Hi I Back Again:)
Got my walking along the beach done,but I had to quite before my average walk as the beach was to windy.

I'm going to start knitting again to keep my hands busy. A Woman from another board told me that I'm not eating enough according to the menu guide. I was looking over the guide and discovered that I wasn't.

So I decided if I eat more at my main meals I shouldn't be hungry and snack in the evening.

Soon-Big congrats on your 5 lbs weight loss WTG.Hope I follow in your suit.

Fit-Thanks for the" look forward and not look back" statement. I needed that, I need some control and have to look forward.

Lily-Glad that you doing great on the SB induction. Thanks,I been running around for the last couple of days. I have to cool it for a while and take some breathers. Going down to the beach tomorrow hope the wind subsides.


Azure-The pizza sounds yummy and so does the spinach bread thank for the recipe.Thanks for sharing the recipes with us.Found some body strength exercises for beginners on the About.com web site.Going to do some tonight before I take up my knitting.

Punenzilla-I don't know either and I think I making a big mistake follow the 3. Taking Lily's advice and going to stay with the SB but watch the carbs like in Atkins.Thanks for the confidence in me, I will try hard to to win your confidence.

Bouncing-I'm doing Ok except for the munchies at night. I have to do something about that.Thinking about adding more veggies to my snacking if I must snack.


Aud-Have a great time in the gym


Have a great evening


Hugs :) BB

Hi, Lily, Azure, Bouncing, Punce, Aud and Soon!
You all sound great!!! Good positive attitudes, that will go along way!

Punce- I have the same problem with exercise except I don't do any. LOL don't worry and don't let that get you down, you'll get to it in time!

Aud- WTG on the working out, good for u, I'm jealous, you and Azz doing great with that!

Lily- well you always do good, thanks for being a good example of what I can do!

Bounce- I want to walk on the beach and if I lived near one, I would be walking all the time! Keep it up!

I was getting some ideas and I think in order to jump start my weight loss I may just go strictly high protein for a couple of days and see what happens.
Then add what I was eating before to see if I can find what is stalling me.
When I lost the most recent 2 lbs, it was by accident. I didn't have any eggs and I had just enough salad/veggies for my dinner for 2 days and I didn't want to go to the store until the weekend.

I ended up eating sausages for breakfast and leftover chicken for lunch on the 2 days, by 3rd day, I had lost those 2 lbs. Now I don't know why I didn't remember that, but something jogged my memory and it came to me.

I don't think it's going to hurt me, but I'll see what happens.

Azure, I'm going to try your idea for that pizza on Saturday, sounds really good!
Oh and no bbq this weekend, got postponed, so YAAA! no cobbler to worry about ! Who-Ra!!! :carrot:

Talk to you later!!

Hi everyone, today was my official W-I after a full week of SB induction. I am down 5 lbs. Yippee, Hoorah. I am totally excited. I am so doing this induction for the full 2 weeks. I feel great, no carb cravings and I feel so in control of both food and exercise.

I'm off now to cook my eggs for brekky and smile while I eat them. LOL

Lily! Excellent!!! Happy for you, 5 lbs gone forever, Yea!!!

Your hard work paid off, good for you for sticking to your woe.
Keep it it up you're in the Zone!!

Good Morning Ladies :)

Got up early and did my hand weight exercisers.and some tummy exercisers also.Since my food poisoning I have been lacking to get up and move. Yesterday was the first day walking along the beach. Another thing I thinking about that I'm lacking on my food plan,haven't lost a thing,in fact I'm going upward on the scale instead of downward.Have to add more food,as Fit day is saying that my total calories is ranging from 1000 to 1300 and the web site that my friend JUNE gave me,said that I should be eating some where around 1500. Going to add healthy snacks in between meals,and see what happens.


Fit-When I don't eat I gain,don't understand that at all. That happened to me during the food poisoning phase.I tried to drink a Protein Shake to keep me from snacking,
worked for while,now I knitting to keep my hands busy. Good luck with your plan.


LILY-:carrot::carrot:Big congrats:carrot::carrot: on your 5 lb weight loss. You worked so hard to get that stupid scale to move downward. Enjoys your eggs.


Have to go,will pop in later

Hugs :) BB

Hi BB-
Yeah, I think that was some kind of fluke or something. I was just reading in Atkin's DANDR book about a fat fast that he say's one can do if they are think they can't lose weight. It's only to be done for 4 or 5 days at 1000 calories a day and about 75 to 90% of fat and eat 4 to 5 meals a day.
He gives a list of foods to eat. Supposedly it works!

Do I dare!?

You know I see some peoples menu and I'm thinking boy they sure eat alot of foods, but I see that it's necessary to do so. I eat but I don't eat snacks and I think maybe I need to eat more too. I eat the required amount of salad and vegetables but not sure what else I need to here apart from exercising. I know I should, but I'm not going to feel guilty cuz I don't.
I just like hearing everybody say what kind of exercise they did. It encourages me to know that I'll eventually have to do that.

How all of you are having a good day!! And stay on plan!!! If you don't, don't worry, we can go back anytime. Just keep forging ahead and move forward!!!

boy do I need to do a spell check, big time, heehee!

Woot, Lily! Way to go on the five pound loss over the week! I'm down 3 pounds from last Thursday and it sure feels good going down on the scale again :) Only 6 more pounds until 149...I long to see the 140s. I should be able to see them by the end of the month...that would be awesome.

BB-- I've found on Atkins that I do need to watch to make sure I'm getting enough calories. This diet is SO filling and satisfying that I don't eat enough unless I watch myself. So do try and snack between meals, or add a tablespoon of Olive Oil to your salads or something (120 calories a tablespoon!) to up your overall calories.

Fit-- Hey, girl! You definitely should try the Spinach Bread "pizza"...I was super full for hours after eating it. I'm not sure about doing the uber-Atkins diet thing...but I guess you could give it a shot short-term. :) Let us know what you decide!

Today's going to be a great day! I bought Peanut Butter yesterday. A Tablespoon of it used to be one of my favorite snacks (right off the spoon!), so I've decided I'm going to let myself have peanut butter in my life, as long as I limit it and count the carbs toward my daily total of 20. If I don't stall, PB is here to stay.

Tonight is Cardio Kickboxing again, and I'm looking forward to the physical challenge of it again. I was out of the gate hard the last class and felt like collapsing half way through, so I'm thinking I'll try for a mid-line for this class, for the whole hour. :D

Hope you ladies have an awesome day!

PS~ Auddie!! I MISS YOU!

awwww, tx azzie.:hug: Have just been super overwhelmed - get up each day and get on here and feel psyched for the proverbial ZONE - but just have never really got back to this hard to describe place since the TailGate Party. Thought for a bit that perhaps it was taking the depressant affect of the alcohol longer to clear my system (???:?:???) - but have drank enuf h2o to flush Niagra Falls - must just be a cycle I'm in. Super stress at work and now at home too has got me a step or two away from that Good Feeling of Control.

Working on it and not giving up is all I can say.

Gretel died in the night:( - dh was with her and it was so peaceful. You may remember that I posted she hadn't been acting "right" b4 the accident - kind of odd? Well, she was recovering from the back leg break but sleeping a lot . . . actually barking to go out potty and barking to come in *hop hop* - yesterday afternoon she was sleeping under a tree but then gone - we found her laying behind the back tire of my car asleep!!!!!!!!! Just crazy. Anyway - we bundled her up and she just slept and slept - dh was talking to her and petting her when she went with a sigh later in the evening.:( Wonderful wonderful mini-schnauz - almost 15 yr companion to my 21 yr old Molly. I have a phone mssg from my 9 yr old Tess that is heart breaking - had to go outside the plant last nite and just sob listening to it. DH buried her around 4am this morning near her fave tree and we've got a stone kit for the Girls to make and decorate a "headstone."

So sorry about gretel, Aud. :hug:hugs for you and your family. Wow 15years, pets are so special, they realy become part of the family. I hope your stress level gets better soon.

Congrats to everyone who lost this week! I'v been going up and down the same few lbs

fit, Let us know if you try the fat fast, you've been doing so well, I doubt you need to go to that extreme. But I understand the temptation.

Puncie said: "Aud, How come we always turn to eating for stress relief when exersize works so much better? we should all be as addicted to working out as we are to the bad carbs. one of these days well get it right."

So true - tx for saying it GF!:hug: Gonna work on that very thing tonight!

Big Congrats to fit & lily!:carrot:

Shout outs to the rest of the LC POSSE!

Hope you made it to the beachie . . . beachie!:cool:

Always wanted to sew.

Always.

Did manage to embroider some blue jean purses and also flowers on the legs of my bell bottoms as a teen in the 70's . . . maybe there is hope for me yet? Just an awesome skill - so is knitting. I can crochet that one square that you just go around and around and around doing the same thing . . . definitely a worthwhile and healthy alternative to mindless snacking!

For now 3fc Posting is keeping me busy - I also drink a lot of water while I'm on here.

My Goal for my day off is to re-stock the larder - instead of getting hammered during Football - gonna be making the Spinach Bread and a Batch of the Egg Bread for the week. I think not having things like that available has been my Zonie-downfall this week. Also - from reading Posts - I don't think I'm eating ENUF.

Amazing.

Rock the rest of this Thursday ON OUT :carrot: my friends - catch up with ya in the Wee Hours!:)

Never Ending Post-A-Thon Update:

Just got the mail . . . my Total Cholesterol has dropped over 40 POINTS since March!!!!:carrot:

NOTE to SELF: Remember to have it done again around December 15th.

BREAK OUT THE PORK RINDS AND BACON AUDDIE!!!:carrot::carrot::carrot:

Woot-woot!! Auddie!! That's so exciting! Take that, Atkins critics! Way to get those numbers down!

Mmm...pork rinds and bacon ;) Seriously, I don't know what it is in New England. I cannot find pork rinds in my local grocery store/WalMart/Target...nowhere! I've looked into ordering some off the 'net, but it's pricey. I can find them at home, in ONE grocery store, but that's it. They're good 0 carb snacks/coating for meats...*whimpers* Maybe I'll go home for a weekend soon.

Awwwww, Auddie, so sorry about Gretel. The drawback of loving our critters is that their precious little lives are so short. Maybe that's what makes them precious.

I was spending way too much time on the web, so I'm trying hard to keep it within some reasonable bounds. There's so much life that does not involve sitting in this chair! We had our first crispy fall morning on Cobb Mountain this morning. It was 53 degrees when I went outside to feed Molly this morning. I think it might have gotted into the 40's last night. It's been in the 60's at night. And all the light has turned silver instead of gold.

Sounds like everybody is doing Mostly Marvelous this week. Hey, I saw 239 onthe scale yesterday! It was gone this morning, so I'm not counting it, but what a surprise. My stupid WW scale is so inconsistent. It will give me a different weight every time I step on it. The first is often the lowest, but not always. Sigh.

Hi Ladies:)

AZURE-I just got off of fit day.com and my calories are 1499 for the day.That the area where I'm suppose to be.So maybe I be in the ZONE soon,if I up my calories I won't be so hungry that I have to snack unnecessarily.


AUD-I didn't get a chance to get to the beach,had to do my hand weight exercises this morning and my bike this afternoon.

Have to go,my SB chili & bean dinner is waiting for me.


Hugs :) BB