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- - The Maintainers, vol 2. (https://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/ideal-protein-diet/245641-maintainers-vol-2-a.html)

sandy- my daily intake was set at 2000 for my height/weight/age. I don't think I ever eat this much unless it is a free day then I eat waaayyyy over that. Typically my intake is around 1500-1700. Maintainers kind of get the short end of the stick calorie wise. Statistically we have to eat less and exercise more to stay the same. Everyone is different though and you will have to see how much you can intake without causing a gain. The only way to do this is trial & error... Have you set a 'ceiling' number for yourself? This is that number that will automatically induce phase 1 if it should happen to appear on the scale. It's typically 3-5 pounds above your baseline. It's best to choose it right away and just stick with it. If you see it appear get on phase 1 til you're back in your window (this is usually only a day of phase 1).
kiki- my best suggestion to you is to take this one day at a time. Losing the weight is possible. Maintaining the weight is possible.

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kiki- my best suggestion to you is to take this one day at a time. Losing the weight is possible. Maintaining the weight is possible.

Thanks, Cap....Yes, is GREAT to hear! ((((Hugs))))))

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I don't know if anyone has tried zumba... but I have always wanted to. Finally ordered the new set of dvds off ebay and I love it. Working out for an hour feels a lot more like fun and a lot less like work. Still feel it the next day which I take as a good sign and it was cute to watch my little ones bop their heads and bounce around with me

Please share the title of the Zumba DVDs - I've been wanting to get some! :)

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Originally Posted by 2RIDEROLLERCOAST (Post 4139021)

Thank you I didn't want to screw it up and do it wrong by skipping something that was vital... know for sure I will be doing phase 1 for a week anyway after that not sure.

I'm with you, I really want to get it right. I like Capricious' answer. (In a totally off topic aside, I thought you might enjoy the fact that I got a letter in the mail today from a man and wife who are friends of a woman I met on the street about 5 months ago. They wanted to know if they could use the services of my male [unaltered] dog? Moral dilemma here. Am I cut out to be a pander for a Papillon?) :D:D

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Originally Posted by capricious (Post 4139037)

Jennydoodle & 2ride- my two cents for the phasing... If you are phase 1ing after a free day or you are within five pounds of goal then just phase 1, have a phase very strict phase 3 day after you are back in your 'window' (as this is so close to ph. 4 anyway) and back to your regular maintenance. 2ride for 10 it might be best to do a mini run through the phases. Stay in Phase 1 until you are in your window then a couple days of Phase 2 and a week of Phase 3 if you can swing it. Considering that we are so close to the holidays and it would be nice for you to be able to enjoy Christmas day maybe take a free day that day and go back to Phase 1 after? And continue that into the New Year? I don't know if you had a chance to read about the rainbow diet that I mentioned on here earlier but I did really think about you and darbs. The creator of the diet mentioned that many times when a person loses a significant amount of weight utilizing a low calorie diet that at the end they will gain weight even though they are still following the diet to the letter and it has something to do with an imbalance of water in the body. As well, coffee is a diuretic and you may be unintentionally dehydrating your body, I know you drink copious amounts of water but it can be hard for your body to use it when the coffee is forcing it all out before it can be properly utilized. Just food for thought... you have been so strong and done so well, you completely deserve the peace of mind of having your weight stabilize...
Maile- I loved the image that your description of teachers adorned as something akin to a Christmas tree brought to mind. I bought a Christmas baking for gifts mini cookbook yesterday and was looking through it salivating and the thought that came to my mind is that this is not something I should be looking at. I'd also bought a diabetic christmas special cookbook and did I ever feel a whole lot less guilty looking at that. I'm not diabetic but the cookbooks are very well suited to maintenance as they are all low in sugar and as healthy as a macaroon can get. I believe in karma, that what goes around comes around and if I give away a bunch of high sugar, high fat christmas treats the universe will see fit that they come back to me somehow :p
lynsey- good for you for taking up running! Are you enjoying it?
I don't know if anyone has tried zumba... but I have always wanted to. Finally ordered the new set of dvds off ebay and I love it. Working out for an hour feels a lot more like fun and a lot less like work. Still feel it the next day which I take as a good sign and it was cute to watch my little ones bop their heads and bounce around with me :)

Thanks Cap that helps a lot... I am going to have to read the rainbow diet, hopefully can before too soon. oh don't say the karma thing, I always give away homemade goodies at Christmas.... not good... so far this year most of them are made with peanut butter... do you think I missed something for the last 10 months... one of my friends gave me a great website, called foodgawker and it also has a sister called craftgawker... I can spend hours and hours on there...:D:D

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Originally Posted by Linden (Post 4139092)

That is a good question, I have been through the whole mess of having puppies and such and even though I love them, I don't think I would do it again. I now generally just have female dogs(spayed) as easier to train... not that Red dog is trained I think she just slowly trained me to be at her beck and call... same with the old girl Jewel... who I might add is getting real bad at that, as she INSISTS that I am at her beck and call... the cutest (also maddening) thing she does is she goes downstairs while I am upstairs and stands at the bottom of the stairs and barks for me to come and get her and when she hears me coming she goes and lays down... I know she is just telling me to come spend time with her but I really do have things to do...
You will have to let me know what you decide.

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Originally Posted by capricious (Post 4139037)

Thank you. This is exactly what I did today. I hit my ceiling # and went on P1 for a day and I am back in my window. As I mentioned, I think it was an adverse reaction to something that I was eating, because I was still following the guidelines of maintenance.

As a side note, I was told that if you need to go on P1 for an extended period of time (a couple of weeks or more), you need to re-phase out. I asked because I am thinking that I might try to get down to 125 after the holidays which would have me on P1 for a few weeks. My coach said that I would need to do P2 and P3 again. She said I could probably get away with doing only 1 week of each, but they should be done nonetheless.

But like Cap & Maile advised, if you only need a day or 3 to get back to your window, P1 then P3 and then back to maintenance. After my free day on Thanksgiving, I actually did P1 day, P2 day and then P3 day. And it's funny, my weight didn't drop back into my window until after the P3 day.

Oh, and just to comment on weight tracking and calories and all that. I have been sticking fairly close to P3 during the week and eating more maintenance style with some flexibility on the weekends. I still write down everything I eat, but I eat the typical P3 breakfast, the same lunch I have been doing since I started (a big salad with lots of veggies and 8 oz. of lean protein & good seasons dressing), I still eat a bar in the mid-afternoon (either Detour or Pure Protein) and I drink a protein shake after my run or crossfit workout (EAS). Most times, dinner during the week is pretty much the same as lunch and sometimes I will throw in a small sweet potatoe or some rice or beans. But typically I find that I do not need (or want it). Then on the weekends I give myself a little more flexibility and usually enjoy the evening carb, especially if we go out to dinner. This seems to work very well for me and I find that I am full and satisfied.

Hi, I'm jumping in this thread because I will be in maintenance after 1 more week of phase 3.
I read Dr. Tran's book and I also went to his website and did a bunch of reading there. From what I understand, every year after the holidays, you should go through all of the phases. It should reset your pancreas and also get you out of what our bodies normally do during cold months, which is store fat, especially women. 2 weeks of phase 1 (or longer if you set a new goal), 2 weeks of phase 2, 2 weeks of phase 3, and then jump back into maintenance. After a "cheat" day, you do phase 1 for one day, then go back to maintenance the following day. You can do phase 1 for up to three days without having to go through the other phases after. I'm not sure if I read that in the stickies or in Dr. Tran's information, so please don't hold me to that as fact. Heck, I may have even read that in the beginning of one of the "maintance" threads.
I look forward to popping in here while on maintenance. I owe this site a great deal of credit because my "coaches" weren't all that. I also plan to run through the phases sometime after the beginning of the year. I needed a break, mentally and physically. My hair and my skin need a chance to catch up to the fast weight loss I've experienced.

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Originally Posted by capricious (Post 4139037)

lynsey- good for you for taking up running! Are you enjoying it?
I don't know if anyone has tried zumba... but I have always wanted to. Finally ordered the new set of dvds off ebay and I love it. Working out for an hour feels a lot more like fun and a lot less like work. Still feel it the next day which I take as a good sign and it was cute to watch my little ones bop their heads and bounce around with me :)

I do like to run and was happy to be back into it. I also love dvds so I will be adding those in a little too. I have every Jillian Micheals video because I like her a lot and she really makes you work for very short amounts of time. I also like Turbo Jam because it's super fun. We had a lady teaching Zumba for 6 weeks at my girls' dance studio and I made it to some of the classes and had a ball! I'm hoping after the holidays she'll think about coming back because that was April or May and I hadn't lost all this weight yet. I bet it's even more fun now!

Speaking of working out, if I want to keep running even a couple days a week to keep some sort of routine once I go back to phase 1 in January, will that be ok? I was always scared to workout during the first couple of phases but I will only have a third of the weight to lose so maybe that would help it along? If I'm going to have to deal with the "starvation" thing again I will just skip it. Not worth it!

I'm kinda implementing the "ceiling" thing already. It's horrible not having any control over the gain I had this week, that's fo sho!

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Originally Posted by Paint Lady (Post 4139144)

I read Dr. Tran's book and I also went to his website and did a bunch of reading there. From what I understand, every year after the holidays, you should go through all of the phases. It should reset your pancreas and also get you out of what our bodies normally do during cold months, which is store fat, especially women. 2 weeks of phase 1 (or longer if you set a new goal), 2 weeks of phase 2, 2 weeks of phase 3, and then jump back into maintenance. After a "cheat" day, you do phase 1 for one day, then go back to maintenance the following day. You can do phase 1 for up to three days without having to go through the other phases after.

This makes a lot of sense. Thanks so much for sharing.

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Originally Posted by Paint Lady (Post 4139144)

Thank you for this! Now that you mentioned it all, I think I remember reading that in the book as well.

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Originally Posted by JellyMae87 (Post 4138545)

I cant wait to be there!! I miss me some Popcorn :0)

Wow....just saw your stats....so congrats to you! You were the same starting weight as my daughter (age 22)...I will pass your awesome success along...what is your current clothing size? I need to encourage her. Congrats congrats congrats

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Originally Posted by darbs7 (Post 4139355)

Honestly I just a "guestimate" I think that Im almost in a size 15/16 in jeans... Tops are a little different. Mostly a 1x and some XL. I feel like I am always inbetween sizes...

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Originally Posted by Linden (Post 4139092)

Of course! There is no such thing as too many Papillons in the world.

Did you see the "stupid animal video" of the big English bull dog meeting his daughter for the first time? He was massive and looked like Winston Churchill. The puppy was probably less than 5 pounds but already knew who was boss. She snarled at him and he jumped right back.
So if you think your dog can handle the perils of fatherhood, go for it.

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Originally Posted by capricious (Post 4139053)

Thanks Cap! I think the idea of a ceiling is a great idea. I bought some Emerald Almonds and find myself eating way too many. I have to get the portion thing under control. Enjoyed 1/2 orange and 1/2 of a pear today along with sweet potato oven fries tonight. It is fun to add fruit back into my diet.

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Originally Posted by patns (Post 4139363)

It's true. The world could use more pure joy in living, more kinetic energy.

Can my little one handle fatherhood. Will he stop thinking Andy the 19-year old cat is a partner? OMG, this is SO OFF TOPIC. ( It's 2:63 am here and I'm the only one who isn't ill; and I'm punchy. So I hope I'm excused.)
Ur, that was 2:53.