I had a co-worker do the Abs Diet a few years ago and it worked for her and she has maintained her weight loss. She loss about 10-15 pounds.

That's what I like to hear!!!

:D


Thanks, Kiml!!

I got my body fat done at the gym today. I am at 28.6. In January, I was 35.8.

Let's all dance now.......

Go Ingrid! It's your birthday! GO Ingrid! Go! Go! Go!

Now, I am official not 'slightly obese'. :)

YEA!! Congrats to you! I know it must feel great!

i never realized how sedentary my life was until i started wearing a pedometer. I try to get in my 10,000 steps each day (it's easy when i have to work at the portrait studio - chasing toddlers, etc)... but on days when i just work my day job and sit at my desk, it's terrible. like 500 steps terrible. the only walking i do is from my house to the car and from the car to my office. so those days when i'm particularly slacking i ride the bike or take really really long fast paced walks.

i'm not losing weight but i am toning and firming and *gasp* getting a figure. it's great. :)

The Fat Smash diet sounds really good- especially since it's about lifestyle change and not just immediate weight loss.

How do most of you manage coffee? When I took ephedra pills, I attributed my lack of appetite to the ephedra, but now that I've started drinking coffee (2 cups a day thanks to having to get up ridiculously early) I've discovered that it might have been the caffeine. The main concern I had with drinking it was fat and sugar (starbucks lattes), but I have discovered the glory of McDonald's iced coffees, which they can make without flavoring syrup and with Equal instead of sugar (no help for the creamer). I'm a little worried about picking up a coffee habit despite those precatutions, as I've heard all my life that it's bad for you, but the appetite control is really, really helpful. For those of you who drop caffeine, how did it affect your weight-loss?

I don't drink/ingest caffeine in the first place, so I don't really know..... if I did I might have lost more weight by now, LOL.

This past two weeks is the first time in my life that I've ever had coffee on a consistent basis. I'm at the point now that I even like it, which I never did before. I don't want to be addicted, but I think it might be inevitable, since I have to be at work early and I am NOT a morning person.

I love coffee, but it has no hold on me at all. I can go weeks, even have gone years without coffee..and mind you, I have a coffee and coffee at home. As for as WW goes, coffee with fat free or soy milk with sugar substitute is zero points. I think that you just have to know and take what your body needs. If you need that extra help early in the morning, then have coffee..but if you really don't need it in the middle of the day, then don't drink it or drink decaf..which still has caffine it.
The one thing I have realized is that when I get tired or sleepy in the middle of the day, it is always attributed to what I've eatten..like something starchy or sugary that leads to my sleepiness. So I've tried to be cautious of what I eat or equal it out with a lot of veggies and fruit.

Thanks for the tip with the coffee- I dont want a caffeine addiction, but it really does help. Right now it's the only thing thing I drink other than water and the occasional wild cherry diet pepsi.

I'm with you on the tired after lunch deal- I've converted to having salads at lunch with some kind of protein. That or sushi, which is mainly veggies (the rolls I like anyway). I feel so much more alert in the afternoon.

Have you tried working out in the morning? That and a quick breakfast always give me energy (sometimes w/coffee).

I like the walnuts idea.

For me, it's just hard getting used to that my metabolism is not the same as it once was. But I have been trying portion control and it works but then I forget, and next thing I know, my rice and beans bowl turned into three servings.

Except, now I'm not even hungry during the day anymore. I only get hungry after 8pm, the rest of the time I'm fine.

I can't work out in the morning. I hate it and am pissed off for the rest of the day- going round talking to people about how it is UNBELIEVABLE that I got up that early and what the hell was I thinking?

Pissed cuz you have to get up or pissed cuz you can't workout.

BTW what time do you get up?

Just generally pissed off at having to get up THAT early, lol.

I get up between 5:30 - 6:30 for work purposes. Getting up any earlier to go to the gym before work would be too much.