Hello fellow ipers!
My life hasn't gotten ridiculously hectic in the past 1 1/2 weeks, so I haven't been able to post, but I really want to share my experience so far with phase 3, as I loved reading about other's experience through the phases, so here it goes:
- For the first 3 days I had a hard time consuming that much food. The volume was just so much more than I was used to, so I eliminated coffee if necessary so I wouldn't be so full so quickly.
- YOGURT: I went to whole foods and bought individual little cups of about 5 different kinds of plain yogurt to try them out. I highly suggest doing that. Also I don't think you should worry about it being non fat. I think low fat is good too, as long as you don't have other high sources of fat. For me, the most important criteria when buying the yogurt was the carb content.
- BANANAS- I'm unsure whether I developed an allergy for bananas, or they threw me out of ketosis rather violently, or what! but the fourth day of phase 3 I ate (or tried to) mix a banana with my yogurt and my face got really hot and red, and my face and scalp got tingly, so I stopped eating it. Though bananas used to be one of my fave fruits, I"m not sure I can brave it again anytime soon.
WEIGH IN - My weigh in after the first week of phase 3 was a positive one. I lost 1.5 lbs. I haven't weighed at all after that day, so I don't know if the trend has continued during this week.
VARIETY- Although I have had yogurt some days, I definitively had eaten many other things during my breakfasts, as many have mentioned before, I guess the important thing is not to go over the magic numbers 50/15/25
STAPLE BREAKFAST FOODS: These are the things I've been eating -in different combinations- to hit those numbers: Ezekiel sprouted whole grain english muffins, organic valley cream cheese spread, almond breeze unsweetened vanilla milk, whole foods organic light string cheese, fry's vegan hot dogs, turkey bacon, organic valley egg whites, low fat cottage cheese, yogurt (chobani, fage, oikos, etc), honey nut & morning O's. For fruit: apples, strawberries, grapefruit.
I hope this info is helpful. I will be checking in again hopefully at the end of my second week of phase 3.
Good luck all!
Thank you so much for sharing that with us!!! You have made very good, clean selections with your breakfast options. Congrats on the continued losses... may I ask, do you workout?
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Originally Posted by sandyh50
I'm taking pictures, I am trying to show a before and after.
I did my first WI after staring Ph 3. I am down another 2 lbs in Ph 3! That's amazing to me especially since I had not lost anything in the 2 weeks prior. I think my body needed a change.
Anyway, I need to hop on the maintainer thread. I'm pretty frustrated with my coach. I had a bunch of Ph 4 questions and she couldn't answer any of them! The Ph 4 information, in my opinion, is vague. I've also read through the stickies to get more info and i'm not seeing answers.
If anyone here knows the answers to my questions below, please let me know.
In phase 4, what are the guidelines for....
1. Can I really have any veggie I want - including beets, carrots, etc??
2. Can i have some fruit in salads? Most places include apples, pears or craberries in salads and I miss them.
3. Can I have balsamic vinegar and red wine vinegar again?
In phase 4, what are the guidelines for....
1. Can I really have any veggie I want - including beets, carrots, etc??
2. Can i have some fruit in salads? Most places include apples, pears or craberries in salads and I miss them.
3. Can I have balsamic vinegar and red wine vinegar again?
Hi. I think the answer to all your questions is yes but with a qualification. No fruit or other carbohydrates at lunch except what you get from vegetables and salad. And the other hard and fast (sort of) rule is no fats for dinner and the carbs should be complex, not refined as in bread. Hope this helps. I am really new to 4 as well but think I've got this right. And if I didn't, I'd love to be corrected.
Paint Lady, there's one other component, at least on the sheet I have, that might make answering your question easier. I had the same question. My sheet says no more than 50 carbs total for breakfast. So if you have 180 g of nonfat milk with 8.64 g of carbs, you have to carve those grams out of what you would have had in grains or fruit, or both. And, also my interpretation, there's no need to eat all 50 grams for breakfast each day. If I'm wrong on this, would someone please chime in?
Thank you for answering this! Definitely makes it easier to understand.
I'm taking pictures, I am trying to show a before and after.
Lookin good! What a difference a "few" months makes!
My head cold finally seems to be getting better but now my oldest daughter and husband are where I was last week. I'm still battling it but nothing like they are.
I was up a little this morning at 150.2 but that's fine, as long as it doesn't go up much more.
I struggled shopping for phase 3 yesterday. I had my husband and kids with and I was reading EVERYTHING for what seemed to me like forever and they were getting antsy so I know they were annoyed too. I couldn't find anything I had on my list but I had written nutritional info to compare and I think I got pretty close. I will be bringing some of the things to work and leaving it there so I don't have to get up so early I think. I have a test Monday and finals next week so I don't have a lot of time to worry about making sure I have the numbers just right so I'm kinda freaking. I think I will write the name of all the products I bought and plug them in at work to see what I can have with what. I'm going to make this work! I have to admit, it was much easier grabbing the shakes, bars and veggies and getting out the door.
Where do you find this Ezikiel bread?
Last edited by ItsAboutTime; 12-04-2011 at 09:26 AM.
Hi. I think the answer to all your questions is yes but with a qualification. No fruit or other carbohydrates at lunch except what you get from vegetables and salad. And the other hard and fast (sort of) rule is no fats for dinner and the carbs should be complex, not refined as in bread. Hope this helps. I am really new to 4 as well but think I've got this right. And if I didn't, I'd love to be corrected.
I really like your explanation of phase 4, you just made it easier for me when I go on phase 4 next week.
Thanks for all the compliments on my before and after pics. I actually am the Fiskmas elf today at my crafting community. If you want to see a VERY SHORT video of me here it is: http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2011/...if-fisk-a-mas/
REbecca even acknowledged my 50 pound weight loss. If people email me I will tell them about Ideal Protein.
Thanks for all the compliments on my before and after pics. I actually am the Fiskmas elf today at my crafting community. If you want to see a VERY SHORT video of me here it is: http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2011/...if-fisk-a-mas/
REbecca even acknowledged my 50 pound weight loss. If people email me I will tell them about Ideal Protein.
Hi Sandy. The picture loads but the video gives an error message. Sorry. This looks as though it would be fun.
Ok, so I have a question, I don't have my sheets her because I was looking at them at work the other day but I swear it said something about subtracting fiber from carbs. Was I dreaming this?
Also, I got everything written down that I bought and I wrote the carbs, cals, prot, fat, and fiber so it will be a nice cheat sheet to have. I have everything on there except fruit because I didn't want to buy that until it gets closer. I'm thinking I'll get oranges and bananas because I'm not an apple fan and can't stand blueberries or grapefruit and there really isn't a lot in season right now. Any other ideas?
Lynsey, great job on the scale staying down. You can buy frozen berries and use those on your yogurt. This morning I had a plum with my 1 egg, 2 whites, and 3 pieces of turkey bacon, and 2 slices of toast.
I heard that too about using net carbs, I think it was my friend who gave me the sheets from her coach.
Hmmmm, I copied a sample menu on my handout sheet called "the all american" breakfast and I notiece that it did not have a dairy on it. all the other samples have milk or yogurt (I am not a milk drinker).
Ok, so I have a question, I don't have my sheets her because I was looking at them at work the other day but I swear it said something about subtracting fiber from carbs. Was I dreaming this?
Also, I got everything written down that I bought and I wrote the carbs, cals, prot, fat, and fiber so it will be a nice cheat sheet to have. I have everything on there except fruit because I didn't want to buy that until it gets closer. I'm thinking I'll get oranges and bananas because I'm not an apple fan and can't stand blueberries or grapefruit and there really isn't a lot in season right now. Any other ideas?
Hi ItsAboutTime, from the papers we were given from our clinic, you take the total carbs for the item subtract the fibre to get the net carbs and that is the total you would use. Bananas are a high carb fruit: carbs are 27 -3 fibre =24 net carbs.
Our clinic gave us some sheets with nutrition facts from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that are helpful if you can find them on the net, they are yellow and green, and there is a seafood, vegetable, and a fruit sheet.
