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SAnativegirl....I'm still signature-less too....it gives me something to look forward to!

Day 8 of phase 1 and still going strong....to all of you in Phase 1: We not only CAN do it, we ARE doing it!

Hi everyone!


only1naked I've been having the same issue. I'm almost scared to add the carbs back in, even though I could have had them for a week now. So right at this moment, I got brave and I'm actually eating one of those whole wheat English muffins I got at trader Joe's last week. Actually they say British muffins, that sounds fancier.

I just changed my goal weight. I upped it 5 pounds from 155 to 160. I have been doing more research and I think that would be a better and more realistic goal for me and the way I hope to look. The last time I weighed 168 I was in a size 10 jeans, and I don't want to get much smaller than that. The good news is, in changing that, I just got closer to reaching my goal! HA!

only1--haha, yay for being closer to goal!

Neko--"British muffins" DOES sound fancier! I've never seen them called that, but I'd probably be mor elikely to buy them with that label

bella--when you had the blueberries, did you have them alone or with something else? I find eating fruit alone ALWAYS makes me hungry, but when I eat it with plenty of protein, it doesn't hit me as hard.

KT--congrats on 8 straight days! Phase is over before you know it!

elusive--having someone else work with you on this (DH) is SO helpful. My fiance doesn't really need to lose much weight, so he's not on the plan with me, but he understands that if he wants any type of junk food, he needs to bring it to work and keep it in his office so it's not in my kitchen. He'll also eat whatever I make for dinner, so that helps, and if he orders a pizza, he gets lots of toppings I don't like

As for me, I'm so glad I FINALLY found some no sugar added ketchup last night! I've been searching for weeks, and though I'd seen stickers on the shelf at one or two stores, they never had it in stock until last night. YAY! I'm still not finding any no sugar added bbq sauce, though...I tried making my own at home with a recipe I found on here, but it was pretty awful

I stepped on the scale this morning and was pleased, but I will save my excitement for my "official" weekly weigh in on Monday.

I'm feeling a bit better today--my throat isn't really sore anymore, and my runny/stuffy nose is pretty much gone. It's just this darn coughing--makes my chest hurt, makes my stomach muscles hurt, and keeps me (and Jeff) up at night. I'm tired today, but I am feeling more human, so I'm going to try to work a full day in the office for the first time this week.

I'm proud to report that I was 100% on plan yesterday. Today's looking to be the same.

OH, and I made a fabulous discovery while grocery shopping last night. I LOVE egg salad, and I have on occasion caved and bought egg salad from grocery deli counters for lunch when I'm at work, but they often have some sugar in them. Well, I was at Bloom last night (chain grocery store, for those who don't have them), and they sell plastic pouches of plain, already-peeled hard boiled eggs. Awesome! Now I know if I don't have a lunch, I can go to bloom and grab some hard boiled eggs and make my own egg salad, sans sugar

Hey Jilly

I keep hard boiled eggs in a ziplock in my fridge at home.

I am on day 12. I feel so in control. I went out to this fancy Italian restraunt last night. Not my choice it was a celebration for someone. My friend and I split a meal. She ate the potatoes and half the steak. I ate the green beans and zuccnini and salad and half steak. LOL I was stuffed and so was she. She ate my helping of bread too. LOL ALmost everyone had dessert. I skipped dessert but I did have a cappucino. I am in control of what I eat and I am not obsessing on what I can have next or anything. I love this way of eating.

Tammie

I keep hard boiled eggs in my fridge, too, but in the case that I forget my lunch and end up having to find something to have at work, now I know I can just go grab some at Bloom. I wouldn't pay the extra price to just buy them because I'm too lazy to hard boil my own at home

Another exciting (to me) item I found last night that I forgot to mention--sugar free maple syrup by Walden Farms. It doesn't have sugar alcohols like all the other brands I checked, so I'm excited to try it

Sorry Jill I didn't mean to imply you were lazy. I didn't know if you had a fridge and could just keep them in there at work.
LOL and there are days I would buy the preboiled ones cause there are days I am to lazy to cook. LOL That is why I keep some already boiled in the fridge. But too lazy to cook is why I am the size I am cause it was quicker/easier to hit the drive thru than it is to cook. Learning to like cooking again.
I have to hide my boiled eggs cause my son will eat them. When I say where are my eggs he just grins. LOL I have to hide tomatoes too cause he eats them like apples. I don't mind him eating one but 3-4 tomatoes a day isn't good for his tummy. He is 6. He's my veggie baby!! LOL Yes, tell if the SF syrup is good. Sounds yummy!!!

I saw preboiled eggs at the grocery store. But I was afraid to buy them, how can you tell if they're fresh enough to eat.

tammie I wish I could get my son to eat more fruits and vegetables. He pretty much hates them all and gives me problems about eating any. I think he takes after my brother who is a certified junkfoodtarian.

bella The P1 pancake recipes aren't bad. They're not exactly the same, but it beats eating regular eggs every morning.

Jilly Glad you're feeling somewhat better and found your sugar-free ketchup. Maybe you can try making BBQ sauce from the SF ketchup? I haven't tried any of the forum BBQ sauce recipes yet.


I had another one of my fancy "British" muffins for breakfast with peanut butter. Definitely no odd cravings and suprisingly I'm still feeling pretty full from just one muffin with 1 TBS PB.

hmm...the ones I saw were in a resealable package with a "sell by" date. I believe they also had citric acid used as a preservative.

tammie--no sorry needed; I was just explaining why I was so excited to see them there. I do normally bring food to work for lunches, but there are always those days when I'm rushing in the morning and forget my lunch bag at home! I try not to store more than one lunch's worth of food in the work fridge at a time because the office refrigerator gremlins have been known to steal other people's food And here I thought I worked in an office of professional, mature adults

Well obviously they must be professional adults, it's just those pesky refrigerator gremlins.

Will they even eat the healthy stuff? Where I work, people will steal junk food, but never healthy stuff.

I think anything that's easy to grab and eat is fair game. Like hard boiled eggs, frozen entrees (my coworker's Lean Cuisine went missing last week), etc. I even lost some all-natural unsweetened applesauce cups I had in there once. At least my refrigerator gremlins are health conscious

Jilly, I LOVE the quotes in your sig, especially the first one.

Reading this lunch-at-work stories makes me realize how fortunate I am that I work less than a mile from home, so I go home for lunch every day. I kind of take that for granted, and now that I am on this plan I need to be more grateful!

Hi, checking in late tonight

Day 3, Phase 1

So far so good. Chili from your recipe boards today..........cold and snowy here in Mich. today.

reading all the talk about egg salad..I know whats in my lunch tomorrow!

Tomorrow is my first big challenge. I will be at work all day..........Lots of temptations there.

reading about children and their likes, I am still fascinated that my youngest grandson wants to come to Grandma Kay's house, because I have strawberries " all the time!" He passed up the cookies and brownies to get to the strawberries. Of course when I know he is coming there is always a fresh box of strawberries!

Kay

Chickies, I just split this off from the big Phase I thread. Long threads really slow down loading for those of us on dial-up!
Here's the link for the old thread which is now going to be closed.