Want to join the Second Time Around Club.

[DebbietheHugBug]

Erica, welcome ha

Read the posts. The rule is if you cheat, you have to post a picture of you in your jammies. :help

[Alesam]

Welcome....we are all here to support each to get it right this time.

And like they said........we demand pictures if you cheat! Cheat =embarrassing picture posted publically!! Think of that before cheating!!!! :nod

And I think our new goal is to feel sexy in our skin again!!!

[Desertthorn]

Welcome Erica, your an official member of the Second Time Around Club, and if you just do baby steps, thats find with us.

[elfish99]

Thanks, all. :wave

Ok, today is my official start day. I'll try not to whine for the the next three days. Not too much anyway.

Has anyone tried the new Diet Coke w/ Splenda? I think it's a miracle. I know were supposed to go without caffeine and I'm going to try but MAN is that an improvement!

Have a good day everybody! Wish me luck...

[MontanaRebel]

elfish99 I have heard that diet coke with splenda taste pretty flat and I do so love diet coke but have not touched any since I went into Induction 12 days ago...Johnny :guns

[Sarah1341]

Hi Erica! The first three days are the hardest for me also. But here I am on day 4. You can make it!! :yes

I am a diet coke addict. I tried the diet coke w/splenda and it did not do the trick for me. I didn't not like the taste at all. Maybe if you are someone who can drink any type of diet pop it will be ok for you.

Best wishes!

[elfish99]

Johnny- if you really like regular diet you might not like the new diet, but you might try it anyway if you need a diet coke fix. It doesn't taste flat if you get it in a can, anything in a bottle tastes flat to me anyway.

:joy Congrats on a clean 12 days.

E-

[elfish99]

Sarah- Thanks, I need the encouragement!

Honestly, I hate diet anything I've learned to cope. I guess I've never really liked Diet Coke and I think people who really like it wouldn't like the new. To me, it's the lesser of the evils. It's not for everyone.

Have a good DAY 4!

E-

[Sarah1341]

Thanks Erica!

You will come to a point that if you ever taste a real pop again it will seem like syrup.

:wave

[Alesam]

:help Sigh :help

I have lost my desire today ladies! I feel blaaaa. I weighted in this morning and just a tad shy of two pounds for the week. Today is officially two weeks induction and can move onto OWL....but really I want to move on to eating everyting in sight....and yet not....it is weird. I am doing fine but yet I am tired of this already....it is not really that I want junk but I am craving fruit, yogurt, cereal etc....*sigh*

I am REALLY struggling with my energy. It takes all from me to exercise. I feel like I have no "go". I mean I feel good that I am not bloated or full....feel a little slender, shorts are looser but NO ENERGY!! And then there is the bathroom problem.....gee I mean I think I went maybe once this week ! AND I AM TAKING METAMUCIL!!! *Sigh* this is my crank-fest I guess. Maybe I am upset at only 2 pounds....last week was 5 pounds.....

This morning I could not face another egg or bother with the effort to make anything...so I had leftovers....a version of chili I made last night.....I am glad it was there because I needed something fast and simple or else I might have cheated!!!!!!

....I am going to go hide in a corner....... :raving

[Sarah1341]

Alesam,

Good job staying on track! You are doing so well. 7 pounds is a great loss!

[MontanaRebel]

Alesam you are taking multi-vitamins and maybe Vitamin C?

[Alesam]

I am taking a multi vitamin.....would that make a huge difference? Maybe I need a better one?? The Atkin's vitamins are too expensive to buy all the ones he suggests...i think there two or three bottles right?

[MontanaRebel]

Alesam I take Centrum Silver multi-viatimins and L-glutamine for carb addiction so don't know what you are taking...Does yours have iron listed as one of the ingredients on the bottle? Don't need more iron! Johnny :guns

[earlychildhoodeducator]

I go off line for 1 day and I miss two pages of stuff!

Erica- welcome aboard we'll get you comfortable on this wagon yet..... here's some hay :hug you can sit on to get you through the bumps :joy

Alesam- hang in there, I see smooth roads just ahead if you can make it over this darn hill! Get up, take those pj's off (and put something else on ensive ) and try to excersice, you'll feel better.

When I really don't feel like it I turn on the TV and walk in place while I watch (you know WATP style) pretty soon a comercial will come on with music and I'll find myself dancing and doing knee lifts. I make a promise to myself not to stop until the show is over...what ever works huh? My kids laugh at me that I can actually dance to the news! :joy