Im glad I wasnt the only one who had a bad day yesterday. I ate way more than you Tracy. I started messing up right after breakfast and it seemed like I was stuffing my face every hour with something. Im so ashamed of it all I cannot even list it. Trying to redeem myself today, still not the best, and its only 1230pm now. Im so mad at myself. I gained 3 pounds this morning and I can bethcha its no****er wieght. I ate more yesterday than any other time since surgery. I was reminded of pre op days and last night before going to bed I just cried thinking about what I had done all day. I felt awful yesterday and did not like the what I was doing but continued to eat uncontrollably, bindging. Today is even harder getting back to eating normal. I have a family reunion to go to on Saturday and Im considering not going. I have already bought the stuff to make a dish to take and told everyone I was coming. I hate when I do this to myself. I had two occasions yesterday where my sugar crashed due to junky carbs. I know the only thing to do is to get up and brush myself off and start again. Its just so hard and discouraging after a day like yesterday. I have thought about going walking today but its weird, when I exercise I gain. I dont know if I could handle seeing the scale go up any more. I am over my weight limit. This morning when I got up I felt like I had a hang over, a food hang over that is. My belly is all swollen and bloated. Im really hating myself right now. I feel like a fat cow!! Candy I dont know if I will be able to keep showing my face around here

I weighed myself today and I'm at about 164. That's about 4 pounds lost since my one-year anniversary. Like others, my weight loss has been at a virtual standstill for the past 4 months. I joined Weigh****chers to restore some structure to my eating and to shake things up a bit. I fell into too much of a routine and was reluctant to branch out and incorporate more complex carbs and low fat dairy into my diet. Following the core plan, I am eating more fat free dairy like cottage cheese, skim milk as well as good carbs like brown rice, whole wheat tortillas, shredded wheat cereal, etc. I have my bad days, as do we all, but I've been doing this for about 3 weeks and am pleased with the plan overall. I now have the tool to make Weigh****chers work, so I feel real good about it. Exercise is still going strong. I am able to do more high impact exercises (i.e. jogging intervals with my walking, aerobics that require jumping, etc.). I have also incorporated some Pilates into my toning routines to strengthen and slim my mid section. We went hiking the other day and it was great. The only problem I had was the dang bugs!!! As far as clothes sizes are concerned, I am basically in size 12 pants, skirts and blazers and size medium tops. If I don't feel like wearing a body shaper or if the pants are cut small, I will wear a 14. I want to ultimately get down to a size 6/8. Shoe sizes range from 8 wide to 9 medium - depending on the style of the shoe. Wouldn't it be cool to have a shoe size be larger than a pants size? I still have issues with post-op acne. I have the skin of a 14 year old and I don't mean that in a good way. Don't know when this will resolve, if ever. I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and invest in ProActive. I think that's about all for now. P.S. That's funny about the pinky finger/thumb measurement. I just tried and I actually can touch my pinky finger and thumb around both wrists. My fingers still look pretty fat, though. Fat fingers yet tiny wrist.... what's up with that?

I need to be extra diligent today since I was so bad yesterday. Here's the plan: AM - double dose of liquid protein syrup B - atkins protein shake and a small apple L - tossed salad with tuna on top and fat free dressing S - atkins snack bar and an apple D - clearing out my left over veggies that have been sitting in the fridge all week - a bit of corn, bit of green beans, bit of baked squash, s/f jello for dessert. I don't need any protein with this meal because I would have already gotten in about 80 grams through the aforementioned foods. Meds and vits - everything done except calcium Liquids - about 40 oz down, 60 to go Exercise - it's my off day because I have school tonight.

You're gonna be a knockout! Be sure to take lots of pics! Hugs, Tracy

Too much. Way too much.... Started out very well then things went straight in to the crapper after lunch. B - Atkins protein shake late lunch - about a cup of shredded wheat with skim milk snack - a piece of store bought sugar free cake (yellow cake with vanilla icing). It was soooooo good!!!! snack #2 - I'm sure there was something else but I can remember what it was and I don't have my food journal with me... Dinner - turkey meatloaf, baked acorn squash, whole wheat tortilla snack #3 - s/f pudding cup snack #4 - 100 calorie pack popcorn snack #5 - 10 saltines and an ounce of low fat cheese I also popped in a grape or two everytime I passed the fruit bowl. Needless to say, I wasn't hungry when I had any of the snacks.