hi again
 

I am so sorry to hear about your other boston also. yes i hear they have heart attacks easy and all. after this last thing we got him on his own food. hes lots better on it . tuffy is his name and hes a tuffy to.,ha I am so glad i came back to the board. i saw you on here before and meant to ask and just never. then forgot all about it. i am on several boards. ha Me to know nothing but just to find things and get there on here. ha
Know what you mean about the sommers plan, i got on it and went into a chat on her site. but i have a time not mixing carbs and fats. it seem to me listening to them it takes quite awhile to start losing on it. i never really gave it time. ha I just watch my portions now and ww. On ww watchers i do not feel deprived of anything. so its a good plan i think. I lost real good then gained some back the normal old thing. so its today a new day and i got to get back to my portion measuring and being strict with it. also back to keeping track of my points. so i will come here often and keep in touch and see how were doing. have a fun weekend. LaDean:)

Hi Aleka,

Have you gotten back on plan? How are things going? I am still struggling but I manage to loose about 5# in the past couple weeks.

La Dean- Hi, I combine the concept of SSing on WW as well. I try to keep away from all the white sugar and flour, etc WW just works better for me. SSing had too many food rules for me and I did try Atkins that was to strict for me. I can't eliminate a food group but i can try to keep it as clean as I can. Does Tops work?

Kathy

nice to meet you
 

KIT, well i go to tops for group help. it does keep me going and working at it yes. Is cheaper the ww to. i have all the ww things already so i use it and then i went off the sugar and all but it was the Prism Plan., it worked. so now got to get off this sugar again. its better.ha I am like you if it takes alot of remembering forget it. as i forget before i start doing it. lol so ww is easy and i still stick to my other rules on prism. well good luck and nice meeting you. have a great week the both of you. LaDean:)

Hi,
 

Hope you're enjoying the weekend.

Kathy, congratulations on your weight loss! That's fantastic. :high: :cp: I am not having much luck getting into the full swing of Somersizing. It's all the food combining I'm having a problem with. I enjoy being able to eat a sandwich when I want one, and eating like a normal person. How are you incorporating SS & WW? Maybe I can get some ideas from you. I still stay away from white flour, sugar, and a lot of processed foods. I still do eat eggs, but only once a week, along with bacon and 1 slice of buttered toast.

LaDean, what is the Prism Plan? I've heard about it, but don't know how it works. I'm glad that it's working for you. How is Tuffy? Our Boston's name is Lacee (pronounced Lacy). Her name should be Tuffy because she likes to bark at dogs twice her size. She is a little brat.

Take care and have a good evening.
Aleka

Hi ladies,

LaDean- I wanted to ask as well, what is the prisim plan?

Aleka- I have a horrible time following the rules of SSing, I feel deprived when I do SSing, so I just follow the theory about the refined sugar, white flour, etc. I don't get extreme w/ it. I also, stick to my LA weightloss basis and try not to have more than 1 or 2 starches a day, ex: 2 slices of diet bread for your sandwich on LAWL would be considered 2 starches, but I find that extreme as well. So I count 2 slices of diet bread one starch, I just tweek the programs to work for me and stay within my points so I won't feel overwhelmed and deprived and then before I know it i'm starting to binge because I feel hungry. I hope some of this can help. This is my usual Mon-Thu menu:
Breakfast-3eggs whites, 1/2c oatmeal, 1c 1% milk in the oatmeal
Lunch-large green salad, 2tbsp lowfat dressing 4oz tuna, diet soda
Snack-1Atkins shake or 1balance bar or 1 luna bar
Dinner- Large green salad, 2tbsp lowfat dressing, 4oz of meat, chicken or seafood. 1c strawberries, 2 graham crackers, diet soda

I eat differently on the weekends. Aleka and LaDean, what is your typical menu or the staple of your menu?

Kathy

Good morning.....
 

Kathy, thank you...what you posted really helps a lot. I'm always afraid I'm doing something wrong. Here is my typical day,
Breakfast: 1 cup bite-sized Shredded Wheat cereal w/ 1/2 c. blueberries or 1 cup strawberries and 1 1/2 c. skim or 1/2% milk (for some reason my breakfast stays with me longer if I have the extra milk),
black coffee, no sugar (high-test coffee)! :lol:
Lunch: 2 slices of diet bread, 2 oz. turkey from the deli, 1 slice low-fat cheese, lettuce, and tomato, 1 oz. baked Lays potato chips or 1 oz. Oat Bran pretzels, and Waist Watchers soda. Occasionally I will have a sugar-free fudgsicle, which is only 1 pt.
Snack: only if I'm hungry...1/3 c. Soy nuts and water.
Dinner: 4 oz. of meat with 2 vegetables and sometimes I'll put 1 T. of full fat dressing on one of the vegetables, just to get some fat in my diet. Waist Watchers soda, or iced tea w/sweetener.
Snack: S/F Jello or F/F -S/F pudding (made with skim milk), 2 T lite Cool Whip, and decaf coffee, black, no sugar.
I usually eat this way most days, one day on the weekend we'll have either pancakes or bacon & eggs. Speaking of pancakes. Did you ever try Suzanne's pancake mix? OMG they are to die for. We added frozen blueberries to the ones we made.:T

LaDean, hope you're having a good day.

Hope you both have a great day.
Aleka

THE PRISM
 

Its mainly No sugar , white flour products. no potatoes the first 6 weeks. then the 2nd 6 weeks you add them 2x day. then you each 6 weeks can add new things. like bread the 2nd 6 weeks to but has to be 100%whole wheat. then you can add pita bread, muffins and all weeks to. but mainly i just got off the sugar and all white flour products. so its alot like the others in that way. it just has a bible study with it and this is what helped me. but i got back to the sugar thinking i could be sensibly with it. as this is what i want. but i am not ready to be sensibly.ha ha i found this out as i gained some back. so today i am back to this plan. along with ww. I will leave a meal plan when i get back to being good.ha ha but oatmeal for breakfast. some fruit. then lunch. was vegies, protein and fruit. dinner the same. now being good this is how i ate. so its going to be good to get back to it. I am so happy you both gave meal ideas it helps alot . I exercise alot to love my exercise. i come to the boards alot to. i go to another one www.diettalk.com it helps me to. then i keep a diary of day. drink my water. been drinking lemon in it and drink more love the flavor.
Now for TUFFY hes doing so good. each day is more himself and so playful again. prayed alot. he sleeps alot now to. but we all do as we get older.ha ha he can be a brat to.ha he loves to go to bigger dogs to. thinks hes so big. they are sturdy alot. Does yours like to Kiss alot. we call it kissing.ha ha good for that. but we love it. yours is cute name to. know it fits her to.

YOU BOTH HAVE A GREAT DAY TO. I LOVE COMING TO THE BOARD AND SEEING HOW YOU HAVE DONE TO. IT HELPS ME SO VERY MUCH. I ALREADY HAD MY 4 MILE WALK THIS AM. GOT TO GO GET MY WATER AND HAVE BREAKFAST. SO LATER HAVE A GREAT DAY TO BOTH OF YOU. tuffy says hi his new friend lacee. ha LaDean
:) :dancer: :grouphug:

Good Morning all,

I had a successful night last night. They have complimentary cookies here at work all day everyday, and when the cookie tray gets low they promptly replenish it. So it's so hard to resist, so I had a few but other than that I've had a good day. I lost the 2# that I gained over the weekend from eating too much icecream.

LaDean- Prisim plan is very sound. I guess sugar is the enemy no matter how you look at it. I too fool myself into thinking that I can handle just a little sugar and then before I know it, i'm adding more and more sugar to my diet and then it gets out of hand. I know at my church they had a weightloss program w/ Bible study as well, but I never found out what the program was.

Aleka- What is Waist Watchers soda? Is it like Diet Rite where they make it w/ Splenda? I'm got onto the diet rite bandwagon doing Atkins but soon tired of it. So now i'm back to my diet gingerale and diet 7up. You diet sounds very good. It's making me see that I may not be eating enough. Maybe if I would have had more food, I wouldn't be looking for cookies all the time. So i'm going to increase my food intake. I'm glad you posted your food as well, it really showed me something. Isn't it nice to have bread w/ your deli meats again instead of lettuce? SSing is a good plan but it was driving me crazy and I felt like a failure evertime I cheated.

Kathy

Aleka
 

Hi, I'm not Somersizing I was just looking around. I used to be on WW now I'm doing the 6 week body makeover. Anyway, I noticed that you were from Brigdewater N.H. I lived on Brigdewater Mountain Road when I was a child. Just up from the Huckins Farm. When my parents we moved but I lived in Rumney until1992 when I married and moved to Wisconsin. Are you closer to Plymouth or Bristol? Anyway, I just wanted to say hello.It was so neat to see a town from "home". My email is [email protected] if you'd like email me.

I can't beleive I spelled Bridgewater wrong twice!!!

Good afternoon....
 

LaDean, the Prism plan seem like a good plan to follow and I'm glad it's working so well for you. What do you do for exercise? I usually walk. For the past week or so I've been having a problem with my back, so exercising is out for the time being. Last Fri., since it was such a nice day I went for a little walk and it made my back feel really good. Our weather has gone back to winter, so I can't walk. Lacee says "WOOF" to her new friend Tuffy. Tuffy is a really cute name for a Boston. Lacee certainly is a kisser! Especially when you're doing something else like watching TV or reading a book.:s: Does Tuffy beg at the table? Lacee has since we got her. The breeder who we got her from let her beg at the table since day 1, and we didn't have the heart to stop her. As I said before, she's spoiled!

Kathy, congratulations on your weight loss. :high: Occasionally a few cookies won't hurt. Waist Watcher soda is made with Splenda and is caffiene free. They have great flavors. Our favorite is Black Cherry and Vanilla Creme. They also have a Chocolate Fudge, but the grocery store we go to doesn't carry that flavor. Adirondack makes it. It really is enjoyable eating a sandwich again, plus a lot of other things that were funky on Ssizing. What used to drive me crazy was trying to find just the right food because you couldn't have this with that and so forth.

I'm glad that I was able to help you with my menu.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the day.
Aleka

pg1988,
 

I think we were posting at the same time! Another person from Bridgewater...what a small world. We live closer to Bristol...on the other side of the mountain. We live off of 3A near Newfound Lake. Do you ever get back this way very often? Well...it's very nice to meet you.

Take care.
Aleka

Nice to meet you too. I usually get home about once a year. We are planning trip in august this year. My sister is getting married. she lives in Canterbury. I didn't realize how beautiful NH is until I left. You don't notice things that are always there. Where I live in WI is very similar- small town area etc. but I really miss the mountains. The ski area around here are literally called ski hills!
I'd love to go to NH in the winter sometime so my son could snowboard on a real moimtain! Hope to "talk " again.
pg1988

good day here 3/31~~~~~
 

ALEKA, Tuffy says woof (HI) to Lacee. Yes he is a table begger. was not when we got him. but hes spoilt to. Hes worse at times but pretty good at it. yes i think they all love to kiss. They are our babies so let them be spoilt.ha
So glad you had a good day all of you. I had a great day yesterday was time to buckle down. I just cannot eat the sugar and be sensibly. so its off it again now. 2nd day here and going pretty good. Yes the prism worked for me but is alot like the sugar busters to. I walk every morning 7x week . and sometimes 2x day. in fall i line dance for 9 weeks 1 1/2 hours. i have a cardio glider, roll thing for abs. ex bike and step tapes I love. I love being out side so when weather gets better i will be riding bike some to. I just like to at times turn on the music and do my own movement and all. it helps alot. i sometimes go out on patio and do it. we have wood heat so have wood out there and neighbors cannot see. would not care if they did.ha ha
today i have eaten:
breakfast.....Oatmeal , glass of milk
Lunch....... toast, meatloaf, and a salad
dinner...... fruit
before hubby retired he worked nights and so our big meal was at lunch. so i am trying to get back to that. he just retired last summer. so takes time. but this week i am back to it. well hey this is getting rather long. ha GOOD LUCK THIS WEEK TO ALL. HANG IN THERE WE WILL REACH OUR GOALS. JUST HAVE TO HAVE SOME PATIENCE...... LaDean:) Oh!!!! ALEKA,,, tuffy loves to eat so hes now on a eating plan to.his food only none of our table scraps. Hes doing better and does not mind it at all. eating is important to him so he is satisfied.ha ha :D

Good Morning everyone!

Pg1988- WELCOME!

I have an idea, what do you guys think about us posting what we eat daily, I mean everything that goes into our mouths. I know i'd love it, it would be an extra way of keeping us all legal, being responsible to someone and knowing you had to post everything you ate at the end of the day is a good help.

I'll start yesteday I had (4/1)

Breakfast-2 eggs, lslice of 1pt cheese, 1/2c oatmeal, 1c 1% milk
Lunch-big salad, 4oz tuna, 1tsp of mayo, diet 7up, 1 balance bar
Snack- Darn it to heck.....4 oreo cookies. lol
Dinner- 4oz steak, salad, diet soda, 4 gramham crackers. As you can see i've got a sweet tooth from ****! lol

I exercise 6days a week, I will do a Firm video or a Cathe Friedrich video, ususally its Cathe, she's a little more advanced than the firm. I've been doing the firm for almost 10yrs now. Anyone else use them? www.cathe.com if you wanted to check her out, she's great! Tough, tough, tough and loveable.

LaDean, you really workout a lot! What is a cardio glider?

Aleka-Are you still using your machine that Tony Little sells, i'm sorry I forgot the name of it. Aleka, that soda sounds to die for, chocolate soda? Now you know I have to go check that out! lol

Kathy