Starting Fat Smash 11/2- Any takers

[jan11661]

Hi Ladies,

Life4evr,

Please don't leave us just because you are not ready to commit yourself fully. Having support makes it so much easier when you do decide to embark on that journey again. You may just have to get past the holidays.

Sometimes that in itself can be extra overwhelming. Even if you do not get back to the program soon, please do continue to check in and let us know how you are doing. I know I preach about "the commitment", the "journey" and so on but I am just trying to keep any motivation I have, or "we" have as a group of individuals needing the same thing. I don't want to scare you off just because you are either not ready to commit fully or can't right now.

Stay with us and check in. When you are ready, and when you can, we will be here for you to support your efforts.



Hope the rest of you ladies are doing ok. I have not had my breakfast yet as I have been busy returning emails. I am so hungry I am ready to bite the dog, boy that's a role reversal! Kidding, she's a sweetheart & does not bite!


Jan

[Equinata]

Hello Ladies,

Life4ever I am with Jan - don't leave us. Keep doing your best for now and the more practice you get you may surprise yourself. We all have to make tiny steps first before the leaps. Try to hang in there and take the good with the bad, but don't give up. Two or Three good days is better than none and it takes you a few more steps closer to your goals.

I have been at this weight loss thing for 4 years and wish I had found this forum back then. The support on the boards are huge and very inspiring.

[jan11661]

Hi Ladies,

It seems that the morning has just gotten away from me. I am so tired today but am attributing that to an ealry morning visit from "Tom". Just zaps my energy evertime! Lucky for you all I am too tired to be chatty!



Catch ya later. Hope you are all doing your best!

Jan

[Equinata]

Get some rest Jan. TOM makes me feel exhausted as well, and it usually starts the week before. I have to struggle to get it going. BOOT CAMP starts Monday for me ladies - please.. please..pray for me to make it through and fall in love with it.

[life4evr]

Jan and Equinata,

Thanks for the support. LOL I wasn't leaving completely. On another note. I passed my first semester of nursing school. So I am excited about that. But yeah I am still here.

[jan11661]

Good Morning Ladies,

Life4evr,

I happy to hear that you are not leaving us completely! A big congratulations for passing your first semester of nursing school! That is a wonderful accomplishment and you should feel very proud of yourself. That took a lot of hard work and dedication, good for you!



Equinata,

Thank you for the well wishes. I am not as tired today (not yet) but suffering from a headache. Today is my daughters first day of counseling so I need to gauge how I feel and take my medicine accordingly to make sure I get her there. Luckily, it's not until this afternoon so it gives me time to recoup.

I can't wait for you to report in after your first day of bootcamp! From what I hear you are going to get your butt kicked and be quite sore a day or two after! Good luck on that, I know it will be very beneficial once you get past the initial pain! LOL




FYI: I tried out some new recipes for cookies last night. Still not real fond of the oatmeal ones. They called for dried cranberries but the sugar content alone made me not buy them to use. I decided to substitute canned tart cheeries. They were mcuh lower in everything and enhanced the flavor. However, the cookie part itself (I made some without the cherries) was a bit bland and didn't spread. I suppose that's why you NEED butter in cookies such as that! They were better than the last batch of the "cardboard banana oatmeal " cookies I did last time though. I may just have to continue to tweak and one day may get someone good tasting and not bad for you.

The big test is for my famous holiday Linzer Tarts. I also made the dough for that last night. It has to be refrigerated for a couple hours or overnight before being rolled and cut. The recipe I found on an online "low fat" cooking website was better for you on paper then my altered original but the test will be in the flavor after they are done!

My husband's already complaining that I am going to "ruin" his favorite cookie by making it diet. You know what I say to that? "He is lucky I'm still baking for him at all"! I am my own worse critic especially on things I bake myself so I will be the judge if it's good or not! He can eat it if he choses or go to the Italian Bakery down the street and pay $4.00 a piece for one and clog his arteries!



On that note I am going to go make myself a "diet" breakfast! Tomorrow is my last weigh in for Phase 2 and I have "TOM" visiting, hope he dosen't add to the scale this week! Hope you all have a good day.

Jan

[jan11661]

I forgot I wanted to share my "Daily Inspiration" that I recieved via email today.


Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.
~Brian Tracy

[surfnmom]

Hi I am totally new to fs and I am starting today. I do not have the book and will order on line. Went to the store and stocked up on fresh fruit and veggies, beans, oats and brown rice. One question (i did have looked through the forum before asking) Raisins? are they allowed since they are a dryed fruit with nothing added to them in the ingredents.

I am really looking forward to this diet as I have been a low carber for ever. need a change. Thank you for any help.

[Equinata]

Congrats Life4ever - I know it's stressful trying to get through school alone so trying to do that and lose weight is tremendous. I can tell you from experience once school is done you will have more focus and dedication.

Jan - I wish I could taste your treat tweaks.... I love anything oatmeal. LOL

Welcome aboard surfmom. If you have any question until you get the book keep them coming and me and Jan will try to answer them. I am doing the EFS and she is doing the FS diet.

My confession,

Ladies today was a hard day - I prepared my foods and carried my lunch bag to work to only not really want my food. Today I had a very tired feeling towards my boring salad and beans so I ran out and got me a Fresh Fit Subway meal. I do not know what is going on with me... I did not even work out this week, not even a little bit. I am going to try to get on the treadmill tonight, Saturday, and Sunday to try to make up. What a bad time to slack when bootcamp starts Monday, I am still very excited about starting and I am hoping I can get back to wanting my menu options. It has been a 5 week straight stretch of the same menu so I guess I am entitled to be tired and bored of it.

[salesse]

WOW Jan, i am getting hungry thinking about all of your tasty recipes. I tried the oatmeal cookies and ummm yeah i need to work a little more on then, they just tasted like oatmeal- the cookie part.haha.. but thats ok.. at least your trying. Have you ever tried a scrunch cake? i saw it on the recipe forum, and looks yummy!! Thank you Equinata for the encouragement. I wanted to tell you i look thru the recipe forum and found some really good healthy alternatives, i make brown rice pasta, with home made tomato sauce, diced tomatos, with some sprinkled low fat cheese for dinner yumm yumm with a side salad. I also switch up the brown rice and beans, and curry it, or make it spanish style, with some grilled veggies, or even "fried" with pam or olive oil, carrots, corn. veggie soup.. it made phase one and two a lot more easier and actually fun. you should def try, and eat half and put the other half in a bowl for lunch the next day. Losing 20lbs seems like a lot of work
but i am willing to do it. i want my goal of 130 really bad!! and i actually enjoy working out, i did cheerleading in HS, track, field hockey, dance, i love being active, so that makes it easier for me, its just having a daughter and school and work full time, makes it difficult for me. Surfman, i believe the raisins are a no-no.

[salesse]

O and congrats life4va on passing nursing school semester one, i went for my LPN a few years ago, and didnt finish it, didnt really like it, now goin for business. but i know how hard it is so CONGRATS to you and keep it up!

[surfnmom]

Equinata thank you for the welcome. Are raisins on fs?
cant wait to get the book

[jan11661]

Hi Ladies,

Wow, lots of action on here since I was on last!

Welcome Surfnmom

I am on the original FS and I got the book a few weeks ago so any questions or need any suggestions and let me know! Sorry to say that raisens are NOT on the plan. They are still loaded with sugar regardless that there may not be "added" sugar to them. That goes the same with any dried fruit. This is an issue I just had with trying to make some "diet" cookies. They called for dried cranberries and I just could not bring myself to buy and use them with 26-30 grams of sugar per serving....carbs are usually high also. You are a brave girl to be starting this just prior to the holidays! We are here to support you no matter what! Good Luck and thanks for joining us!

Equinata,

You have been doing so well. Being "off" temporarily with eating and working out happens sometimes. As long as you continue and get back on track then you should be fine. Sometimes it's stress, PMS, just plain being tired or busy that makes you say.............well I can't say what I am thinking but it makes you want to throw your hands up. Staying on a certain Phase or Cycle for a long period of time can get boring for sure.

I have my weigh in tomorrow which is for the last week of my Phase 2. I need to read through my book to see if there are things on Phase 3 that will make a difference in my daily routine and not have me go stagnet in weight loss. I may decide to repeat Phase 2 again. It gave me enough of a variety with the addition of lean meats, seafood, & cereal but I still primarily eat like Phase 1 taught me to. Anyway, I am confident you will get right back on track and that boot camp.....like I said, it's gonna kick your butt, don't you worry!



Salesse,

You are very fortunate that not only do you have a relatively small amount of weight to lose but that your body is also conditioned to be active. That gives you definate benefits! You sound like you have a good grip on the food for the plan and "mixing things up" to keep it interesting. I have done similar things mixing it up and with the brown rice spaghetti. I could never find if it was totally "approved" and as a matter of fact one article on here said it wasn't. It's made from brown rice though NOT like alot of the other pastas in the organic area that say they are made with spinach, tomato and so on but the top ingredient is still the semolina wheat. I think when they gave that advice and "no" to the brown rice pasta that were not clear that it is indeed made with brown rice! So I say (and do) enjoy!





Ok.....report on Linzer Tart Cookies .....they were a hit!

Other than saying they were smaller my husband gave them the thumbs up! I thought they were decent, even my daughter and her girlfriend liked them!
They are fairly low in calories, fat, and sugar with no cholesterol.
*WARNING-Keep in mind that for those on the original FS these cookies are for Phase 2 and up. Don't know about EFS. You just have to eat one as an indulgence otherwise and work out more later!

Heres the link to my page on Sparkpeople if any of you are interested, it has all of the details:

http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recip...?recipe=844767


Good Night,

Jan

[life4evr]

Thanks everyone for the well wishes. One down 4 more to go. Well I have a month off from school, and not alot of work schedule. So I will probably restart on Monday. That way I won't spend my Christmas break eating everything. Not to mention my school scrubs are getting tighter allready.

[surfnmom]

Gm all

Jan thanks for the clear up on the rasinins.

Ok heres alittle about myself I am 51 and going through the dreaded change of life, hot flashes and loss of tom(only good thing lol) 5 years ago I weighed close to 200 lbs, and the loss of my husband (30 years) and low carb I went down to 132. I kept it off for 3 1/2 years. Then started working out side of my home for a major store wallymart midnights. Talk about stress. I was doing heavy lifting and runing aroung the store stocking. That was fine kept me in shape. but I started eating huge amounts of junk food to relive the stress of the job. will the lbs started creeping back. quite the job in may, and returned to my starving artist home job. still the lbs were creeping up. So trying to get back in to lc since may the stoping and starting the diet I managed to add 10 lbs more on. So stepping on the scale the other day it read 158. bummer

I started reading through this site and found you guys. and started looking up the fs diet.

I am a grazer and I eat all the time, and this seems to suit me better then lc as I can munch on carrots, fruit(whats that) lol have not had much of that in awhile. Oat meal wow.

So my plan is not to get hung up on the calorie thing, and just eat whats on the 9 day detox when I get hungry or the need to graze and see how it goes.

I am really burnt out on count this or worry about that. Naturally I would like to get this extra weight off and I think it will if I dont worry over it. Just let me munch.

yesterdays food
1 cup oatmeal w/raisins and milk
1 banana
munched on carrots
large salad with lf dressing
black mashed beans on a flaxbread(homemade)
sweet potatoe fries in the oven. (first time I had these they were great)

I saw that flax was accptabe on the faq board for phase 1 and changed my lc version to fs

Flaxmeal bread recipe
2 tbs flaxmeal
2 egg whites
1 tbs water mix together and let set a few minites

Spread it out on a non stick hot fry pan like a 6 inch tortile flip and cook to desired browness.

now if you add 1/4 tsp of baking soda to this you can nuke it in a coffee mug for the muffin version add in some apple chuncks and alittle cinamin and sweetener. not sure on the nuke time 1 min or 2. just watch it.

well thats it for now will check back later and thank you all again for the welcome.