JULIE HAS LEFT THE PLATEAU!! :o)

Well... I'm HOPING that this darned plateau is officially OVER!

First week on WW's new CORE Plan... LOVED IT!!

WI today...

-4.2 lbs!!!

I've been hovering around 189 since June 12th... that's 12 weeks. (& it took me 17 weeks to go from getting into ONDERLAND in February to getting under 190) This loss is about a 1/4 of what I have lost this year. (15.4 lbs TOTAL lost in 2004... averages out to .45 lbs/week... last year's average was around 1.5 lbs/week) I'm so glad to have had this great WI... what a relief!!! I was trying so hard not to get my hopes up this week as many of my Hard-CORE GoaDi (a small number of GoaD buddies doing CORE too) buddies were having really fantastic results their first week doing CORE... I was HOPEFUL, but I know how stalled my weight loss has been these last several months. I'm not completely sold that the numbers are truly going to start moving again... gotta give me a few weeks of consistent losses (even small ones) to make me believe it.)

A total of 79.4 official WW pounds lost in 19 months! (lost my first 10 lbs the month before joining... so an "unofficial" loss of 89.4 lbs!!)

Anyways... I'm excited! (can you tell??)

I was the only one in my meeting that did CORE for the week, so my leader was very excited to have me talk about it & was thrilled w/ my loss! Lots of questions from the group about what I ate & all that... I truly was satisfied all week... I am blown away by how little it took to be so... whole foods are definitely worth looking in to, guys.

Anyways... gotta lot to do today, but know you guys were waiting to hear how it went!! Thank you for your support these last several months... plateaus STINK, but I'm living proof that if you just stick w/ it... know that no matter what, you're doing this to change your life & that it's not just about the scale... it's about living the life that is going to get you there, eventually.

Special thanks for my fellow Hard-CORE GoaDi for making this transition fun!!

Happy, happy, happy!! :o)


Julie