Daily SBD Thread, Tuesday, July 15th

[operadog]

Good Morning All you Chicks on the Beach!!! :wave:

While in my handy dandy, round the corner market, I found LF Quark. Now, mind you, I'be been looking for it - but now I have it and don't remember what recipe I needed it for! :rolleyes: I'll ponder it later.

I've set foot, tentatively, in P2 - added a drink (well, 2) :eek: b/c I had some major dental work done yesterday and promised it to myself while it seemed they were drilling for oil in my mouth. eesh! - the dental assistant gave me some super size advils to take for the pain and they worked but I had the vodka anyway. On my way home from the gym this morning, I plan to get some blueberries as my P2 addition for today.

So, time to get my gym footwear on and get going. I'll check in with y'all later!

Have a glorious day on the Beach Chicks! :grouphug:

[Ruthxxx]

Quark! I'd forgotten about that. I used to mix it with chopped onion and paprika and make a spread. Hmmmmmmm.

Anna, wash your mouth out - not with vodka! I adore blueberries and am longing for some. The strawberry season is over around here but the raspberries will be ready for Phase 2 next week, I hope. LindaBC ssays the blackberries will be ready when I go to visit her in August. Can you tell my life centres around food? :shrug:

A little warning about soy sauce, even the "lite". I did stir-fried pork and veggies last night and managed to go up two pounds overnight! Alas! Water, water, water today.

My challenge today will be the BBQ at the Fairgrounds after the cleanup bee. I am seriously considering taking my own lettuce leaves to wrap the burger or dog. They all think I am eccentric anyhow! I know the burgers will not be sirloin :lol: but think I'll go for that instead of the wieners. NEVER read the ingredient list on cheap wieners. What the heck are "chicken byproducts"? Please don't answer that! The mind boggles.

I need to get cracking on some more weeding before it gets too darn hot. Today will be an AC day once again so I'll weed early and then do inside stuff for the rest of the morning.

Have a good day on the beach, Beach Babes.

[I Luv U Peggy Sue]

Looks like today is going to be a good one! Claudette won't be visiting us :crossed: , and I'm buying some new dining chairs.

I am still hanging in there with Phase 1. Today I start day 6, but I haven't really lost any since those initial pounds the first 2 days. I've got to get my bohunkus moving; it has always helped me speed up weight loss before.

One thing I have been doing that really helps is prepare some food for the next day the night before. I go ahead and cut up some vegetables for salad and roasting. I even cook some meat. It's so much easier to eat healthy when you prepare it ahead of time because a lot of times I just don't want to take the time to make a salad during the day when I'm in the middle of doing something.

Well, I'm off to start the day. Got to get the kids out of the house today or we'll both go bonkers.

Have a great day friends and let the loosing begin!:jig:

Oh yeah.....what in the world is quark?

[Tippy]

Okay, I'll bite...what is quark????

[operadog]

Hi Ruthie!

I just had my first BLUEBERRY :lol: and thought of you :D. They were the best ever... and now they're all gone.

Have a great time at the BBQ - as for hot dogs - I've been getting FF kosher franks and grilling them on the GF and they are deelish esp with some good Dijon mustard. Taking your letuce along to the BBQ is a good idea - you might even start a trend!

Aren't you in Canada? Isnt it supposed to be cooler there than here? What about the Canadian front????

Anyhoo, have a great time - just a few more days and you'll be in P2.

See ya later.

[Ruthxxx]

Tippy, Quark is a soft unripened cheese that is much like ricotta or not-creamy cream cheese. There is also a kind of farmers' cheese that is similar - like cottage cheese but not lumpy.

Anna, what Canadian front? You Americans just use us an excuse for lousy weather. :D Our weather is much like upper NY state weather. The bridge to the States is a 20 minute drive from here! We change out of our furs and sealskin boots before we pay the bridge toll. :wink:

Tracey, I should follow your lead and prep food the night before. It's so easy to just skip a meal or eat the wrong thing if you are unprepared.

Gotta get going. I did walk the dogs but the garden is calling!

[operadog]

:lol: Quark is a yogurt cheese - it's the consistency of sour cream and, according to the package, may be substituted for sour cream, cream cheese, ricotta etc in recipes.

There's recipe on the package for a dip which is equal amounts of quark and salsa... sounds good to me! :D

It comes in regular, low fat and fat free varieties. I now have it but I still don't remember what I was going to use it for - although the di does sound good!

Quark is a German word for this type of cheese (got my info from the package!).

[Whimsey]

good morning ladies....wish mine were better....I am having to go nearly 100 miles away to a hand specialist. I broke my finger a while back and it did not heal....it still throbs and will not work...My doctor sent me to a Orthopedic and he is sending me to a hand specialist!!! I need this to be a quick fix!!! Pray for me. I will stay OP today despite the trip. I will let ya'll know either tonight or tomorrow about my finger!!! laters...

[Tootsie]

Help me out here!

I did pretty good yesterday, or so I thought.
I weighed myself this morning and am up 1 pound!
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm- how did that happe?

The only think I drank was Propel fitness water - 3 carbs ,10 calories- I am trying to get 8 glasses of water but am having a hard time. I thought this would be ok.

I had lentils and tofu, hummus, a salad for lunch with oil and vinegar dressing. No cheese. (I should have had cheese though)
I had the same lentils and collard greens for dinner- late though - like 9:00 because I got home from work late.

I drank at least 30 ounces of water which is great for me!
My body must be holdong on tothat 'cause it doesn't know when it will get it again!


Right now, I have a wicked headache- probably 'cause I didn't have my morning Pepsi!

I do not want to give up so soon.

[susanje]

Tootsie,

How often do you weigh? I weigh no more than once a week because the fluctuations for no apparent reason drive me nuts. I even try to go every 2 weeks.

Hi everyone! :wave:

I have not disappeared. I am deep in bar review. Two weeks to the bar!!!

I actually lost the advertised 13 lbs in phase one. I NEVER lose what everyone else loses on a food plan. I am simply amazed. I do exercise about 4 x a week (treadmill, swimming, weights) and maybe that helped but I've exercised on other plans and nothing much happened. THIS IS GREAT!!! :D

I am now in phase 2. It was nice to have strawberries!!! I did switch my protein drink to nectar protein which has zero carbs but I like to add some frozen strawberries to the cherry flavor. It has a nice zing.

I'm pretty happy with SBD overall.

The first two weeks can be tough, I think I was wilting by day 12 but I hung in there and it was WORTH IT!!! KEEP GOING EVERYONE!!!

Stay OP and the results are great!

[SandiLu]

I like to make things ahead too. When I am sauteeing peppers, onions, mushrooms etc. to add to my eggs in the a.m., I make a whole bunch and put it in the fridge. Then the next day I just have to cook the eggs and dump it in without chopping more stuff up. I love an omelet with 1 egg plus 2 whites, with the chopped veggies and a "mushed up" piece of laughing cow cheese inside. Yummy!

[operadog]

Yay susanje! :bravo: you're doing grrreat!

Good luck on that bar exam.

[dj jen]

First time poster - hope I'm doing this right.

Only on day 2, and will gag if I have to eat another egg.

Any suggestions for someone who needs grab-and-go type stuff w/o alot of prep?;)

[susie]

Darn - I just wrote a nice long reply only to have computer lock up upon submitting. Oh well - work calls so I'll have to skip the individuals and just wish you all another great day on the beach.

Wanted to mention that I just picked up my first copy of the new Eating Well. Love the ad-free format and hope everyone else does too so it will be around for a while. Also was happy to see that their recipes are really leaning toward whole grains.

[dentrassi]

Good morning everyone!!!!

Added a small whole grain roll last night, and it set me off. i think I need to have more protein at dinner and have a bit of bread with the salad at lunch or something.

[meg 1+2]

Hi everyone and welcome to all the "newbies"

DJ...fortunately I love my eggs, but since you don't...try rolling one ounce of low fat cheese in a slice of turkey breast. Cottage cheese with diced up cukes and tomatoes is another way to go. I will have a small bowl of lentils or a veggie omelet (in this case just use the whites to hold the omelet together, egg shouldn't bother you this way)

On the days you do eat an egg...whip it up with a very ripe chopped up tomato (onion is nice in this too) add garlic and pepper...simmer the tomato (and onion) in a little olive oil until almost mushy, then add beaten egg. Or how about this... throw in last nights chicken...SHRED it up, add a tiny bit of chopped tomato or crushed tomato, sauted onion, beaten egg and you'll have a chicken hash. I do love this!!! Use olive oil, it gives it a wonderful flavor.

Remember...there is no rule that says we can't eat any and all other proteins for breakfast!! Just DO NOT SKIP BREAKFAST!!!!!

Have a great day everyone!

Meg

[Tahoemom]

Way to go Susanje!!!!

DJ Jen, I also don't like eggs. What I have been having for breakfast is a cheese stick rolled up in a piece of ham. Pretty dull I know, but I have'nt been able to come up with anything else. Let me know if you come up with anything :).

I am challenging myself to exercise a little bit each day. I was doing my Pilates for Dummies tape , but that has somehow stopped. I'll report in later if I exercise today.

Enjoy the sunshine on the beach.

[bobo1968]

Hey everybody,
My husband wants sausage dogs with sauteed green peppers and onions for dinner tonight. I couldn't find anything about sausages in the book. I wonder if the low fat ones would be okay? Like the Healthy Choice ones or something?

[Ruthxxx]

I think Healthy Choice have too many fillers. Maybe a chicken breast for you?

[ellis]

Ooops! I have the occasional Healthy Choice sausage. :D

Good exercising, Tahoe!! :dance:

[ellis]

Darn! I was just going to say something rude to you Ruthie, but I see you've closed the thread. I'll save it for another time. :lol:

[Laked]

May I join you? I'm over from the Prevention site--we got closed out because we are WEBTV and I love the support! DH and I started 6-12. I've lost 24 & DH 22. Would love to check in with you each day if it's OK. :)

[LindaBC]

Hello all. I've been trying to stay OP but I'm afraid the PB jar keeps calling my name. There is no way I can limit myself to just one teaspoon of the stuff. Same with nuts of any kind. If they are here, I will eat them.
Congrats to those of you who are doing so well. No change on the scale for me yet but it's no wonder. I'm still checking in and hoping for inspiration.

[Rotobabe]

Well, here I am on Day 8 of the SBD. A couple of things have happened...I've gotten really busy at work and I find myself generally not hungry at times. The first few days I was hungry all of the time, and now its not that way anymore...

Second...I've lost 10 pounds!!!! I think the 10 pounds I lost were the 10 I put on 2 months ago when I was having a really stressful time at my job - you know...last on, first to go...but still...its an improvement over where I was!!!

I'm taking tonight off from the Beach, because I'm going to a charity event. I'm going to try to be good, but I know that there might be occasion to "fall off", so I'm going to remember the "3 bite rule"...

Wish me luck...and have a wonderful day!!

:cb:

[dentrassi]

Rotobabe-Have fun tonight!!!

Linda-Maybe you shouldn't eat the peanut butter. I can't stick to 1 tsp either...seems pointless to eat that small an amount of it!!! (Maybe spread on a piece of chocolate, but i don't think I could stick to just one piece of THAT either!!!) I am exactly the same with nuts, and I am just keeping them out of the house for now.

Laked-WELCOME!!! Lots of really nice women here!! AND lots of support here too, so jump right on in!!!

Bobo-Sometimes you can find chicken sausages with less fillers (Costco) or at the fresh meat counter. They are pricier, but don't shrink as much!!!

Ruth and Ellis-BEHAVE YOURSELVES!!!! (YES! Do as I SAY, not as I DO!!!!)

[karen3000]

Hi everyone! Lots of new names - I'll never be able to keep everybody straight, so forgive me in advance.

I managed to fall off the wagon a few times on vacation. We did a lot of physical work, so that helped, and I haven't seen any weight come back until today. However, TOM is just around the corner and I always go up then, so that could be part of the reason, right???!??

Has anyone approached this woe from the aspect of being faithful during the week and less strict on the weekends? I'm debating about trying this - PI during the week and PII on weekends). What got me thinking about this was an article I recently read about a diet plan that had you be real restrictive for 3 of 7 days and then sensible the other 4. The theory is that if you cut back on calories you initial lose until your body thinks it needs to conserve fuel (because it is getting less) and then slows down the metabolism to fend off starvation (programmed into our genes since the days of cavemen and unreliable food sources).

My plan for this week was to go back to PI but I've already "slipped" a little. I think my resolve was so mucy stronger the first two weeks I tried this. I also need to get going in the exercise department - would somebody PLEASE kick me in the keester so I can get off of it!!!!:o

After the 1.9" of rain last night and the 1" the night before, we had a beautiful day here today. Hope all of you had a "sunny" day, one way or the other!

Karen:grouphug:

[ellis]

Cindy, of COURSE you can join us!! :grouphug:

Linda dear, get the peanut butter OUT OF THE HOUSE!! :drill:

Rotobabe, that's fantastic!! Congratulations!! :dance:

Den, put a lid on it, will ya? :lol:

Karen, it sounds a little like the "Wendy Plan". Do you know what I'm talking about? I think you get to fall off the wagon once a week to surprise your body. :D

[2BFIT1]

Way to go, Susanje and Rotobabe :bravo :dancer: :cp:

Welcome to our little beach, Laked and Jen. You will find everybody here very friendly and supportive. :cool:

Karen~~Hope you had a great vacation. Good to see you back here. :D

[bobo1968]

I decided to skip the sausage altogether. I ate a salad from McDonald's, and cooked for the family. Welcome new people! Linda, I had to hide the peanut butter also. The other night, I was going to have a "little bite" and before I knew it, I had eaten 3 TBS!!!!! I LOVE the stuff, and I can't eat a little either. I had really eaten well that day, and blew it in about 30 seconds!!!!