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coffee - 30
Go Raw Flax Bar - 120 cals
8 oz low carb yogurt - 90 cals
2 plums - 60
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300 calories by 9am.

12:30ish- fresh salsa (tomato,onion,cilatro,cucumber w/1tb of lite sourcream)
50 calories

2:00 -
Go Raw Flax Bar- 120cals
1 apple- 70
8 oz low carb yogurt- 90
1 plum -30
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310 calories

3:30 - 5:30 - 1 hour treadmill/ 1 hour elliptical (120 total minutes cardio)

6:45 - 10 small shrimp ( why do they shrink so much wonce you cook em?)
1 - 4 oz tilapia
1 bag of steamed cauliflower (which I turned into fake mashed potatoes)
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400 calories

I would like to have a few ounces of red later.. help with my fluid retention and maybe help relax me for bed. Today is a low calorie day but you have to remember that I am making up from my bad choices last night.

I probably burned darn near all the calories in the gym. I know when I hike on the treadmill I burn 500 calorie in one hour.. Then I do another hour on the elliptical so if I burn another few hundred calories...

Needless to say, I am at a deficit

I am nicely full. My stomach is VERY content. If I had eaten a bite more, I know it would have been too muchl
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Add Another Go Raw Flax bar and yogurt - 165 calories to todays total.

Somewhere around 1230+cals/day altogether I believe.

Random -
Wow 253 to 163 in 111 days - This show "I used to be fat is amazing! This is this girl's stats.

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As I sit here mustering up all the motivation I can get, I was reading thru my old posts.

This one inspired me today from October 2009:

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When I started Extreme I was 149.7... I told myself that I would be really happy if I got below 145.. 142 would be GREAT... Well, I have until next Tuesday before I finish (today is Thursday)....and guess what??? 142 TODAY, BABY!!! So in the 5 days that I have left, if I break the 130's, I dont know what I will do.

Did I mention that I was stuck in the 155-165 area for YEARS???? omg. I am just so happy that I found the way to get the last bit of the weight off. I can't express my excitement the way I want.

Finally, I have peace.
-------------------------------------------------------I love it.

Just a great reminder of how this all started and that if things get boring or I get caught up on "what I should eat next" -- just go back to my EFS plan and follow that for a while.

Hey, actually with all the friggin exercise that I am doing right now.. EFS would be a piece of cake.. Hahaha.. Hmm... Thinking

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MY EFS Timeline in 2009

149.7--day 7----------->145------day 16---->142

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I want to make January a great month. So we'll see how my weight is doing after TOM and the bloat is gone but this may be an option to change things up.

[joyfulloser]

WOW...down to 142!!! Gotta luv those WHOOOOOSHES!!

Oh yeah...I meant to ask you...what EFS stand for? Is it a program? Do tell!

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Originally Posted by joyfulloser

WOW...down to 142!!! Gotta luv those WHOOOOOSHES!!

NO NO NO.. HAHAH.. I WISH!!! I was just reminiscing back to 2009 ........... October 2009 before I had my hip bursitis/knee injury/ etc..

I was just going through my old journal last night getting myself highly motivated and pumped up for this month


But I will be racing through these 140's this month though!

[joyfulloser]

Originally Posted by DEDIKAYTED

NO NO NO.. HAHAH.. I WISH!!! I was just reminiscing back to last year.. October 2009 before I had my hip bursitis/knee injury/ etc..

But I will be racing through these 140's this month though!

Ooops...

Well...I save my "smilies" for a little later this month! I must say....you mention the term "my man" before. The only place I've ever heard this term is in my hometown. R u by chance a NYC'r?

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Originally Posted by joyfulloser

Oh yeah...I meant to ask you...what EFS stand for? Is it a program? Do tell!

Oops, sorry.. Extreme Fat Smash

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Originally Posted by joyfulloser

Ooops...

Well...I save my "smilies" for a little later this month! I must say....you mention the term "my man" before. The only place I've ever heard this term is in my hometown. R u by chance a NYC'r?

Nope... I'm a Marylander Hahaha.. Sometimes I feel weird saying my new "boyfriend" .. that's why.

When I am speaking, I usually just say, "my sweetie."

[joyfulloser]

Originally Posted by DEDIKAYTED

Nope... I'm a Marylander Hahaha.. Sometimes I feel weird saying my new "boyfriend" .. that's why.

When I am speaking, I usually just say, "my sweetie."

Oh ok...close enough! haha! I'm in VA, so not far from you at all. But originally from NYC and we have our "own language" it seems. Certain terms I use always give me away! And yes, after you pass a certain age, it sounds weird saying, "my boyfriend"..haha! I know..I'm 43 (soon to be 44).

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Tuesday

Up bright and early for work
Starving -

[B]Meals

1. Tilapia and smash cauliflower - 200 calories.
spinach caserole w/ light sourcream.

2. Go Raw Flax Bar & yogurt - 165 cals
bag of shredded lettuce w/ fresh salsa & lite sc/pear vinagrette - 100 cals[/B]

3. Spinach caserole

Gym - 85 minutes & suffering indigestion

4. oatmeal & cottage cheese (dont feel like eating shrimp)


I hate when I have indigestion! I need to monitor heavy meals a little better.

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Though I have been absolutely loving getting off early, it all works out the same. If I get off around 3.. Work out from 4-6pm... Eat dinner around 7 - its the same friggin thing as working out in the morning... The difference is - I LOVE working out in the morning to get it over with!!! I hate leaving work when its late but its either one or the other. Another big reason that I like working out in the morning is - my meals are more normal!!! When I workout in the morning I start eating my meals later and that is when I feel most comfortable. Sigh. Decisions, decisions. You can't have it all!

I'm going to chill out on the spinach caserole after it gave me indigestion today. Plus, I would just like to keep a better account of my calories throughout the day.. Sometimes guessing drives me crazy.

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Wednesday

Worked out this morning.. I feel sooo much better.

90 minutes of cardio.. I think I am going to change my exercise up now..
The plan will be 90 minutes.. 30 minutes of which is intense.. meaning a 30 minute run, or sprints or cirucuit training.. Time to shock the body. Plus, it will be great because its less time.. 30 minutes less. That way I wont be in the gym bored. I can pump out the same or more calories in 90 minutes. Just pick up the pace

Cooked up 12 oz of tilapia this morning and some shrimp and smashed cauliflower.

Picked up strawberries and some cherries.
Picked up dandellion for any fluid retention I may have.

Its on! January is the month I will be under 145!

I have to look for my EFS book as well... Stiill thinking on that one.

3oz tiliapia/shrimp/spoonful of cauliflower - 150 calories

bag of shredded lettuce - 25
salsa - 25
dressing - 135

coffee - 60
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will update as the day goes on.

3/4 cup oatmeal w/cottage cheese
low carb yogurt - 45

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820..

low carb yogrt - 45
strwbwerries /apple - 135

995... lets say 1000 cals so far

2 rice wraps and a few shrimp (I lost the taste to chew any more"meat" for the day thats why I just ate the wraps instead.
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1300 calories and a glass of red

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I am saving this for Joy's journal. For some reason I can't post to her journal right now

Oh yes.. definitely freeze those dinners! That's what I do with my dishes that I make. I hate cooking daily, so I definitely freeze my dishes so they dont go to waste. Plus, sometimes I think that I am going to eat xyz on MOnday, and then if I dont feel like eating it, its just sitting there about to go to waste in the fridge and I hate that. I never know what my stomach is going to want, so I don't play around with it anymore. Some days all day long I think I am going to eat a certain, premade scrumptuous meal thats waiting in the fridge.. and then I get home and just want to enjoy a bowl of oatmeal ... Crazy, I know...

Woman!!! You are rolling on the weightloss!! Keep it up!

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I plan to workout in the morning again tomorrow. I love, love, love COMPLETING it in the morning!

I'm going to look over my EFS book now to see if I wanna get some idea out of there for my meals. I was even thinking about following it or the Original Fat Smash for a while to change things up (make it even easier) for my meals.

Let me take a look at the books tonight

One thing that I would substitute is the eggs. I haven't really been eating eggs for a while. I think I ate so many eggs, I dont care if I have any for a loooooooooooooooooonnng time! So I would just substitute another lean protein - like my cottage cheese, tilapia, or shrimp.

Anyway.. I will update what I decide to do. I am ready for the change from the spinach caserole and chilli...and my creative juices aren't flowing well right now.

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Its 1am and I can't sleep....

Fat Smash Phase 1 Pizza Recipe

Crust:
1 cup oatmeal
1/2 can of garbanzo beans (chickpeas)
1 egg white
>1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
basil, oregano, crushed red pepper, italian seasoning, garlic salt, to taste

Blend ingredients in blender/food processor until smooth. You may add a little water to loosen up ingredients. However, make sure to keep mixture like a dough-like consistency.

Bake in oven at 400 degrees until edges lift off from pan and the crust looks cracked.

Remove from oven and add:
1 sliced tomato as a base (like pizza sauce)
green peppers
mushrooms
pineapple
hot peppers
(you get the idea, any toppings that comply with phase 1)

Next top with "Veggie Shreds" Mozzarella Flavored Shredded Cheese. I found it at Marc's, but I'm sure other grocery stores have it. It is a soy based product so it's good for Phase 1!

Sprinkle some more basil, oregano, italian seasoning and garlic salt/powder.

Put back in oven until cheese is melted and is beginning to turn brown.

Remove from oven, cut into slices, and ENJOY!

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I think I should pop another sleeping pill