You asked for it, so here it is!

This thread is for anyone, but especially for those of us who started the week of 6/14/09.

I joined 6/17, but started 6/18. My weigh in is Wednesday afternoon.

Happy losing!!

Good idea! My official start date was 6/17 although I joined 6/16. I had my first WI today. Good luck on yours tomorrow!

I joined the 11th but didn't start until June 15..First weigh in was Sat 6/20. Down 2 pounds after 5 days

So far I have been 100% ON this..Hope to see another 2-3 this Saturday but I'll take whatever!

I joined June 15th and began with lunch on June 15th. First weigh-in was on June 22nd. I lot 5 lbs. I'm feeling good and ready to keep going! Food tasted much better than I had expected.

Great job everyone! I think we are off to a great start.

I just got home from weigh in. I lost 3.8 in my first week! I was hoping for more but will take whatever I can get! I'm pleased.

So far I have enjoyed MOST of the food. I had the Fajita chicken salad kit last week. Won't be doing that one again. I had the enchilatas today, probably won't do that one again anytime soon. But all in all, the food has been really good.

Let's keep up the good work!

Hey all,

6/17 was my first day and my first weigh in was today. Down 1.5 lbs and I really wish it were more! I just got off a 6 week dose of Prednisone so I thought some water weight would just fall off! No such luck, but I'll keep plugging along. So far, not a fan of the turkey panini. Microwave flavored turkey is not my thing. Maybe I'll try again in the toaster oven. I liked the enchiladas, though! Keep up the good work, all!

~Lisa

Started on June 16 and down 2.5 lbs, despite a food meltdown on Saturday. So 17.5 more to go! I was feeling very hungry last week but ended up cutting out the sugary items and this has helped tremendously. A challenge will come this weekend when I take a vacation with two friends, but I am determined to stick to it. Good luck to all!

Hi, I am happy to meet everyone. I joined June 14th and my weigh in is on Mondays at night. My first week was a 10 yes you heard correct, a 10 pound weight loss. The one that weighs me told me that you usually find that kind of a loss on a man not woman. I was so excite to be able to start out with such a big loss. I know it will slow down form now on but I can live with that! Wishing everyone a great loss next week.

That is great!! Congratulations!! I think we have all done well.

After my nice loss on the scale my kids wanted to go out for Japanese. But I think I did great. We went to the Hibachi side of the restaurant and I ordered the Veggie Delight. Of course they give everyone a couple of shrimp, plus I had some of DS salmon, so I had just a little protein. All in all, think I did well. I ate less than 1/2 my rice and just a few bites of the smothered salad.

It's just a shame that I had just spent $135 on JC food!

Let's keep up the good work!

Lisa, I agree about the Panini. I had it yesterday & it was like potted meat spread or deviled ham.

Not sure I will choose it again.

Hi ALL:

I also started on the same week (june 15) I went for my first WI and I was down 5.9 lbs!!!

See you all next week!!

Brenda

I didn't like the enchilada either, but I did like the panini. Perhaps I was just having to have a little bread! I had the pizza today for dinner, which was good.

Hi all, I started 06/16 and weigh-in on Mondays. 3.6 loss for the first week. It's a start, I have 107 to go but am enthusiastic because of the ease of this program (so far). I'd like to keep in touch with those who are at the same point.

Nancy

Good morning "June 14thers".

To keep my mind occupied last night, I did a spreadsheet of everyone who had responded to this point with our weigh-in day & first week loss. When I get home this evening I will try to post it so we can see where we are.

I was reading some other posts last night and came to a conclusion. I was really a little bummed that I didn't lose a little more than the 3.8 lbs. This is because in the past I would lose 5-6 lbs when I started something new & was perfectly OP. But I started thinking...I was already drinking losts of water and hadn't had any soft drinks in almost a week. I actually weighed in 3.5-4 lbs lower than I had a work the previous week. My eating was what was different.

SO...If we have a "small" weight loss the first week, have we already been doing some of the right things and the change isn't as great as it might have been in previous attempts?...

Just a little food for thought.

I'm going to hold on to that thought for dear life if it's okay with you!

~Lisa

THIS time, with THIS program , I stopped expecting to drop a huge amount right away..So, While I wished it had been more, I was OK with 2 lbs..IF it's 2 more this week,too, that's fine. I expect it to take a long time but if I can average 2 pounds a week, that 52 pounds in 6 months!! That will put me at goal!

6 months..I can do that, right!!??

It kind of sucks only because I am walking up and down hills for 2 miles every morning and following this plan to the letter..In my younger days, I would have dropped a ton!!

I know I've lost "some" more..not getting on the scale til weigh in on Saturday AM..If it's 2 more, I'll be glad

Here is the group, thus far.

I listed our weigh-in days, if I knew what they were. Let me know, if yours isnt on there so we can keep up with each other.

Nancy Monday 3.6
Jill Monday 5
Brenda 5.9
April Monday 10
Marie 2.5
Lisa Wednesday 1.5
Marcia Wednesday 3.8
Kris Tuesday 3.6
dmalfet Saturday 2

Let's keep up the good work!

Thanks for keeping track, Marcia. I think we are all doing great! Any weight loss is good weight loss as far as I'm concerned. This is hard work!

Hi Marcia, Thanks for keeping track!! My WI days is Fridays, so today there was another 1.9 lbs loss for me!! Yippie,I'm sooo excited (I cheated a lot this past weekend) lol.

Keep up the good work everybody!!!

Take care,

Brenda

Yay! I had my first consultation June 16, and started June 17. I'm a JD customer so I kinda weigh whenever, but my consultations are on Wednesdays. This Wednesday, after 1 week, down 8 lbs! I have about 90 to lose total. So nice to meet everyone!

Hi Nancy, I have over 100 to loose also. I am happy with the program because it is structured. Were I am so busy with work and all this is what I need. I am not to pleased with a couple of the meals but over all I like them. I just wished I new how much the meals were costing me some weeks. so far both weeks it has cost me 140.00. Not happy with that were she told me when I signed up that it would only cost me 90 a week. May be you know something I don't feed back would be great. We can do this!!!!!! There is no turning back now!!!!


April

EEEWWWW I threw mine in the trash after one bite. It was to mushy for me!!!

That"s a great Idea!! I see we have three for Mondays. I like Mondays weigh in because I feel were it is starting a new week for some reason it is better for me . Who knows.

YES!!! You can do that. We all can!! months will go by so fast you won't know what hit ya. You will be down in lbs and sizes before you know it!!!!

Congrats Brenda, Any loss is something to cheer about!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah that is deffanitly something to cheer about!!!!!!!!

Great Job Brenda!!

Welcome, "DC" You are doing awesome!

Well, I had a little slip up today. I had a severe chocolate craving today. Of course I didn't have a chocolate JC snack at work. I got up and did some work out of my office, then had to sit around & wait on someone for an hour. During that hour, I coudn't resist and had a Twix ice cream bar.

Now, 3 hours later, I'm starving. I've already had some grapes for my snack. It is a little early, but I think I'm going to go ahead & have my dinner.

I'm trying to figure out why I am so hungry today. Worst day yet, as far as that goes. I had Pancakes for b'fast & chicken salad for lunch with about 1.5 cups of tomato/cuke salad. Plenty of food...???

Any ideas or suggestions?

I e-mailed JC by using the "Contact Us" button on the bottom of the website. I received the cost of all the food by the end of the day.

Jill

Wow! Also just measured myself and have lost 9 inches overall! A lot of it I think is bloat since I never really drank enough water (and now I drink tons!) But I'm excited!

I'm finding that all fruit is not created equal as far as making me feel satisfied as a snack. Grapes haven't kept me satisfied like an apple. Now, I only each grapes when my menu calls for a snack with two fruits. I imagine I'm eventually going to tire of applies though, so I need to explore.

I've had hunger like you are talking about as well. I have resorted to carrying a baggie of grape tomatoes and sugar snap peas. Crunching on the sugar snap peas seems to help a lot with stress and hunger. So far, that seems to work well to beat my hunger back until the next meal, and they are free foods.

I hadn't thought of sugar snap peas. I will have to try that. I love grape tomatoes so they are a shoe-in.

I'm over my hunger, so it will be a better day. So far I have had the French Toast, which is one of my faves! I will probably hold the milk I usually have for my morning snack for this evening, so I won't have as hard a time today. (Had breakfast a couple hours later than usual, so it should balance out.

Have a great Saturday, everyone.

I had already "cheated" during week 1 when I had family in town but I had my first real test yesterday and I'm going to give myself a C. I went to a BBQ so I ate my lunch before I went. I knew I would be out at dinner time though so I would be eating off plan. I got to the BBQ and there was a ton of food! I wasn't really hungry but could still have gone for a hamburger, they looked so good! I did okay until later (after a few lite beers ) and I started in on the Oreos! I had 4. Then a few Doritos. Then my big downfall...chips & dip. Then for dinner was a piece of pizza. BUT, I did an 8 mile run/walk today. I feel confident that I burned that off. Back on plan today. Really didn't even eat all my food b/c after getting that much exercise, it was awhile before I could eat again. Also had 10 glasses of water. WI is Tuesday. Excited b/c my scale showed a 3 lb loss as of Saturday.

Good morning all.

Krs, I think all in all the main win for all of us is to recognize when we slip up and not take it as defeat.

After my all afternoon eating binge on Friday, which could have been SO much worse, I recognized it for what it was and got right back on Saturday morning.

Yesterday posed a potential problem, but I planned well and ate well. My mom called early to tell me something was wrong with my dad's breathing, not severe, but not right. I am a respiratory therapist, so the RT took over the daughter in me and I drove the hour that it takes to get to their house. Before I left though, I packed shelf stable meals & snacks for the day, because I didn't know if we would end up in a hospital.

Luckily, we got things corrected just before we went to the hospital and he was okay when I left several hours later. But the major win here is that I was able to grab everything I needed for the day and not eat off program.

That is HUGE for me!

Hope everyone has a great week.

I weighed in Saturday and lost FIVE pounds!!!..Just what I needed to keep me on track.Only 45 more to go!

I have a couple of challenges coming up and I have already begun planning for them. Hopefully, I can rise above it

Do you guys mind if I join in with you?

I started 6/13 and my WI's are on Saturdays.

1st week I lost 5.4
This week I gained .8 ARGH.... We had 2 cookouts at work and I had ice cream on Friday! I chose small and healty portions (no burgers... I ate chicken) but I couldn't resist ice cream sundae....

I've been better this week (so far) and I'm not having ice cream!

Can someone tell me how to add a ticker to my signature?

Thanks,

Tina

Welcome Tina. The more the merrier!

As for the ticker...go to www.tickerfactory.com (which is what most people have although there are others) and set up whatever one you want. Copy the bb code. Go to "my controls" and set up your signature. You'll copy the code there. To update the ticker, just click on it on any of your posts or your signature page. It will take you back to their website and you can update from there. It will automatically update on your page. (You might want to hit refresh to confirm it changed.)

Welcome, Tina. The more the merrier! I will add you to the list and post all of our losses in a couple of days.

Dmalfet, congrats! That is great for second week. Makes you feel a little better about the plan, doesn't it.

I thought I was ready for WI on Wednesday, but I just got on the scale outside my office. I think I'm glad I have a couple more days. LOL!! It says I am up .6, but I feel leaner. Who knows? I'm just plugging along. I know I need to increase my activity, I'm just such a couch potato by the time I get home in the evening! Not an excuse, just a fact!

Have a great evening everyone.

Nancy, I was just updating the tally sheet & noticed that you have a 3.3 lb loss for this week on your signature! That is awesome for your second week!

Here is what I have so far. If your info isn't correct or up-to-date, please post the correct info or send me a PM.

Nancy Monday 6.9
Jill Monday 5
Brenda Friday 7.8
April Monday 10
Marie 2.5
Lisa Wednesday 1.5
Marcia Wednesday 3.8
Kris Tuesday 3.6
dmalfet Saturday 5
Tina Saturday 4.6
DChi606 Wednesday 7.8

We are doing awesome! Let us know how you do every week! Let's see those numbers on the scale go down and on the tally sheet go up!!

Hooray for us!

I weighed in today. I lost 1.4 lbs. I don't know why, but I feel let down by this number. I stuck with the plan, so I guess I was hoping for more. Don't know why since I know healthy weight loss is 1-2 lbs. per week. I need to get out of my funk about it.

Marcia: I hope your dad continues to be well.

Welcome, Tina!

I slipped up a bit this weekend too. Not so much on the food side, more on the beverage side

A friend of mine is moving away so we celebrated this weekend and I had, well, several beers. However, I restrained myself and didn't eat any of the potato skins, brownies, or onion rings that everyone ordered for the table! I gained a pound. But I'm back on track and determined to keep losing!

Btw, my name's Erika. Didn't realize I hadn't given it before!

Good to have you Erika.

Don't beat yourself up. We didn't get in this shape in one month, we won't get it off in that amount of time, either! glad you avoided the brownies, onion rings & potato skins. I have a weakness for all three! Not sure what I would have done.

I have only eaten out twice in last 2 weeks, which in itself is amazing! We had KFC grilled chicken on father's day & then last Wednesday after WI the kids talked me into going out for Japanese. Luckily I steered them toward the hibachi side & I had grilled veggies and about 1/4 of my rice. All in all I have stuck pretty close to program.

Still waiting to hear from Jill & April, since this is their WI day. Best of luck to both of you!

Yes. I just got back from 2nd weigh-in and have a total of 6.9 for 2 weeks. Feeling good. This is not as difficult as attempts in the past. Hang in there everyone. We can do it.

Nancy

Marcia: I lost 1.4 today. Jill

Jill, I'm sorry I missed your previous post about the weight loss. Don't beat yourself up over the 1.4 loss. At this point, I would be thrilled with 1.4. I got on the scales at work today & am up 0.6, so 1.4 lost sounds good to me.

I need to stay away from the work scales. I usually do, but occasionally they beckon! Unfortunately, they are parked right outside my office! I get to watch EVERYONE weigh!

I think I'm done with my pity party. I'm upping my water intake (from none to 8 glasses) and reducing my diet coke consumption ( I think I qualify as a diet coke addict.). I'm not letting myself open a diet coke until I've had at least half of my water for the day. I feel like I'm drinking all day (and going to the bathroom all day)!
Jill

WEE WEE!!!!

Just returned my from week 2 consult...kinda like these sessions. Nothing I've ever done before. I am down 2.4 for a total of 6. My scale showed 5 so you gotta like that. My first goal is to hit 159. I have been in the 160's - up and down - for a year. I am so ready for the 150's I cannot put it into words.

Great job Kris! I know you are thrill to have that extra pound!

I just got my call from my center to confirm my appt for tomorrow. I'm not sure how it will go. Earlier this afternoon I was down 0.2 from last week. LOTS of water this evening & tomorrow. I'm hopeful that it will be more when I go in for the official WI.

I will change your numbers, Kris. Congrats!!

Congrats Kris, Jill, and Nancy! Jill, I'm a major Diet Coke addict too. I've cut it down to 1 can a day! Something I find helps with the water consumption is to have a big plastic bottle of water sitting on my desk at work so that I'm reminded to drink the water. I'm only having Diet Coke with lunch.

My WI is tomorrow, and when I weighed myself today, I was down 0.4 from last week's WI of 222.4, so I guess I didn't do too bad after all. Will be starting Week 3 tomorrow. This week has gone by so fast! Will fill you in on my WI status tomorrow.

I started on the 19th (on a Friday hehehe).
As of Today I lost 3 lbs, hope to see a bigger loss on Thursday!