I am taking Donald's advice and introducing myself before posting. I have enjoyed reading this forum since I began my low-carb adventure but I not much of a "poster".
Today, however, I had a little triumph I thought I would share for anyone else who began to excercise. The day started rotten, got on the scale and I had only lost 5lbs. in a month. Not to encouraging considering I had been excersizing a great deal, quite faithfully, for two months. Before my daily excursion to the gym, too console myself, I decided to try on some clothes....well suprise, suprise, I ran the skinny girl at Lane Bryant ragged sending her for, not one, but two new sizes! This will be the last outfit I purchase at this particular store, I am now wearing their smallest size and I will wait another few months to shop again. So, the scale may not entirely reflect my hard work, however, my jeans do!

Just to further my introduction...I am 34, married for 12 years with two girls, 4 and 7. I work for the school district on occasion doing special projects but mainly I volunteer for my childrens school and "stay-at-home". I am treasurer for their parent teacher group at school. Before kids, I earned a BA degree in Economics and worked for a seafood exporter in their finance department.