You know you're addicted to IP when...
 

...your doctor tells you you need antibiotics and you wonder if this will throw you off somehow.

...while discussing the commercialization of new drugs and their IP properties while at work you briefly wonder why the drugs would need a diet. And then you remember that IP can also stand for intellectual property.

...you cross your fingers and pray to whatever deity that appeals to you that the latest 0 0 0 item you've stumbled upon has sucralose and not aspartame.

...you get butterflies once a week. On weigh in day.

...the idea of making zucchini taste like baked apples is totally normal

I know I'll have more, but feel free to add your own!!

...coloured bell peppers fill you with confusion and indecision.

:D Indeed! :D Thanks - you made me chuckle. :hug:

....when it's freezing outside, but your addiction to the chocolate drink blended with ice wins out and you drink it anyway. Yum :)

...... You drive an hour to and from a store just to buy RHUBARB.

Haha - indeed! It's freezing here today but I'm having my chocolate mint mocha drink all blended up as we speak!!

......you come to this forum everyday! ;)

or even 5 + times a day :)

It's 103 degrees outside and you are eating Chicken Soup...

.....picking the carrots out of coleslaw mix ;)

- you have post-it notes on your refrigerator of acceptable snack ideas
- you have post-it notes on your refrigerator of acceptable Phase 3 breakfasts
- you have post-it notes on your refrigerator indicating that 7 oz raw=5.25
cooked
- you are in phase 3 and start to get excited when you go to sleep because the next meal is breakfast!
- you look in the mirror and think of the song " i'm too sexy for my ...."

I was feeling a little crabby today and this thread made me laugh out loud!
THANK YOU!!!!!

Bahahahahahahah - this made me laugh out loud. Just SEEING the fact sheet for Phase 3 had me salivating, all because of breakfast!!!

- when you can't stop cutting and pasting recipes into a file on your computer
- when you get excited over 'mock potato salad' using turnips and can't understand why your brother thought it was drek

When you go into a major funk doing today's veggie shopping because your local supermarket is all out of ZUCCHINI ! omg... what will I do? LOL. :D:p

..... you flip out on DH because he put the last cucumber in his salad.

you can't stop inventing recipes and get so excited at creating kale flatbread or rhubarb flatbread or zuchini flatbread....and want to tell people how great they are but they think you are nuts. and you don't care!

you go out to eat and get excited because the wait staff are willing to not put cheese in your salad, and add good vegees instead, and... because the owner of the restaurant happens to be on IP too, she brings you a WF packet!

I totally know that feeling!! just a rookie right now, but hope to have all these feelings and more :D

How do you make zuccini taste like baked apples????

:)

1 large zucchini
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 pinch salt
2 packets sweetener (like Truvia or Splenda)
1 tsp or more Apple Pie Spice (You can also make your own with recipe below)
1 tsp vanilla or 1 TB Starbucks Sugar-Free Vanilla Syrup

Directions:

1. Cut zucchini into circular disks, then cut in half to make apple slices
2. Toss together zucchini, lemon juice and salt. Place mixture into frying pan and cook until tender-crisp.

Note: If you are concerned about using so much lemon juice, you can cut it to 2TB. It will still taste great, but won't have a "syrupy" texture. Just make sure not to dry out when baking.

3. Midway through cooking the zucchini, add in the spices, sweetener, and vanilla.
4. Lightly spray a glass pie pan with cooking spray. Lay down the zucchini pies like a pie. Drizzle over the top any extra lemon juice.
5. Bake in oven at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 15-30 minutes until done. (taste at 15 min. Less time is crisp apple. More time is soft apple)

Note that the lemon juice can be quite strong. You can add a bit more sweetener to cut the sour. I use the Sugar-Free Vanilla syrup to raise the sweetness without the risk of too much of the sweetener packets.

Apple Pie Spice:
Ingredients:
•1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
•1/4 teaspoons ground nutmeg
•1/8 teaspoon ground allspice

You, guys, are great! It's so true and so funny.

A few more:

You see people on the street and mentally put them into "IP material" and "doesn't need a diet".
You know all restrooms on your way to work. You even know where's the key at each Rite Aid or Starbucks.
It's normal for your friend to text you at 3am in the morning with the question "How did you do on your weigh in?", because there's a time difference and nobody cares. You do the same for her.
You try to predict how much you can lose by the end of the month, then by the end of the week, then you divide by days. There's constant Math in your head.

lol all these things are so true!

You want to tell every friend you have that is overweight about IP

You see someone failing at another diet and can't shut your mouth about IP

You want to brag constantly about how much weight you've lost

Since my weigh ins are on saturday, I had a "great!" weekend if I had a good loss

Your cupboard is full of little silver packets.. and they're in order and organized..

You get mad at how the person you told about zucchini french toast gave you a disgusted look.. it's so good though..

You have tons of IP recipes and even duplicates all over your kitchen

Great thread!!!

-You feel guilty when you have communion at church
-The fridge door doesn't shut because there is too many veggies in there
-You have dreams about eating a certain food and feel bad about it the next morning
-You can discuss IP with someone on IP for hours and hours
-You google IP recipes constantly but always eat the same thing
-You carry your homemade salad dressing everywhere you go
-You fantasize all day about eating your «chocolate bar» for your evening snack

One more:

You find tons of WF products at Sprouts and text your coach, you sound like you've got a huge sale at Nordstrom

-you get used to explaining to the grocery clerk that, "It is a rutabaga"
-you spend an huge chunks of time reading labels
-you go on-line to check the menu before you go out to eat
-you wear your lightest-weight pants on weigh-in day

You even take off your watch on weigh-in day. lol

You can't wait to have spinach for your breakfast....smoothie.

or, 'it is celeriac' or turnips or ...you name it.

I wear the same lightest weight pants every WI! :D

You actually look forward to your frozen dark chocolate pudding every night! (I call it my ice cream)

..... when you obsess about whether or not to drink 1 oz of SKIM MILK!

..... when your absolutely rivetted to your computer, studying the archived IP receipe files for hours on end.

..... when checking out possible 000 food options becomes a favorite online hobby.

..... when you're no longer irritated by having to frequently pee - day or night. Instead you consider it a 'fat flush blessing'.

..... when you have to stop and think about how long ago you drank that last glass of water - and whether you can make it to the grocery store in time, before needing another pee break. (Thank goodness there's a BR at the grocery store, and you make a pitstop there a routine part of your grocery shopping routine these days :)

..... when you think that a glass of club soda with MIO and lots of crushed ice tastes just as good as a glass of wine... (really).

I LOVE THIS THREAD! I KEEP BELTING OUT LAUGHING!

You panic when you realize you forgot to buy more pancake mix and have only 1 packet left and immediately place a huge order for more so this can't possibly happen again (despite having boxes of oatmeal, crispy soy cereal, puddings, soy crisps, 8 boxes of soup...)

-when a vanilla shake mixed with coffee qualifies as your favorite breakfast and you swear it's better than Starbucks!

When you put WF pancake syrup, ginger, garlic, and hot peppers on shrimp and cauliflower, and call that a stir fry and feel like you're eating like a queen for dinner.

When you try to warn random people at your office that that jelly bean they're eating will throw them out of ketosis (like how could they not worry about that... Ooops)

when cauliflower actually tastes like mashed potatoes

-when people tell you you must be done dieting when you have lots left to lose :)

when you instantly change your BBM status or facebook status to a HUGE smiley face on weigh in day and then instantly get a million questions and are so proud to blurt out your results!

When you go out to eat and ask the waitress everytime she refills your drink "Is this unsweet tea" and you tell your DH "If she puts sweet tea in here ill hurt her"

When you have perfected the art of separating yolks from egg whites because you do that all the time to make something awesome from powder in those little silver packets that are so well organizes in your cupboard.

When you feel bad for your poor friends on weight watchers who eat all those 100 cal snacks and are still hungry all the time. He, he, but they insist that YOU have it all wrong...

When you stand at the kitchen sink with a spatula digging out the last of the butterscotch pudding out of your shaker. Oh, is that only me?

Nope! Me too :) Even into all those little grooves....

"No kids, it's not OK to lick the lid and the sides of the cup like Mommy does"...DON'T do that at Grandma's...she'll KILL me!!!

When DH is almost as fluent in "IP" as you are since you NEVER stop talking about it!