Newbies
 | Hi, I am a newbie. I weighted 120 in 2000. Now i weigh 160. Menopause hit me hard. I am very excited to start this program. |
 | Marcia, |
 | It is slow but sure and I am amazed at what seems like a lot of eating of a lot of food but the weight:down it goes. Even back slide days aren’t disastrous. My now concern: I am Jewish. Does the TDC have a Passover set of choices? I also finally have my L hip surgery date, March 19.So I will be the hospital for 3 days followed by 7-10 days in rehab. I will take my menus with me and try to choose as best I can but Passover is a bigger problem. I am also looking forward to being able to add exercise to the mix after my surgery. |
| | Thanks Jackie, I never thought of it that way! I was 1/2 good! lol Hope everyone is having a good week! Stay focused! We’re going to succeed! |
 | Hi everyone,I would say good morning but it is almost good afternoon.I have been looking at my food planner and reading all of your comments.Also washing clothes as they come in and out of the dryer .Tuesday is my day for all that. It is good to see many of you loosing weight.I am at my same weight but on the low end.I do know I feel better on days I keep close to the plan. I am glad I joined the plan as it is keeping me interested and motivated.I may be the old timer as I am 75 and am still fighting my weight.The idea of balancing what I eat and eating more often may be the answer. I do feel pretty good most of the time. |
 | JACKIEE AND ALL: This probably won’t sound good, but I sort of make a salad on a dinner plate, out of the brown rice with lettuces, beets, canned green beans, (SOMETIMES slice a hard boiled egg on it for protein), maybe a few baby carrots, sliced or chopped green or red Bell peppers, maybe a few chopped green onions, etc. on it. Top with a little fat free dressing and toss the salad a little to get the dressing mixed in. I do this with my cooked barley too. It gives the barley and the rice a much better flavor and is not so bland or boring. When my menu calls for tuna or canned chicken, I add them to my salad like this. It’s my whole dinner or lunch, unless I’m supposed to have a fruit too for that meal. I eat the fruit separately 🙂 I love it and it really fills me up. Yesterday I weighed myself and was up from my 2 week crash 8 lbs (pounds). Today I’m down 4 for those pounds 🙂 I know much of it is fluid first, but at least the scales shows improvement and that is encouragement 🙂 Hoping all of you and all of you newbies will get encouraged too. Jackiee – keep up the VERY helpful encouragement for all of us 🙂 That’s a hugh part of being able to stay on a diet plan. |
 | TRIM DOWN CLUB…..Love the revamped recipe page….very inviting… Good Morning, afternoon or evening all, where ever you all are in the world….. hope you all have a great motivated day…I weighed in this morning…down 1\2 kilo so thats me down 4 1\2 kilos now, I know supper slimmers will think this isn’t much but I’m so happy with my snail progress…. hopefully the new walking trainers will be on my shopping list soooon. 😀 Are you managing any walks still BEV with your all your ailments? Hope you beaming smile is back 😀 . Do you still get on the treadmill with your book RADISSON or still stuck with snow shovelling?…How are you getting on APENSA, feeling any better? NANCY, have you managed to get on better with the program this week? CHAI, do you make anything nice to go with your rice? GINNERLOU…how you getting on, or are you on holiday now…if you are I hope your having a great time…if not, surely it can’t be long to wait now….everyone else sorry I’m haven’t mae a personnal comment to you too but need to run get wee one dressed for nursery and get my walk done….happy healthy day all… |
| | Hi Katie, lovely to hear you had another family visit and that you done well for a whole 2 days before giving in to temptation…remember you could have easily given in for the whole 4 days but you didn’t…so thats a 1\2 of a well done 😉 I have the worst sweet tooth in the world I’m sure, but one thing I have found that helps this is roasted squash, or the squash omelette, lovely and sweet…I know theres lots of recipes for muffins, cakes and desserts on the recipes but I’m trying to stay away from these until I reach my first 5kilo lose….its has been a slow slog but only half a kilo to go then I’m going to bake some cupcakes or muffins for a treat…along with a treating myself to new walking trainers….good luck tomorrow. |
| | Good morning SUNSHINE, I couldn’t get going without a coffee in the morning…read up on your ‘TRIM DOWN MAIN PROGRAM GUIDE’ page 35…its all about drinks…but I have copied and pasted the tea and coffee bit for you below… TEA AND COFFEE p.s theres also an Alcohol section too….. Hope this helps and you enjoy your morning coffee once more. I used to have cappucinos here in italy but have now changed to a coffee americano, ( a shot of coffee and hot water- I also add a splash of milk too)…I have this at the bar before going shopping…I don’t have the crossiant either as swapped this for a wee bag of almond nuts (1 oz) that I munch away at after my coffee…my wee morning treat when out and about which helps me not forget my morning snack when on the go….good luck |
| | I had my daughter’s family here for the past four days, day one and two I stuck to this plan, but did not do well the last two days! I guess in a way, I’m fortunate to live away from family. Unfortunately we all love to eat, and not the right foods either! They left this afternoon though, so I’ll jump back on the program tomorrow. I must admit, I feel better on the program than when I’m eating the things I shouldn’t. I’ve been on this for three weeks now, lost only 3 pounds, but I hope that one of these days, these foods will just be my preferred choices, and I can lose the cravings for sweets! Wish me luck! I’m glad to hear that the rest of you are doing well. |
 | Hello dear friends one week in and need to ask why can we not have coffee one thing I miss the most!! I have it black no sugar no milk just black. It was a good weekend cross country skiing wonderfull weather for us. enjoying the snow at long last good exercise for me and I am feeling good. These recipes are hugh I made the carrot soup and had to add more spices to livein up. The cheesy potato casserole the bestest I added cooked chicken but hugh I will be eating it for awhile. Its been a good weekend but I miss my coffee can someone letme know why we can’t have it what is it doing to us let me know please so I can understand. of to making a wonderful soup for the week with lentils. thank you all for sharing I hope yo all have a good week. |
| | THE TRUTH ABOUT EGGS: A GOOD ARTICLE — http://www.rodale.com/free-range-eggs. |
| | Aww well done Chai, you’ve made my evening hearing your back on board…. 🙂 good luck… |
| | JACKIEE: I made a large bowl of Steel Cut Oatmeal and a large bowl of Rice yesterday for the week. That will help me a lot. I started again today. I like your comment about the SWG Muffins. It’s probably true 🙂 |
| | Evening all, hope you all had a good weekend!!! Hows everyone getting on? I do hope you get better soon APENSA (and have just sent an email to you wife too)… Hows the smile Bev, all fixed I hope 😀 How did you get on with the drs visit today? I hope they can help you more. Did you get the thunder and lightning storm you wanted…I hope it doesn’t end up as bad as last time. How did you get on today and with your weekly cooking CHAI? I do hope you have managed to get back on track…I also think that you should stop buying the SWG Muffins because they sound TOO TASTY…. or you could get a little safe in the freezer and give your hubby the key so you can only get your hands on your daily muffin allowance! 😉 Thanks for the suggestion Radisson..I’ll have to remember take a photo next time I do the Melanzane Stacks, then post it to be consider on here…It’s good to hear your booked up for a good break from all that snow…. it will be good for you to get some walks in the fresh air…will lots of relaxing with your book. My Dad is just back from his month long winter break, and due out here next week..he loves getting away as much as possible during the winter months. He’s just invested in a kindle fire to save him trailing so many books about on his holidays…Does your phone have a kindle app too? ppeddle, how did you get on with your new batch of spelt bread… take my hat of to you for your patience… and persistence….hope you get the knack of it soon. My friends love their bread makers. As Seaborn said before, its great having so many new people on board and I love hearing everyones updates. I had a great weekend, we got lots of snow Friday night, so me hubby and little girl got out at 7.45 am to make a snowman….had tons of fun and some exercise as Angelina insisted on having a mummy snowman, a daddy snowman and a baby snowman…although I didn’t manage all her list as she did want the grandparents too…but explained we needed to leave some snow in the square for other kids. I then done my home-made pizzas on Saturday night for friends…I feel so proud when a table full of Italians tell me my Pizzas are delicious…I make them one at a time on a pizza maker which has a griddle pan at bottom and a grill on top…2 minutes a pizza..the good thing about this is by the time I’m finished making all the pizzas and sit down everyone else is quite full so they stop eating soon after my first piece, which them makes me conscious of how many pieces of pizza I eat myself. Dessert was Tiramsu…yummy but thankfully made with cream…which I don’t like..so all in all what should have been a calorie ladled dinner didn’t end up so bad for me at least!!! then Sunday brought about another nephews birthday cake..again with creamed & nutella so I only had a little of the sponge bottom and handed the rest to my hubby 🙂 Hope everyone else is still staying motivated and saying no to most of those high calories food…till next time…take care… |
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