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cate said:
This is a test of your willpower. It's great that they are letting you stay. I am going to go back to logging in MFP again, starting next Monday. I need to see what I am doing wrong. Kudos to you for meal planning :)
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Thank you! It's all in the diet :) I currently intern under a dietitian so if I can help any way with your macros I'm here!
 
125.2 this morning!! I was worried I wasn't going to see any drop this morning. Maybe I will be able to get hit that 2 lb goal this week!! I have until Tuesday. It's all up to staying on track this weekend. Dun dun dun :oops:
 
Hey One, thanks for posting on my diary.
oneunanimous said:
Alcohol has been my weakness for quite some time! I look forward to a glass of wine here or there which is worse than whiskey too lol. You seem to be doing great with portioning it out which is very important. Just keep in mind when you consume alcohol, the organs in your body stop metabolizing everything else until it processes all the alcohol since it sees it as a toxin ie slowing down fat loss. I'm sure the small amount your consuming won't be a huge different but I just wanted to share the interesting info :)
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That's probably true, although I had not thought about the slowing fat loss thing. I remember my organic chemistry prof used to say that ethanol was the least toxic alcohol!

Good luck with your goal, but remember making or not making a short term weight goal is not as important as eating well.
 
oneunanimous said:
I've learned to be extremely lazy IE keeping it as simple as possible to maximize my time. Rice cooker, egg cooker (life saver), if I'm grilling chicken then all my veggies are getting grilled with it, one pot dishes, ect. Now and then I get fancy but I've found my staples.
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Efficient, not lazy :p I usually only prep... saucelike substances. And sometimes grilled veggies. Stuff that I can stick into a wrap or add to pasta/rice with some extra (raw) veggies so I have the illusion of eating different meals. I do not do well with too much repetition. But I AM a lazy cook.
 
Today's weigh-in... 124.8!! Under 125 and proud of myself. I even had a brat on a sweet potato bun yesterday and a vodka water which put me over my calories but started fasting around 4pm so that saved me. This is the FIRST of MANY successful weekends. Cheers! Happy Fathers Day to all those dads and single mamas out there reading this!
 
LaMaria said:
Well done, congratulations! How was the sweet potato bun? I can´t get used to having sweet potato in savory things.
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Thank you! The bun was...strange? Lol it is not something I would ever consider buying but since it was around and I was starving, I tried it. It didn't have that sweet potato flavor to it but it was very sweet. I'm not huge on sweet potatoes in general unless its the Japanese sweet potato! Those are amazing.
 
I love sweet potato in sweet stuff (porridge, recently icecream, in a salad with blueberries and baby spinach) but otherwise I agree it´s kind of weird. Japanese sweet potatoes are the white ones?
 
I have been fighting an upper respiratory cold the past few days and for some reason when I am really not feeling well I don't crave healthy foods....at all. Surprising, right? I crave straight garbage. After dinner last night I could not shake my sweet tooth. I had a small bag of these gluten-free mini cookies and a small bag of chips - could've been worse. This put me 300 calories over for the day.
I did workout twice yesterday, cardio in the am and leg day in the pm, and burned around 800 calories so I was still in a deficit but when I weighed in this morning I was all the way up to 127. Blaming it on bloat but I felt like total garbage. It really is not fair how much I cannot tolerate junk food. I know this ties in with my IBS issues but dang.

POSITIVES: Today I fasted until 1 pm. Not bad considering I had woken up at 5am.

My lunch was a grilled chicken avocado salad. 483 calories.
My dinner is already prepped and it's coming in only 327 calories since it's just veggies, beans, and chicken. I will have to add to it but I am feeling pretty crappy -sick- so I may accept being well under my calories for the day.

When I weigh-in first thing in the morning, I find it has been keeping me accountable but the fluctuations are very discouraging. I am taking a day or two off from weighing myself and hoping the sickness passes soon. I don't think I'll be hitting the gym today.
 
oneunanimous said:
Yes, they have that dark purple skin but white/light yellow on the inside. IMO they are way way better than regular sweet potatoes. If you ever come across them near you, try them!
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Definitely will, thank you!
oneunanimous said:
I have been fighting an upper respiratory cold the past few days
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oneunanimous said:
I did workout twice yesterday, cardio in the am and leg day in the pm
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Careful with that, working out while sick can lead to some nasty side effects. Best to take it easy until you´re fully well again.
 
Today's food diary: water, pink salt, green tea, more water, black coffee.

I am doing a 36 hour fast. I am currently 14 hours in. My next meal will be tomorrow morning so I am only going today without food. >ONLY< I have done several 24 hour fasts with no problem until I get to the 22 hour mark so I am really going to have to push myself. Cheers!
 
i've done three >24 fasts in the past year... two for ~36 hours and one for ~85 hours. it is a small sample to draw a conclusion, but after the first 36 hours, the 85 hour fast became much easier. i only ended it because i didn't want to push things too far the first time i reached this plateau and it also happened to be the day before Christmas and i got a last minute invitation i didn't want to miss.

glad to see you are making progress, but probably as i have been finding after i hit a BMI of 24(ish), progress is very slow. i have been averaging 2-3 lbs/ month for the past 3-4 months now. but as seldom as they seem to come now, it's still a smile to see a new low occasionally, right?

keep up with the downward trend!
 
What is your plan for coming off of the fast?

One of my past failures involved fasting, I fasted for a complete week, only to end it in a huge binge. Problem is I had no plan, in fact I somehow thought I could just fast until I lost the weight I wanted to. It was around the time Tommy Sands and his IRA gang were staving themselves to death, in a perverse way that was my inspiration. I was at least 100 lbs overweight at the time, so it would have been a long fast indeed, but my will power didn't last. The whole thing was a really bad idea.

I am sure you will do better.

Good luck to you.
 
How goes the fast?
 
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