Thursday, March 21, 2013

1Body4Sixty - Day 20


Peggy - 195 (-1.0; -21.0 Total)

Whoo Hoo…half way there!

This morning I weighed in at 195 lbs. Finally another pound lost!! So I am at the halfway mark and have lost a total of twenty-one pounds!!!! Slept eight hours, up 3 times.

Breakfast was two cups of coffee w/Stevia.

Lunch was 2 oz. chicken & 2 oz. sirloin (left overs) with cabbage slaw.

Dinner was 3.2 oz. tilapia with broccoli, two bread sticks (which I haven’t been eating lately) and strawberries.

Drank 64 oz. water.

I want to share a paragraph from two pages I got from 1Body4Life about weight ‘stalls’.

Everyone stalls. Everyone. It might be a day, it might be several days (like me). When you stall, don’t panic. It might just be your body adjusting to the next stage of your weight loss. Lots of folks panic (like me) if they don’t lose a pound a day. Don’t worry. The average loss is around one half pound per day and for many it is less. Just remember, there is nowhere else you can lose 3-7 pounds per week and KEEP IT OFF! No matter what you do, your body will lose weight at its own pace. So your best recourse it to relax, stick to the protocol and keep measuring (and weighing)!

That is excellent advice for someone that knows that they have NOT cheated and are panic stricken because of a stall!

1Body4Forty - Day 20


Amy – 157.3 (-0.0; -15.0 Total)

Well, the every other day loss seems to be a trend…
I had an orange at 10:30 am for breakfast along with my 2 cups of coffee.  Closer to 1 pm, I had 4 oz of broiled steak with Chicago spice (what else?) and a salad of mixed leaf lettuce.  This time I tried the Walden Farms Sesame Ginger dressing which was quite good, although fairly sweet for no-cal.  This afternoon at 4 pm before running errands, I had my second fruit of an apple with cinnamon sprinkled on it.
Since I was out running errands and it took longer than I expected, one of my kids and I decided to try to go to Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner.  I had the grilled chicken salad without croutons or cheese and asked for the no-fat ranch dressing and several lemon wedges on the side.  The salad was nice because it had diet friendly veggies like tomato, onion, and cucumbers on it along with the salad.  I ate a little of the ranch dressing by dipping the tines of my fork in first and then picking up the salad, but mostly used the lemon and salt and pepper on the veggies.  (That’s an old trick of Richard Simmons to limit the amount of fattening dressings we use on salad and it seems to work, rather than pouring on gobs and gobs all over.)  I did make the poor choice of having a couple of glasses of wine along with my meal out of habit which I hope doesn’t impact me negatively tomorrow.