Hi everyone, I can't find the other thread so I thought I'd start a new one. I hope that's ok.

How are you all doing?

I went off my diet and I'm hoping to go back on it tomorrow.

I'm at 163. I gained about 10 lbs.

It comes back fast if you let it.

Bummer Daniel. Sucks how that happens so fast. But you can do it!

I'm still on my diet, hovering a little shy of the 45lbs lost mark. I've been sick as a dog for going on a month now with this awful hacking cough and sinus infection thing (probably the same thing pianolicious had). No fever, so I don't think it's h1n1. But I can't seem to shake it. I've had a course of steriods, an antibiotic, and yesterday I started a course of stronger steriods. (Actually, LL#1 has the same thing too, and she's also been through a regimen of drugs (different than mine, as she goes to a pediatrician) to no avail, so it's not just me.)

For the first 2 weeks or so of being sick, I bravely soldiered on at the gym, trying to muffle my hacking cough into my gym towel, but then my kids got sick and didn't want to go, and now I'm so run down (after coughing all night for a month) that I have ZERO energy left. So my exercise has gone right out the window.

On the plus side, I can't smell or taste a thing and haven't for a few weeks now, so food is kind of unappetizing -- probably the only reason I haven't gained from not exercising. And actually, quite a huge help considering the volume of halloween candy that is sitting in my house right now. There's a bag of swedish fish not 6 feet from me, along with a bunch of kit kats and twix (my other weaknesses) but not much point if it's all going to taste like cardboard.

Maybe being sick isn't so bad after all....

Diet? What diet. I did start a kick-@ss exercise class, though...

Diet?

And as for exercise I am still working thru PT hoping that someday I can put my coat on all by myself.

I celebrated my first day of dieting with a chocolate muffin.

Thanks, Lisa. Congrats on the weight loss! I hope you feel better soon!

I lost three pounds last month...




Stressed? Me? Um, yeah...