Hi all,

My reboot is going well. Today completes Week 7.

For those interested, I have tracked my stats very closely and I can share with you some insights.
First, some background...
I rebooted and got within 20 pounds of my goal after losing 63 pounds. I achieved this the first week of November. I transitioned off using a ketogenic diet which I successfully maintained with mini reboots thrown in to compensate for Thanksgiving and Christmas. On Jan 28, I was the same weight from when I transitioned off for the holidays. That day is remarkable because it was my brother's birthday and I took the family out for a fun night at the casino and dinner. We wound up at the buffet vs waiting until 9 pm for our steakhouse reservation. At that point, I decided I was going to partake in a "normal" dinner at such a place and not have an IP dinner especially given that I was at my pre-holiday weight. Well, that triggered a month-long binge of eating whatever I wanted - goodies, fast food, etc. I couldn't get control for a month. So, today is the end of week 7 of IP since that month-long binge.

I am surprised by how long it is taking me to lose the weight gained during that month. It is going to take me 8 weeks (I will weigh myself tomorrow but I was 5 pounds away at my last week's weighing).

Conclusion - Right now, without transitioning and simply falling back into worst eating habits, it requires 2 days of IP to every 1 day off IP. I'll use this in the future because if I had made a conscious decision I would not have chose this meaning if someone said to me are you willing to trade 4 weeks of absolute diet freedom for 8 weeks of IP to get back to where you are, I would have said, "No, that is not worth it". So, I'll ask myself this in the future when I am in this situation again.

In other news, I have having a pretty big shoulder surgery on April 27. I have fully torn my rotator cuff along with some other issues. I have decided to continue to do IP through this ordeal. I wanted to lose that remaining 20 pounds after the holidays and so I am going to keep going - it may wind up being 10 depending upon how I feel but I am going to stick with my plan and drop the additional weight I had planned when I transitioned off in November. I had purchased 6 weeks of IP food thinking it was going to take me at most 6 weeks to drop the weight I had gained so that is now all gone. So, I am now using alternatives and will probably do that for the remainder P1 timeframe, mainly using Quest protein powder. This week I am using up the remaining products I had from Nashua Nutrition and then starting next week it will be all Quest for the most part.

Welcome back to former IPeeps who are launching their reboots!!!

I seemed to be determined to cut corners and make my reboot slow... I messed up and fell out of ketosis the week before last and this most recent week has been all about getting back to where I was 3 weeks ago.... I hope the weigh in tomorrow will show something that looks like 205 or better.... then I can resume the descent to one-derland.

Honesty - I messed around having extra restricteds, some half & half in my coffee, and skipping out on veggies and supplements... why would I expect any other result?

The mind game was winning during the second part of March-- I hope I am learning some lessons and able to behave differently so I can be successful!!

thanks for the support here...

cheryl

Ok, time to buckle down, Cheryl!!!!
Good luck on the weigh-in. I hope it is "better".

Hello everyone!

Reboot is going well. Starting week 4 and down 8.8. I have a vacation in Mid May. My daughter graduates from college in Oregon. My plan is to transition for the 2 weeks before I go(1week each on P2 & P3) and then stay as close as I can to P3 during the vacation week and go right back to P1 when I return until I reach my goal. My osteoarthritis is really giving me a hard time right now so I know there is inflammation going on. But the scale keeps moving down so I'm happy. It's just so hard to get the motivation to work out, either cardio or weights, when it makes me hurt. :-( I know in the long run it will help my joints by my muscles being strong, but it's a long road to get there.

Liana: I have a new perspective on donuts now. Thanks!

Ro: Sending good thoughts for your shoulder surgery.

Thanks, Andrea. Congrats on the loss, your plan and the daughter's graduation!!!

I just learned about something recently from my Dad for which my sister-in-law has been taking and she reports great results. I am going to start it after my surgery which is a Boron supplement - look it up as it may help with the arthritis. My sister-in-law cleans houses for a living and she has always had to wear kneepads because of inflammation in her knees. She says that since she has been taking Boron she often forgets them as she doesn't need them. My sister-in-law is a big skeptic so I give this much more credence than I normally would. Also, she used to have significant menopause symptoms and she said those have dramatically reduced since taking this so given my sister-in-law's personality, it had me look into and conclude that I am going to add this to my supplement mix. I am waiting until after the surgery because the hospital told me I had to stop all supplements 5 days before surgery so no use starting for 6 days or so and then stopping for 5. In case anyone is curious, it is because Vitamin E and fish oils are known to cause bleeding.

Fell off the wagon this week and into a pile of cadbury eggs...

BACK ON THE WAGON STRONG and placing an order with Nashua right now.

Well, the good thing is you are back at it and without going off for too long!!!

Staceyjblack: I ran into that same pile of eggs! For 2 days! I don't know what to do here: Since last October, I seem to be fine on this diet for a week, maybe 2, then I fall off and overeat for an entire day; sometimes two. I'm worried that this cycle keeps repeating itself because of the restrictive nature of this diet, and that maybe I should try something different, and a little less harsh. On the other hand, In 2013, I managed to stay on IP, without ever cheating, for 4 months, and lost 46 lbs. Why can't I muster that willpower again?

I can't answer why but I can tell you that I did the same thing 2 years ago on my first reboot. I couldn't make it past 3 weeks so for months it was 3 weeks on and 3 weeks off and I wondered the same as you. The added problem was that I was not losing what I gained in the 3 weeks off so I kept having a net addition so finally I just broke the cycle. I didn't do anything magical other than just get sick of being so restrictive for 3 weeks only to be bigger 3 weeks later - I finally said I am not going to keep working this hard for no results so I am going to commit. I also did one other thing. The first time on IP I had no creativity - I ate the packets per directions and that was it. When I re-committed to the reboot, I was creative by getting Janeva's cookbook and researching recipes and that has made it much more satisfying and enjoyable. I'm not sure if you are much of a cook but you don't really have to be - you just need to be curious and have a desire to make things you really like. This is endless - 2 years later during my reboots I am finding new recipe ideas.

Hi Ro! I will definitely look into the Boron. Right now I am back on Meloxicam for the inflammation/pain and it is a little easier to live with. I read up on rotator cuff injuries after reading your post. I think I may have an injury there as well. I can't lift anything with my right arm without pain. Stretching/or reaching up causes pain. I'm also having trouble with my wrists and when I wake up in the morning my hands hurt. This started a few months ago. Around the same time my knee that I had surgery on started bothering me again. I go to get my Synvisc injection for my knee this week and I'm going to ask about the shoulder.

In my research I read at Dr. Weil's site that osteoarthritis is NOT systemic, and only it occurs at joints where injury or sustained damage has ocurred, but the PA at my ortho told me just the opposite. All I know is that I am in pain.

Monday was my weigh in. It was successful 3.5lbs. I am so excited to be back on track. I'm not going to look for any super duper goals because I want to make the goal each day by getting through each day.
Here's to a new day💋💖💋💖

Glad to report that my weigh in was good -- back to where I was 2 weeks ago after failing to follow protocol. Two weeks of my journey lost just because i did not do what I knew I should be doing.

So this week I am back on track - and this morning I delved into new pounds for this reboot -- just a smidge less than 30 lbs down since I began in early January. And only 4 pounds to One-derland. What an accomplishment that will be - I just need to stay the course and I will get there.

I am glad to be in good company here in this group - but I do hope the falls into the Easter candy for some of you do not result in 2 weeks lost for everyone who indulged - After a week of cutting corners on the protocol, I then gave in to the old "Well I am out of ketosis so I might as well enjoy some good stuff before I get back on the wagon". And that gave me an extra couple pounds - and it took another week to get back to ketosis and lose the 4 lbs I had picked up on my adventure of straying off the path.

Gotta trust the process and stay with it -- the results are so predictable when we do.

Congrats! Little by little we go a long way.