Ok I just started LA Weight Loss last week and right now im in my 4 week phase. I am doing plan 4 with the lites. I have a couple questions, oh and by the way im in Canada.

(1) I bought the Alegra cheese, monzza hard cheese comes in a brick. It says in the book that you can have 3oz/90g of it to get a serving of protein....so i started shredding it into the la weight loss scale they gave me and i was only at like 2oz and it just seems like soooooo much cheese. I dont know what im doing wrong. I cant figure out if im eating the right amount or way to much...please help

(2) i hate eating veggies and find it hard to get my 4 servings in, so i told the counseller about it and i believe she said if you take away 3 servings and eat 1 extra serving of fruit it will even out....that just doesnt seem right to me...i mean u take away 3 servings and add 1...doesnt make sense

any help will be much appreciated, im just getting so frustrated with it already

I'm sorry, but that sounds like a load of crap to me... No offense to your COD counselor, but c'mon....

You've got to get in your veggies.. It's the only way this works.. I HATE HATE HATE veggies, but I've found new and better ways to cook the suckers so that they are at least tollerable.

The problem, and please someone correct me if I'm wrong here, is that with fruit, comes lots of sugar.. Sure it's natural and it full of other good stuff, but it's still sugar.. Veggies provide lots of fiber and other essential vitamins.. Plus, the green veggies aren't high in calories for the most part, so you can get away with eating more (which, I know, since you don't like them, doesn't sound like a plus.. )

I'm sure I could very well be wrong, so please, someone else jump in here..
Thanks!

Dan is right...........fruit=sugar, and sugar is sugar is sugar, no matter where it is derived. Eat your veggies, you will find better ways to have them. Might I suggest:
Celery with PB
Cucumbers w/ vinegar and lite salt
red bell peppers
Make the veggie soups from the recipe thread
spice up your salads by adding meats and fruits
Marinate cucs, tomatos, onion, etc in a small amount of veg oil and vinegar, salt, pepper, and a smidge of sugar........YUM!!!!
Try roasting them....

If you can tolerate salad, let me know and I can suggest some delicious ideas. Stick with it.....it gets easier to get them in, and you will get more and more creative. As a matter of fact, I will start a veggie idea thread to remind us all of ways to get more variety.

Gotta love Dan's honesty!! He tells it like it is. And Nicole has a definite point that sugar is sugar no matter what the source is. sorry but if it seems to good to be true...

Yeah I live in Calgary and they have told me some wacky things too.

I'd weigh the cheese then measure it. Not sure if they told this but cheese and pb more than a few days a week MAY slow your weight loss. They pretty much cut me off altogether.

And I gotta agree that I would eat the veggies, there must be something you like? How about baby carrots and cut up cucs for snacking? Or yellow peppers cooked in lemon juice with chicken and salsa and cheese? I am not a huge veg eater either but can get through with liking just a few, I am on plan 1 right now so every morsel of food is appreciated! LOL!
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You definetely need to weigh your cheese then shread it. It just doesn't weigh right once you shread it as it loses most of it's mass.

As for the veggies ... they are just trying to make sure you eat and since fruit is more calories they are trying to justify the difference in 3 for 1. It doesn't work that way. This program is about eating the right BALANCE of foods in the right proportions. I too hate most veggies, but find a few you like, and try a few more occassionally when they get made differently. Sneek them in the foods you make so you hardly notice them. It is one of the reasons I like chili, I get my protein from the beans, and my veggies from the tomatos and rotel (chilis and tomatos) along with a little starch and a little bit of dairy (shreaded cheese) on top, or if you are on those who likes sour cream on their chili, you can do the reduced or fat-free as a condiment and save the dairy!

Just keep working at it, you will get it, I have.

Ummmm teh veggie thing doesn't make sense to me....

Btw Im on plan 4 too- but no lites.

For veggies, what I do with DH is sometimes puree veggies into sauces. Also stir fry's are a great way to get veggies in.

I use the Allegro cheese too, and 2 oz is about 1 inch across and all the way down the block. Does that make sense?
ALso you are best using chicken/almonds/fish as protein and using your cheese as a dairy

I'm with everyone else - fruit has a lot of sugar. ANd for reference, one ounce of cheese is approximately the size of your thumb (call it the "Rule of Thumb" LOL)

As for getting in your veggies - while nothing beats the general nutritional value of eating fresh veggies, I do use the low sodium V-8 during the weekdays. I never liked the regular V8, but I really like the lo sod. type. At 4 oz. it is an easy way to get a veg in.

Here is my suggestion, I don't like eating veggies all too much either. But if you do find something you like don't over do it. I liked carrots a lot and I ate them every day for like 6 months and seriously I can not eat them any more. yuck! HA! Another suggestion always eat them with a meal, If you just steam some veggies which is what I do, make your self eat them first before you get the rest of your food. That's what I do. It works!

Thanks to everybody for their help

Im still trying to get the veggies in, hopefully after the first 4 weeks it gets easier

you could try steaming your carrots....adding a small amount of lf marg and splenda brown sugar....its very yummy and my family loved it...good luck with the veggies.

I hate vegs too..