Nervous about weigh in this morning as I am still battling with constipation. I am going to talk to them today. This will be my first weigh in. I hope I get to chose some foods. They picked all my foods for the first week.
Anyway..have a great IP day all. I will check back in once I get back from weighing in. I have to admit I am a little afraid to drink to much before weigh in..lol.
Cie
Hi Ciebelle, I am a newbie too, but have spent quite a while reading old posts here. Since I was worried about constipation, I remember reading that eating celery as your vege should help keep you regular. Might give it a try!
I am a big coffee drinker. Just cup o joe usually with the flavored non-dairy creamer full of sugar. So this morning I am drinking my coffee with the vanilla drink as my "ceamer". Tastes OK, I can do this! Does anyone else use the omega 3's? I didn't purchase the IP ones since I have some from "before" from the vitamin store. I am taking the IP multi, cal-mag and potassium/calcium. Any other helpful vitamins?
Good luck this week everyone! Thanks so much for your posts!
Thanks for posting iowahawkeyemom ~ so any cheat slows down the process for 2-3 days???
Any cheat that pushes you out of ketosis can put you back 2-3 days. You need to wait to get back into ketosis before you start losing again. Since this plan works with your body chemistry and not just calories, it only works if you have the right chemistry going on. As soon as you disturb the "lab" it stops working (or slows significantly).
Some people on this site were measuring a cheat by the money wasted--if you lose 3 days of weight loss through one cheat, you just threw away about $40 in IP packets and supplements. The money part helped keep me honest!
So if you have to cheat, do it with a non-restricted packet that is only 1-2 carbs. Hopefully you will stay in ketosis at least.
Last edited by Rocky Monarch; 09-20-2010 at 11:26 AM.
I know some people post on here about having a tough time drinking water. Others have posted how important it is to drink your daily required amount. In a newletter from Jon Benson, he had an interesting description of what water's important role in fatburning is. You can google him.
Drink 'This' For Fatloss
Simple, freee trick to shed several more pounds/month
By Jon Benson
Nutrition, Fitness and Fat-loss Specialist
Bestselling author of "The Every Other Day Diet" and "7 Minute Body"
You may think you know this.
But I bet you don't know it in this WAY...
Water.
Drinking water increases fatburning. The reason
is due to the fact that water relieves the burden
on the liver by keeping your kidneys doing
the filtering.
When kidneys are taxed from too little water
your liver has to take over and help... and...
... your liver is your primary fatburning organ.
So... there you go.
Ah, But There's More...
I've told you that bit before. Here's what I have
not told you:
Drink 16 ounces of pure water
15 minutes before eating and
you will drop weight.
Researchers testing hydration found that
drinking water prior to meals significantly
decreased the amount of food consumed.
One reason is the "duh" factor: Your stomach
feels more full.
Who'd thunk it? ; )
The other is more technical... In order to keep
acidity levels optimized the body begins to
increase its core temperature slightly. This
state called "thermogenesis" is prime for
fatburning purposes.
So you get a triple benefit:
1. More appetite control;
2. Increased thermogenesis (fatburning);
3. Increased hydration (less stress on liver=
more fatburning.)
This makes plain old water the number one
fatburner you can drink on earth
I thought this was very interesting and may help give an incentive to keep the water consumption up to help out your poor liver
I ran out of pants to wear and had to dig in the garage sale pile. Wow crop tops were in when I last got in my size 10 jeans. Anyway I dug out 3 pants (no tops) so I am good to go for a while.
I needed to come back to the boards really bad!! I have been struggling with keeping to the maintenance protocol. I understand that one reason is my TOM, but I can't keep blaming it on that. I'm just getting lazy. The thing that I am noticing is that I eat my breakfast and dinner just fine like I'm supposed to, but at lunch I am not supposed to have any carbs and I'm not following that. So today I am starting fresh. I had my protein shake for breakfast and I am eating celery sticks. I also plan to have only a salad and a protein shake for lunch and a sensible dinner. I am doing Phase 1 today to flush out my cheat day yesterday.
I also have been pretty busy with my son's football season and haven't worked out in almost 3 weeks, so I just basically feel crappy today. I can't go again tonight, but come **** or high water I am going to my class on Wednesday. I am also going to go back into my coach and start Phase 1 again to lose about 10-15 lbs. I want to have a little more off.
Good luck today all your IP'ers. Make good choices
Thanks for posting iowahawkeyemom ~ so any cheat slows down the process for 2-3 days???
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rocky Monarch
Any cheat that pushes you out of ketosis can put you back 2-3 days. You need to wait to get back into ketosis before you start losing again. ... So if you have to cheat, do it with a non-restricted packet that is only 1-2 carbs. Hopefully you will stay in ketosis at least.
And don't forget that there are things you wouldn't consider as "cheating" that could bump you out of ketosis:
skipping a meal
exercising too intensely (> 50 - 60% of max)
not getting enough water
not having your supplements and oil
Quote:
Originally Posted by CUSU
In a newsletter from Jon Benson, he had an interesting description of what water's important role in fat-burning is. You can google him.
Wow! He makes quite a case for drinking that water. Thanks for posting that. My schedule was a little off this morning and I haven't had my usual 48-64 oz of water before lunch. Just had a big swig!
Quote:
Originally Posted by carlasherea
I needed to come back to the boards really bad!! I have been struggling with keeping to the maintenance protocol. I understand that one reason is my TOM, but I can't keep blaming it on that. I'm just getting lazy. The thing that I am noticing is that I eat my breakfast and dinner just fine like I'm supposed to, but at lunch I am not supposed to have any carbs and I'm not following that. So today I am starting fresh. I had my protein shake for breakfast and I am eating celery sticks. I also plan to have only a salad and a protein shake for lunch and a sensible dinner. I am doing Phase 1 today to flush out my cheat day yesterday.
I also have been pretty busy with my son's football season and haven't worked out in almost 3 weeks, so I just basically feel crappy today. I can't go again tonight, but come **** or high water I am going to my class on Wednesday. I am also going to go back into my coach and start Phase 1 again to lose about 10-15 lbs. I want to have a little more off.
Thanks for coming back to post, Carla, and for having the guts to tell the truth! It's great that you have recommitted to the program and have a focus area -- lunch.
What a great example you've set about noticing when your eating is off-plan, and creating a plan to get back on track. I figure cheats and detours will happen, what's important isn't that it happened but how long I take to get back on track. I've taken a metric from the engineering/IT world: MTTR: mean time to restore. To me, that and % compliant meals are more important things to focus on than how bad was a cheat and how much can I can punish myself.
So my weigh in on Friday wasn't as great as I had hoped although I need to look at the big picture and realize that anything lost is awesome! I love a total of 3 lbs and 3 inches in my first week.
As for this weekend. We went out to eat and I just ate a side salad. Took my own dressing and everything. It wasn't till I was halfway through my salad that I realized it had shredded cheese on it. I was so disappointed in myself for not noticing before! I'm hoping it doesn't mess things up to much!
I went to the doctor fully expecting her to tell me that my wonky cycles was a result of IP. She didn't say that. She said it could be a matter of stress on my body from my diet but she wants to do some testing to rule out other things first because she thinks my period should be getting lighter not heavier based on my history before the diet.
Dave my thoughts are along the lines of CUSU's. Until early September you were off sugar and grains for 5 months. It could well be an up-regulation and down-regulation issue with betaendorphin receptors.
Grains and sugars stimulate betaendorphin, either production or transmission. When you have a fair amount of these your beta endorphin receptors down regulate to maintain a consistent supply in your brain. When you cut them off, your brain and body scream and whine for a few days or weeks (low carb flu) because the receptors are set up to deal with a large stimulus and the large stimulus is missing. Eventually the receptors adapt and up-regulate, more receptors open or they pass the existing BE more quickly, and the low carb flu passes.
Then when you have refined carbs, you flood the wide open up-regulated receptors and they love it, you love it, every body feels good! Your week hiatus from IP ends and you cut off the refined carbs. The up-regulated receptors which were bathing in the carb BE rivers and starting to down regulate are now in the desert. You get wicked cravings worse than before because the BE:receptor ratio change is more drastic than when you started IP.
Refined carbs have the same effect on serotonin as well. So it's a double whammy.
Cravings and feeling like crap is no surprise, you're in withdrawal. Other substances that affect betaendorphin include alcohol, morphine, heroin, and oxycontin. The good news is that fats affect the BE supply and metabolism. Try having some extra olive oil for a few days.
I may have the terms up-regulation and down-regulation reversed; but the story is the same. I learned this from reading Kathleen DesMaisons's books. It's best explained in Chapters 3 and 5 of her book Potatoes Not Prozac. There may be some information on her website radiantrecovery [dot] com.
Thanks for the really great info! Very interesting.
What I have is a grade A doosey of a head cold. I'm on day 4, which for me means that everything in my sinuses that couldn't stop dripping on Friday has now turned into rubber cement. It's a lovely feeling.
Along my 5 month IP journey, I've cheated 3 times -- all of them planned in advance. I've never had a "moment of weakness" where I just couldn't resist some food item in front of me. This last cheat lasted the longest, and definitely had me wandering the furthest from the protocol. That said, I jumped right back on IP Tuesday morning and was back in ketosis by Thursday evening or Friday morning.
Friday afternoon, the cold set in with a vengeance. All weekend I found myself craving sugar (or really anything sweet). Tempting as it was, I even avoided restricted IP items as I'm treating this like I'm starting over (no restricteds for 2-3 weeks). I'm wondering if my body has always craved sugar when I'm sick, but I'm noticing it more this time because I can't have it.
I definitely don't have the carb cravings that I did when I first started IP in April. Back then, it was torture to walk into the grocery store and smell fresh baked bread without wanting to just tear into a loaf. Same with sugar. I felt a bit of that this time around, last week as I got back on protocol, but carb cravings really haven't been an issue since I've been back on and back in ketosis. Just the sweet/sugar cravings that feel really unusual.
And they're starting to mellow as the cold phases out. Weird, eh?
I have WI tomorrow morning, and I guess we'll assess the damage that my week off did, as well as how I've recovered in the week since. Now I'm running behind on the Halloween Challenge, and I've already committed to the 30 lb. "extra achiever" (read: male) goal.
So my weigh in on Friday wasn't as great as I had hoped although I need to look at the big picture and realize that anything lost is awesome! I love a total of 3 lbs and 3 inches in my first week.
As for this weekend. We went out to eat and I just ate a side salad. Took my own dressing and everything. It wasn't till I was halfway through my salad that I realized it had shredded cheese on it. I was so disappointed in myself for not noticing before! I'm hoping it doesn't mess things up to much!
Shredded chease shouldn't do terrible damage. While it's high in fat and has some carbs, it shouldn't be enough to boot you out of ketosis. Just stay on the plan.
Nervous about weigh in this morning as I am still battling with constipation. I am going to talk to them today. This will be my first weigh in. I hope I get to chose some foods. They picked all my foods for the first week.
Anyway..have a great IP day all. I will check back in once I get back from weighing in. I have to admit I am a little afraid to drink to much before weigh in..lol.
Cie
Ciebelle Tomorrow will be my 8th week weigh in...i still consider myself a newbie and like i've posted before, i spend a lot of time reviewing the old posts (i know i'm a bit obsessive) anyhow i just recently was having a problem with the big "c" and some of the veteran ipers had posted many different ideas. The first one I tried with success was taking 266 mg of magnesium citrate in a capsule by source naturals everyday. But yesterday I came across another thread where someone said they add 2 tsp ground flax to their nightly snack. I'm going to try that route as I'd rather not add another supplement and flax is very good for us.
Also about drinking before wi...i have found that I am lighter after about 2 1/2 hrs after my last drink. I now I am sounding like a nutcase, honestly I'm not, I'm just really excited about this protocol and I've never had so much success. (I'm only 2lbs away from 50lbs in 8 weeks...w.i. tomorrow so i don't think i'lll make it but i'm still happy!)
Hope this helps
Can anyone on the 2nd - 4th phases answer to the feeling of euphoria? I'm on phase 1 and absolutely loving the energy and joie de vivre I'm experiencing now and am concerned that this may end.......anyone out there still experiencing the energy after phase 1? My head is clear, have follow through on things that I plan (used to plan but rarely finish things). And generally feel more positive and happy....I wanna bottle this and keep it forever......please help set this girl at ease !
Hope everyone had a great weekend ! Congrats on the NSV's and losses (Journeysend - yours sticks in my head - congrats on the 50 lbs !)
Cheers to all !
Thanks for posting iowahawkeyemom ~ so any cheat slows down the process for 2-3 days???
Hi Rhonda! First of all ! Many of us have tried other diets, and have found great success with IP. This plan has really been a God send for me, personally. That said, this diet is very different than any other. You will find great success if you follow protocol. Other diets, a little bite here, a little bite there, not a big deal. On this diet, a big deal. It is definitely not about just calories. The point of the strict restriction of carbohydrates is to get your body in ketosis, where you are burning fat for energy. If you are cheating with a bite or two of carbohydrates, you could be bumped out of ketosis and thus ends the fat burning. Not to mention, with the limited number of calories we are consuming, (800-900 cal.) if you are not in ketosis and burning fat stores, you are going to be one unhappy miserable hungry puppy. The 2-3 day thing is the number of days it usually takes to get into ketosis, or back into ketosis as the case may be. Someone on the site said she saw it this way, a cheat costs a week, and a weeks worth of money spent, which is very expensive.
Following protocol also includes measuring and eating [U]all[U] the veggies and meat required, drinking all water and supplements. I would also recommend reading the sticky about exercise, as too much exercise can also slow things down, which is again quite opposite of other diets.
All that being said, this diet really works and is a way to lose weight much more quickly than many other methods. The sacrifice has been well worth the pay off for me and for many others. I have averaged 4 pounds a week on this diet, but I have been very hard nosed with myself. On every other diet, I was always the slow loser, too. On other methods I hated a once a week weigh in because I frequently didn't lose any. Not on this diet!
The woman who weighs me in gave me the best advice about this diet. She said, "If you are going to cheat on this diet, don't waste your money, because you won't lose weight." Kind of harsh, but was just what I needed to hear. I thought about it for a month or so to decide if I was really serious, and decided I was going to give it my best effort because I really was desperate enough.
I also found such awesome support and information from this site. It don't believe I would have stuck with it without it. Invaluable for a diet that is so different from any other.
Best of luck to you! Don't be shy about asking questions!
! Many of us have tried other diets, and have found great success with IP. This plan has really been a God send for me, personally. That said, this diet is very different than any other. You will find great success if you follow protocol. Other diets, a little bite here, a little bite there, not a big deal. On this diet, a big deal. It is definitely not about just calories. The point of the strict restriction of carbohydrates is to get your body in ketosis, where you are burning fat for energy. If you are cheating with a bite or two of carbohydrates, you could be bumped out of ketosis and thus ends the fat burning. Not to mention, with the limited number of calories we are consuming, (800-900 cal.) if you are not in ketosis and burning fat stores, you are going to be one unhappy miserable hungry puppy. The 2-3 day thing is the number of days it usually takes to get into ketosis, or back into ketosis as the case may be. Someone on the site said she saw it this way, a cheat costs a week, and a weeks worth of money spent, which is very expensive.
