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Absolutely. There is not a doubt in my mind. In fact, there is the doorbell now. :)

From Eat To Live - Dr. Fuhrman I love these all! Les Zesty Tomato Dressing • 1 cup tomato or tomato vegetable juice • 2 tsp. lemon juice • 1/2 tsp. Italian seasonings • 1 garlic clove, chopped, or 1/4 tsp. garlic powder • 3 oz. low-fat tofu (optional) Apple Pie Dressing • 2 peeled apples • 1/4 cup fresh-squeezed orange…

Roasted chickpeas! yum!!! Like this: "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/roasted-chickpeas/

Here's my tried tested and true recipe. Adapt as necessary! Les Recipe: Pumpkin-banana oatmeal with almonds Make a batch of this on Sunday night and you'll be set for the week. Makes approximately 8 ½ cup servings. 1 cup Steel cut oats (NOT instant! Organic Whole Grain Steel Cut Oats) 3 cups water 1/4 tsp. salt 1/4 cup…

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Its great that you haven't had doubts. :smile: I couldn't disagree more though. It has nothing to do with strength especially when we don't have doubts. Its about honesty and courage for many of us. True strength would be having the doubts and being able to persevere in spite of them, and since most of us aren't perfect…

Good stuff. I like those ideas.

What a great outcome! Love it.

Thanks so much!

Awesome!

So true!

Love this!

Thanks a bunch!! Great ideas.

*****Huge music fan here and I do this already a lot without realizing. Thanks for shining a light on it for me!

Great stuff!

Great advice. These were both really great! Thank you so much for sharing them with me!

Wow! Thank you so much! I should have clarified I was not having one of those moments thankfully. I am doing research because I have been down this road before and have inevitably had those days. I expect them and I am just looking for a toolkit I can use when I am in that moment. Great ideas everyone! Les

I am vegan now for almost 3 years. I am currently on a non-vegan but vegetarian diet for 3 months for a medical issue. Feel free to add me if you like for ideas and sharing the veg journey. I always love to share food ideas with fellows! Les

I did have and make time "before optifast". It just wasn't here.

Thanks. If you are looking at the more recent items that are on here, they are not my food log. I have entered food for friends talking about what they had eaten. Also my daughter was doing a project for school that required calculating some items and I gave her access to my account for this. I have been vegan for 2 years…

the shakes are optimist yes. great advice, I agree the habit of daily logs and truly embracing the maintenance moving forward with continued vigilance will be critical to my long term success.

I appreciate the feedback. Unfortunately its based on a quick glance through my history on here which does not tell the whole story. I have gone to great lengths in tracking my food and pushing the exercise to my limits. I have tracked and shared my food every day for the last 5 years through multiple channels and have had…

sorry, i forgot to quote in reply. the post about the program sounding very similar was in response to your post! lol

yes for sure, thankfully it is actually a one year program that includes a lot of education, and maintenance, and exposure to exercise and healthy food plans etc.

I have tried MFP and many other things. Part of the reason I have been referred to this program is that nothing has worked. I will rely heavily on MFP moving forward as I know it will work once I am able to get things moving.

This program sounds very similar and my experience has been very similar to yours. weight loss has been slow or not at all regardless of diet and exercise. The hope is that the diet will kick my metabolism in the *kitten* and allow me to drop significant enough weight so that exercise is less painful.

its a one year program with the first 26 weeks of having weekly sessions that include group sessions, dietician, behaviorist, and exercises specialists and of course weekly Dr. appointments. After the 12 weeks there is a 1-2 week food introduction and continuation of the above noted support. A food plan and exercise plan…

Food diary is now public. Duh!

I thought my food was public already?? How do I change that? Thanks for the suggestions, I cant do a trainer and I have no access to a bike (right now) or elliptical. I will make my food public ASAP. Thanks!

ummmm, i LIKE that kind of hummus too!! zowie!