Posted on 11/19/2005 9:40:24 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum
I decided 2 weeks ago I was going on the Cabbage Soup diet, so I did....for 3 days, I'm so sick of cabbage soup I could die....decided a few pounds overweight is just okey with me....lolol....I envy all these people that can stay with it....
I've been on a pretty successful diet for about 9 months, but now I am on a plateau and it's driving me crazy!
but I hve lost 60+ pounds.
It's a whole different way of thinking about food. But even with what I've done, I don't think I could do the cabbage soup diet either.
I have always been a size 10, but since I had a heart attack 3 years ago, my dr. says the statin meds I'm on are weight gainers, so I have gained about 60 pounds, and I have done everything to loose it, I walk, I mow the lawns, I clean the house, I care for our dogs, etc. and not an ounce leaves these hips....so I thought, hummm, cabbage soup....it will be a longgggggg time before I put another spoon of cabbage soup to my mouth....lmao......
And congrats to you....I am very jealous you can do this....maybe I will discuss this more with my dr next week.....:)
1300 cal a day average. Little fat. Lots of non-fat yogurt. restricted, but not elimintated carbs. Lots of fruit and veggies. Lean meat. Salmon regularly. Calcium supplemnts. Green tea.
Now I think I could live with that....I like everything on there so far and since I'm under the calorie level you said your on, it shouldn't be that hard....I'm on 1000 cals a day....
If your calorie count is too low, you can have more trouble losing weight, cause your body goes into starvation mode and squeezes every calorie three and four times.
You might want to add a couple or three hundred calories a day into it for a couple of weeks and see if that makes a difference.
It also gets mighty hard to maintain good nutrition under 1200 calories. You need to supplement with a good multivitamin if you aren't doing it yet.
That's kitties for you!
I'm going to do blueberries and non-fat coolwhip for dessert. Hubby will do Dryer's Light Grande Ice cream. Ice cream's not too big of a problem for me because I am lactose intolerant.
I told him I will not make pecan pie, though. Tooo tempting for me! Some foods I just don't keep around, because the odds are good I will eat them.
For gravy, I use mixes. Usually about 20 cal a portion, which seems ok to me. I don't make them from scratch any more, because of the fat content.
We will have roast goose, canned cranberry sauce, stove-top cornbread dressing (not my fav, but I make it without butter, and I won't have any leftovers), a green veggie, a little gravy to put over the cornbread, and then later the desserts I mentioned. Before dessert, probably less than 400 calories a plate.
I've been learning all sorts of tricks, like, if you get the munchies eat something like non-fat plain yogurt, high in protein, and it will kill the munchies.
If you add a teaspoon of baking cocoa to your powdered coffee creamer for your coffee, it only adds 5-10 calories, and you get the lovely chocolate antioxidants, and help feel not chocolate deprived. I allow myself 2 or so cups of sugar sweetened coffee a day (I don't like artificial sweetners in my coffee), for abour 40 calories each.
Save your fat calories for important stuff, like eating salmon, or avocado, or walnuts or almonds. I get some almond butter, and have one teaspoon of it a day, for about 30 calories, to get the goodness of nuts into my diet. Sometimes I add walnuts to my salad for the same reason.
When you eat out, order steak and plain baked potato and salad with oil and vinegar. Eat about the amount you would at home, and take the rest back with you, and you can eat out without grief.
If bread gives you craves, try to keep portions down to 100 calories worth at a time. That helped me a lot.
Genisoy soy chips are wonderful. And good for you.
8th continent light soymilk only has 60 cal a cup, and is sweet enough to sweeten hot tea.
I have other things I do, too.
My SIL tried the cabbage soup diet ... and stuck with it for ONE day! LOL! I like cabbage, but I'd never try that diet for fear I'd grow to hate it. :)
So far I have lost only five pounds in two weeks, but that's after trying other diets and not losing anything at all. So I'm sticking with the Beach for another couple of weeks at least and see how far I get.
I'm referring to the photo of the red, white and blue quilted throw you handmade for the FReeps Ahoy Cruise. You so generously donated it as a table prize. All our freeper cruisers oohed and aahed. I have a mental blank as to who was the lucky lady won it.
The throw was indeed a thing of patriotic beauty. I hope you'll share the photo with readers of this thread.
I wish I had such talent on loan from Gawdddddddddddddddd-ahh.
Leni (Bahama Mama for FReeps Ahoy Cruises)
I finished that Fun Fur scarf in only two days! It's about 7 feet long and three inches thick...Very fashionable. I almost hate to wrap it up.
I started another shawl in a thick yarn called HomeSpun. I had to switch from circular needles to straight needles because the stitches would shrink, hanging from the cord. Is there a way to prevent this?
It's pretty normal. The stitch looseness shifts, but doesn't go away. When you pull them back over the big part of the needle, they will resume their proper size. I've never noticed it actually affecting the gauge of something I made.
..."gobble-gobble-gobble" purl "gobble-gobble-gobble" purl "gobble-gobble-gobble" purl repeat
LOL!
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