Hi there, ladies!
Jandaman -- Congrats on completing P1. I can imagine how great the first taste of apple was! If I remember, correctly, my first week on P1.5 I did oatmeal in the morning as my carb. The second week I added blueberries (eaten with protein of cottage cheese or yogurt) as a snack. Then, the third week I added whole wheat bread (120 cal for two slices) with eggs for breakfast -- made me more satisfied for the rest of the day. It was scary to have bread in the house for the first few weeks!

I finally took a look at my food/mood diary for the past week+ and I realized that my sleep schedule got messed up (from worrying about my mom), I was feeling too ill to work out, and I stopped eating breakfast at a regular time. Those three things led me to go off plan, feel out of control...and as the scale crept upwards, I felt more out of control. Finally, after days of coming on here and feeling encouraged and saying I was going to stop it, today I am back on track. (Hour by hour, sometimes minute by minute.) I'm too ill to visit my mom today, which might be a good thing -- being there & dealing w/ my father is stressful! So, today I'm focussing on eating reasonable amounts and spreading some carbs throughout the day. Not quite SB....but just can't go back to P1 with all the stress I'm under.

B: oatmeal (made with soy milk and protein powder), one strawberry, 1/3 banana, cinnamon
L: 3 small turkey meatballs, raw spinach, Brussels sprouts, kale salad with 1/4 cup apple
S: 2 Laughing Cow Lites with 7 walnut halves
D: Baked kale chips and string beans, 1 egg & 2 egg whites w/ sauteed onion
Sugar-free throat lozenges throughout the day!

Jandaman After christmas and new year (and alot of off plan foods) I re did my 2 weeks of phase 1, and since then I have been doing 1.5, mostly, I will have the odd bit of starch on special occasions... but I have to be extremely strict with myself to keep it to just that one bit, otherwise I might go off the deepend
....and Im glad you enjoyed that apple

EliseVi Glad to hear things are going a bit better for you, please take care of yourself.

Phase 1.5 (fruit, no grain)

Greek yogurt - Vanilla
Celery w/ PB
Glass of Skim Milk

Left over Texmex Casserole (last piece)
Fresh Salsa
Cutie Tangerine
Diet Coke
Pudding

*Evil Cupcake*

Egg Salad on Cucumber 'coins'

Cheese String (if peckish later on this evening)

***At work today, a client brought in a bunch of mini cupcakes from a local gourmet cupcake shop... it was very nice of them, but still evil in its own way. All around me everyone was munching away on these delish looking creations, needless to say I caved and joined them (still, I BLAME TOM!).
Ah well, tomorrows another (cupcake free) day.***

Lindsay, the evil cupcake emoticon made me laugh!!!

Today I'm using as much honey in my tea as I need for my throat; sorry Dr. A!
B: 1 egg & 2 eggs' whites, whole wheat English muffin, 1 Laughing Cow lite, ruby red grapefruit
L: Lentil soup
S: 7 walnut halves with LC
D: turkey chili (if it defrosts in time) or steamed chicken & broccoli

I ate horribly all week for DWs birthday and literally getting sick from it didn't stop me. SIGH

back to Ph 1

B: Mexican eggs with turkey bacon, coffee
L: cobb salad
S: cucumbers and hummus
D: Middle eastern beef on romaine boats
S: cottage cheese

eliselack of sleep reallywreaks havoc with everything doesn't it? glad you're getting back on track. baby steps, right??!!

lindsaywhat i wrote above goes TRIPLE for TOM. ugh! i feel your evil cupcake pain. i always feel helpless before my cravings then.

Had company over the weekend, three glasses of white wine seemed just fine at the time.....how to stay OP when hungover? *sigh*

P 1.5 MAR 2
B: tomato relish, zucchini&ham&cheese frittata
S: apple w/cheese
L: swedish meatballs, green beans & roasted yams&pumpkin
S:
D:spinach quiche & salad
De: 3 glasses white wine

P1.5 MAR 3

here's the hangover madness

B: 1 slice organic wg bread w/lf cream cheese, ham&cheese, turkey bacon&scrambled eggs on top, lf latté
S:tuna salad (just canned tuna w/honey mustard vinaigrette)
L: broccoli quiche (3 pieces-no salad)
s: macadamia nuts (mebbe 10?) 2 coke zero
D: 3 bowls (1/2 cup each) of whole grain spelt flakes and lf milk

and i could've eaten the whole bag...and they taste a bit like cardboard! go figure!