Prettynpink,

I saw your id so I decided to read your page. I just wanted to let you know that you have a very simple version of Jenny Craig going with this diet. I don't want people to get all hyped up, and I certainly don't want people at Jenny Craig all mad either, but I felt bad for you.

It won't hurt to get started with it. I eat the frozen meals with a salad for lunch. And sure after months it gets to be a bore, on the other hand, the Healthy Choice meals are very sound nutritionally.

You failed to mention your height. I'm 4'11" so 1600 calories is all I can eat to maintain my current weight. So 1200 on a diet is not that much of a shock for me. Watching portion size, and following the food pyrimid really is the foundation to all the diet programs.

How many servings of protein, milk, fat, fruit and vegetables, and carbohydrates will you eat? And instead of a glass of milk substitute a lowfat yogurt. I don't know that what you have there isn't that bad. Do make sure that you do include all the food groups including fat. Use salad dressing on your salads. If you've cut it out everywhere else a little on your salad might make the difference of first, loosing weight and more importantly, being able to stay with a program that is working for you.

I certainly understand your frustations. Good luck!

Linda

weight watchers
 

Weight watchers is diet program because you eat real food. i have
heard all the programs with pre packaged food the person ends up
gaining weight after start eating real food again. i don't want to sound
negitive about losing weight but alot of these pre packaged foods have
alot of salt.
On a happier note its nancy's birthday today
i have lost 7 lbs on ww. and about 100 to go

glen

This diet sounds like a good one for a jump start, but I would get tired of eating the Frozen dinners after a while I like home cooking.

BTW, in your post where you wrote out the diet it DOES say salad at dinner. So can I have a salad with dinner or is this a typo?

Yes you can have a salad with dinner. I overlooked that. I have been doing this since Monday and plan to stop after 7 days because I would like to eat home cooking too. However, I do feel this is a good jumpstart and I will keep eating frozen dinners for lunch too. Also this diet is flexible and you don't have to have everything exactly. For example if you don' t like milk, have a banana and yogurt or whatever else you think you migh like.

It works
 

Just wanted to let everyone know THIS DIET DOES WORK. I AM LOSING!. I'm not interested in posting how much I've lost so far or what I lose when I'm done because I know all the naysayers will just say that its water, or I'll gain it all back when I stop eating frozen dinners or whatever. I don't plan on gaining it back because I will follow WW to continue to lose and since people think that WW is the "end all be all" of plans (you know who you are) there's no way I can gain the weight back right?
Also what a lot have failed to realize is that this is called the Get Started Diet which means it is a diet that is meant to help you get started and that's exactly what its doing for me.

I'm glad you're meeting with success, Pretty in Pink. I agree that it looks like a tough program to stick to in the long run, but that's not what it's for, is it? I find it works well for me to "jump start" with a very structured program that forces me to make a clean break with my old eating habits. Something like this, that offers very few choices to lead me astray, works well. I've done a number of nutty things to get started, and this one doesn't look too bad! Once you've really gotten into the groove of controlling your eating, thinking about what you're doing, NOT going to the coffee stand for cookies every day at 10 and the cafeteria for yogurt every day at 3, it's easier to begin to build a realistic eating plan you can stick to forever. But you have to break those old habits before you can make new ones. I think of these jump start type diets as "detox" but you do have to follow up with rehab and lifelong recovery!

Good luck with WW. It was the thing that finally worked for me over the long haul.

I'm glad you are succeeding but one thing you need to keep in mind the first week and possibly even two no matter what diet you do be it Atkins, Sugar Busters, Jenny Craig, W/W or counting calories will have large losses of water weight along with a small amount of fat loss. Don't let it get you down if it slows down to 1-2 pounds a week (besides you don't want to lose more than that because you'd be losing lean muscle tissue along with fat). Good luck.

That's exactly why I didn't put how much I was losing because I knew someone would indicate to me that ti was water weight. Who cares. I am more focused on the scale right now and need to see the scale moving downward whether it water or not. A loss is a loss as far as I'm concerned and I'm happy. I expect the loss to slow down after I stop but I will be doing WW so it won't stop completely. My first week on WW years ago, I lost 6 pounds. I'm so happy my WW leader didn't say oh its just water because I probably wouldn't have been willing to stick with it. I'm glad she congratulated me on my loss and encouraged me to keep on losing. I feel this diet is my Quickstart plan and after I'll be on the regular plan. WW used to have a Quickstart plan and LA Weightloss has a Jetstart plan all for the first week to help you lose quickly. Oh well, I guess they're wrong too.

Kelly, I'm not sure if you mean it but you can really bring someone down. I'm glad you are succeeding but... is not a good way to congratulate someone.

Now it was meant to help keep you motived when your losses slow down in a week or two. That is why I mentioned the water loss. Yes its nice and we'd all like to have it drop off that quick but it won't. If it does keep up at that rate then it is either 1) water (mostly this is the first week or two and not there after) or 2) muscle tissue and no one wants to lose muscle tissue as they burn more calories even at rest than fat. I'm not trying to bring you down nor is anyone else that would mention it but to help you keep a level head about it. Don't take it the way is was not intended.

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water weight along with a small amount of fat loss. Don't let it get you down if it slows down to 1-2 pounds a week

This is what I exactly said and I also said

Originally Posted by :
I'm glad you are succeeding

and I am sincere in saying that I am glad you are succeeding. I also hope you can switch to real meals and not rely completely on frozen meals so you don't lose interest in obtaining your goal. Good luck. Keep us informed. And yes I probably should have left the but out and used a comma.

So if I said I only lost 2 pounds would you tell me it was fat or water?

A combination and since you've been trying for a few weeks probably at least 1/2 and 1/2 (you'd said you'd been having a hard time staying on track from a different thread). Getting rid of water weight isn't bad either. I'd not been following closely on W/W for my week of 3/1-6 and this past week I was 100% (water, journal, eating by the numbers, taking my vitamins and calcium supplements with light activity and my weekend dancing) and lost 5 pounds. I know this wasn't 5 pounds of fat because that would be virtually impossible (because to do that I would have had to drop my caloric intake 17500 calories below what I would have needed just to maintain my weight). Most of it was water with some fat loss included to. ;)

You know what I think? Thank HEAVEN for water weight loss. I think it's evolutionarily adaptive--like how babies are really cute because otherwise who'd put up with them? If you didn't get that encouraging, reinforcing water weight loss the first week, what would keep you going? It takes a few weeks for the habit of being on program to become second nature (sometimes longer). You NEED those early rewards to keep you going!

I realize, Kelly, you were just making sure P-in-P didn't get discouraged when her rate of loss slowed--it's true, we need determination to keep us OP through the plateaus and "undeserved" gains--but I guess it was a little ironic to see that juxtaposed with P-in-P saying she knew someone was going to tell her it's just water and it won't last. Maybe you were emphasizing that point, for someone other than P-in-P who might be lurking.

That was more it it was a general post and not directed to Pretty. Remember I'm the queen of plateaus (my 6month one were no change on the scale but I dropped sizes [size 16 jeans to size 12 jeans]).

Geez
 

PrettyinPink What you need to lose is the Attitude!

You came here with questions, got great suggestions and then got all pissy because they were not the answers you were looking for.

Congrats on the loss..but realize it ain't gonna last if all you eat is frozen dinners.