Hello friends!  It's been awhile, over 4 months, since I last posted.  I'm
still maintaining my weight loss in the 10-pound range I had set for myself.
For those who don't know my story I began my weight loss journey in January
of 2004.  I am 75" tall and weighed 268.  I had been ...

Found this free cool website where you can graph your wieght and plot
averages.
http://www.DietChart.com
Does not sell anything and looks like it gets its only support from Google

[One thing that was not mentioned below was palatibility. In my experience
white rice has a high ability to satiate, while rice with tomato sauce has
a dramatically lower ability to satisfy. Same comments apply to plain
bread, versus the same bread with peanut butter and raspberry ...

People on these low carb diets must be the loneliest people in the
world.  I cant see how anyone would stay married to any of them.
Their breath stinks worse than a sewer.  For some reason, low carb
turns their breath into some odor that normally only comes out of

does anyone have any information on the goodliness of SoDA?

Began the day at our hotel in Philadelphia, where I got in a workout
before breakfast.  (They had quite a nice health club.)  Later we had
breakfast in the hotel and then a leisurely drive home, stopping at a
restaurant for lunch.

I'm reposting this question differently...
Instead of 'monitoring software' how about 'planning software' ??
Does anyone know of any program that will let you sit there and key in
various foods and ingredients when you are planning meals or dishes and/or

I'm not sure I'm getting enough protein each day.
1 - How much protein per day should adults consume?
... Case 1: 200 lbs going for 170 lbs ??
... Case 2: 160 lbs going for 140 lbs ??

We had an excellent day yesterday.  I got up early for a two-mile run
(before it got hot).  In the late morning we left for a leisurely
drive up to Philadelphia, where we met Nunya B. of ASD and her DH.
Apart from the chance to meet in person (which was great -- she's

Hello.  :)
So, here I've been going gang-busters since last October with the weight
loss--good eating, lots of exercise--, but for the last 2 months I've not
lost weight that stayed off  (213 today, 213 on 4/15).  Here's what I'm

...and I bring good news for myself to the folks here, if'n you remember
me...
ignoramus once told me - and I'm paraphrasing - "you've got to just DO it.
You have to stop finding f.cking excuses and just change your lifestyle."

My department is going out for a birthday luncheon today.  The birthday
boy selected a Cuban restaurant for the celebration.  Given the choices
on this menu, what would you select?
http://www.cubaraleigh.com/menu_lunch.html

when there are SOOO many cravings for bad stuff!

Managed my first 5k race today (well, if I'm honest, my GPS thingy made it
4.6 k but i'm pretending I didn't notice that!).  Time of 22'51" so quite
pleased!
Rachael

My wife saw this on the the Food Network: http://tinyurl.com/8ejwb
My kids made it for father's day dinner. I liked it. It was sort of
like spicey Mexican lasagna. It was rather spicey, but that's what I
like.