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Thank you for the information. There is a curves near to where I live. I live in small community. The only other option is a rec center. I do have a pass and they do have cybex weight machines. I wonder if I can formulate some type of circuit training with their machines.
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When you start out on IP, just losing lbs is enough for you. The joy..... When you get close to goal, you may need a miracle to look the way you feel if you have lost a significant amount of weight. And...If it DOES take a few weeks longer..your tighter muscles in legs, backside and arms will be worth it. There are posts from some who do not start exercising until the weight is gone.....you will need to make your own decision on that.I am not sure everyone is as happy with their goal weight when there is a lot of skin sagging. It affects how clothes fit and look. And honestly..it is hard to incorporate exercise into maintenance if you have never done much structured physical activity. Trust me....Maintenance takes all your marbles to work out what is going to work best for you! The exercise piece is mostly easier and you are better off if it is part of your life by then. |
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I hope everyone's restarts are going well! I approaching almost a week OP and feel great! I think once I pass the first few days it gets so much easier. If only those first two or three days weren't so hard! Good luck!
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I am doing fine food wise, but it will be easier when my food order gets here from Nashua nutrition. I am trying to avoid the scale until I get pattern established again.
everyone mentions how easy it is to fall back into old eating patterns. The truth is once you come out of ketosis it is so much harder. So this time I know I will have to eat a phase 2 plan except for special days and it is really import to have a phase 1 day right after any of those. Also I should have said special meals, not special days. or special months in the case of December! |
I knew having this fruit around and working it up would be a problem for me. Before someone suggests it - I do have the Beck book on order prior to this even, should be here in a day or two yet. A nibble of fresh fruit, a bite of it, a whole half, and the fruit led to other things ... a gateway sugar high led to more... it was a bad IP day. I am not nearly as drawn to dried fruit in the bags (and put away), as working them up from fresh. Although as bad as I felt physically and emotionally last night being fresh in my head - I know I'm back on plan today and will not cave (especially after admitting this outcome here) tonight working with the last of the fruit. Thankfully I don't have to be tested again until next year after tonight.
I have apple butter smelling up the house in a good way today. I will can that tonight. I have 1/2 a bucket of pears to blanch, cut, and dry - or can - or make pear butter out of. I'm thinking pear butter. Husband has taken the apples on, and the plums are completed drying and in the storage containers. I do want this weight off and get into maintenance asap - but I'm not going to beat myself over my crazy day yesterday. I'm back on plan, expecting a low loss or stay the same on my WI this week, and I'll probably be going back thru ketosis transition. Not good I went down this path - but good I'm back. I usually weigh daily to see trends, but the old process of "I don't want to know" was in high gear this morning and I didn't check it. I can see this is a problem for me and part of my denial even knowing my weight by all rights should have gone up - just unsure by how much. The book shipped yesterday - should be in the mail today or tomorrow if I'm lucky. I know using it as a door stop won't do me any good either. Time to try and work through this stuff when it arrives. Who knows, it may not be the solution for me either - but enough of you have really found some help there so I'll give it a more than fair shot. Until then - I'm back on IP plan. |
Halfagain- GOOD JOB on picking yourself up and continuing on IP!!!! That's what it is all about!! You got this!!! :carrot:
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Thanks KellyC. Today/tonight went as yesterday should have gone. No tastes, no nibbles. I got the apple butter canned and the very last pear into the crock pot for pear butter. DH asked me to taste a dried apple to see if it was done but I didn't fall for it! Bending the fruit was the approved test IMHO - and it was done.
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Hello everyone. :)
Well..... I'm back too. :o Things started going totally off the rails with my eating and the weight gain last fall.... I kept telling myself I'd start the next day... on Monday... next week... and meanwhile the pounds kept piling back on. I'm actually heavier right now than I was when I first started in 2012. (sigh) I've left my 'slim' picture in place for now, to help you recognize me... but as I certainly don't look 'slim and trim' these days, I'm going to take it down soon. Reading what everyone here has posted has really reinforced my decision to get with the IP program again. I'd already decided this weekend that I had to get serious with this again, and I ordered the alternatives I'll need to get started. I should receive my alternative products by Wednesday and I'm going to get started as soon as they arrive. While I wish none of us needed the 're-do' it is comforting to find some 'old friends' here again.:hug: |
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Hi all - it sure is nice to know I'm not alone! I lost 95 pounds from July 2012 until June 2013. After a few months on maintenance 5-10 pounds crept back on but I pretty much maintained that until around May of this year by basically eating low-carb. Then, I don't know what happened but I just starting testing my boundaries of food choices, and by August I was up about 35 pounds from my goal. I went back to my clinic and I'm about 10 pounds down but still want to get 20-25 pounds off. It's so scary how fast the weight can come back on, even when I was still watching what I ate about 75% of the time. It kind of makes me sad because I never really just went and ate what I REALLY wanted like sweets and bread. I know that if I had done THAT, I would have gained it all plus more back. So I know it will be a struggle the rest of my life to stay on track and keep this weight off. Coming here and reading all of your stories keeps me inspired and makes me want to stick with it. That's how I lost the 95 pounds the first time on IP and even though I don't post too much I'm here daily reading all of your posts. Thank you to everyone for sharing!
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Hi exactor: You do know, it isn't just about low carb, it's actually even more about dissociation of carbs & fats. One meal is higher 3:1 carb to fat; the other is 3:1 higher fat to carb grams. Works better than mixing it up low carb. Check out the maintenance stickies and threads for a bit of a retool ;) You can do this!
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I have realized that so much of losing weight and sticking to our diet depends on the mindset that we are in. Eating too many carbs just does something to my brain and gives me an "I don't care" attitude. I don't why that is but when I eat lower carbs I feel that I am in so much more control of what I eat. |
Hi everyone, although I am not new to IP I am new to posting on the forum. I started last Aug. and did great and lost 85lbs by June. Hit a plataue for a couple of months then there were family problems at the same time and gave up. Now I'm back up 15lbs and having a hard time getting back OP. Looking for some help to keep me on track I know the program works I think I just got frustrated with myself and lost the confidence
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quote "Eating low (or lower carb) worked really well for me. I would usually keep my carbs around 80 to 100 g per day. And as far as the cheat day, if I tried to do a cheat day I found that I was eating WAY too much food and then the next day I just couldn't do Phase I because it was so hard to stick to it and I just didn't want to. So I would do a cheat meal every one in a while but kind of pick and choose some items and not completely pig out. " True 'nuff! that's what most of us on the maintenance threads are doing anyhow... some who have just started are keeping their carbs even lower than that but a few of us are doing close to the same range ( I go slightly higher at 100-150 g after fibre subtraction - but I didn't have as much of a carb issue as a lot of others have had.) None of us even feel like doing a whole day of 'Funday" but do a Funmeal once in a while especially if there's an occasion. Maintenance (healthy weight from the get-go) is all about picking & choosing anyhow. No point in setting up cravings, alright! Good to know you got this figured out! I've noticed too, when others (not necessarily IP'ers) have complained about gaining weight due to 'excess carbs' they have been mixing them with the fats. After all, the really tempting foods are a combination of those things in higher amounts. And that can really set off cravings too (see the book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Moss - Sugar, Salt, Fat - How the Food Giants Hooked Us). Liana |
Exactor - you wrote it so well, just what I was going through with the carbs. I was so dedicated to following the plan (with a few one off days or meals though rare they happened in the last months), I couldn't believe getting back on plan was so hard. I tried several times to get back on plan, only to drop back into old habits within days. I just wanted to let you know I was in the same place you are describing. I honestly don't know what clicked the first time I started IP and got to goal - why that all the sudden worked for me (it was spur of the moment, unexpected that I would start ANY diet that time). After seeing coming back was not working for me I decided to take baby steps. The IP alternative brand packets I felt were the mental or physical issue for me to overcome (thinking a year at least again on them), so I allowed myself to come back in P2 instead. I figured at least I'd be controlling my carbs, and I lost in P2 when I weighed 190, I figured it should still work now. Anyway I know long story but in a nut shell, I appreciate you sharing your insight so well.
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Glad to see some other restarter experience. I have restarted today. I lost about 70 pounds between October 2012 and March 2013 and I have at this point gained it all back plus a lot. I am going to my doctor today so I'll have a starting weight... it is scary for me to be starting again but this is my last ditch effort before seriously considering WLS. Which I really, really don't want.
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I'm wondering how many restarters are using Beck Diet Solution.
Beck certainly helps me with my whole thought-process around weight loss/weight maintenance. And as we all know: https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8559/...fc2a819c_n.jpg |
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I have not posted in a LONG time. I joined in 2010 (september). I lost around 80 pounds from September 2010 to February of 2011 (size 18 to size 6, 250 to 167). I never maintained 167 for more than a few days, instantly in phase 4 went to around 173-175. I maintained that for about a year but had to do phase one constantly for a week or more at a time.
Then I slowly went to about 182-184 and maintained that for another year and a half or so, still doing phase 1 constantly. Stayed in size 8 for most of this (some were tight) Then the last 10 months of maintenance the scale shot up to about 205 (almost half of what I lost and I am wearing a size 12). I really have not done more than a day or two of phase one in a row for those 10 months. Today is the end of two perfect days of phase one (using alternatives). I have five years of IP experience and not sure what happened. I had such a grip for so many years and not sure what happened. I desperately want to get back to the size 8/10 range and drop 20 pounds or 25. I would like to say that it gets easier, but it seemed to just get easier to get further from focusing on maintenance. |
Darbs, when I was getting ready for maintenance, I read all of the maintainers threads and read about your journey. I know that you can get this weight back down. Congrats on your two great Phase 1 days. Just take it one meal at a time. Nice to see you posting again.
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DH and I had a talk the other day about going forward. He and I both like to eat out. We've always done it - he used to work from 2 - 8 Monday thru Saturday at a liquor store, so Sunday was our only day together. Now he's out of work, so we were sometimes going for pizza on Friday, bar food Saturday and Chinese on Sunday with ice cream, wine or hard cider sprinkled in there too. So, I'm going to make my lunches ahead, to make sure I have something for work- that way I won't be as likely to make it a three day indulgence weekend. We won't go out to eat as often, and when we do not go off the rails. Especially with crap food - a nice restaurant. I also need to keep in mind how much this rebooting stinks. I miss my food! I keep thinking of increasing my goal, but changing my mind the next minute. |
Hi Darbs! :wave:
I'm back too! :hug: I also maintained for about a year. Gained about 30, lost it. Now I'm up about over 40. :devil: I'm so frustrated with myself! I thought I "had maintenance down pat"! But I got sloppy. When I look back I think my "one cheat day" started to get extended to a FEW days a week! GRRR!! I am FINALLY realizing that I will ALWAYS have an issue with food, and that I MUST monitor it ALL THE TIME....FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!! I had resisted going back on IP for a long time because I remembered being soooo tired of the same ol' food selections (alternatives). I decided to "suck it up", as this program is the ONLY diet that seems to show results (and faster than any other). I've been back 5 weeks (down 16 so far), and I FEEL ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!:carrot: I need to remember how crappy I felt just 5 weeks ago. I have to remember how when sitting on the couch I used to put a pillow on my lap because otherwise I'd see my ROLLS! EWWE!! These things I remind myself of DAILY because I don't want to feel that way EVER AGAIN! Also, I think it's important to mention that when I was contemplating starting over again, one of my fears was having to do P1 after my "cheat day"....and I just squirmed at the thought of what I had to eat that 1 or 2 days following a cheat day! THAT ALONE deterred me. HOWEVER..... since my last time on IP alternatives, there have been many welcome YUMMY food additions!!:carrot: I don't think we had Quest Bars back then. And there are a few yummy items from HealthSmart and Weight Loss Systems this time around too!! :cb::cb: I'm looking ahead to maintenance thinking ....."oh yeah, with these additional foods I KNOW I can do Phase 1 easily and not feel deprived"!! :carrot: We can all do this.....and learn from what we have all already gone thru....and come out on TOP this time!! :dancer: Best wishes and welcome back!!:hug: |
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I am already having trouble with the "cheat day" turning into 2. But also, like you, I enjoy the P1 treats on regular days and really don't mind them on P1 days. After a "cheat" meal day, I actually look forward to a P1 day. But can already attest to P1 days getting off track with unexpected meals, treats, etc. Oh I can have just one---will do better tomorrow....ahhh! I suggest everyone read and work the Beck Diet Solution for extra help! |
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I've been meaning to take a look at that book. Am I correct in assuming it is unavailable on Kindle? Guess I need to order it!! :) |
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I got mine at amazon.com and glad I can highlight the pages :) Or maybe you can inter-library a copy? I couldn't find it thru my library. |
I think for me the issue will be laziness in measuring my foods.... I am in maintenance and still at goal range, but I can see this as being a possible future problem. I wonder if it has been that way for others who have regained. You may be eating the right foods still, but at what portion sizes??? The Cheat day/meal hasn't been an issue for me, and I usually do P2 after, although I sometimes just go back to eating proper maintenance. Seems to have worked so far. Keeping this all in mind, though, we will always have to watch - people who have been fit and slim throughout their lives do it without really consciously thinking about it, but if you have ever gained weight, it does mean you have to stop and think about your choices. I think it just will take less time and argument between your logical brain and your emotional brain (if any of that makes sense :dizzy:) than while you were losing and learning.
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Hello all,
I lostill 48 lbs early last year and gained it all back I'm ashamed to say. I'm starting over but I feel like I forgot everything from when I was on ideal. I had some great tips and tricks and multiple little recipes that I didnt document and am now drawing a blank. Would love some ideas for getting back on the wagon. For example, breakfast I'm struggling with since my protein will probably be eaten at dinner time. Is everyone, just doing shakes for breakfast? Welcome any and all ideas and look forward to being back on this great site for support and motivation. |
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LOL......I haven't been as good as you at the maintenance game! I maintain for a year, slowly gain (and later wonder why I didn't reboot at 180 instead of 200), then reboot again......which is where you're finding me now (currently at 198 lbs...weigh in is tmr...fingers crossed)!! I REALLY REALLY hope and pray that "I got it" this time.....after losing then gaining TWICE! Grrr! I can't wait to get our butts back into the 170's.....or 160's!! ;) WE GOT THIS!!!:carrot: |
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Between now and Thanksgiving...100% on with food, except I have 3 nights planned to drink few glasses of wine, which I will exchange out for the bar (fewer carbs, but more calories, plan to exercise more those days). Taking Tues-Friday of Thanksgiving week to follow Atkins so that I don't come out of ketosis. Then from Saturday after Thanksgiving for 3 weeks 100% phase 1. Then phase out for 10 days Then I will take 2 weeks in maintenance (phase 1 days every 3-4 days) Then after New Year I will do phase 1 100% for month of January. I will phase off first two weeks of February. Third week is my cruise. Week after cruise, phase 1 and then hopefully maintenance again (starting hopefully 15 pounds less than the first time) |
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Down another 3!:carrot: That's a great plan you have!! I'm just taking it day to day right now. I've had cocktails a few times (with no direct correlation to higher/lower weeks of weight loss.... so it seems anyway haha!).....SoBi water and vodka....YUM!!! I also have a 4 day weekend getaway to Disney in November! :wizard: Hoping to be in my size 14 shorts by then lol! The first time on IP I went away for a week, went off plan completely, then came right back on and continued weight loss. Since this is a quick trip I'm probably going to do Phase 2 with "extras ;)" here and there! Next trip won't be until Apri, so hoping I'll have been in maintenance for a month or two at least by then! :carrot: Seems soooo much easier this time around.....I'm just not feeling deprived like in the past! This is so doable with more food options available!!:dancer: I admire your new goal of 155!:carrot: I'm going to stick with a goal of 165 and see how I'm feeling.......170 seemed to be where my body landed after all the phases and I was happy. But oh to see 155!!!!:goodvibes That would be AMAZING!! YOU GO GIRL!!! :cheer: |
Hi everyone.
I lost my weight on Ideal Protein about 2-3 years ago. Since then, life has been somewhat of a roller-coaster. I haven't gained back all of my weight. But I was at 150 and now I am at 180. I am disappointed in myself and feel ashamed to have gained some of my weight back. I am finding it harder to focus, but I really want this. I have a vacation coming up at the end of November and want to be as close to 155/160 as possible. I know if I "buckle down" and focus I could easily lose 20 pounds by the end of November. I was wondering if anyone has any tips of encouragement or ideas to accelerate weight loss while on IP? Thank you and I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! |
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As far as accelerating the results....having done IP once before you know that it already works faster than most other diet plans. The only way to ensure you get the most losses out of the program is to stick to it 100% - no deviations, no cheats. Other than that there's not much that can be done to make it faster than it already is! |
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