Well, you all have done it again. You all said just the right things and helped cheer me up. Yep, I get way too carried away with the numbers on the scale, and comparing my loss to others' losses is pretty counterproductive. Thanks for being so encouraging when I was feeling like a loser (not the right kind).

Thanks also to Alina for the pointers from my fitday. I'm going with less Splenda today. I guess I thought sugar alcohols were likely to stall me, but I didn't know that was also true of Splenda.

I think I don't really have any idea of what to expect in terms of the pace of my weight loss. Of course it depends on a lot of things, but I guess I got carried away reading about all these people who had lost a LOT in a relatively short time, and of course I was hoping that would be me, too.

However, for today I'm happy with how I feel and I'm so glad you're all here for me. Thank you.