Frita, I tried the chocolate pudding shake (filling my shaker with ice, than water and the chocolate pudding mix, after it was mixed i added some WF chocolate syrup) and it is DELICIOUS, Thank you so much for posting what you do. I will try it with Strawberry next, then the butterscotch!!!! Going to pass this along to my IP friends!!!

Had my WI last night. Only down 2.5 lbs. Must have been those beers! I'll try better this weekend.

Someone said they cooked the potatoe salad and her husband went for a second. Who was it and which recipe did you use? I see more than one from showgirl and journeysend.

I just thought of something. I took off both my jobs to spend some time with the boys. Since my oldest and the twins teenagers are always hungry and eating, I am afraid of what is going to happen before I go back to work on Tuesday. I decided to make my mini goal to have a deaad line of the day after the holiday. So, I am thinking by the day after Labor day I want to be 5 lbs lighter. This should hopefully prevent me from putting anything illegal bites in my mouth.

weigh in this morning. 3.5 pounds. so I be 139.5 pounds. YAY. on another news, some low life has stolen my shovel, rake etc from front yard!! who would do that I don't know but shame on them.

Hey everyone, I'm still sick (UGH) and trying to avoid cold medicines so as not to screw around with my diet but man it's leaving me feeling lousy! I don't have that long (only 4 more weeks) to get below 196 so I can phase out of the program and that's about 10 lbs from now so I really need to stay strict and focused but it's sure hard when you're not feeling well.

To top it all off I have a funeral and a wedding to attend tomorrow and I am the photographer at the wedding so A) it's going to suck if I'm still this sick and B) so much food to avoid!

Anyway for all the Americans - happy Memorial Day weekend..that is this weekend right? Just remember you have many more years to celebrate Memorial Day with food, maybe this year reward yourself and celebrate something else like a pedicure so you can look cute in flip flops or a new skirt in a smaller size!!

Anyway - just wanted to check in!

I say yes to a pedicure with every 5 lbs loss!
I don't have WF mayo. Can I use a smaller amount of Hellmann's low fat for the sald I mentioned?

I hope I'll be able to figure out that scale when I get it! lol Thank you for telling me about the body fat registering high since I have never had a body fat scale I would have not known and I generally tend to weigh myself in the morning. I really don't work out that much 3-4 times a week. I would like to do more and hope to at some point but most days I do a 30 min video and some days an hour. I really didn't know I was cheating when I "fried" that 1/2 zucchini in olive oil. I was just doing it for an experiment for a recipe and figured zucchini was legal and so was olive oil I didn't know that we weren't allowed fried food. My coach has always let everyone have one restricted a day from the beginning and she had never heard of the first 3 weeks no restricteds etc. when I told her. When we signed up they gave us a sample of one of everything so I have all these bars and such here that came with that. I wish they would have just given us all non-restricted because it feels so wasteful to not use it.
I got the results of some tests back today and I had suspected I was having a gluten problem but blood work had tested negative even though I continued to have bad digestion so they did more intensive testing and it turns out that I do in fact have a gluten allergy and I would have never guessed this but also a dairy allergy! So I am not sure what I am going to do about this diet since most of my packs ingredients say milk protein concentrate. I am allergic to casein and it is causing small intestine and colon inflammation (my mom was just recently diagnosed with Chron's disease so I must be VERY careful with inflammation) I have been doing some reading and it looks as though people who are allergic to casein can sometimes tolerate whey protein isolate which is in the fruit type drinks so I might only be able to have them but I am going to get bored with that. I do have some chocolate & vanilla whey protein powder at home that is 90 calories, less than 1g of fat, 3g carb, 1g fiber, 18g protein and sweetened with stevia so I think that might work for a change of pace. It's all a bit overwhelming at this point.

Thank you those sound delish! I am going to try that with the tea too. I love tea!

Be very careful with that! The Hellmann's light has way more carbs and sugar in the ingredients. I almost did this the other day for tuna and I looked at the Hellmann's regular and it has no carbs or sugar but it is much higher in fat but at least it won't take you out of ketosis. I just ordered the WF mayo but I think someone posted using Smart Balance also but I am not sure how that matches up nutritionally.

Hi All,

I think there is a very simple recepie for making your own mayo in the recepie section. I have a feeling it was Carla who had posted it to begin with.

Jordanna: I hope you feel better soon. I feel for you with the not feeling comfortable taking meds for fear that they might screw with your diet. I am that way too now.

Pita: Congrats on your WI! A good way to start the weekend.

Natural girl: Like you, my coach allowed restricteds for the get go. I lost 24 pounds in 4 weeks eating restricteds. Now I try to space them out a bit. Like chop a bar into 6 pieces and have 2 pieces a day. When I get really cookoo during the ol' TOM I have a bar. I monitor with ketostix and they don't throw me out of ketosis.

I don't know about you guys, but it is easy for me to get sort of obsessive with food and diets. This is a habit I'm trying to change. I am down 2.5 pounds this week. Not the 6 pound average I saw during the first 4 weeks, but 2.5 pounds none the less. I have been having all sorts of ideas running through my head, like maybe I need to start walking more, maybe my method of eyeballing my protein needs to change. Oy vey! What I really need to do is just relax, follow the diet precisely, and be grateful that if I do this, the results will be there and just live my life. Sometimes I resent all the energy I put in being wackadoo obsessive.

too funny...LOVE the way you think!

just fell off the wagon!! had barbequed turkey on top of mixed greens and i for the first time did not spend 5 minutes picking out the 10 pieces of shredded carrots, oh well! i'm eating this thing out of a FRIED TORTILLA BOWL, i'll take the carrots...

and CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING IN THE 130'S!!!!!!!

shame on you!!! don't you know you HAVE to stick to the plan! I mean I understand putting butter on the turkery BUT carrots??? for crying out loud.

OK here is my recipe for "Mock" Potatoe Salad--can't tell the difference from the real stuff!!!!

First thing I do is take the WF Mayo out of the jar and mix it with enough mustard to give it a nice yellow colour, add some sea salt and put it back in the jar. This makes it more tasty!!!

1/2 bag (2kg) or large bag of frozen cauliflower
4 boiled eggs, mashed
6 radishes diced
2 green onions, chopped
1 stalk of celery, sliced in small pieces
1/2 cup of chopped cucumber
1/4 cup of green pepper, chopped
fresh or frozen dill weed, chopped fine OR
1 tps. of dried dill weed ( or to taste)
sea salt
pepper
1/2 cup of WF Mayo

Cook frozen cauliflower until fork tender, drain and mash. Let cool
Mix the mashed egg and all the veggies with the cooled cauliflower.
Add the WF mayo (that has the mustard added) and mix
Add sea salt, pepper and dill weed (these should be added to your taste)
Mix well and store in fridge.
Very Yummy!!!
And what would summer be without Potatoe Salad!!!!!

I posted this recipe on the recipe thread too.

I am not sure about the other mayos.