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this is a copy and past from the other post i made in different blog...
...so im on my day 6.
weighed myself and lost 3 pounds in total. which i'm liking..i have to remind myself about my thyroid problem and that its probably harder for me to lose the weight compared to others as im not very good at taking my pill on a daily basis (i do try). And also remind myself that before the diet..those numbers were only going up! and now they are going down!
Also..yesterday i had an avocado with my meal...not bothering to check calorie content on the avocado..later my sister told me that an avocado has like 300 + calories on its own! yikes! not doing that one again...so yesterday my meal was probably around 1300+ calories..not good for my little body so not doing the avocado again and taught me to check (google) the calorie stuff before i decide to add something new to my meal
3 lbs in 5 days...its all good, im very excited...and jill's lost pounds are great to hear..keeps you motivated.
felt little cravings on my 5th day that i didnt have on the previous days..thats prob why i went for that avocado haha ,
but, no matter what mistakes you make...just get back to staying focused on your goals..it'll be worth it!
oh..and my sister has lost 4lbs in the 5 days....(she didnt have the avocado)
Mistermom there is like 3 posts for the cookie diet...I have read all three and try to post when I can. I have lost 14 lbs and feel great. It is tuff and has been very difficult. One day at a time or sometimes 1 cookie at a time
I am starting the cookie diet tomorrow and im very excited, i really need that jump start to motivate me to lose this weight i gained this year. i want to lose 20lbs by feb when i go visit my best friend i hope this works! congrats to you ladies on losing that weight!
Dear Lauren A,
Please tell me what kind of dog is in the pic. We had one that looked the same and we thought he was an Australian Shepherd but we were not sure. Best dog ever. Lived to 15 1/2 though gave me many scares before dying. He would always rally and then he just didn't. I miss him so . Whats your dogs name?
Thanks for giving me some happy time down memory lane.
Sheridan
I've not done this diet cookie diet, but I was on WW when the Breakfast Cookies first became popular (this was before WW limited the number of fiber grams that could be used to lower a food's point value).
I belive the cookies were like 2 points (but over 200 calories), and a lot of people were using them as meal replacement bars (they were super high fiber). I would use them frequently as breakfasts and lunches.
They helped me lose a lot of weight, but many of the smaller girls were stalling on their weight loss because of overusing the cookies (I know with the cookie diet that's not a problem if you're following the plan as written).
It turns out though that the manufacturer of that cookie actually got into trouble for grossly under-reporting the calorie count of their cookies. I believe the company was bought out and brought under tighter control.
My problem with meal replacement plans (and I've been on dozens, if not hundreds) is that for me, weight loss is such a long process, that it inevitably becomes very monotonous long before I've lost all the weight. I still use meal replacements occasionally, but I don't do well when they're a very frequent part of my food plan.
For me also, fast weight loss also usually means temporary weight loss, because if I'm losing it fast - it's usually because the methods I'm using to lose the weight are extreme and unsustainable. I'm skipping meals (and getting light headed and nauseous) or I'm eating super, super low carb and low fat (which is a very dangerous combination to do very long) also to the point of feeling ill and wiped out, or I'm eating foods I would never consider eating for the rest of my life (and for me that's cookies, because I don't even like "real" cookies - they've never been a trouble food for me. I'm more likely to overeat meatloaf)....
There are mental reasons that very rapid weight loss is generally less effective - and there are physiological ones as well. (Most of the research suggests this to be true statistically - yes, that means there are exceptions - but the statistics do favor the slower losers).
Crash dieting can change your biochemistry (and rapid weight loss is crash dieting. You don't get super, rapid weight loss unless you're drastically reducing your normal calorie level -that is crash dieting). It's not mystical, magical mumbojumbo - the biochemistry is fairly well understood, including the specific hunger and fat-storage mediating hormones.
It takes more than "mind over matter" to lose weight all the way to goal weight on a crash diet - and it takes more than mind over matter to sustain weight loss achieved through crash diets.
There are just enough people who've succeeded at it, to convince folks it's possible - but the odds are against you. You always have to be asking yourself "can I really do this forever," or at least "what am I going to do instead."
Sure, it is possible to maintain your weight loss in an entirely different manner than you lost the weight - but it's a lot more difficult. So you've got to be aware of and prepare for that challenge.
If you can eat these cookies and a dinner forever, more power to you. I would suggest just as an added precaution that you take a multivitamin which includes vitamin C (or a separate C supplement) and maybe an antioxidant blend. It's going to be difficult to get the necessary range of micronutrients on only one meal a day - the cookies probably have some, but their nutrition is going to be mostly protein and grain-based, not vegetable and fruit based (raisins, pears, and apples are often the only fruits used in these bars, and as good as those are, it's fairly limited) - so you're going to get short-changed on the nutrients common to those foods.
There are just enough people who've succeeded at it, to convince folks it's possible - but the odds are against you. You always have to be asking yourself "can I really do this forever," or at least "what am I going to do instead."
Good luck.
Hummmm I think I can appreciate your concern. Not quite yet, but I am praying that I will be able to appreciate your comments...because I am hoping you have my best interest at heart.
As you say, the odds are against me...whatever way i choose to lose weight or NOT lose weight. This is my choice. I am an educated woman and I have lost weight in many many different ways...and I have NEVER been successful at keeping it off and BARELY successful at loosing.
What I do know for today is: I have to come to grips with 1200 calories a day for the rest of my life (more or less). I am 5 feet tall. Period. I cannot change that. What I can change is my perception of the amount of food I NEED to eat in a day and learn to eat to live not to live to eat. I want to enjoy life and not be obsessed with food and choices and amounts and if I get this or don't get this...I want 2 live!
My place on earth is to not judge what other people eat, don't eat or choose to eat. My place on earth is to not judge what diet program someone chooses. My place is to not judge people who judge me. It is a vicious circle. This is my journey. This is my life. A good portion of my life people have tried to tell me what to do with food (or what to not do with food). Did it work? Nope. Trust me, if I could, I would eat 3 meals a day with possibly 2 snacks and not white flour or sugar and just the right kind of fat and NEVER overeat blah blah blah. I would have done it a long time ago! I am right were I am suppose to be for me, today.
Sorry if I offended anyone. This was actually written for me. Because I needed it in black and white in front of my face. I know what is right for me today! Today only. Do I get to change my mind. You bet.
Well I'm in the middle of my third week on the cookie diet. I'm following it very loosely but am already down 13lbs!! A limited calorie diet always works! They are not "magic" cookies by any means, just appetite suppressants.
I'm not judging you or telling you what to eat, or what not to eat - just sharing what I've learned about weight loss for myself, in the four decades I've been attempting it, and the possible pitfalls, as I see them.
Everyone is different, so none of what I said may apply to you. Some of it might, so I share it all, and trust that you, like most folks are able to see what applies to your life and what doesn't.
My hope isn't that you follow my recommendations or advice, but that you get a lot of opinions from a lot of people, and follow the plan that works the best for you.
One day, I think we'll be able to help people find the plan(s) that are likeliest to work for each person witha questionairre or a blood test, or some other method besides years of trial and error.
I believe there are biochemical, environmental, and personality differences that make some plans easier and more effective than others, but currently there's no way to determine that except through trial and error. I think sharing our own histories, including what didn't work, and why we think it didn't (as well as what works and also why we think it does), helps everyone else.
I don't think there is, or will ever be a weight loss plan that works for everyone who tries it (at least not in the long-run, and that's the most important thing for most of us).
I'm not very optimistic about meal replacement plans, because I've never succeeded on them or known anyone who personally has. I think that's valuable information for you to have, even if that isn't the case for you. Knowing other people's success AND failures helps you be better prepared.
When I was researching wls, I had a hard time finding people willing to share the bad experiences, because they didn't want to scare me off. I NEEDED to know the bad experiences and the good, in order to determine whether the surgery was right for me. Just getting one side wouldn't have allowed me to make an informed decision - and I value an informed choice above all things. You can't be informed if you only hear the success stories and never the problems or obstacles.
If you only hear the success stories, you can easily think that everyone else who has tried a similar plan has had amazing and effortless success, and if you don't experience that, you may think there's something wrong with you (I've certainly felt that way about plans before, where I was treated like a freak for not doing well on a plan, it turns out that most people don't do well on - this is especially important when the person telling you that "everyone else is successful, I don't know why you're not," is a person selling you the plan.
Being an informed consumer of weight loss products is difficult, because success is always attributed to the product or plan, and failure is always attributed to the person using it. If you succeed, the diet gets the credit - and if you fail, you take all the blame (at least that's been my experience with weight loss products/and services).
One day, I think we'll be able to help people find the plan(s) that are likeliest to work for each person with a questionairre or a blood test, or some other method besides years of trial and error.
this is a copy and past from the other post i made in different blog...
). And also remind myself that before the diet..those numbers were only going up! and now they are going down!
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