Beyond Diet program, with kids?

scatrow1983
scatrow1983 Posts: 7
in Health and Weight Loss
I just completed the 7 day cabbage soup diet and lost 8.5lbs. Starting Beyond Diet's 14 day plan tomorrow then hopefully on to clean eating and keeping the weight off for good. Has anyone else done this? I can handle it, personally, I'm concerned about the time to prepare all of it with 2 kids, when I normally only snack lightly and eat dinner, myself. I cook/prepare all day for the kids. Hoping they eventually adapt and we all eat the same things, but that's going to be a while, I'm sure.

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  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    Why not just eat regular food... just less of it?
  • Phrick
    Phrick Posts: 2,765 Member
    Why not just eat regular food... just less of it?

    This, x1000!!!!
  • nicsflyingcircus
    nicsflyingcircus Posts: 2,843 Member
    My kids (4), husband and I all eat the same things. I just choose more veggies/less starches when we eat together. I am not cooking separate meals for us.

    Heck, even last night when I hit the drive-thru on the way home from (unexpected) soccer practice, I threw a bag of broc/cauli in the microwave and we ate it with our chick-fil-a.

    This has clearly not hindered my weight loss in any way.
  • gdreeves71
    gdreeves71 Posts: 29
    THIS. you don't need special diets...switch to clean eating. and as far as kids go sometimes you just have to make them eat what you make. I stopped making 2 meals. She eats what I eat or she doesn't eat. Now if I'm making salmon which I know she really doesn't like, I will throw on a chicken breast for her or some veggie nuggets
  • MelRC117
    MelRC117 Posts: 911 Member
    I think you're exaggerating a bit when you say you cook/prepare all day for the kids. You can cook/prepare for your whole family. It also doesn't take all day.

    You're jumping from diet to diet until you get down to your goal weight, but what happens when your "clean eating" gets you to a calorie surplus and you gain weight back? What are you going to do then?
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    Your poor, poor kids. Don't warp their idea of how to eat properly.
  • scatrow1983
    scatrow1983 Posts: 7
    I could clarify the mistakes in what you think I meant in my original post but I'm going to go attempt to learn some things about health and fitness some where way more useful than here! Now that my poor, poor kids are in bed and I have a minute. How dare I learn how to eat well and try to show my kids!
  • AmberHaythornewhite
    AmberHaythornewhite Posts: 2
    I'm a mother of 2 little girls, and i want to loose my baby-weight and everything... but i wouldnt want to force that kind of lifestyle of my kids. I think showing them how to eat properly (at least what's proper for me) will make a lasting impression on them. They will learn a thing or 2 about nutrition, not so much "diets". But that's just me. I don't diet, it's a waste of time and money. Especially in a house with kids. You're going to have to make adjustments no matter what. Caloric intake for an adult is different than a childs, and forcing that on your kids will hurt them in the long run. Children need "good" fat in their diets, it's good for the brain.

    Just my 2 cents.
  • scatrow1983
    scatrow1983 Posts: 7
    THIS. you don't need special diets...switch to clean eating. and as far as kids go sometimes you just have to make them eat what you make. I stopped making 2 meals. She eats what I eat or she doesn't eat. Now if I'm making salmon which I know she really doesn't like, I will throw on a chicken breast for her or some veggie nuggets

    Thank you, but it's not a special diet of only eating this or that. It offers a 14 day meal plan to teach how to put balanced meals together, and transition to clean eating. I truly don't know how to do that on my own and I simply don't have time to do more research. Diving into a 2 week plan that's already laid out for me is the best way for me to learn how to balance meals. After that, it only offers recipes, learning materials and support. I've been a stick all my life til I had 2 kids. I always thought I was choosing healthy options for them but recently realized how processed everything is. Trying to make a change and just wanted to hear from someone else that's made the change with young kids who never want to eat anyway. The cabbage soup diet is just a way to jump start a long term change. The name is deceiving, it's not just cabbage & I didn't go hungry.
  • scatrow1983
    scatrow1983 Posts: 7
    My kids (4), husband and I all eat the same things. I just choose more veggies/less starches when we eat together. I am not cooking separate meals for us.

    Heck, even last night when I hit the drive-thru on the way home from (unexpected) soccer practice, I threw a bag of broc/cauli in the microwave and we ate it with our chick-fil-a.

    This has clearly not hindered my weight loss in any way.

    Thank you, but it's not a special diet of only eating this or that. It offers a 14 day meal plan to teach how to put balanced meals together, and transition to clean eating. I truly don't know how to do that on my own and I simply don't have time to do more research. Diving into a 2 week plan that's already laid out for me is the best way for me to learn how to balance meals. After that, it only offers recipes, learning materials and support. I've been a stick all my life til I had 2 kids. I always thought I was choosing healthy options for them but recently realized how processed everything is. Trying to make a change and just wanted to hear from someone else that's made the change with young kids who never want to eat anyway. The cabbage soup diet is just a way to jump start a long term change. The name is deceiving, it's not just cabbage & I didn't go hungry.
  • scatrow1983
    scatrow1983 Posts: 7
    I'm a mother of 2 little girls, and i want to loose my baby-weight and everything... but i wouldnt want to force that kind of lifestyle of my kids. I think showing them how to eat properly (at least what's proper for me) will make a lasting impression on them. They will learn a thing or 2 about nutrition, not so much "diets". But that's just me. I don't diet, it's a waste of time and money. Especially in a house with kids. You're going to have to make adjustments no matter what. Caloric intake for an adult is different than a childs, and forcing that on your kids will hurt them in the long run. Children need "good" fat in their diets, it's good for the brain.

    Just my 2 cents.

    Thank you, but it's not a special diet of only eating this or that. It offers a 14 day meal plan to teach how to put balanced meals together, and transition to clean eating. I truly don't know how to do that on my own and I simply don't have time to do more research. Diving into a 2 week plan that's already laid out for me is the best way for me to learn how to balance meals. After that, it only offers recipes, learning materials and support. I've been a stick all my life til I had 2 kids. I always thought I was choosing healthy options for them but recently realized how processed everything is. Trying to make a change and just wanted to hear from someone else that's made the change with young kids who never want to eat anyway. The cabbage soup diet is just a way to jump start a long term change. The name is deceiving, it's not just cabbage & I didn't go hungry.
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    Wow! Go **** yourselves! And your high horses. I could clarify the mistakes in what you think I meant in my original post but I'm going to go attempt to learn some things about health and fitness some where way more useful than here! Now that my poor, poor kids are in bed and I have a minute. How dare I learn how to eat well and try to show my kids!

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  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Wow! Go **** yourselves! And your high horses. I could clarify the mistakes in what you think I meant in my original post but I'm going to go attempt to learn some things about health and fitness some where way more useful than here! Now that my poor, poor kids are in bed and I have a minute. How dare I learn how to eat well and try to show my kids!

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    +1

    OP, you started your post telling us how you just got off a fad diet, then follow up by being combative. Not going to get great responses to that.
  • scatrow1983
    scatrow1983 Posts: 7
    Very original, ladies. And even still, completely irrelevant!
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  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    Cabbage farts. :laugh:
  • aneary1980
    aneary1980 Posts: 461 Member
    How do you not know how to cook balanced meals??
  • shabaity
    shabaity Posts: 792 Member
    Here's an easy one by those little plates with the compartments protein in a little one starch in a little one your veg in the big one and voila balanced. Me personally I eat smaller portions of what my family is eating and most of our meals are fairly healthy the fried is an exception but what can you do we are southern after all.
  • Jazz_2014
    Jazz_2014 Posts: 150 Member
    I applaud you for trying. We all have to approach our weight demons in different ways. Maybe instead of looking at the "big" picture of changing out the processed food for healthier choices all at once, you might consider just substituting one thing at a time. You used to fry chicken, now you bake it type of thing. You used to purchase potato chips, consider hummus chips. If you gradually change things for yourself, you can easily change out these new choices for your family.
    Not to mention, this teaches our kids we have choices in food selections. Should I have this or that? which is a better choice?

    My husband would barely consider hummus, now he loves it. Never ate kale, but loves kale chips. Try just substituting with one thing, when that has become a new habit, move on to a new healthy choice.
  • dammitjanet0161
    dammitjanet0161 Posts: 319 Member
    I'd never heard of Beyond diet but I just asked google and it simply looks like a gluten free cut out carbs sort of thing? Not sure how that is a balanced diet, but OP if you're determined to part with your money for it, you might find it more useful to find a Beyond Diet forum so then you can ask other mothers how they did with it.

    Any "diet" that eliminates whole food groups for a non-medical reason isn't popular around MFP as it goes against the general common sense principles of calorie counting etc.
  • msbobbitx
    msbobbitx Posts: 66 Member
    edited October 2014
    I just started this "Beyond Diet" plan. I lost 5 pounds the first day but that's because I ate crap for the weekend prior. It teaches you how to eat clean, oganic, and is taylored to your metabolism type. Yes, you can do it yourself. But it's convenient and nice to have it all there planned out for you. It's all a matter of balance. It doesn't matter how you do it as long as you do it. But I will tell you I am less hungry than I have ever been on any plan. And I have tried a lot of them. I ate more calories and good fats than I normally do. We will see how tomorrow goes :)
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Old thread.

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