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Originally Posted by minal2380
Hi everyone ... I am new here and new to ip diet starting tomorrow also I am a vegetrian and have 50lbs to lose.I am here looking for support and motivation.Is there anyone else there starting tomorrow ??
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I just started on Saturday 01/30. Tuesday is my first WI, which is not quite a full week, but Tuesday is the best day for me to get to my clinic - and they didn't want to wait until the second week of Feb.
The office I go to, has a fancy machine that you stand on, and hold some handles, and it gives all sorts of metrics about your body. On Saturday my basic info was :
Weight: 167.8 lbs
Lean body mass: 103.4 lbs
Body Fat mass: 64.4 lbs
BMI = 28.8 (should be between 18.5 - 22.0)
% Of Body Fat = 38.3 (should be between 18.0 - 28.0)
I am trying to lose a mimum of 30 lbs - but 40 would be my dream goal.
So far (only three days in) it's fairly easy to stay on the protocol - though I was greatly tempted by brownies this weekend. And the smell of hot dog relish at the movie theater last night had me salivating. (I think it was the salty smell)
I have the cappuccino drink with 2 shots of espresso and 1 oz of milk in the morning. The Chicken a la king with veggies at lunch, 5 - 7 oz protein plus veggies for dinner - and alternate the raspberry mousse and the salt and vinegar crisps as a snack. (I could happily live on the crisps forever!)
I am taking all of the supplements they gave me - including a tablespoon of cod liver oil every morning. (Ick!)
Except for a brief headache in the morning (which might be caffeine withdrawal) I haven't had any of the negative symptoms they talked about.
Two other things that have been really helpful for me - I splurged and bought the Chef Verati cookbook from my clinic. It was expensive (35.00) but the three recipes I made from it have all been fantastic. Good enough that the non-IP members of my family also ate the same thing I did. (Though they had things like rice, bread, peas - that I didn't eat.)
The other is that I bought a Ketonix device, which measures your breath for what level of ketosis you are in. (
www.ketonix.com - not affiliated, I just love the darn thing!) It is much more accurate than a ketostix, which is tested with urine.
I weighed myself on my home scale on Friday before I went to my set-up appt. where I picked out food - and my home scale said 166 - so about 1.8 lbs different from their machine.
Today my home scale said 162.5. I actually reset it and weighed twice, because I thought the first time it was wrong - but I got the same weight twice.
I find it hard to believe that I lost 4 lbs in three days. If I did, it was probably all water weight.
So, I am sort of holding my breath for my "official" weigh-in tomorrow morning. I don't think it will be really-real until then.