Jessica~let me know how you like the p90x diet. I found the food to be good however the prep work was way too much work for me.

ICU~so far the tomato juice mocktail is working. I figure I'm still consuming 200-300 calories in that, but that is a lot better than a bottle of wine!

YESSSS. Out of the 60s kilogram range and back into the 50s, where I belong. 59.7 kg today, 131.6. I am getting really spoiled by seeing such drastic losses every morning.

Sadly I can feel an old heel injury creeping up on my right heel. I will NOT let this turn into a pity party of overeating and feeling sorry for myself. I got down to 123.5 in December after several weeks of not running but doing other exercises that didn't aggravate the foot and eating smart.

I know part of my overeating is from exhaustion. But in my business it's feast or famine and I'm in "feast" mode right now, followed by "famine" when I have to give up yet another two dogs at the end of next week.

Sat. to Wed. will be really tough. I have a dog sit and two cat feeds each day on top of my regular work. DH and my cats will have to cope pretty much by themselves. I'm still totally exhausted by winter and I need a recovery time.

Unfortunately I don't see that happening. I was going to use the Easter long weekend but I literally have to (deadline is April 30) get my taxes done that weekend as it is the only down time I have.

Interesting someone mentioned sleep and thyroid issues. I am on the very low side of "normal" thyroid function. I have wanted to try some meds for years but my doctor is not co-operating. I have sleep disturbances. Have to look into that (probably sometime in 2012 when I have a minute).

Gotta go get my regular tires out of the garage!

Good day all! TGI(almost)F!

Dagmar

Made it under 1400 yesterday. Now I just need to keep it up... Plan is to track calories this week, next week do the Passover diet, and then on to P90X.

Allison, we might just follow the general P90X diet guidelines rather than actually cooking their recipes. The info and dvds are supposed to arrive today so I'll take some time to look at them.

Becky, how is the job business going with your boss's move?

Michele, I hate how the doctors are always like, if your TSH is okay, then there is nothing wrong. Not true!

Next week I'm going to see both a podiatrist and an endocrinologist. Hopefully something useful will come out of this...

Sorry to hear about the injuries and frustrations, guys!! Although I'm also inspired by the keep on, keeping on attitude and creativity.

I woke up starving this morning, which is always a positive sign that I didn't overeat the day before. I hate waking up bloated and uncomfortable.

Krampus, I love your new avatar!!

I have a busy day planned. Some errands and lots of writing, but I'm planning a run with DH this afternoon. I've had a nice healthy breakfast and will have a nice healthy lunch.

I agree with that idea. Often, after the dish was complete, I could see where this or that would have sufficed without so much prep work.

I do have to say the soups they have are tasty and very low in calories. Asparagus (which I don't normally like) made a very good soup. Honestly, you could easily double or quadruple some of the sauces and use them over chicken or whatever and that would save a lot of time.

One thing I noticed when DD was following the diet, the first month is really high in protein, but I thought the calories seems awfully high. But I guess when they have you doing 60 minutes of pretty high intensity workouts each day, you work it off. DD followed the plan for about 60 days and then gave up on the whole thing when "life" (meaning school) got in the way. I think she managed to lose 13 pounds.

Ex-Boss went on vacation for the rest of the week. I have irrational feelings of betrayal, and not-so-irrational "overwhelmedness". More resignations. I've had one interview so far, but withdrew from consideration due to work-hour conflicts. Apparently, there are still companies clinging to the 8-5 hours. If nothing else, the interview made me think harder about what my requirements for my next job are, and what kind of balance I need. I can afford to be picky; the only true rush seems to be sanity preservation.

Does stress burn calories? I should be thin by next week.

ICUwishing, stress totally burns calories. You'll be hanging from a charm bracelet if you stay stressed out, so please take care.

midwife, thank you! It was time for a change. I have been enjoying the waking up hungry feeling as well.

paperclippy, hope the doctor visits go well for you. The first day back under 1400 is always hard. enjoy P90X!

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59.0 kg or 130.1 lb this morning. Yesterday was a really hungry day. I couldn't even do a cardio DVD because I was getting all light headed and weak. and I wound up having a snack attack at 10:30 pm (plain yogurt and dried seaweed) which I think I needed - calories were a little higher, ~1700 for the day. Still, big drop on the scale.

I'd be a liar if I said I didn't feel a great deal of validation watching the scale move.

Krampus-- how much is the scale moving each day? Just wondering! Glad it is for you. What have you changed?

Hi ladies, I'm back from D.C. and finally caught up again at work, so I'm letting myself read and post again on 3FC. Wow, it seems there was an explosion of posts on this thread over the last 2-3 days (it had been pretty stagnant while I was away, I think).

Dagmar and Jessica, I'm both a physician and a low-thyroid patient (I had Hashimoto's when I was 35 and have needed Synthroid ever since). I'm here to tell you that, alas, taking thyroid supplements definitely doesn't help you lose weight, not even an ounce, so if that's the reason you're both wishing your doc would prescribe it for you, take comfort that it wouldn't help.

Krampus, congratulations on getting back to 130. I too love your new avatar pic.

Vaca was pretty good. We went to a many of the museums on the Mall, saw the wicked-cool Spy Museum (not on the Mall), and rode the Metro a lot. The boys all loved going back and forth by mass transit every day (we drive everywhere in our own little 'burb), and we even saw President Obama's limo going by with a police escort. If the weather had cooperated a little (it was in the 40s most days we were there- brrr), we would have done more outdoor stuff. As it was, I ended up buying gloves and a hoodie just to do the incidental walking we needed to get around.

So I managed to get through our vacation without gaining weight. Now that I'm back though, I'm really having a hard time staying away from carbs in the evenings. If I could just go from dinner to bed I'd be fine. I will never lose that last 3-5 pounds if I keep eating 500 calories of muffins, chocolate and nuts every night. AGH!

Jessica, is the Passover Diet something specific, or do you mean that you end up eating fewer calories naturally because you can't have leavened foods? I ask because I usually end up overeating during Passover because of all the seasonal goodies (chocolate, macaroons, stuff made with matzo meal, brisket, etc).

Wow so much sudden activity in this thread, love reading all the updates

Things are pretty decent in my world. Came out of the red zone and have been 129ish (129.2 today) for the past couple days. Workouts ramping up, back pain lessening. Eating was great the prior couple days and today has been ok. Went over planned calories with too much peanutbutter + celery, but Im dealing with an all hands on deck work crisis and if the worst of my eating repercussions is 300 extra pb cals I can totally let that slide for today.

In exciting news I signed up for my first 5k!! It is 5/21 and my goal is to raise $10k in the next 30 days for it...ambitious I know. Any moral, mental or of course financial support is greatly appreciated: http://www.nami.org/namiwalks11/SFO/xty

krampus - yay for seeing 50s, that is exciting! I have been so happy to see your general enthusiasm and you frankly sound super relaxed and not too worried or consumed by it all.

paperclippy - congrats on getting into the rhythm of things, you sound like you are establishing a good pattern.

ICUwishing - eeek stress. Remember to breath. Make the company pay for a massage (Im not really kidding here).

midwife, mudpie, alinnell and anyone else I missed - good to hear from you all and midwife + mudpie dont get too stressed out you both sound super busy.

It seems so simple . I've eaten OP for 5 days and lost 5 lbs. I'm totally stoked to be 1/2 lb. above my red line - that's how out of control the situation had become.

5 days of total frenzy at work start tomorrow. I've told DH he will not see me (doggie sleep over) and to not expect meals, laundry service, etc. This is the only way I will stay sane and OP so I'm doing it!

TGIF!!!

Dagmar

Quick fly-by today - TGIF, definitely!

Agree with neurodoc - starting on Armour did not help my weight loss. Caveat - it DID help me to sleep much, much better after a month or two, and that was when I started to see some decent results.

xty - very cool that you're doing a 5K! Are you doing a group-training program with it, or running solo? Love the massage idea ... but we aren't exactly working in an evolved kind of company.

dagmar - glad your plan still works for you! 5 in 5 ... definitely a motivator!

For whatever it's worth, I'm down 4 pounds in 3 days myself. I'm trying to do the right things, and deal with the cards as they've been dealt. As you're all reminding me: just breathe. It can't stay this way forever.

I'm also down from 132 on Sunday (my all-time post weight loss high by several pounds) to 127.4. Still above my red-line but I am thrilled to see the scale going in the right direction. My clothes are starting to fit better again. I just pray the scale doesn't reverse and start going the other way now!

Probably won't be able to exercise today and I exercise almost every day. Just that thought makes me nervous but I'm going to try not to be too anal about it. If I do exercise it will have to be at 9 pm and that is when dh starts telling me I'm obsessed!

Neurodoc, don't worry, I'm not trying to get more thyroid meds because of my weight. I keep forgetting that I post some stuff on some threads and some stuff on others and not everyone reads them all! I have issues with joint pain and chronic inflammation, some of which are related to my thyroid and some of which we don't really know what the cause is, so I'm going to an endo in the hopes that they can help me sort it out. In the past I had joint pain that did not respond to any treatments until they diagnosed me as hypothyroid, and when I got on synthroid & cytomel the treatments started working (the cytomel actually made my knee pain disappear within a week). I'm hoping that my labs come back abnormal because "you just need more cytomel" is a much easier thing to handle than "we have no clue what's wrong with you or what to do about it." I went through a period before where a rheumatologist tested me for every disease under the sun and they just kept coming back negative. It was very frustrating and ended up with the rheumatologist saying there was obviously something wrong with me but unless I started having another symptom to help them figure it out there was nothing they could do.

In any case I'm feeling a little better now than last week at least. I started taking multivitamins and calcium supplements again a couple days ago, and almost made it under 1400 yesterday (I thought I was under until I realized I forgot to log the raisins in my oatmeal).

I have a confession to make. My biggest fear about my joint pain/inflammation issue is that they're going to say that the cure is for me to regain the 50lbs that I lost. Okay that's not entirely true, my BIGGEST fear is that they'll say I have some awful terminal disease with no possible treatment. That doesn't seem very likely. But I can't help thinking that I didn't have these problems when I was fat, and wondering if it's related.