Ok, hoping to not plant the seed here but man, oh, man do I want peanut butter!!!!!!!! I love it and miss it! I think I am craving fats :/ Anyway, I was going to cheat and have a TBSP instead of olive oil but then I realized I accidentally bought the kids organic peanut butter with added sugar! I normally get all natural peanut butter with nothing added except sometimes salt. I guess this was a blessing in disguise (though I don't particularly want to feed it to them either) but I won't cheat if it has added sugar . . . I somehow have justified the natural peanut butter cheat but not the sugary kind. Craving isn't gone but I am saved from my temptation no less . . .

For my PM snack I made a double shot of espresso and poured it over my frozen chocolate drink. Shook it up. Icy chocolatey mocha goodness. Wish I didn't feel like I could eat 3 more of them lol!! On the bright side, just a few hours from dinner time!

Try the peanut butter bar, it's really good tasting.

I am afraid of the bars . . . afraid I will want more than one. Even so, I am not permitted restricted food yet :/

Ahh,
It's funny how much advice varies from coach to coach, some say to wait on restricted, some don't. Some say no coffee, some say go ahead.

The bars are actually pretty filling, first time I had one for a snack it lasted me 2 snacks, but I seem to be kind of unusual in that fact.
My wife pounds them down pretty quick lol.

Ugh. I am certain none of them would agree with my skewed thinking . . . that a TBSP of natural nut butter (peanut or almond) is an ok cheat. This is my second time doing it and I KNOW I am not supposed to but I do it anyway. But I have somehow also rationalized it a bit so my mind is twisted. On one hand, I know its wrong and regret it and on the other I do it anyway and thing "eh, it won't derail my progress". Guess I may find out the hard way that it does :/

So, I am a bit annoyed with my doctor's office. I left on Thursday w/o a diet log, without a follow up appointment, without havnig a BMI check. I left a message and nobody has called me. I will run out of food on Thursday morning. Sooooo they are going to need to squeeze me in and I hope they can. . . . Does anyone else feel that your "coach" is more of a just a conduit through which products get sold? I don't feel they are very knowledgeable or anything . . . but that's just me.

Glad to find this posts, this is Day 3 for me.....we were away all weekend at my daughter's softball tournament out of town, so I figured if I survived that, I could do it at home. Packed all my food, and did it, didn't like it (McDonald's smell filling the car tough to resist!!!) but I did it. I am struggling with creative ways to choke down the 2 cups veggies twice a day, I relish breakfast where all I have to do is eat the IP food......

JellyRoll,
I feel like you, only it was 15 lbs in a year. Kept fooling myself till the 10's wouldn't button and my fav. shorts I was avoiding wouldn't go past the hips..

I am on Day 3 and have had a headache for the past 6 days (I get headaches from neck injury already), afraid to take anything not knowing what reacts with what????

Hang in there! We can do it, not letting the headache give me an excuse to eat something, just had a shade (the cranberry/blueberry something, pretty good!!)

Today was my first day!! (kind of ..). I said I'd start today, but was traveling and didn't get home to my IP shipment until snack time (3pm). But, I think I did an okay job at mimicking - Whey protein isolate shake for breakfast, cauliflower/cucumber/chicken for lunch, then home to my first IP bar, for dinner grilled chicken and zucchini. Curious about a couple of things:

1) Lettuce stir-fry?
2) How many people wo on IP and does it increase weight loss or decrease for you? For some reason when I workout - I lose weight faster (probably water retention).

Oh - I also wanted to give a little background - I'm 28 but have already yo-yo dieted more than I'd care to count. It started in high school .... at my heaviest I was 170. I've gotten down to 135 2x in my recent history and each time gain the weight back. I know I'm fortunate in some ways because even my heaviest has been a lighter starting weight then some - but the emotional fatigue and loss of self esteem in regards to weight has taken its toll with the constant regain .... constant ... if only I had kept with it ....

I am glad someone else had the same question about the lettuce stir fry, I thought it was just me.

Thanks for sharing this with us. I tried it yesterday with the chocolate drink and I think that is my new obsession.

Whirleybird, you made me laugh out loud, I am with you, the back fat hanging over the bra is too much to bear, I live in Florida for Pete's sake....can't wear a hoody anymore out in public!!! I teach and have not taken my kids anywhere to the beach due to will NOT be in pubic 1/2 dressed!! Buying a bigger bra killed me....

Okay everyone, I just read all the posts for this thread, it sounds like an awesome group and we all have more or less the same story.......I love some of the direct comments on setbacks, I think for me an accountability partner is a key to my success.... any takers??? I need to partner with someone.....

Josey, I am here a lot since I work from home. so I would be glad to help ya out!