I don't think it's working.

[LLCS1206]

Okay so Sunday ends week 3 of Induction for me and I have actually went from loosing 2lbs to 1lb as of this morning. I have read the book and keep it very close to my side and don't understand why it's not working.


This is what i've had today:

AM- 3 scrambled eggs & bacon

Afternoon- Bunless wendys baconator & side cesar salad (I also had this for lunch yesterday)

PM- T.G. I Fridays classic sirloin & broccoli.

I also drank 64oz of water a long with a multi vitamin.

Does anyone know why or what could be causing this stall? I have an appt with my doctor on Tuesday to check out my throid. If anyone can give me tips on what to try or what to eat that would be very helpful. I want to scream!

[Whatsername]

Re: I don't think it's working.

If you are eating out, is there a chance there is anything "hidden" that might be effecting things?

IMO, your water intake is good but maybe could be better. Are you drinking anything else?

Maybe you are not eating enough, or enough of the right things (like fat). At times I have to make myself eat.

Good luck and take care...

[mitzimarie]

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Afternoon- Bunless wendys baconator & side cesar salad (I also had this for lunch yesterday)

When you get a bunless Baconator, is the only difference from the original item is that they take the bun off and leave the rest of the toppings? Or is it just meat, cheese, and bacon exclusively? Meaning, do you still get any sauces, mayo, ketchup, etc., just not the bun - or do they leave everything off except the meat, cheese, and bacon?

[msanjelpie]

Re: I don't think it's working.

Have you been entering your foods every day into fitday.com? What are your percentages?

[LLCS1206]

Re: I don't think it's working.

When I get the baconator I get it bunless, no katchup just the meat cheese and mayo. I don't know what fitday.com is? All the help I can get is greatly appreciated. I don't know what the problem is. I know that I have been following correctly.. I just feel like I may be one of those millions of people who are resistant. I really hope not. So I got the coq10 and that L-caritine or whatever it's called. I will be trying those tomorrow.

[Georgiana]

Re: I don't think it's working.

The Baconator is probably the one messing up your weight loss. Some people can deal with a little sugar or other crappy stuff in their foods, but others are stalled even by tiny amounts.

Did you see the ingredients in mayo? This is probably the yuckiest mayo I ever saw...

Mayonnaise
Water, Soybean Oil, Corn Syrup, Egg Yolk, Modified Corn Starch, Distilled Vinegar, Salt, Spice, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Benzoate and Potassium Sorbate (preservatives), Natural Flavor, Calcium Disodium EDTA (to protect taste), Yellow 5 and 6. CONTAINS: EGG.

The bacon is also cured with sugar. Plus, the meat (patties and bacon), cheese and mayo have 1500 mg of sodium. That's the RDA in Europe! I believe in the US is something like 2400 mg, but in any case... 1500 mg for a meal is a lot!

Are you doing your exercise?

[msanjelpie]

Re: I don't think it's working.

FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal

Go to this site, sign up, and enter all of the foods you eat each and every day. It will tell you how many carbs / calories / fat/ fiber / protein etc...

Then you can see if your percentages are close to 65% fat / 30% protein / 5% carbs

If your numbers are off... you can make adjustments that will get you back on track...

[Whatsername]

Re: I don't think it's working.

Fitday...just curious how this really works out for people. I tried it but got very frustrated with it. I couldn't find the foods I wanted listed and would be forever trying to enter my own info. I didn't really have the patience for it. Maybe I was doing something wrong?

[mitzimarie]

Re: I don't think it's working.

Fitday...just curious how this really works out for people. I tried it but got very frustrated with it. I couldn't find the foods I wanted listed and would be forever trying to enter my own info. I didn't really have the patience for it. Maybe I was doing something wrong?

Fitday - YES, it is a pain at first. Here is some info I have put together to make it a bit easier:

If you haven't gotten Fitday to count fiber for you, this is how you do it: On the left side of the page, is a place that you can click on to set a nutrition goal. Go there, and set a fiber goal... that is done by setting a minimum and maximum daily fiber amount. It doesn't matter which numbers you plug in... I have my minimum set as 1 and my maximum as 50... the numbers there aren't important. I just put them in, to get Fitday to count for me. After doing this, the fiber grams will show with the other totals for carbs, protein, fat. Just subtract the fiber grams from the carb grams, and you have your net carbs.

Fitday sometimes frustrates me... so much so, that I have most of my foods entered as custom foods. Even a lot of veggies! It's a pain to have to sort through so many possibilities to find something that should be simple. So if I can't find something easy, I find info that I do like somewhere else and enter is as a custom food. I've gotten a lot of my info from a great Spreadsheet that is in the FAQ Forum, and some from www.calorieking.com, among others. I also sat down with my laptop in the kitchen and entered info from every jar, can, box, label, of anything that I ever use. Yep, a big pain in the butt to do that, but after it's done, it really makes Fitday easier to use.

Of course, you are not required to use Fitday... you can easily keep count of your net carbs on paper. I'll provide the links to the places on the internet that you can use. Here we go:

The first link (Nutritional Spreadsheet) is a fantastic resourse that is found in the FAQ forum on this board. It lists each food, how much of that food equals 1 cup (in weight), the nutrition facts, and in which rung the food is allowed. I've printed this list and use it all of the time.

NUTRITIONAL SPREADSHEET

Calorie King is a great site for nutrition facts.

CALORIE KING

Nutrition Data has nutrition facts.

NUTRITION DATA

Again - Fitday is a pain at first. But once you make the sacrifice of setting things up the way you want them, it becomes a breeze.

Again - Yes, there are many who have succeeded without using Fitday. I did use it, and found it to be a very helpful tool.

[Whatsername]

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Thank you so much! Very helpful and I will definitely be checking out all the links. I am going to try to give fitday a try again. Appreciate the help.

[kibskix]

Re: I don't think it's working.

eat more veggies(3 cups). eat more fat(use fitday to get to 65%). drink more water(64oz is the minimum).

don't eat fast food. taking off the bun doesn't mean it isn't bad for you. the mayo probably has sugar, god knows what the meat is made of, and the cheese is processed.

[LLCS1206]

Re: I don't think it's working.

That damn wendys baconator! Gosh I didn't know that I had to look up ingredients as well. Can someone tell me what the BAD things are? I don't have the ability to prepare all of my meals at home. Sometimes I am on the go and I do need to stop and get some type of fast food and that's not even working either. Can someone tell me what types of things you get at fast food places?

[msanjelpie]

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Fitday is frustrating if you try to use 'their' food list... So whenever I go to enter a new food I find 'their' food, i.e. egg, raw etc... then I get my box of eggs and edit the info to be the same as 'my' eggs... Then from then on I know every time I have eggs the numbers are correct. I do this for everything I eat every day... after the first couple of weeks I only had to enter a new food once a week or so because It remembers everything I tell it. Now It's a breeze to input my daily foods, (probably because I pretty much eat the same things each week...)

Like this week I tried pumpkin for the first time, I typed in pumpkin, found 'their' pumpkin, took my can and changed the numbers to be the same as my can, then went on from there. I was making pumpkin pudding, so the next ingredient was cream cheese. I got my cheese container and added these amounts to the pumpkin amounts... Then I got my butter box and added those amounts to the others. I changed the name of the item to pumpkin pudding and now I know whenever I have it the numbers will be correct... A pain for five minutes... but such a blessing at the end of each day to know exactly where I'm at...

[liv]

Re: I don't think it's working.

You have to work it, for it to work

Very basic whole foods work best. Our bodies respond very well to it.

I bet we all live pretty busy lives so we plan very carefully what the day will be like. I use a small icebox and stuff it with legal foods for days where I am on the road a lot. I do boiled eggs or salads or left over meats. I have cut up veggies, some cheese. If I know I can get to a microwave during the day I take food that can be heated. I like some of Linda's recipes for that (The whitecastle pie - is great - it freezes well and can be reheated easily).
Don't use busy as an excuse. Work around it. Ask away. I am sure people will have plenty of ideas for things that can be done.

[mitzimarie]

Re: I don't think it's working.

When I get the baconator I get it bunless, no katchup just the meat cheese and mayo.

The reason I ask, is because I have never eaten/seen one before. When I looked it up on their website, it listed more than the bun, meat, cheese, bacon, ketchup, and mayo... it also lists Cheese Sauce and Honey Mustard Sauce. So that's why I was wondering if you just ordered it "bunless" with no ketchup, or specifically asked for meat, cheese, bacon and mayo.

Here are the ingredients for a Baconator listed on Wendy's website at http://www.wendys.com/food/Nutrition.jsp

Baconator®

2 - Hamburger Patties
Ground Beef. Seasoned with Salt.
American Cheese Slices
Cultured Milk, Water, Cream, Sodium Citrate, Salt, Sodium Phosphate, Citric Acid, Sorbic Acid (preservative), Artificial Color, Enzymes, Soy Lecithin. CONTAINS: MILK, SOY.
Cheese Sauce
Cheddar Cheese (cheddar cheese [milk, salt, cheese cultures, enzymes], whey, buttermilk, salt, disodium phosphate, artificial color [yellow 5 and 6]) Modified Food Starch, Whey, Corn Syrup Solids, Partially Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, Natural Flavor, Salt, Lactic Acid, Tricalcium Phosphate, Sodium Alginate, Yeast Extract, Sodium Caseinate (milk derivative), Calcium Gluconate, Xanthan gum, Disodium Inosinate, Dipotassium Phosphate, Sodium Tripolyphosphate, Garlic, Monoglycerides, Soy Lecithin, DATEM, Sodium Silicoaluminate (anti-caking agent), Artificial Color (yellow 5 and 6). CONTAINS: MILK, SOY.
Bacon, 6 strips
Pork Cured With: Water, Sugar, Salt, Smoke Flavoring, Sodium Phosphate, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrate.
Mayonnaise
Water, Soybean Oil, Corn Syrup, Egg Yolk, Modified Corn Starch, Distilled Vinegar, Salt, Spice, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Benzoate and Potassium Sorbate (preservatives), Natural Flavor, Calcium Disodium EDTA (to protect taste), Yellow 5 and 6. CONTAINS: EGG.
Ketchup
Tomato Concentrate (made from red ripe tomatoes), Distilled Vinegar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup, Salt, Spice, Onion Powder, Natural Flavoring.
Mustard
Water, Distilled Vinegar, Mustard Seed, Salt, Turmeric (color), Paprika, Spice.
Honey Mustard Sauce
Soybean Oil, Honey, Water, Dijon Mustard (distilled vinegar, water, mustard seed, salt, white wine, citric acid, tartaric acid, spices), Sugar, Distilled Vinegar, Egg Yolk, Salt, Mustard Seed, Egg White, Xanthan Gum, Propylene Glycol Alginate, Potassium Sorbate and Sodium Benzoate (preservatives), Titanium Dioxide, Spice, Garlic (dehydrated), Onion (dehydrated), Natural Flavor, Lemon Juice from Concentrate, Calcium Disodium EDTA (to protect taste). CONTAINS: EGG.
Dill Pickles (4)
Cucumbers, Water, Vinegar, Salt, Calcium Chloride, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Alum, Natural Flavors, Polysorbate 80, Yellow 5, Blue 1.
Onion (4 rings)
Onions.
Tomatoes, 1-2 slices
Tomatoes.
Lettuce
Lettuce.

There are lots of sugars, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, corn syrup solids, and staches in there. Here is the dressing for the side caesar salad:

Supreme Caesar Dressing
Soybean Oil, Water, Parmesan and Romano Cheese (part skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), Red Wine Vinegar, Egg Yolk, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Salt, Sugar, Garlic (dehydrated), Mustard Seed, Spices, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Anchovies, Xanthan Gum, Distilled Vinegar, Molasses, Corn Syrup, Caramel Color, Tamarind, Natural Flavor. CONTAINS: EGG, MILK, FISH (anchovies).

More sugar, molasses, and corn syrup. And as Georgiana pointed out, the sodium is very high.

You also had bacon for breakfast, right? More sodium.

I know that at times it's a giant pain in the a$$ to have to prepare fresh food ahead of time, but that is just the way that it is. I carry an insulated lunch container with me, filled with roast slices (roast that I made myself, so I know what's in it), string cheese, along with ziplock baggies filled with 1 cup portions of veggies. Once you start seeing the results of the effort, you will be better motivated to get into the groove.