emma, i love that the honeycrisps are in now. i look forward to apples SO much.

how was the smoothie? have you ever put palm sugar in your smoothies? it gives it a rich, sort of molassesy flavor that i'm really starting to dig. negligible calories in a half teaspoon as well

Didn't make the smoothie yet. I realized after I posted that I had to make the yogurt first, so I'll try tomorrow. You and a couple of others here have inspired me with the smoothies. I never really made one before. I am intrigued by the ones with "green stuff" in them.... haven't tried palm sugar yet either. I love that I find out about so many new things here!

i love "covering up" veggies with fruit in my smoothies. a big ol' handful of spinach doesn't taste like much in a smoothie and it really ups the fiber in the smoothie.

palm sugar has become my go-to sweetener. it's low glycemic (i think lower than agave, but i could be wrong) and tastes better to me than agave. i love the rich taste of it.

I need to get to making yogurt again. The crockpot that I used for making yogurt (I use my crockpot every day so I need multiples) broke so I am down to one.

P2

b'fast
coffee w/sf creamer
egg starts w/ lf cream cheese

lunch
white bean turkey chili
WW bagel thin w/ lf cream cheese

snack
4 small clementines
handful of almonds and lite string cheese

dinner
bellini drink (not SB friendly)
enchilada w/ WW tortilla & lf sour cream

snack
1 oz bag of peanuts

B-Pb oatmeal
L-Kale, sweet potato, and lentil soup (mmm)
D-Stirfry with sirloin, bean sprouts, zucchini, and green pepper

I ended up not having time for my planned meal, so I made spaghetti for the kids, and I had the sauce (homemade, so no sugar) and just had the sauce. Plus I made some of the cauliflower "mashed potatoes."

Ah, rushed morning today! kids have a playgroup halloween party to attend this morning and i have too many things to do for it still.

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1: lara bar, 1 slice turkey bacon, lots of water
2: edamame saute?
workout
3: quinoa veggie confetti casserole, salad
4: "ice cream" - frozen bananas processed with some cocoa powder, frozen until solid

phase2

b-
cereal,skiim milk, banana
coffee
s-
yogurt
water/chia seeds
l-
greek salad
water
s-
apple
cheese
s-
turkey
steamed carrots
salad
skim milk
s-
tea

b'fast
cold espresso w/ ff 1/2 & 1/2 and sf coconut
2 eggs w/ LF cream cheese

lunch
homemade refried beans
ham sandwich on WW sandwich thin w/lettuce, tomato and onion

snack
4 small clementines
soynuts

dinner
hamburger on WW sandwich thin w/tomato and onion
butternut squash chips w/ SB ketchup

I made this today! 1/2 cup frozen wild blueberries, 1/2 a nearly green banana, homemade yogurt, about a cup of spinach and I didn't add any more liquid (my yogurt is not Greek yogurt thick) but did add a scoop of unsweetened protein powder. Really good! I just have a regular blender and I couldn't see the spinach at all. Mostly it tasted like blueberry/underripe banana. Yum!

I think I might try freezing the banana.

freezing the banana will make it nice and creamy. I usually buy a bunch of bananas and cut them up, freeze them on a cookie sheet and then put into a bag. about a cup is a full medium banana.

Phase II day three

I'm staying on plan and I have added a fruit back in which has been great.

B: 2 eggs scrambled & two strips turkey bacon
v8 juice and coffee
S: a few almonds
L:3/4 C. brown beans
S: Nectarine
D: Not sure yet

If some one looks my menu over could you let me know if i'm doing ok on this. I lost 6.6 so far :-)

SouthernJudy - I'd make sure you're getting in the 4.5 cups of veggies. I make sure each snack has some, even if it seems random to add them. The other thing I've found great is some of the phase 1 soups are really veggie heavy so you're not always snacking on nothing but raw veggies.

@ Emma and Zeffryn....do you use raw spinach....frozen spinach...for your smoothies? Sounds like a great way to get that spinach in there!

Thanks so much, more veggies for me!! :-) I'm learning more everyday. Agin thank you.