<p>(I'm using my son's screen name (hee,hee, hee while he's at school) until I figure out how to get my own.) Anyway, I've lost about a pound a month for the last sixteen months by limiting what I eat after 6pm. I found out I was a dangerous snacker around nine or ten pm. So I try to just drink after dinner - wine, green tea, water or whatever. It's been good for me because when I slip up or am at social event I can ususally counter act the gain in just a few days. Also, clothes fit better and feel better in the morning. It's a slow method, especially because I hate exercise except for ballet and dance, but my weight loss has been very consistent and I'm down two sizes. Good luck all, it gets harder as one gets older.</p>
<p>zaphod, my husband uses the calorie king software and records everything he eats. They have it downloadable to palm pilots too. I have to give him exact amounts of the foods that I am feeding him so he can record it. I hate getting old. Its seems like I gain weight just by breathing. My boys eat so much, I'm exhausted preparing their huge meals. The lunch bag is stuffed full and they eat it all!</p>
<p>Well, from the sounds of it, it is now 35 days until many here begin the World's Best Weight-Loss Program! ;)</p>
<p>Heh heh, Zaphod, you got that right---Beast Barracks pulled some weight off my daughter that she didn't get back until she joined the Marathon team---figure that one out!!</p>
<p>My CC went to USMAPS this past year and we did the countdown and high school graduation. We just went to graduation again last week. I'm going through the countdown again for USMA. What a rollercoaster ride. I think I felt every up and down too. I will never forget checking the mailbox for that FIRST letter and then checking EVERY day, hoping, EVERY day for that letter. Some were really upbeat and I felt great. Some were not upbeat at all and I thought I was going to die. I know I'll go through that again this year. I am the BEST cheerleader and, I hope, a good listener. It is worth every second. My CC tells me it is worth it and is definitely psyched to go to WP! I know we will go through a lot of ups and downs agains, but we do it together (well, I'm not really going through it, but I feel like I am). It is nothing like what other parents of kids going to college go through. I'll bet the ROTC program has a lot of the same parent issues too. There is a lot of explaining about they way they do things, etc. I believe in the Pino Grigot diet (Merlot stains the teth, LOL)!</p>