[ktimephoenix]

Julie, part of the reason i'm losing weight is because for the first time in 6 years, my old knee injury has flared up. that was the kick in the pants to do something about it. snowboarding season in Aus is coming around fast, and there is no way i can hit the slopes when i have enough trouble standing for more than 30 minutes.

Have you tried Pears instead of a fibre suppliment? i don't know your medical background, or how hard things are to eat, so it may be a useless suggestion. they're almost as good as prunes for fibre, but have a rare form of it, which is supposedly good for the heart as well. i know it's my "unblocker" of choice.

Controlling the food that goes in has always been my biggest problem. usually i'm active enough to burn most of it off tho. i found a website called Calorie king (feel free to remove it if mentioning names is against the board rules. I'm not an owner, just a happy user) has done wonders for me. you set up a profile, including height, weight, goal weight etc, and it works out a calorie plan for you. you can use it to generate a meal plan for the week, or you can use your own (has a searchable database for most commercially available foods). so if you have a favorite meal, you can add that in, and make adjustments to the rest of the day to cater for it.

i found that unlike weight watchers, where i usually ran out of points with a meal still to go, because your planning it ahead, your much more likely to stick to it.