I took some cabbage, celery, green pepper, onion and a little carrot then put in a pan with pam and then put in a hot pan and stir until they are warmed and crisp then when they are done I put a few tablespoon of oyster sauce to coat and eat...it really is good.  It has all the soup ingredients and the oyster sauce I use is only 5 cal per tbl.  I might try some soy sauce next time.

I do miss putting it on some rice but that is ok it fills me up and satisfies me.

What are your plans for tomorrow?

nancy

I can't beleive I am still so obsessed with the food I want to eat I would think by now that would hace lessened

what are your plans for tomorrow? That will be a tough day for me, it is tradition that we eat pizza on friday night and I need to find a subsitute that is the equilvant of comfort food with chicken and tomotoes

I can't beleive that I still center my day around what food I am going to eat I would have thought by now it would had lessened

nancy

I like the sound of taco salad but I will use turkey

I have only done the diet back to back once and only lost 1 pound that second week so I always skip a week inbetween

whoo hoo friday

Yes it is finally Friday and I took your advice about the taco salad.  I cooked up some ground turkey last night and brought all the fix'ins to make the salad at lunch after I eat my soup, then I will have a real big taco salad with at dinner tonight.

I did weigh myself and finally lost -- wow-- one pound.  This is still discourging reading all the posts and all those that have lost 8+ pounds in one week.  Maybe it is better this way slow and steady, but for all the stuff I am giving up I would think I would have lost more.   Congrats on your 2 pounds!

I am going to stick it out thorugh the weekend and see what Monday brings.  And like you I will wait another week before starting up again.  I remember from last year two weeks back to back was not the fastest way to lose it but if I stuck to a low calorie diet on my off week and just added a little bread or rice the weight did not come back and I was ready for the next week on without dreading it too much.

Do you have a stratigy for this weekend?

Well I wIlstick it out through Sunday night and have my offical Monday morning weigh in (which of course I will keep all up to date) then I will take a week off with you and eat senible, trying not to eat bread, pasta and rice and stick to veggies and fruit with a little protien.

You are right Friday nites are the worst for me! like I said that has been our comfort food night with pizza and wine but skipping it once will not kill me.

Saturday & Sunday will be a challenge as all weekends are without the stucture of work to go to it is hard to plan my meals when we are on the go so much.  My husband wants to go to an itlian resturant on Saturday night and it would be too easy to have their wonderful pasta so I am going to see if we can't just have a quiet night in and maybe go out on a weeknight next week.  I have in mind smoking some large shrimp on the grill with some steamed veggies yummi

What type of work do you do?
nancy

Well I am out for the weekend now.  Best of luck to ya!!  You can do it!!  I'll let you know my results when I get back in on Monday.

:)Hi Nancy I am 38 and I would love to be your diet buddy if you like me will try your best to do atleast 10 situps 3 times daily and definately make the last set you do before bedtime I need to lose 40 pounds and I am not in a hurry to do that because I haven't had a buddy but with a buddy I will give it my all.

Last edited by Luckdrgn (2007-08-11 03:04:11)

Hi Patch.  I did this diet about 3 weeks ago and lost 9 pounds.  Since then, I have been sticking to the south beach diet and lost another 6.  So, I don't think the weight loss is only temporary if you stick to a sensible eating plan.  But, if you go back to old bad eating habits-----then maybe so.

Rachie, Luckdrgn & patch

Hey gals it is my day 7 and am feeling great!  I am still down 2.5 pounds for the week and am pretty happy with it.  I hope tomorrow another pound will fly off but if not that is ok.

I am going to continue to have a bit of fruit for breakfast, then soup for lunch today and dinner some wonderful stir fry veggies.  I found this great oyster sauce (not oyster flavored sauce) that only has 5 cal a tbl and that's it.

After today I will most likely still with my routine of watermelon for breakfast, soup for lunch, celery & carrots as snacks dipped in fat free itilain dressing then either a small protien or stir fired veggies for dinner.  Of course plenty of water!

How are you girls doing?
nancy

Thank you Teresac!
That means a lot to me!  As we all struggle with our own "demons" losing weight any negitive feedback is counter productive.

Take tonight for instance for me...I had my hair colored yesterday and it was a disater..and I mean that. So today I had to spead a large sum of money getting it corrected sooo this just blew my entire mind set and I went out to dinner and split a bottle of wine with my husband and ate ....pasta....LOL but I kmow come tomorrow I will be back on track with my fruit, soup and veggies the rest of the week and have the support of "buddies" like you

I hope to see your post more often

nancy

Hey Rachie, good to see you back after your weekend fun!   Well I weighed myself this morning and I was shocked to see I had dropped a few more pounds so my total loss for the week was 4.5 pounds whoo hoo

Not to worry about your upcomming event if you must eat just "sample", take a bit or two then move on..always eating a good choice with a bad?  sounds good anyway

Today I brough soup for lunch along with some watermelon and celery & carrots to munch on.  I am going to try (in theroy) to stick sorta to the csd for this week then next week follow it a bit closer.

For dinner I am going to have a bit of protien (shrimp) with a large green salad

nancy

Hi guys,

do you all find you put loads of weight on when you come off csd.....how do you eat when you finish.....??

you all sounds like you've been doing really well

nadsnightfox,

Last year when I did this diet and lost the 30lbs over 4 months I found that I really had to watch what I was eating and not just put a bunch of emptly calories in my mouth.  That does not mean I did not eat junk food I did but not much and in small amounts.

But over the couse of the winter those old habits came back and I packed back on the weight i lost so that is why I am here again...doing the csd and reading the much needed support!


Emerald

Hang in there! before long we will be back to our oldselves LOL or at least I am going to try and be back by nov 1 that is my goal