ok did an hour on the cycle and spent a few hours workin in the shed...I think Ive done well 2day. Ate a turkey sandwich with spinach ect...260 calories had about 3 cups of coffee and only 2 cans of soda...thats pretty good for me Im a total caffine addict. But I bought alot of healthy foods today now the trick will be to get myself to eat it!

haha im glad im not the only caffiene addict

Ive weened off the sugar however and keep it to the morning.

thats really great, ive got a long way to go before i can give up my sugar...MUST HAVE SUGAR......after all my name is Candi

I found buying coffee from coffee shops tasted better without sugar, and thus i weened myself off it this way

thanx for the tip, i havent really tried gourmet coffee yet I have only been drinking it since i stopped taking caffine pills.so it stands to reason a flavored coffee would be more tolerable without sugar, as it is i have a little coffee with my sugar rather than a little sugar with my coffee.

there is always sweetner - though some tastes like crap

I havent had an artificial sweetner that I liked....so far so yuck!
I slept till noon, but I lost almost 3 pounds yesterday. So all I gotta do now is wake up enough to actually burn more calories....oh boy!

holy moly 3lb! nice!

ok did an hour and a half on the cycle...ate another tukey on wheat about 400 cals including the soda...but im hungry!!!

wow its amazing how great you can feel, and all it takes is the negativity of one person you really care about to utterly devastate you. I feel like Ive been thrown in the fire. Was reminded today of all the reasons i have to feel terrible about myself. And the funny thing is I have been doing great the past couple of days...I was 300 pounds at one time and now Im under 200 and yet all in an instant I can feel worse than I ever have b4. Anyway I guess thats just life...for the not so perfect anyhow.

Chin up, you cant control what others do you you, only your reaction to it.
You've got this far, you'll make it further easy peasy and show them all

I have a friend like that. He's the best guy in the world but always seems to say the wrong thing..... I will spend days thinking about it because it just bothers me so bad. I guess it's all part of life and we just have to try to deal with it the best way we can.........

Thanks guys...I need the pic me up. I guess I am sensitive when it comes to my weight. I dont think the people in my life realize how much it affects me or rather how stongly I feel about it, maybe because ive always been big... Maybe because they have never been big...

My favourite is sucralose, goes by the brand name of Splenda in Australia.

I used to like the feeling of being hungry when I dieted because I could see it corresponding to my weight loss. However I've been such a yoyo dieter that I'm trying for slower weight loss and not too much hunger now. I find eggs really filling. Unless you have a cholesterol problem they pack a lot of goodies for around 75 calories. Personally I'm finding that to keep going I sometimes need to add a little more complex carbohydrates to my diet. Still learning what's good for me though.

Too true. Still the hurt feelings will get less with time, the important thing is not to let the upsets throw us off losing the weight - cos that will take more than time to shift.

Hope today turns out to be a good one!

Yeah felici I had lost 130 pounds and had learned to enjoy the empty feeling, then when I got sick I was going to the hospital almost everyday and my mom would take me so we started eating out! every time that plus prednizone and blood pressure pills helped me start gaining back in a big hurry!

I am feeling really energized I rode the cycle for two hours yesterday and spent hours outside with my kid and some friends. However I expected I would stand on the scale this morning and witness some sort of a mirical... no mirical didnt lose anything! oh well I have got to stop with my scale addiction its driving me MAD.

I am supposed to go to Bike Week in March for my anniversary and I am so excited but I feel like if I dont lose some weight I am not going! Its only 64 days away and I am feeling some seriouse pressure, I wonder just how much weight I can lose by then and how safe it is to really crash diet. I lost 130 in less than a year but in the end my bloodwork was wack and I felt pretty bad up until recently.

Anyway Im not going to karate tonight this was the first class since the holidays and I guess I am just feeling to depressed and unsuccsessful to go.
I suppose it was pretty dumb to assume I would lose weight over the holidays!