Joy-
I only WISH there were 14 bars in box!! Would be much cheaper that way.
I usually do one frozen meal a week from the guide. If you do not have one...ask for it! I think they call it the fast tracker. It is a frozen meal, dining out, and helpful tips guide all in one.
Diane-
How are things with you? Ready for stabilization yet???
I have a weigh in Saturday morning, so I will post then. Time to get some work done!!!
Went to the center this morning (Day #6). I lost another 2.4 pounds. That's 6.6 pounds in total! I'm thrilled! I'm also extremely pleased to get more choices, and I got the Fast Tracker which is just great! This handy little book answers my questions about those nights when the day has been extremely loooonnnggg and tough, and cooking is just out of the question. I think the only thing that I have an issue with is the price of the LA Lites - OUTRAGEOUS! When the counselor presented me with the 3 options for bulk purchase, I just laughed - I apologized for laughing, but she understood exactly where I was coming from. Anyway, I just purchased 2 books and paid the $28, but I'll continue looking for comparable bars on the market and check in at E-Bay for some bargains.
OK! I did a little "research" in the grocery store today. I took the nutrition information from my Choc./Peanut Butter LA Lites and looked for comparable bars at the store. I looked at: PowerBar, Clif Bar, Luna Bar, Zone Perfect Bar, and Harvest Bar. I also went to GNC to look at their protein bar choices. Here's what I found.
Two bars at the grocery store compared to LA Lites. They were Zone Perfect and Luna. I tried Zone's chocolate graham and Luna's Chocolate Pecan Pie and Nutz Over Chocolate bars.
Information for Choc./PB LA Lite:
Calories: 170 Calories from Fat: 30
Total Fat: 3.5g 6%
Sat. Fat: 2g 10%
Cholesterol: 5mg 1%
Sodium: 150mg 6%
Potassium: 75mg 2%
Tot. Carbohydrates: 30g 10%
Dietary Fiber: less than 1g 3%
Sugars: 17g
Protein: 8g 16%
Information for Zone:
Total Fat: 7g 11%
Sat. Fat: 1.5g 9%
Cholesterol: 0mg 0%
Sodium: 280mg 11%
Potassium: 85mg 2%
Tot. Carbohydrates: 21g 7%
Dietary Fiber: less than 1g 3%
Sugars: 12g
Protein: 16g
Bear in mind that, unlike our LA Lites, the Luna and Zone bars had a lot of added vitamins and minerals. They are, after all, nutrition bars. Luna seemed the closest to LA Lites, and they didn't taste so bad. They're sort-of like chocolate covered rice-crispy treats. Zone didn't taste bad either, but the extra fat and sodium turned me off from it.
I couldn't find a good bar at GNC because all of them were HUGE! They were all around 250 calories apiece, meaning I'd have to eat a portion of the bar. I'm not so good at moderation with chocolate, so this is not an option for me.
Both the Zone and Luna bars were a little more than a dollar apiece ($1.30). I think that I could find them cheaper if I bought a box. So, they are cheaper. They have other flavors that sounded good, too. I bought Lites in bulk, and when they run out I am seriously going to consider using the Luna bars.
The luna bars look like a pretty good substitute. I think, however, they are going to give you a hard time at the center. Be prepared for their sales tactics...they make little money on the program costs, it all comes from supplements and la lites. They are pretty pushy...at least at most centers.
I went to the doc today about my arm...where I have the cut. The cut healed very nicely but there is a lump undert the skin about the size of a small marble. If the antibiotics that I have been on since Monday do not clear it up by this coming Monday I have to go get it x-rayed to see if there is some kind of drebris in there. And if there is...oh man....they are going to cut it open! ARGH!!! *keeping fingers crossed* I hope the antibiotics are just working slowly!!!
I have cut myself a million times...the one time it happens at work I get an infection...and what a mess it is with insurance, workmans comp, safety investigations, etc.
I agree about the luna bars. They are good but I am finding that I am getting a very bad complexion from them. I know it's from the chocolate. So I am thinking about not taking them anymore. I am going to find something that I can eat. Something more healthier then what I would normally eat. I too was on lawl but couldn't afford it anymore and dropped out. Now I wish that I could still do it. I really need to get back to the gym but have had surgery on my little toe and can't go just yet SOOOO I am still trying to do it on my own.
I agree that they will try and stick you with the cost of their food. I think it's WAY over priced. I was getting the luna bars for anywhere from $1.17 to $1.39 a bar. Wal-mart has the best prices but the selection sucks. My favorite one is the smores YUMMY, YUMMM, YUMM!!
How is everyone doing on there weight now that summer is finally here. I have gained 10 lbs When I get the clear from my dr. I am going to be the queen of the treadmill again. I am going down to the Ozarks with my boyfriend next month so I have to feel good for that. I will let you know my progress.
Ok my first weigh in and feels like I just have been on this 2 days but lost 3.4 pounds in 3 days yeahhhhhhh so I was excited. However just like you say they pulled out their little tabloids and started showing me the prizes for buying in bulk. I did not not not receive a free box That seemed to be ignored so if I cant have a free box whateer it is ( please advise) then I wont buy anything else. I dont want to be shorted I also asked aboutthe drink everyone had used and they said you can have that in two weeks. Ok then i asked for the tracker as to restaurants and she said you get that in the 4th week. Sooooooo do they do things differently with other peopleeeeeeeee orrrrrrrrrrrrr is there some set pattern. Ok I am now placed on the purple plan but I asked this little lady who was helping me today waht I could use in place of the lites and she said "nothing" lol Ok ladies worked in hospital for years and some medical background and I will find a replacement for me nutrionally but I wont eat those things. I hate them. I wont buy boxes anymore because if they are not going to let me taste it first they can keep it Besides look at how much sugar they have. I dont want to eat sugar I want to lose weight and and and I was glad to see the purple diet lol lol causeeeeeeee meat was getting old. really was soooooo choices were good. Thanks Joy for the price info on the lites They are the same here. I did Arvi buy some cheetos that are baked and have no sugar in them pretty good 10 bags for 10.00 Really expensive but when on the run I need something in bag like that. I admit that the lites just didnt appeal to me They taste like plasticcccccccccc yuckkkkkk so I wll find something to eat in place of them Any suggestions
xY Gosh thanks for that info and going to all that trouble to find something to replace them if possible. I would eat a bar if it had low sugar and tasted good but have not found anything. Did anyone try the slimfast bars I wonder how they rate I wll look my husband is eating those I may can drink the cholcate drink as to hot choclate but I want vitamins and I am not very happy with the lites.
Arvi congrats on your lossssssss See you proved it can be done without their supplemnts and without theirrrrrrrrr food items. Oh on teh chart she showed me today was a big old blue (optional) as to the lites and etc.ooooooooo I reminded her that that page says optional so I rather not do it please. Pushy is not the word for it lol. But I think that I can do this as a one on one program and just keep asking for products. The lady today did tell me they just opened on Mon. so they are not very organized there but like Bunny said Its our money we should be able to make some choicessssss and today I did. Felt more in control
When I first started my center gave me for free: one of each box of cereal bar, one of each box Delights, 2 or 3 boxes of LA Lites (my choice of flavors) and 5 or 6 bags of popcorn and cheese curls. It was great because I really got to find out what I liked.
They also put me on the orange drink and special meal plan for the first 3 days. When I went in on the third day, they gave me the meal plan, all the free stuff, the dining out and frozen food guides.
Izzy...either your center is different from the others, or they have changed the way they do things. I wouldnt be suprised if either is trued. Over the last few months....we have found a lot of differences between what the centers are telling us! Just do what you think is best for you. Find something that works...keeps you losing....and stick to it! That is what I did and 50 lbs later, I am still losing slowly but surely!
Jibbelle. I appreciate your giving me this info. Arvi has mentioned in her posts that she got a free box also so they have not changed that part. I think I have a problem and its something I will call them about shortly. I will find out exactly whats going on and just tell them I Have a friend whose doing this in another area I want to know exactly why I keep being put off. But I wanted to lose the weight. I am not purchasing anymore junk until I at least have a free sample or two even one would have been nice. And when I aske why I cant have the drink they say n two weeks well fine I am losing without it or if I choose to use it for plateau thennnnnn thats ok The deal now is I am wondering if they are overcharging me. But at least now I know whats out there and thanks for helping me by sharing. course they do not answer questions much on web sight but maybe thats what I will do go there for some help as to their web sight and post some questions. I cant be expected to purchase dsomething I hvae never seen nor tasteddddd so the ball is in their court Maybe they feel I am not ready for choices as to fast food Thats fine but Arvi is just a little bit ahead of me and yet she has received these perks so I think I need to confront them asap. I have gotten nothing free and nothing to help me know whats out there Maybe they do have that option but there is another one here in this city and I am understanding that I can go to that one if i choose. Might have to. Thanks again any other input here is apprciate if I have to fight I will My husband is very upset because he says you have nothing in your hand but a plastic sheet of papper lol that they chose for you soooooooooooo I even told her today that milk made me sick and she said use another dairy they are either stupid or not very smart whichever is worse
I am posting with a HUGE favor and if you all say that it is not possible I truly will understand. I have been very interested in this weightloss plan, but the nearest center is over an hour away from where I live and over 2 hours from where I work--I was wondering if any of you would be willing to share this diet with someone who can't get to it or afford the fee in exchange for becoming a big time weightloss partner to all of you. I have been floundering for a long time now and need desperately to lose 40-50 pounds. If you would feel so inclined I would be forever in your debt and post here to help out with support til my fingers couldn't type anymore! Thanks in advance for any help that you can give me!!!!
Izzy,
I think you should definitely post on their website and ask some questions. Like I said, I got my free box of bars on day #3, and then today, #6, I got my "Fast Tracker" which is great. I was told originally that I'd get a bunch of free goodies when I bought in bulk, but I chose not to do that, so didn't get any more freebies. And my counselor that I met on the first day and met with again today is wonderful and she didn't pressure me at all. I told her I'd be checking for alternative bars and checking E-Bay, too! After all, $400 isn't a drop in the bucket, and I'm certainly not coming up with several more hundred for CANDY BARS! Good luck and keep us informed!
I forget who posted about the comparison shopping - but thanks so much, I'm going to give those Luna Bars a try. I actually did try the Slim Fast chocolate peanut bar which is very good, but only has 1 gram of protein, so it's not "up to par" with the LA lite.
Well I am maddddddddd to say the least lol but I will not buy another thing and I wll call the tol free number if I dont get what everyone else has gotten and its not fairrrrrrrrrr but then when you are deaf sometimes people take advantage of the fact that you dont hearrrrrrr and I can make an impression they shall never forgetttttttttttt Arvi I could demand live caption lol lol lol nad tel them i Need you to fly in and do it lo llo and make them pay you in free lites lol lol lol for life oh goshhhhhhhhh I am loosing it lol lol. I plunked down 426.00 thanks for sharing at least thats about right I have 53 pounds to lose and gave me 18 weight loss sessions at 3 pounds each I dont know if i can do that or not and maybe shes counting on that so she can get more moneyyyyyyyyy but there is an ADA and I will do whatever I have to to communicate I am gameeeeee but not for longgggggg lol I am sure they are wondering where I am getting my info lol lol All I wanted was to lose weight and be able to have some counseling and some help Just was so confused i found 3 fat chicks and La here and I will be forever greatful Yes I do feel that maybe they do have an option to do things differently and maybe they choose not to give me the tracker but I am going on vacation next week and asked for it just for that in case no mention of anything else. Its kind of sad to be hadddddddd
Well its Friday night and its quiet and I decided to call the toll free number that is on the web sight as I have a friend who said she felt that L A diet centers were universal and that meant that they all had the same rules to apply so that if someone wanted to visit one when out of town they could. The toll free line will ring into your nearest LA location so there is no home office no. from the web sight. So just have to go back in on Monday and ask them face to face why do I have to do things so differently than the rest of the people I know on this diet. I cant be that much older or fatter. Sooooo maybe take my husband and get some help maybe they are telling me things I dont hear. Please forgive me for bogging you all down with this because I just feel so alone in this matter and want so very much to get my money's worth I dont have any input Just gave me a diet and thats it and I think what worries me more than anything is this counselor that I am using charged me for tax and yall there is no tax on any products or services but I had to call her attention to it Was she going to put that in her pocket and if so what in heavens name can I do about it. I just want to lose weight not get into arguments but they have just handed me this purple diet and said I will be on this for one month Hard to think as others diets are being analyzed and adjusted to meet concerns and eating habits and likes and dislikes anyway I wish you all luck and will let you know how this turns out In the meantime all I can do is just try hard like Jibbelle said and so the best I can.
I feel Like this is now izzy's board and i have hogged it and whined but I wanted to share what happened this morning so that if you are having problems with your centers you will know that things can be changed and that issues can be solved. First of all I am deaf so My problems are different from most but my husband got on the phone with me as my interpretor this morning and we talked with the lady in charge or counselor and now I am happy. I think I paid for too many weeks but was assured that those mistakes would be accounted for. I wont have to pay any more money and I can try to lose the weight at a good pace and not be pressured. she gave my husband all the info, apologized for all the inconvenience and said that she would buy back my lites I could not eat. She also set up an apt. time so that I can use the same counselor most of the time and get the one on one I need I again told her that all I wanted was to lose the weight but with natural grocery store regimen which I had been told I could in the begining. I feel like some of the rest of you here that I have spent enough and I dont like those bars and drinks so far. anwyayyyyy girls I voiced my complaints and my issues and they have been resolved and just wanted to share it with you. Without you I could not have done this. Because in your posts to each other you gave me enough info to realize I had gotten into a mess and that I did have rights as it was my money and so now you see that if you do have a problem perhaps there is help. Maybe i paved the way for more handicap people to be able to do things like this without a constant uproar. Now I can calm down and concentrate on losing the weight and doing things i want to do for me. I have been beside myself about it for too long and I have taken up way too much board time here. Thanks for letting me vent and I love all of you for your help always. I wish you the best hang in there and lose that weight. and keep it off Pam
CORRECTION
Would be much cheaper that way.
SOOOO I am still trying to do it on my own.
yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh
and and and I was glad to see the purple diet lol lol
causeeeeeeee meat was getting old. really was soooooo choices were good. Thanks Joy for the price info on the lites They are the same here. I did Arvi buy some cheetos that are baked and have no sugar in them pretty good 10 bags for 10.00 Really expensive but when on the run I need something in bag like that. I admit that the lites just didnt appeal to me They taste like plasticcccccccccc yuckkkkkk so I wll find something to eat in place of them Any suggestions
the perks
Pam
