rubyh

Glad to hear you are feeling well. I'm sorry about your sister but I'm sure she'd be proud of you taking care of yourself.

IPRound2

Olives aren't allowed. This is disappointing to me.

Good morning. Day 1 of round 2 phase 1 for me. Going well so far but it's early. I really do like the easiness of phase 1 so that I was looking forward to. I got a little out of hand the last few weeks though so I'm scared of the headaches that are to come. I know how to handle them. Can't wait to finally get to goal!

Evening everyone. Sorry I haven't been around but I am trying to read up on the posts here. I've been busy with work which is rare for this time of year but with the nice weather I have been going strong. We had 57 degrees here today. Unheard of here in Iowa in January. I'll take it!

Happy to report I had my weigh in today and lost 4 lbs and 3 inches. Yeah! Now to keep this train moving in the right direction.


Everyone take care!

Isn't our weather crazy! I had my sunroof open and went to work in a t-shirt!

Great work on the loss!

I was talking with a lady from our dance studio about IP and how I had lost. She's thinking of trying it. I'm going to have her check out the boards here and see if she wants to do alternatives or go to my clinic. She'll be the 4th I've sent to the clinic if she goes there. I'm just excited to be able to help someone... and a local accountability partner wouldn't be bad either!

Well, I'm back after phasing off for 4 weeks due to major surgery. Still pretty swollen, but I'm ready to start losing again. Re-starting Phase 1 on friday. So glad to be back and to see how well everyone is doing.

That is just FANTASTIC.

So are you, Marion. For your sake, as well as hers, I hope she joins.

Future S G, I'm sorry about the surgery but hope it was successful and you sure are welcome back. Good journey for here on in, OK?

Great job on the losses!

Restarting again. This time super motivated and focused. Gained 13 pounds since surgery in September, add to that the holiday overeating and,..well the rest is history. Just finished grocery shopping and guzzling water. Hope everyone is doing well

Amaliayosa I am on the same boat as you. I didnt phase off properly and went off plan due to travel/vacation schedule. I put on 10 lbs and looked horrible in all of my vacation pictures. I was thinking had I stayed on track I would have looked fabulous on my vacation. Oh well. I am back on track and this time I am going to hit my goal weight and loose these 15 lbs I have left to go. So cheers to you and me

Welcome back ladies!

in march I started IP and went from a size 18-20 to a 12. I got married in July and quit IP. I am now back up almost 30lbs since July!!! I started back up today and have the worst headache. I am hoping that a lot of that weight I regained is just water weight. I have been very bloated since stopping IP. I can't believe I let myself get this heavy again. But I know why. I have been pretty slow at work (hairdresser) the past few months so I had to take a second part time job. I picked up a PT job at mcdonalds. Yupp guess thats why I am 30lbs heavier that I was! I tried to bring my lunch and tried to stick to salads, but as an overeater I was ordering nuggets and burgers all the time. I am so ashamed I let myself get this big again. Fitting into a size 12 was the BEST feeling I ever had, and right now I am in a very tight 14. well day 2 is tomorrow. Hope I can stick to it. thanks for letting me vent.

Welcome back Amy and Sandra, commiserations, and let's get the job done this time.

Do any of you remember I'mSvelting? She shared some information that I want to share with you. She remembered that I use the USDA website to track all my food. Have for almost 5 years. So she found this website that's based on the USDA Nutritional Data, well they all are, but this one tracks everything. Not just calories but every vitamin, mineral, acid, you name it, then tells you how close you've come to meeting daily requirements. Moreover, it's calibrated to the latest research regarding basic requirements, e.g., 4,700 mg potassium rather than the old standard of 2,500. Cron-o-meter.com.

I've avoided using the popular trackers, although I think they're quite useful, because they just didn't give me enough information vis a vis an "unbalanced" diet. I've been tracking Ca, Ma, K, Na, etc., as well as calories, protein, carbs, fat, you name it. WELL, this does it ALL, automatically. And I compared it's results to the ones I did by hand, so to speak, and they were virtually identical, without the labor of looking up everything or going back in my file to copy and paste. Some things you have to enter once, like the protein isolate and supplements, but once done, it's done. (The only pain was entering the 50 or so items in the multivitamin and making sure I got the right English words for the German words.)

I don't know whether or not this will interest anyone else, but for me it's a godsend.

Wow thanks for this. I wil check it out. I hope svelting is doing well.

Welcome back! Just start where you are and do the next right thing!

I remember I'mSvelting--which makes me think I should send her a note and say hi! Very interesting tracker Linden. I like that it let's you set up defaults for a ketogenic diet or even paleo which is my of plan eating. Have you used any of their applications for an iPhone that go with it? (Maybe you don't have that option there) I'm debating about spending the $3 and testing it out but the rating isn't great.

I'm fighting a sore throat, but it's more like a sore gland... This is kind of like what I had before the extracted my teeth... but obviously there's nothing left there to abscess. Oh well, I have a busy weekend ahead, so I'll just have to cope.

Have an awesome weekend everyone!

So, here I go again. Starting phase 1 today. I will defenietly need to check in and read post daily. The first time I did IP this forum was a god send. All the support was very helpful and contributed to my success. Here is looking at another successful year. Good luck to you all that are restarting we can do this, we did it once and look at us now.