HIS-best of luck today- and I love the shirt!!! I admire you!! I assumed I got the email because of the complaint back when they changed the formula. At that point I don't think I had even trie them yet, was just adding support to all that had. I just ordered the lemon and -honestly don't remember the other- just made sure they fit P1 protocol. I know that in maintenance I can have others, but going to take a while to reprogram this brain.
Mama-sorry you've got the bug- glad that it's only "one sided" if there's any silver lining to it-hope you're better soon!
Miwi-I know exactly what you mean. Those old habits are just laying dormant ready to spring in to action the first chance they get- I feel it frequently and have to be on guard all the time! Glad you stayed strong!
Beth-I hope that you are feeling better. I'm sorry that the stress is hitting you like this. I don't want to sound like a cliche, but remember, this is only temporary. To add to it, your "environment" changes that are coming at work-I'm sorry-I aways said (back in my days in corporate-I embrace change and it's a good thing- while inside, I didn't and did the best I could- now I openly admit it- I do not like change-I embrace and hold close my routine-God help me when things get knocked out of whack. Anyways-give yourself a break with the worry!! You are amazing and have been (are) so dedicated to your fitness. I'll bet your DH has told you the same thing-you know you need rest days- let yourself have it. (I have a feeling you will be tossing these words back at me in the near future-lol) It looked as though you had a really nice time for DD's birthday! I hope you enjoyed yourself and let yourself have your splurge. You deserve it after all!!! Anytime you have doubts- just look at that awesome profile picture you have on here- WHAT??IS that the same woman??? ��
SMDA-Small loss is still a loss-congratulations to you!!! That's not really small- think about what that pound of galoppata (as my dad used to say) represents- and actually it's a pound and a half-that's GREAT!! P2 for the cruise, that sounds like a reasonable idea-I'm not encouraging it, but a smal taste of someone's desert or something like that - and the walking you'll probaby be doing- you should be fine- mind you I am making assumptions here-based on the information about your doctor forcing a TOM, that tells me you are younger than me, probably by quite a few years, I'm 51, so as the experts tell us- w/l is harder as we get older- I've had the "tastes of deserts" the bacon in salad-more than I realized it as a cheat-whoopsie..never thought about it like that- (which as I go off on another tangent, tells me I HAVE to be more cognizant of those things!) when we ate ashore this past summer, there were things that unavoidably were cooked in butter-but I still managed to lose- I'll bet when you come home from vacation and w/I-you'll come back to the forum with a great success story!! I'm glad that your coach was able to be more attentive to you - I am so lucky with mine. I really need to nominate her for COTM to IP HQ. She's amazing. I wish everyone could have a coach like her. I wish we were closer, I am sitting here in the dark listening to the rain realizing that I have clothes that I could send pics to you and if you liked them I could send them to you- I don't know if that would work at this point, you leave too soon right? Let me know, actually this could work- or not- your call. ��
Largo-excellent job!! What a thoughtful hostess - I remember the same thing-similar anyways- the thing I thought I would have missed the most and it was somehting totally different from what I expected. Strange- talk about strange-wait until your taste buds change....that took forever for me- like just recently- but WF stuff that I detested- like the BBQ sauce- I actually LIKE- tasted a scridge of frosted p/b brownies that DBF made- yuck- artificial sugar or what I don't know- but I used to like that batter bowl clean and a spoonful of frosting at least went down pretty easily....and YES it will be SO worth it!!!!
So, tomorrow- day 344 ( I think-I'd have to check my food log) P3 begins. I'm VERY nervous and confused. Thank goodness there are so many posts with actual breakfast meals- otherwise....I'd be sunk. It took a much longer time to shop ( I was forewarned) for reading labels-I have a ton of questions- I took pictures of the nutrition labels to run them by my coach- who woulda thought buying bread would be so GD hard??? It was VERY strange after this much time to be picking out pieces of fruit, ham, milk-I had coconut milk in the cart to try-(I used to drnk almond milk before IP, so I wanted to try something different) and the I saw this toasted coconut almond milk-I compared the label and bought that instead. When I got it home and opened it to smell it, it smelled heavenly! I have the Oikos Triple Zero yogurts-I hope I like OIAJ, because I bought 10 of them in differing flavors.....I was on a frenzy ...and the bill showed it at checkout.-hey- it's gas points too- and my pickup ain't cheap to fill-lol. The Oikos fruit ones, will I still be able to add fruit to it? The #s are the same whether it's the vanilla or the mixed berry so I would say that I could right? I also picked up laughing cow wedges for the fat. I got some lean ham, tomorrow is going to be so much fun-once I get all my "ducks in a row" I have no idea how I will be able to write it all in to the journal they give you. Once in maintenance I think I will buy a nice book at Five Below or someplace like that to keep my journal. I wish that I could create one. I know everyone uses MFP and I should get in to the habit again like I used to, I'll have to see-No. I WILL keep both to start and then hopefully wean myself in to just MFP. As long as I can do it on the computer as well- for me, quicker and less frustrating when I have an actual keyboard- but also the convenience when I only have my phone. See- change- this old girl (t/I/c-lol) doesn't adapt well. Of course, once I started weighing again this week- yeah it's been every day- 125 this morning, best weight yet!! Again- high school weight- Holy smokes!!! I will be putting the sticky note back on the scale for next week to stay the h*ll off it- my body will need to adjust and like the 1st week of P2- it made me a lunatic to see the scale creep. It was so strange this morning when I went down to get my coffee and see fruit on the counter and know it was for ME!!!! I'll be interested to see what my BMR is today. So much to absorb. I hope I can remember it all. BIG notepad going with me today. Alrighty then my 3FC family- time to make my breakfast shake....Oh my, I am just realizing it's probably my last for a long while ....I love the Quest powder shakes- I have probably had them every morning, with the exception of 2 or 3 times that I went out to breakfast-for the last 2 or 3 months....see- creature of habit- lol. Have a great day today whatever you do- be the best you you can be-
Oh, and GO PATS!!!!!!!!