 LynnM 12 years ago | You are so good, responding to everyone, Jackie, keeps us going! Thanks, Kathie, for coming in to reassure all us newbies, you are doing great! I am juggling menus, must have over 20 in my list now, I can’t have much in the way of milk products, so I end up with a lot of tuna and other fish on the menu…finally got one I can live with this week. I have a feeling the last 5 lb is going to take longer, it’s all on front, and I’ll have to up the exercise a lot. Well, cross fingers, my hips are not complaining too much and I am walking a lot. I think the healthy eating is keeping all my tissues stronger. |
 jackiee 12 years ago | Good afternoon all, hope your all well.
I got a walk today as the wee one went back to nursery 😀 yippee….
Thanks everyone for your kind support, Chia I’m the one who’s blessed with her.
Glad to see so many newbies getting on board. Hope you all have fun getting to know the site. If you like it simple just select easy accessible things on the menu planner to start with and add recipes as you get more time or confidence. Not sure if it is totally correct but I also chop and change stuff on my menu – just remember portion sizes and nutrition value. I now have a print out of all the swaps I can change stuff with and after a but you get the hang of it. If yous need any help with questions post on here too someone can usually help otherwise we all await an up date on how you are all getting on.
SLIMASHARON-lol at least you got your exercises for y’day in oxford street ( I do miss a stroll along there) and can’t fault you on the whiskey me being a Scot and all. All I can think of is grad a healthier sandwich next time 😉 and that would count as a good day surely!!!
CHIA I do hope the weather improves soon and it doesn’t stop you getting to bible study or church. What trouble are you having with the healthy eating plan (I hate calling it a diet) maybe if you say what hindering you everyone can help pull you back on board.
KATE- glad its got easier for you too, I have been looking at the recipes for a few days as getting a bit tired of the plain options now – only really tried the things I know already i.e primavera pasta, pizza but want to try some more soups as getting a bit fed up with my veggie soup. I miss a lots of veggies from the UK that I just can’t find here but the fruit taste much better here at least. I do love Italy…just not paper work or politics get me a bit agitated here….so try to avoid both as much as possible.
NANCY..How are you today. I totally get where your coming from with the good and day days…so hope you reasonable busy to remember your snack but not to have to many snack 😉
LYNNM- excellent news, well done on the weight lose….I could eat pizza everyday if had the choice but it’s good they have a variation in the recipes here…kept me happy there too.
RADISSON – your very good making your own burgers, how did it go? – I make burgers with my little girl too, I roll the meat and she loves squashing them down – much better than fast food burger for sure.
BEV, APENSA, DORYSSB, GINNERLOU, ANNALERAMOS and everyone else hope you are all dong well too. Right better get dinner prepared for tonight so have more time to play when wee one gets home…happy healthy eating all 🙂 |
 slimasharon 12 years ago | Hello everyone – I just want to echo stgefun’s comments – I started 1st Feb so only 3 weeks in and if you look back to my earlier posts you’ll see that I had same concerns and doubts as the newcomers. However I’m finally losing weight albeit slowly, more important have so much more enrgy now. I do pl;ay around with the menu and don’t have raw milk products but on the whole am going with it. I do have lapsed days – yesterday for instance I had to get to work early so gulped down some granola and a banana – no chance of T-break at work and had to rush off in afternoon to a meeting munching an unsavory cheese sandwich on the way. As buses wern’t running had to walk the length of Oxford street at rather fast pace while munching an unsavory cheese sandwich which gave me the stitch and later mild food poisoning! (I’m guessing it was the sandwhich). At 4.00 I got chance to sit down and grabbed a fruit scone and butter and cappuchino. Having quaffed that I then set out for 1hrs commute home but bumped into a friend I hadn’t seen for a while and as I was beginning to feel unwell decided to join her for a drink (I do find a neat whiskey helps with stomach disorders. So that was my diet for the day – dreadful! Never-mind, I feel confident I can have an off day now and again and get back on track next day.
Jackiee – how wonderful to be living in Italy – beautiful country. The paperwork saga sounds mad though.
keep going everyone
Sharon |
 CHIA 12 years ago | stgeofun, Jackiee, Bev: stgeofun I’ve been wanting to ask if your name is Kate. I see it in some of the posts, and am not sure. Jackiee – you are such a wonderful and responsible mother!!! ‘Wee one’ has been very blessed with you as her mother 🙂 Bev – I also have sleep apnea, but have not worn the mask for several months now. I have Rosacea on my face and the first mask caused heat and moisture and made the rosacea much worse. They gave me another style and it doesn’t work good because when I sleep on my side, it moves out of place. I have given up but know I should be using it. One of these days I’ll have to go back and see what other kind of mask they might have. It’s a big bother to have to keep trying different masks. I can start out sleeping on my back but always end up on my side or on my stomach with my face to the side 🙁 I truly hope you have better results. I am having trouble getting back on my diet since I’ve been off for 1 -1/2 weeks now. 🙁 We have a terrible snow storm coming in tomorrow. In our area it is to snow 5-7 inches. In other towns in Iowa, it will snow up to 12 inches. Travel will be treacherous, so I’ll be staying in and looking at it out the window 🙂 Gotta get to bed now. 11:00 P.M. here. EVERYONE — Have a blessed day tomorrow 🙂 |
 stgeofun 12 years ago | I just wanted to say to the newbies, I think we all were shocked at the amount of food we could eat on this program. But trust me, it really works! I’m sleeping really well now, because I think I was always hungry going to bed. My blood sugars are better than they every have been, and I really enjoy the menus on here. Yes it takes time to prepare meals, for me the weight is coming off very slowly, and it was a pain at first trying to find all the right foods, but luckily, my Natural Grocers carries most of what I need. I tried the raw milk and cheese. The cheese I like, the milk I don’t. So I’m using organic instead. I am in the US as well, and worried about the unpasturized aspect, so I’m more comfortable with the organic milk.
Now that I’m getting use to this way of doing things (I’ve been at it for 3 weeks), it has actually gotten much easier and I’m really enjoying it! So hang in there!
Thanks to everyone who has written to me. I appreciate your comments. It helps keep me motivated.
jackiee…I love Italy. I have been there three times. My son lived there for 2 years. I even studied the language for awhile. I think it has such a beautiful sound! I wrote a poem about Tuscany, I’ll have to share it sometime! lol Anyway, visiting is much different than living somewhere, so I understand your frustration. Keep smiling, and so glad your “wee” one is feeling better! |
 lovepaper 12 years ago | I am new to this club. I have read so much about food and what is good and not good. It gets so confusing. yesterday soy was good, now “they” say don’t eat soy. Whole wheat is good, but other sources say no wheat or grains of any kind are good (Palio Diet. I have read “Real Foods” but it takes so much time. I am a full time working mother of teenage boys. I need quick foods I can heat in a micro at work. (lots of leftovers) Also read that Gluten is not good for thyroid disease. Most of what I see here are “real foods”. I am going to try the sprouted flour bread. We have a store here called “Wegman’s Markets” big store and they have a great Organic/international section and Gluten free. I don’t eat gluten free pasta or breads, I have just not been eating pasta at all. But I found this great snacks, almost like a granola, but gluten free. great on yogurt. |
 Sunshine 12 years ago | Hello everyone finally I get a chance to chat. Oh my I am new just started this past week. I did my groceries of course I could not buy everything I wanted. These are super meals and from what I have read we can mix and match correct? Do I have to do the meals exactly as specified? Or can I mix an match. seems I just get the carrot soup done and I am on cooking something else. A ms amber emailed me amber I am doing fine. I just work too hard just done my day and its hard to get all these foods done. I will not give up nearing 60 and need to take care. I quit smoking 12 yrs ago ms norunyan and it was not hard for me but I too put on all this weight. I can’t get rid of it. and the food is so much better everything is good I dislike nothing! Katie good for you 22 lbs down that is wonderful. Jackie you hang in there with kids and school I remember those days!! I appreciate everyone’s help. |
 Jndaily 12 years ago | Thanks Kathie, I joined here just to have a starting point… not sure where I’m going to end up but facing the problem head on is always a good first step.
I know I’ve been overeating potato chips and corn chips just because they are gluten free but empty calories do add up and put on pounds. Also had a death that didn’t help my emotional balance. Life goes on eventually… |
 Kathie Gans 12 years ago | Hi Jndaily I can understand your plight. My daughter is gluten intolerant and has been eating gluten free for 4 years. She too was having the same problem with putting on weight. But se was eating things like gluten free home made mac and cheese and that was all fo rher dinner or lunch. Somewhere on this website there is a formula about what you should eat at every meal. Like Breakfast should be 2 starches, 2 dairy/ protein, 1-2 fat and 1 fruit. I can’t remember all the rest but it is on here somewhere. It helps to follow the menu better, or at least change around the foods and make meals you can handle. I basically use the website and meal planner as a guide. As for my daughter adding more protein, veggie and fruit to that Mac and cheese meal looks like it is working. She hasnt weighed herself yet, but her belt in now smaller. Good luck. |
| Jndaily 12 years ago | I subscribed yesterday and wrote in one of these forums but now can’t find the thread I was in… Is anyone else confused about how to get around in here?
also I have some real doubts about eating all this food and loosing weight. I have celiac disease so must eat gluten free and at first lost weight on “gluten free” but lately am putting pounds back on and just don’t seem to be able to get a grip. 10 days ago I started protein diet and have barely lost a couple of pounds so I’m getting frustrated and not confident this will help at all. |
| Kathie Gans 12 years ago | I guess I’m not really a newbie, I started this diet on November 14th, after realizing I had an appointment with my endocrinologist on December 14th and had not lost any weight since seeing him in September. I didn’t want to disappoint him or myself. So I went on the doctors website and the Trim Down Club popped up. I figured what the heck, and decided to give it a try. I live in the U.S. and raw cheese and milk are difficult to get and frankly I haven’t been convinced that I should eat them. However, all the other foods just make good common sense. It’s basically a diet of everything you were ever taught and or read is good for you. However, I once bought into the idea that margarine is better than butter – but then read an article and gave up margerine about 5 years ago. Two of my daughters are gluten intolerant so the whole glutenfree is not new to me.
In December, I visited my endocrinologist and I am happy to say I was down 9 pounds and my A1C was down .6 and my LDL was down too.
Today I can report that I am down 22 pounds. I don’t go back to see the doctor til April when I hope to be down at least 10 more pounds. I feel like I’ve hit a plateau and was wondering how any of you may have work your way around one. I feel great, better than I have in many years. Amd this might be TMI – but I have never had the bowel movements I have now. The S shape like Dr. Oz and Oprha once takled about. My daughter just recently started following many of the tips and she too feels much better and yesterday reported that her belt is two holes smaller. I am very greatful that I click on Trim Down Club and hope you all have great success. |
| LynnM 12 years ago | Thanks for the pep talk, Raddison, so true. My comfort food is pizza, and I’ve figured out how to have one based on the recipe we have been given….tastes great! I’m down 15 lb today, haven’t been this light for years, and mean to go another 5 lb at least. But it’s the revolution in eating that I am enjoying the most, haven’t eaten so well for years either! Great to hear the success stories, and hang in there everyone having doubts, if you really stick to the menu, it does work. I didn’t believe it at first either…..just takes longer for some I guess. |
 Norunyan 12 years ago | Good Morning Everyone,Well today I start over.It is a ongoing thing as I do this over and over.I need a attitude adjustment. The sun is shining and daffodils are blooming.Istarted the day with cereal and milk.+ a few nuts,It is the remainder of the day that I get into trouble .If I stay busy I will eat to little.If I loaf around I will want to snack.This is my pattern and I need to change.Have never talked about this to anyone,just need to remind myself that it took me many tries to quit smoking and that was 25 years ago.Cannot quit eating.Sooo I have switched to whole wheat bread. That is good and I can stick with it.One day at a time.
Jackiee,Sorry you have so much paperwork to deal with.Will you be able to get it today?It is aggravating to find out to late .Hope you and Angelina had a fun day.
Bev,How is the sleeping going? I am curious about what causes Uric acid buildup?A kidney problem ?
Cannot remember everyone ‘s. name but hope all do well today. |
 Radisson 12 years ago | Hi everyone! Speaking of menu tweak guess what I am having for dinner: 1 serving of fast food vegetable salad; 1 fast food hamburger+bun/bap and 1 ounce of brick cheese (Full fat). It’s all legal, all you have to do is to choose these items from your menu. Of course I will not reach my goal as quickly, however, soul food will help to hang on. Also, tonight I will prepare everything myself: the hamburgers with lean meat, on SWG buns on our gas BBQ. So I will try to remove the fat as much as possible and the cheese will be reduced fat mozzarella. All the trimmings are made with fresh vegetables (onions, lettuce, tomatoes) and I will also une a tablespoon of Heinz Organic Ketchup, little sea salt and Pepper, no fries. So my word of wisdom here is don’t make your menu too hard on yourself. I am 62 years old and I have like many of you been fighting forever to maintain a healthy weight. So be gentle on yourrself, add all the healthy stuff in your lifestyle, however, don’t forget soul food once in while, like burgers and steaks, otherwise you will end up starting over again and again. Been there, done that, bought the T-Shirt and threw it away. However, this time its for the long haul. Take it slowly one day at a time, learn to eat proper foods but remember your soul and adopt it for life. |
| jackiee 12 years ago | Good morning all, or evening or afternoon (and sweet dreams if your in the land of nod)
Sharon and Katie, sounds like you really have got to grips with the menu planner now, it makes it so much easier. Well done to your son for losing so much weight Kate especially if its helping motive more in the family to do the same. Lol Sharon I used to love London weather, especially having a Sunday breakfast some little cafe garden, Scotland got so much more rainy days alas now I’m in Italy, the wheels have turned and I now run for cover from the sun and walk in the shade, ha ha the weather never stays perfect!!! apart from in spring 😉
Bev, hows your sleep pattern? how are you managing to sleep on your back…..I do hope this helps you. And good luck at adjusting your diet to help with the uric acid problem. Has any work started on the awning yet? I do miss a garden, I know we have the land but that’s a 10 min drive, not the same as just stepping out the door, but I suppose the balconies are easier to manage.
Thanks Radisson and everyone for the encouragement, it really does help. Hope your still managing the treadmill Apensa.
Good luck on getting started again Nancy…..I admire your determination. So glad your trying again.
Well, I found out yesterday that I need certificate from Angelina’s Dr to verify she’s fit enough to go back to Nursery… but the Dr doesn’t need to see the child!!!! emmm so whats the point them? oh I found out after the Dr finished work yesterday at 12 noon, and she doesn’t start till 3.30 today, so I can’t put Angelina in nursery because I wont have time to get the form and get it to her nursery before it closes at 4!!!! Italy never fails to surprise me with it endless use of useless pieces of paper that aren’t actually needed. The mum I spoke to said she didn’t wait till her child was finished her antibiotics, she sent her back to nursery after 2 days so she didn’t need to get the certificate!!!…..oh my….I say….shaking my head…is it better to rush your kid back to school while still suffering flu and pass it to others than keep them home…just to save yourself getting a certificate….honestly…I could go on forever with stuff that just doesn’t make sense here but I know now it wouldn’t change a thing….SORRY RANT OVER….can you tell I’m not happy….I had a long walk planned too, ah well…plan change….play park it is then…swings and roundabouts!!!! at least I can fit on the slide now….last year I actually got a bit stuck going down….at least it made me and my wee one laugh….right I’m away to sort out our snack picnic and get going with little Miss madam energy…good luck for a good healthy eating day all…. |
