This will be the next to last PMD thread due to the fact that the posters here have moved on to different plans but just can't bear to be so close to thread #100 and not post it. SO, this is a good diet which I began around Jan. 2000 and lost about 40 lbs. on.We, however, have found that keeping things fresh keeps us interested and motivated. So if you are new to this thread and wonder why we're all doing something different, that is why.

Prevention Millennium Diet*

Daily servings
veg and fruits, 9 servings ( 5 veg/4 fruit)
whole grains, 3-6 servings
high-calcium, 2-3 servings

Weekly servings:
Beans - 5+
Nuts - 5
Fish - 2

Serving Sizes

veg. & fruit
1 serving = 1/2 c. chopped fruit
1/2 c. cooked or raw veg.
1 c. raw green leaves
3/4 c. veg or fruit juice

Whole Grains
1 serving = 1 slice whole wheat bread
1/2 rice or bulgar
1/2 c whole wheat pasta

Calcium 1 serving = 1 c ff or 1% milk
1 c ff yogurt
1 c calcium fortified O.J.
1 oz. reduced ff cheese

Supplements
100% DV multivitamin/mineral
500 (under 50) to 1000 (over 50) mg. calcium
100-400 IU Vit. E
100-500 mg Vit. C

Keep calories to 1500 a day - 250 cal. per meal. Eat 6 small meals a day. Do not exceed
42 fat grams per day.

Drink 8 glasses water and 1+ cup of tea daily.

* Copied from the Jan. 2000 issue of Prevention Magazine.

Prevention Millennium Diet*

Daily servings
veg and fruits, 9 servings ( 5 veg/4 fruit)
whole grains, 3-6 servings
high-calcium, 2-3 servings

Weekly servings:
Beans - 5+
Nuts - 5
Fish - 2

Serving Sizes

veg. & fruit
1 serving = 1/2 c. chopped fruit
1/2 c. cooked or raw veg.
1 c. raw green leaves
3/4 c. veg or fruit juice

Whole Grains
1 serving = 1 slice whole wheat bread
1/2 rice or bulgar
1/2 c whole wheat pasta

Calcium 1 serving = 1 c ff or 1% milk
1 c ff yogurt
1 c calcium fortified O.J.
1 oz. reduced ff cheese

Supplements
100% DV multivitamin/mineral
500 (under 50) to 1000 (over 50) mg. calcium
100-400 IU Vit. E
100-500 mg Vit. C

Keep calories to 1500 a day - 250 cal. per meal. Eat 6 small meals a day. Do not exceed
42 fat grams per day.

Drink 8 glasses water and 1+ cup of tea daily.

* Copied from the Jan. 2000 issue of Prevention Magazine.

go to prevention.com and put diet into the search engine and it will take you to the diet in another click or two

the website gives more details on the diet

I've been battling a cold for a few days. Yesterday I felt like I had been run over by a truck, but I feel somewhat better today. Needless to say, I have not been exercising. Tomorrow is my weigh in day, so I'll see how good or bad I did last week.

I'm trying to get used to the time change. It usually takes me a week or so. I honestly wish the powers that be would leave the time alone.

judi, have you found a name for your kitty? I forgot...there is a solo guitarist I love to listen to...his name is Estaban.

Have a good Monday.

Alice, I'm sorry to hear you still have your cold. Give yourself time to get well.

I'm with you on the time change - what is the purpose?!?

I had a good weekend, got a good long kayak trip in yesterday. Our leaf color is starting to peak.

Just finished my UB workout - it was hard this morning.

Have a good day.

Today was my weigh in day. I'm down another lb. I was surprised because I haven't really had the energy to exercise, and I've been scoffing down cough drops, which I'm sure have quite a lot of calories. They do have sugar free ones, but I couldn't find any flavor that I liked.

I envy you still being able to go out in your kayak. I bet it was a beautiful trip with all the color. Did you take any photos? Hope your workout was easier for you today.


Have a good day.

a late post from me today. It has been a long day, I teach my night class on Tues. I got up early and went to Little Rock early this morning on an errand so I am glad to be home and ready for bed.

You are doing great on WW. Seems you have a nice steady loss record going.
I think I am losing about a lb. a week as well. We just have to keep on keeping on and (in my case) maybe I'll get there in a couple of years . Better late than never.

I wanted to tell you about a couple things I have been eating that I really have developed a taste for. As I mentioned, protein is a part of every meal and it must be lean protein. Cottage cheese is a big BFL favorite. One meal I like a lot is a baked sweet potato w/ cottage cheese, splenda, vanilla and cinnamon. The other is brown rice with the same cottage cheese and toppings, it tastes like rice pudding. Anyway for what it is worth, healthy, hearty comfort food in a combination I would never have thought of but really enjoy. I have also switched from sweet-n-low to splenda. It is supposed to be healthier.

How are you feeling? Hope your cold is better.

Judi - check in when you can.

That's great you also are losing a lb. a week. But, whereas you are also bodybuilding, you will be slimmer, even though you might not have lost a lot of weight, you'll look like you have.

That cottage cheese with sweet potatoes & rice sounds great. It's funny, I had a sweet potato last night with my supper. When you eat the sweet potato w/cottage cheese, or the rice mixture, is that all you eat? HMMM, that would be a great lunch for me sometime. I've been using Splenda for a long time, I have even baked with it. DH & I also drink diet soda with Splenda, that has no caffiene it it, called Waist Watcher. Their Vanilla Creme and Black Cherry are our favorites.

Yesterday, marked my 6th week in WW (time really flies ).
On your 6th visit you receive a booklet titled "The Right Mix". You take a little quiz on what types of foods stay with you longer, whether you need to be following a higher carb, higher protein, or just in the middle. I was just in the middle, where to feel satisfied have to have protein, carb., and fat with my meal. As I thought about it, that is true. Then you have another little quiz to take as to what type of carbs you need to eat. Thankfully, I fell in the healthy carb category. Even if I didn't I wasn't going to change the type of carbs I eat.

I am feeling better. Sunday I felt like I'd been run over by a truck, but today it feels more like bicycle Thank you for asking.

Yesterday afternoon DH & I put the stakes in the road so that he & our neighbor know where the ditch is when they plow. It's getting to be that season!

Take care and enjoy your day.

Yes that is all I eat. But remember I am eating every 3 hrs. - 6 meals a day. The diet is a palm size of protein (though cottage cheese works to about a 1 cup serving) and a fist size of carbohydrate at every meal and adding non starch vegetable to at least 2 meals. I have to say that I am never hungry on this diet. It is weird the crazy cravings one can get - knowing free day is ahead is a comfort. This week I am just dying to eat some candy corn. Shhh! don't tell! No really, it is what free day is for - to take care of those crazy cravings; though seasoned BFlers are a bit more discreet and "mature" in their free day choices I believe. Since I am a beginner I figure I can indulge in some crappy treats w/o guilt, no actually I think it is the really serious body builders that begin limiting free day to free meal. I ain't ready for that yet!

Lower body workout is done for the day - I feel like a big part of my day is already over when I get that behind me.

I forgot to ask how much splenda, vanilla, and cinnamon do you use with both the sweet potato & rice? Thanks.

Sweet Potato: 1 pkt. splenda on potato, then I add the cottage cheese and sprinkle another splenda on top of that, a couple shakes of cinammon and 1/2 cap vanilla.

I do the brown rice the same way actually 2 splendas, shake or two of cinammon and 1/2 cap of vanilla. One of my friends brought me a huge bottle of real vanilla back from Mexico a couple of years ago. It is so good.

Both: I enjoy just smushing it all up before I eat it.

Thank you for posting the amt. of splenda, cinnamon, & vanilla you use. I'm dying to try them both. On WW I'm allowed 8 oz. of sweet potato and I'll have to look up the cottage cheese. It sounds like a really nice lunch for me. If you have anymore goodies like that please give me the recipe. Thanks.

It sounds like you are really liking this diet, ledom. How does it compare to PMD? Somewhere down the road you will exchange your free day to a free meal. But, in the meantime enjoy to the fullest your free day. I also have to have a "free day" where I don't count points and sort of eat what I shouldn't at one of my meals

Do you get many trick or treaters? The area in which we live is not very favorable for kids to come to the house, since we really do live in the boonies. So, I don't have to buy any candy.

Hi judi! Hope you are having a good time. Please post when you can we miss hearing from you.

Enjoy your day.

Alice, I am going to be such a scrooge this year and not turn my lights on for the trick or treaters. Mostly because I don't want to bring candy in the house. My neighborhood doesn't have lots of kids but always a few. With D gone, I don't feel as obligated.

The biggest similarity to PMD is the six meals a day. As far as what I eat, that has changed a lot. I eat much more protein for instance - beans which were protein on PMD are a carb on BFL. Actually I eat a lot more on this diet if you cn believe that. I am not counting calories at all. For instance when I go to my favorite lunch restaurant I now order a serving of corn or lima beans to go with my grilled chicken salad so I have a carb to go along w/ the meal. And then the exercise of course. It is an essential part of the diet, without the weight training I think I might gain weight on this food plan. It is just such a different approach. As I am getting toward then of the 5th week though, I am still really liking it and having faith in it.

Anyway.....

I'll let you know if I run across anything else that you might like to eat. Actually I have a banana bread recipe that I'll look up and share. As for the sweet potatoes, I usually bake 2 at once. I keep one in the fridge for a later meal and then take it out and zap it about 3 min. in the microwave for another fast meal.

Take care, have a good day.

Alice, what a good name! My DH likes it too. Montoya is good too Ledom, don't feel bad you lost the kitty naming contest The kitty JUST looks like an Estaban! Now that he is no longer a feral cat he is getting finicky...he left "tuna feast" unfinished today. The first day he was with us he was eating my DH's teddy grahams and everything else under the sun.

I am sorry you had a cold Alice...that is the pits! I hope you are better now.

Wow! You amazing girls! I was reading the past posts...you are on a roll! The diet that you are on sounds VERY healthy Ledom. How are you feeling??? DO you notice more energy etc. ??

Yes, I am pretty happy with the weight loss. It has encouraged me to do a lot more walking. Mr. Marley and I are moving a lot more than usual. The weather is very pleasant in the day but cold at night. It is bright so it just makes me feel like going out for a walk.

Last day of the month...one whole month without ebaying...what a woman, eh?!

We are starting the drive home tomorrow, hope to check in with you on Monday morning. Enjoy the weekend!

Glad to hear you're coming home. Estaban is a precious name, I can tell I like Estaban the kitty already! Finicky - a good healthy cat if you ask me. You know Ricky Martin and Beatrice are also Latin American names. And Ricky Martin? Well, if the singer R.M. was a cat - he'd look just like our R.M. And speaking of your love affair w/ all things with a Spanish flavor, the new movie Frida has been released this week. I hope I can find a theatre that is showing it, we don't get many limited release films here.

Good for you and your walking. It is amazing how exercise and diet do intermingle and how losing weight makes it easier to exercise.

I believe that this diet is super healthy and I do have more energy. I get tired too because I am working my muscles very hard. I just finished my upper body workout and my arms are stinging right now.

Alice, hope you have a good weekend planned. D and I are going on a long drive Sat. to enjoy the changing leaves and scenery.

We have snow this morning...only a dusting. It was quite a surprise to see it.

Yesterday my GF & I went shopping in the southern part of the state, near the Mass. border. I don't know if you have ever heard of the Christmas Tree Shops in the New England area. It's a discount store that carries oodles and oodles of stuff. It takes hours to roam through the store. I arrived home armed with quite a few shopping bags. When DH saw the shopping bags he said I could never shop there again.. We had great day!

ledom, have a great Sat. with your D. That long drive sounds exciting. DH is having company later this morning, and I'm taking off and do some more shopping, HEH..HEH..HEH

judi, glad that you are heading home. Estaban! I am truly flattered. He sounds like my kind of kitty...I love finicky kitties.
The poor guy must've been starving when you first picked him up.
That's great you are walking. Keep up the good work. It really uplifts you after a good walk, especially when you have a dog that's good on a leash. But, I wouldn't know about that Although, when Miz Lacee comes with me, I do get a good upper body workout

Have a great weekend.

Snow on the ground! We are having crazy weather here. No sun for 21 days now and temps. are 15 to 20 degrees below normal for the last couple of weeks. I personally am enjoying the cool weather but am starting to feel needy for sun.

Sounds like a great shopping day Alice. Shop, shop, shop. It always is entertaining.

The kayak NEVER gets bedded down for winter. Though I have to admit it gets used a lot less. I have winter gear so that I actually stay pretty warm unless it is below freezing temps.

Free day, I have alread had some candy corn. So sweet it makes my teeth hurt and it is weird how my fantasy of it is so much more satisfying than actually having it. All week I was thinking I could eat a whole bag, now I know I'll be sharing w/ D's friends and if they don't finish it off it'll be tossed out.

Have a good weekend.