Lil, what is your battle with breakfast? Lack of time? Not fond of breakfast foods?

Not ready to eat that time of day and coffee is enough to make me feel right with the world :D

How late are you eating in the evening? I make it my goal not to eat my dinner after 8pm and find that I am ready to eat when I wake up, not starving, but breakfast is on my mind.

I've never been a breakfast person, mostly because I was never much of a morning person.

We eat around 6:30 and I try not to eat anything later than that.

Well, I have no good suggestions then. I've read that breakfast isn't just for typical breakfast foods and you should eat whatever you are hungry for so long as it's healthy. I have a routine and I follow it even on the weekends. Perhaps the special K bar with your coffee will help jump start your metabolism for the day.

I'm the same way. I end up eating part of my lunch shortly after I get to work, though. You're probably not able to eat at your desk, I'd guess?

I feel guilty for not eating breakfast but I just can't force myself to eat that early.

My students have lunch at 10:45. First lunch so that the rest of the school is not subjected to their bad asses. Sometimes I eat by myself at my desk but if they have not had any aggression or fighting I tell them I want to spend more time with them and I eat with them.

Down 2 this week but I am growing tired of the slow loss. I know it produces the longest lasting results but sheesh! I am officially down more than 15 and a happy camper about that.

I realize two pounds doesn't seem like a lot, Lil--maybe think of it as you lost 8 sticks of butter this week? :D

The thing I have tried to remember is that it took 37 years for me to get to where I am weight-wise today, and it'll take awhile to make some of that disappear. At my weigh-in Friday morning, I fluctuated between not losing any for the week and 0.5 lb. It was frustrating--but I haven't obsessed over it, because I realize that, while I DID stay within points last week, I ate more than I have, and my body just needs adjustment time. Since Friday, though, I've spent over an hour and a half on the treadmill and a solid hour plus swimming, and I'm hoping that, with continued focus, my results this Friday morning will be even more positive.

I understand your remarks wholly Lilith! I'm feeling the same way but use some of the positive talk IAKG mentions when it starts to get the best of me. I weighed in this morning and was pleasantly surprised to have a 2 lb loss. That's a total of 13 for me. I have another 13 to get to my first mini goal.

My treadmill is coming today and I hope that will help with some of my struggles. Right now I'm pretty much inactive, so this can only help in my weight loss goals.

I've lost nothing, but I'm headed for the Hut later this week....and if I am honest, I've been eating way too much (I'm averaging about 200-250 calories a day over what I want to eat to meet my goal). I think the only reason I'm maintaining my weight (even with water weight gain, which I am sure is kicking in) is because I've been working out like a fiend 5 days a week, and walking some those days where I don't work out.

Food has been a struggle for me lately...class and my new job have been stressful, and it's been difficult for me to stop eating sweets especially. I've also been kind of depressed -- getting close to the anniversary of my father' death, and I always get a bit maudlin this time of year. [I have tears in my eyes as I type this.] To sum it up...been unhappy and stressed WAY too much, and not very successful.

I'd like to say that today is a new day, but right now I just feel exhausted. Maybe my outlook will improve in a few days.

(((osuche))) if there is anything I can do to help, let me know. On some level, I've been where you are. When you are ready you will do the right thing, but not until you are ready.

Congrats on the 2 pound loss Lil .... It's hard when it feels so slow in coming off .... this time of dieting for me feels like I'm not making nearly as fast of progress as I have done at other times when I've managed to stick to a diet for more than a couple of days ... the water weight doesn't seem to want to come off as it always has done in the past, but I know part of it is that I'm older and my body has gone through enough changes that the way I'm losing weight is different. And it's hard to struggle with the eating right every day when you don't feel like the rewards are coming at a rate that meets the sacrifices that you make ... but you've lost 15 pounds in about 6 weeks ... I think you said you want to lose 70 pounds with this time of healthy lifestyle changes ... you're moving in a positive direction AND you've accomplished more than 20% of your goal ... how great is that!!!!!

maddy ... yea for the 13 pounds total ... wonderful!!

IAKG great attitutde and congrats on the loss/maintaining that you've done as well!

Osuche .. way to stick with it ... I think we all seem to have trouble starting the week before that visit to the hut as most of us have mentioned it ... for me, I tend to have 20 days or so each month when it is easier to feel the difference and know I'm moving forward ... and about 10 when it is slow and frustrating and too many cravings hitting me on and off that don't seem to be as much of an issue during those other 20 days (not that I still don't want the things I have always over endulged in) ... anyway, if you are like me, if I managed to keep myself in control most of the time through the 10 or so days, then at the end of that time, I feel the results much better in the first couple days of the 20 good ones .... (man that took a lot of words to say something simple .. :) ) Hope you make it through this tough time, losing your father is a hard thing to go through ... I know! ((((Osuche))))

Me, at the moment I'm in the middle of my 20 days, so I've been doing quite well, making advances ... don't have a clue on the weight loss number still .. and won't for a long time to come, but other things happen to remind me that I'm making progress ... I had a good night for water weight loss that much I do know and am very happy about it ... also I have the day off for Lincoln's birthday and am enjoying a relaxed time. :)

My treadmill is here and now fully assembled - just assembling involved sweating! Now I think I need to rearrange my living room as it is HUGE!!! And it's height prevents me from seeing the tv currently. But for now, I'm going to hunt up my sneaks... some workout clothes and my iPod and I'm going for a walk :) I jumped on it for a minute and did a little jog for all of 30 seconds :)

We all have cycles in our lives where we are just tired of fighting for things. I'm tired of trying to get the kids to clean up after themselves. I'm tired of cooking. I'm damn tired of doing laundry all the time. And I'm tired of drinking decaf when I'm a friggin grown man that should be able to drink regular coffee when I want to! :mad:

But those days are tempered with days that are not so bad. Days when the kids don't piss & moan when I ask them to put their stuff away. Days when I enjoy cooking, and don't mind the couple of minutes laundry takes up. And days when decaf doesn't leave an aftertaste. Part of being a grown man is understanding that sometimes we need to do things we aren't thrilled doing. Not everything is an adventure that yields a huge and exciting cache of treasure. Since I gave up coffee, I don't feel worse. That in itself...when you look at it in a positive context...is a victory. I'm doing something that is healthier for me in the long run, and I don't feel any worse than I did when I was doing something unhealthy.

So the days you don't see results on the scales, even though you've been working hard, remember...you aren't worse off having eaten healthier and exercising for the past week.

(((((everyone)))))