did I gain weight or what?

That's my problem too.  Last weekend I bought snacks for the trip to Houston and back, thinking the kids and hubby would like the Whales and Pringles and nutty bars... well.  How am I able to abstain from sugars, but end up eating half the Whales and *almost* the whole can of Pringles over the course of the weekend?

If I don't buy them, I don't eat them.  Plain and simple.  I am my own worst enemy in this battle.

Maybe we need a avoiding carbs support group!

Oh, this thread is too funny..and toooo familiar!  This is where i'm at too!  I've been battling with a 10 lb fluctuation that is driving me bonkers!  I have driven everyone crazy with questions of do you think it could be.....?  I think I need to get to the gym more and stop eating so many carbs and drink more water.  I won't even wear my new summer clothes cuz I swear that 7 lbs (current increase) makes me look so much fatter!! 

oh, kelly, how I can relate! I fluctuate about ten pounds. Especially around my TOM - which is now and why I am sitting at my desk eating Chex Mix - grrrr! I know I "shouldn't" but I just can't stay satisfied today. And damn my bf for having bought it in the first place! :-)

I always wondered about there being no "B" batteries but never went searching. Thanks, now I know why LOL

I've been logging and using My Fitness Pal, water, protein, etc. for well over a month and I'm 145. I swear I think it's where I'm just gonna be.

Its so hard mentally. I mean, if I knew it really was muscle I would feel so much better : (

 Same, but way longer than a month.  Getting my BodyMedia fit was a good thing for me.  It told me that I just don't burn as much as I assumed I did.  I'm at 1900 calories burned today, and that's with 4 miles at the gym.  So my calorie deficit was not as great as I thought it was... making some changes to that lately (or trying to at least!).

I've been faced with gourmet peanut butter cupcakes with pb frosting the last two days at work and I haven't budged! There's even spicy buffalo wheat thins in the Cabinet O'Love right now. Nope.

I've had 1368 calories today. And I did an hour of yoga as my quads are so damn sore from BPX yesterday I can't stand it. My friend is about the same activity I am and eats 1800 per day consistently and has started losing again ( we're about the same weight and size). I don't get it! I feel so lame

 Boy oh boy, I long for the day when 1) I can wear jeans  and 2) I have the opportunity to nip weight gain in the bud.

a Tripplehorn family joke, presented for your mixed metaphorical pleasure:
a real quote from a real politician:
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

I wish I had nipped about 18 ten-pound rats in the bud. (Where is a rat's bud, anyway?)

Hmmm... would a rat's bud be his butt?  I'm not sure about that one.

And now I'm thinking, what a thing to complain about, the scale said 142.  I can recall a time when I would been excited to see the scale say 242!

I so could have written this post--I consider normal 145-147 and this am I was 150!  And of course I have been hungrier recently so the fears of gaining it all back are resurfacing, I was trying clothes on at the thrift store today and when I looked in the mirror I saw rolls of fat everywhere---now yes, I have loose skin rolls but not fat--thankfully this afternoon when I looked in the mirror I saw a more realistic me--but it's amazing how our mind plays tricks on us.