So far

Well, I'm losing weight. Not a tonnage, but enough. So I tried a recipe for cauliflower/potato mash. So good! Half the calories and lower carbs than mashed taters, but tastes better. MMMMM. A couple great 100 calorie finds - Yoplait light thick & creamy and the Oreo candy bites. Yum.

Recap of my first week on SlimFast:
Weekly Goal - 2 lbs, lost 3 lbs!
Activity - 5 days
Cheated - Yes

Good job Betsy. Work on sticking with the program.

Well, I'm off to the gym.

Weekly goal: 2 pounds
Goal for today: Don't eat after 7
Activity: Half hour on treadclimber (400 calories)
Weight: 158/155/146

Correction!!

Okay - I'm a doofus. I said I was going to try Slim4Life, but I meant SlimFast. See how brainwashed I was!!! Anyhoo, I'm doing SlimFast. One for breakfast, one for lunch, oranges as snacks, and a "sensible" (stop snickering) dinner.

So far, my sensible dinners have been split. Thursday it was a LC mexican beans & rice with a bunch of lettuce and some Doritos to scoop. Pretty good, huh? Friday it was, um, well, best intentions and all, cucumber sushi, shiritaki noodles with peanut sauce, chicken breast and mango salsa (all very healthy, but a bit much) AND THEN handfuls of SunChips.

WTF, I have absolutely no willpower on Fridays (okay it ain't so great Sat-Thurs either). To top it off, I went out for a couple with the hubs. I also didn't exercise. What a slob. BUT, I didn't gain any weight. So if I'm good today, I can trick my body into forgetting about yesterday. Right??? Well, we bowl tonight, so I'll have to make sure I stick to diet cocktails.

Weekly goal: 2 pounds
Goal for today: Don't eat crap
Activity: Get an hour in at the gym
Weight: 158/156/146

Well that didn't work!

Okay - so now I'm up to 158! Yikes! Argh! Sh*t! And the worst part is that I'm going on vaca in Mexico in 4 weeks. Think I can lose 12 pounds by then? Well, I've been trying different things for months and I just can't get below this weight. I've gone down to 153, but that's as far as I can get. I've tried all manner of things - the 3 day S4L no carb thing, ww points, hoodia (so totally doesn't work at all whatsoever), and now I'm trying Slim4Life. We'll see how this goes. If it tanks, I'm off to TJ Maxx for size 12 everything. Hey, at least it's not 14 like a couple years ago. Here goes nothing!

Weekly goal: 2 pounds
Goal for today: Don't eat after 7
Activity: Get a half hour in at the gym
Weight: 158/158/146