Michelle: When you say make the soup, do you mean cook it too? Tomorrow Beef Veggie Stew is on the menu for me. I sure hope you feel better real soon, nothing worse than feeling like crap. :getwell:

Magnolia: NO WAY!!! 13 pounds?!?!?! :cheer2: YOU ROCK GIRLIE!!!!!! What are you using to test your Ketones?? Funny that you say if you drink too much water your brain gets fuzzy....that's exactly what happened to me this morning. I didn't intend on drink four 16 oz bottles of water before 10 am....it just sorta happened. Tomorrow I'll try to space out my water and see if that helps.

Chelle: YOU GO GIRLIE!!! :bravo:One day at a time girlie!!!

Brooke: DIET COKE IS the nectar of the Gods....I often refer to it as "pure diet doke goodness straight from heaven". This of course totally cracks my husband up!! I managed to get through the entire day without one. I will say that I did have a headache though.

Fab: Good for you for making a decision to end your marriage. It takes a lot of courage to do that.

Flo: Ms. ONEderful!!!! :dust:You soooooooooooo ROCK right now!!! You are giving me sooo much inspiration. I love it and just wanted you to know that we are all here for you.

See ya'll tomorrow!!!

Michelle: I hope you feel better soon, honey. I thought I had strep throat since the baby had it last week, but now I pretty much think it's just a sore throat...

Brooke: I have a metallic taste in my mouth from the ketosis. I have noticed a slight aftertaste from some of the MF meals. I think it might be the protein powder...

Flo: You're doing great, too, honey. I'm not sure why I'm losing this fast, but I am darn grateful. Anyhoo, it's not actually 13...it's 12.8. :hug:

Hope: I bought some Ketone test strips at Walgreens. They're at the back of the store with all the diabetes stuff. They were like 9.99. I just wanted to make sure that I was in ketosis and that I wasn't screwing myself up with too much Splenda and stuff. ;)

Brooke: I'm on day 3 and I have the same bad taste today. I drank a Dutch Choc. shake and it had an awful aftertaste :?:

Wow you ladies are inspiring me with such wonderful weightloss. I have to admit after tasting a few of the meals I was going to leave MF and try something else after my five weeks of food ran out but now I think I will continue. Yesterday I had the chicken noodle soup very good. The vanilla pudding was kinda nasty but I think I let it sit out to long. I am going to have the creamy chicken soup today. Kinda scared to try the cream of broccoli because someone in an earlier post said it was nasty!
What type of exercise are you all doing?

Kim: When was your start date? I'm on day 3. Will not weigh myself until next Tues.

-I haven't started exercising yet. My coach told me to wait for about 2 weeks and then start slowly when my body is adjusted to this new eating plan.
-I have the vanilla pudding too, but haven't tried it yet. Any ideas?
-The Cream of Tomato was pretty good: I added some basil to it!

Tjjsmom: If you do not like the cream of boccoli soup, you can make a bread at out if... And i have to say that it is pretty tasty with a littl bit of Diet Laughing Cow and a few sprays of IBINB! It is actually one of my favorites for my 4:oo munchies!

Hope: Thank you so much for the compliment! You made me :o! I am glad i can help you in your weightloss:D I really feel like we are such a wonderful friendly MF community... kind of like my internet sisters!!!:hug:

I broke up with my boyfriend today and he started sulking... when i left i think he was crying... So i do not know... I feel bad... He was beggin... saying that he would change... He does not really have a major flow ... except for the money, but yesterday he bought some food for my child and I... So he is working on it... I guess it is more a question of Can i LOVE him? So i guess we will see... I want to take a 2 weeks break, but i am not sure if he will let me!

Originally Posted by :
When you say make the soup, do you mean cook it too? Tomorrow Beef Veggie Stew is on the menu for me.

Hi Hope,
I'm having beef veggie soup today, too. This is how I make it and I really like it. I dissolve a beef boullion cube in hot water before adding the soup mix to it then I cook it on the stove. While it's cooking I add in some frozen green beans and garlic and a little bit of onion....then I put it back in the fridge for about an hour and reheat it. Yummy! :)

Hope everybody's having a great week. It's 3 weeks today that my 1st medifast order arrived. It's gone by quickly. I can do this! Yay.

You are quite a cook Andrea! I would have never thought of doing that!:D

Originally Posted by Floprieto:
You are quite a cook Andrea! I would have never thought of doing that!:D

That's me...Chef Andie. :rofl: I'm laughing cuz I am so NOT a cook.
I had it for lunch...really yummy! Good way to get my veggies in. I'm typing with a wiggly 4 yr. old in my lap. It's naptime here but he needs a cuddle. Don't we all? :)
Thanks for thinking I was a cook. Made my day.

Originally Posted by tjjsmom:
Wow you ladies are inspiring me with such wonderful weightloss. I have to admit after tasting a few of the meals I was going to leave MF and try something else after my five weeks of food ran out but now I think I will continue. Yesterday I had the chicken noodle soup very good. The vanilla pudding was kinda nasty but I think I let it sit out to long. I am going to have the creamy chicken soup today. Kinda scared to try the cream of broccoli because someone in an earlier post said it was nasty!
What type of exercise are you all doing?

Hi there tjjsmom,

Ya know I kind of thought the same thing when I started MF, that I could do it for 5 weeks and then probably quit. Now I am totally committed to this program. I am wondering what I'm going to do when I tranisition back to reg. food. This seems so safe to me!

I like the pudding really cold so I make it with fridge water and then keep it in the fridge for awhile before I eat it. I would recommend adding some spices to the broccoli soup and some broccoli, too. Sometimes I add a little shredded chicken breast to it (count towards my lean) and it's pretty good then. Glad to hear your thinking you'll stick with it. I think your taste buds adjust cuz some of the stuff I didn't like at first doesn't seem too bad now and I've only been doing this for 3 weeks.

I THINK I figured out my headache problem. I eat breakfast at 6 am and I don't have my next meal until after 10. SOOOO tomorrow, I'll try making a shake and drinking it on my way to work at 7. Hopefully that will help.

I just made the Vanilla Cookies from the recipe page and they are NOT bad at all.

Hope, honey, you're gonna have a headache for a few days. Get some Excederine and keep your mind occupied. I haven't added anything to anything (except flavor drops and a failed attempt at MF pancakes). I just flavor the oatmeal and soups and nuke. I'm lazier than my cat. It's so sad.

Flo, Aw sweetie that's so sad! You have to do what's best for YOU. I need people to whack me in the head - I'm not one of those amazingly thoughtful people, maybe he's the same.

I guess I'm on week 4. No one gets cravings anymore?? I'm hearing all this wonderful stuff about how easy this is and you go into this zen phase. LOL. Am I the only one who still has cravings? Yesterday I would have gone out, but I was SO tired that I couldn't. It's NO where as bad as the first week, but I still have to fight them. I'm fine during the day, but the L&G is getting boring. Guess I should check out some of those recipes.

My poor hubby is sick in bed. My DD and I are almost comatose - the living dead, so tired. All my students are tired and cranky too. Blech.

Talk to you later,

Okay everyone. This is day 2 and so far so good. I wished I had ordered some bars or eggs. I have a headache but I think it is a sinus headacge as my eyes hurt too. I have been spacing my meals every 2 hours except today, it was 3 hours before I ate my vanilla pudding. I took food to my part time job with me this morning but I had to stay an hour and a half later so that threw me off with my meals. I am soaking my two shakes now for tomorrow and then I will put them in the freezer and take them out when I first get up in the morning. I am going to the medifast website now to order me some more things so I will have a variety as I don't want to get bored. I have been getting all of my water in. Thankfully I work next to the bathroom so I have been running constantly...lol.

Great job to everyone who has lost additional weigh! Keep up the good work!

Flo,
He is a big boy. He will be okay. Don't let him pressure you into something you don't want.

No, Michelle, it's a fight for me every day - still. I was too lazy to cook anything tonight so we went to Sonic. I got a grilled chicken salad. No big surprise there. They're supposed to put an onion ring on top, but they usually don't. Guess what? Tonight they did. I didn't eat it but it took everything I had not to stuff it in my mouth. I'm not really bored with the MF food but like you, I'm bored with the L&G. I'm loving the results, but not the process.

Chelle, I started three weeks ago Monday. I think it was the seventh.

Flo, sweetie, you deserve to be happy, too. That's something that took me a long time to figure out. I have been in relationships that I didn't want to be in because I felt sorry for the other person when I initially tried to end it. It's not fair to either person. If you don't love him, you did the right thing. If you love him, then it's different.