What an eye-opener! Dh watched it with me and he was just as convinced as I am that diet pop is full of nasty chemicals and that the FDA is motivated by $ and not public health. Stopping pop all together will be easy now that we know about HFCS and Aspartame.
If you haven’t seen it, here’s the link…
Free Movies & Documentaries – Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World (2004)
YOU LOOK WONDERFUL,,,
I use my iPhone a lot during the day – it’s my food diary. There’s a great application called Lose It! that I use everyday to track my food. You can also track your weight loss, and it recalculates how many calories you’ll want to eat a day to lose weight (anywhere from .5-2 lbs a week), plus tracks stats on your food so you can see protein, fat, fiber, and carbs.
If you haven’t tried it but have an iPhone, give it a try. I haven’t had any issues from crashing or anything like that, although a few people have.
Today is December 2, 2002, I am ready to whip this bod into shape. This time it has to stick. I joined approximately a year ago and found Atkins way to be the quickest and most fulfilling. For some reason as we all know I usually get hijacked along the way and down a crate of french fries or a sixpack of beer then another diet bites the dust for a while. I feel the best way to tackle this now is to go to the store today and follow the recipes in the recipe room. Some sound delicious and if I make them in advance and get through breakfast I know I can do this. I love to see the ketostick turn purple and I am going to tell you exactly when!!! O.K. folks here comes a future success story. 50 lbs. to go to goal!
195/195/145
The more people I meet, the more I love my dogs!
Hello, everyone…My name is Geri and I am from NJ. Since my college years (not too long ago) I have gained about 30 pounds. It kind of sneaked up on me. One day my favorite jeans fit the other day…I could not even get it past my legs. 
. I weight 195 and am about 5/6. I am extremely unhappy about my weight. What have a done about it…..Well I do exercise consistently but I think my main problem is the eating. I have never consistently stuck to the plan. I always found some way to deviate from the menu and I believe that sets me up for failure.
A couple of weeks ago I successfully ate low carb for 1 week and lost some pounds, but then I decided to eat regular again and gained all the weight back.. All I need to do is consistently FOLLOW THE PLAN. I do not want to gain anymore weight! Point Blank. So I need to make changes and I need to start ASAP.
I hope everyone will be able to motivate me and help me along this journey. I will post everything that I eat and the exercises that I do. If I am doing something wrong….please please tell me…I can only learn by knowing.
So Ladies and Gentlemen…Welcome to my world and lets work together to get these 20 pounds off by April of 2009. That gives me 8 months.
Medical History: I have been diagnosed with Hypthyroid and I REFUSE TO LET THAT TAKE OVER ME. I will fight the battle to the end.
Social History: I am a friendly and outgoing person. I am in a great relationship and I have 2-3 close friends. NO ONE KNOWS HOW I FEEL ABOUT MY WEIGHT. Everyone knows that I want to lose weight but I have not revealed my dislike for my weight. Everyone around me is the perfect size and I am secretly wish to be their size one day .
This may or may not be a good idea.
At least its a place where I don’t have to worry bout talking too much~hey,its my place I can do that! 
Ohhhh,and post a zillion smilies till my 
’s content!
Oh,and probably alot of editing as I am the typo queen!!
I have been at this (weight loss not losing my mind) for over 5 years now! I could not believe how many times I actually stopped and started again until I went to update my profile and saw member since 2002!
No way! That can’t be right?!!
Have I really pissed away 5 years on dieting?!! 
There’s alot of emotional reasons behind not losing (isn’t there always) but my biggest thing was once I screwed up I felt such guilt that I’d dive off the deep end right into a cesspool of carbs!!
Never to be seen again! Well,Id come to my senses about 2-3 months later or appx 20 lbs heavier!
Like that did me any good. Many,many set backs.
This time I have decided to focus! I am now following the 3 P’s~Planning–Participation–Persistence. What does that lead to? Progress!! Would I like to lose the weight fast? You better believe it! Is it going to happen? Not likely.
Soooo…..I did some calculating:
If I was to lose only 1 lb a week I’d be 52.17 lbs lighter in 1 year! Of course double that sounds even better but the point is even baby steps and slow losses or setbacks add up and each year i’d be smaller than the year before!
I can’t believe it takes me doing math 
(thought I hated the stuff) to really see the light.
So even though that sounds like my plan it could change at any given day. I am aiming for 3 lbs a week loss but if no more than 1 a week,Ive still got over a 50 lb loss to look forward to a year from now.
Just posting note to myself here since my siggy is full,lol~In order to reach goal of 192 in appx 6 weeks (Aug 20th is actually almost 7 weeks) I will need to have lost 23 lbs total@3.83 lbs. per week at my current weight of 215. Wep,that’s why its called setting a goal. Here’s to trying my hardest to make it!