The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[smartipantz]

Hang in there Nik!! YOU CAN DO IT!! We promise it gets easier after a few days!!! Keep thinking... what do I want more... to lose weight or eat?

WTG!

Keri

[nickieluv]

Thanks for the article link, Suzy - I finally had some time to read it, and I clicked around to some other articles too. The biggest eye-opener - new guidelines recommend over 300 minutes of exercise per week if you want to lose weight and then maintain the loss. Yikes. I don't know if I could ever make that amount of exercise a part of my lifestyle without becoming a professional athlete! (I know that's ridiculous, but that's how I feel about exercising that much.) I could see a half hour at least five days a week - double that seems really hard core. Especially with two kids, and eventually going back to work full time, not to mention my church job and piano lessons which keep me busy four nights a week. Madness!

Well, enough thinking about exercise. I'll deal with that hurdle later on, when I'm ready. I know I said I was going to start exercising every day but I think that will happen when it happens. I'm still too much of a perfectionist to start anything that I can't do 110% - I'm getting better with MF in terms of being more reasonable and not so anal, so I hope that kind of mindset will take hold with exercise too, later on.

So I had my L&G earlier today - just felt hungry midafternoon, so about an hour after my shake I had some meat and pickles (not really green, but I am sick of broccoli already - what else can you have? - I guess I'll check the book when I'm done here). I also had two bars again today - I am not sweating it. Pretty soon I will only be buying the new bars, which you can have more than one of per day, so I figure it's not going to kill me to have two bars now, even though you're not 'supposed to.' And if it does, I'll quit it.

Can I just say how nice it is to have things in my MF cupboard that I will actually eat? I was saying I was dumb to have sold all my stock last month, but really it was the best thing. Instead of facing a stack of stuff I don't really like, I have tons of cocoa and cappuccino (how the heck do you spell that, anyway?). Even though I got a lot of french vanilla shakes from my SIL, which I normally don't like, I find that premixing them makes them taste much better. I make a batch and stick them in bottles in the fridge, and they are easy to grab and go. It's really helping that I don't have to mix them myself at the time of the meal. I know that's the ultimate lazy, but that's me.

I made my family hamburger helper lasagna tonight and while I was cooking it I had no desire to have any. I almost snuck a taste later in the evening when I was cleaning up, but I didn't. I still don't feel I'm in 'the zone,' but there's no doubt that I'm doing well.

So here's some irony for you - I spend a month off plan because I'm convinced I'm going to get pregnant again, then I decide to wait and diet instead, and now I'm two days late. Moron. This will just figure, you know what I mean? So I feel awful praying that I'm not pregnant, since I know babies are so wonderful and if God chooses to give me one that's His business - but still, I'm praying that I'm not pregnant. If I am then I'm going to be very mad at a certain prophylactic company.... (TMI?)

[DogMa]

Well, two days can just be the effects of the restart. Don't get TOO stressed just yet.

And green beans. Or eggplant. Or salad. Or zucchini/yellow squash. Or I think spaghetti squash. Or (gag me, but some people like it) cauliflower. Or cabbage. Or Brussels sprouts, I think. I LOVE broccoli, but even I switch off sometimes. Today I'm having green beans.

[nickieluv]

I can do green beans. What I need is the ICBINB spray, because just plain old broccoli is fine for a while, but gets almost unpalatable after a few days, for me anyway. I tried pepper and spices and stuff but that just made it crunchy and I almost couldn't finish it. Didn't try that again!!

I think there's a frozen veggie mix with cauliflower and zucchini and yellow squash. Maybe I can find it in the store this week. I don't like cauliflower all on it's own, and I can't do any veggies raw (except lettuce), but a little cooked cauliflower mixed with other things is OK.

Doing fine so far today - I seem to need to have my first two meals of the day only about 90 minutes apart, but then for the rest of the day I'm good. Have to go shopping today but I don't really want to - we'll see. I'm trying to figure out if I can talk the hubster into doing it instead - or at least watching the kids after work so I don't have to carry home groceries and two little girls. I've done it, I can do it, but some days I don't want to make all that effort.

I thought maybe my prayers were answered this morning - no luck yet. But I will keep up hope that it's just the diet throwing me off a bit. Plus, I should try to remember that this is only my second cycle since the baby and they are often not 'normal' right away. At least, that's what I've read. I still feel awful hoping I'm not pregnant but there you have it.

[katesmom]

Hi Nickie !
I decided to take a break from testing kids and stop my MMT and say Hello !

I am having a great day too.......Will have my bar in a minute...It's so great to eat one because it takes you awhile to chew it !

Good Luck on finding out your results...Either way it;s a Win Win, right?

I'll be on later !

Toodles !

[DogMa]

Well, heck, it's only my opinion, but I don't think there's anything wrong with hoping you're not pregnant just for right now. First of all, you want to be healthier when you have the next one. Second, you want time to enjoy the ones you have before taking attention and focus away from them. So it seems reasonable to hope you can wait a bit.

And have you tried roasting? I LOVE broccoli when it's roasted; in fact, now that I think about it, I may roast some this weekend for a nice change.

Oh, and I forgot spinach. Another good veggie, although not as filling unless you eat a LOT of it. Or portobellos are good, if you like 'em. Another one I haven't had in a while that I really should do more often.

[SuzyQ66]

Well Nickie - in due time you will find out whether or not a new little one is on they way...please keep us posted.

I love salads so I typically have a salad with my protein. I am one of those people (Robin) that loves cauliflower...I actually will boil it in water and then put it in the blender and make mock mashed potatoes....yum!!

Sometimes I also have asapargus and mushrooms.

[nickieluv]

I can have spinach IN something - like, say, vats of melted cheese - but not such a big fan of it alone.

I am hitting the bars today. Yikes. No more today, I promise. 2 a day became 3 today, and that's too many even for me. Only 5 more carbs in a bar than in an oatmeal, but I don't know how finely tuned the whole carb thing is. I may be in for it tomorrow.

We are going shopping today though so I'm going to look into getting some allowed snacks from the book. That might help, even though you can only have one snack per day, that one snack might keep me away from another bar.

So today is still going OK but, obviously with the bar thing, I am feeling more hungry today again. Probably because I had the pickles yesterday instead of a real veggie - or maybe it was the 2nd bar two days in a row, the extra carbs, pushing me away from the precipice of the zone. I swear I'm done with them, just one a day now. I said I'd do it unless it was a problem, so today it's a problem.

Well, that's all for now - off to get the kids dressed so we can go shopping. What fun....

[SuzyQ66]

Nickie - you are in the first couple of days of the program...of course you are going to be hungry....but you have to find something to keep you busy so that you are not thinking about food or going for that extra bar. I am just trying to tell you not to over analyze why you are hungry....it's because you are at the beginning of the program and that will go away in a few days.

[DogMa]

Oh, asparagus is another good one.

And re: the bars, so don't have one tomorrow (or at least just have one). It evens out. It's not like your body automatically resets itself every night at midnight or something.

[nickieluv]

Are you SURE there's not a reset button in my body?

I never can make the mashed cauliflower 'potatoes' come out right, Suzy - do you have any hints? I'll buy a couple bags tonight in anticipation. My husband decided to low-carb it, so those will work for him, too.

[SuzyQ66]

Just boil the heck out of it and put it in a blender with a little bit of the water that you just boiled it in. Works perfectly for me. Add some salt and pepper...yumm.

[nickieluv]

Well I will certainly try that the next time I REMEMBER to buy the cauliflower - I stared right at it and still didn't buy any. My mind was AWOL at that moment I guess. Thanks for the tip!

No baby. Much relief over here. The guilt over not wanting to be pregnant comes from the fact that we are pretty close with a couple that has been trying to get pregnant for years and it's not working for them. They've been to doctors and everything. So when both of my kids were conceived without us really trying, and then I find myself worried I might be pregnant again, I feel badly for them because they would love to have a baby and here I am hoping I don't. I feel badly for all the people in the world who want kids and can't have them. But this couple is looking into adoption so I am glad that some child will get to have them as parents eventually.

But anyway, no need to worry about babies on our horizon for another month - and of course I'm being careful!

Today plan-wise went well. I did not have another bar all day, and I'll try to avoid having any tomorrow - but if I'm craving it, I'll let myself have the one normally allotted. Only a couple more weeks and my shipment with the new bars will be sent out, and then this won't be a problem any more. I thought about ordering samples before I ordered a few boxes, but the shipping would have been more than the individual bars combined. So I just ordered 2 boxes of each kind and I'll hope I like them. If not, I'll be putting up another trade in a few weeks.

I'm pretty pleased with how I'm doing so far. Excited about the weigh-in this week, too. Especially happy that I've done pretty well even with TOM being right around the corner as I started up MF again. Not that I ever noticed a huge difference in the past - but maybe that's why I was craving all the chocolate? You never can tell. I hear you can expect all kinds of changes after having a baby.

I still have babies on the brain - how can I not with such a little one at home? - but I am SO looking forward to being a thinner, healthier mom, and by extension a thinner, healthier, and hopefully cuter pregnant woman when the time comes for us to add to the family.

So here's another silly secret - I feel a little badly about losing weight ( ) because I FINALLY found a coat I LOVE for winter, and it was only $24 - but it's a 2x. I'm going to miss that coat when it gets too big. So I'm already planning to save it to wear when I'm pregnant again - but I will be sad to let it go after that. I'm actually hoping someone I know is big enough that they can get some use out of it. I mean, $24? Outrageous! Where will I ever find that deal again? I suppose I could take it to be altered - but the alterations would probably cost more than the coat did in the first place. I've just never had a coat I loved this much. In fact, I usually hate my winter coats - big, bulky, ugly. I actually feel cute in this coat.

End of coat rant. But I love this coat!!!

[DogMa]

There will be more sales out there, but I know what you mean. I'm still sad about my fancy designer jeans. Sigh. I still plan to get 'em taken in, but they'll never be the same, you know? But all in all, I know I'll look - and feel - better in an even smaller pair, whether they're designer-expensive or just off-the-rack Levi's. And I have one dress that I've never worn. Bought it for $10 AGES ago for a friend's wedding. At the time it was just a tiny bit too small, so I bought it anyway. And of course I never fit into it. Until I tried it on a year or two ago, and it was too big. I kinda want to see if I can have it made into something else, because I LOVE the material.

Anyway, congrats about the non-baby. I'm glad that couple is adopting. But your having more babies isn't gonna help THEM any, right? Or any of the other people out there who are trying to conceive. This is what's best for YOU right now.

[nickieluv]

I forgot about the jeans - and I bet they were a lot more than $24. We will just have to suffer with being thinner people and not having these two beautiful items on our bodies.

So another sad (and so not important) thing - I bid on the perfect ring on eBay and lost it - but then was offered a second chance - but I missed it because I don't log on every day. This was the ring I've been looking for for about a year to go with my engagement ring (seems I'm always looking to upgrade). I know this means it wasn't meant to be but the price was awesome and it looked perfect and I will miss it even though I never had it. So I've been online this morning looking around - nothing. Maybe someday the person who bought it will list it again. That's what I keep saying about my dream house, too.

On the food front, doing fine so far today - not feeling overly hungry, but I am still watching the clock for the next supplement. Going to stick to liquids today - already had my one bar, and my last choco mint to boot - those were a bit hard to resist. I'm hoping these new bars are just as good - then I can tell people I eat candy all day to lose weight.

Well, my little girl wants to play computer games - we go to Playhouse Disney and she likes clicking all over the place. I figure computer literacy is a skill, too, so I don't feel too bad about it when she's on for a while. We have pretty much officially crossed the line into 'not going outdoors anymore' weather, unless we get another mini heat wave. Enter the boring winter - the library programs are on hold until spring, and that's about the only chance we have to get out and do something without driving over an hour. We are planning some field trips - one in January, and of course the big Disney vacation - I guess we'll be OK. I just hate that she has to be shut up all winter. We should move south or I should get used to it.

Off we go to play.