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Originally Posted by locopollo
I asked about restricted items this morning, and was discouraged. My couch said I could use them and limit myself to about two per week. I didn't see the Strawberry Wafers, do I didn't get any restricted though I do have Pure Protein bars at home and had one last Friday night and another last Saturday night when I went out and everyone I was with was having beer and popcorn and I felt I needed something special.
Any thoughts on this? I had my best weigh in since Week 1 this week, but today was only my fourth WI.
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Originally Posted by locopollo
She said we don't want to slow down my loss with extra carbs. She suggested the BBQ soy puffs since they're lower carb.
I'm not sure I buy it though. Even if I add 15 carbs daily, it is still a very low carb diet.
I hate saying "just listen to your coach" because I'm coachless and doing OK, but think of it as an experiment. Do what they say for 2 weeks and see if your loss increases or decreases. If your loss is smaller than "normal" you can nya nya nya nya nya nah at your coach and go back to eating your restricteds. I did hardly any restricteds at the start of this diet (alternatives) and I've found candybars that AREN'T restricted (Proti-thin dream bar OMG good), they only start with 6g carbs and have like 2g fiber or some such, and 15g protein. My "high" carb stuff has closer to 14g and about 4-5g fiber, so I count those bars as restricted.
I didn't see your weight posted, if you don't have too much to lose that will affect how fast you lose, also what your eating habits were BEFORE IP, so if you were a junkaholic or carbaholic, the diet would probably be faster than if you normally watched what you ate, but made poor choices occasionally. Make sure you're getting in all your water, as we pee out a good chunk of those ketones (i.e. fatcrap) and we need water to do that.
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Originally Posted by Heitina
Today's weigh-in day.
Weighed myself on my own scale this morning said down 2 lbs. I felt good about that.
At the center their scale said I was down 5 lbs.! Holy gondoodle....that floored me, I was not expecting this much!
I feel kind of strange cause I now weigh my "if only" weight.....I'd always say to myself "If only I weighed 175 lbs." well today I weigh that, after only 50 days...I am in total shock!!!!
I think I need to have a bath and maybe have a good cry - I'm feeling very overwhelmed and surprisingly emotional.
IP is amazing.....all of you are amazing!!!
Congratulations!!! Today is a huge day for you! This can be a very emotional journey, and it happens so fast sometimes we don't have the proper time to process it all (like a death in the family right before you join the military or something equally life changing, you don't really process the death until life slows down enough to grieve). I know I look in the mirror and I see the "old" me, but I fit in clothes that I got married in, which is size 10...I was a size 16 in april...but somehow I still see me in the mirror and think "16", not "10"...
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Originally Posted by ragdoll74
So glad it's Friday. Had some bad news this week. Just starting week three and I find out we are having pay cuts again at work. This is the second time I'm having to go through this.
I've lost 14 lbs already on IP, but the cost of the IP products are expensive. I'm switching to alternatives now. Just used up my last IP packets today.
I've ordered products from Nashua Nutrition which are less than 1/2 the price of IP. I'm hoping that the weight loss continues to be the same as when I used the actual IP products.
I'm on alternatives, my #'s are in my siggy line, but I also allow some milk, cheese, butter when cooking, and peanut butter if desperation strikes.