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I think I may try this,don't know why I didn't think of it the last time I traveled this road. Seems to me this would help keep me 'honest'. I want to continue to lose ..and 1-2lbs.a wk. would be great.

[Riotactress]

Originally Posted by jenn33082

6 months seems like an acceptable time-line to reach your goal weight doing Phase 2. That's just over a pound a week.

I have been keeping track of my calories on thedailyplate (LiveStrong) just to see where I am at. I'm on Phase 2 and when I plug in my planned foods for the day, I'm usually only at 1000 calories, I find that I usually need to add in additional foods for the day so that I am getting an acceptable number of calories in. My advice to you would be to make sure that you are getting your appropriate calories in even if its not with carbs. You don't want to make your body start storing fat.

Jenn, I went to the daily plate after reading your post and it's fantastic!! Thanks for the suggestion. I've never been good with the food diary thing, but seeing it calculate my calorie intake versus what I need to take in to lose consistently is a real eye opener. I've been under by about 500 calories a day. No wonder I've been dizzy! Today on the elliptical just about killed me. And it turns out it's because I had less than 500 calories before 5pm when I hit the gym. I'm really going to be more careful about timing my intake now.
Thanks again for the site! It's brilliant.

Oh and it turns out I have been accidentally doing phase 1.5 anyways. This whole week, the first of phase two (thank god I made it through phase one with minimal damage / cheating) I was going to give myself one grain OR fruit per day, then next week start my alternating. So even at one it seems I'm ahead of the game. You ever get the feeling that THIS TIME it'll really work? Well that's what I think right now.

Thanks to all of you for helping me decide to pursue this alternating thing. You've really helped make up my mind.