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I got the runs today because I ate a chili dog from Weinerschnitzel last night, so I'm staying home today (but working). :faint: Scale: said 246.5 at gym Exercise: 20 minutes HIIT on Elliptical at 8:00 AM Food: B: Protein shake - 138 calories, 27g protein, 4g net carbs L: Lean Cuisine mustard chicken & green beans - 220 calories, 17g protein, 20g net carbs D: Salsa chicken - ~300 calories, 27g protein S: Angel food cake w/ strwberries & whipped creme - ~300 calories Totals: 958 calories, 71g protein Water: 8:00 AM - 2 C during exercise 12:00 PM -3 C at work 3:30 PM - 1.5 C at home 9:30 PM - 1.5 C at home

I got the runs today because I ate a chili dog from Weinerschnitzel last night, so I'm staying home today (but working). :faint: Scale: said 246.5 at gym Exercise: 20 minutes HIIT on Elliptical at 8:00 AM Food: B: Protein shake - 138 calories, 27g protein, 4g net carbs L: Lean Cuisine mustard chicken & green beans - 220 calories, 17g protein, 20g net carbs D: Salsa chicken - ~300 calories, 27g protein S: Angel food cake w/ strwberries & whipped creme - ~300 calories Totals: 958 calories, 71g protein Water: 8:00 AM - 2 C during exercise 12:00 PM -3 C at work 3:30 PM - 1.5 C at home 9:30 PM - 1.5 C at home

I guess I had TWO free days this week! The scale at the gym has said 246.5 for 3 days now! Saturday: B: none L: Lemon pepper wild salmon & 1/4 sweet potato S: caramel-dipped pretzel with chocolate from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory D: Chicken parmigiana & pasta w/ chicken in cream sauce (VERY fattening) S: a WHOLE caramel apple w/ snickers from Rocky Mtn Chocolate Sunday: B: none L: Leftover chicken parmigiana & creme chicken pasta - 500 calories S: couple bites of chocolate cake, couple bites of rice krispie treat, couple bites of chocolate dessert from Chuck-a-Rama - 150 calories D: WW Salisbury steak - probably 200 calories, 20g protein S: Chili dog & some chili fries from Weinersnitzel & 1/2 Bryce's chocolate shake - 760 calories, 18g protein Totals: 1610 calories

I guess I had TWO free days this week! The scale at the gym has said 246.5 for 3 days now! Saturday: B: none L: Lemon pepper wild salmon & 1/4 sweet potato S: caramel-dipped pretzel with chocolate from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory D: Chicken parmigiana & pasta w/ chicken in cream sauce (VERY fattening) S: a WHOLE caramel apple w/ snickers from Rocky Mtn Chocolate Sunday: B: none L: Leftover chicken parmigiana & creme chicken pasta - 500 calories S: couple bites of chocolate cake, couple bites of rice krispie treat, couple bites of chocolate dessert from Chuck-a-Rama - 150 calories D: WW Salisbury steak - probably 200 calories, 20g protein S: Chili dog & some chili fries from Weinersnitzel & 1/2 Bryce's chocolate shake - 760 calories, 18g protein Totals: 1610 calories

Thu, 5/4 - 30 minutes Turbo Jam Fri, 5/5 - 20 minutes Turbo Jam workout Sat, 5/6 - 45 minutes upper-body WT Sun, 5/7 - 20 minute ab workout & 45 minute Dance Dance revolution tournament

Telly - TMI! 5/6/06 B: Water L: 5 oz Wild sockeye salmon, 1/4 sweet potato - 320 calories(?), 22g protein D: Buca di Beppo's Chicken parmigiana & creamy chicken & pasta dish, 1/4 of a piece of garlic bread Dessert!: 1 WHOLE caramel apple drizzled with chocolate & snickers bits and a caramel-, white chocolate-dipped pretzel (which I PB'd on). I guess it's my free day!

Kee, I saw your pics on another thread. You're so pretty! Teresa, looks like you've been doing SO awesome lately! And you moved the scale's 50 pound marker down a notch! That's always fun. Xann, did your nurse say to eat ONLY 1,200 calories/day? My nurse just told me to get AT LEAST 1,200 calories/day. But then again she also said I had anorexic tendencies. B: Protein Shake - 137, 27g protein L: 1.5 pieces fried tilapia & 1/2 salad (business lunch - I couldn't help it!) D: Sweet pork taco w/ black beans

HA! Who cares if you've gone waaaay off the title of the thread, Telly. It's 45 pages long!

LOL. Who would have thought, eh? Apparently these are the big ticket smilies around here.

Yeah, Telly, the icon's called "fruitsex", if that tells you anything.

Xann, I'm glad you made that request. Not that everyone has to follow, but I find that counting REALLY makes me accountable. But FYI, it takes a 3,500 calorie defecit to lose a pound. Sorry it's a bleaker number. I had my RMR calculated at the University I work for for like $30. It was super cool because it also told me how much glucose/fat/muscle I was burning, so I could tell if I was in "starvation mode" (of which I'm not thoroughly convinced actually exists anymore). Your RMR is actually increased by like 30-60%, depending on how much activity you do during the day. Telly, I really hope you don't have crabs (snicker). Just kidding! 5/4/06 B: Protein shake - 132 calories, 27g protein L: Team lunch w/ walnut muffin, 3/4 c clam chowder, 1/2 loaded salad - not even attempting the calorie content of this one D: TBD. Today's going to be my free day so I'm sure I'll try to load up on the calories.

I'm just going on a little 4-day Baja California/Mexico cruise on May 22 on Royal Caribbean's Monarch of the Seas. We paid like $315/person, which was a pretty good deal. BF has a problem with cruises dumping sewage into the ocean, so I hope not to hear about it the whole time we're on the ship. I told him if he has a problem with it he can hold it for 4 days. But in the meantime he better take a shower! I don't want a sweaty man in my cabin. Oh, wait, did I really just say that?

Telly, more calories? Gosh, during the liquid/mushie stage it IS very hard to get more calories in. But Xann has the idea that eating fudge will do the trick. I think I agree, but I don't think it's the best thing to do to your insulin levels! Try a higher calorie Protein Drink. There are plenty out there. Full-fat cottage cheese will also help get those calories up and it's a healthy substitute. I'm having a slightly similar dilemma right now, except mine comes with this food phobia. It's like I'm afraid to eat! I feel like this OCD goes from one friggin thing to the next, you know? Hopefully this cruise that's coming up will relax me. I'm going with my man (at the moment) and we're planning on having a BLAST! I'll be sure to post pics when I get back. Don't worry, I'll be a good girl. B: Protein shake w/ milk - 208 calories, 31g Protein L: chicken Parmesan - 290 calories, 26g protein D: Turkey & green Beans - 150 calories, 15g protein S: banana Peanut Butter protein shake - 315 calories, 32g protein Totals: 963 calories, 104g protein

I need to get in the habit of posting here again! Fri, 4/28 - 20 minutes High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), 20 minutes steady state on elliptical Sat, 4/29 - 10 minutes treadmill, 45 minutes upper-body WT, lots of walking & gardening Sun, 4/30 - Rest (but did 45 minutes Dance Dance Revolution tournament with brother) Mon, 5/1 - 20 minutes HIIT on Arc Trainer, 10 minutes steady state on treadmill Tue, 5/2 - 8 minutes treadmill, 45 minutes lower-body WT Wed, 5/3 - 20 minutes HIIT on Elliptical

Funny this thread was started - I just told this guy I was going to be beach body ready by next summer, for sure! Of course, I have goals along the way. But I think I'm on a high right now and have no doubt in my mind that I'll reach that goal. I think super skinny, for me, is a size 8 or 10. I was a size 12 in high school and I think I looked really good, but I remember thinking I wanted to be a size 10. I wish I could be okay with my size. I really do.

Tuesday, 5/2 B: Water L: South Beach Pork, pecans & green beans: 240 calories, 25g protein D: 1/3 C Cashew Chicken, 2 fried wontons, 5pieces schezwan chicken: guessing 500-600 calories, 26-35g protein Totals: 766-866 calories, 51-60g protein

Mon, 5/1 B: Nasty strawberry yogurt - 200 calories, 8g Protein L: chicken in peanut sauce - 230 calories, 15g protein D: Kung Pao Chicken - 300 calories, 32g protein Totals: 730 calories, 55g protein

C'mon people, where are your meals? Anyhow, today was my "free" day. I really struggled with it. I've come to the conclusion that I'm food-a-phobic. I'm REALLY afraid of ingesting too many calories. So this free day thing is freaky for me. The whole point of today is to ingest 1,700-2,000 calories. I had to force myself to eat the Wendy's chili, and even then have come to 1,280 calories. My sister called that a "pathetic" attempt at a free day. And WAY not enough protein! How am I ever supposed to restore the muscle I've lost through this weight loss without eating enough Protein? Sunday, 4/30 B: Weight Watchers Salisbury steak & asparagus - 200 calories, 20g protein L: Cheesey chicken enchilada from Garcia's - guessing 600 calories(?), 25g protein (?) D: small chili from Wendy's & sm frosty - 480 calories, 22g protein Totals: 1,280 calories (at the most), 67g protein

Hope y'all can see this.

4/29: B: none, I SLEPT IN! S: protein shake - 27g protein, 128 calories L: 1/2 sloppy joe without the bun D: 2 bites of Grilled lemon pepper fish because I friggin PB'd the rest up for a LONG time? What's up with that? It didn't hurt so much, but it just kept COMING UP, for like an hour, I swear. So it's liquids the rest of the night for me.

Xann, I dunno, maybe 42 calories? Here's what this website has to say: http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-B00001-01c20BA.html. I've got a new theory on eating and maybe y'all could back me up or fight me on this since I'm so dumb from all the information I've been inundated with: I'm not sure if starvation mode is a myth or not, but, assuming it's not, our bodies are burning muscle for energy to lower our metabolisms in response to eating too few calories, in theory, right? This results in those terrible plateaus we all dread. So do you think that by keeping our bodies "guessing" once a week by just having some sort of free day would be enough to keep our bodies out of that muscle-burning cycle? Perhaps by eating 1,800 calories one day a week and then 1,100 the rest of the week we're allowing our bodies to not slip into that mode? Okay, whatever. Someone fight with me on this. I'm going to defend my baseless point to the death!!! Meals for 4/28: B: SF Carnation Breakfast (with regular milk. I'm SUCH a lactard!) L: Sm salad, 1 sm blueberry-apple muffin, lemon pepper salmon D: Lo-carb spaghetti with hamburger & tomatoes (instead of sauce) S: Protein shake - DANG this stuff has 27g protein/scoop, 4 carbs & 128 calories S: A little more leftover spaghetti - I'm going to POP!

Can't give you a detailed explanation, but what if you were banded and were super tight right off? If you ate real food and started to PB your stiches could come out because they're not entirely healed yet. That's the best reason I could think of. Hey, I know the liquid diet REALLY sucks, but I remember feeling SO GOOD at the end of my liquid diet - not necessarily because of the weight loss, but because of the detoxifying nature of drinking only liquids. I felt SO detoxified and full of energy. So I'm glad to have gone through it, but it wasn't easy. I fee your pain!

Mon, 4/24 B: SF Carnation BF - 250 calories, 16g Protein L: Turkey & Broccoli madiera - 180 calories, 18g protein D: Lemon pepper salmon & veggies - guessing 300 calories S: 1/2 piece of pizza and 1 pc garlic bread - abt 400 calories Totals: 1130 calories Tue, 4/25 B: SF Carnation BF - 250 calories, 16g protein L: Cashew chicken & noodles - 360 calories, 33g protein D: Lawd help me NOT to eat what everyone else is eating!

I can tell this is going to be a hard week. I'm babysitting my brothers at my parents' house and all they have is JUNK! It's hard to eat your own stuff when you have to cook for 2 ravenous boys. Sat, 4/22 B: None (woke up kinda late) L: Leftover meatloaf & mashed potatoes S: Cold stone ice cream w/ brownies, pecans & caramel (I ate the WHOLE CUP!) D: Lasagna & cheese bread Sun, 4/23 B: South Beach Breakfast Burrito - 200 calories, 19g protein L: Turkey & green beans - 200 calories, 18g protein D: Baby back ribs, beans & baked sweet potato fries

Fri, 4/21/06 B: Bunch of water (woke up too late - had a fiersome dance revolution tournament last night!) L: WW Salisbury steak & asparagus - 300 calories, 21g protien