Welcome to the comment page! Feel free to ask questions, or reply here. This page is exclusively for current winter 2018 challenge members. Looking forward to a great 6 weeks with you all!
Welcome to the comment page! Feel free to ask questions, or reply here. This page is exclusively for current winter 2018 challenge members. Looking forward to a great 6 weeks with you all!
Happy Weekend everyone. Remember to PREP. It’s the key to your success! Bring on the questions.
Hi Caren and Lori,
My progress tracker still has my info from the Fall challenge and I cannot seem to reset it. Could you please tell me how or reset it for me before tomorrow. Thanks so much. Looking forward to the next 6 weeks.
Christine
Christine,
Yes! Let me look at this in a few and ill figure it out for you!!!
MENU TIP!!
Breaking down each meal should be very simple.
In week 1, we want you to have a healthy fat and a protein in each snack or meal. As you read through you menus, you will notice there is a healthy fat and protein in each meal.
For example: your turkey rolls and sliced avocado.
Side note, adding a half of an avocado to any meal or snack is a great go to (up to 1 avocado a day).
Amazing how much more motivation and will power I have in January than in December. The soup is definitely filling and key throughout the week.
I forgot to ask about air popped popcorn. When is that allowed as a snack?
I have to say, the tuna salad is so delicious. I use this recipe as a staple in my house since the last time I did your program. I really enjoyed it today with red peppers and tomatoes. Yum! So filling!
I was unable to listen in to the call last night. When will I be able to listen to the recording?
Patricia, it was posted immediately after the call, under your week 1 info. Every week that is what will happen in each weeks block. Happy listening! 🙂
THERE IS NEW CONTENT!! Your WEIGHT LOSS TRACKER TUTORIAL is under your week 1 information. I hope this helps everyone navigate a bit better with adding weights and measurements.
The Air Popped Pop Corn question, not until week THREE
Oooops
MORE WEIGHT TRACKER INFO:
You need to enter a weight when you enter your measurements. If you are trying to enter your measurements and have already entered your weight, just enter that weight again…it will not effect anything
When you click on the + button next to the date of your entry it will open up your measurement entries. So its all there for you.
Quick tip: You can take the turkey pesto meatballs and make it more like a ground beef. Leave out the egg and almond flour, add a little oil to pan and mushroom, onion, garlic (whatever you like) with 1-2 teaspoons of pesto and break up and mix in pan and cook. Serve in a half of a roasted pepper or over a cauliflower rice. That was my dinner…left over cauliflower rice and the turkey meat. Kinda simple, actually beyond simple. Needed a spoon to eat it!!
when will week 2 menus and shopping list be posted? I shop on Saturdays.
They are up and ready. This week we added in some more recipes with beans. Please take it slow and eat them in moderation. We are trying to get you into ketosis (fat burning system) and as I posted in the comments in week two some people get into it in one week and for some it may takes weeks. After you eat one of the meals with beans please note how you feel. REMEMBER logging is a great tool.
For days I my head has been screaming… the worst. And NO energy… Today I woke up feeling like myself again. It was great. I hit the gym, I do not have a headache, and I lost 4 pounds.
I realize I eat a lot of fruit and not enough veggies.. so sticking to only veggies without fruit has been very challenging. But I am glad that I am doing this and realized this.
And when do we add back fruit? 🙂
It’s nice to see so many people who seem to take to this challenge pretty easily. It inspires me, but are there any of you out there that find this more than a little difficult? I’m not sure I can do week 2 without an apple or a tsp of honey in my tea. An apple and almonds was my favorite snack on the challenge last year. I am STARVING and I’m eating way too much fat. Even though it’s good fat my doctor said I should stick to eating 30g or under of fat a day, good, bad or otherwise. I just ignore the hunger pains especially at night and drink water and hope for the best. Will it kill my momentum to have an apple next week once or twice if I am struggling? I notice it is definitely different and much more strict than the challenge last year. I don’t mean to sound like such a downer, but I keep trying and failing. I lose 15 lbs on the challenge and I gain it all back in 6 months then I do it all over again like this time. I think its my age, but I never gained weight like this my whole life and had so much trouble keeping it off. Are any others really struggling? It would be nice to know I have a little company. Any tips are appreciated. 🙂
Thank you for adding some vegetarian main meals to recipes this week. As a vegetarian I was having a hard time last week with just eating eggs and tempeh . So I finally asked Lori if I could eat some beans for protein.
Carolyn, as we mentioned on the intro call this is not only about food it’s about behavioral change as well. We all want to eat the things we love all the time but we ask that for two weeks you give this a shot. We’ve evolved this program overtime bc we see what works and sticks. There is a science behind it. We are trying to rid all the sugar and proceeded foods to restart your system and bring you into Ketosis. Once you are in it, you will slip out naturally with a cheat or complex carb or a fruit but by your next meal that is protein and good fat based you should fall back into ketosis. This is the place that we use our body fat as our source of fuel, making our bodies work as a system and machine. Sometime we need to give up things for a bit to get the results we want. Although an apple with some nut butter is great we wanted to wait until week three. If you truly can’t make it have 1/2 the apple (green is best). We mentioned last week on Facebook that you can have your first cup of tea or coffee the way you enjoy it and then from there move on. We gave you options to try new ways but if it didn’t work for you enjoy it the way you prefer. Positive self talk always helps. Mantras, like if I don’t give in and cheat on that then tomorrow feels so much better….. Every time you don’t slip or give in makes the next time easier and before you know you find yourself wanting new and different things and making better choices. We will all slip and cheat, maybe sometimes for a length of time but what we are teaching you here is real life, real tools. Positive behavior, it’s only food and if you eat the apple you don’t get punished 😉 Just think about what it is you want out of this and keep saying it to yourself.
Missed the call tonight… will you be posting it?
I read that when you are in ketosis you could have bad breath. My mouth was definitely not minty fresh today. I brushed 3-4 times and resorted to a couple tic tacs to spare the guy in a Staples from the horror. Normal? Anyone else experience anything like this?
It is normal, mints and gum
Just have a few questions:
1. Can I have Dr. Praeger burgers this week?
2. Would lentil soup be good foe this week?
3. Lori, can I drink your version of the apple cider vinegar tea in the morning with nothing on my stomach? Or should i stick with just hot lemon water? Does it work better before or after eating?
4. Does green tea count as water?
I love the challenge this time around. The Facebook page and blog are VERY helpful this time. I am finding out answers to questions I thought were too silly to ask. I feel so much better doing the challenge now.
Yes to burger
lentil soup is fine but only twice. It’s high in carbs
You can have to the tea instead of the water on an empty stomach. They say to have the apple cider before a meal for best results but it seems to burn my stomach so I take it after my meal.
Green tea counts as water.
We are so happy you are enjoy this challenge. We are as well.
Thank you.
REMINDER: Tomorrow is your first Friday weigh in, make it count!!!
Hello All, We are trying something new tonight instead of our call. We have found that week four many people drop off from the call and miss important information. I will be posting questions here to open up dialogue here. If I haven’t put a question up that you have please post it so we can make sure everyone is clear about how to continue losing and incorporating this new lifestyle into your own.
Most of you have added in some fruit and complex carbs last week. PLEASE note when you do you take yourself out of Ketosis. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing but it can take a few days to get back into it. If you found you didn’t lose this week like you have the past few weeks you have few choices. #1 Keep going like you are and lose it a little slower if you feel satisfied you can stay there #2 Take all fruit and carbs out again for 3-4 days and only add them back in at the end of the week. #3 Take out all fruit and complex carbs again for a few weeks to get fully back into ketosis. Remember once you’ve reach your goal weight things loosen up a bit and you have more wiggle room. The longer you live life like this the easier it is for you to maintain and manage weight.
Have any of you noticed having more energy since adding in fruit and carbs?
Any stomach issues?
Understand how to keep them in moderation?
Anyone checking their Ketosis strips and noticing that at a certain level of carbs you slip out of ketosis?
Working out in the am on an empty stomach? Sticking to this to using real fat as fuel? Do you feel tired during your workouts or have more energy? If you feel tired please stick with it, it will switch over if you give it a chance.
Please ask any questions you have here so we make sure everyone is fully grasping this program.
Week 3 went well. I was tired for a couple days but so don’t think it was diet related. I had some wine this weekend but made sure to eat clean around it. I definitely feel like it’s taken me a good 48 hours to feel good again but I didn’t really give myself an option of not getting right back to it. Week 4 is off to a good start but so definitely need to do some prep work tonight. One change I’ve made is to make sure I don’t eat anything for at least a couple hours before working out.
I think I had more energy after week 2 but as soon as I started to add fruits/carbs I found myself craving more and cheating more. so for Week 4, I went back to taking them out. I am thinking I need to work on the moderation part again in the future. I am using the strips and confirmed when I was in ketosis but then feel out and haven’t been able to get back in yet so that is my goal this week.
I am enjoying having some fruit and ezekiel bread. The strawberries i had on Sunday were so incredibly sweet! It was amazing! I feel like i can control it right now.
Danielle, awesome goals!!!