<p>Abbreviated 1-set version of the workout again today. I’m feeling fine, but still congested, runny nose, etc. Can’t handle anything close to panting.</p>
<p>Sauteed shrimp and chunky guacamole for dinner.</p>
<p>Counting my blessings that I haven’t been sick. </p>
<p>Only exercise today: dog walking, romping with dog, class with dog. I’m pooped. You work as hard as the dog does! Looking forward to getting back to the gym tomorrow. </p>
<p>Calories: 879
Fat: 39 g
Carbs: 51 g
Fiber: 3 g
Protein: 79 g
Sugars: 12 g</p>
<p>NMinn…just glad that the bad guys didn’t visit either one of us in person! 
Another thing to be thankful for.</p>
<p>Cals 1007
Fat 33g
Carbs 75 g
Fiber 16 g
Protein 115 g
Sugars 28 g</p>
<p>Not hungry at all today. Must have been that great protein shake! Over 13,000 steps on my pedometer today. Yay! My sugar and thus carbs higher due to my fruit.</p>
<p>Scary happenings, NM and Sabaray. So glad you’re both safe.</p>
<p>Thanks, PlantMom. NM, your shake sounded delicious. Where does one buy chocolate whey protein powder? GNC?</p>
<p>I think that robbers avoid homes with dogs.</p>
<p>I buy it at the club I work out at, LifeTime Fitness. They also have Vanilla and Strawberry but I haven’t used those ones. Using ice and a little fruit really makes it like a shake. H likes to make choc/banana ones for breakfast. He says it holds him over to lunch. I would think you could buy it at GNC or places like that.</p>
<p>edit: Walmart and Target sell it. I would make sure to check the ingredients. The one I use is 100 calories, no fat, 1 g fiber, <1g sugar, 22g protein. Also has Calcium, Potassium and Vitamin A.</p>
<p>Sabaray, we buy chocolate whey protein powder for fit S2 at Publix, the local grocery store. I know they have it at Target, too. It’s by the protein bars. Kind of pricey, IMO.</p>
<p>Price: I pay $20 for large container that has 35 servings in it.</p>
<p>Laughing so hard watching my taped Biggest Loser show. The challenge is hilarious!</p>
<p>Daydreaming on the treadmill today got me thinking—is there such a thing as a bike treadmill? Punch in the speed/pace and the pedals turn automatically? Wonder if it would have the same excercise value as a normal bike?</p>
<p>What are the benefits of protein powder over more traditional forms of protein? Just curious.</p>
<p>I don’t eat any red meat or pork so it is easy for me to get my protein in a shake as a snack. The protein keeps me full.</p>
<p>Thank you ladies. Any reason to go to Target! I’ll definitely check the label…thanks for the nutritional info, NM.</p>
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<p>I can’t think of any benefits other than the ability to get additional protein above and beyond what you are getting from food.</p>
<p>I hesitate to post my numbers, because they are getting ridiculous. But after doing some research, it seems that my loss of appetite may be a normal process of the low carb diet at this point. So hold off on the intervention, and we shall see where this leads. I had to force myself to eat something this evening, because I was ready to call it a day at 500 cals. Then the voices in my head started screaming, you are shutting down your metabolism, starvation mode, yadayadayada… So I went to make myself something to eat, but absolutely nothing was appealing. Sucked down a protein shake with coconut milk.
After ca. 5 weeks of dutiful tracking and low carbing I am seeing slooooooooooooow progress on the scale. Trainer feels like I should be seeing way more weight loss and is concerned I am eating too little. He thinks doing a high carb day once a week might be helpful. I thought that this had been debunked as a weight loss strategy. Idad? anyone else?</p>
<p>Cals 726
Fat 44 g
Carbs 30 g
Fiber 6 g
Protein 56 g
Sugars 15 g</p>
<p>Cjane:</p>
<p>I doubt there is any validity to the idea of a carb-load day once a week. </p>
<p>Having said that, I must admit that I have long been mystified by how you don’t shrink to nothing with the calories/carbs you eat and the intensity of the workouts you do. I have a hard time thinking that women can do well under 1200 calories a day or men under 1700 calories a day. I just don’t know what to tell you, because you don’t respond the way you you would expect. </p>
<p>I also have never had the problem of not being able to get my calories up!. That is a problem of which I am not familiar! </p>
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<p>I’m low again today, thanks to a second day of seafood (jumbo shrimp sauteed in butter, garlic, and lime juice) instead of my usual caveman fare. This includes a Cabot cheddar and fuji apple midnight snack.</p>
<p>Cals 1489
Fat 87 g
Carbs 101 g
Fiber 29 g
Protein 80 g
Sugars 32 g</p>
<p>Int-dad, I’m glad you posted your calories because being new I was starting to feel like I wasn’t dieting at all 
comparatively speaking. My goal this time is to just dial it back by about a pound a week and regain my former level of fitness and to try to get to a place of lasting portion/choice control habituation. I am fairly densely built and seem to respond best to weight resistance and walking. I did loose weight previously on low carb (south beach) and at another point high protein (shaklee shake, which I still use for lunch) but both kind of left me dependent on something other than my own common sense so I’ve started using mynet diary in an effort to just be conscious of a daily budget offset by caloric burn.
I’m also trying to avoid wheat, as I’m allergic (but addicted).</p>
<p>Cal 1439
Fat 40
Carbs 179
Protein 69
Chol 60</p>
<p>Cjane, I am no expert by any means but if you’re not hungry, that often means that your metabolism isn’t sufficiently active. Are you eating a bit of something every three hours or so?
A girlfriend of mine is a triathlete coach and cycling champ. She seems pretty convinced that metabolically you have to change it up a little and maintain frequency to avoid a shutdown.
My husband used to go long hours between meals or snacks, and only started losing weight when she explained to him he had to actually eat more and boost his protein – and the increase actually did trigger weightloss. So I believe there may be something to that.</p>
<p>KMC, we’re all different on this thread. What I’ve noticed is that I will go several days doing relatively well calorie wise, then will blow all of that hard work by stress eating. Yesterday I didn’t have time to stress eat (nor were any of my food triggers in the house), so that’s one hurdle conquered. For yesterday, anyway!</p>
<p>If I’m keeping my calories low for a while, I find it hard to dial it up a lot. It may be that the stomach shrinks - and signals full faster.</p>
<p>I can always eat something. It’s a matter of whether or not I feel like I should eat or not.</p>