<p>That is good news. The weight loss is a bonus, temporary or not. :). </p>
<p>Okay, back to serious stuff. What are your plans to move and eat healthy this weekend?</p>
<p>I have a Sunday run planned with friends. I am also making a grocery list after I get done playing around on the internet. I am also planning to see some good music this weekend as it is a jazz festival here in VT for the next week or so. Lots of walking and hanging out with my health-minded friends.</p>
<p>I have lots of walking planned. I will be in San Francisco so hoping the eating and walking cancel themselves out.
I did pack lunch and fresh cut up vegetables for the car drive. I happily can drive past all the fast food locations on the roadside.
On the positive side- I am thrilled to say that since this thread started I have only eaten fast food I think twice and that was while I waited for a friend to come through surgery. That feels good.
Ema we need wedding and honeymoon report.</p>
<p>Excellent work planning ahead to pack lunch and healthy snacks!</p>
<p>Was out all day so didnt get much to eat (had fruit smoothie this morning). We went out with friends for dinner, so I am sure I made up for lost time, as it were. But I ordered the least fattening thing on the menu. Helps that they had calories for some of the items.</p>
<p>Jym, that is really impressive that you were able to order something healthy despite the fact that you were likely having a sugar crash by dinner time. </p>
<p>Well, I had their drink special too… 
I am back weight-wise to where I was a week ago. Still about 7.5-8 lbs from where I want to be ultimately, </p>
<p>Jym, you and I seem to be weight loss twins. I started a fairly rigid diet on Monday and am down almost three pounds. That leaves me 7-8 pounds to get to my goal.
I feel good about what I’m eating and only feel a bit hungry at night after dinner has been digested.<br>
Snowflake, I lost weight when I had a colonoscopy in March that was followed by the flu and then by a stomach bug. In total I lost 6 pounds but it all came back when I went away in April.
One of my go to meals when I go out to dinner has been Ahi tuna steak or Ahi Tuna on a mixed green salad. To me it feels like I am eating steak but with much less calories.</p>
<p>Yay- a diet buddy!!
I let myself have a break yesterday as I had several events to attend and the scale went up a lb today. And I am off to a lunch meeting with a friend who is moving. ITs hard when We eat out, but hopefully doable. I am impressed by your ability to be so on track!</p>
<p>Hi all … No worries about the lost weight around the time of a colonoscopy. I found it this weekend. :)</p>
<p>Ahi tuna on a salad is a perfect meal. Yummy.</p>
<p>Yesterday we went out to a cafe with two other couples to listen to some musician friends of theirs. We were feeling pretty virtuous eating two appetizers (arugla salad followed by mussels in broth for me), but our friends at even less than we did! </p>
<p>I am following a diet online that is pretty rigid in the food combinations that you can eat. For the first two weeks, anyway. It is supposed to boost your metabolism. We’ll see! </p>
<p>You are on it for six days and then you get a cheat day and then back to it for six more. So far, so good. The diet is pretty balanced although not enough fruit IMO. After two weeks it gets more flexible. It has me using coconut oil to cook in. what a lovely taste!</p>
<p>Good morning everyone.
I am back from my visit to SF. The hills and streets where the sidewalks are steps were killer. My D had me walking everywhere. My food choices were okay not great. I will get on the scale in a couple of days.
What I need to do is keep up on the walking now that I am home.
I have a lunch out today for a birthday of a friend. I think the place will have some healthy choices.
I am game to lose at least 8-10 lbs to be back where I want to be.
SnowflakeVT- your running is inspiring. I love the idea of making plans with my healthy active friends. On that note I have scheduled a beach walk tomorrow with a friend I haven’t seen in a bit. </p>
<p>EPTR … how is the online diet working out? Not enough fruit makes sense if you are trying to kick start your metabolism to burn more fat. </p>
<p>Hi Mom60 … love the beach walk. Wish I could do that here! I hope you take a long walk and do a lot of catching up.</p>
<p>Snowflake, I have mixed feelings about it. The first two weeks are very specific and limited and I have been having a hard time remembering or finding time to prepare and shop for all of the food ingredients. I lost almost 3 pounds in a week and then gained one back which is odd since I feel like I am really not taking in enough calories. Could be starvation mode. Some of the foods are remote and odd like sprouted grain bread or something like that and I haven’t really looked that hard for it. Anyway, I’ll stick to it for a bit and see if it gets better.</p>
<p>I have a new diet plan. My hardwoods are being refinished and I can’t get in the kitchen! Had to move some basics to the basement fridge. </p>
<p>Eptr, hmm, I don’t like strange internet diets. Why don’t you just focus on eating more veggies and lean proteins and just skip sugar, fruits, rice, pasta, and bread? You don’t need weird foods to lose weight. If you are worried about gluten, then skipping the bread and pasta should be enough. If the diet is too weird, you’ll just gain the weight back once you lose the weight this way. Also, by moving to more veggies and lean protein, you’ll lose fat mass. If you are exercising while losing fat mass, the number on the scale is irrelevant as you’ll be shrinking in a good way.</p>
<p>My race was cancelled tonight due to thunderstorms, so I am surfing the net and judging diets from my couch. </p>
<p>^^^i second all that!!! </p>
<p>Anytime you are required to buy special food - unless its food that you will ALWAYS be willing to buy - any changes will be temporary. Almost always. </p>
<p>But for the record I saw “sprouted wheat bagels” at Panera today - I asked what that meant. The best the worker could say was “just that the wheat is sprouted.” Ok… (Rolling eyes)</p>
<p>It is’t really weird food in the sense of fad food or unhealthy, just stuff I’ve never eaten before and that requires a lot of forethought. I think it’s only for the first two weeks and then it gets more doable. I have been eating a lot more vegetables and protein. The problem is that the snacks are things that actually need to be prepared ahead and I’m the type that just likes to grab a snack. So I’ve been skipping some of the snacks because I can’t be bothered! The program is called beyond diet. </p>
<p>I am vaguely familiar with that diet. Try not to skip the healthy snacks as they are also meant to keep your sugar levels from dropping, which will then cause you to wildly crave any carb that you can find. I still don’t know the value of sprouted wheat unless you are trying to avoid gluten, but I just don’t know for sure. I say, create some easy healthy snacks that are veggie/protein based if you can’t find the strange foods. (Lettuce wrapped cottage cheese, celery with peanut butter, a spoonful of chicken salad …) I admire you for sticking to a specific diet … Kudos!</p>