Hi everyone! I'm back from MI. It went well, other than Gramma doesn't know who I am anymore. My dad kept showing her an old photo that has my sister and me (ages 4 and 2) with her and and my grandfather (now deceased). He kept asking her who the people were, and she kept pointing at the four-year-old me and saying that was her. My dad would then tell her that she was the grandmother and she would just laugh in disbelief.
I ate completely on plan yesterday. I'm so boring
I had no desire for any indulgences. Just loaded up on turkey, salad and green beans. I spent most of the 8 hours in the car yesterday sleeping, so pretty much lost the whole day. Actually the day before was worse. Wednesday I was soooo tired from being up till 3 am with DMF (designated male friend) that I decided to lay down for a nap at around 4 pm. The next thing I knew it was 11 pm!!!! That was a 7 hour nap, which is more than I usually sleep straight during the night-time. Needless to say, I'm a bit messed up in my sleep patterns right now. This morning after all my extra sleep, I woke up bright and early at 5:45 and beat the mad rush by going grocery shopping extra early.
Today, day after Thanksgiving, my weight is still 149.5. Today I am doing a protein day. So my goal of maintaining this weight at 1450 calories worked. Tomorrow I am going to cut back calories again, but only to 1200 since I was still losing at that amount a couple weeks ago. I just don't have any desire to go down to 1000 again, and hopefully I won't need to. That was really hard, not b/c I was hungry, but b/c it was exhausting physically. I think I needed to go that low, though, at least for a little while, to get my body used to losing weight.
Elaine-You should not need the LFL book to do the Wendy Plan. I used it as a starting point, but I don't follow it really anymore. My plan currently is this:
-Start out by doing 1-3 protein days which consist of ~9 100-calorie servings of lean protein; this comes to 900-1000 calories, ~30g fat, ~30g carbs (primarily from cottage cheese and yogurt); no veggies on these days!
-Then you do 6 days of weightloss menus, which for me initially was 1000 calories, 50-60g carbs, 120g protein divided into 3 meals and 3 protein snacks per day
-Alternate the one protein day with 6 weighloss days for no more than 4 weeks
-Then you give your body a rest and do metabolic adjustment, which involves upping calories (mostly by adding fats) and carbs to raise metabolism and maintaining current weight
-I spent 3 weeks upping my calories by 150 per week:
week 1--1150 calories, 120g protein, 55g carbs
week 2--1300 calories, 120g protein, 60g carbs
week 3--1450 calories, 120g protein, 65g carbs
-I continued to do one protein day per week as described above
-Carbs are spread throughout day, but I do consume a slightly higher amount in the AM
-If at any point during metabolic adjustment you go 1.5 lbs above your lowest weight, eat only protein for dinners until it is lost
-You must weigh every morning
-That's the plan I used last round. This round I am only doing 1 protein day, not 3 to start, and only dropping to 1200 calories for weightloss, not 1000. At first it is really hard being that low, but the initial 3 days of protein really do curb your appetite. You just have to be faithful to them and give them the chance to work. I hope this is helpful, and feel free to ask more questions in the future. I just want to remind you that this isn't LFL. LFL focuses much more on adding carbs and not on adding fat. I have been able to get up pretty high on both, though, and am very happy with the current percentages. Yesterday I ate over 70g carbs with my 1450 calories, and I'm thinking once I get to maintennance I may be able to get as high as 100g. But if I don't, I won't be sad, b/c 70g is pretty darn liveable.
Hello to everyone else!
PROTEIN POWER PALS....Friday, November 28
GET BACK ON!!!!
(not that I would EVER be jealous!!)
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) Didn't have turkey bacon so used some turkey from yesterday and some of my cranberry sauce which is just water, cranberries and splenda.I used full fat cottage cheese. From Fitday:
Canadian thanksgiving was a month ago, and I don't do the feast thing, anyway... kinda hard with just me and a vegetarian boyfriend. 
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) to try the turkey soda, I still can't have anything by mouth. I have the tube because they had to cut a hole in my esophagus to remove the scar tissue --- and if I eat or drink anything right now - it would likely get infected. Hate to think what's in that soda... now I'll have to go off and think of a suitable photoshop offering for fermented turkey and 'tators....
I shudder to think how much worse it could of been if I would have had the stuffing and potatoes ect.... 
Today I am doing a protein, lower calorie day, which should be pretty easy considering all the excess of turkey on hand and my lack of appetite!
back at ya! Stay tuned, will our heroine Elaine drink the turkey pop, or remain on the real stuff?? 
And Hi Rebecca and Dreamer 
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