about you today - what's up with your homeopathic regimen? Are you still seeing that doctor? Maureen

I was so into this today!
When I made my lunch and snacks I had everything all set to go. Figured all the calories and off to work I went. Hi ho Hi ho.
go to work. it was busy nice. alittle stress I handled it well. I actually went for 3 hours without eating which is the goal I was trying to reach. When I ate after that 3 hours it wasn't because I was hungry it was because I'm not suppoes to go over that 3 hours or my blood sugar will drop. even if I feel good right now I'm suppose to eat after 3 hours. for the past few months I've not been able to go past 2 hours so this 3 hour mark was great.
I had my packed snack - cottage cheese and strawberries/blueberries and after one hour i was hungry. then i had a series of customer calls for the rep I am covering while she is out for surgery. stress. doing good. then a buiness meeting. more stress. late copy emails.
the cottage cheese didn't hold me. after one hour i felt my blood sugar start to decend. grabbed a protein bar and started to eat that. that held it at bay but didn't feel right. didn't feel full. didn't feel like i had a handle of the low blood sugar.
for the rest of the day i was eating everyon 1 & 1/2 hours. it leveled off around 3 when I had a snack and lasted until 6 tonight. So i made it twice in one day for 3 hours inbetween. But the calori count was way over the 1300 that i should have had per the Reenie figure.
At first I was very down again about this. but after really thinking about it I did have a good day. I went twice in one day for 3 hours without eating! Thats a positive thing that I need to focus on.
Maybe for me what I need to do right now is continue to focus on going that 3 hours instead of thinking about trying to keep the calories to the 1300.
I'm not saying that i'm not going to watch the calories. I am. I'm going to keep low calorie things with me that will fill me and satisfiy the LBS so maybe instead of 1300 calories i'll be at 1600.
And I have started walking after work a couple of weeks ago. I'm leaving now to go around the field again.
I think I'm doing good.
Thamnk yo Reenie for all your hints and ideas. while I might not do them because of my own cercomstances I do keep them in mind and try to fit them to what i need.
how did the rest of us do today?

OK! I lost 15 pounds and now I am totally stuck. I'm at a plateau and so frustrated because I am sticking to the diet and my diet is very minimal and I've upped my exercise just a bit and have been eating very very low calorie high vitamin veggie etc... meals. Fruit and veggies mostly and my protein drinks and my vitamins and my water. I was a bit uh... backed up a little so I know thats added to the issue a bit. I remember going through plateaus as I lost the bulk of my weight in the past. They were so frustrating. I'm hoping that is all that it is and eventually I'll loose this week. I'm behind my 5 pound mini-goal i've set for myself!!! ah well... I think I'll start eating more grapefruit and reduce the sugary fruits. I've been eating pears which are almost 100 calories each! and papaya which i'm sure is at least 100 calories. So i suppose too much fruit maybe? Well grapefruit helps kick start things so I'll eat one of those today. But its so frustrating to be sticking to the diet and then not loosing.

As for any oopses I've made... just 2. I had a small ice cream with my 2 year old and 2 very small pieces of chocolate. Thats it. those were the only oopses I had which was on the weekend and only once. I've still been sticking with no carbs (bread) i have though been eating potatoes though...so unless its fruit or veggies no carbs  as in pasta and breads and sweets and junk well just checking in and hope everyone is doing well today!! ((Hugs!!))

Joy you're doing great!!! don't worry about that sleeve of crackers. It's in the past and you have a spottless future!!!  Hang in there! Yeah, drugs work oddly in our bodies. It hits us fast and dissappears fast or doesn't exactly take correctly. I'm glad its out of your system. I'm so happy for you that you kicked the carb issue to the curb. (we're not even looking at the crackers because its just one time thing). After awhile you dont really miss them much at all. I dont miss bread anymore and at one point i was sooo addicted to it and now I'm like WHY? ANd sugar... its still hard but I've managed to resist mostly. If i oops its only once a week and thats it. And i've oopsed but still managed to loose 15 pounds. It goes up and down one pound 16 then 15 then 16 then 15. I've been stuck. At any rate... hang in there!!! ((hugs!))

I'm in of course. I'm FRUSTRATED!!! GRRR!!!!  I'm at a plateau. I forgot about those. Grrr.... I'm gonna post but I'm in for this. :) ((hugs!))