Hi Rosemary-- So having to do MRC multiple times seems to be a recurrent theme. I hope this is the only time I have to do this. I really want to get rid of the weight now nad keep it off. That could be the clincher keeping it off. Well I'm glad that you are back! I agree this site is wonderful and has helped me stay on track!

What's the big difference between the blue and the green diet?

I also get frustrated when over the weekend I always seem to be up a pound or a pound and a half, then loss four during the week, so when you net it out I'm only losing 1.5 to 2.0 pounds and I dont even cheat like I've read some of you do. Does anyone think that increases the drinks to three a day instead of 2 a day will help? Because I'm really thinking about doing that. It just cost so much.

I was told by my center to take a HNS with each meal, at least 3 of them a day. If I wanted to lose faster to take 5. I know it is costly because you will be using almost the whole box which would be like $9 per day. It adds up so quickly. But you might want to try the minimum of 3 and see if that helps.

Rosemary - I have been gone for a while too. I basically fell off the wagon at the end of November. I was an emotional and stress eating maniac. I gained 24 pounds. (Everyone else only gained a little). I had gotten rid of all my fat clothes and nothing was fitting anymore. I refused to buy more clothes. So a week ago Sunday, I started back on the green menu . I had al my HNS from diet direct (I have tried to get serious before). I lost 8 pounds in a week. And I have not strayed from the program one bit. I do not want to go back to the center until I am close to my stabilization weight. I really want to lose more but I will settle for that. You might try going it alone by following the plan and ordering the HNS off the internet.

What a wonderful feeling!!

I went to weigh in today and was up another pound. I am tired of this teeter totter. Finally the counselor I had today (who is leaving in 2 weeks - I will be sad) mentioned MetaQuick. No one before has mentioned that to me. I am thinking of starting Phentratrim but am waiting until next week as I get paid from PC on MOnday. She said to do the Metaquick and then next week start on the Phentratrim and that should help. I am going to start the Metaquick today since I already had a protein bar for breakfast. My only question is for the dinner it says skinless white meat chicken - isn't that just a chicken breast??? I will have to have our steaks for dinner on Saturday.

I am signed up for the motivation class on Thursday but need to find someone to watch my twins for me. I am hoping that that helps me.

I know intially on the beige diet I was supposed to have one with every meal, but now on the green I am supposed to have one with breakfast and one for lunch and up to 4 a day. I'm averaging 3 a day although I'm working through a plateau right now and trying to do 4 to break through it. I understand the cost too though but I figure I'm saving money by not eating as much other food so it gets close to evening out in the end.

Okay, I'll admit it. I was getting weak. I wanted to quit because I was so sick of the blue diet. I was tempted to start another type of diet. Feeling blue, I decided I needed to talk to the ladies at Metabolic. I was told this was the last blue day. Yes!! Plus, I lost 1.5 lbs! I'm .5 of a lb away from signing the 10 lb board in a three week period. Not too shabby. I think I'll stick with Metabolic.

i'm sick of the beige menu but honestly i know the next one for me is green and it's the same thing just in smaller portions so i'm dreading it. i told the food lady that the ONLY thing keeping me eating this crap is that i've already paid for it!!

I have been on the green menu since I started back in May of 2008. It is boring but I am so picky at what I like that it is hard to change it up a notch.

Ford4Life69~ I am right there with you. I am on the beige menu and though I just started this diet recently, I was already starting to get a bit sick of it (the food). I seem to be doing better this week. I finally found a grocery store that sells buffalo steaks(though kinda expensive to get a single one that will be 6 oz's its about $5 a steak) but grilled it is really good, tastes like normal steak. I also went online to the walden farms website. I bought some of their syrup and 2 of their BBQ sauces (all have no sugar, no carbs). I haven't told the center because I am not sure if we are allowed but I am eating them and still losing. I really like the Honey BBQ sauce and now I can eat chicken about 5 times a week with just a little sauce on the side to dip it in and it has made a difference. I am not so bored.

I went for another WI today. Day 23 down a total of 9 lbs. I so thought I was going to hit the 10 lb mark today. My counselor today was a bit rude. I don't care for her. She acts like a prude, but this is the second time I have seen her. I haven't cheated at all, I bring my food journal in every weigh in, have been going 2x a week for WI's. And she is just so negative and just picking over every little thing. She went over all my meals since my dinner last Friday to today like 5 times, like she was just looking for something to find wrong. Then kept commenting on how I am not taking a thermogenic (which I had discussed with her the last time. I am very sensitive to meds and I didn't want anything that was going to get my heart racing or jittery)Then after weighing me and telling me my total she calculated at how much a week average I am losing (this week 2.7lbs average) and she said well normally in a month ppl lose about 12 pounds but my average is below where is needs to be.That ticked me off since I had just lost 1.5 lbs since FRIDAY! I think I am going to request to NOT see her again.

Hopefully Friday when I go back for weighin I will get that 10 lb milestone!

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That sounds like a couple of the ladies at my center. You would think they were the ones dishing out the money. I just ignore them. I have lost 12 pounds in 3 1/2 weeks. I did gain 1 pound from Friday to Monday, to be honest I hate weighing in 2 times a week because I alway gain over the weekend. Then I'm depressed until Friday at next weigh in. I really want to change to 1 time a week which I know they will freak out about.

But the net result has alway been positive, I basically look at my loss on a week basis. Friday to Friday I don't even pay attention to the Monday weigh in.

The negative counselors have got to go!! We do enough beating ourselves up, don't need it from them, too.

Stay strong...you gals are doing great...and any loss is positive.

I started "Take 33". I think we were doing that around 30 pages and this one is almost 35 now. Let's move this party over to the new thread!