Today's Accountability

Hi all, Today didn't go too badly for me...only have 1 1/2 waters left to go and finished my 50 min of treadmill. Breakfast was a Lean Cuisine Swedish Meatball meal (one of my staples), brunch was 6 little cheese and crackers, lunch was a protein bar, afternoon snack was some broccoli with ranch dip, and I haven't quite decided on dinner yet. This is the first time I've ever tried eating my biggest meal of the day at breakfast. If anyone else watched that one XXX-treme Weight Loss show on Discovery last night, they had one girl on there who looked AMAZING (even in a swimsuit) for someone who had once been morbidly obese. And one of the main things she did was put her biggest meal first, her medium meal at lunch, and her smallest at dinner time. It does make sense that loading a lot of calories right before we head to bed with a slowing metabolism probably isn't the best plan. So I'm going to try out having my Lean Cuisine for breakfast every day for the next week and see how that works for me. Wish me luck! Julie

No breakfast LUNCH-----4 oz Ham and 2eggs with 1/2 sl cheese Dinner-----Turnip Green and 4oz Chicken Snack------ 1 cup ****o Puffs cereal (The family had chocolae chip cookies) Water-----100+ oz Exercise---28 minute program treadmill and weight training

sweidish meatballs for breakfast....sounds like an interesting idea. was this the same lady who ate dinner for breakfast and breakfast for dinner? or was it just switching the size of her meals. i was so good for most of the day but then i came home to my mother's famous chocolate cake and it was downhill from there.... w/ friend walked the "wall" around duke university - about 3 miles - this morning. tonight 30 minutes tredmill and some quicky weights breakfast: 1/2c. special K, 1/2 c. cheerios, 2/3 c. skim milk, 1/2 banana lunch: chicken breast on lite whole wheat bun, 2. tbs fat free shredded cheese, 100 calorie bag of healthypop popcorn snack: grapes, 60 cal sugar free pudding, a few tiny holiday gobstoppers dinner: boca burger, whitewheat bun, 2% american cheese, baked sweet potato fries, ketchup, sliced strawberries w/ 2 tbs vanilla yogurt snack: mom's evil but amazing chocolate cake w/ a little lite coolwhip. YUM. 1/2 c. skim milk will try not to eat anything the rest of the evening....

Hi Andrea, Yeah, I think she had flip-flopped the content of the meals as well as the size. I believe she has written a book covering the diet she created and might even have seen an ad for it in that People magazine someone had mentioned. I bought it with the groceries but haven't really had time to sit down and read it yet. We have to drive to western Nebraska tomorrow, so with the road conditions what they are in KS/NE, I may not be around to post tomorrow. Going to have to treadmill at 5am tomorrow to get my exercise in before we leave. Julie

I saw that show too....she even gets her whole family involved in waking up early and eating the larger meal first. Amazing loss! My accountability is as follows: Breakfast: AdvantEdge Carb Control shake Snack: FF Cottage cheese, 1/2 cup Lunch: Protien Meal Replacement Shake Snack: Small can of Tuna Fish with 1 tblspn of FF Miracle whip Dinner: AdvantEdge Carb Control Shake 80 oz water My goal is to keep my protein super high, carbs moderate and fat under 10 grms per day. To start, I have to control the food intake because I know Ill go over, so the shakes give me the nutrients I need w/o that breaking point.

I saw that story Julie. I thought it was very intriguing. SHe is the perfect example of finding what works for you. Note: I eat every 3 hours Breakfast: 1.5 c Raisin bran 1 c 2% milk 1/2 c grapes Next Meal: 1/2 Grilled chicken salad string cheese strawberries Next meal: chicken noodle soup(low sodium) and wild rice 10 saltine crackers Next meal: remainder of grilled chicken salad more string cheese raisins Dinner: Baked crispy catfish green beans fruit ****tail Beverages: water or crystal light Exercises: 30 mins treadmill 30 mins aerobics 30 mins weights (Trying to catch up on exercise from vacation)