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@Sams Mom: idk if you’re open to diet sodas, but there’s this diet soda called Dr. Pepper 10 that only has ten calories per can and I absolutely love it! To me it tastes very close to regular Dr Pepper.

I am on day 6 of intermittent fasting and I really love it! It was much easier for my body to adjust to than I thought it would be, plus it makes it so much more likely for me to drink enough water. It’s the motivation I need to drop my calories to 1200! I’ve been doing pretty well on 1300 for the last two weeks, so I’m feeling great about lowering 100. I also have the caveat that I eat a cheat meal about once a week. So my calories always average out to being a very slow weight loss, which I’m fine with! I’m finding this eating very sustainable and I’m feeling so great about meeting my goals (at this pace I’ll be hitting my ultimate goal weight by my birthday next year!) (like a 20lb loss over 10ish months - I’m going slow because I’m lazy and short, lol!).

I crazy overate on Saturday (I had like six slices of pizza! And two brownies!). When I totaled my calories I was at double what my diet calories are. So this week’s a wash for me! But Sunday I did amazing. I went for a run and did some uphill sprints (which I love!).

We hung around the house until 1ish and then my husband took the kids to his mom’s and I just stayed home and went shopping. I made myself a giant plate of stir fry with noodles and veg and fermented black bean paste (which I love but it gives my husband bad heartburn so I don’t eat it too much). Then I ate like 3/4 of a pint of Halo Top ice cream.

I did pretty well this weekend, even though the scale is technically up. We had our 2 year old's birthday party and Mother's Day, so we essentially entertained from Friday night through Sunday morning. I just ate at different times from everyone (which isn't hard to do when you're entertaining and have 2 toddlers to wrangle). I'd either eat before or after everyone and just eat my own food.

We had a big salad bar on Friday night, so that made things easy. Then on Saturday morning, I made everyone pancakes, eggs, and sausage and ate some low-carb pancakes I had stashed in the freezer for my own breakfast. I just ate a pile of leftover steak and sausage for lunch and ordered Chinese takeout for DS' party. I made some stirfry of my own and ate a wedge of low carb cake I made myself a few days prior and had stashed in the fridge.

Sunday I ate lowcarb lemon poundcake for my Mother's Day brunch, made a spinach and steak scramble for myself later for brunch, and then had a protein bar for dinner while furiously running around doing errands late last night.

I've been eating "intuitively" as an experiment the last 2 weeks. I'm pretty proud in that I haven't gained weight per se, outside the normal fluctuations, and I seem to be eating the right things and generally the right amounts. But I don't think I'm going to be able to LOSE weight this way, so I'm going to return to tracking 4 days a week with intermittent fasting and then eat intuitively Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

May I join? I am not looking to lose 5-10 lbs since I am pregnant, but I am hoping to not gain 5-10 lbs this month. I have gained WAY too much weight and am hoping to slow it down by eating less fast food and not allowing my husband to buy Ben and Jerry's ice cream. Basically, eat a lot cleaner.
Today's meal plans--
breakfast-- turkey sausage egg bake
snack-- banana
lunch-- kale salad with pork tenderloin and grapes
snack--almonds, cheese, and carrots
dinner-- shrimp and chicken sausage foil packets
dessert-- couple squares of dark chocolate

I WAS SO BAD THIS WEEKEND... Yikes. I basically ate a full pizza. twice. BUT, on the plus side, I did about 13,500 steps on Saturday and 11,000 yesterday, so here's hoping that counter-balanced at least one pizza. ha.

But it was a fantastic weekend, so there's that.... happy mothers day to all of you!

@hellobeeboston: lol - good idea on the bad eggs for that cake! haha maybe that will keep her away Holiday weekends are HARD to eat well!! At least you had a ton of steps to hopefully offset some of the pizza?

I didn't do too horrible, except didn't really eat dinner on Saturday night. DD had her dance recital, so we fed the kids dinner before we went, but we didn't have time to eat. So, after we got them to bed, I had multigrain chips w cheese and salsa and then an ice cream sandwich (all at like 8pm)! But, I did decent yesterday with the food. I didn't work out all weekend, though, which I had wanted to. I'll try to get back into that tonight.

I was able to prep 4 lunches for this week: a quinoa/butternut squash salad, a healthy chicken salad sandwich mix and plantains fried in coconut oil. I find that prepping at least a few meals helps me stay away from eating out. I also brought a cup of cottage cheese, a banana, and an apple.

@Ajsmommy: I find that managing your diet for the day balances out not walking or working out. I had some kid sized gummies and an ice cream bar last night but i just got back from an intense conditioning work out. I'll manage my snacking a little better today and drink lots of water. How's the dew diet going?

Today I hit the 30 day mark before my big event so it's game time! I'm going to try no sugar, no fries, no red meat, and no soda until the event. Fingers crossed I can do it.

@NorthStar: Are they healthy?! I usually bake mine so if it's healthy, I am going to have to try that. Thanks girl

@NorthStar: Sounds great! Thanks again

@Ajsmommy: Thank you!

@newlypregnantlady: I love sweet potatoes that way too! They are SOO delicious.

@Mrs D: Its just like a thicker almond/coconut milk that's unsweetened, but they do have like vanilla or hazelnut flavors or whatever. I don't buy them unless they are on sale. Honestly, I think the unsweetened almond cashew milk from Silk works just as well - its very thick and creamy - and you get a whole half gallon! I get that people sweat NutPods because its Whole30 compliant, but if you're not Whole30, I don't really see why its so important!

@Ajsmommy: Awesome! Congrats! I can never eat healthy on work travel, but if its just a day hopefully it won't be too bad

With my new scale, my weight has stayed lower than it had been on my old scale and going down little by little over the week which nice. I'm going out of town to a wedding this weekend and I know it's going to be bad. Mostly because myself and most of my friends cannot stand the guy our friend is marrying so there will probably be a lot of alcohol consumed to get through the weekend...

Woohoo! Down 3 lbs since a week ago (2 of which occurred with the scale switch) I crushed it yesterday- did a workout dvd, yoga, 15k steps, and ate healthy so I’m feeling great. Now I just need to carry that into this weekend

@gestalt: awesome! I love how working out always seems to make you want to keep working out, it’s awesome.

@JennyPenny: yay! That’s awesome!

I’m up +1lb today, which is a typical fluctuation for me. I’ve been looking around for an affordable shirtsleeve rash guard with a zipper (so I can nurse) and I’m having a hell of a time finding one! The best option I’ve found so far is a long sleeved one off amazon, which I’ll take because zero stores around me seem to carry rash guards! I went to an outlet mall and a regular mall and I found a single $80 rash guard. I’ll have to see if I can find an REI or something around me.

My plan for today is to keep up the intermittent fasting (I call it that but for me it’s really just “skip breakfast and eat an early dinner”).

And I think I’ll make rice bowls for dinner! Yum.

How did everyone do over the weekend?

We were out of town for a friend's wedding and I ate and drank way too much, but I'm happy to see that I was only up half a lb when I got back. But now it's crunch time. The wedding in Turks and Caicos is 4 weeks away!

@Ajsmommy: I do this too sometimes! I’ve been known to go up like 8lb in water weight from eating Hawaiian BBQ. I love it but so salty!