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..are you starving and is your tummy behaving?
Agree weddings sometimes require emergencies but I promise you you will lose weight anyway in the final planning and running around, I didn't sit still for about a month before ours and lost an extra three or four pounds despite eating what I wanted due to all the flitting from here to there, and the excitement!
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Guess how long it lasted....? 2 or 3 days ha ha Tommy laughed at me and told me that it wouldn't work.
So we came up with a plan. I am going to eat tofu scrambler (like eggs without them) or tofu sausages and have protein rich breakfasts. I will have VERY LITTLE carbs as well.
For lunch I bought all the ingredients for veggie wraps so I won't be eating anything unhealthy there either.
I joined spakpeople.com and track all my calories. I typed in how much I weigh and how much I want to lose. They gave me a max # of caloried, carbs, fat and protein per day. So far it's working GREAT. Having to be accountable in my food diary is great motivation not to cheat.
Plus I track all my fitness there and it shows me how many calories I burn each workout. They say for my goal I need to burn 3500 calories per week.
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babyfit.com, which is the same thing only for pregnant or breastfeeding women. Cool! I totally need to keep track of what I'm eating and if I'm getting enough protein and all the right nutrients, so this is a good site, and very healthy and realistic. So, thanks!
Can you believe my brother's girlfriend has been doing the Special K diet for like a month?!?!?
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Cool!
A month, nope I can't believe that!
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told ya so
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cailin
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..only kidding. Glad you are back to eating more sensibly now.
Will have to check out that website.
Tick tock...countdown to YOUR BIG WEDDING! 
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I know I'd never be able to stick to the special k diet. I feel like my tummy burns through carbs so fast and then BAM, I'm hungry. I've been doing a basically no-carb diet for like a month now, with occiasional weekend breaks. One of the side effects of a no-carb diet can be constipation, so as an A, I haven't really minded! Here's pretty much what I eat in a day:
Breakfast: Jay Robb vanilla protein powder in a shake, with cocoa powder, instant coffee crystals, and a teeny bit of splenda (the powder itself is already pretty sweet, and I'm looking into the chocolate variety), and my regular dosage of acacia (4tsp).
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Scrambled eggwhites (occasionally whole eggs if I'm feeling particularly brave), with low-fat chicken sausage or turkey bacon. Iced tea, coffee, or water.
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And here's where I'm really not on the ibs diet -- a couple of whole hard boiled eggs and some fat free cottage cheese.
Lunch: Very plain grilled chicken breast, turkey breast, turkey burgers made from ground turkey breast or non-fatty fish such as tuna or shrimp. I usually marinate the poultry in some sort of worchestershire / mustard / soy / lemon concoction and then grill it on the george foreman. I buy sushi grade tuna and just pan-sear it with some pepper and ginger and have it with soy sauce, or else I buy sashimi. The shrimp I just stir fry. I sometimes have a fat free cottage cheese along with lunch, sometimes not. Sugar free jello (yes, artificial sweetener in this) helped me get over my sweet tooth the first couple of weeks. I'd have like 4 a day. Now I probably have just one every other day, but they are only like 10 calories apeice so I indulge.
Snack: I pretty much don't. With all the protein I'm eating, I just don't get that hungry. If I'm really dying for something, I have a fat free cottage cheese or a jello, or a cup of tea or coffee. Sometimes a hard boiled egg.
Dinner: Same choices as lunch.
That's it. I've lost 14 pounds. I was up to a high of 140 which is way too big for my petite 5'4" frame. I was 125ish all through college and really wanted to get back to that (even though in college I was always trying to get to 120!). Last fall I was about 128 and wanted to lose a few pounds. Instead, I gained 12 pounds and was miserable! I was so busy with school and competitions this year that I was eating (and drinking) whatever I had time to grab. It's no mystery where the extra weight came from, but I hated it. As soon as my classes ended I went on the diet, pretty much quit drinking, and have been walking a lot more. I lost about a pound a day for the first 9 days I was on this diet. It took about 2 weeks to lose the next 5 pounds. I was 126 on Sunday and couldn't believe my eyes! Today I am back to 127.2 but I know it will go back down again at some point. Oh I also drink a TON of water every day, which really helps.
Anyway my point is that I'm never hungry on this diet. I feel like I've finally gotten my appetite under control. My IBS hasn't been fantastic but not horrible either. I still have a BM almost every day, but at the very least 2 -3 times a week. I do have some pain and some gas, but both of those are relieved by my 2 mile walk every morning, plus peppermint and fennel teas, and the peppermint caps when I need them.
If your tummy has been okay, give this diet a try. I'm amazed that I finally lost weight! (And need I mention that the bf who met me at 140 is beside himself with glee now that I've dropped 14 pounds and look way hotter?!)
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I live in the Big Apple, but I don't eat the skin
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Yes I agree that increasing my protein intake is a very good thing!
I saw your graduation pic and you look great. I haven't seen too many pics of you but you definitely look way slimmer in the face. Way to go!!!!
Thanks for your food diary. I am a vegetarian so I won't be copying your food items but it gives me a great idea of what you're doing right.
I'm sure your BF is super impressed. Go Amanda!!!! 
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Yep, that Special K diet isn't too smart.
I KNOW!!! The wedding is soooo close now. We're both so excited it's not funny! 
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I imagine that's a lot more difficult to deal with when trying to increase your protein. I take it you don't eat eggs? There are soy protein powders out there that are okay tasting, not fabulous though. I think a lot of the soy fake meats can be kind of high in fat, so watch that. I'm doing no carbs and very low fat, and it's worked.
Thanks for the compliment on my picture! I definitely notice a difference in my face. If you check out myspace, my page is www.myspace.com/amandabethspace , there is a picture of me in a red dress from new years and I think my face looks so different from then! Warning, myspace is highly addictive!
Good luck with this. I have no idea what I would eat for protein if I were veg and wanted to avoid carbs and fat. Let me know what you come up with! One of the reasons I put off going on this diet until Spring was because in my church, during Lent we are basically vegans (no meat, dairy, wine, oil, fish with bones ...) and I couldn't figure out what to eat other than shrimp 10x a day and still do low-carb. Starting the Monday after easter though, I went on it and it was great!
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Yes for 13 years actually!
I get a lot of my protein from soy. I watch the carb, sodium and fat content when I buy premade products. You're right they can be very high in carbs.
Thanks for your myspace link. I've known about it for a while now but don't have much interest in joining. I have heard that it's very addictive. On your page you mentioned the restaurant Slice. Tommy and I just watched a show about the process of the girl who created it. I really want to make it there sometime soon as the pizza looked AMAZING!
Yes, you've slimmed down a lot!!
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