Hello! thought it was about time i intoduced my self..I have been lurking here for a while wondering where to begin on all this. All the information out there can be rather daughting, but I am ready to make the plunge. I have 18 lbs to lose, my husband 35. And I have read, researched, and re-read and now I am convinced and me and my husband are ready to start phase I tomorrow. I am a little nervous because me and my husband have been through diet plan after diet plan and none of it seems to take the wieght off we both gained since we quit smoking. my husband is getting disparate (sp?) and wants to go back to smoking to lose the weight. (bad, bad move I try to tell him) so this is kind of a last ditch effort. I cant even count the diet plans we have been on and they have failed~~miserably i may add.

So...enough of my rant, here I am. I went through my kitchen and took all the stuff that is not in the diet plan to my local food bank. (Boy, did I have alot of bad carbs...more processed crap than I even thought was in there..LOL) and I am going to go to the store and re-stock my kitchen.

my question to everyone is, what is the best advice you can give for getting past phase I???

thanks for listening to my rants...