[Sakai]

I cheated last night. It was my cousins' birthday and we've been planing her party for like a month and a half. Anyways, it was a big bash with lots of yummy food and I just caved.
I had ribs, potato salad, pasta salad, and fruit salad. One serving of each, and I know it sounds healthy, it isn't. it was everything I couldn't eat in Phase 1.
I also had a sliver of cake and some vanilla ice cream. *falls over*

I'm just happy that I worked out yesterday plus being active from cooking for the party for over 5 hours. 5 hours on my feet oiy -_- I'm aslo happy that I only had a serving of the food and not pile it on my plate like I know I would have in the past.

So anyways, I'm unsure if I need to start detox again, or just keep plowing though with extra work outs.

[SmartButt]

Yeah you might want to add in another day or two of detox phase to make up for that. But there's no beating yourself up - you can get right back on track today!

Last night I was sooo about to cave in and eat a cheeseburger. It was one of those days where everything on TV was a food commercial and everywhere we went there were delicious food smells. Note to self: do not go near a mall's food court when on p1.

I decided to have one regular ol' white potato with my rice pilaf last night in order to satiate this desire to cave in. I just couldn't stand the thought of another tasteless meal and this curbed my cravings. I'm still proud of myself though, I could have cheated a LOT worse than that (we have Round Table pizza on speed-dial ) so I'm not going to be too upset over it.

[GoldenLover]

I have not done too good this weekend. The scale has not gone up at all, but I think I'm going to do 3 days of detox to make up for it. So

[judyo]

I had a planned "cheat" today for a fancy wedding shower. I'm on Phase II but there were still foods not allowed. However, I passed on the cheesy potatoes, sausage, stuffing and dinner rolls. I did have cream of chicken soup, a salad with very little French dressing, a chicken thigh & leg (peeled off the skin) & a lot of carrots (sweet tasting-some kind of sauce/coating used).

I also had the smallest scoop of peppermint ice cream - about 1/4 cup (traded with my friend) & a half of a thin slice of chocolate cake & a mini cannoli. I figured this feast at around 1200 calories. I had one banana for breakfast and am allowing myself 1600 daily calories until I stop losing. So I still have about 300 calories left but don't think I'm going to use them all. Going to try to get an exercise tape going tonight as I'm feeling a little bit better today.

However, I am not going to do a detox day unless I weigh myself on Wed. to see if I've gained (I doubt it) or haven't lost anything at all by that time. Or maybe I'll wait until Thurs. or Fri. - my normal weigh-in day is Sat.

I truly feel that if I stick with the plan most of the time, with the exception of special occasions (next one will be Thanksgiving), I won't have to feel guilty by taking planned cheat meals. If one of those planned days causes me not to lose that week I'll do a detox day or two or start going down in calories.

However, I still haven't been tempted to go off plan otherwise. Again, it might be the cold helping to keep my appetite at bay. But I felt so good passing up some things I never would have passed up before. I would have just said, this is a cheat meal & allow myself to eat anything I wanted & I would probably feel sick afterwards. I didn't feel stuffed at all.

[julier70]

Glad to see I wasn't the only one who binged this week! OMG! It was like I couldn't help myself yesterday especially! I felt sick at bedtime, it was horrible! So, needless to say, I am going back to phase 1 indefinitely! I love that I can start over and it is ok! Have a great week everyone!
Julie

[lem]

Hi Everyone...

Lets not beat ourselves up whether the cheats were planned or not. I did the same thing - I was supposed to start P2 Wed and had to travel for work Thurs-Sat and even though I ate healthy foods for the most part, I did have 3 pieces of garlic bread, 2 cornbread muffins and cheesy hashbrown casserole! Plus my portions of meat/seafod were out of control..I ate A LOT! so back to P1 for me today so I can get back on track. Good luck to everyone this week, lets get strong and stay on track. Lem

[krystlewv]

Confession time for me too. This weekend I went off plan and that included a bacon cheeseburger from Hardees. I didnt eat out of control, I just had a few things that were definately NOT on the list. So needless to say I just got back from the store and once again I am going thru phase 1. Thats ok though, I still feel good about my eating habits and my exercise. At the moment I am having 1/3 c. of unsalted soy nuts and they are great!
~Crystal

[lem]

Crystal
Unsalted soy nuts? Where do I find these and can we have them? Thanks!

[Sakai]

Soy nuts!? I love soy nuts! they are like peanuts to me. gah I had some last year and I've never been able to find them again. Where did you find them Cyrstal?

[krystlewv]

Originally Posted by Sakai

Soy nuts!? I love soy nuts! they are like peanuts to me. gah I had some last year and I've never been able to find them again. Where did you find them Cyrstal?

On another Fat Smash forum I go to Dr Ian said that we could have soy nuts. I found the salted and unsalted ones at WalMart. They came in a big plastic bowl and are made by Good Sense. They are just what I wanted for some crunch. Sometimes I put them in my salad and sometimes I roast them with the chickpeas. I found them in the food aisle.
~Crystal