I just took my vits i forgot them earlier...today i went for my walk fter work but had a hard time with my damn shin splintsyesturday i had my slim fast shake and had some sunny boy earlier in the am...and i took my vits in the early am and i also took my herbal thyroid meds...i swear they make me feel better and give me more energy...tomorrow im gonna have my sunny boy and take my vits and thyroid stuff and see how it goes when i walk...i also worked a longer shift today...anyway...lol...once i get some sleep i will be back to update...i did my walk and i have p90x to still go adn possible tennis with the girls

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I did meditate but no other exercise for the day...I didnt get to bed till 1pm and then i had a hard time sleeping and I cant remember if i forgot to turn the alarm on or if i slept throu it but I woke up at 5pm in a made panic to go get my daughter from daycare and i have been neat for the rest of the evening...to physically tired to work out...Im returned back to my night shift job after having two full weeks off, it has been hard on the 3 of us returning back to our routines and schedules...I will do p90 today (friday) and starting today Im gonna post a menu here as well

Done well with my new food plan, at least Day 1 that is. You should've seen me yesterday! I really milked that "last day" mentality, mixed with the "its my birthday so I get to eat my cake and chocolates" mentality. Not great for a diet I'll tell ya! So here's what I've had so far:

Breakfast: 1 egg fried in coconut oil, 1 cup blueberries, tea w/ almond milk
Snack: 1 green apple w/ almond butter (raw/unsweetened)
Snack: nuts
Lunch: 1 egg; 1/4 avocado
Dinner: 2 servings ground beef w/ mexican seasoning; 1/4 avocado; 1/4 large tomato; onion; grated cheddar cheese

No breads, potato, rice, sugar, fruit juice, candy, cakes etc etc etc. Hey, calorie counting does NOT work for me anymore so now I'm going with food types instead. Of course these types of foods keep the calories relatively low at the same time, but I sure hope the removal of the simple carbs (even whole grains) does the trick. I am not hopeful but will just keep at it as I've tried just about everything else.

Hope everyone is reaching their goals today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLANCITA [COLOR="Black" Even though you had the *last day before the diet* Its my Birthday!!!* Mentality, you got yourself on track today. Consider it a late B~Day gift to yourself. [/COLOR]

Hopefully tonight I can find my BIG tape measure and get Dan to take my measurements for me. (we will see if he can keep his mind on task.... lol, such a dog, but Iluv him)

35 minutes of interval walking and running on the treadmill this morning for 450 calories burned. I think my high was 176 and my average heart rate was 150.

Hey Claud, good to see ya hereMy mom has been talking to me abt going raw...Im unsure I can afford it or convince the kids to do it...food combining is also good, might bwe a thought to look into that as well, appearantly it really works, I have a book on it...

LOL I should do the sme too...well not with dan, heh...he is very much a boy

Hey all!

Well, don't know what happened this morning, but managed to oversleep by 30mins once I thought I had woken up! So there was no time for the exercise mat this morning, but I'm keen to do it later today.

I have ONE MORE thing I want to do this week, and that is a run. Any distance, any effort level, just a run. REMEMBER WHY I RUN.

I will report back.

And well done for yesterday everybody!

Looks good my dearIm trying to do the same thing and im in the same boat as you...im trying for no carbs...i had a bun on Wed with my soup and that is all I have had since Mon...

Thanks brazenlysweetie! I must say I didn't feel at all guilty by the 5 or so slices of my birthday cake I had! There is still one of the two cakes left, and a bit of the one I kept eating at. I didn't dare go near it yesterday though and I think I'm still feeling the effects of the sugar. I did admittedly go into this no simple carb diet with a BANG!! My poor H and baby discovered the last 2 pieces of the chocolates I scarfed down in my little birthday sugar binge..and I was glad to see em all go.

NOW! I am giving this diet a shot, like Relly, because we can never seem to shed our weight no matter what we do. Rell this is so cool that we're following the same diet. I read this free ebook, which is probably all total bull shit I realize, that says that you will not be in fat burning mode for 24 to 48 hours after eating even just 25 grams of simple carbs over the course of the whole day (but not including carbs from fruit/veggies/nuts which you can eat in abundance). The book says you will shed mostly water weight for the first week or two, and then you will start to shed one or two pounds of fat per week. The theory in the book is that the liver cannot release fat burning hormones in the presence of sugar or something to that effect lol. While this sounds hokey this is actually how things work, you need certain hormones to burn fat and certain hormones inhibit and prevent any fat burning--this is well known scientifically. So then if simple carbs cause the release of hormones (insulin being one) which inhibit fat burning for 1 to 2 days, then it makes you wonder why so many people, including myself, have lost weight eating simple carbs?! There is SO MUCH conflicting information out there gosh its hard to decipher, but I'm just trying different things and taking it all with a big grain of salt!

Rell, what types of foods are you eating now? Val and Alta seemed to be doing well on their raw diet. I know I could never keep it up, but in the back of my mind I'm trying to get more raw foods just knowing how much better it is.

Michelle is a friend of mine and she is a big sweetie

Im just going for proteins, fruit and veg and drinking a slim fast shake in the mornings as well...trying for no extra carbs, like breads and rice and yadda yadda yadda...no extra/added sugar...cutting out all the bad adn trying to go as natural and as raw as I can but i gotta do some reading of the raw and such...

I need to go on a shop but i have just been focusing on like salmon, veg, yoguart, sonny boi...

Maybe I will start posting my menu here daily as it is one of my goals im following...i am posting in my diary but i havent yet...

Well we seem to be keeping the same hours as well as the same food lol. I'm up with insomnia and hope I will get another hour in if I go back to bed now (been up since 4am eeeeeek!). But Rell your diet looks so much better and more natural than it used to be a few years ago. Girl that's how damn long I've been tracking you and been on this site lol.

HEH I KNOW HEY...IT IS TIME FOR US TO GET THE HELL OFF THIS FORUM...

This is the only route I havent gone yet...so we will see...Im at work ugh...LOL...only 7.5 more hrs to go

Happy Belated Birthday Blancita! I hope it was a great one!

Thanks beautiful. Glad you joined the forum, been seeing you around all over!

Nah, we come and go here and there but we always find our way home. We will be battling our weight our whole lives, so I envision us involved in some kind of weight management forum for years to come..unfortunately lol.

So I'm eating my fruit cup right now, luckily there's a shop on the corner so I didn't have to clean and chop this morning. Scale at 149, but I have a feeling it went over 150 after my little birthday binge so I'm cool with that. If I get below 146, I will be below my recent plateau weight.

Hope everyone's having an accountable day .