Ok ladies it is time to get down to the nitty gritty

Lets do our best and see those results


South beach phase one
Mondays menu-

2 eggs and decaf coffee with 1/8 cup organic skim milk

L- HUGE salad with organic lettuce, a boiled egg, 1/4 cup lowfat cheddar, 5 olives, and real ranch dressing

S- mother in laws will fill in later

and walk 20-30 minutes

B - 1½ c Kashi + 1 c milk
L - 1 pkg macaroni/cheese + 2 c mixed greens + 1 T f-f salad dressing + 2 clementines
S - 1 pumpkin spice latte
D - 3 oz turkey + 1 oz cheese + 2 pc bread + 1 c roasted vegetables w/olive oil + 1 corndog

Okay, I plan on the following for tomorrow:

30 minutes treadmill
1 gallon water

Fresh veggie juice (carrot, beet, celery)

Mung bean stew (mung beans, carrots, spinach, onions, tomatoes, celery and garlic)

Salad of mixed sprouts, tomato and mixed baby greens with balsamic viniagrette

Steamed broccoli and kolrabi with lemon and garlic

Sprouted bun

Frozen tropical fruit juice pop (planning for a treat so I will keep on program )

phantastica- I LOVE clementines!!! You made me crave em girl

yogini- How far are you from your goal???Looks like 2 more pounds and you will have reached it

Well today is going as planned so far...not looking for any excuse to fail, I lost the 2 pounds I gained over the weekend as of this morning so I am looking for a good scale week at Tops. I started the South Beach phase one for a few days to get well under goal by Thanksgiving...I want to eat whatever I want Hope you ladies have a great day Keep up the great work !! It is truly paying off

Just wanted to say Congrats to all you ladies on the challenge!

You are doing an awesome job

Christian, I am pretty close to reaching my mini-goal. I need to change my sig to reflect that...I have 100 more to go and I am serious about it this time! I am doing it, no looking back! Way to go on your planning ahead for the holiday...I like being able to plan for a higher calorie event by exercising more and keeping my calories low;it makes this a livable plan and not a "diet"

Phantastica, what a balanced day

Thanks for the encouragement, Penny. You are doing great too! 51 pounds, WOW!

Keep on keepin' on, Ladies!

Yogini- You are gonna do it girl The way you are eating you will be there before you know it

Penny- Hope all is well, miss you girl

Yogini, your soup sounds delicious!

Pretty good day today - first day on the new job went well, and I weighed in at TOPS and lost 2½ pounds! I am officially under 300 pounds now. I have 3 weeks to lose 5 pounds in order to meet this challenge. Sounds completely feasible at this rate!

Phantastica- Glad your first day went well You are doing SO good...

Yesterday went well, I am getting to where I am not craving junk anymore, I guess I had tooo much the past weekend

Here is today plan...

B- 2 eggs and 1 cup decaf with 3 tbls organic skim milk

L- huge salad like yesterday

S- homeade taco salad with lots of salsa (no chips)

snack- slice of crustless pumpkin pie with ff coolwhip YUMMY!! (weight watchers pie)

B - 1½ c kashi heart-to-heart cereal with 1 c milk (this cereal is surprisingly good)
S - 1 asiago-cheese bagel w/1½ T cream cheese
L - 1½ c mixed greens, 1 T salad dressing, ½ oz bleu cheese + ¾ c vegetables grilled w/olive oil, 3 oz turkey
S - Skinny Cow ice-cream sandwich (I was frustrated about losing my $40 bus card )
D - fish, sweet potatoes, salad with f-f dressing
S - another Skinny Cow ice-cream sandwich

"Pink" lentils with green beans, corn, peas and garlic (1 cup) I'm just NOT hungry! Odd!

1/2 Cranberry Kombucha Tea (30 calories)

I know I'll juice and have the usual (carrot, beet, celery) but may throw in some mixed greens I have that I don't feel like eating. Do you ever just get tired of chewing ?

I'm not sure what else I'll eat today...it's gloomy outside and I am tired, not wanting to eat today (VERY unusual!). Also, my weigh-in day is tomorrow and I feel like I don't want to eat "heavy" foods at all today...silly, I know because food weight is not fat weight but I like to see a loss each week and win I weighed myself at work today and was down by 3.5 pounds but who knows if the scale there is the same as the TOPS scale or if I'll retain water tomorrow or whatever... what can you do but keep at it?

I taught a great yoga class this morning, with 20 students including a few new ones and it really inspired me to do my best for the newbies, really explaining the poses. We worked a sweat up


Phantastica, way to go with the loss and try the soup out sometime if you can...it sounds like an odd combination of things but it's really good (I had to make it two days in a row because my family liked it so much).

Christian, thanks for the kind words (I'll be KOPS someday, maybe next year even!) and thanks to everyone for the encouragement! I am so blessed to have the support I have here, since I have very little in my non-online life!

Edited to add:

1/2 cup blueberry juice with 1 cup Pellegrino

1 sprouted bun with 5 thin slices Tofurkey, 2 tsp. German mustard, 1 tomato and 1/4 an avocado

And another 1 1/2 cups of the lentil-veggie mixture

B - 1½ c Kashi heart-to-heart cereal (this cereal is surprisingly good) + 1 T almonds + 1 c milk + 1 banana
S - 1 c coffee w/half-n-half + 1 apple
L - 1 Budget Gourmet (spaghetti marinara - 280 cal) + 1 c curried carrot soup
S - 1 nonfat latte
D - 1 c tuna helper + 1½ c lettuce + 1 T salad dressing + ½ c sauteed spinach (sauteed in 2 t olive oil)
1 big melon/vodka martini + ½ c ice cream

Just to check in, I entered everything into fitday.com. My total calorie count for today was 1,700 calories. I think that's about right according to what my nutritionist recommended.

So far, 66 oz. water

Beet, carrot, celery and mixed sprouts juice *This was INTENSE!* (150 calories)

1 can Health Valley No Salt Added Organic Black Bean Soup (240 calories)

Roast Tofurkey, stuffing, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, celery, leeks, shallots, onions, garlic and many spices (500 calories)

Pumpkin Pie <homemade, with tofu > (300 calories)

Yummy-sounding pie!

I have a date Friday night with a guy I dated about 30 pounds ago. So I'm trying to lose 35 this week.

--wait, it was 20 pounds ago.

phantastica- 35 pounds in a week??? Is this guy someone you will be dating more often???

Well today is weigh in so I am gonna try to be VERY good...here is todays menu

B- 1/2 order of eggs at Mcdonalds and decaf coffee with 3 creamers
L-taco salad (no shell)
S- homeade chicken noodle soup
s- small piece of pumpkin pie at meeting (making one to take for program tonight) It will be on lowering the fat in holiday recipes