Hi everybody! I am thinking of joining you! I did phase 1 SBD in the summer and i did lose the weight - 4 pounds, then i did not do phase 2, no patience and i went on holiday so now i reached another rock bottom, feeling fat and need to get myself out of it. I am scared because Christmas is coming and I don't want to binge eat again and weight even more in January... I know i can't do it alone and i need some support. My plan is to get on phase 1.5 or phase 2 and do some exercise, even a pound off is like a dream come true! I need to do this, I can't stay depressed any more!

Today:
B - celery dipped in yogurt, some veggies with cheese
L - Indian beef and veg with half pork chop and veg with cheese (quite fat because of cooking) and yogurt and few walnuts(not as large as it sounds)
D - walnuts, few biscuits, some veggies ( still quite fat actually) and a bit of fish

Aim for tomorrow - get those snacks in the day and increase veg intake as supposed to fat nuts and fat yogurt, start buying low fat yogurt.

Last weight check: 05/12/10 - 152
Next weight check: 09/12/10

As promised, here is the pic of Voodoo with Santa

weezle: cute pic! My favorite dog is an alaskan husky, I just don't have the house or the space for one.

Ladies, I am not doing well. This is day 8 and I am ready to throw in the towel, just to taste pizza or have a quesadilla with my son. Food is mostly social for me. It is hard to eat differently from my family, well, at least since day five of the diet. I know it is working, as I have lost 5 lb, however, I am so moody. As I mentioned before, I have my mood disorder against me. I have been having a great week up to yesterday. I have begun a new episode, which messes with my mind alot. I have been good not to touch nono foods, but I have been resentful and sad because I want it and can't. Almost blaming my hubby for being on it and supporting me...stupid, I know. I bet many of you have been through this in this phase. Well, I thought I'd let it out and share...Im sad and frustrated.

Anyone ever read the Glucose Revolution? It kinda refutes some of what we do in this diet...like the idea of including carbs in the diet...but just being careful about the glucose index and the fat in the food. It made it clear that the brain needs the carbohydrates because it can't use fat as energy. Only our muscles can use carbs and fat. Also, it made a statement about our bodies burning them in an order, first it goes after the carbs, then fats, then protein. What do you all think about this information? Interesting, I thought.

Frustrated Leslie

Leslie,

Try to keep going, recognizing that it is just two weeks of your life. The purpose of the clean two weeks is to get rid of the cravings, and just as a drug addict, you crave what you can't have.

As to the specific foods, like quesadillas and pizza, it helps me to remember that eating those foods helped me to get fat. "I can eat those foods, or I can be thinner, but I can't be both". Over time, I have been able to tweak some of the old favorites, but it is a process and takes time.

I'm late checking in!!! Good evening, ladies. It was super cold and way too darn early, so we skipped the Christmas parade on Saturday, much to Shadow's dismay. Flight to Orlando was a little bumpy, but otherwise good. In true Southern fashion we went straight to the World of Beer (I only had 1) and THEN worried about getting dinner. Had another beer at dinner w/ my avocado burger on whole wheat bun (looked it up online, though, and the frigging calories, carbs, and sodium are through the roof on it...guess I should've gone w/ a salad instead). Made the drive home Sunday after packing Jersey up...only took us about 6 1/2 hours even w/ stopping for lunch (that time I *did* have a salad) and gas. I had only been home about 4 hours when I got called out for SWAT for a barricaded gunman...man was it cold out there!!! Even w/ gloves on my fingers were FROZEN.

Today we took some homemade vegetable soup over to a co-worker's house. Her husband is having surgery today to drain some fluid off his legs. He's diabetic and is starting to have a lot of complications. Put up the Christmas tree, as well, and I'm still finishing it up. Then I've got to make some pumpkin bread to take to the Christmas party tomorrow night. I need to watch my measuring b/c I was making a double recipe of mock cornbread earlier and put 2 tablespoons of salt instead of 2 teaspoons...oops!!!

No time for personals tonight...see you ladies tomorrow. Hope you all had a fabulous weekend!!!