Kids having pot roast tonight :-(
 

I'm eating 2 eggs, combination salad with salsa as a dressing and an orange..

wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it smells good (leftover from yesterday)...

However; the pringles container I had in my hand a few minutes ago...I put back w/o taking the lid off...

I'm starving!! Yes, I am REALLY hungry; not just "wanting to eat" ...

I'm on the US Ski team diet and its a very hard diet to follow; its only 2 wks long tho..

I may have to leave the room and eat my salad by myself...:(:(

Not to be mean or unsupportive but I don't think any diet that you are that hungry on or have to leave the room to eat is worth doing hun!!! 2 weeks or not it sounds like it is stressful and hard on you. I can't do restrictive diets they set me up for failure. But good for you for walking away from the pringles, though the ff ones are only 1pt for 14 and are very yummy lol well at least the sour cream and onion ones are. I think you should have pot roast just like everyone else just watch your portions!!

I'm not sure why you can't have pot roast as well. In fact I had pork roast last night - out of hte crockpot.

Are you on a plan that won't allow you red meat? Or is there some other reason?

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this diet is a very strict 2 wk jump start metabolism diet..

it is a "diet" that is laid out on a specific menu that you follow for 2 wks, its a chemical based diet..


I guess I am feeling pressure from my taekwondo class; several people there used this diet for 2 wks (as prescribed) and they lost from 12 to 22 lbs each..

I just want to get that jumpstart..and then switch over to portion control on wise items..

Good luck! I'm not sure I believe there is such a thing as a chemical based diet personally, but I hope you can make it through your two weeks. Personally, I can't stay hungry or I will go off my diet, so for me this would never work. If we can help, let us know.

Personally, I think fad diets are not a good plan. What is wrong with just changing your lifestyle and eating a healthier, portion-controlled life and getting moderate exercise? If you fail at this two week thing -- I hope you don't feel like a failure and quit trying to lose weight as a long term plan. No one should lose that much weight that quickly anyway -- it isn't safe and it is very hard on your body. 1% of total body weight a week is safe and steady weight loss...it is a good mantra, and it keeps you from starving to death and being miserable.

You don't have to suffer to lose weight...at least not suffer to the level of drooling over your kids' food and whimpering over the Pringles. :)

true..you know I've tried WW, I went to curves, I've watched what i eat etc..and I am active in taeKwondo..I run after small kids most of the day..
but yet I always gain..no matter what i do...

I def. feel like a failure already; but they ate and I cleaned up from it w/o eating any..and I am now eating my salad while here and doing some work..

If you're always hungry on this diet, you'll probably just end up yo-yoing back up after you stop being on it. Maybe your body is just adjusting, though. Good Luck!

Honestly I think you're setting yourself up for failure here. What's going to happen after your 2 weeks is over? If you haven't made any real changes to your way of eating, then you're just going to gain back any losses and feel worse about yourself.

Let us help you figure out a healthy eating plan that doesn't make you feel deprived and hungry and sad. There will be something that will work for you that doesn't involve having to leave the room while your family eats!!

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Have you tried just counting your calories? It is a little hard in the beginning, but once you get a sense of how many calories are in the foods you eat, it is really easy. If you go on the Mayo Clinic weight loss site, etc. you can figure out on their calculators how many calories you need a day for your current weight and height -- then it is simple to figure out how much of a deficit you need each day for weight loss. There is no guessing -- it is just a matter of finding out how much your body actually uses each day and then creating a deficit. There is no magic and it works.

I have been doing this for three months and I have lost 31 pounds -- I calorie count and I can count on ONE hand the number of days I have felt ravenously hungry -- usually the day or two before my TOM...hormones suck!

Anyway, I sounded kind of negative in my first e-mail. Sorry about that. We are all here to support each other. Good luck!

Thanks! I'd love to find something that works..

My downfall is I love to eat salty foods; chips, nachos, hot wings etc..

I dislike most veggies & fruits...(just the way I was brought up w/o any)...

I don't know where to start..help!! seriously!

MarStevens- have you ever done Weight Watchers? The biggest thing WW did for me was to open up the world of vegetables- heck they are FREE! A small amount of something "calorie-dense" + tons of veggies leaves me so satisfied. On the salty, crunchy end of life- microwave popcorn is a miracle. A 100 calorie bag with a handful of pear tomatoes and maybe a bit of cheese can be a lunch or a good snack. WW also tends to show you alot of ways to make your favorites perhaps unhealthy food much better. Check out hungrygirl.com as well.

It sounds like you're already active, so that helps some. :)

What I'd suggest is for a week, not trying to diet, just writing down what you eat. If you are into it, maybe register for one of hte online tracking sites like thedailyplate.com or sparkpeople.com or fitday.com ... any one of those will allow you to input your food and will tell you how many calories, how much fat and protein and carbs, and so forth.

Starting that way will help you to understand what you ARE eating and where the most of your calories are coming from, so that you can see where you might cut back.

That's how I'd start off if it were me. :)

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Marstevens, PhotoChick is right on the money...here's another suggest...when your exercising at the gym or just going for a walk - I always bring my MP3 player with me and listen to all my favorite stuff - it helps my mind from blasting me for not resisting the entire bag of veggie wheat thins or that fact that I'm tired and just wanna sleep rather than go for a walk. Keep looking around for something that will make this transition to your new life not so drastic - you'll enjoy yourself and the weight loss will still be acheived. Good Luck!

How old are you? It looks to me like for your height and weight and at your described activity level, you need around 1800 calories to maintain. However, your age will affect that to some extent. However, taking 1800 calores as a baseline -- that means to lose around a pound a week, you are going to need to eat around 1300 calories a day. This is around where you are going to need to stay anyway because to get all of the nutritional value you need a day, you should never drop below 1200 calories a day or so. So, if we took between 1200 and 1300 as a daily goal, a possible daily menu, for a vegtable adverse person :) might look like this:
Breakfast: Low fat yogurt with All Bran Buds or similar and 1/2 apple or a 1/2 banana mixed into it. 320 calories* (You could bring these calories down with fat free yogurt, but I personally like the real stuff -- just low fat)Snack: Protein Bar 200 calories (I LOVE the Balance Bar Caramel Blast flavor -it feels like cheating.)Lunch: Turkey Sandwich on whole wheat w/ honey mustard 300 Calories (Add lettuce or better yet spinach leaves and tomatoes to make it better for you...)Snack: 1 string cheese stick and some carrot sticks 100 Calories -- or, hmmm, if we REALLY hate veggies, maybe a sugarfree jello chocolate pudding or some roasted almonds?Dinner: 380 Calories -- Pot Roast, a small portion of potatoes and roasted veggies? OR, hmmm, roasted chicken and brown rice and a salad. Or, lets see -- one slice of thin crust pizza and a salad?

TaDa! 1300 calories -- and you get to eat 5 times a day!

If you are an evening snacker, you could always drop some calories from breakfast or the first snack and add them in the evening -- sometimes I like to air pop popcorn -- you get over three whole cups for 100 calories.*