pattyperkins927 Member

I'd like to join this group if you'll have me. I'm working on some weight-loss and am looking into starting Keto. I've just started a little bit of it the last week or 2, but looking to go more full fledged. Definitely on the low carb no sugar train right now. Nice to meet everyone :)

I am usually quite good at spelling, but that is ow I really don't care if I misspelled!

I just got mine last weekend, but I don't have mine set that way. At the same time, though, I don't pay attention to adding back more calories than I actually burn in intentional exercise, regardless of what it's trying to tell MFP.

I have two NS Mac & Cheese with Beef up for grabs if anyone wants them -- pay the postage, and they are yours. I can't seem to get past the blue cheese . . .

My goal is to repeat the goals of last week to make sure that I have the balance I need. Then I can modify the exercise accordingly if I want and will compensate accordingly if this works.

I also just keep a container of sauted mushrooms and onions in the fridge, and add them to many of my NS lunches and dinners.

Well, peeps, it seems to be working! Lost about 3 1/2 lbs this week! I'm within 1/2 lb of where I was when I started exercising and going the wrong direction. After this long of only eating 1200 cals, I was struggling trying to eat 1500 on exercise days (let me qualify that with 'AND keeping my fat grams in place' -- if I…

I started Monday, so I figure Sunday should be my checkin --- I'm giving it a full 7 days. Not expecting to see a miracle, but a little progress in the right direction would be good!!!! Today was my 3rd day of exercise this week (working at home today, so got it in in the morning, which I love) and then plan to hit up both…

thanks --- Makes me feel a little bad thinking that someone had gotten really lazy . . .

Not only have I not been losing any weight for the last 3 weeks since I've been exercising, but actually put a couple lbs back on. Kinda of a bummer because I was doing so well with my exercise (6 days a week, was up to 45 mins a session now, blah blah blah). Soooo, counselor told me to back off on the time and frequency…

My goals this week --- (1) exercise no more than 30 min, and not more than 5 times this week, (2) eat 1 SC before exercise, and 1 PF right after exercise, (3) modify my calorie intake to 1500 on the days I exercise, (4) to see if I can find this stupid calorie/exercise balance that I have messed myself up with!!!!

I'm on the ss stuff also. I have just bought a sampler pack of frozen lunch and desserts a la carte to try some.

I find it interesting that the message boards are still referenced throughout the NS website though . . .

LOL! Sounds like me and my weigh in process . . .

LOL! My kinda cake :)

Good to know, SillyRabbit :)

yes, glad to hear it's not just me. I haven't posted my weight for about 2 weeks now because it sure hasn't gone down! I'm hoping that *Maybe* by this Sunday I have a few ounces to show for it at least now that I'm back in the neighborhood of where I was a couple of weeks ago!! Regardless, I d think I like eating dinner…

If it's any consolation, kindof ground to a halt and actually gained a pound in the last couple of weeks (which ticked me off because I've been doing really well at exercise the past 2 weeks) I'm switching my stuff around this week also, and this morning I was almost back to where I was so I am hopeful that dinner for…

I got an email today saying that the tracking tools themselves on NS are finally shutting down also, and NuMi will be the only way to track with NS now. I never really got into NuMi or NS much, because it announced they were shutting down the forums about the same time I joined, so I just never got started. I was already…

Welcome Pam! Nice to have you join us :)

If you can't wait until your next order, see if you can find the Starkist ready-to-eat original Tuna Salad in the 3 oz pouch. I got some today, and it's pretty tasty AND the specs seem to pretty much add up to the NS version (which I'll admit I've never had yet).

Not recipes, but if you are interested in any prepackaged items, the StarKist Original Tuna Salad in the 3 oz pouch for 100 calories seems to be REALLLLLLLY close to the NS Tuna Salad. I also found some Special K Low Fat Granola that is slightly higher in sodium, but gram for gram, pretty darn close to NS Granola as well.

Yep everyone is different. I did (and still do) sort everything out so that all of dinners are together, my lunches, my breaksfast, etc so I don't have to riffle through everything just to find my breakfast. I will also tell you that the first month, I made a spreadsheet and mapped out what I planned to do for each meal,…

Hi Surrealcheral -- I heard you about the slow weight loss. I'm on about week 6 now I think and I'm still only down about 7-8 pounds, but I have lost about 7 inches so far, so I'm happy with that!! Plus, I had a week of vacation in there that I was rather misbehaved during, so I'm just getting back on track this week. Nice…

This week I tried the frozen Beef, cheese and Bean Burrito --- I thought it was pretty darn good! At noon I finally got around to the Chicken Noodle Soup, and tonight I had the meatballs in Marinara sauce and I was happy with those as well. A good week for NS food :)

Hi Marie -- Patty here. I'm only a few weeks ahead of you and I did the fast five. It started a little rough for me (not from a fatigue perspective though), and I really had to drink my water and eat my 4 servings minimum of veggies to keep from feeling like I was starving (I never ate so many carrots in my life!!). Now,…

I've only used it in shakes and in other NS foods as a supplement - I've never tried to eat it as a stand alone.

I'm going to guess that the wet tea bag is a 'freebie extra'

Popcorn is always a good one (for me). I also generally use a lot of mine up with Laughing Cow cheese, whether it's to spread on low cal/low carb crackers for an afternoon carb snack, or to melt in with chicken and veggies to make a nice sauce for lunch.

Ok, my scientific kitchen has new results. I made another batch (had to use up the rest of the blueberries anyway), so this time I upped the buttermilk to 1 cup instead of 3/4, changed the AP flour to 3/4 cup, added 3/4 cup coconut flour, and 2 scoops (approx 1/4 cup) of EAS Complete Protein Powder - vanilla. They came out…