It's funny, I was just thinking yesterday that I should cut back on my use of this site for that very reason. I appreciate all the support and everything, but reading every day about people who are dropping tons of weight with minimal effort (or even WITH effort) is driving me a little crazy lately.

The one thing that seems to be working for me (finally!!) is changing my calories (up, not down) and making sure I work out at least five days a week. I finally have seen the scale and the tape measure move, but it's still painfully slow.

So yes, I'm a bit green a lot of the time, too. (Plus for a while, I DID go back to low-fat, low-cal with Weight Watchers. But it was the same story there. Everyone else was dropping pounds every week, and I lost 3 pounds the first week and gained it back the next, and after 5 weeks of following the plan to the letter, I ended up a pound or two higher than when I'd started. And was starving the whole time.)