It's been a long 10 months of strict dieting, but it's paying off. Only 1 more lb to go & I'll be 100 down! WOO HOO! It just figures I'd land on 99! I'll have to wait until next Sundays weigh-in to clelebrate.

Hi Ca_katie,

Congratulations on your success!!! You have done an amazing job and have a lot to celebrate. What are you doing to reward yourself when you hit the 100 lb mark? You deserve to celebrate your success so be sure to have a reward planned.

Keep up the great work,

Betty Kovacs, MS, RD

I'll celebrate in Oct by going to the Halloween Haunt. I certainly won't be going out to eat. I'm on such a strict all organic diet, there's isn't one meal or drink besides bottled water at any restaurant I can have. It will be a night out with bottled water only. It's been really hard seeing my husband eat anything he wants while I starve!

 Why starve.  My husband is supportive in his own way but he still has to have his junk food in the house. I just make sure I have stuff that is ofr me.  He has to have ice cream so i keep wight watcers icream on hand for me so that if I get the craving while he has his I can indulge.  He likes pizza and will keep frozen pizza for a quick meal so i get lean cusine pizza that is like 1/2 the calories as his and 1/4 the fat.  I also make a lot of home made dinners that are both of our favorites I just substitute low fat for ingredients that are high in fat and my husband can not tell the difference.

I think treating yourself is a good thing to do you have worked hard. Sometimes the people around us do not realize how hard we work.  They notice the weight coming off and congradulate us but unless they are doing it they can't imagine the work.  I broke my weight loss down into 3rds.  When I lost my first 1/3  (20 LBS)I got a pedicure, I am now coming up on my 2nd 1/3 (40 LBS) and plan on getting a massage and pedicure.  Now I figure that losing 40 pounds is a lot of work and I deserve it.  I have never had a massge before and always wanted one so that is what I picked.  Just 8 LBS to go.  for my last 1/3 I want to go away for the weekend but I am not sure yet if that is what I will do still thinking on it.  So just think of something you always wanted to do and go for it.  you have earned it.

Good luck with your goal I hope you reach it soon.  I have a ways to go but am at the half way point.

Yeh

Becki

I have no choice but starve, I can't eat what everyone else here can eat. I'm on a completely organic fresh raw vegie & fruit anti-cancer diet, if I cheat once the cancer will spread like wild fire. My husband knows how awful it is for me eating this way & how scary of a time I'm going thru & doesn't really care. I'm was never a vegetarian, but this diet has forced me to be. Look at the Budwig Diet - the restriction are mind bogling! I cry sometimes when he comes home with junk food, fast food or orders a pizza delivered & eats the whole thing!

The only reason why we're going out is because we go every year so its really not my celebration, but I pretend it is otherwise I got zip! He promissed we'd celebrate 25, 50 & 75 lb losses - nothing. He promissed to take me to Disneyland to make up for skipping all of them & because he had 1 free ticket. Then he decided he didn't want to go. He also promissed me that he'd give me money for new clothes if I lost 100 lbs by christmas. When I showed him last Sunday I had already hit a 100 lbs off & asked him about the money, he acts like he doesn't remember saying it. He  admitted he never thought I'd do it by christmas & secretly made a deal with himself that he'd start dieting when I actually lost the 100 lbs by then. So he remembered the conversation - to a point! He started Sunday & has ate junk twice already. He's never going to eat what I have to eat! He keeps saying, "How an you eat that?!" No support here!

Well I'm glad you can have something you like to eat & dont have to go thru what I am. Boy what I'd do for a Skinny Cow Ice Cream! LOL! Good Luck... only half way to go!

KT

What type of cancer do you have?  I have never heard of cancer spreading that fast with 1 treat??????  As for your husband?  I would kick his behind to the curb as fast as I could.  He IS NOT supportive at all.  He is a complete donkeys behind!  Girl, you need to open your eyes.  You can do better than this.  Do you not see that this just might be what contributes to your weight?  OMG  I wish you all the best, not only with your weight, but with the dead weight you have hanging off your arm!!

 Hi KT...Honey I know that kind of man, I use to have one too.  He wasted half my life when I could have had someone who cared, Thank God I found him, 20 years late, but he's mine and he is so much support..I am so sorry to hear about you being sick then having family problems!

If you need anyone to talk to I'm a good listener!  Take Care and let us know how your doing, WOW 99 pounds, conratulations!!!

~Hugs Patti~