Trying it for Three Days

Weight: 193.4

Breakfast: 8:20 a.m.

1 cup herbal chai tea
1 Cookie (Number1)
1 cup herbal chai tea
Adult Vitamin

Snack:

1 cup decaf coffee
1 Cookie (Number 2)
1 cup decaf coffee

Lunch:

1 cup water
1 Cookie (Number3)
1 cup water

(According to CD website Breakfast & Lunch should equal 300 calories!)

Snack:

1 cup decaf coffee
1 cookie (Number 4)
1 cup decaf coffee

Dinner:

1 cup water
1 cup vegetables & 4 oz. lean meat (can use Lean Cusinie & Weight Watchers
frozen dinners)
1 cup water

Snack:

1 cup water
1 Cookie (Number 5)
1 cup water

BedtimeSnack:

1 cup water
1 Cookie (Number 6)
1 cup water

No other treats or exceptions
Eat cookies in day time ???
Can have 2 bottles Propel per day if light headed

Pros:

Cookies are light, chewy and not too dense
Hunger cpntrol
No counting calories, easy to transport
Convenient: can throw in purse witha bottle of water
Do not have to figure out calories in a meal
No Points to count
A very low calorie diet-only 800 caloreis a day!

The Cookie Diet

Picture courtesy of http://www.cookiediet.com/?gclid=CJLHru3CxaICFRBLgwodfCxn4w

The Cookie Diet was originally invented by Dr. Sanford Siegal and the entire concept makes losing weight sound absolutely delicious! It is a weight loss program that he swears lets his patients drop an average of 15 pounds a month. Not many weight loss programs can claim that. It almost sounds too good to be true, but the people who have tried the cookie diet say it works, and works well.

The cookie diet consists of a carefully put together cookie recipe which, when you eat it, holds back your hunger and your cravings by actually making you feel full. It is paired with a very specific menu for dinner that is said to give you the proteins and nutrition you need without having you eat too much. You eat only the dinner meal which consists of 6 ounces of protein such as chicken, turkey, fish or seafood. These lean meat choices are key to making the cookie diet work for you.
You pair your lean means with one cup of nutritious vegetables. During the rest of day to keep your hunger at bay you eat exactly 6 cookies which are baked in Dr. Siegal’s own bakery located in Miami Florida. They are available only for patients in the six Siegal clinics. Five of these clinics are located in Miami as well and then there is one in Montreal Canada.

There is no set time to eat these “miracle” cookies while you are on the cookie diet. You can eat them whenever you like, as long as you eat six per day. If you wake up hungry you can have one, or if you don’t feel hunger until mid afternoon you don’t have to have one till then. All together, plus the dinner adds up to 800 satisfying calories per day. Part of the cookie diet includes drinking eight glasses of liquid a day. You don’t have to just drink water; you can drink coffee and tea as well.

The cookie diet is a well thought out plan to help the average person lose a consistent amount of weight without the normal everyday cravings. Cravings and hunger are not only the reason people eat, but they are the reason people eat too much. The cookie diet is perfect for the person who simply eats only because they are hungry rather than enjoying the feeling of eating a scrumptious meal.
The cookie diet is supplemented with vitamins that the body requires in order to make it safe and healthy for the person enjoying this diet. The cookies by no means have drugs in them. Instead they are filled with hunger suppressing proteins such as rice, whole wheat flour, bran, and oats which all help in warding off the common cravings for foods. This is what allows you to eat only 800 calories and not be hungry. People on the cookie diet say that his mixture really helps the hunger and helps them to lose weight!

http://www.cookiediettips.com/smart-for-life-cookie-diet-happy-and-healthy/
The cost is about $8.00 per day or about $250.00 per month.It is available at W
al Greens and GNC in the USA

Yesterday's Menu

Weight: 193.8

Breakfast: 7:30 a.m.

4 oz chicken
2 cups chai tea

Snack:

none

Lunch: 11:30 p.m.

1 COSTCO cafe latte
1 COSTCO hotdog (no bun)
2 bites of chicken and 1 ½ French fries (hubby’s)

Snack: 200 p.m. & 2:36 p.m.

1 can Fresca sugar free
2 cheese strings

Dinner: 5:00 p.m.

3 Evil Cookies
1/2 litre of water
2 cups chia tea

Snack:

4 oz. Wal nuts

Make Your Own Healthy Cookies

Timtana gluten-free oatmeal garbanzo bean chocolate chip cookies (or something like that)

What you need:

1 cup Bob’s Red Mill garbanzo/fava bean flour
1 & 1/2 cup gluten-free rolled oats *
1/2 cup Timtana flour
1/4 cup potato starch
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup Earth Balance, softened
3/4 cup organic light brown sugar
1/2 cup organic sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons milk (I used brown rice milk)
1/2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional)

What you do

Place dry ingredients (except oats) in a medium-sized bowl and whisk well to blend. Cream Earth Balance with sugars. Add eggs and vanilla and beat until creamy. Combine milk and apple cider vinegar in a small bowl and let sit for a few moments. Mix in the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients and add milk/vinegar mixture. Blend until well mixed. Stir in oats and chocolate chips. Cover and refrigerate until well chilled. Drop by spoonful onto a lightly greased cookie sheet or a silicon baking mat. Make sure cookies are a couple inches apart as they spread while in the oven. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for about 7 or 8 minutes and rotate pan. Bake for another 7 or 8 minutes until golden brown. Cool on wire rack and enjoy!

http://www.glutenfreeforgood.com/blog/?p=3738

600 Arrested At the G20 Toronto Summit

Photo Courtesy of :http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glance/
1076758 /riots-flare-at-g20-summit

I cried when I saw the riots in Toronto. I grew up, studied there, had my first real job there working at the U of T Bookstore (my then boss was Don McIvor brother of Rick McIvor who now running for Mayor of Calgary) & fell in love there. I was horrified to see the city burning.

The gutless criminals complained their civil liberties were crushed.’

“I’m going to post this on Youtube!” one man shouted commenting on police retaliation and alleging brutality.

I say “What about the civil liberties of the people they violated and vandalized?”
What about the lives they forever changed?

The police that were injured doing their job protecting the public have civil liberties!

The families of the police men and women have civil liberties! Who BTW rely on their partners to be able bodied to earn a living? Who love them and want them to come home safe to their families!

The people who live in the core have rights! I’m sure they are not impressed that their streets are bloodstained, littered in glass and garbage or that their storefronts damaged. Maybe they did not want to watch cop cars being burned or objects being hurled at police in full riot gear?

What about the rights of the children who had to witness violence in the streets of their usually quiet neighbourhood?

What about the civil liberty of the Starbucks store owner? Of the people who liked going there for their morning coffee?

Are the faceless protesters going to pay to clean up the mess they created? They should be made to. Like little children being disciplined they might think twice before the wreck something else somewhere else.

How can the bad ass mob at G20 honestly say they are protesting in the name of human rights? Protesting to save the world? To protect the poor? To save the world economy? What have they accomplished? It seems contradictory when they are ruining the environment Torontonians live in, making the poor even more displaced & costing the country millions in clean up?

So they are wwreckless and stupid.

Rex Murphy is not my favourite commentator. He is an elitist. But last night his diatribe on The National was spot on. Rex is right “throw them all in jail!” “This is not my Toronto!” I would add “Take away their passports” so they cannot attend any more rallies.

How many of these thugs were imports who crossed the US border & nut jobs who travelled across the country just to say they participated? Remember the young, dazed looking, skinny guy who came from Saskatchewan in a beat up white car with a small arsenal of weapons? What did he hope to accomplish?

If the civil liberties of the protesters were violated-they needed to be.
Police reportedly had to use “ two “muzzle blasts” of gas and powder to break up a demonstration by about 200 protesters gathered outside a temporary G20 detention centre in the city’s east end where those previously arrested were being held. “

Wake up you idiots. You broke the law. You endangered the lives of oridnary citizens.What did you expect to happen? Of course you will be arrested!

You are cowards! Masked “thugs” as PM Harper called you & not normal protesters with a real cause & a moral fibre to go along with it. You are hooligans without a conscience- political or otherwise.

A little respect please!

God bless Toronto and the people who live there!

The Unicorns do Not Look Realistic Enough

Picture Courtesy of: http://lonestartimes.com/?p=1522

Weight: up a whole pound! Cringe!

Without the work weight loss is pure fantasy. Just wishing won't make it happen.

I need to get serious about what I am doing!

I did not drink enough water yesterday.

I didn't measure my portion sizes (with an actual measutring cup.)My guesstimates were way off and much more than they should have been.

I ate ice cream and not just a bite! a whole sundae! What was I thinking?
So I have to get back on track.

Breakfast:

16 ounces chai tea
1/2 cup of COSTCO chicken salad

Baby Skunk Trapped in My Window Well Liberated

A Plate of Oranges & Peter Arnell

I like the self esteem/change of attitude Peter Arnell proposes but his diet seems to be like an old fashioned Vitamin C Flush. Remember that diet?

If an average size orange contains 70 mg of vitamin C and an adult male requires 90 mg per day and an average adult female requires about 75 mg per day then Arnell is way over the required daily dose.

A tolerable upper intake level for both Male/Female is 2000 mg per day.

20 oranges per day
70 mg x 20 = 1,400 mg

30 oranges per day
70 mg x30 = 2,100 mg

For me, this would be intolerable. The acid would wreck havoc with my digestive system. I’d have cankers in my mouth and an irritable bowel. And that's alot of calories albeit natural sugar!


Here is an article from 2007 published in a Men's Health Magazine.

"How a sugar-free diet helped advertising’s It man, Peter Arnell, lose 250 pounds
(content preserved from Best Life magazine, Mar 2007 issue ,
since that link will no doubt disappear within a year or so)

Utter the phrase “larger than life” on Madison Avenue and everyone within earshot will likely think of the same man: Peter Arnell. For more than two decades, the 48-year-old brand inventor has uniquely reshaped the very concept of brand marketing, revitalizing the identities of companies such as Reebok, Banana Republic, and Samsung. But until a few years ago, his supersize reputation wasn’t based solely on marketing genius.

“This is from when I weighed 350 pounds,” says Arnell, holding up a size-60 suit jacket. He had already lost 50 pounds by the time he purchased it in 2001. A lifetime of skipping exercise and eating “Caesaresque” portions of knishes and tongue sandwiches had padded his 5-foot-9 frame with a blubbery 400 pounds. “It was embarrassing,” says Arnell. “I used to leave meetings wondering what people were thinking of me.”

Fed up, he sought the help of Louis Aronne, M.D., director of Cornell’s Comprehensive Weight Control Program. The diet doc’s advice was threefold: Arnell had to reduce his caloric intake to 1,800 calories a day, eliminate sugars and starches from his diet, and organize his meals around complex carbs like vegetables and whole grains. Dr. Aronne hoped to stabilize Arnell’s blood sugar levels, preventing the spikes in insulin that cause food cravings.

Of course, Arnell also had to exercise, working his way up to 45 minutes a day three days a week. And the diet and fitness plan worked. “People don’t believe me when I tell them how much I weighed,” says the 150-pound Arnell, who recently teamed up with Muhammad Ali to create the G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time) brand of vitamin-rich, low-calorie snacks for kids.

The Plan

What Peter Arnell eats to keep the weight off:

Breakfast: 7 a.m.

• 1/2 cup All-Bran cereal with 4 oz. soy milk
• 20 oz. water

Snack: 10 a.m.

• 10 oranges
• small plate of seaweed

Lunch: 2 p.m.

• large plate of grilled vegetables with garlic
• 20 oz. sencha green tea
• 20 oz. water

Snack: 4 p.m.

• 10 oranges
• 20 oz. sencha green tea

Dinner 7 p.m.

• 6 oz. seared tuna (no oil)
• arugula salad with cherry tomatoes and capers
• broccoli rabe (sautéed in garlic with no oil)
• side of asparagus
• shot of Italian espresso

NOTE: We repeatedly see (in newspapers, magazines, and internet articles)
quotes from dieticians and doctors that claim "low-carbohydrate" diets
(i.e. low-sugar and low-starch diets) are FAD diets and do not work.
It seems those professionals choose to ignore repeated instances of
successes by dieters --- and they choose to ignore diet plans promoted by
some of their medical colleagues, such as Dr. Louis Aronne, director of
Cornell's Comprehensive Weight Control Program.

(Although Arnell's diet seems to be drug-free, if you do a web search
on Aronne, you will find that he has advocated for several drugs, like
Xenical, and he has done research for Abbott Labs. One drug he has
advocated, Meridia, has been under fire for possibly causing multiple
deaths. It is encouraging that Arnell seems to have achieved his
weight loss without the use of drugs. Drug side effects are of concern.")

http://subdude-site.com/WebPages_Local/RefInfo/
Diet HealthEtc/Diet/
DietSuccesses/ArnellPeter_dietsuccess_
BestLifeMag_2007mar.htm

More On Arnell

A Dale Buss article from Brand Channel ( Available @ chttp://www.brandchannel.com/careers_profile.asp?cr_id=112) dished him for his failed rebranding of Tropicana OJ (Pepsi gave him $35 million dollars to redesign the carton) & dwelled on how “ Fiat unceremoniously delayed Arnell’s pet green-car project, Peapod, after taking over Chrysler last year.” They also discussed the book at length.

MSNBC did a great article on the weight loss aspect of the book:

“I used to be physically imposing — that’s a diplomatic way to say that I was obese. My obesity was what people noticed first when they met me. I’ve always loved food. I used to devour good food the way I devour life, savoring every new sensation (or new thought) that comes to me over the course of the day. I still do that in my life, but not with food anymore. Eventually, my love affair with food made me seriously overweight.

Even as I kept eating and adding pounds, in my heart I wanted to slim down. I tried diets. I tried exercise. I tried meditation. I asked people for help. I asked my dogs for help. Nothing worked. When I weighed more than 400 pounds, I was limited to wearing a loose, billowing shirt and huge baggy trousers, day after day. My clothing sizes were off the charts. My neck was 19.5 inches, my waist size was 68 inches, and my jacket was a 56 — then each piece was further let out by tailors to make them even bigger. My outfit never varied. That became my look, my brand. I could sense how prejudiced against me some people were because of my weight. Those people, who didn’t know me, judged the book by its cover and assumed I was lazy or weak. Some felt sad for me. Others saw me as an unfit man who couldn’t buckle his seat belt on a plane without an extender. But many times, they couldn’t see me for myself. My girth didn’t allow them to see beyond the surface.

When I made the decision to remove the barriers to change I had created for myself, when I freed myself to go from more than 400 pounds to around 150, I decided to stop blaming myself for past mistakes and take possession of today so that I could lose the weight. I know now that removing barriers is the first act in setting yourself free. But I discovered that it’s a long act; it can take your whole life, because as you eliminate one set of barriers, you will see others that you’ll want to change. This is the nature of shift, slight movements as made by the turtle, who knew that slow and steady wins the race.

I’m not comfortable telling you about the days when I weighed 406 pounds — I’d rather not — but it is necessary and part of paying change forward. Only when I decided to tap the power of what I had learned in my creative work about branding — about powerfully defining an idea and an emotional frame of reference — did I have the power to see my life in a new context and create a new set of realities about what was possible and not possible for me. It took me twenty years, constantly struggling with weight gain and weight loss, to finally click in to the idea that I, too, could benefit from some of my own branding and innovation expertise. I don’t believe I was simply slow to apply myself to myself. I think the thought came, as most inspirations do, attached to some higher purpose that was no longer merely my own.

‘Why not?’

It’s so funny, because we know these things when we are children. As children, enveloped in the golden light of curiosity, we embrace life without question or prejudice. But as adults, we are weighed down by our histories and past narratives. That baggage limits our ability to be open, to be truly and honestly alive, and to see things with the freshness that once came so naturally.

Truth is a difficult thing for us. We build mirrors in our lives that we think are reflections of our souls, but usually they are nothing more than distortions. The real trick is to devise a new mirror, one that can enable us to liberate our inner truth. Such optics can be painful, however — the truth is not always easy. You have to be able to face the truth head-on, without flinching.

After Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, his brother Ted delivered a powerful and poetic eulogy. He finished with a quotation that both John and Bobby Kennedy had used, adapted from a line in a George Bernard Shaw play: “Some men see things as they are and say ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were and say ‘Why not?’ ”
Why not? Believing “why not” is a way of life. If you want to crack open a sense of possibility in your life and work, you’re going to have a lot more luck if you show a willingness — a serious commitment — to “why not.” Don’t limit yourself or allow yourself to get stuck in the boxes others build for you. Don’t compartmentalize your life. If you want to feel a wide-open sense of possibility, you need to knock down the walls and open up your life into one giant space, encompassing work and home life and everything else. I call this space “One Life.” I think you’ll find that the sky is not the limit, nor is the universe.”

Excerpted from “Shift” by Peter Arnell © 2010 Peter Eric Arnell. Reprinted by permission of Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group.
© 2010 MSNBC Interactive

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37884107/ns/today-books/

These tips from Peter's upcoming book "Shift" will help you become your best self:

•Use past experiences: Acknowledge your past experiences and embrace them as a starting-off point for change.
•
•Collect things: Spur your memory with triggers that allow you to think back as you move forward.
•Invite people to join your journey: When people are behind you, you won't want to disappoint them by quitting.
•
•Use technology: Many resources exist online and through social networking; use them as much as you can.
•
•Take risks and be prepared to fail: Remember, mistakes are only signposts along the way to success; use them to get back on track.

From The Martha Stewart Show, May 2010

Weight: 192.2 (no change)

Breakfast: 1 Evil Cookie
16 oz. of Earl Grey tea

Lunch: 1 COSTCO latte
1 COSTCO Berry Sundae
2 cheese strings

Supper: 4 oz. COSTCO chicken salad
2 cheese strings
1 diet COKE GOLD (no caffeine)

Snack: 2 cups of water flavoured with iced tea Splenda
1 cup of coffee
1 Evil Cookie

I made a big batch of Evil Cookies that I refrigerated.
I micro waved 1 scoop for 30 seconds for breakfast and I made a thin large cookie.

Modified AMY EVIL COOKIE Recipe

a dash of baking soda
a dash of baking powder
a dash of salt
1 teaspoon flax seed
1 teaspoon honey
1 teaspoon flax seed oil
1 teaspoon of gluten free flour
½ cup egg white
Four scoops of Kirkland Whey Powder (no sugar added and low carb=1 gram carb per scoop) I had to add more to make it a thicker consistency.
2 TBSP chopped walnuts
2 TBSP unsweetened NESTLE chocolate chips
2 TBSP SUNMAID raisins
4 TBSP heavy cream
Sitting in the fridge overnight it came out like a thick paste.

Comfort Diet Cookies

More Cookie Recipes:

Chocolate Whey Protein Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

6 egg whites
7 scoops oatmeal (1 3/4 cups)
2 tsp brown “Sugar Twin” (brown Sweet ‘n’ Low)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup un-sweetened apple sauce
4 scoops chocolate (or vanilla) whey powder
2 dashes cinnamon
1 tsp virgin olive oil
1 tsp maple extract
1/2 cup raisins (optional)

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 325, bake for 20 minutes Makes 1 dozen cookies…each cookie has 14g of protein

Take a few of these with you to school along with a cup of low fat yogurt. Add a couple scoops of whey to some skim milk and wash it down. It’s a pretty easy (and tasty) way to get 50-60g of protein in a quick fix.

No Bake Chocolate Whey Protein Cookie Recipe

from: recipezaar.com

Makes 12 cookies (change servings and units)

Ingredients:

* 1/2 cup margarine
* 1/2 cup milk
* 4-5 tablespoons chocolate protein powder or cocoa
* 1 1/2 cups Splenda sugar substitute
* 1/2 cup peanut butter
* 3 1/2 cups quick oats
* 2-3 tablespoons vanilla

Directions:

1. Melt margarine in a saucepan and add milk, protein powder and Splenda.
2. Bring to a boil for no more than a minute or until thick.
3. Remove from heat and add in the oats, peanut butter and vanilla.
4. Mix well.
5. If too crumbly add a touch of water, but this should not be needed.
6. Press into cookies and set to cool on wax paper.
7. Enjoy!

Chocolate Whey Protein Cookie Recipe

from: recipezaar.com

Makes 6 cookies

Ingredients:

* 150 ml protein powder (your favourite flavour, but chocolate works very well)
* 100 ml rolled oats
* 100 ml low-sugar muesli (no sugar added)
* 3 tablespoons olive oil or canola oil
* 2 tablespoons honey
* 100 ml milk or water
* 2 teaspoons cocoa powder (optional)

Directions

1. Mix all the ingredients.
2. Use about tablespoon of mixture per cookie, pat down.
3. Bake for about 10 minutes in 200 C/400 F oven.

from: bodybuilding.com



picture coutesy of www.//htttp:fitsugar.com

Could you use the evil Cookie as a substitute for the expensive Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet cookies? This consists of this eating six 90-calorie cookies a day plus one small meal. That’s it, folks. Snookie from Jersey Shore is on it.

“On the diet, she eats only one meal a day (usually chicken) – and six cookies, each of which suppresses hunger. The six cookies – which contain beef and milk protein – each contain about 11 grams of carbohydrates and 90 calories,” Us Magazine explains.

Amy's Evil Cookie Recipe

Amy's 30 Second Protein Cookie:

1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder
1 pkg of Splenda
1 tsp. butter (she used ffree butter)
a few drops of water

In a microwave safe cereal bowl melt the butter in the microwave. Then add the rest of the ingredients, saving the water for last. You want the texture to be like a cookie..Mix into a ball shape and microwave for 30 seconds.

Here is another version of the cookie:

1/2 scoop protein powder
1 1/2 tsp. of soft butter
drops of gingerbread syrup until it formed a ball..

Then I manually made a ball in the middle of my cereal bowl..about the size of
a walnut in the shell..

Zapped it for 28 seconds..It wasn't dry..tasted "purty" good..

* you can experiment with the recipe and add chocolate chips, a little more butter, skip the Splenda, use coconut oil instead of butter, add DaVinci syrup, Bailey's Irish Cream flavor.. etc. They are low carb/low cal/low fat.

You either love the cookies or you hate them!. Some people said they were awful (like eating cardboard or like chewing on styrofoam.) The main complaint seems to be dryness. Still they make a good occassional treat.

Source:http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/lowcarb-recipe-help-suggestions/502210-amys-30-second-protein-cookie.html

Stare in the Mirror & See Who You Are

It is finally hot outside!

weight: 192.6

Breakfast: 1 Sausage/Egg English Muffin from Tim Horton's (no bun)

Snack: 1 cafe latte from Costco

Lunch: 1 Litre water with 2 pkgs ice tea flavour
1 hot dog from Visions (no bun-pork)

Snack: 2 cheese strings
1 small hot dog (all beef)

Dinner: 4 oz. of COSTCO chicken salad
Pepper Steak spices (a dash)
1 teaspoon of jalepeno peppers (diced)

Snack: 1 Evil Cookie
1 cheese string
3 cups of water (LIPTON iced tea flavour)(Splenda)

Today we saw a bus load full of mounties. They have come for the funeral of one of their own a young 25 year old woman named Robinson (nee West) from Picture Butte. She died in Jasper chasing a drunk driver. She got hit by a semi truck. She had only been on the force 7 months.

We also saw a Hummer on teh side of the street. It's 2 tires feel off! You could see the ripped up pavement were it came to a stop. The lug nuts were scattered blocks back.

Hubby and I went to Visions (they were celebrating a new store opening in Medicine Hat AB.). They are serving free hot dogs & pop for free. So we had to stop. I had just the dog and no bun.

I waited in the car today and people watched while Hubby shopped for his man things. I noticed alot of fat women. Old women, young women & kids with flabby tummies,chubby legs stuffed into too tight jeans (encasing the fat & showing every wrinkled flaw)& people who looked like they had given up and no longer cared what they looked like. We are indeed a nation over weight. It made me more determined to lose weight. People must see me the same way when they are in their cars watching pedestrians.

Hubby had to go to the Hardware store and buy something for the hose. It did not work and he had to go back and return them. I think it was some kind of intake valve regualtor. He was not impressed. He was in a bad mood.

It did not help matters when I spilt my litre bottle of ice tea on his car floor mat. He was showing me a Corvette that went by us on the highway. I talk with my hands and let go of the bottle. Guess I forgot I had it.

I saw a CNN report about a new book called Shift by Peter Arnell. He was 407 in 2001 and now is trim 152 pounds in 30 months. It is about re-inbvnting his self and business. He lived most of his adult life big. The forward is by his freind Martha Stewart. I also read that he eats 30 oranges a day (is that even possible?) and that is why his skin is orange especially his hands. It looks like a good read. I think the premise is that little changes in your life can make a big difference.

Ollie is curled up beside me sleeping and snoring. Order has been restored in my little part of the world.

More Things I've Tried to Lose Weight

Remember Ayds? They were advertised in the 1950's.They were little candy appetite suppressants.

You could buy them at the supermarket check out. They came in chocolate or caramel flavours. I think became unpopular with the AIDS epidemic.

Full-page testimonials for Ayds appeared in magazines such as Woman's Day complete with before/after full body pictures & a inspirational success story.

I used to melt these down in a doub le boiler pot on the stove to make a candied syrup. Then I would add them to vanilla ice cream to make a Butterscotch sundae!

I was thin then!

Weight: 192.6


Crazy busy day! Away from 9:00 until 2:00 p.m. On the road most of the day with hubby and his work.

Breakfast: 16 oz. coffee with 2TBSP Non Fat Non Dairy creamer

Snack: 1 venti cafe latte from Starbucks

Lunch: 1 Chai tea latte (medium)
4 bites of mushroom quiche
2 Kirkland vitamin pills
Snack: 2 cheese strings

Dinner: omelette made with 12 slices of pepperoni and
no onions otherwise the same as above
1 litre of water
Snack: 2 cheese strings

Gout

Photo credit: Kimberley Barth Ackron Journal

Beware! The uric acid produced by low carb/high protein diets can lead to gout in predisposed individuals.

Ideal Weight Calculations

“INCHES-OFF DIET” By Dr. Irwin Maxwell Stillman

It is recommended that you get to your “ideal” weight first by going on the QWL diet first. You can figure what your “ideal” weight is by this simple formula.
At 5 feet -100 lbs then for every inch thereafter add 3-5 lbs.
5- 100 lbs / 5’1 -103 to 105 lbs / etc… 5’4- 112-120 lbs / 5’5 – 115-125 lbs etc…

Once you get to your “ideal” weight then you go onto the “Inches-Off”
diet until you achieve the dimensions you desire. However, you may
alternate weeks with the two diets: for instance Week 1- QWL diet/
Week 2- Inches Off diet/ Week 3- QWL diet etc… until you reach your
desired weight.

With the “Inches-Off” diet you will take off extra inches from over-size
shoulders, arms, stomach, buttocks, hips, legs, calves, & ankles.

*In short, it is pulling the fat out from between your muscles &
reducing your over-all muscle masses.

*Take your measurements before you start and periodically
thereafter.

Source: Posted by kjwag @ http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/
stillmans/433963-dr-stillmans-inches-off-diet.html

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Spices & Seeds--Legal on Stillman QWL Diet

Spices & Seeds--legal on Stillman QWL diet
Submitted by Aquaciser Glinda
From Stillman Quick Weight Loss Diet Cookbook
--page copied by a friend of a friend at her local library

Meat:

Allspice, Basil, Bay Leaves, Cayenne, (Red Pepper), Celery Salt, Chili,
Cloves, Curry, Dill, Garlic, Marjoram, Mint, Mustard, Onion, Oregano,
Paprika, Parsley, Pepper, Rosemary, Sage, Salt, Savory, Tarragon, Thyme,
Turmeric

Poultry:

Basil, Bay Leaves, Cayenne, Celery Salt, Chervil, Coriander, Curry, Garlic,
Ginger, Marjoram, Mint, Mustard, Onion, Oregano, Paprika, Parsley, Pepper,
Poultry Seasoning, Rosemary, Saffron, Salt, Sage, Savory, Tarragon, Thyme

Fish/Shellfish:

Allspice, Bay Leaves, Cayenne, Celery Salt, Celery Seed, Chervil, Curry,
Dill, Fennel, Garlic, Mace, Marjoram, Mint, Onion, Paprika, Parsley,
Pepper, Rosemary, Sage, Salt, Savory, Thyme

Eggs/Legal(non-veggie)Salads:

Bay Leaves, Cayenne, Celery Salt, Chervil, Coriander, Dill, Garlic, Onion,
Oregano, Paprika, Parsley, Pepper, Sage, Salt, Tarragon, Thyme

This is straight from the book, too & legal for Stillman QWL diet:

"Also useful in many recipes for a large variety of foods, to
add flavour & texture: Caraway Seeds--Poppy Seeds, Sesame Seeds"

http://forum.lowcarber.org/archive/index.
php/t-15937
.html

Water Drunk! The Big Pee!

Weight : 193.4 no change.

I was up at 5:00 a.m. because I drank almost a litre of water at 10:00 p.m.

Breakfast: 9:30 a.m.

1/4 cup egg whites
1/2 cheese string
1 pad butter (about 1 teaspoon)
32 ounces of water with 2 packages of Splenda ice tea

Snack:2:22 p.m

1 cheese string
32 ounces of water (as above)

Lunch: None

Snack: 16 oz. of 1 % milk Chai Tea

Supper:3:49 p.m.

Omlette made with:
1/4 cup ham cubed
1/4 cup egg whites
1 pad butter (1 teaspoon)
1 cheese string
1 tesapoon sliced onion
2 TBSP shredded parmesan cheese
2 TBSP sour cream (topping)
32 ounces of water


Snack: Omlette:
1/4 c egg white
pinch of pepper & parsley
1/2 teaspoon butter
1 slice havarti cheese
2 TBSP sour cream on top

24 ounces of water


Note * 1 litre = 4.22675284 US cups

The Beautiful Karen Carpenter

Karen Carpenter RIP

A friend of mine was alarmed at my attempt to diet and said "Karen Carpenter died when she did Stillman's."

Some nut said she was too chubby as a teen. She lost 25 pounds in a matter of weeks on a Water Diet to get down to 120 pounds (a healthy weight for her.)

To keep her weight down a doctor suggested she do the then popular Stillman Diet. She did lose weight to a healthy amount BUT then she carried on! Stillman's is a 2 week diet. It is dangerous to do it long term.

Karen Caprenter was an anorexic. She had mental health problems.The diet may have been attractive to her because it has positive almost instant results.

Anorexia is not about the food as much as it is about controlling one's life that seems spiralling out of control. Perhaps she felt this way.

In 1967 she started out on a water diet. Presumably under the eye of a physician. She went form 145 to 120 in a short period of time, She often complained that she hated her hour glass figure. By 1975 she began throwing up. She also took dozens of thyroid pills per day.

By the 1980's she was 108 pounds (underweight.) She had several hospitalizations and had gained 25 pounds (to get to 108) via a treatment called hyper alimentation.

She had a long history of straving herself.

I read that she weighed 60 pounds at one point. Other reports say she was 80 pounds. Either way that is severe weight loss for someone who was only 5 foot 5 inches tall. She was about 35 pounds underweight before her last hospitalization; prior to her death from cardiac arrest (due to complications of anoerxia) in 1983 at the age of 32.

So she had a long history of straving herself.

I do not plan to starve myself! I like food. I lke to eat. I like the social aspect of eating with family & friends.

Commitment Versus Intrest

This lept out at me from the page, I saved it years ago. I often get distracted, sidetracked, or overwhelmed in my life especially when life throws me a curve ball. I gove up far too easily. When I was younger I was a warrior and nothing got in my way. But then, I felt I oculd do anything. Now I am older and wiser. I can do most things well with hard work.

Quote:Robin M
Oct 8 2007, 10:29am

Here's a summary of the differences between people who are interested in losing weight compared to those who are committed to losing weight.

People who are interested in losing weight:

1. Stick with it until something better comes along.
2. Take action only if they "feel like" doing it.
3. Need to see results in order to stay motivated.
4. Blame people or circumstances for their struggles.
5. Easily give up when they face challenges.

People who are committed to losing weight:

1. Stick with their plans no matter what.
2. Take action whether they feel like doing it or not.
3. Assume that if they stay motivated, results will follow.
4, Take responsibility for their actions.
5. Keep going in spite of challenges or setbacks.

(From: "100 Days of Weight Loss - The Secret to Being Successful on Any Plan" by Linda Spangle, RN, MA)
moved from the interested to the committed
http://www.livinlowcarbdiscussion.com/printthread.php?tid=108

Robin Marie 72 Advice For Success

I found this post. I printed it out probably 10 years ago.
It was entitled What Worked Best For Me.
It came from:
http://www.geocities.com/robinmarie72/samplemenu.html
My Low Carb Life

1. I drink between 128-160 ounces of water. I try to follow each meal or snack with 32 ounces of water.

2. I eat 5 or 6 small meals a day. I start when I wake up and eat no later than 6:00 p.m.

3. I tend to retain fluid easily so I watch for high sodium products and avoid them.

4. I try to keep my carb intake below 10.

5. I cut out cream and sugar from my coffee and started adding Splenda flavoured syrups. This seems tohave made a difference. BTW Spenda is not zero carbs. It has under .6 carbs per teaspoon-just enough for th emakers to legallty call it zero carbs-but it has 24 g carbs per cup.

6. I try to drink one cup of green tea a day.

Mermaids

Years ago Weight Watcher's had an on-line support group called Mermaids. They supported each other in weight loss and made sure that people drank their water each day!

I read somewhere that a good rule of thumb was 8 ounces for every 25 pound you are overweight. I need to lose 100 pounds. So I should drink a minimum of 32 ounces (8X4) OR you can drink half your weight on ouces of water. SO If I am 193 pounds I need to drink at least 96 ounces or 12 cups. That seems pretty high to me so I am starting with 4 cups a day.

So I am wondering is that another 4 cups added to my already daily maximum of 8 cups?

I read that Robin Marie (from Portland)drank 128-160 ounces of water per day. She said she had 32 ounces after each of her 5 meals. That is alot of water. Is that is too much water? I am not sure I oculd or would do that!

I need to drink more water! I am using the Frizzante 1 L bottle as a start. It makes a good water bottle.

Olga Luxury Lift Underwire Bra (35063):

• Powernet-laminated cup lining gives supreme lift and support
• Innerluxe cup interior feels soft against the skin
• Lace detail at the bottom of cups provides visual cue for lift
• Nylon stretch frame stays securely in place
• Tagless design
• Stabilized front straps provide strong support
• Scoop back prevents strap slippage
• Improved soft seal hook and eye won't dig
• Comfort-lined adjustable straps keep you in place

Olga Luxury Lift Underwire Bra technical details:
• 5/8 inch shoulder strap
• Back wings taper from 3 1/2 inches to 1 1/2 inches
• 3 column, 3 row hook and eye back closure

My Favourite Things List

1. Shopper's Life Brand Frizzante: Pink Grapefruit, Pomegrante and Blood Orange flavours in a 1 litre glass bottle for $1.69 cents. Has no salt! 133 calories per cup.

2. Olga's Signature Support Bras. Warnaco.com 1 800 268-91930 Check it out! It is hard to find a sexy bra if you have bigger breasts and this does not disappoint. It feels like soft bathing suit material! Comes in sizes 36-42 C, D, DD.

A Two Ugh Day!

I woke up sick! I have a headcold or allergies! Probably the latter.

I got a thermal imaging test a week ago at our local Stamina Clinic (a fab place BTW...went to their open house). They just got the technology. I volunteered to be a test patient. The results of the test are sent down to Florida where a doctor there reads the images. He then sends back a report to give to my GP. I am doubting it will show anything.

I guess it works because another test patient found out she had signs of early cancer and was sent to the Cancer Clinic immediately.

I have signs of infammatory breast disease/cancer. Supposedly the test is so sensative it will detect cancer where a mammogram won't. IBC does not show up on a mammogram. Usually to detect IBC you get an MRI or a biopsy.

So ladies be informed! You need to know that you can have more than one kind of breast cancer. IBC can hurt. IBC does not form a lump.IBC is the most agressive form of breast cancer. It does not show up on yearly tests. With IBC there are nests or sheets of cancer present on the breast tissue. IBC can strike any age but usually in your middle age life.

There is a great Youtube video out of KOMO in Seattle. It is a news cast that is under the title Inflammatory Breast Cancer News Story published by Jacksmith055.

IBC Symptoms:

Thickening of breast tissue
Rapid increase in size
Flattened or inverted nipples
Redness
Hot to the touch
Persistent itching


According to Dr. Julie Gralow from the Seattle Cancer Centre Alliance "Most physicians heard about it in med school but had never seen a case."

The message: Ignorance is causing deaths!

I have been to the doctor who tells me nothing is wrong. Another female doctor told me "You should get those redone!" I have been made to feel it is all in my head even though I have elevated sed rates and visibly my breasts look like peau d orange and I have other symptoms.

I keep getting told my symptoms are a result of having a reduction.

Anyway what will be will be. Based on past results I am not too hopeful anything will show up! Ugh!

weight: 193.2

Breakfast:1 coffee with non dairy creamer
* 2 Kirkland brand children's chewable vitamins
* 1 Senokot pill
Snack: 2 cheese strings
Lunch: 1 COSTCO Latte
1 all beef frank
1 1/2 slices havartio cheese
* three Tylenol for sinus headache
Snack: 1 cup of Frizzante
Supper: 4 pieces of bacon
2 cups decaf Chai tea
Snack: 2 cheese strings

Every Little Bit Helps!

weight: 193.4

So I am down just a little but I will take it! As long as the scale does not go up I am happy.

Breakfast: 1/2 cup yogurt
1/2 cup decafe tea
Lunch: 1/4 cup wal nuts
Snack: 4 bites ice cream sundae COSTCO
1 COSTCO latte
Supper: 4 oz. steak
2 cups decafe tea'2 bites home made pizza (toppping only)
Snack: 1 can diet COKE GOLD
3 cups decafe tea

George Carlin

"Some people see the glass as half full; others see it as half empty. I see the glass as too big."

Short Hair

Size 14....So It Begins!

On Saturday I bought a new pair pants at Costco size 16. They were big so I took them back today. I exchanged them for same brand but a size smaller (size 14) and they fit. They are stretch denim kind from Nine West with "tummy slimming front panels." They are a medium rise.

Hair Daze!

My shoulder length hair got fried at the hairdresser's.

I put the name of the place where I got it done on Facebook and they threatened to sue me. Apparently they will not refund you the money if they wreck it even if they tell you they wrecked it. The hairdresser even admitted it was her mistake.

Plus it was alot of money because I had it dyed and streaked. Anyway, I had to get it all cut off to about a 1/4 of an inch. My scalp had burnt patches all over and my hair was falling out!

To add insult to injury...it also set my pocketbook back $168.00! I get regular haircuts monthly that are not too much money but I only get my hair done professionally every 6 months or so because it is so expensive.

I dislike short hair styles on women because usually women of a certain age are given the horrible, manly looking John Travolta cut (short on the sides and long on top)or the short curly perm on top that looks like poodle om steroids.

The short cut is just as bad as the grey power hippies, you know the men and women who have long hair pulled back in a pony tail because they do not know what else to do with it!) Niether look atttractive to me.

I do not mind the grey colour colour. It can be attractive. Next time you are in a mall shopping watch the older ladies and look at the bad haircuts. They too paid to be butchered.

Note that every mom and pop shop in town told me they would give me my money back but the big chain will not.

Presently,I look like a cross between a tonsured monk, a lipstick lesbian and a cancer patient. No offense meant and apologies to all three groups of people. Normally I have thick hair and alot of it.

Hubby says it looks like a early Madonna cut (like the Open Your Heart video where she is dressed as a young boy) and it will grow into the Rain video haircut in no time. I say "No way!" It is too short! He knows I am a huge Madonna fan! BTW did anyone see the Glee tribute to Madonna? Too good! I digress. My ADHD just kicked in.

So this is a big change! People keep asking me if I am ill. Yes. I am upset. I was always taught a woman's hair was her crown and glory. Shades of Christian indoctrination and older, conservative parents.

I will post a picture when I get the nerve.

Up Too Early....Birds!

weight: 194.2

Breakfast: 1 coffee (8 oz.) with Non Fat Non Dairy Creamer
2 cheese strings
Snack: None
Lunch: 1/2 cup Low fat cottage cheese
Non Fat cafe latte from Starbucks
Snack: 1 oz. dark chocolate
Supper: 1 all beef frank
Snack: 1 cup of coffee 16 oz. with Non dairy Creamer

P.S. I love birds just not at 5:00 a.m.! Once right before a violent wind and rain storm there was dead silence. No bird sounds! You could hear a pin drop. Then I imagined how it must be without them. I did not like the silence. Birds have their own place in the world of music for my soul.

I Don't feel Pretty or Witty

People are asking "Why are you even dieting?" I look "OK" to them apparently.

Well here is my list of reasons:

My weight is all around my middle so that is not good. My BMI is in the morbidly obese catagory for my height (5 feet) and that is a heart attack waiting to happen.I do not want to have a heart attack or stroke and be an invalid at 55. Plus I am not ready to die just yet.

My clothes do not fit the way I want them to & it is hard to shop for nice clothes! All the bigger sizes look matronly!

I want to be able to walk without complaining of tiredness, sore knees and a sore back. I need to lose 100 pounds. That amount of weight is like carrying around a 9 year old all day long.

I do not feel attractive to my mate and it does not matter that he thinks I am alright as is. He is too kind!

No one in my family is over weight. So they do not have any food issues. I am not sure if the understand why I do.

My thin friends seem willing to sabbatoge my efforts.

Basically I am just tired if being this way and it is time to do something about my food addiction. If I were an alcholic my friends would intervene to help me stop drinking. With food addiction you are the brunt of jokes and cruel comments and no one seems to see it as a health problem.

So if I could be happy and healthy and accept my body as fat I would. But I am unhappy and unhealthy in this state.

Secret Post Image: Acceptance

Teddington Middlesex England 2009-My Guy!

Happy Father's Day!

To all the dad's of the world!
To dad's who are so by adoption!
To step-dad's!
To bio dad's!
To divorced and separated dad's!
To dad's who have lost track of their kid's because of circumstances!
To dad's of creatures great and small!
To all the single & widowed mom's who have to be both mom and dad!

xox

Dr. Fred Gallo Phd. Diet for a New Life

Food & Mood

Separate Food from Mood
*Don't buy snacks you habitually abuse when you are stressed
*Keep tempting snack foods (that you might have on hand for family members) out of sight
*Keep healthy snack foods available
*Pick up the phone, and chat with a friend instead of picking up a chip or a cookie (OR, I might add, get online and reach out here!)
*Practice yoga, weed your garden, knit (I do this!), or do some other activity instead of stress eating
*Switch to a stress food substitute that won't make you fat
*Talk yourself out of mood eating
(p. 68)

Gullo says, "I will never tell you that the foods you choose to eat as mood lifters don't have a pleasurable taste. They do. But nothing tastes better than looking in the mirror every morning and feeling proud of what you see. Food pleasure is fleeting, and I've yet to meet the stress eater who is happy with his behavior or himself for doing it!" (69).''

"What mood eaters want is an IMMEDIATE change in their feelings. That's why it's about SNACKING, not real food, and it's about snacking on what's easiest to get into your mouth..." (70)

"Common patterns of mood eating:
*Same food: mood eaters return time and time again to their favorite snack food
*Same place: mood meaters eat alone in the kitchen
*Same time of day: Mood eating is done in the late afternoon or evening, almost never in the morning
*Same mood: It's feelings of anxiety, anger, frustration betrayal, disappointment, or boredom that are the common triggers for mood eating
*Same people: Mood eaters snack b/c they become stressed by the same people over and over again (boss, partner, child, relative, friend)
*Same situation: mood eaters snack b/c they become stressed by the same situations over and over again, even b/c of boredom
*Same quantities of food: Mood eating is almost always about volume
*Same reason: Mood eaters want a treat or comfort from food. That is why mood eating is almost always done with a food they buy and bring home for themselves, even if they may believe they bought it for others, especially family or company."

"Once you realize your mood eating is totally predictable, you can control it with strategy!"

"The best place to end mood eating is not a psychiatrist's couch. It's at the supermarket...The interesting and even wonderful thing about ending the pattern of mood eating is that when snacks aren't immediately available, almost all mood eaters automatically busy themselves with a non-eating activity...In the end, no matter what the burdens or stresses of your life may be, you can't eat what's not there!" (all of the above, p. 72)

Strategies for Snack Foods:
*Toss out the mood snacks in your kitchen right now and do not re-stock
*If you absolutely must keep snacks in your home for other people, here are proven strategies to keep you from eating them:
-- Ask the others in your house for permission (weird choice of word, to me) to buy a type of snack that is not your favourite or that you are unlikely to abuse
-- Keep snack foods out of sight, NEVER on the kitchen counter
--Ask those in your immediate family not to snack in front of you
--Have family members hide tempting snack foods if you're given to grazing (my hubby has me do this when he's dieting)
--If nothing else works, lock all snacks in a cash box with a combo lock, and make sure only those who eat the snacks have the combination (for some reason, I think this is a cool idea)
--Keep healthy snack foods available so you're not tempted to go on to the fattening ones
(pp. 73 - 74)

Strategies for Stress on the Horizon
*Write out what you will eat for that day in advance. Direct your psyche to think in terms of these foods only and to avoid all others.
*Plan which snacks you are going to eat and keep all others out of sight
*Plan to avoid trouble
(p. 75)

Best Activities to Block Stress Eating
*Knitting and crocheting
*Warm bath or shower
*Playing a Game Boy
*Playing with a pet
*Saying a favourite prayer
*Keeping a diary
*Sending e-mails to friends
*Going online to learn about something that interests you
*Having sex (Yay!)
*Stretching and exercising, especially with hand weights
*Meditation or yoga
*Squeezing a rubber ball
*Watching a video or reading a book
*Playing an instrument
*Shopping for items you enjoy (other than food)
(P. 77)

"If you can't stop it, switch it" i.e. if you must snack, choose "legal" foods (P. 78)

Finally, I thought this observation at the end of this chapter was compelling: "One of the most destructive aspects of mood eating goes almost totally unrecognized: Mood eating deceives us into living as mimics. When someone hurts or disappoints you, you then disappoint yourself by breaking with you weight program and gaining weight simply b/c you were eating over their behaviour. It's rather ironic that when we eat b/c someone or something has made us angry or upset, we then also get angry with ourselves for doing it. It's a no-win pattern" (p. 81).

Source:

http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/stillmans/644573-stillmans-losers-rock-november-7.html

All U Need is Love! U R Worth It!

Disclaimer

I should say I am not a medical doctor or health care provider in any way. The information I am providing is for my sole use. If you choose to follow this diet plan or any other diet plan check with your doctor first.

If you have an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia please get help. Do not use this site to further your disease. Talk to your doctor!

I originally wanted to get a gastic bypass but then was told about a local woman who died while undergoing the procedure so I began to research pre surgical diets and came upon a high proein liquid fast. I tried it and decided I did not have the will power to do it. So I lurked around some more on various obesity sites and came upon this diet mentioned on 3fatchicks.com.

Another View of the Stillman Book

More on the Stillman Diet

The Stillman Diet is done in two phases: The Quick Weight Loss (QWL) diet, or Phase I, and the Stay Slim Eating Plan, or Phase II. In Phase II, forbidden foods are gradually reintroduced over time, and if or when the dieter sees a three-pound weight gain, they return to the Phase I stage, the QWL diet. The following is a list of foods to avoid completely during Phase I and limit consumption of during Phase II.

1. Fat

Avoid fatty meats, fried foods, poultry with skin on, whole-fat dairy products, butter, margarine, oil, grease, condiments such as mayonnaise, salad dressings, tartar sauce and gravy. They are all fat laden.
2. Sugar
This includes any type of natural or refined sugar or any food containing sugar. White sugar, brown sugar, raw or natural sugar, molasses, honey, lactose, corn syrup and cane syrup are all forms of sugar. Of course, candy and sweet desserts, fruits and fruit juices, and sugar- or corn syrup-sweetened drinks are definitely out of the question. Beware of sugar hiding in condiments like French dressing, cocktail sauce and honey mustard.

3. Starches

Any grain type of foods: bread, cereal, corn, crackers, pasta, whole wheat, barley, etc., will cause the Stillman Diet to fail. Also included in the starch group are dried legumes and potatoes.

4. Vegetables

Besides the veggies mentioned above, no vegetables of any type, not even lettuce or celery, are permitted on the Stillman Diet.

5. Alcohol

Alcohol consists mostly of carbohydrates, which are not permitted. In addition, alcohol affects your judgment in food choices, thus causing you to sabotage your own dieting efforts.

Good to Know

Expect to lose 7 to 15 lbs in the first week, then 5 lbs each week thereafter on this short-term diet. Lacking in vital nutrients, a daily multivitamin is suggested. The Stillman Diet is ketogenic, and consequently hard on the liver; therefore it is imperative to drink at least 10 cups of water in addition to other beverages to flush the ketones from your system and help prevent constipation. Dr. Stillman suggests you eat six small meals per day rather than three big ones, exercise regularly, and get adequate sleep for best results

Not sure where I got this from. I am sorry not to give credit where it is due!

Stress Eater

Weight: 194.4 - not a big drop but remember the cheat!

I woke up with a sore throat. Ugh! SO I am going to be doing alot of tea drinking and vitamin C.

Breakfast: 3 cups hot black tea.
Snack: 1 diet coke
Lunch: 1 cup scrambled eggs and 2 eight oz coffee with 2% milk
3 teaspoons of berry sundae (hubby's Father's Day treat @ Costco)
1 Costco latte
Snack: 1 cheese string
Supper: 2 cheese strings
1 all beef frank
Sback: 1 cheese string

I see I have a Romanian follower. Not sure how the whole blog thing works. I will invite my Facebook friends. Anyway hubby's father was from Tulcea, Atamagea. They immigrated to Odessa and came to America in the early 1900's. Just a small six degrees of separation moment.

There is supposed to be sunshine today follwed by a few days of rain. There are lakes of standing water everywhere! Whole fields of crops are under water. Roads have broken down, waterfalls have formed and houses have been swept away.

Ron is trying to put up some eaves trough to take the water away from the house. We have a big engineering problem in the orignal design that caused structural water damage and will require pots of money that I do not have to fix and a possible lawsuit. So this is a temporary fix to prevent more damage.

Did I mention I am a stress eater?

Joe the Beta

Another Saturday Night & I Ain't Got No Money!

Crazy day today! The traffic is nuts! Busy! Busy!

I spent the day sorting out the last box of garage spring cleaning. I took things to Goodwill, recycle and garbaged the unusable items. So finally after a week of culling it is done!

I got a fabulous summer sarong from Value Village! It is magenta with a huge multicoloured beta on it.

I have a beta named "Joe." I changed his bowl today and took some pics which I will post later.I named him after Joe Dubois from the television show Medium. The actor Jake Berg may not appreciate the honour.

Let's see what I ate today:

Breakfast: 1/2 1 egg omlette made with 1/2 cup egg whites and Italian sausage
1 cup coffee with 2 TBSP heavy cream

Snack: 1 cheese string

Lunch: 1 Costco latte
1/2 all beef frank (no bun)

I stole 7 fries off hubby's plate which will definately screw up any state of ketosis I may have achieved. It will take another three days to get back to normal after a cheat so it is not worth it.

Snack: 1 cheese string
16 oz. of Earl Grey tea

Dinner: 2 all beef franks BQ'd

Snack: 2 cheese strings

I did manage a half an hour on the tread mill. I did an incline climbing a hill simulation program. I will do it again tonight.

Weight: 194.6

The Old Man River

Exercise!

I was going to jog outside today but we have had three days of torrential rain and well I did not want to get soaked. The river has almost reached the top of the bridge deck.The banks have flooded. At 6:00 p.m. it is supposed to crest. Usually there is a huge sandbar visible where every year American Pelicans come to nest. I guess they have moved up stream. There were about 50 of them nesting on the bar on Monday. Many people have flooded basements and sewer backup problems.

I have a treadmill so really I have no excuse so after dinner I will give it a go. I am trying to do 3 to 5 kilometers a day.

Stats

Start Weight: 200.8 January 1 2010
Current Weight: 195.5 June 18 2010
Mini Goal Weight: 185.5 September 5 2010
Goal Weight: 115.0 October 1 2010

Menu:
Breakfast: 1 sausage & cheese english muffin from Tim Horton's (no bun)
3 TBSP yogurt from Costco
Snack: 2 cheese strings
1 Costco latte
Lunch: 2 cups of Earl Grey black tea with 1 TBSP of heavy cream
Dinner: 1/2 cup of cottage cheese
1/2 can diet pop (COKE Gold)

About Ollie

Ollie is two years old. He is my best buddy. He has a great personality!

My Dog Ollie

What I Ate Today

7:00 a.m. 16 oz. coffee with 1 TBSP heavy cream
9:00 a.m. 4 oz. of scrambled eggs (1 egg and rest egg whites)
11:00 a.m. 1 oz. cream cheese
1:00 p.m. 8 oz cup of coffee with non dairy creamer (not sure if it was sugar free???) & 1/2 cup fat free cottage cheese
3:00 p.m. 1 oz cream cheese
5:00 p.m. 4 oz scrambled eggs as above and 2 pieces of bacon
7:00 p.m. 16 oz.of water
8:00 p.m. 16 oz. of water
9:00 p.m. 16 oz. of water
10L00 p.m. 16 oz. of water
I should have started the water earlier!!! I will be up all night running to the washroom.

Gotta Get Going....Seriously!

I have finally decided that I am sick of being sick and tired. I looked at many diet plans and researched for five months and decided on this one. I tried a few and lost weight and gained it back. Then I thought I'd go back to an old plan for 1967.

I was inspired by Robin's weight loss story (google Robin from Portland+ Stillman Diet.) So tomorrow I begin again! I have a little bit of an incentive. I am hoping to go to Vegas and I have bought some nice summer clothes. I bought a size smaller than I needed (my friend's suggestion...I personally think that is insane thing to do!) Anyway we shall see.

And yes I am still as fat as the picture I posted!