I increased my carbs this week and immediately the scale went up a bit even though I was eating on plan. I have rearranged the days again as I want more food at lunch which wasn't a problem last week using the low carb days. It was better this morning but had a pretty high carb lunch and tonight it looks like tuna and salad...so I did my salad and will have my tuna later and maybe add some cherry tomatoes, baby carrots and cucumber to fill me up. I feel for the people who are guineaning phase 6. I have to decide if I want to give it a try....I may not be able to do it but I would like to at least be able to consider it so I need to get my eating under better control. I think I will finish out this week as I bought potatoes and things but i think I may go back to the low carb days next week. Maybe eat more fish and sub some meat in one night so I don't feel like there is so so much chicken....I know some is turkey but it tastes the same.
Now if I can just kick the no exercise bug and get moving I should be set for this last month. Funny even on my bad days my cal are pretty good....figure that even if I'm off slightly in my counts I'm still doing well and I measure and weigh everything I can except for raw vegetables. I didn't get fat eating some extra lettuce or cabbage......it was that that second serving or that giant potato.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Phase 3/4/5
Happy Easter, Passover, whatever, or nothing...whatever makes you happy.
Allan posted the people that started in phase one and where they are today.....I hope more of them are still on their journey down even if not in the program...I know a couple that are still trying though they couldn't do the program anymore. I didn't start with Allan even though I started about the same time. I jumped in a few days late in Phase 3....on 8 Dec 2010 @ 276 pounds. As of this morning I weigh 239 for a loss of 37 pounds in these 3 phases. Since starting on 18 Oct 2010 I have lost 56 pounds for an average of 2 pounds a week. If I can continue to average this I will be under 200 at a year...even if I slow(I don't want to but I am aware that my body may do this to me as it did in the past when I did WW) to a pound a week I would still lose more than 80 pounds in the year. Mir spoke about consistency and this is what I am aiming for....to consistently move downward and reach my goal. I've become convinced that I will get there and would like to be there by my birthday next year. To do that I will need to average 2 pounds a week.....will try but I refuse to beat myself up if I can't do it as I want to continue to be positive on this downward trip.
My week of low carb will end today and I will be returning to the earlier meal plans. Chicken is on the menu for tomorrow night but we are eating with friends for the holiday and while healthy the meal will have some more carbs and I will be using some of the other meals to make dinner work. Monday I think will be a day with Tuna....I miss the tuna from the earlier meal days and will definitely be doing a steak and mushroom day.
Allan posted the people that started in phase one and where they are today.....I hope more of them are still on their journey down even if not in the program...I know a couple that are still trying though they couldn't do the program anymore. I didn't start with Allan even though I started about the same time. I jumped in a few days late in Phase 3....on 8 Dec 2010 @ 276 pounds. As of this morning I weigh 239 for a loss of 37 pounds in these 3 phases. Since starting on 18 Oct 2010 I have lost 56 pounds for an average of 2 pounds a week. If I can continue to average this I will be under 200 at a year...even if I slow(I don't want to but I am aware that my body may do this to me as it did in the past when I did WW) to a pound a week I would still lose more than 80 pounds in the year. Mir spoke about consistency and this is what I am aiming for....to consistently move downward and reach my goal. I've become convinced that I will get there and would like to be there by my birthday next year. To do that I will need to average 2 pounds a week.....will try but I refuse to beat myself up if I can't do it as I want to continue to be positive on this downward trip.
My week of low carb will end today and I will be returning to the earlier meal plans. Chicken is on the menu for tomorrow night but we are eating with friends for the holiday and while healthy the meal will have some more carbs and I will be using some of the other meals to make dinner work. Monday I think will be a day with Tuna....I miss the tuna from the earlier meal days and will definitely be doing a steak and mushroom day.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Egg or Fly
I know its been a while since I wrote anything bu try as I did I couldn't seem to be able to access this site while abroad. I did try to make good choices from what was available but 15days of eating out is different from being at home. I did have to drink less as the minibus only stopped at planned times and our whole group noticed that the food was salty. I gained some bloating and fluid weight after the flight over that stayed during the trip and took about 48 hours to disappear when we came home...but in the past it has taken me much longer to shed my flying bloat..so not too bad. I was hoping to continue to lose about a pound a week but only managed to lose one pound overall. Lots of fresh fruits and vegetables to eat at most meals so that generally helped but sometimes there was no choice on what we ate and the only thing I could do was eat only a fairly small portion.
Since i wasn't here for the lowcarb week and only downloaded it when I returned I have been doing that this week.....I think between the chicken and turkey I have eaten I am ready to either lay an egg or fly away. I am looking forward to redoing some of the original days so that I can have some steak and mushrooms. When i first read about the salad with the chopped celery, pepper, cabbage and carrots I thought I wouldn't like it .....now I make almost all my salads that way. I enjoy the texture variations and find I need little dressing to enjoy the salad.
It's been a crazy busy week at work after being gone almost 3 weeks and I'm just catching up on some of the blogs......I'd like to do P-6 but I wonder if I will be able to. Will decide after more info is available. part of me wishes I had know about P1/2...but I am glad to have joined in P3 and even if i can't do 6 I have gotten lots of good ideas to continue on with over the next year. Lets see...chicken and salad and brown rice for dinner tonight....big surprise(lol)
Since i wasn't here for the lowcarb week and only downloaded it when I returned I have been doing that this week.....I think between the chicken and turkey I have eaten I am ready to either lay an egg or fly away. I am looking forward to redoing some of the original days so that I can have some steak and mushrooms. When i first read about the salad with the chopped celery, pepper, cabbage and carrots I thought I wouldn't like it .....now I make almost all my salads that way. I enjoy the texture variations and find I need little dressing to enjoy the salad.
It's been a crazy busy week at work after being gone almost 3 weeks and I'm just catching up on some of the blogs......I'd like to do P-6 but I wonder if I will be able to. Will decide after more info is available. part of me wishes I had know about P1/2...but I am glad to have joined in P3 and even if i can't do 6 I have gotten lots of good ideas to continue on with over the next year. Lets see...chicken and salad and brown rice for dinner tonight....big surprise(lol)
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
NSV
I know...its been a while since i posted...busy at work and home and managing my food. I'm continuing to lose weight even if i had to do 2 high cal days in a row.....didn't do 1900 but only because between bk and lunch i didn't eat my whole dinner or snacks......i should probably have spread out those days but that's how the cookie....no cookies how about the tacos crumble. i probably ruined the diet by adding a little sourcream to my tacos but i always liked the ones with that at Taco Bell.
Okay it says nsv as my title.....I can now fit into the booths when we go out to eat. I can bend over way easier. My arms are getting flabby and my abdomen is getting soft(less fat maybe someday it will shrink and then get toned and firm but i may need to be reincarnated for that to happen). I can fit into some of my older clothes. I was able to buy a few things in a size smaller. I feel full with smaller portions. I thought of others the other nite in bed....knew i should have gotten up and written them down then.
Thanks to everyone that has encouraged me and sent me happy comments on reaching 50 pounds. On ward and downward.
Okay it says nsv as my title.....I can now fit into the booths when we go out to eat. I can bend over way easier. My arms are getting flabby and my abdomen is getting soft(less fat maybe someday it will shrink and then get toned and firm but i may need to be reincarnated for that to happen). I can fit into some of my older clothes. I was able to buy a few things in a size smaller. I feel full with smaller portions. I thought of others the other nite in bed....knew i should have gotten up and written them down then.
Thanks to everyone that has encouraged me and sent me happy comments on reaching 50 pounds. On ward and downward.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
50 pounds
yes!!...todays weigh in finally is 245. It just seemed that this goal would not come....I thought not making it for my birthday didn't bother me but i think it did. Anyway i was not good on tues but it is interesting in that i ate 1810 cal on tues and in many diets that would be considered great and in my current mind set that is not good. Now if i had planned to eat 1800 cal i would be fine with it but i just wasn't feeling happy and i was tired and we were busy and all those useless stupid excuses and i overate at lunch....i was able to pull it in some at dinner or it would have been even worse. For the week i am less than 100 cal over but still how foolish when i wasn't happy with the last weigh ins. Now ther are a few days missing but some of that is due to my finding our that my day count was off.....i have adjusted it and i now hope its correct and since i figured this out on wed i just started this weeks posting there....the missing days were fine on both cal and flu but i have been having problems getting my fluids in. Work has been busy and time to drink limited and I have been starting as soon as i get home.
dh is shopping right now for some more salad stuff.....I don't know why all of a sudden we can't find the carrots i like for the salads, i tried chopping some last night and it just wasn't as good. May have to eat baby carrots along with the salad if we can't find the good ones.
dh is shopping right now for some more salad stuff.....I don't know why all of a sudden we can't find the carrots i like for the salads, i tried chopping some last night and it just wasn't as good. May have to eat baby carrots along with the salad if we can't find the good ones.
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