Hey td007,

My wife and I started the diet on Monday (July 30th) too.  We need to loose some weight b4 we head out on a cruise in a couple of weeks!

My wife made the soup with quite a bit of spices to mask the cabbage taste so its not too bad!

I started out at 151lbs and she was at 105lbs.
We're both hoping to lose about 6-10 lbs.
Nothing yet thou...

Yesterday afternoon was tough for me since i'm used to eating a heavy lunch.
The evening was tough for her since she craves cheese and chips!

The worst is not having morning coffee (i need sugar and cream in mine)!!

Oh..time for some soup!!

Good luck!

Hey everyone!

I know I shouldn't weight myself EVERYDAY but I've decided I want to each morning when I wake up so that I can track my progress while on the CSD.  Here are my results this morning:

Starting weight (Day 1)- 179 lbs.
Day 2- 173.6 lbs.
Weight lost- 5.4 lbs.

I know weight can fluctuate daily based on water and other factors, so this isn't necessarily fat-loss, but I know I'll be able to tell when my clothes start fitting better!  I'll keep you all posted!!

Momo- good luck to you and your wife as well!  Cruises are AWESOME!  Have you ever been on one before?  I just returned from a cruise that stopped in the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Mexico, and Jamaica.  I had a really great time!  Where is your destination? 

I've been doing well so far.  No cheats or slip-ups!  My mom is a huge coffee drinker, and she put a small amount of skim milk in hers each morning while on the CSD and still lost weight!  I think artificial sweetners such as Splenda or Equal are allowed on this diet and can be used in coffee.  Can anyone confirm this for sure, because I'm not 100% on that one.

Nancy- good luck to you too!   Have you done the CSD in the past?  If so, what were your results? 

Talk to you all soon!
T.

T -- those results in one are wonderful that is like what I would lose in an entire week:)

I was on this diet off and on last spring and summer and lost a total of 30 pounds but alas...stress and old eating habits found there way back to me and I have gained it all back and a few more...the wonderful yo-yo effect.

So I have made the commentment to myself I am going to use CSD to jump start myself and slowly change my eating habits to something that I can live with.  I did find you really need to give yourself a break after a full week.  I did two weeks back to back and the second week I only lost 2 pounds.   When I spaced them out I got much better reuslts

Starting weight tomorrow morning TBA LOL

momo76--ah potato night, you know you can have 1/2 for lunch and 1/2 for dinner.  I usually used Spray marg. and steamed some brocolli on top.  Other times I have used fat free dressing all very very good

Hi Nancy!

I don't think I'm going to do the CSD 2 weeks in a row then.  I'm sure I will be sick of the soup by then.  What kind of diet did you maintain between weeks?  I'm scared if I don't have something structured, I will slip up and gain the weight back (and maybe more) in my week off!  I've given into emotion binge eating frequently the last few months (adding to my recent weight gain) and I'm afraid I might do that!!!  As long as I restrict myself to a "diet" (like this one) I think I'll be ok.  Any suggestions??  I'm a big fan of Lean Cuisine meals.  I've thought about eating those for lunch and dinner on my week off and adding a side salad loaded with veggies if the meal isn't enough.  Although, today I got really full quickly and found it hard to finish my soup... so maybe those would be enough.  Anyways, good luck starting tomorrow!  Be sure to report your results!!  I'm excited to weigh-in in the morning!!  And let me know how that weight tracker works for you!!

T.

Hello to all! I started the diet on Monday as well.  I have coffee w/splenda in the morning.  Better than nothing right?  I felt guilty for putting butter on my potatoe this evening.  Should I worry?

Also, are sugar free throat lozenges okay?  I have had a scratchy throat all day.  Anyway, my soup came out great but the vegetables all day today made it a little harder.  And I love veggies!!!!  Oh well, tomorrow will be better with the fruit and veggies.  No potatoe though

Let's help eachother keep motivated.  My fiance has the lovely habit of baking chocolate chip cookies in the evening.  How nice for him. 

Let's hope I can keep this up alllllllll week.

Hi all,

I started Monday as well.  I love this diet!  I feel so energized and clean.

Does anyone notice that sleeping is weird.  Whenever I do this diet, not only do I dream about food but I don't sleep very well.  And the body aches - I wonder what those are from.  It's all worth it in my opinion.  Can anyone else relate?

Pineapple today is yummy!  Sauteed mushrooms with scallions and garlic are wonderful too. 

Oh and there's no way I couldn't have coffee with skim in the mornings.  We still gotta live, right???

Don't let the little slip ups ruin the entire day just move on and eat more soup. 
Td007 you asked what I did inbetween weeks.  I still ate the soup for lunch and if I was still hungry I would have a fruit or veggie snack, for breakfast usually some fruit and dinner was a sensible dinner, a little protien with lost of steamed veggies.  and of couse that nightly snack usually was air popped popcorn or belive it or not dill pickles (and I am not pregernat lol)  I would lose another pound or two during the week.  The hardest for me is giving up my wine with dinner
guess we all have our "vices"

Nancy

Hey everybody!

After a dissapointing day yesterday, I woke up to a day 4 weight of 173 lbs!   My lil binger (kinda big in my opinion!) didn't affect me much!  Thanks for the encouraging words!  They helped!!  So for the week, I'm down 6 lbs!  Yay!  I had an awesome banana shake for bfast this morning!  Banana day is thus far my fave!  I just blended a frozen banana and skim milk and I was all set.  Tomorrow I am going to try a recipe I thought up.  I'm sure something like it exsists, but I'm going to stuff a fresh tomato with lean beef and pop it in the oven.  I think it will go nicely with the soup!

I have to get to work, but awesome job everyone! 

T.

Hey all!  Just reporting in for Day 5, as I'm about to go to bed...

I weighed 171lbs. today!!!!!!!!  That means I'm down a total of 8lbs for the week!!  The number on the scale doesn't matter as much as how I feel and look in my clothes.  I noticed a more significant difference today than I have the rest of the week.  I've been hitting up the gym alot too, doing 35 minutes of cardio on the elliptical and swimming 500 yards along with light weights everyday.  This is my normal workout routine, but with my weight-gain and everything, I lost motivation to workout.  This CSD has really given me a structured way to get back in shape, and I'm LOVING IT!  Sounds as though everyone else is doing awesome as well!   Keep it up and stay in touch!

T.