You're almost to goal too!!
When did you switch plans and go down a color? Were you exercising alot at that point?

Kristi - work?? what's that? Seriously though. I don't exercise. I'm a full time student. I'm in class Monday through Friday 8:30 til 2:30.
That's what they put me on, and I didn't question it.

Who am I to question. Just hand over my DH paycheck to them... LOL

It's weird how different each COD must be. We are both on Lites and DH started at 232 and ended at 195 on Purple, and I started at 188 and plan to end at 150 on Gold.

I weighed in today and stayed the same 151.8 I am TOM so I guess that is good...
I bought the TO juice (I know I am a sucker!) I seem to lose better using it thatn the oranges. I bought if it is worth the $25.00 though. Last TO I lost 3 and then another pound next weigh in. I guess we'll see...
GOod luck to you all!

Stacyj--you are not a sucker--whatever works for you! That's ALL that matters. I prepaid the lites and don't regret it for a minute. Plus, buying in bulk they aren't much more per bar than some others--so what. I was too chicken to WI today b/c of pre-TOM so you are doing better than me.

Boo--
Thanks for the response!!!
I also prepaid for the lites and I look forward to those things every day! I know the COD is expensive, and I got on during a 1/2 special, but you know, I figure if I have invested this much money I need to listen to them and give it a real chance. (Not that I haven't swayed and cheated mind you)
I have 4 weeks paid up and then I have to either buy more weeks or I don't know what they will do (?) I figure if I do my best and lose 2 pounds a week and am down 8 pounds in 4 weeks, then I may invest the money for a couple more weeks. If I stay the same, and am really following plan....I don't know. I didn't realize that I had to lose the weight in a certain time frame. I thought I prepaid for a year. Oh well,
POP tomorrow (me too) and TO it is!:^:

i heard that this is the break down, i went on calorie counter online and figured that gold is definately 1500...

gold~1500
purple~1750
red~2000

For me gold usually ends up being around 1350...I generally do lighter proteins and I'm sure that's where it comes in. You can do 1 boca burger (90 cal) as a whole protein. The protein is my least favorite thing (ok, it's maybe better than veggies)

u have to take into consideration comdiments as well

I dunno that's just what I observed from my days of calorie counting while doing lawl. I was really worried about getting less than 1100 calories, so I counted to make sure at first, so I was counting everything that passed my lips until I felt safe that I was getting enough not to stall out.

Here's how I figure it added up
Fat=50 cal
2 protein= 200 (for something light like 2 bocas) up to 400 (for 4 TBSP pb)
3 veg= 100
3 fruit=150
2 starch= 100-160
2 Lites= 360
Dairy= 100
condiments and sugar free candy= up to 100

hey all.. I am down 3 lbs so far.. during this challenge.. it ends when again??? I am going for 9 this challenge since I think it is just til may 15th??? so I have 2 more weeks yet... well I am excited.. excepting this will be the third time I am losing the same darn 20 lbs!!! LOL woo hoo... see you all, losers!

Re calories in gold plan--I figure I get between 1250-1380 calories per day.

Is everyone ready for Take off for Monday and Tuesday? I am so ready. I have my Knudsen's morning blend, my allowed vegetables and protein ready. I'm ready to lose some weight and quit hovering around 180 at weigh in. I think I'll be under the 180 tomorrow especially if I weigh in early before I put anything in my mouth. I just weighed myself fully dressed with shoes on and it said I weighed 180.5. And that's after eating all of my allowed food, 44 oz water (so far--I will drink the rest of it while watching t.v. with dh tonight), and 32 oz of other liquids. So I feel really good about WI tomorrow. I skipped WI on Friday cause I had a binge day on Thursday so I have to fess up tomorrow. I'm also drinking a cup of dieter's tea which should help "move things along" and maybe get rid of some weight. I feel a little scale obsessed right now. I just don't want to waste time staying the same weight when I could be losing weight. But I have to stay OP to see the results I want. I have to give myself a lot of pep talks. Do you all do the same?

Sherry you and I are about the same weight and yet you are on blue and I'm on purple & started on Red. Although I started out weighing more then you do I'm surprised they didn't start you on purple. You get a 1/2 P & 1 S more then me & I get one extra V, which I'll lose when I get to around 175. Maybe you are getting to much food.

sherry~ i started close to your weight, i did the purple, i did the red, nothing was working for me...i was far from the weight nec. for yellow, but i knew that the reason i was overweight was because i was eating too much, and now i felt stuffed on these plans so i insisted i start gold, and the weight started to come off...tell them you want to try gold for a week, its not a lot of food but you will drop quickly on it, its hard to stick with at first but definately worth it!