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Old 11-28-2007, 11:39 AM   #1  
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Default ZigZag, Shifting, Wendie, Every other day DIET

Me and hubby have lost a ton of weight... thank God!

But we have stalled. We dropeed our maintainace calories by 1000 a day, and lost steady for months. He stalled first, now i have. For thanksgiving we decided to eat what we wanted... i still counted the cals the best i could and we were right at maintanance or a hair lower. We kept on till sunday ( our 12 year wedding aniversary)

We decided to up them this past weekend, in hope of fooling our bodies... so then monday start fresh. We decided to try a zigzag, shifting.... whatever diet this round. I have almost 40lbs to go... he likes almost 20.

I found a website that calculates the cals you need to eat to zig zag....
Has anyone had any luck with this? I read you can loose fast with this .... that would be nice!
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Old 11-28-2007, 12:44 PM   #2  
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Here are a few threads on zig zagging.

I cycle my calories kind of unintentionally...some days are less controlled than others.

Are you doing any kind of exercise? Adding exercise to a sensible eating plan can do wonders to "shake things up" as well. Not to mention the health benefits of a little cardio and weight training.

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Old 11-28-2007, 02:09 PM   #3  
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we try and walk 3x a week... winter coming is going to make it harder... we are trying to step it up more.
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chick in the hat, the link doesn't work. ??

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DOH...it was just a search on "zagging"....
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Why... I didn't know that! So, we'll search on zagging... Or, chick in the hat, you could copy the URLs of the links... probably too much trouble, though.

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lendingheart, could you share the website you found for calculating the calories for zigzaging?
Thanks!
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Old 11-29-2007, 05:31 PM   #9  
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I've been cycling my calories for over 5 months now and I'm down to 265.4lbs as of today from 319lbs. I average 1829/calories a day, plus cardio/strength training.

Sun: 1800
Mon: 2000
Tue: 1400
Wed: 2800
Thu: 1200
Fri: 1500
Sat: 2100

And I take a free day every 2 weeks in place of the 2800 calorie day and eat anything I want, as much as I want without counting calories and get right back on track the next day.

Calorie cycling mimics life and as I get to a lower weight, my burn rate might be less but I will still be eating the same amount; I'm not going to lower my calories like most do as they get to a lower weight. I believe in eating at or close to your target calories from day one and eventually you will arrive there, even if it takes longer. I'm in no hurry. I like my diet so much that I plan to be on it forever.

I keep my diet blog with my daily menus @ j3nn.net if anyone wants to peak at my calorie cycling and what I eat.
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I learned something else about searches...ya can't search on a 3 letter word like zig..
Here are the results I was trying to link to...
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/show...hlight=zagging
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/show...hlight=zagging
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/show...hlight=zagging
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