Easter challenge?

[LosingItNow]

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Good Morning Everyone!


Elmark & Jo Miller: I started 'clean' again on Monday. I'm in on the pact, but have already promised myself start OWL after my 14 days (which is one day before the pact). I have been on induction since day 1 (Jan 26).

well i am down 4lbs....at 170!!! woo freakin hooo
i am now breathing a little easier and thinking that i may have a chance in **** at reaching 156 for easter....and a REALLY good chance at atleast being in the 150's...i am going back and reading allll the new posts and will post again...i just wanted to let u all know what was up...

4 lbs! That is great! That is almost what I lost on week 1!

losingitnow- don't let .6 lbs get you down we all fluctuate..you are doing great!! and as for cravings...one thing that really has helped me is that if i am home and have time to spare...i leave my house,go run errands, go to a park and read, go to the library, go meet a friend, or even just walk around the block...usally the craving is gone by the time i get back and since i couldn't access food i was able to resist!




if i can't go anywhere i go upstairs and brush my teeth...it sounds funny but it really works...you don't want to eat after u brush ur teeth and it makes me crave h20 sooo thats great

when i am out things are calling my name i try really hard to think about what outfit i'll wear when i am at goal...and how fun the beach will be....anythign but food...and it works

of course there are times that i have succumbed...but there are many more times that i haven't let craving get the best of me...
you are doing great!!! it'll get better

Thanks! I am trying, the gain actually just motivated me to do a better job at sticking with it. It has been hard again this week, because my body seems to be craving something, but I am not sure what it is. I just want to eat everything! (I am not doing it, but I want to.) Where did that feeling of full go?!? I liked that!



Lost29: You are doing so great with your loss! I just noticed your stats 50 lbs! Wow!

Yankee: Sounds like you are off to a good start this morning! Enjoy that decaf.

[Elmark]

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Great Yankee....I have had lots of water, salad and eggs for breakfast....a very clean day!

[yankee]

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My breakfast was a one-egg omelet with 3oz of ham and some dried onion - had to get to the grocery store in a big way! I went out to lunch and had a fajita salad minus the tortilla bowl.
We're gearing up for weekends on the road. Tomorrow morning we leave for NC for a college tour with my son. There'll be a few of those as he is a junior this year. Baseball will be gearing up and we'll be travelling through the end of October. I'll have to just deal with living out of the cooler for a a certain number of days each month. It gets old fast...

Teri

[Elmark]

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There are lots to put in a cooler.....you can make great salads.....yum! But still, I know it isn't as easy as being back home with all the useful things.....like an oven! LOL
You won't be able to post for a while then, or are you coming back home every night?

[yankee]

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We're leaving early tomorrow morning and coming home Sunday. Eating out is just too expensive so I try to pack the cooler for all of us, not just me. We treat ourselves to a Ryan's or a Golden Corral buffet restaurant on the ride home - it lacks atmosphere in a big way but feeds the whole family for $30. Low carb stuff is plentiful.

See you all Sunday night!!

[Elmark]

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Have a great trip.....

[Horsenpuggy]

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Hey! IT sounds like you guys have had a good start with induction! I did well today also. I will keep checking in !

How much water are you guys drinking??? I have noticed the more i drink the more i can loose. Has this happened to you guys?

[Elmark]

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Yup....the amount of water that I drink, affects my weightloss.....I always drink a lot in the afternoon and not so much in the evening (to avoid peeing all night)...

I drink around 3-4 liters a day....(yesterday I only had 2 liters....but that's an exception)

Going to make breakfast.....scrambled eggs and cheese....YUM

[LosingItNow]

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Sounds like everyone is doing well this week. I had hard boiled eggs for breakfast. Probably will have some tuna with cheese for lunch. Tonight will be hard, they are having a little family 'birthday party' for my FIL (Ice cream cake and everything). I have already told them that DH and I will not partake in the cake. He is doing the diet also (lost 12 lbs so far - 1 week less than me) Problem is I have no clue what she is cooking for dinner.
I am thinking about packing some snack food for us, just in case it is 'high carb'. I have no problem not eating, except for the hunger. She knows we are on this diet, so hopefully she will try to cook to suit. (Though she usually tries to shove the sweets down our throats. Example: she will cook a pie and send all but two pieces to our house. She has been pretty good since we started Atkins. Ofcourse, we haven't been there yet..... I am just keeping my fingers crossed.

About the water: I have been getting 72 ounces in (3 containers 24 oz each). That is about the best I can do. Bad thing, I tend to drink most of it during the evening. That is when I realize I have not drank enough for the day.

Yankee: I hope you have a great weekend.

[yankee]

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I'm so glad to be home, you just can't imagine. The college visit went very well, my son loved the place, the baseball coaches said right out that they want him to be playing there, the weather was stunning, the camellias were blooming, but...
It was a nightmare for someone trying to stick to a lo-carb plan. I'd brought a cooler of stuff to get us through Friday but couldn't bring more as there was no frig or microwave in our hotel room. With the ACC tournaments going on we were lucky to get a room at all. Eating out would be expensive but there were no options. We thought. The coaches provided meals. Breakfast was bagels, danish, bananas, orange juice, and coffee. I stuck with coffee. Lunch was pizza. Dinner was pasta, not a salad in sight. Had there been more kids invited - there were only 8 - it would have been easy to slip out and grab something but with one coach to two families it wasn't going to happen. I gained ten pounds in two days. We got home yesterday in time to get some yard work done - my shorts are looser than when I put them away last november thank goodness. It gave me hope. I trellised my raspberry canes, raked all the old leaves and debris out of the back yard and bagged it up, and built a low stone wall along the edge of the woods. I know I burned some serious calories and the scale dropped a few pounds this morning. And every muscle in my body aches!
It just seems that as soon as I get on firm ground and reach a point where I'm happy to be on plan and making progress something comes up that I can't get out of unless I just don't eat at all for days at a time. Being careful and trying to minimize calories doesn't help with this plan. This weekend coming up is a three day swim meet - up and out by 5am for prelims with an afternoon break and then back for finals at night. It's too far to go home during the break but at least I'll be home at night to repack the cooler. Ugh. I'm whining.
Time to get to work and I'm grateful - no food, no carbs!

[LosingItNow]

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Yankee: I wish there was some magic answer for your weekends away. Have you considered trying to buy some of the 'frakenfood' snacks/breakfast bars for times like these. I have never bought them, but they might help out. I can only imagine how hard it is to stick to plan when you are not home and are not the one cooking. I figure though, if you could eat a low carb breakfast and lunch (even if it is frakenfood) it would be better than not eating or eating high carb food. Plus, most of the 'frakenfood' snack items seem like they would be easy enough to pack.


Friday was harder than I thought, but I stuck with it. Having icecream cake that close and not eating it was so difficult. It did not help that my FIL kept trying to push it on us. He was saying things like "well, you can go off plan every once and a while." and "you can eat like this forever you know." It was fruitless to argue with him, so we (dh is on the plan too), just ignored him the best we could. I have to say, I was shocked that it was him and not my MIL that was pushing so hard for us to eat the cake and high carb food. They drive me a little crazy, because three months ago (and many months before that), they kept telling me, "you have to get dh to lose some weight. You know he is built just like is grandpa... grandpa had a heart attack ...." (side note: grandpa lived to be in his 80s). So, we are finally losing weight and they try to undermine it! I guess that is what in-laws are for...

Anyway, I actually brought some fish to make at my MIL and cooked it along side of her dish. Was this bad of me? She actually made fish that would have been on plan too, but just way too little of it. (I brought my fish, because my FIL mentioned tuna noodle and I did not want to sit there hungry, because I knew tuna noodle just was not going to work for us).

The cake made me have a lot of cravings though. I was starving when I got home. I have decided that for all birthdays from now on, I will make homemade icecream, so that I have my own sweet item to eat.

Oh, almost forgot, my weightloss for this week was 1.6 lbs. Better than the gain last week!

Hope everyone is off to a good week!
Lori Ann

[Horsenpuggy]

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Great job Lori!!!

I had an ok weekend ......i made a lot of food for a lady who is sick and had a couple carrots :<

Today i had a hershey kiss! I have been SO good since Jan but all of a sudden i just want to eat EVERYTHING! sigh....

I didnt gain thankfully and i have been faithful to 62-100oz of water. The water part seems to be a little easier now a days!

So how are you guys????

[yankee]

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"Yankee: I wish there was some magic answer for your weekends away. Have you considered trying to buy some of the 'frakenfood' snacks/breakfast bars for times like these. I have never bought them, but they might help out. I can only imagine how hard it is to stick to plan when you are not home and are not the one cooking. I figure though, if you could eat a low carb breakfast and lunch (even if it is frakenfood) it would be better than not eating or eating high carb food. Plus, most of the 'frakenfood' snack items seem like they would be easy enough to pack. "


I did have some almonds in my purse and they took the edge off so I didn't eat so much volume. I did manage to deal with living out of the cooler every weekend last August through October but we almost always managed a hotel with microwave and frig and we were always on our own for meals. I hadn't expected these coaches to provide meals this past weekend. Maybe had I been prepared I could have come up with some reason that wouldn't draw attention to myself that I had to leave at meal times!
Yesterday and today have been very active and on plan so I will recover and continue to lose. I'm going to reset my stats instead of trying to get back to where I was a week ago. It'll provide incentive and be a daily reminder of what can happen in a short period of time.
Thanks all for the support and advice and congrats on your weight loss!
Teri

[Precious]

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Is It 2 Late 2 Join this i have no idea when Easter is i been a lil off lately lol

[LosingItNow]

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Good Morning everyone!

Precious: Never too late to join! Just set the goal. Easter is about 4 weeks away.

Jo Miller: Maybe find a 'allowed' indulgence to help the cravings. I find that when I was real hungry I did what Atkins suggested and eat something high in fat. If I have like two tablespoons of heavy cream (straight) I tend to fill full. (Almost sick to the stomach to be honest), but it helps curve the desire to eat everything. I have also had the deep desire for chocolate. I used hersheys cocoa, cream, and splenda and made some 'hot chocolate'. I did not use that much cocoa (because I really do not like dark chocolate), but it really hit the spot.

Teri: sounds like you are doing great this week! :clap: You have the right idea!