Welcome to the Club Larry, lots of good reasons for the weight loss. Remember you need to do this for you before anybody else, i realized that i was trying to lose weight before for everybody else but me. And each time i failed i felt i was letting them down and my yet again. Start slow and just try to get some exercise in, i wasnt exercising at all and worked up to a regualr routine. Use the journal and track what you are consuming every day so you can see what it takes to add up to your calorie and fat gram goals for each day. Plan your meals, watch your portions size. We are all here because we want to lose weight and we will be here to support you, good or bad days we dont judge we support. If your having a tough time tell us we have been through it. Some have been on the plan for months some for a couple weeks. You can do this. I was at 284 on new years day and i am now at 235, so i can tell personally if i can do this i know you can too. good luck to you and check in with us when you can. willy

 well if the ticker is on this posting then i got it , if not well i give up, dont know what signature your talking about. didnt lose this week , seems to be happening more often, maybe ill try optifast shakes

Willy, Thanks for the good words I'll remember that. My kids are part of my motivation and sucess as well the results I will reap from this. I'll be starting the pill this weekend as recommended and we'll go from there.

 Dont worry about the lack of loss, mine has slowed down too but i am sticking with it and i know you will do just fine.

as far as the ticker here are some notes i wrote down to hopefully help...

okay up at the top go to my profile
then under community go to edit my preferences
a new page will open and then scroll down to the bottom and
on the left will be edit my signature a box will open
for you to have whatever you want when ever you reply and then paste
from the ticker website something that looks like this..

 and then save , hopefully that takes care of it.

 be sure to cut and paste the html codes not the bb codes. Hopefully that does the trick.  Everyone in the guys forum heres to a great three day weekend. On my way up to seattle to see the granddaughter. Cheers

 wondering what happened to all of the club members that were on here not that long ago. Welll hopefully we here from you and how things are still going for you. I had my check in today and down one more pound to hit my 50 pound button. Woo Hoo! Was a relaxing day and got a round in this morning a little house work too. Hope everyone is doing well. Have a great week guys.

 forget it , i can find the site, create my ticker, but i cant transfer it to this email. im not gonna bother. anyway i lost another three pounds, i may be just as useless with my comp as the alli help page, but i can still lose weight. thanks for trying to guide me golf man, i just cant get it to transfer, all i copy are  html codes that dont do any good.                 everyone keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!!

SW -  414            CW  - 268             GW - 190

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           hows that?                                                           DAN

 <a href="http://www.TickerFactory.com/weight-loss/wtcSuiU/">
<img border="0" src="http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/wtcSuiU/weight.png"></a>

this is all i get

 i can see the ticker you created i think you have to go to the next page and then it will give you the HTML code to copy and be sure to copy all of it.then past it back on the edit signature site. We will gete it yet. I like the one you created though. Hope your doing well i see your still losing, something to be said for consistency. Great job

 Hey larry i see you got your ticker going, and already posting results . Way to go. Have a great weekend. willy

Weather is great here in the NW taking the boat out to the lake this weekend.

Willy, Good to hear from ya! It's going slow but I guess thats the way it works, I see ur getting pretty close to your goal that's great since the new year. I makes me fell better to see that other people are losing at the same rate.

Hope ya had a great time this weekend and some good weather for your outting.

South Texas is getting hot and we had some good storms roll thru to help get our aquifer back up, we're dealing with water restriction now.

Any way we'll CYA L8R!

 Well i always heard that the way to successful permanent weight loss is to lose it slowly. I know from the past diets i would have already begun packing on what i lost and added to it. This time around on this program it is different and i really think more about my food choices. The longer i continue to choose with confidence the longer i will train myself to continue to maintain/lose but not go back to the old habits that got me here in the first place.

Just got back from the docs office and now I find out I have a thyroid problem, this is causing joint problems as well as weight gain so hopfully I can get this under control and have better results in the future.

Thanks for ur feedback.....Peace!

 i have heard that those things can be fixed, so you may be able to still utilize the meal plans and reap the rewards. We thought i should have mine checked too. And i still need to go to the Dr and have a physical to just to see how my current state of health is. I know that dropping the weight has helped my knees, ankles, hips and back too. A little bit at a time, this is a marathon not a sprint. It took me a 3 or 4 years to put this weight on and it has taken 5 months to take off 50 of it. You can do it.

 i dont know, im thinking i got it, maybe, but im not sure how .   if i got it then good for us , if not forget it. i lost only one pound this week and im ok with it. thats eight pounds for the month, down from 10 a month, but if i keep losing, ill get there. its good to see that at least one person hasnt quit the program [thats you nine iron]  and keep up the good work ;and hi to everyone else.   hey everyone- 18 holes  at pebble beach---golfnut is paying.   just dont stand behind me,, i have a mean slice