Hey Ms. Brittany- you look awesome!  I don't know where you're hiding all this weight you talk about, you must be 6 ft. tall or something, you look great!  and only 21?  Well scrap what I said about saving money,  hell at 21 I didn't have a pot to pee in, I would get my paycheck and blow it in one day, totally lived check to check, and the farthest thing in my mind was ever buying a house!  If I had $20 left to my name, I would go down to my local hangout and party it away!   Really, really a cute picture and I love your choice of music! 

I agree with sally! Dont try to diet in between it will ruin the good you had going! Just watch what you eat if possible. if you HAVE a CHOICE choose the healthier of the foods. If not eat a little bit. Thats my advice. Also you know people that go to parties like that (you are one!) OMG so it is true about hollywood!!LOL! Ive always wanted to go to one. Actually my like great uncle (my grandfathers sisters husbands son i beleive) is in the business he does all the sound for all the award shows(oscars grammys academy awards CMT music awards all that stuff) and for all kinds of concerts(lots of extrememely famous people)! I wish that he was closer to me!! LOL!!! But that side of the family isnt close to my side! how sad for me. Maybe when I get skinny skinny i can go up there get noticed for my voice and be famous! Yea right eh? LOL

The starter wife eh?? I see the commercials for that all the time I WANT TO SEE IT. I hate that they started showing previews for it last months. Then at the end it said May 30th LOL! I hate that!

Nancy, ok I have a solution for you!

make your husbands dinner (only enough for him to eat alone)
Make steamed veggies so you can snack on them while your making his dinner
make your food set the table up really nicely and have a sit down dinner with him
it doesnt matter what you eat and what he eats is different as long as you eat together your fine!
steam a bunch of veggies and share them between yourselves at dinner. Dont crack i am counting on you to be my rock!

i do believe on thing though. you should have taken thurday off like we had spoken about. you still could have watched what you ate just added a few faves in small portions and been fine! do what you said do three days of the CSD which would make your off day on sunday and my off day will be sunday (im doing only two of the three day diet) and then monday start up again. at least that way you wont cheat because you know an "off" day is arriving soon and you can have LITTLE splurges that day.

I am starting on monday for the CSD because im a fool and didnt have time to go to the store for the ingredients!

LOL good job for making him eat the icecream!! my husband woulda ate it in like 2.7 seconds flat lol!

and about my ictures on myspace THATS ME AT 180!!!!! Not now. I think i said that on another thread! LOL. anyways Ill look like that again

give me a couple of months!

Anywho time to get ready for work gals. I close the store tonight so Ill be there until 9pm my time then have to wake up and go to work again so Ill only probably be on for a short while tonight!

talk to you all later!

awe shucks nancy thank you, you just made my day!!

Geeze, I don't know you can do it with all the "kid" food around!  I commend you!
I was thinking that realy MONDAYS are the best day to start on anything.  Cuz Mondays suck anyway so we may as well start the "D" word again!  I think days 1-3 are the best on CSD, and think I could do those days over and over,  well for 4 days and have the wkend off maybe?
Here I am looking at the HG website for low cal drink recipes right now!   God I am weak!

Sounds like you could start a new diet Om- the "Fiber 1-H. cluster" specail!  Haven't tried the "Clusters", I actually like the "Twigs" well enough!

So I burnt the roof of my mouth on that ******* Soup!!  What am I going to do now?

Oh well, grin and bear it!
Peace out guys!

So here I am, answering my own post again... means I've too much time on my hands!  but,  what if I still just eat veggies and soup all day and night but have a couple glasses of wine?  With Weight Watchers I could drink the whole bottle and still be under my daily points as long as I ate  only veggies!   Just a thought!   My sister emailed about some great wine she found at Trader Joes, and was enticing me!

Maybe I'll go get a pedicure!  Yea, that's the ticket!   

Twilight I hadn't read your post when I posted last time we musy have both been posting at the same time and my post was directed at Omgirlie last time. Mind you I do think you need a break seriously you have gone from CSD to 3DD to CSD without more than a couple of days odd break it is better to have a break and then set your next start day even if it is just a couple of days. I'm officially am giving you permission to have a drink and restart the CSD on Monday you have done great so far so bl***** celebrate!!!

oh thanks sally! I thought your post was directed at twilight too! I even went back and reread her post looking for her "events"! hee hee! okay I'll wait till at least monday before getting on something serious. hey wasn't there someone who was suppoosed to post a diet similar to our 3dd? I remember seeing that I just don't know where.

twilight you are cracking me up! next time try the stoli blueberry will you?


okay so I'm really thinking that I might make my own diet up. why not? esp. if I figure all the calorie/fat stuff out before.

omg I am mental. mental. MENTAL!

okay so far I've had the 1/2 of a bagel with LF cream cheese and a diet dr. pepper, 2 97% FF hebrew national hot dogs, 1 2% polly o string cheese, 4 saltines, a smidge of avocado, a large iced NF cappuccino and a fiber one granola bar....not too shabby!

Ok my final blog for yesterday well I had a drink last night and fell asleep so I didn't get back on here and report!

1 bowl of organic bran flakes with skimmed milk
2 cups of cappuccino
1 fruit [i dunno what it was but it was small and black and tasted like lychee]
1 bite size scotch egg
5 crackers
1 bowl of fresh corriander, carrot and onion soup
1 slice of bread
Then it goes down hill
1 bag of crisps [I know they're bad but I like them!]
3 small balls of stuffing [hubby and family were having a roast dinner so I nicked them]
Fortunately the red wine wasn't very nice so I only had 2 glasses.
1 french coffee [brandy coffee and cream floating on the top mmmmm!]

Yes I remember that Omgirlie re the other 3DD but I can't remember where but I am sure I've never seen it posted since anyway. I think I may start again on Monday but I don't know what one yet to do. I'm tempted by the 3DD again as that is easier when I am at work which I am next week! On the other hand 4 days CSD is tempting me too!
Especially as twilight has worked out what alcohol we are allowed on each day lol!
wine day 1 [grapes]
vodka day 2 [potato]
wine day 3 [grapes]
day 4? [what alcohol comes from bananas?]

Wow Brittany you did very well yesterday!!!!
You do get crisps there they come in a light packet they are like thin sliced then fried potato. What do you call them then?

Okay, it was me that mentioned the other three day diet!    Sorry I forgot to post it before.  The thing with this one is you repeat the same thing for all three days.  Which might be boring to some, but as I said before I do much better when things are super structured--I don't want to count calories or points I just want to be told like a child exactly what I should be eating!  The key to this diet is specific metabolism boosting foods/spices that are incorporated into every meal.

So here it is.  They claim you can lose up to 7 pounds in three days.  One girl lost five, one six, and one seven.

Upon Rising: 
8 ounces water mixed with 2 tsp of lemon juice or apple cider vinegar

Breakfast: 
1 whole egg plus 3 egg whites cooked in 1/2 tsp extra virgin coconut oil and topped with 2 TBS spicy salsa
3/4 cup steel-cut oats topped with 1/2 tsp maple syrup and a dash cinnamon

Snack: 
one 8 ounce skim latte or 8 ounces of warmed skim milk with a dash of cinnamon
1 small apple

Lunch:
3 cups mixed salad (greens, bell peppers, cucumber, and tomato)
Top with 3 ounces of chicken breast (no skin) or tuna, 1/2 tsp olive oil, apple cider vinegar and seasonings to taste

Snack:
8 ounces of Spicy V8 juice or low sodium tomato juice with 3 shakes Tabasco with one stalk of celery
(Side note--are they trying to make us think we are getting a bloody mary or something???)

Predinner:
8 ounces of water mixed with 2 tsp apple cider vinegar

Dinner:
4 ounces of salmon or tuna with 1 TBS spice rub
2 cups of broccoli or green beans with 1/2 tsp coconut oil
1/2 cup brown rice or one small sweet potato

Snack:
6 almonds or walnut halves

So that's it.  It also says you should drink at least 8 glasses of water or green tea daily.  And it says if you want to do it for more than three days in a row you should take a multi vitamin with it and after day three you should add 200 "Healthy" calories of your choice throughout the day.

Here is the list of "metabolism boosting foods".  Even if you don't do this diet specifically, maybe some of these foods could be incorporated into other plans to boost things along...

Eggs, salsa, coffee, steel-cut oats, coconut oil, cinnamon, apple cider vinegar, salmon, tuna, nuts.

I don't get the coffee part because it isn't mentioned anywhere in the actual plan?  But I do love my coffee so I won't complain!

Sounds like you are all doing well on your "off days"  Keep up the good work!

Mandy

Whitnnie and Sal, Morning ladies- I just thought I would log in to confirm that:

In the States ( and possibly Canada) you call them potato chips whereas in England and Ireland we call them crisps!!......ALSO

What we call chips, you call french fries!!

Am just tucking into lunch - huge bowl of Haagen Dazs Pralines and Cream Ice cream!! I felt like it , I have done well up till now and I am going to enjoy it without guilt!!( an hour and a half on the treadmill should just about burn it off:blush:)

Does anyone have anything to say about it!!!!

Have a great day all!!!

Sinead XXX

Sally
Maybe you could do two whole eggs instead of all of the whites?  And maybe the salsa would help disguise the taste of the whites anyways?  I really don't know, it's worth experimenting!
I'm not realy sure what steel cut oats are, I was going to investigate when I go get groceries.  I think it is probably some kind of oatmeal or at least maybe in the general area of oatmeal in the store?  Anyone else know the answer to that?
As for the v-8, I think you could probably just get the regular kind and then spice it up with Tobasco or Red Hot (Do you have that kind of stuff in the UK?)
As far as predictions, I'm not sure.  It said in the article you could lose up to 7 pounds in the three days.  The three girls that they interviewed lost 5, 6, and 7 and they started out at all different weights.  Even if you lose a couple in the three days I think it is worth it cause it seems to give you a TON of food every day.  (Just no ice cream      )
Sinead, good for you , have your ice cream!  You deserve it and you will feel better about starting again knowing you had your treat!  I always used to diet Monday through Saturday and then give myself Sunday for WHATEVER I wanted, no exceptions, no guilt, no rules!  And I always lost like that.  I think it's good for the metabolism!
Hey, we need to find a diet that incorporates jell-o shots!  I love them!  You can make them with sugar free jell-o.....how many points would that be?
Okay, I'm off.  Have a good weekend girls!