New Diet

[debilorrah]

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Yay for both of us!!! It is not easy, but I find myself focusing less and less on food since I stopped dieting.

 

[karlamaria]

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Im so proud of you!! Sounds like you have this thing licked. I am starting to, going to try the no carb diet. I hope I do as well as you all here!

 

[speckledhen]

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Yay for both of us!!! It is not easy, but I find myself focusing less and less on food since I stopped dieting.

herfrds, congrats on your success!

Agreed about the no diets, though, at least for me. Awhile back, DH and I started buying differently due to the economy; we had to since we live on his Air Force retirement and it ain't much, trust me. Bags of stir fry veggies at Walmart were $1.68. We did those with teriyaki sauce and/or soy sauce and added that thickened to whole wheat spaghetti. We liked it. It was very cheap! Those same bags are now $1.98, but still, not bad. We ate lots of stir fry, lots of grilled chicken, sometimes on a salad when the greens were on sale (our garden was a bust). It's easy and it's cheap since we only buy the boneless, skinless chicken breasts when they go below $2/lb.

I am hypothyroid so take daily meds for it. My cholesterol also went wacko the same time as the thyroid and those two are closely related, in spite of the fact that my diet was not high fat. It was just bad genetics, my doc at the time told me. Though high protein diets worked when I was younger, pre-hypothyroidism, they do nothing for me now with my current body chemistry. I gag on them anyway since I really hate high fat, high meat diets now. Blech. That thyroid condition makes it extremely hard to lose weight, even when it is supposedly controlled-don't let anyone kid you about that!

This summer, the heat was miserable, unusually so for our location here in the mtns. I can't take heat/humidity on an extended basis and didn't want to eat anything but ice cream. Not being able to justify that and having my son's smoothie maker here, we started making an ice cold smoothie for every lunch from plain yogurt, frozen strawberries and bananas (which we buy on the manager's specials, break up and freeze in baggies for future use). We'd drink those every day-they were very filling and brought down our body temps by 10 degrees, I swear! I even broke the smoothie maker, oops! Bought a stronger blender. Still do that.

So, now all we eat is whole grain pasta, whole wheat bread when we eat bread at all (found we like it much better than regular), we eat boneless skinless chicken breasts, almost no red meat, no pork other than occasional sausage or bacon with eggs at breakfast. So you see that we're not deprived if we indulge in bacon! I eat oatmeal, sometimes a Zone bar for breakfast and eggs maybe two or three times each week. We each lost lots of weight. Not a diet at all, just healthier. And we actually liked it! My DH has a harder time letting go of his Southern roots, which is all starch and grease, but he's done admirably and admits he's liking the way we eat most of the time. Every once in awhile, he craves red meat, but he's doing well. His cholesterol has always been low-genetics again!

Well, guess what? My cholesterol meds were reduced to the minimum after the summer, even though back when I was diagnosed, I had tried to lower it with diet for six months so I wouldn't have to go on medication. It lowered it 2 lousy points. This summer's "keep cool" eating program actually did the trick. I'm thinner than I've been in many years and still don't have much of an appetite. Can only afford a fast food burger on rare occasions and they don't taste all that good when we get them anymore, either, so we aren't missing much.

 

[herfrds]

That is great Speckledhen!

So glad that your change in eating is working for both of you.

Finding that one diet that does work for you is hard. I tried so many that I just gave up.
My biggest scare was thinking of my MIL who was stuck in her home in a wheel chair because of her weight.
I didn't want to do that to my family.

Also found out I was pre diabetic at a training course. My blood sugar was 130 which is right there.

Stepped on the scale this morning and I am now down 40 pounds.

I have so much more energy. And here is a laugh for Deb. I put on my size 24 pants this morning and they fell off.
Also put on my wedding ring set and it slips off.

 

[speckledhen]

My biggest scare was thinking of my MIL who was stuck in her home in a wheel chair because of her weight.

That is truly scary, I agree! To be handicapped merely because of your weight and the accompanying ailments from the diet or whatever caused it in the first place is very sad and not a pleasant existence. Glad you're finding what works for you. It isn't the same for everyone.​

 

[debilorrah]

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LOL!!! The rings can be fixed, but toss the pants; you aren't going back there again!!! I bought, for the first time that I can remember, size 14/16 pants. I am short so I got the petite, too very short. GRRR I hate shopping to being with and now I have to go back.

 

[herfrds]

I was about rolling on the floor last night laughing.

Went to help out at a benefit last night. In walked a family friend, he looked at me at least 3 times and did not acknowledge me.
I was visting with some other people, he came walking by me and I tapped his arm to say Hi and the look on his face was priceless.
He had not seen me since August so my weight loss was a big surprise to him.
Another friend I hadn't seen in over a year also did not reconize me.
then another friend I hadn't seen since the fair about fell over backwards.
Had a neighbor walk right by me and not even say Hi, he did not reconize me either.

it was so funny watching our friends either trying to figure out what was different about me or figuring it out and being surprised.

My weight loss has slowed down to 3 pounds a week but they told me this would happen so I am not too concerned about it.
We figured that counting both arms and legs plus my waist, chest and hips I have have lost a total of 30.5 inches!!!!!!

Going down to my folks place on Thanksgiving (DD has been bugging me about going so we are) they have not seen me since
the fair either so they are going to be surprised too.

Got some new pants. Just to see where I am in the clothing department I tried on a 1X coat and it was just a bit too big
and then I tried on an XL coat and it was just a bit too small so I am right in there.

Only ran into 1 problem last night. I ate some ham and discovered that they had put some apple juice in it to keep it moist
In about 2 bites I knew something was there I'm not suppose to eat. My stomach started hurting.

 

[moodlymoo]

Is this a diet where you have to buy foods from a company or do you make your own food? I googled it and cant find much info but I am really interested in trying this out. I would like to loose about 50lbs since I am short and plump I am considered morbidly obese.

 

[herfrds]

moodlymoo it is both.
You get the food from the company and you also make your own.

Just an example of today I had the companies food for breakfast the Crispy cereal.
Lunch I had the peach mango drink, 2 cups of pepperocini peppers; I love them and a green salad with vinegar.
For dinner tonight I sliced up a small sirloin steak into strips, cutting any fat off.
Put about 1T olive oil in a non stick skillet and finely shredded a clove of garlic into it.
Cooked up the steak and added 1 small roma tomato choped. added a pinch of oregano.
Black pepper, sea salt and I added some lime juice and heated it through.
I topped a green salad with this and boy was it good.
For my snack tonight I will either have the premade vanilla drink or the southwest cheese curls which is from the company.

 

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congrats to ALL on this thread that have lost weight!