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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 11:17 am
Just think of all the water weight you will drop next time, Fab. You'll be able to report a big drop then. As you said to me last week, it happens, better luck next time. Don't give up! My weigh-in went much better than I had feared. Didn't cheat, but felt like I had been gaining. Imagine my surprise when I actually lost 3 1/4 lbs, for a total of 9 1/4. This was also the 3 week measuring day, and I lost 1 1/2" in my bust (figures!), 2 3/4 in the waist, 2" in the abdomen, 3" in the hips, and one in the thighs in 3 weeks. So all this rabbit food, meat and working out wasn't for naught after all.LOL
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Myjohnhenry
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, April 25, 2005 - 7:03 pm
Not doing so great here, but mostly because of all of the stress. I didn't eat or drink much all week and when I did it was often comfort food (not that it gave any comfort or had much taste, but it was what sounded the best at the moment) I went to New Seasons on Saturday after weigh in and got some more yogurt and some fruits and veggies and then to Trader Joe's today for more veggies, some brown rice in the freezer section that I love, some lamb for dinner tonight and some mini meringue cookies for the sweet attacks...oh yes and some No Pudge Brownie mix which you can actually make one serving at a time and I hear is yummy~ Congrats Lum on the continuing weight loss! And Fab I bet you will be right back on track loss wise next week....you are probably right about the cause of the gain.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 9:07 am
Thanks, MJH. Don't beat up on yourself; you had a rough go (hope things are improving now). Just return to your diet; it's another day! Are there any other low-carb people in this group? Anyone following anything other than WW?
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Sage
Member
07-20-2000
| Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 8:18 pm
Well, I really need to join this thread of weight losers. After a whopping 83 pound loss a couple years ago, I have gained nearly 30 of those pounds back. Albeit, a lot of the weght gain has had a lot to do with my health and healing problems stemming from having 4 surgeries in a 12 month period. The healing just wasn't happening, I couldn't do much in the way of exercise, and I started packing on the weight/fat from poor food choices and from sheer boredom. Now I'm ready to put a halt to the poor choices and will be mapping out a sound food plan, one with low calories and high nutrient content. This is what works for me. No gimmick diets for me. I am diabetic, so a low-carb diet is already a way of life for me. Daily walks are also in the plan, and hope to work back up to 2 miles for 4 to 7 days a week. Ok, best of working it all out to all of us. I'll be checking in here daily, giving and asking for support. 
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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 9:14 pm
Hi everyone! Everyone is doing a great job here and I just want to say Congratulations! I went to WW for about 8 months, but I became very discouraged with it. My buddies that I always sat with had the same problems. We would lose .2 then gain, then lose, then gain. I lose 15 pounds, but could never do any better. Many people did lose and were successful. But I became discouraged. Last week my daughter started this diet from a book and she has lost 5 lbs in 4 days and I have lost 7 lbs in 5 days. This has never in either of our lives happened to us. I will find out what the book is and tell you later. I just wrote the plan down when she left the book at work one day. As someone stated earlier, water is very important, we have to drink 100 oz. a day. The choices for what you can eat or very limited for 6 days. The author says you can lose a dress size in 6 days and many people have done it. Different body types need different plans to speed up your metobolism. I can go for many hours without eating and this is BAD! It is a real struggle for me to eat every 2 hours as you must do on this to speed up your metobolism. You eat 6 times a day, but it is not much. THerefore, I am drinking the water to keep full! THe plan for me is green vegetables and a little meat. Believe me, I am thrilled!
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 8:45 am
Hi, Sage and Patti! Welcome aboard! Patti, 100 oz of water a day? That's 4 1/2 glasses more than most diet plans demand. I can do the 8, but over 12? The words "peeing" and "race-horse" come to mind. Please, let us know the name of your new diet when you can, and Good Luck!!! Sounds like you have already made quite a dent. We are supposed to eat 6 times per day as well. In the beginning I kept forgetting those snacks. Then I wrote down the times I ate and set an alarm to remind me. In no time my stomach would let me know it was time; no need for the timer to scare the living daylights out of me anymore. Funny how quickly one's body *does* adjust. My weigh-in is on Mondays, so nothing salty or heavy for this gal today.LOL Sage, if you have found what works for you then let nobody discourage you from using that method (health permitting). Good luck and Happy Trails! Hang in there, everyone! We'll drop them one at a time - pounds, I mean.
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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 9:08 am
That is a good idea with the timer. No process foods because of sodium. I think that is why I had trouble with WW. You could eat a wide vaariety of foods, but some of it could be the snacks with salt. I noticed if I ate crackers I did not lose. I spend a great deal of time cooking up food for the week yesterday. I work long hours so I take all this with me. My aching arm carrying it all. LOL! (I was off yesterday and today.) Now I am off to the grocery store to buy the other items - such as tuna in water. I will try to get the name of the book today.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 9:14 am
One word, Patti - Tupperware! All these years I have been complaining about having too much. These days I have had to resort to buying some more small cheapo containers, just to keep up with one for this snack, one for that; one for this mouth-ready rabbit food, one for that, etc. etc. Now dh has joined the ranks which means more containers. And I don't work, don't have to lug (except if I am gone over snack time). Thank heavens for 3 fridges.LOL
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Sage
Member
07-20-2000
| Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 12:21 pm
Yeah, I know what works for me, but lately, I'm so obsessed with food, it's driving me crazy. None of my clothes from last year fit... none. I'm so down about it, yet when it comes to feeding my cravings, I don't give a care for anything but that. I'm sure all of you know the cycle, and it's hell. I will make it out of it though.
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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 4:43 pm
Sage - I hear you! The book is 6 Day Body Make over by Michael Thurmond. I would never have done this if my dd had not encourage it. She said in the beginning it is just for 6 days. THen you add more food to your plan.
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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 4:45 pm
Lumbele you are so right about the containers! I am going to have to get more of them!
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, May 02, 2005 - 8:22 am
Well, I am having a really good day. I lost 4 3/4 lbs last week. On Friday I took a peek at the scales and I had gained 1 lb., so I told the weigh-in girl to push the thingy to the right. But she kept flickin' it left. At first I thought I had broken the scales. Still stunned that they were actually working. Why do I have such a hard time believing? When I look in the mirror I don't see diddly difference. Still in the "drop in the bucket" stage, but hey, I'll take every gram of weightloss I can get.LOL
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Fabnsab
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, May 02, 2005 - 10:02 am
Knightpatti, I knew exactly the plan you were on from your first post. I ordered his 6 week body makeover and loved it but it was extremely hard for me to eat so many times. I used to eat once a day. When I was on the 6WBMO, I was managing a very busy restaurant and I used to hide in the coatcheck room to eat my snack. Good luck on it. They have a great support message board over at www.provida.com He is also the trainer they showcase on Extreme Makeover. He seems to be a great guy. Congrats to all the losers this week! I was down 5.4 for a 38lb total in 16 weeks on WW. Thank goodness that 3lb gain from last week came off! Welcome, Sage! Myjohnhenry, what brown rice do you like at TJ's? I love that place and am always looking for new things. I hope all is going well with you. Lumbele, get naked and go stare at yourself in your mirror! You will see the difference. I do this often so I can see every little change in my body. I also took before pics then some at a 20lb loss in the same clothes. In 2 lbs, i will do the 40lb loss in the same clothes. I hope this helps you.
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Sage
Member
07-20-2000
| Monday, May 02, 2005 - 10:33 am
After a weekend of eating whatever I felt like eating, and being disgusted with myself for taking what I call an immature approach to eating, I have started the day off right. I was going to go for a walk first thing, but woke up to rain. I'll go walk a little later. I did some research and found lists of fat/calorie burning foods. I'm planning to mold my diet around those foods. I feel that old "resolve" I once had when it came to not eating sugar. There simply is no room in my body for the fat and sugar laden foods anymore. I want to fit into my clothes again. I didn't weigh, but will gauge my loss by fitting into my clothes again. I feel like success comes by eating right, and the weight loss is the benefit of that. When I keep weighing, it seems like the loss is the main goal, but in actuality the main goal is eating right, every day.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, May 02, 2005 - 12:19 pm
Congratulations, Fab!!! That was an impressive loss, not just for the week, but the entire 16 weeks! As for seeing the change in the body.... I get that nekkid view at least once a day (big unavoidable bathroom mirror), so subtle changes just don't register. Curves took a pic at the beginning of this challenge, and they will again after 6 weeks. We'll see. Sage, whatever works for *you* is what you should follow. Until I started this weight loss challenge at Curves I would always close my eyes at weigh-in. They would register all the info in my file, but I told them *I* didn't need to know about it. With the weekly weigh-ins for this diet I find now I want to know, and that it helps spur me on to continue to lose. Whether that thirst for "knowledge" will still be there when the losing slows down is another story.LOL Eating healthy foods is definitely a good start. May your clothes receive less and less stress on the seams quickly. Good luck!
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Monday, May 02, 2005 - 12:41 pm
good grief...on the last page I read the work "maintaining" as marinating at first! So, I guess food is a lot on my mind too. Lumbele, I am trying to do low carb too. I haven't been really good at it for the past couple of mos., but I keep saying "tomorrow..." Anyway, I'm not cutting out fruit completely and I sometimes eat lower carb things like Morning Star Farms grillers. I just cannot do Atkins Phase I again for more than a day or few days at a time. I'm never going to do it with all the fat either, no cream, no sausge etc... Anyways, I haven't been doing awful like eating white bread or sugar or potatoes (except for last night).
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, May 02, 2005 - 1:29 pm
Sage wrote, I did some research and found lists of fat/calorie burning foods. I'd be interested in reading the info you found. Do you have any links?
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, May 02, 2005 - 2:35 pm
Happy, LOL at the "wishful reading"; I know exactly what you mean. That Atkins fella sounds extremely harsh in his initial phase; and here I thought I was terribly deprived with my initial measly 20 g of carbs. Phase II allowed me to graduate to 40 - 60 g. I stayed at 40. Although that's double of what we got before, it sure doesn't seem like it once you start adding during the day.LOL
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Sage
Member
07-20-2000
| Monday, May 02, 2005 - 3:07 pm
Wendo, here are the two links I liked best. I did a google search using the key words, calorie burning foods. Most sites are just a sales pitch for buying their books. Free List of Fat Burning Foods Negative Calorie Foods & Fat Burning Foods
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, May 02, 2005 - 8:58 pm
Cool. Thanks for posting the links, I'll check 'em out. 
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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Monday, May 02, 2005 - 8:58 pm
Sage, thanks for the links. Many of those foods are on my plan. My body types does get 1/2 c. brown rice for lunch and dinner. Everything else is on that list. Buffalo was on one of the lists. Has anyone every had buffalo? I do not eat read meat, except on special occasions we have lamb. But if it was on a buffet somewhere, I would have to try it. I have never seen it sold anywhere.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 9:39 am
Lumbele, yes, I agree that it's a bit harsh, that first Atkins phase. Re: Buffalo, I heard a chef on the radio (he may be world renowned or just locally renowned, he's got a great reputation anyway...) talking about buffalo. He said it tasted like what really good beef should taste like (something like that anyway).
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, May 09, 2005 - 11:42 am
Well, the scales weren't quite so kind this morning. Only lost 1/2 pound last week. I guess it was bound to slow down again, but it's somewhat disappointing when you've been a good girl.LOL
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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, May 09, 2005 - 3:26 pm
lumb i've been good for 3 weeks now--2 weeks ago i gained .6 last week i maintained--hopefully tomorrow will show a lose--i hatethat! grrr
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, May 09, 2005 - 3:37 pm
Keeping my fingers crossed for you, Nany.
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