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Max

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 07:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Congrats, Spygirl!!!

I've been frantically preparing for a week-long business trip, so haven't had time to post.

I'll be out of touch starting tomorrow until I return next Saturday. The place I'm going doesn't have a phone in the hotel room and I'm not sure how available their communal spot for connecting to check email will be.

Stay strong, keep movin', and I'll check ya later!

(Keep your fingers crossed that the meals I'm presented with all week have some sensible choices included. :))

Tess

Saturday, February 02, 2002 - 09:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<Tess peeks in the door, looks around innocently and tiptoes away without divulging a thing about the menu of the past few days. >

Twiggyish

Sunday, February 03, 2002 - 05:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've been making sugar free vanilla jello and it is delicious. I think it's mentioned somewhere up in the threads. It takes the curb off those sugar cravings.

Breakfast:
Scrambled eggs (by husband)
Lunch: Two veggie burgers
Supper: Two pieces of fried chicken, no veggies.

No snacks today.

Congrats Spy!
Seeya in a few days Max!

Spygirl

Sunday, February 03, 2002 - 05:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Breakfast: peanut butter wrap, cantaloupe
Lunch: Vegetable Cheese Casserole (eDiets recipe), green beans
Dinner: Not sure I'll eat anything. I ate lunch at 4pm, if I do, I'll have my designated snack of the day -- whatever the eDiets menu says. The vegetable casserole isn't sitting too well right now, anyway.

Exercise: 21 minutes on the treadmill for 1.3 miles; stretching exercises and some crunches.

All water, only part of vitamins

Jewels

Monday, February 04, 2002 - 01:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Great job Spy and Twiggy! Glad to see someone is hanging in there! I was a this weekend!!

Tess

Monday, February 04, 2002 - 03:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jewels, I was the little right next to you but I'm back on track today!!

Breakfast: Slimfast shake
Lunch: banana
Dinner: Salad with chicken breast
There will be a snack later--not sure what but probably peaches and fat-free pretzels with lots and lots of water!

Exercise: walked .5 mile.

Gail

Monday, February 04, 2002 - 04:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm still hanginging in there. Dietwise, I am doing good but last week was not good for exercise for me - I was trying to do some exercise videos and I think I overdid it (i have an arm in a cast) For the next month, I will have to confine my exercise to just the treadmill.

In spite of that, I was down 2 pounds for the week. :)

Twiggyish

Monday, February 04, 2002 - 05:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Great Gail!

I'm staying in one place with my weight. My husband who is on the same diet ..ahem, has lost 19 lbs.

Spygirl

Monday, February 04, 2002 - 06:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Holy cow! A CAST Gail??? Please be careful! Twiggy....congrats to hubby!!


breakfast: cheese toast, banana,
lunch: WW frozen chicken something (not very memrorable what kind), yogurt, banana
dinner: grilled salmon, salad w/ brocolli, two bites of a sweet potato (hated it), tortiall
snack: peanut butter, crackers

no exercise today
got all water and vitamins

Kady

Monday, February 04, 2002 - 07:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yesterday was the beginning of week 2 for me. I lost 3# the first week. I am very happy with that. I purposely started my diet on a Sunday. That way while I'm sitting in church, I throw in alot of Dear God help me have a sucessful week. :)

Jewels

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 07:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Kady! Good idea! Good job!

Be careful Gail, you don't need to go and hurt something else!

Well, I sent the rest of the banana bread to work with my husband and made him hide the caramel filled chocolates from me, so I think I can get back on track now!

Yesterday:
Breakfast: cereal, latte
Lunch: salad, mini veggie corn dogs
Snack: latte
Dinner: Wild rice casserole (left over turkey, wild rice, onions and cream of mushroom soup)

Exercise: walked 2.5 miles, misc. exercises

Schoolmarm

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 03:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm off the diet for a couple of months. I just have TOO much dissertation stress (and home repais stress and applying for new jobs stress, etc) to successfully diet.

I'll be back after I defend (April? June?) I just got another deadline pushed forward again. So I will be a crazy person with writing.

Hate to say it, but I bought a pound bag of crunchy M & M's and a couple bags of chips. Those who know me, know that the ONLY junk food in my house is popcorn (and an occasional pizza, if you consider pizza "junk" food).

I won't be posting much!
<marm gets set to type like a maniac!>

Good luck everyone! And I'll be back once I'm a Doctor!

Tess

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 07:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yesterday
Usual breakfast
ham and tomato sandwich for lunch
grilled salmon filet, cheddar mashed potates and mixed veggies for dinner
snack was a slimfast bar and milk.

Today
Breakfast: usual
Lunch: salad with dressing on the side, crab alfredo, biscuit, iced tea
Dinner: chicken teriyaki sandwich, juice, milk
probably will be a snack of some sort later with another glass of milk.

Exercise yesterday was part in the PT pool and part walking (mileage posted in exercise thread) today was 1.5 miles walking.

Spygirl

Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 08:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
breakfast: low fat waffles, lite syrup, fruit coctail
lunch: voila! steak & garlic potatos (YUMMY!), side salad
dinner: spaghetti, 2 slices of bread (small portion)

exercise: none
water: all
vitamins: all

See ya tomorrow everyone!!!

Jewels

Thursday, February 07, 2002 - 07:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yesterday:
Breakfast: 2 pieces whole wheat toast, latte
Lunch: Salad, mini veggie corn dogs, orange
Snack: few mini carmel corn rice cakes
Dinner: Chicken noodle soup, small baked potato

Exercise: Walked 3 miles, misc. exercises -- I added some arm weight exercises this week...my arms feel like they are going to fall off today!

Spygirl

Friday, February 08, 2002 - 10:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thursday:
Breakfast: low fat waffles, lite syrup, cantaloupe
Lunch: Mushroom burger, 1/2 the bread, pasta salad, no fruit
Dinner: Pita bread Pizza (eDiets)

Exercise: 1.3 miles
All water, all vitamins

Friday:
Breakfast: Protein drink with cottage cheese blended in, english muffin
Lunch: Smart Ones Chicken Gnocchi (sp?) with vegetables
Dinner: Chicken stir fry (eDiets, previously posted)
Snack: Special K, lowfat milk, equal, protein drink

All water, all vitamins, no exercise

Twiggyish

Saturday, February 09, 2002 - 06:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm still plugging away at my diet.

I'll check my weight, but I am probably weighing at the same stubborn place on the scale.

Spygirl

Saturday, February 09, 2002 - 08:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Breakfast: low fat waffles
Lunch: MorningStar Griller, wheat bun, healthy fries, cantaloupe
Dinner: Shrimp Pasta...UNBELIEVABLY good, orange, side salad
Water: All
Vitamins: All

Weigh in today: 1 pound lost, total of 6 pounds

Gail

Sunday, February 10, 2002 - 06:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, Ediets is working pretty good for me. :) This is finally a plan that I can live with. I was down 2 pounds this week and so far, I have lost 10 pounds in three weeks. I don't follow the plan religiously but I do follow it. For example, I went out Friday night to dinner and a movie. Dinner was fast food, (Wendy's) and I resisted the urge to get fries with what I had. I just had the spicy chicken filet and an ice tea. Fries would have been nice to have but I am starting to get the will power to say no some to that stuff. It's tha monthly weigh-in. It is a good motivator for me. :)

Kady

Sunday, February 10, 2002 - 06:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It has been 2 weeks now and I've lost a total of 6 pounds.

Twiggyish

Sunday, February 10, 2002 - 06:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Good going everyone! I came down a dress size. This is a surprise, because I haven't lost as much weight.

Spygirl

Sunday, February 10, 2002 - 07:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Great job Twiggyish, Gail & Kady!!!

Sunday

Breakfast: peanutbutter roll, watermelon
Lunch: HC Sweet & Sour chicken, side salad
Dinner: Chicken sandwich on wheat bread bun with lowfat cheese, mustard, ketchup and mayo. Healthy fries, banana

Toning and stretching exercises, 15 minutes
All water, all vitamins

Twiggyish

Sunday, February 10, 2002 - 08:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What are healthy fries?

Rissa

Monday, February 11, 2002 - 06:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Good morning. This is my first post under this topic. Just wanted to say congrats to such a large group working *together* on this !!!!

Twiggyish, I have one of those kewl starfrit products.. a potato cutter. Just put in the tater, skin and all, lower the handle and you have the perfect sized fries. Then I toss them with a coating of non-fat yogurt (not too much, just enough to cover) and place them single layer on a cookie sheet. Sprinkle with a bit of seasoning and bake. If I remember properly I got that recipe from Oprah's personal chef when she published that cookbook about ten years ago.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I have always been fairly active and even through two diabetic pregnancies managed to keep my weight where I want it to be. Then about 2.5 years ago I had what my Dr. is calling a *thyroid crisis*. I gained 40 pounds in 2 months, lost a lot of hair, a couple finger nails and a few other symptoms. They treated me for 3 months then declared me healthy again. Except the Dr. didn't seem to have much sympathy for the 40 pounds that refused to budge. I have learned a few things since then about my eating habits. thought I would share:

I will assume all of you do your best already to follow a well-balanced diet, these are little tricks that have helped me in addition to mealtime.

1) 10-20 minutes before you eat, have just one mouthfull of something high protein. For me this is usually about 10 peanuts or a spoon of peanut butter.

Protein is what triggers your stomach to start digesting. When you do sit down for dinner, your stomach is already in digest mode and the meal will spend less time in your stomach, less time to have it's sugar and fat components taken out into your blood system. Without changing anything else, I lost 5 pounds in one month when i started doing this.

2)Make yogurt your best friend. :) I am not a yogurt person so this one was tough but I also never used to eat breakfast OR lunch so I have managed both. I make a shake with about 1/2 non-fat plain yogurt, 1/2 cup non-fat vanilla soy milk, 1/2 cup cranberry juice and either 1/2 pure juice (your choice) or a small handfull of frozen fruit. I usually toss in a fresh banana instead of the juice because the taste is so overwhelming. Toss in a tablespoon or two of wheat germ and a teaspoon only of all-fibre. a couple ice cubes too is great. Trust me, tastes better then it sounds. :) I put this is a portable jug and carry it around all morning.

3) Last one. about 45 minutes before an aerobic workout, drink something with caffiene. Caffiene stimulates the release of fatty acids into the blood. If you do nothing then eventually those fatty acids go right back where they came from. But if you do an aerobic workout then those fatty acids are in the best place to be burned off immediately. Usually you have to work out for at least twenty minutes before your body releases the fatty acids for burning. Every little bit helps. LOLOL

At the end of my thyroid *crisis* I was up to 185lbs from my normal 138. I am down to 159 now, halfway there. Since I always did work out 4-5 times a week and ate well, I have had to find little tricks like the above to make a difference. Hope someone finds somthing usefull in that rambling. LOL

Twiggyish

Monday, February 11, 2002 - 07:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Good tips!! The protein 20 minutes before a meal is a good idea.

I am always open to new ideas.