I'm so frustrated... I just spent 1/2 hour typing a message to everyone in here and when I went to post, I had to re-sign in and now my message is lost in space somewhere.

I'll try to post again in while - it was a damn good post too...

I am Phase 1 Day 1 today!! Wooohoo..

I went and stocked up on good groceries last night so I am set for a few days anyways..

Lori

One month, one day, 14 hours, 41 minutes and 13 seconds. 316 cigarettes not smoked, saving $126.45. Life saved: 1 day, 2 hours, 20 minutes.

well i go shopping on friday...so far i feel like i start phase 1 over every morning...its the little things..but with a groc day that will help... yesterday ended up like a phase 2 because i had a serving of fruit...opps

Well, I drank waaayy too much wine again last night !!

I gotta quit that. Even if I'm good on all other aspects of the diet, the wine will be my downfall.

It's the weekend now and I'm going to do my best to stay away ....

Hey everybody -- I'm on Day 1 right now. Seems to be going just fine, tho due to a crazy morning I haven't had lunch yet... I've eaten both my snacks and breakfast, but no lunch. I'm about to do that. i've got my day all out of whack.... But no serious cravings for anything yet (there have been cravings, but nothing too persistent!). So far it's pretty easy, but I hear the 2nd and 3rd days are the worst! So I won't jinx myself

Okay... have a great Friday everyone

Hey guys! i just started today (14th) I have had success with SB in the past but all the weight is back... which sucks! I'm a vegan so no cheesey snacks for me! I'm also not eating nuts seeing that if i eat one i eat 500 hundred more i'm excited to finally lose the weight for good~!

I have the same problem with nuts... I can't keep them around or I just keep munching! Any kind of snack food is hard for me in that regard.

I tried the faux-homefries this morning made with radishes... They were pretty good! Not quite like potatoes, but I don't usually crave potatoes. I actually really liked the way they still tasted like radishes, but dressed up with a bit of crumbled turkey bacon and some onions and chili powder. Mmm. I think I can get used to that

Hope everyone else's Phase 1 is going well!

Nuts are evil! Roasted chick peas are tasty though. Remember to get your dairy and legumes and this will be easier!

Hi All,

Hope everyone had a good weekend on P1. I was supposed to start phasing out P1 so I started with going for East Indian Food on Friday night - NOT a good idea. Even though I stayed away from most of the really bad things, I still ate way too much. I think I ate more Friday than I have in 2 weeks ! The worst part is, when I wake up the next day after a big meal, I'm starving!

So Saturday I had 1 piece of multigrain toast and 1 fried egg. Lunch didn't happen, but had turkey soup for supper (it has corn and peas and turnip and carrots - so it's kind of heavy on the starch/sugar side). I allowed myself 4 potatoe chips that evening while watching a movie. Felt pretty good about Saturday all things considered... and then Sunday happened....

My TMO arrived on Saturday evening so I was feeling pretty crappy come Sunday. Had 1 egg, 1 1/2 pieces of toast and 4 strips of bacon for breaky. We ate late so no lunch. We had BF's parents over for dinner and I was so hungry come 3:00 that I started in on the chips on the table.... I don't know how many I had, but I know it was way too many. Ate bbq chicken (including the skin) for dinner. Pigged out on salad and spaghetti squash. So dinner wasn't a bust... had fresh strawberries and cool whip for desert...

Problem came later when I decided I wanted ice cream and I didn't care what it was going to do to me... Had a Buster Bar from Dairy Queen. Now, Dairy Queen isn't ice cream, it's ice milk, but it had peanuts and fudge in it too. I have no idea of the fat/carb/calorie content, but I know it's huge.

I feel so guilty about it. P1 was frustrating for me because I couldn't feel any changes in my clothes. The scale said I was 180 on Friday, but I was guessing my SW at 190, so I may not have moved that much at all in the end... My pants are still tight. I'm hoping this all has to do with Aunt Flo, but I feel a little discouraged. If I could feel the difference, I would've stayed away from the Buster Bar.

Anyone feel like they're getting no where?

I'm back OP today - scrambled egg with slice of cheddar for bfast. I'm going back on P1 for the most part. I don't think I'm ready for P2 yet...

Sorry you had such a bad weekend mgbt

It will probably take a few days back on P1 for your weight to even back out.

Today is day 8 for me and my weight went up! But I won't stress yet. I had way too many nuts this weekend, and too much chocolate (sf) milk, so I am hoping it's from that.

Keep on trucking everyone.

This weekend was a learning experience for me -- namely that me and artificial sweeteners are even bigger enemies than me and real sugar are. I bought a couple of 'sweet treat' things that are P1-friendly and ate EVERYTHING in the course of two days. In theory, they should have all lated 2 weeks+. So the weekend was kind of a bust, but now I know that I can't even allow myself things like SF fudgcicles in the house. Seems like the only sweet thing I can have and not binge on is SF jello. Maybe because I don't like it that much

Today's going well, though, and I'm not giving up. I made this really, really weird thing for lunch because I was running low on energy and wanted some small amount of allowed carbs.... So I figured I'd make a chickpea and zucchini patty. I put the chickpeas and zucchini and egg and spices together into the food processer and realized I wasn't allowed to but cracker crumbs in to make it thick! So I blended it all up, tossed the 'soup' into the frying pan with some EVOO, and make a chickpea pancake It was yummy anyway! Had it with some cauliflower and cheese on the side and it made me happy.


mgb, you might just have some bloat from TOM.... I dunno, everybody's different! 10lbs in theory should make your pants feel looser but there are so many variables.... give it some more time and drink your water

Hi....I didn't see this thread until now but would like to participate....hope you don't mind!

I am starting Phase I today and I have 10# to lose.

Let's do this!

Britomart - I can't have anything like that either. Now, I'm just terrified of having sugar. I took a client out for breakfast this morning and on the way out they have lollipops instead of mints. Usually, I just grab a few of my fav colours and keep them in my purse, but today, I had to actually turn my head the other way to stop myself. I bought a sprite on Saturday when I went grocery shopping and I'm still drinking the d*mn thing. I'm trying to force myself away. It's hard, especially right now with TMO here. I'm going to try your recipe one of these days (sans crackers) - it sounds delicious. On P2, you could put oatmeal in there as well...

Yesterday I ate 2 $1.00 bags of hickory smoked almonds. I think I had about 30 of them ! I was munching them at my desk. Dangerous combination. No munching at desk allowed. I'm going to do like I did with my 4 chips on the weekend. Count 5-7 of them and that's all I get. I have to be so utilitarian with myself !

I'm wearing a suit today that I wore to my fathers funeral in April and it seems to fit a little different in the bum. Maybe there are some changes happening... It's a 12 and it's tight around the waist, but I remember last time I wore it, I was afraid of splitting the bum... so I'm excited about that.

For breakfast I had an egg white omelet with mushrooms and cheese. I don't think it was low fat cheese, but I only ate half the omelet. It's hard eating out. I have a client for lunch too. Salad with no dressing here I come ....

I've been keeping track of what I eat on fitday.com. I'm under 1500 calories a day - without even trying. (That's on average of course, there have been a few days higher). I put in a typical day before P1, just to see, and I was eating between 3000 and 3800 a day - easy. That explains a lot !

Phish - you're weight went up? Were you eating salty nuts? Are you drinking lots of water?

Alantra - how are things going with you? I see you've quit smoking too ! Way to go !! My brother in law is on quit net as well and he just keeps encouraging me to quit. My BF wants to quit and we've tried a couple times. He just stops. No problem. No withdrawals. It's eerie because he smokes way stronger cigs than me and way more than me. I go nuts. I've quit for long periods of time in the past, and I'll be trying again. Not right now though. I'm not ready and I really think I have to be ready. If you can do that, you can do anything in the world ! You rock girl!

Tamara

Tamara - mm, oats in them would probably be even better than crumbled saltines! The only function the carb has is to thicken the things so they stick together like little hamburgers... Is there anything non-carby that thickens things too? I can only think of bread products and corn starch and flour...


Sooo.... I still haven't had one full solid day on P1. Today will be the day, though, I have absolutely nothing in the house to cheat with!! Last night I found a box of cookies I had stashed away.. and ate them all. I kept looking at them, telling myself I didn't want them -- and I didn't, really -- but I ate them all anyway. Then you know what happened? I woke up repeatedly during the night with a stabbing headache! I've never had a headache that actually woke me up after I had been asleep. I can't think what it was except those damn cookies -- all that carb after so little carb. Well that was a wake up call!! It's one thing to read about the effects of too much bad carbohydrates, it's another thing to empirically experience those effects and have no other possible cause to blame it on. Holy cow. Makes me really determined to stick with SB now!!

Hey all! I am just finishing up day 3 of phase 1. It's going quite well! I haven't weighed myself yet. I think I will tomorrow. I'm not really feeling any different.
I don't like using artificial sweeteners, so far I haven't. Just staying away from the sweet stuff. So far no cravings
And I think salsa will be my best friend for the next 11 days....
It's only 2 weeks!!! We can do it!!!