Monica's R4P2 Day 33 - Nakia's R3P3 Day 16

Monica - R4P2 Day 33
R4 Starting weight: 170.6
Yesterday: 155.9
Today: 153.9 -2.0
R4 Total -16.7 9.8%

Nakia - R3P3 Day 16
LIW 3/17/2009: 225.9 8.7%
Yesterday: 215.8
Today: 218.4 +2.6
7.5 Below LIW

Yesterday's menu (Monica):
Modified Egg day
L: 1 egg & 2 egg whites scrambled with minced onions and tabasco
S: 1 egg & 2 egg whites scrambled with Mrs Dash, tabasco & salsa
D: 2 eggs & 2 egg whites scrambled with Mrs Dash, tabasco & salsa
S: 2 chocolate almond meringues
Lots of tea with truvia & water

Yesterday's menu (Nakia)
Fitday menu
water & 4C Totally Lite 2 Go

Ok... now that's what I'm talkin about! Back to the grind people... Today I'm working it out on P2, but I guess I will be kinda eating raw today because I have all this ceviche in my fridge to finish. I love that stuff so I can't wait till lunch :) It'll taste a little different without the avocado, but I'll put some fresh herbs and salsa on it though. Yesterday was a modified egg day so I had mostly egg whites with a few yolks. I couldn't get through all of them though and I ended up with about 420 calories worth of eggs.

Food food food... it's such a big part of our lives while we're on this protocol. I had a discussion with Nakia yesterday about how we are REALLY going to maintain when we get to goal... hmph, I'm saying "when" now instead of "if". We've learned alot while on this journey together & we're both so close to our goals that we really need to start thinking about a plan of maintenance. How are we going to maintain this weight for the rest of our lives? P3 isn't scary anymore but that sure is! Well, this is what we came up with. Neither one of us is willing to give up biscuits & gravy or full fat ice cream for the rest of our lives so we made some rules:

Our lifetime maintenance rules

1. Exercise 5 days a week. (we were doing this already)
2. Portion out snack food before eating them.
   
3. Have beef twice a week at the most, not including our "anything day" (below)
4. Have fish at least twice a week.
5. Have a vegetarian meal at least twice a week.
6. If all of the previous rules have been kept, we get 1 "anything day" where we can eat whatever we want. For example... football Sundays & I just found out that the Giants are gonna be playing thanksgiving day... WOOO HOOO!!!
   
7. If the "anything day" causes a gain, the next day will be a correction day.
   

That's the beginning. We may think of some more "rules" later, but we thought that was a good start.

Biz - Yeah I am... I feel different biz. I have this feeling that my life is about to change in a big way & it must be because I'm so close to my goal. Food, including meat was in abundance at our house, but my mom did make us play outside a lot and participate in a lot of sports, therefore we weren't overweight growing up. I think she was so generous with food for us because her mom had to make food stretch the way you described and she didn't want us to feel deprived like she did growing up.
I just looked at that link. That is fascinating. I was curious to see what an obesity map might look like up against those maps and I found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_of_Male_Obesity,_2008.svg

Amie - HEY! Thanks A! I think we should both use this correction day as a fresh start. Treat the rest of this P2 with the same excitement as when we started the round & we'll both be ok.