Hi Kerri - nice to see you back with us. I also watched BL & love watching it every week. Nice to see their progress. This group really has some sad stories for sure.

Well, I got in another walk last night & off to Tops tonight. I think I will be down abit at the scales - hope so. I have pretty much stayed OP & walked
8.3 miles this past week, but as we all know the scales can be unfriendly at times.

Made "mock mashed potatoes" (mashed cauliflower with cream cheese & marg) and that was really good. Had that with broc/cheese stuffed chicken breast for my supper last night. Very yummy!

Hope everyone is staying OP, exercising and drinking their water!

Hi Turtles,
I'm running very busy which I have been doing for a long time now, but I have good news on the : Remember last week I was sure I had broken 200# and I didn't. Well, this week I broke 200# with room to spare. I am so pleased to announce that my WI showed me at 197#. to me!!!!!!

I am determined to reach a goal of 150# this year. By mid-September 2010, I will have done it. I'm giving myself so many positive suggestions and positive self talk and it's helping me. I am also getting on the for 30 min./1 1/2miles as often as possible, and everyday I do a simple 20 minute toning tape from WW's that includes a bit of weight work with barbells. Right now mine are 3#, but I expect to move up to 5# by C hristmas.

I am officially down 37# and am thrilled. I rejoined WW's in 2000, lost 25# that year and have been basically maintaining ever since. This is the least I have been since 2000, and that's a very good thing.

Cherry and Kerri, keep on keepin' on----you can make this work.

Lauren, I hope you can chime in soon. I miss you.

MsMeri and Lin, keep up the good work and keep up with the food tips. They always help someone.

Bandit, I how you're working out again and I've got my fingers crossed right back at you for a : tomorrow.

Okay guys=-=gotta run, but I knew you'd like to know that I am offically in ONEDERLAND
Judy
234.6/197/195 and another 5# down.

Bandit, I love the mock potato's, I will have my Tops weigh-in ...in the morning..I sure hope you are down....

I hope you all are having a wonderful week...

Morning, turtles:

Judy - WOW!!! Great results at the scale. You really are doing sooooo
wonderful!

Kerri - good luck at the scales!

I was down .75# last night - so was happy with that. Just good to see a loss at the scales.

Princess - how you doing? Hope to see you back here posting.

Everyone else - hope you are all doing well.

Bandit, : Yay! You're on the right track now.
By the way, thanks for the great support. I've worked so hard for this and it's nice to get your kind words.
Judy
234.6/197/195 and 40#down

Hi Judy - thanks! I know I asked you this already - but what programme are you following? I think it was your sisters or friends version of something?
I should be eating more blueberries - heard they help memory :-)

Lunch time - YAH! Get to eat again. Today I brought rye crackers with a can of the thai spicy tuna and clementines. So looking forward to that.

Have a great day!

JUDY!!!! You're in ONEDERLAND!!!!!!!!!!

HOOOOOORRAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!



I am SO HAPPY for you!!!!

WWWHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

You have worked SO hard for this, for so long, and YOU DID IT!!!!

I can't find enough superlatives to express what I'm feeling, so I'll stop now. But I am just THRILLED for you!!!! I wish I could give you a huge hug!

I have nothing big to report, just keeping on here. Went for a walk last night with DH, in the dark, because I'd been sitting on my butt all day. It felt great.

Will try to post more regularly. Look what I miss when I don't!!!!

Lauren,
I'm so glad to hear your hearty congrats! You made me feel so good. This struggle to break 200# has been ongoing for sooooooooo long and it feels great to have done it. Now I can read your onward and downward and dream of being 135#. Many thanks, dear friend.

Bandit, again thanks for your kind congrats too! I have been using a version of an eating plan from The Fast Track Detox diet by Ann Louise Gittlemna, Ph.D. I'll summarize it here for you and whoever is interested, and if you have any questions, ask away. This worked for me because WW's Core worked for me. After working from this article for a couple of months, I didn't lose much weight, but my measurements changed nicely. Also it broke my plateau. Now I bought the book and eat more options than this article suggests. (I also tried the jumpstart juice day and found it was too little food and I got dizzy and jittery, so I'm not going to include that. You'll lose weight even without that.)
Here goes:

Days 1-7 menus below
Days 8-11 add 1 cup plain low-fat yogurt daily

Breakfast (choose one daily)
1 Fast track smoothie (recipe at end of this)
or
2 eggs, 2 cups steamed spinach, juice of 1/2 lemon, 1 cup berries, 1T.flaxseed (Breakfast is big!)

Lunch choose one daily
4oz. salmon or turkey breast
2 cups mixed salad with 1/4c. each onions, radish cucumbers, tomatoes, celery, olives and 1T. each olive oil and vinegar
OR
4oz. lean burger, 1 cup sauteed veggies, 2 cups mixed salad (as above)

Dinner (choose one daily)

4oz. chicken breast w/ sauteed onions, garlic, lemon and parsley to taste
1/2 c. steamed cauliflower
4 artichoke hearts
Or
4 oz. lean beef, 2 t. spice rub , 1 small baked potato, 1/2c. each steamed broccoli and asparagus 1 t. each olive oil and lemon juice

Snack (choose two daily)
2 hard boiled eggs and 1 cup fresh-cut veggies
1 orange, apple, or pear
2 stalks celery and 1 small raw carrot
1 Fast track smoothie

Recipe for fast track smoothie (as organic as you can find--Trader Joe's has all of these ingredients and so will most health food stores)
In blender, whip 1 cup water, 1 cup frozen berries, 1 scoop vanilla whey powder, 1T. flaxseed oil, 1 T ground flaxseed, 2t. lemon juice, 1 t. unsweetened cranberry juice, 1 packet stevia and 8 ice cubes.

Gittleman also likes organic foods, doesn't like the microwave using plastic trays, really doesn't like regular strawberries and spinach since they are farmed with pesticides. Also doesn't like seafood from polluted waters (duh).

As time went on, I added all sorts of food items such as green beans, brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes, zucchini, mushrooms --lots of mushrooms. I used all sorts of veggies to keep my interest up. I also added a Dr. Praeger's veggetable patty here and there and lately I've added in Ezikiel bread (but I have to be very careful with that because bread can be a trigger food for me). Bandit, I hope this helps.

Everybody, have a great day. I can't believe the weekend is almost here again.

Judy
234.6/197/195 and downward and onward

Judy - thank you very much. I'll check this out over the weekend & try incorporating some of these in my menus. Any help is always appreciated with adding new things or just changing things up.

Have a great weekend, ladies!

Well my tops weigh-in was not so great...up 1/4 ...Sat will be weigh-in for WW...Not doing well at all.I am like the ping pong ball, back and forth up and down and up....I will do better....

Judy thanks for the info...

Hope you all have a great week-end....

Hi!

I posted yesterday, but my post disappeared.


, Judy!! Lots of happy And many, many

You've worked so hard and deserve a great celebration!! So--go buy a new T-shirt or something

It's late, so I'll pop back in tomorrow and post replies. I wanted to let you all know that I lost one more pound this week. I'm at an even 225 and have lost an even 20 pounds. (242 isn't the start weight for the total pounds down count. It's a bit confusing because I lost a few before I restarted WW and the 242 is my initial WW start weight.)

Keep on turtlin'!

Lin, here's to another : You're doing great! (I understand the difference with your numbers on the ticker factor because I've got the same deal going. When I say I was 234.6/that was in 2000, but as long as we all know we're heading in the right direction it is all good!) I'm so proud of you losing so much weight so nicely. I'm so thrilled that you're back here at your site to let us share in your progress.

Kerri, you're only up a tiny bit. Do you want to choose one thing to work on this week that might help you break the yo yo cycle? Talk to us and we'll help you out.

A word about the diet information I posted yesterday. Watch it pretty carefully in this regard: the shake points out to about ten points. When you point out the whole day using an apple one time and an orange as the other snack, I pointed it out as 23points. That's how I worked it into the WW plan. However, there are loads more point friendly shakes out there. This is a "healthy" shake since the flaxseed meal and the flax oil contain omega 3's. (Thought you'd like to know.)

I need to tighten my food up a bit today. You all take care and have a great weekend. We're off to have fun with our dd and grandson at a farm that has hay rides, etc.

Judy
234.6/197/195

YAY ONEDERLAND!

We are so proud of you Judy. 197 that is great!

Hi!

Kerri, sometimes it helps to convert those small gains into ounces. 1/4 pound is only 4 ounces. That can be explained by something like water retention, especially if it's hot or you've eaten something with a lot of salt recently. You're doing better than you think you are. Hang in there.

, Bandit. Nice going this week.

Judy, thanks for the info. A bit boring for my taste, but it's healthy and I can see that it could help people. I see two things that people who follow that type of program have to watch out for. First, because it's so restricted, it's hard to stick with it long enough to lose a lot of weight. So, it's good that you've found ways to vary it and keep it interesting for you.

The other thing is that it doesn't teach people how to maintain the loss unless they plan on sticking with it forever. So, if people follow this type of program, they need to have a plan for maintenance. It's likely that the author has one and it just wasn't part of your post, being as that's irrelevant. But it is something people who do restricted programs like that need to think about.

I'm doing fine, so far this week. It's a bit of a struggle. I try to maintain my natural optimism, but it's really easy to slide into "situational depression", as I call it. When the situation is fixed, the depression goes away. So far, I've managed not to overeat in response to what's going on in my life. What helps are my faith, my family and my friends. Your support is really helpful. Thank you.

Lin, thanks for the input. I agree with everything you said about the food program I am following right now. However, it broke my plateau which was huge since I had been yo yoing for so long. The second advantage it had was that I didn't have to think about food at all. Believe it or not, the break from planning and preparing (except for the most minimal level) was welcome and helped me focus away from food. I think that this is why it worked for me and now I'm set to move on to try other things. I have become convinced that if I can move on to another eating plan before my body decides to plateau, I can reach goal!!!!! LOL.

MsMeri, hey, are you okay? I'm missing you.

Cherry, thanks so much for the congrats. I remember on this site before when Lauren had such a spectacular weight loss and broke into onederland that I was so thrilled. It gave me the courage to hunker on and lose some weight myself.

We also had a great member named Ariana who consistently lost weight, worked very hard at it, and was successful. Her weight loss encouraged me to keep on. It's weird how that works.

Kerry, good luck on your WW WI coming up. : We're all pulling for you.

Bandit, how was your weekend?

Princess, I'm missing you. Are you doing okay?

My food is going well. Today I am trying to shave off a few points to see a loss on the Wednesday WI. Last week I lost three pounds, so it will be difficult to knock off any weight this week. However, I don't want to go up and I'm hoping to lose at least a 1/2pound. Lin---keep those conversions coming. I love the way you transfer the pound/decimal to pound/ounces. I tried it and it's amazing.

Okay, gotta run. Is anyone up for a Halloween Challenge?
I'll start:
1. arm/toning exercises at least 4X weekly
2. exercise or boardwalk walking at least 4X weekly
3. count and record points daily
4. aim for 1# or more loss weekly to be 190# by Halloween!

What are your goals?
Judy
234.6/197/195 It's fun being in onederland