OCT '09-MWL GROUP-"ON PLAN, PLANNING TO STAY THAT WAY!&

[Charlie]

Good Morning,

Started Monday after an eating binge. Started at 198.4 and today I'm 195.2...a loss of 3.2 lbs. When I figure out how to get a ticker on my posts ...I will do so.

Charlie

[Starchyme]

Congrats to you, Charlie! Doesn't it feel good?

[amyla51]

Happy Weigh in day everyone!

I know the time is coming when I have no weight loss and won't be so happy to report, but for this week my weight loss is 2 pounds. Yeah!

Congrats to Charlie for making the leap and joining us and for your weight loss! Go to tickerfactory.com and follow the directions to make your own weight loss ticker.

Have a great Thursday!

Amy

[raven]

No loss, no gain again this week. I wrote a week or so ago how i had managed not to eat something high in fat by eating a lot of my regular MWL food. I have kept on eating more food. I get hungry between meals, and i like to be hungry when i eat, but i guess i am eating too much food. I eat a bowl of salad or veggies and then a bowl or plate of half starch and half veggies... i will try going back to a third of the bowl starch and 2/3rds veggies, plus salad.

What's working for me right now is to have two meals a week higher in fat... i calculated one meal and the extra calories of fat and sugar were about 22% of the amount of calories i think i am eating each day. I will try to get that down to 10% for those two meals, and see if my health is good and i loose weight. I don't usually have a problem with not eating something if i haven't planned for it, but right now i am planning those two meals (all acceptable food on The McDougall Plan). If i have one or two teaspoons of sugar a day and those two higher fat meals, my calculations show me that i am eating 5% calories a week that are not MWL... not that sugar isn't allowed in small quantities on MWL, just that it needs to be not overdone. I am also watching my fruit, and that's the one thing that for now i am eating on the 12 Day Plan rather than MWL, three servings a day, not two.

Have a great week, everyone! May we all be healthier and skinnier next week. And Thanks for being here.

[Letha..]

Good morning. I'm down 3.2 pounds this week. I'm on plan and planning to stay that way. Still doing Mary's Mini with rice/lettuce/apples. Here is a link to my list of weekly weigh in stats.
http://mcdougallstats.wordpress.com/200 ... oss-stats/

[Yomom]

Minus two for me this week.
Congrats to all of you on this MWL thread for one year. I just joined this month, but am finding that knowing I am reporting weight every Thursday helps give me impulse control. So thanks.

[Love the Lorax]

Not a great week...

[rebecca]

Cowgirlup so sorry to hear about your friend.
I gained 2 lbs. this week. I've been eating baked goods and have been stressed out at work. I am feeling stronger (I had a 3 week head cold)- so I see exercised in my near future.

[bethannerickson]

I. JUST. BROKE. FIFTY. POUNDS. GONE!

I'm down 1.4 pounds this week for a total of 50.1 pounds gone!

Feeling good, on plan and planning on staying that way.

Life is fabulous,

Beth

[Griffin]

Down 1 pound for the week!

[Bambie113]

soo... I don't know what to say. Cant really say its the scales fault can i..??

Congrats to everyone who stuck with the plan!! Great job on all the loses! Everyone seems in good spirits today!!

[Anna Green]

Down 2 lbs. Glad all of you are here doing this with me. Bethann, way to go on that milestone of 50 lbs!

[cowgirrlup]

My scale died!

Honest. It now only weighs people at 4 pounds or 298 pounds...apparently just randomly, too.

Put me as a zero, please.

I am on plan today.

WE can do this.

I have a big pan full of cauliflower, yellow bell pepper, garlic, basil, peppers, salt, red onion, sun dried tomatoes & peas roasting in the oven....its 34 degrees outside, but the kitchen is warm and toasty and smells sooo good.

[amyla51]

Everyone does seem to be in good spirits.
Beth- congrats on breaking 50! That is a big milestone!
Letha- Your turtle just keeps plugging along in the right direction! Yeah!

Even if you didn't have a "good" week, or weren't as successful as you hoped, kudos to everyone who keeps showing up! Yeah for ALL of us!

Amy

[LauraA]

LET'S FINISH STRONG-
THERE ARE 64 DAYS LEFT IN 2009!

Hi all, I'm learning lots taking the eCornell class in Plant Based Nutrition on line! I really wish that this information and Dr McDougall's could make it to the general public! I can't weigh in today, traveling still. Take care, LauraA