IP Daily Chat Thursday 03/22/2012
 

Welcome back to the Daily Chat thread - post your plans for today, share what's been happening, ask questions!

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TOM = time of the month
WI = Weigh-in
WF = Walden Farms
OP = on program

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Happy Thursday Everybody

Today is going to be close to 80 degrees ... I just may put on a pair of shorts and try to get some color on these bright white legs of mine.

Summer is coming, time to start shedding clothes, so lets shed those pounds!

I hope everyone has a great OP day today.

Good Morning everyone! This week is going by pretty fast. I'm anxious for weigh in tomorrow. Even though I weigh every day, I still get anxious for the "official" results.

Hope everyone has a great OP day!

Morning everyone, not overly happy with my weight loss this week;( I expected my second week weigh in to be more, especially seeing some other peoples loss for the second week. I know everyone is different, but a little discouraging. Keeping on track today and trying for a better number this week. I am not going to weight train this week, although I only trained twice this past week, but I will try none and see what happens. Have a great OP day everyone, looks like it is going to be record high temps in Ontario today;) Love that!

Weigh in with trainer on Wednesday WI#1 -7(a day earlier) WI#2 -2
Weigh in at home Thursday morn. WI#1 -8.6 WI#2 -1.6

HaPpY SnApPy ThUrSdAy!
Here's hoping everyone has a great day! Feeling great!
Smile, love and laugh!

Good morning all,
I read Dr. Chanh's book (found in opening message of this thread, see the last link for free download). It is interesting, I learned a lot, and because of it, I tightened up my Phase 1 diet in the past 2 days. (Unofficially, through at home weigh ins, I also lost 2 more pounds in 2 days, as of this morning.) While being motivated to stay on phase 1, this has really strengthened my determination.

I read a little each day for 3 days - I wholeheartedly recommend reading this. It's so much easier to stay on this when you understand the theory behind it.

Wishing all a happy, healthy IP day!

Happy Thursday.
I stayed OP yesterday, but switched all the food around. Had a lunch meeting at work - should have brought my own protein and veg but didn't (I tend to eat my protein for lunch at work and packet for dinner at home) and they had fried chicken tenders. Picked off all the coating - didn't leave me with much chicken for the effort. :p put that on a salad and used WF dressing. I got home from work early, but was really hungry so ate some of the protein I'd taken to work for lunch with veg and a pudding packet, then was STILL hungry, so ate the chocolate pancake packet made into a muffin in the microwave - I wasn't really happy with how that came out - is is better in the oven?
Then I took a nap, lol. Got up drank a ton of water and went to bible study, had the rest of my protein on a nice salad w/ lots of good veg and finally felt better.
What a wierd day, but all's well that ends well, I guess.
That's been my hardest day on IP since I started... day 11.

Hoping today is smoother!

Any loss is a great loss!!!! It is that much less that you are carrying around on your body this week than you were last week.


Maybe this will make you look at it differently:




Hello, do you know me?
If you don't, you should. I'm a pound of fat,
And I'm the HAPPIEST pound of fat that you would ever want to meet.
Want to know why?
It's because no one ever wants to lose me;
I'm ONLY ONE POUND, just a pound!
Everyone wants to lose three pounds, five pounds, or fifteen pounds, but never only one.
So I just stick around and happily keep you fat.
Then I add to myself, ever so slyly, so that you never seem to notice it.
That is, until I've grown to ten, twenty, thirty or even more pounds in weight.
Yes, it's fun being ONLY ONE POUND OF FAT, left to do as I please.
So, when you weigh in, keep right on saying, "Oh, I only lost one pound."
For you see, if you do this, you'll encourage others to keep me around because they'll think I'm not worth losing.
And, I love being around you - your arms, your legs, your chin, your hips and every part of you.
Happy Days!!!
After all, I'm ONLY ONE POUND OF FAT!!!
- Author Unknown


I have printed this off and have it hanging at me desk at work, and taped it to the door above the scale.

Chin up, your body will adjust and it will begin to melt off. :hug:

Almost 11 lbs in two weeks. That is great. Most of the postings show a much higher WI 1 than 2. Keep it up!

Happy Thursday all.
I have decided it's time for a little reward and will schedule myself a facial. My other non-food rewards are simple but help me feel good:
-bought a body exfoliant and used it for the first time this morning
-got a Clarisonic and use it twice a day
-had a consultation at the Clinique counter for some eye make-up (the application is a little challenging because of poor eye sight. I'm not sure I'll have the time after Spring Break).
You guessed it, it's all about skin. I'll hold off on the clothes until I get closer to where I want to be.
Have a great day:hug:

Good morning everyone! I got to change my avatar today! That is always fun. Getting ready to go on vacation saturday so I have been busy planning what products to take. I plan on staying 100% OP.
I can't wait to feel the sunshine, we are going to San Antonio and I am so excited!
I hope everyone has a great day!

good morning everyone! so yesterday was a trying day for me. i finally really felt the hunger pangs and i gave in, i had 1 ritz cracker. I feel so bad and you are all the first to know. that was in addition to my extra packet of IP food i had yesterday. I really hope i didnt just mess everything up.

Angie,
My thought is to use the guilt and disappointment to become even more determined to stay totally on the program.

The damage is done, although Dr. Tran Chanh (IP Diet founder) says in his book if you have a slip up, be sure the next day you absolutely adhere to the program. Perhaps reading the book or a few sections of it might be helpful. The free download is available at the last link of the IP Daily thread intro message.

Angie773, it is a new day you can do it. I cannot tell you how much better I feel when I am on this diet. All the processed foods are out of my system and I have energy, my skin looks good and I feel good.

Good morn All!
I had my WI yesterday and I lost another 2lbs. And my coach told me I am averaging 3.5lbs a week so I am happy about that. I did try the BBQ chip things..omg.. LOVE! I haven't had anything but the bars, which I love too so excited to try new things... on to week 4! :) Starting to notice a difference in how I look in my clothes, no one else can but I can. My fiance noticed when he wraps his arms around me that they are over lapping more and more :D and of course the dreaded skin sag and squishness :( but I'm ok with that... just lop it off later! :D lol