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Good morning, all!! Work for a few hours this morning, then another two days off!!
Hope everyone has a great week!

Yeah for 2 days off Susie! I'm working today and then doing a 1/2 day tomorrow and off Wednesday. I hate holidays in the middle of the week - just throws my whole schedule off.

Suzie, what kind of dog is in your profile picture? He's cute under that blanket. Looks like you will make your NYE challenge. Congratulations on your steady weight loss. DLR

Day 4! Feeling much better today than yesterday. Still a bit of muscle fatigue but I'm definitely on the up and up. Lost another pound! Only two more to Onederland! Had a huge craving for sushi last night. I hadn't considered that I can't have Sushi on plan but I got some yellowtail sashimi instead. It was served on a big bed of romaine with cucumbers and it was delicious! Hope everyone has an awesome Monday!

Good Morning yall! I had dinner at my parents last night. She salted with regular salt. I woke up this morning and my face was so puffy I just had to laugh. Oh how my body responds to food these days...

You can always have mock sushi too - I make it all the time because I love sushi. Rice up some cauliflower and use that instead, just mix with a little olive oil and rice wine vinegar so it's sticky enough and enjoy!

That's a great idea! Thanks!

Hi All and wishes for a Happy IP New Year!

See a lot of new names and participants! Welcome all, and keep your stories and success coming. The inspiration to everyone is priceless!

We are settling back in after much-much ...tooooo much travel and upheaval recently. Husband back to work today..;)....for at least a half day. He has not been able to be on site at his office more than a few hrs since early November, and I need him to get back in his groove! Mine has been seriously jiggled with all the events, back to back travel and him at the kitchen table with his laptop open!:book2: :comp:

It's good to be home and have the freedom to shop for my own veggies, and plan meals that we like and are part of our lifestyle. No serious damage done to maintenance in all of this which is good...!! But the thing about habits...is you are a prisoner to new habits. The anxiety created when you feel less (not LOST) control over things is pretty overwhelming!

We are planning a nice simple seafood dinner for New Years Eve on my new Cuisinart Griddler Elite which has a sear feature. It wasn't a Christmas gift. Actually bought it the day before my mother passed away in early November, but have only been home enough to use it once since then. We did fresh tuna...and WAY over cooked it...just 2 min of sear was too much! We will try grilling portobello mushrooms on it as well tomorrow, and maybe zuchinni strips. Anyone else have one? What do you do with yours? (Will skip doing steak on it though, since that is something it's just as easy to go out for until we can fire up the outside grill again.)

Off to laundry, more unpacking and cleaning some of the dust from every surface in this house. :exercise:Plus the gym...:ebike:

Nice to see so many new faces along with the familiar friends...Again...Happy New Year to all.

:val2:And thanks for your love and support these last 2 months.

:hug: to you during this time. I lost my Mom very recently and having great difficulty with everything.

Take good care of yourself :hug:

So nice to see/hear from so many bright and cheery faces as we approach the new year. 65X65, it is wonderful to see you back. Fingers crossed that life returns to some semblance of routine and calm for you.

I know that having the home routine change can be threatening to discipline and mean plans. We have our 19 year old home and oh my, bite my tongue!

However, I seem to have ameliorated the daily life which has been challenging for two months as I could not seem to truly get back on track after having kids home and visiting. I joined a gym and this provides me two benefits. Obviously, it helps me get healthier although at this point I am such a newbie that I am just working on the treadmill, elliptical, and bike. The other benefit is that this is MY TIME. I relax in a long hot shower afterwards, get an herbal tea, sit in a big soft leather chair and read magazines before I go back.

I think that is part of it - learning to take care of oneself without ask permission for the time or the focus. It is not only my family role (mother, wife, home organizer, whatever) that kept me from this, but my upbringing.

Our family is full of powerful women but we were all raised with a sort of Puritan outlook that vanity and pride in oneself were not to be allowed. Duty was a HUGE part of our lives and fulfilling that role was where one received praise.

So I have made it to the gym everyday except Christmas and have done at least 1/2 hour of hard cardiac exercise. That seems to have then just madet he food plan fall into place. I look at whatever I am contemplating eating and remember how hard I have to exercise if I eat it.

Good morning everyone! So glad to be back home. Had 4 or 5 pretty "bad" eating days over the last week and I'm up 3.8 lbs this morning. I'm not going to stress too much over it but I'm regretting agreeing to go out NYE for a fancy dinner. Should have convinced DH to stay in that night so I can stay OP all week before my WI on Friday.

Congrats to those who stayed OP through Christmas. You rule! IP Power to those of us who need to get back 100%!

Good morning all! Having a cup of coffee then getting ready to hit the mall! My goal is to find a dress or outfit for tomorrow. Then I have to run to SAMs and get my nails done. Gonna be a busy one. ;)

Morning everyone! Still off today - last day of a hockey tournament for my son, yay...I'll be so happy to not be in an arena for a while :D

Spent last night at a hotel in the city with a waterslide park so the boys could have some fun. It was a late night and I was up early for some strange reason. Definitely will be dragging tomorrow when I'm back at work!

I start P3 on Wednesday - Happy New Year to me! Have a shopping list of ingredients ready to go for breakfasts, still a little intimidated by it all though :dizzy:

Happy Monday!

Jo

I guess this is just me venting but... I just scanned a shake packet with the app MyFitnessPal, only to find they contain 20g carbs (all sugar!) each! No wonder the stupid things taste so good! For a second I felt like the chick on the movie Mean Girls when she realized the "diet" bars were actually weight gain bars and wanted to vomit. LOL. Sorry... I am definitely grabbing some "snack" sized ziploc bags and packaging some of the other shakes for the rest of the week.

Guess this is my reminder to read labels very carefully. I had ordered the Optifast 800 shakes thinking they were super low cal and foolishly made the assumption they were primarily protein, minimal carb. Boy was I wrong!

As a side note, the more time I spend on here reading, the less this ridiculous hunger bothers me. Reading about all of you and your success, seeing before/during/after photos, is all motivating and drives the craving for food away. Thank you all!

Good Morning...or almost afternoon. I am on day 5 of IP, so having the standardized menu that I was given. Since we are all on break (4 kids and hubby), we have all been staying up late and sleeping in. I've been having my breakfasts really late, so I'm about to go make my Maple Oatmeal packet. So far so good on the foods. Some I like, some I won't get again if it's my choice. My family is being really supportive.

I had a headache the first day or so, but that's gone. My legs are feeling sore, but I don't know if that's because of IP or not. I'm one of those people that weighs themselves several times a day when on a diet...so I probably need to go put that in the attic or something. But, I do know that I have lost a few pounds for sure and I'm excited for my weigh-in on Thursday.

Officially over the weight loss hump!!!
Just passed my halfway point, 48 lbs down, 47 lbs to go!!
17lbs to Onederland!!
Hit my 20 lb goal for the xmas challenge!!
I am definitely looking forward to the New Year!!!

Saw my endo today. The cortisone shot for my hips probably messed up my thyroid because the dye they used had iodine in it. Plus I need to stop using iodized salt as well. I have Graves Disease and my T4 was a bit high. So making some changes to avoid iodine and see what happens. I have not been symptomatic so it makes me think it was the shots.

Last family Christmas thing. This time my side of the family and my Dad is buying pizza. It is not until 7, so I will eat before and just socialize. No biggie.

Good afternoon. I'm fairly new to the forum, but have been on the IP program for a while. I've got 16lbs before I reach my goal, and need the motivation and self-discipline to make the final push to goal. The holidays have been a challenge, but I've been able to maintain (mostly).

I just had this exact same problem! I ordered a variety pack of bars from the Balanced Protein Diet and after eating one I started to feel grouchy and tired (which is the effect sugar has on me) I went online and checked the ingredients and they all have Fructose and Maltodextrin in the bars and Sugar in the coating.

It said they were sugarfree! I am going to be more diligent about the labels from now on.

AliExpat, Hooray!! Congrats on your amazing accomplishment. Losing weight before the new year and getting the weight off before shorts and swimsuit season is very inspirational.

I noticed a world of difference 20 lbs makes horseback riding after not being on for a few weeks. Riding is about balance and feeling balanced exudes confidence. The same is true in life. I am looking forward to experiencing life and riding at my goal weight. Or even when I get below 163, my lowest weight in more than 20 years and a mini goal.

It's called an Alaskan Klee Kai. He's a miniature husky. I have two and my parents have one. Our own little dog sled team! :p

Weigh in tomorrow to see if I lost the 0.8 needed to reach the challenge, then onto the spring challenge!

Well I'm back! Found 3 pairs of jeans and a pair of pants at old navy. Officially a size 12 :D found two shirts and a dress at sears for tomorrow. Also a size 12 :)
Some sassy red heels to go with and I m set.

I'm beat! Lol but it was nice

Woohoo Nolasmurf! Size 12s...fun! Congrats!

Congrats AliExpat! You can (continue to) do it!

:carrot::carrot::carrot::carrot:

Dancing carrots for everyone... Even though we cat eat carrots :)

IP POWER!

WF Chocolate Dip
 

So my sweet husband just went to the store and bought me a few more WF items to try. He got the chocolate dip because he knows I've been sort of craving chocolate with all the sweets around. Opened it up and tried a little bit and it tasted kind of awful plain. At least to me. I tried looking thru some of the recipe links but I'm finding them hard to search thru when you're looking for something specific. Any tips for searching and also any tips for doing anything with the chocolate dip? I'm making the chocolate pancakes tomorrow and will probably do them as muffins. Was thinking his might go good with that, but now I'm not so sure!

Terrific job!! That's fantastic.

What a cutie!!! Good luck tomorrow - you will do great.

That's fantastic - you did great!!

You work you sassy ms. thing!!! I cant wait for 12s but let me get to 14s first!

nolasmurf: :broc:

sashadee: You're so pretty!

How do you figure out how many net carbs somethng has/
 

Ok how do you calculate how many net carbs a possible Alt. restricted bar has?

I am not sure how to figure this out (it has been posted but I cant fnd the darn thing) any help would be appreciated

Net carbs = total carbs - fiber

Thank you soooooooo much!!!

so if something has for example 20 carbs and 1 g of fiber it would be a total of 19 net carbs = super restriced or NON ip compliant right>?

Only 2nd posting-just introduced myself this morning on the newbie thread
 

RaggeRN- for lowest carb shakes, get the IP pudding packets and make into a shake. I make a double batch in the blender some mornings and save half for lunch, which thickens up nicely by then. Lots of combos: IP vanilla pudding with pumpkin pie spice and/or sf pumpkin pie syrup; IP cappacino + IP choc pudding + coffee (double serving)... Lots of ideas on the recipe stickies.

Family had burgers for dinner and I had the Big Mac salad. Forgot that it's pretty good, especially with extra pickles and raw onions. :)

day 1
 

Well day 1 is about over. I was pretty hungry most of the day. I split my salad and soup for lunch by 2 hrs because i was hungry early, and was famished by 430. I went to the grocery store and thought "i can just buy a small chicken thigh from the deli and then decrease my protein at supper. Well i automatically grabbed the fried chicken(old habits are hard to die, i guess). I was pretty much done with it(actually inhaled it i was so hungry) when it dawned on me there is carbs in this! I feel like i wasted my day!! I guess we will see what happens....:mad:

WF Chocolate Dip
 

Does anyone have any tips or recipes for using the WF Chocolate Dip? My husband bought me some today (since he knew I was craving chocolate with all the sweets laying around) but I tried a taste and wasn't too thrilled with it. But I want to use it somehow. Please share any ideas!

I use small medicine or Jell-O shot cups. Freeze a layer of chocolate syrup, then freeze a layer of Carmel syrup and then another of chocolate. It's like a frozen rolo bar. All u need is one when u crave chocolate

I also add it to my shakes. Makes it a little more chocolatey.

Thank you! Does that work with the chocolate dip or the sauce? This is the dip that I'm talking about.

You just made my day!

Good (very early) morning!

I feel like I wake up at the crack of dawn on my days off, but when my alarm goes off on days I work I struggle to get out of bed lately.

My parents are still here visiting and we are having a few family friends over for NYE. It should be a pretty quiet night. :)

Hope everyone has a wonderful New Year and is able to avoid anything that's not OP. :)

I have to weigh in for the NYE challenge so I will post my final results once I'm not too comfortable to get out of bed. :p

Hang in there Lindalou-you'll get the hang of it! The first few days really are the hardest while you adjust. As far as the chicken thigh - drink lots of water and don't let one slip turn into a big one, back OP with the next bite.

It really helps if you plan in advance for your food and carry spare packets with you (I keep them everywhere including my purse, car, desk, dh's car, etc.).

The first few days you can have an extra non-restricted packet if you need it to help with the hunger. Also, try eating lots of lettuce or a couple of hard boiled egg whites or a dill pickle spear. I find hot decaf tea helps me feel fuller too - something about hot drinks just makes you feel less hungry.

It really is a habit you have to get into - thinking about everything you put in your mouth. But really, you'll do great!

Well, results are in... down 19.8 for the NYE challenge. Not going to worry about 0.2 lbs. :)

Onto the Spring Challenge!!