It 2010 Please Join me Part 2!...My lovely Group!

Hello, hello! I found you all. Yea! Ok, now off to bed.

Hi All,

Found the new thread.

Had my weigh-n this morning and my alternate week trend continues. Week 5 I had lost weight, hence week 6 was doomed from the start

I actually ended up putting on 1.6 pounds :mad: Of course, the statistical trend was helped by the fact that I did overeat and under-burn my calories last week.

The good thing is that it means I will certainly lose weight this week. :laugh:

Best Regards,

Turin

Yea for Part 2! Hope you all are having a fantastic week!

Turin,

You kill me lol. Partically cause I sound just like you rationing everything,lol. Hey it works

SO I have to tell you ladies and Thank you

I asked for ideas of things you normally eat and I have tried 3 of them..kind off,lol. One I like the Low carb tortillas Amanda suggested, also I am eating the "tortilla pizza" I have had for lunch a few times and this morning i tried the breakfast tortilla, I had one and my kids split the other one. I liked it, my daughter did as well, my son I am not sure cause he complained about the slasa and the bacon,lol. But he ate it. SO I think I have 3 new things THANK YOU!!!

Hello everybody

Thalia, I tried the pizza tortilla idea, and it was delicious! And I love the fact it's pretty low cal, too. Thank-you for sharing that recipe!

This week has gone well so far. Not up to two salads yet, but I'll get there. I also have a fruit salad almost everyday in my lunch, but I'm not counting that as a "salad," just fruit. My carbs are doing pretty well. I've been in and around 10g of my goal this week (a huge accomplishment for me). I also have not let any other liquid but water pass my lips at all this week! The thing that makes me happy about that is that I wasn't conciously trying, I just automatically choose water over pop, or juice. Hooray!

I'd also like to share an exciting bit of news. You know how if you have low-quality jeans, they stretch out throughout the day, and by the end they look a little saggy? (It happens to me. lol) Mine don't stretch anymore! So I know I'm getting a little bit smaller, even if it isn't yet a whole size. That was encouraging for me

Hope everyone else's week is shaping up well. :flowerforyou:

ok so I am a little scared ladies,lol :ohwell:

Over this past weekend I started out sat trying ot be good. We went to ihop before our boyscout field trip. I got a 2x2x2 for me breakfast and only ate 1 pancake with sugar free syrup. So I sis great. Then for lunch we went to ........cicis pizza. My thought was I wont have dinner. Then I should be good. Well a friend came over and my dh made chicken wings. I had to try them. I had 4 then some mac and cheese and then she always has desert and we brought out the samoa gs cookies. Ya the 3 adults finished that package off. I think I forgot to mention I also had 2 iced coffees that day. total cal was like 2700. Bad bad day! Sunday while nno where near as bad, OMG! Monday morning I had last weight! It said 138 i think it was. I was liek :huh: what ever Ill believe it when I see it tomorrow,lol. Well as of this morning it still went down. I have tried to eat a little more every day but at the same time I went running one day this week and yesterday did some program at home as well as class at the ymca. I am trying to shake it up. But I am just shocked at how I lost weight over the weekend with the way I ate. What do you ail think??

Lost, you are more then welcome to join us! Just jump in and start talkin!

double post. oops haha.

Bare with me ladies, (THANKS for the Idea TURIN!)

so I have read all over the place that it takes you buirning an extra 3500 kcal more then you eat in a week to lose one pound.

so say you burn roughly 1200 calories just sitting on your but all day (supposed to be the average)
1200 calories x 7 = 8400 a week
That means you shoudl be able to eat that many calories a week and stay the same weight

But if you want to lose weight you need to exercise and burn 3500 a week that is
3500 divided by 7 = 514
so you need to burn 514 a day
orrrr eat less and burn less

make sense??

orrrr MFP tells you and you try that and adjust to what works for you

I just tracked and checked mine for a week

accept for today. This week I ate 8465 calories I tracked my exercise said I burned 8951 other words not gonna lose.
guess what ? 2 things.... No weight loss well no surprise I only burned like 400 more cal then i ate. :grumble:
But my heart rate monitor said I burned a lot more like 2170 according to that i should have lost like 2 pounds I burned 6295 more calories then I ate but I know there are some things I never loggg.. like sugar in my coffee or tea or the milk and maybe a snack size bar or 2 or hershey kiss or 2 my choco fix lol but I htink I am not burning like my hr monitor says. Cause I am not losing like it shows I should be. I also need to track my little snacks and see what makes a difference. Maybe it would help if everyone evaluated this for a week and see what you come up with. I am also so nto gonna go by my hr monitor not that i have been but I htink it is wrong. :sad: Any way Im gonna track like this again and see how it goes. Hope this helps some of u if you are stuck.

Hi Myth..

To add to your low fuss but low calorie food idea. When im short of time I usually grill or pan fry fish with a little olive oil. Fish is low in calories but quite filling. Sometimes bread crumb the fish to give it a bit of flavour.

Im not sure if you would like fish though - as some people don't handle the smell well. If not you could try chicken.

I like to bake chicken breast. One dish I got from a friend was to brown a piece of chicken breast (season the chicken lightly). Chuck it into a baking dish with some veges (I use zhucchini and mushroom). I usually cut the zhuccini into thick strips and layer it on the baking dish then spead some canned tomatoes (either herbed or plain) over the zhucchini. Place the breast on that layer then put another layer of zhuccini and mushroom (or another vegetable you like) on top of the chicken. Spread more canned tomotoes on top and season then sprinkle some low fat grated or shredded cheese and bake for about 30mins on med heat. - its easier to prepare and quite yummy!!

BTW I had 2 salads this week.. trying to get back into it!!

hi everybody

i think i'm kind of hitting like a plateau or something. i don't mean that i'm not losing weight, it's more of a emotional/motivational plateau, if you know what i mean. it's been really hard for me to stay on track for the past couple days, but i have stuck to it, hoping it will pass. i just kind of feel, you know, tired of it? i hope it's just a phase or something, and i get over it soon. i know it's not my tom coming up or anything, either. deep down i really want to reach my goal or do even better than it, but on the surface i want to just throw in the towel and eat a whol box of kraft dinner! lol. anyone have some motivational words? haha. i think i'm going to read a whole bunch of posts in the "Motivation" section of the message boards :P

now that i think about it, i'm probably dehydrated or something. haven't been drinking as much water as a normally do... :frown:

hope everyone else is doing well this week