I've stuck with it for a month!!

I have been on this diet since the day after Easter. I have lost 10 pounds so far (Yayy!). I don't usually eat breakfast because I am usually not hungry until around 11am, but if I do eat breakfast, it is a high fiber cereal with light soy milk or skim milk. I love soy milk because it has lots of vitamins! I have also eaten yogurt with cereal mixed in it. That is pretty good. I try to keep my morning meal under 300 calories (I am only working with 1200-1300 per day!). For lunch, I like soup and salad. For the soup, I try to find one that has no more than 300 calories per can. Chicken noodle soup is very filling and has like 200 cals/per can. I definately measure out my dressing so I can keep track of the calories for the salad. Salad is very low caloried (except when you add cheese, eggs, olives, etc.) A basic calorie with just lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, celery, and cucumber can be as little as 50 calories, not including dressing. Also, nearly every fast food chain has nutritional information available online so if you go out for lunch, just plan what you are going to order (p.s. skip the cheese - that saves up to 100 calories!). For dinner, thats a little harder for me. I love dinner food! Spagetti, tacos, pizza, meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, omg, i could go on forever. I eat what I want, but I try to cut calories where I can. Like instead of flour tortillas for tacos, I will get crunchy tortillas and make a salad out of it. I will omit garlic bread with my spagetti, and pizza, well, theres not much cutting calories there except eating fewer slices. Try to eat fruit and vegetables for snack. I have discovered, that for myself, crackers, chips, or anything "carby" causes me to be more hungry after snacking. Almonds, apples n peanut butter, carrots n honey mustard dressing, and rice cakes are good snacks for me, and may work for you as well. Hope this helps a little. The main thing is to start being aware of how many calories you are eating and drinking. Remember, many drinks have calories too and you have to include them in with your calorie count.

Great job!

Hey guys! I've just started today and I'm hopefully going to ty and loose a stone in 2 months! Lol! Is it possible? X

how did you do it? I have been on it 3 weeks and have not lost any.I also walk on treadmill at gym 45 min. every day,also work out on weight machines for 20min.daily.please let me know.

Hello there ,,,I'm new at this ,,I'm wondering if I should be concerned about being in the minus (red) for my sugar,my calories are not used up ,,I eat fruits and there is lots of natural sugars. What do you guys recommend? Thanks

Good going! That gives me alot of hope, especially since I tend to slack in the exercise department. Congradulations!

Way to go! A month makes a habit they say. Keep at it. You're doing it right it sounds.

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To those of you are are working at this but not seeing results:

1. Not everyone loses at the same rate.
2. You may be retaining water which hides your weight loss, especially if you are eating a lot of sodium, or you are a lady and it's your TOM. Drink lots of water to help alleviate the water retention.
3. You may not be logging your food accurately even though you *think* you are. The best way to log accurately is to weigh your food with a food scale, and compare it to either the food label itself, or the USDA Nutrition Database. The MFP database has many excellent and accurate entries, but also many inaccurate entries as well. You should use a scale because volume measurements like cups and tablespoons can be off by a significant amount, esp. if you are eating calorie dense food.
4. You may be giving yourself way too many exercise calories. MFP, certain apps, and gym machines are notorious for being tooooo generous with calorie burn. I take whatever MFP or my app or the elliptical tells me I burned and cut it in half. So today I rode my bike and it said I burned 260 calories, but I only gave myself 130 to eat back.

Hang in there - it's a challenge. You have to be meticulous with your food portions. Investing the $15-$35 in a digital food scale will be the best $ you spend on this weight loss journey.

I am counting carbs and keeping them under 40gm per day. I keep my protein up between 70-100gm every day. And I am working out twice a week. I have a total of 35 pounds to lose, I am middle aged and have a sedentary job. I have lost 11 pounds so far in one month. And plan to keep this up for as long as it takes. I don't even miss bread or donuts anymore. Once you rid your body of the extra carbs your cravings also go down.