Eat to Live Tribe - I lost 10 lbs!!!

[cymbeline]

Happy new year, mamas! I am so excited, the weight is finally coming off!! I'm down 10lbs, only 25 more to go

My eating was not great over the holidays. We travelled and had guests, so we ate out quite a bit. We made cookies and breads. I really felt the difference, mainly in my mood, which strengthened my resolve to eat healthy because I feel good when I do, not just because I want to lose weight.

Anyway, I joined a gym last week, both DH and I did, and we're on one another about staying fit. I think visiting family was a big motivator. His grandfather is dying in the most awful way. He is in diapers and eats baby food because his digestive system has failed him after years of abuse. It is horribly sad. He also has congestive heart failure and sounds like he is slowly drowning to death. And there is nothing anyone can do. Oh, mamas, it is breaking my heart. I don't want to die like that.

I've been running consistently and really loving it, getting a huge burst of energy, and I can see and feel the difference in my core muscles which are wrecked after having four babies. I've cut back to 1-2c coffee. And I'm trying to do what Dr. Oz says, which is to "automate" my meals, so I'm keeping it simple with juice and eggs for breakfast, salads for lunch, soups for dinner, and fresh fruit/veggies for snacks between (and a piece of dark chocolate and a glass of wine at the end of the day if I'm feeling like it).

How are all of you? How were your holidays?

Anyone have any success or goals they want to share?

[midwestmom]

Happy New Year! Congrats to you! That is awesome!

I am here. Doing just ok. Not perfect but not too shabby. I am concentrating on exercise right now too. I am training for a 1/2 marathon in April and some triathlons this summer.

[ILoveMyBabyBird]

hi, i'm trying to transition slowly back into a more eat to live lifestyle. So far i am trying to eat salad at one meal and all snacks must be eat to live type snacks, like fruits, veggies, fruit smoothies, nuts. I am also trying to drink 64 ounces of water a day and getting 4 hours in at the gym a week. This is just week one so i haven't seen much progress. Dh is on a health kick too, so that is helping. Right now my biggest concern is affording organic lettuce. I plan to go over to eat to live more fully in the next 4 weeks, but not sure how i can afford 80 dollars a month on organic lettuce, so i may have to improvise if i can't afford that, but i am trying to eat more organic so we'll see. I really want to lose about 34 lbs, but we are also ttc so i am trying not to focus on the weight, but rather eating more healthfully and excersizing.

[ILoveMyBabyBird]

i decided not to transition, but rather go full swing since my last post, sunday was my first official day back on etl, i think i will check out the book again after i am done reading "diet for a poisoned planet" I need to brush up on everything. So far i have lost 5 pounds, but my official weigh is saturday, hoping for 1-2 pounds more!

[GearGirl]

I'm back on it as well, although slightly modified to one cup of coffee, and raw milk instead of soy milk or other in the morning for a smoothie. I hope to move away from this as well, but I think it is helping me stay on track a bit better. I would also add a glass of red wine if I were out and really wanted it. Otherwise I am trying to stay pretty close to the diet. I love E2L, and even when I do end of breaking it (which sadly I do, the biggest flaw in this diet for me is the ability to stay on it) the weight doesn't come right back. This seems like a huge difference between this and other diets. Especially diets where the weight loss is so fast.

[ILoveMyBabyBird]

my library doesn't have the eat to live book, so i went ahead and ordered it online last night, as i am really wanting to read it again and really want it to reference and keep me in check. I've been doing okay, although i have cheated a few times, I just want to maintain eating this way primarily and not go back to my old ways, but transitioning to organic food is going to help that also. I'll be less likely to eat that hershey's bar, and less likely to buy a 2$ organic chocolate bar, kwim?

I'm down about 8 lbs in 2.5 weeks. Still needing to lose a little over 30. My plateau weight is 150, so when i get to that weight, i may loosen up on the diet a bit for 2 weeks and then restart it until i lose the last 10 lbs. I know dr. furhman says I should be 127 at 5"8" and i have a cousin who is about 5'7" and 127 and she is skinny, but not sickly looking, so i really wouldn't mind pushing myself a bit further and try for 135 or so, I know when i was 149 and on eat to live last time, i definitely could have lost another 10 lbs easy, maybe even 20... I don't know, but first goal is 140 and then i will go from there.

and i haven't been spending 80$ on organic lettuce, lol! I've just been eating less of it, and eating other types of cheaper veggies, but i managed to get some organic lettuce coupons and that is helping out. I was a bit worried, but finding buying more organic products to be less expensive then i thought it would be...

[ILoveMyBabyBird]

Originally Posted by GearGirl

I'm back on it as well, although slightly modified to one cup of coffee, and raw milk instead of soy milk or other in the morning for a smoothie. I hope to move away from this as well, but I think it is helping me stay on track a bit better. I would also add a glass of red wine if I were out and really wanted it. Otherwise I am trying to stay pretty close to the diet. I love E2L, and even when I do end of breaking it (which sadly I do, the biggest flaw in this diet for me is the ability to stay on it) the weight doesn't come right back. This seems like a huge difference between this and other diets. Especially diets where the weight loss is so fast.

exactly, I remember coming off of the 6 week diet last time and telling myself i would never go back to my old eating ways, well when i restarted the diet in january over 2 years later, i had went back to my old ways with a vengence. I have realized that the only way i will stay about on the muck of junk food is to keep current on the health concerns with eating that type of food, then benefits of eating organic and sticking to it, by not buying the junk food. I still have plenty of junk food in my house, chocolate, crackers, popcorn, and brownie mixes, and those darn girl scout cookies i forgot i ordered. I did eat a few of the cookies, but i did not eat the whole box in a day...And i don't feel guilty about it, i enjoyed the moment and moved on. I am a big time emotional eater and do get attached to it, so with my weakness-sweets, chocolate, etc, i will let myself have an occasional indulgence and then it will seem like more of treat then when it is an everday occurance...

[GearGirl]

DH and the kids ate Pizza, so I threw something together for myself in about 5 minutes and it is actually pretty good.

In a saucepan I put:

one can of organic chili beans
a ton of fresh spinach
a can of whole organic tomatoes
hot sauce from a great vegan place near me
a little bit of pepper
a little tofu

I just cooked it until the spinach was cooked.

It was very filling, and very easy for those times when you just don't want to deal with much. Plus, it seemed like a huge dinner, sort of like the pizza and just as filling, without ANYTHING bad in it!