I want to thank ya'll for your suggestions!! I guess I'll have to stick to my guns and stop backsliding now, huh? I don't eat TONS of fruit or bread, but I was so frustrated at being stuck at 197 that I was eating junk foods and never "got back on the wagon".

I have been thinking about doing straight Atkins for about two weeks, then going back to Somersizing. Atkins is way too restrictive for me (but I know THAT way works like magic!)

I've been eating more natural foods, but I know I need to be drinking more water. I've got to work on that. I think the hardest part of this whole thing is getting started and trying to stop doing everything at once that's made me overweight in the first place. I just need to commit to eating right for the rest of my life and not dieting.

Thanks to everyone's suggestions, I'm down 2lbs. Yay!!