I'm sure someone that actually has gone thru stabilization will help here, but from what I know they will have you repeat your stabilization diet week if you don't lose or maintain. They really have you watch what you are eating so that you can see what causes problems and triggers more eating for you!

I know what you mean. My MRC goal is 165 although last time at 161 my body fat % wasn't low enough so I'm thinking that I will have to be closer to 155 or 160 to get the right body fat%. In high school I was 130....I was so skinny and not at all healthy I will never go there again. That was just too much for my body!

[QUOTE=jeweliek;2873505]I'm sure someone that actually has gone thru stabilization will help here, but from what I know they will have you repeat your stabilization diet week if you don't lose or maintain. They really have you watch what you are eating so that you can see what causes problems and triggers more eating for you!



OOPS, sorry I meant I lost 3lbs during preconditioning. But I was also referring to loosing weight during maintenance and stabiliztion(you said that they tell l how to loose during maintenance if you decide you want to loose more).

oh wow, i can't imagine being that thin in our height range! gosh. although sometimes it seems like some of the girls around me weigh about that much. *sigh* on the other hand, though, i'd rather have some feminine curves!

also, on a completely unrelated note: i am currently enjoying my very first creamy. YUM hot chocolate! this makes the four days of stupid powdered clears totally worth it, hehe

Oh....preconditioning is different for everyone. From your ticker it looks like you have been dieting and making a great difference for a long time. I bet that you won't see much now....but wait until you hit the diet....you will smoke them.

It is best to go to stabilization at 26% body fat or less.....they will let you sooner, but say that you have a much better chance of keeping the weight off at this point. You will still lose during stabilization and they will help you and teach you to keep it off or lose a bit during maintenance. It cannot be a significant amount tho. Talk to the center. I bet they will help you.

I was a cheerleader and even at 130 thought that I was fat! How unfair is that....girls are so hard on themselves!

Hot Chocolate is my favorite! I can't stand any of the powdered drinks but that one. I love the concentrates tho....have you tried them? Yummy. My favorite is the Mixed Berry and Kiwi Melon!

Thanks Jewelie! I will talk to them tonight about how this will all work. Seems like I received my first week of stabilization menu but didn't really know what to expect and then had a weekend that threw it all off too. I need to just eat really clean, no cheating , and stick to what they tell me.
Has anyone tried the Iodine pills? Seems like my center is now wanting people to be on them. Says it helps with the thyroid and ramping up the metabolism.

at my food meeting, i bought three powders (grapefruit [EW!!], pink lemonade [meh], and chicken bouillon [haven't tried yet]) and three concentrates (peach mango, mixed berry, and cranberry green tea) and i LOVE the concentrates. i'd like to swap out my powders for concentrates at the center but i have a feeling there won't be any concentrates in the swap basket, hehe. the hot chocolate is the only creamy i have to drink (i also bought cream of tomato and cream of chicken for cooking) but i'm going to buy all three pudding flavors and espresso. and probably a ton more concentrates.

I just started taking the Iodine pills....I am hypothyroid and read in US Weekly that Iodine is laking especially in people with hypothyroid as your body cannot produce it without your thyroid. I took the article to my doctor. She said that it isn't proven but sees no reason why I shouldn't try. She also said that you don't get much Iodine in your diet these days....that it is mainly removed from food. That same week they started advertizing it at my center. The girls there don't ask me to buy supplements anymore. They know I normally will not buy extra. I asked them and I love how I feel. I am not as exhausted, I am not as irritable either (my husband says that is worth its weight in gold) and I am just plain more myself! I would recommend it!!!

I use the Chicken Bouillon! I love it. Any time you would use chicken broth....use it. You can sprinkle a teaspoon of it on your tuna for a nice flavor...I also use it to make chicken and veggies soup.

The peach mango is a little strong for me, but makes the best smoothies. I do that, 2 oz cottage cheese and frozen raspberries (if I haven't had soda I will use diet cream soda instead of water) and blend. YUM!!!!

Mixed berry in Diet caffiene free cola tastes like Cherry coke that I am missing!!!

and don't forget that all of the concentrates can be used over shaved ice for a snow cone!!!!

Jewelie,

All centers should have a chart showing a range which are the standards. These aren't set by MRC, but I forget which government department sets them. You can search on line as well and will come up with a multitude. It isn't necessarily the weight that MRC looks at. They want us to be at a healthy bmi.

I'm 5' 7.5" and recently talked to one of the counselors, and have my goal set at 160. This puts me in the healthy bmi range, but at the higher end. My goal is to look healthy and when I get to 160, if I look like I need to lose another few pounds then I will. I don't want to lose so much that I look sick. I'll see if I can remember where these standards come from and let you know.

Teresa

Alright, how 'bout another version of this...
Try the same quesadilla recipe except w/o the chicken and instead with a 3 oz buffalo burger patty (grilled/cooked), warm as instructed and then add spicy mustard, lettuce and tomato if you like... It's like the quesadilla burger you can get at Chili's or Applebees! Yummo!

Good for you Daisyhotrocks... Australia will be so exciting :0)

I officially WI today and was 197.5 - a 2.5 lb loss taking me into Onderland officially, Yeah, I can finally change my ticker!! Thanks for all the congrats everyone.

I know what you mean. My MRC goal is 165 although last time at 161 my body fat % wasn't low enough so I'm thinking that I will have to be closer to 155 or 160 to get the right body fat%. In high school I was 130....I was so skinny and not at all healthy I will never go there again. That was just too much for my body![/QUOTE]

OK, so I'm a little confused about all of this as well. Initially, the set a goal of 172 for me b/c that would was what I could afford to pay for at the time, 17 weeks of program would probably get me there. I am 5' 6" and I had set my own goal of 150, which I've told them about and no one has argued with this or recommended anything else. I picked 150 b/c I looked sickly and emaciated in the 130's in the past so I knew that would likely be too thin and When they printed my last Tanita, it said 155 should be my final goal weight.... hmmm... This is kind of confusing b/c I'm only 5'6 and it seems everyone elses goal is the same as mine but they're quite a bit taller. When I checked the BMI for 155, it would be 25 and just into the "overweight" category. At 150, just into the normal category at 24.2. Interesting, I wonder if the last person that did the Tanita put in the right height for me?? I'll have to check on that I guess. Ultimately, whenever my husband asks me what my goal weight is or how much more I want to lose, I just tell him I'll keep losing until I'm at a point where I think I look my best, am most comfortable and in a healthy range - whether that's 140, 150 etc... We'll find out in the end :0)

Ok....here is what I know.....the tanita will tell you what weight you should be at 26% body fat. It is an estimate. As I lost weight that number went lower. It really isn't based on BMI. 26% BMI is the top % of the ideal weight in that category. It is the percent of fat on you. You want that 26 or less to help you keep your weight off. I think anything below 18 is considered underweight.

My reading showed I should be at 146. I changed it to 130 because that is where I feel I would be the healthiest. At one time I weighed 108 but that was after boot camp and I felt very sick all the time. Then I had 3 kids, got out of the military, got divorced, went to nursing school and had been slowly expanding the whole time. I remember being 130 and that was the best I felt.
Also when calculating where you should be for BMI, check your height and your frame. Found this on a website when researching gastric bypass.

The easy way to figure out if you are small, med or large frame is to take your middle finger and your thumb and wrap it around the wrist of the opposite arm. If they overlap, small frame, just touch, med frame and don't touch, large frame. This is not the most accurate and not sure if it takes into account if your body fat has overtaken the bony areas but it is fun.

Hello all! I just wanted to pop in and say hello. I signed up at MRC yesterday and started preconditioning this morning. I have 30 pounds to lose and I'm looking forward to it!