JUDDDD / Alternate Day Diet April 2009

[Ilpirata]

Kisha! I came a lookin' for you, girl!
I wanted to see how U R doin' and I see SUCCESS!!!!!!
I am SUPER PROUD of you and SUPER HAPPY for you!!!

Hiya everyone else!!

XO,
HB

O HI DOLL!!! Yeah Me and Gina (GME) both from the old BMR thread are having success on this WOE.

[hummingbird11]

Originally Posted by Ilpirata

O HI DOLL!!! Yeah Me and Gina (GME) both from the old BMR thread are having success on this WOE.

that is just FANTASTIC!! I'm so happy y'all figured out a stall-busting WOE!!

ya got your thyroid under control w/ da meds and gosh darn it you're disappearing on us!! U R gettin' SKINNY girl and I bet U R lovin' it!!

R we finally gonna do that South Bay LCF Dinner this Summer or what ??

[Ilpirata]

R we finally gonna do that South Bay LCF Dinner this Summer or what ??

OMG right?!? If I can make it I'll for sure be there... on a Tuesday Wednesday or Saturday... those are my Up Days LOL.

[hummingbird11]

Originally Posted by Ilpirata

OMG right?!? If I can make it I'll for sure be there... on a Tuesday Wednesday or Saturday... those are my Up Days LOL.

well we won't do it without YOU (& Gina) --
so we'll def pick a day that works for y'all!
let's target a Saturday in June ~ K?

[Maryposa]

Originally Posted by hummingbird11

well we won't do it without YOU (& Gina) --
so we'll def pick a day that works for y'all!
let's target a Saturday in June ~ K?

I am on the Central Coast of CA, too.

[Ilpirata]

well we won't do it without YOU (& Gina) --
so we'll def pick a day that works for y'all!
let's target a Saturday in June ~ K?

I LOVE IT!!! And Maryposa ^^
Is in Santa Cruz too!

[hummingbird11]

Originally Posted by Ilpirata

I LOVE IT!!! And Maryposa ^^
Is in Santa Cruz too!

Awesome Blossom! Y'all pick a Saturday in June (any 'cept 6/27) and I'll connect w/ Fawn et al. It will be something to look forward to ... and WORK TOWARD!

it is sooooo GOOD to re-connect with ya, Kisha!

[hummingbird11]

Originally Posted by Maryposa

I am on the Central Coast of CA, too.

oh cool.
where on Central Coast?
I love Pismo Beach!
(I'm in Martinez)

maybe we can get Char to join us, too!!

[snaggle]

Leo--- that is so interesting about having a really big day now and then. I know you low carb like me too, on those really high days did you eat carbs? What kind of food were you eating?

[JunkInMyTrunk]

Finished my first down day and kept it under 500 calories!

I did not find it too hard to do. I did like the sense of control and remembering that "I can have it tomorrow" really made it quite easy.

I found that this morning I was not even hungry and I felt very energetic. I thought that the world was mine and I could have anything I wanted to eat and thus I didn't feel the need to eat as much.

I've weighed and measured everything today and I'm having a hard time getting to 1600 calories. I will need to eat more calorie dense foods on UDs and plan a little more, but this is fantastic. Now if I can register a loss eating this way I will probably be the happiest girl in town.

Thank you everyone for all the support. My book should be on the way today.

[JunkInMyTrunk]

Originally Posted by dointhis4me

I've started using just vinegar on my salads on my DD...not nearly as tasty as full fat ranch but a whole lot less calories

I'm going to try the vinegar. Yeah, full fat ranch is my favorite too. I found some lite ranch that was about 60 calories for 2 tbsp last night at the store.
I'm not used to looking at calories so much, only carbs so once again it takes me a lot longer to make it through the grocery store.

[JunkInMyTrunk]

Love the idea of the cabbage with V8 and splenda. It sounds really good.

I am really using my food scale with this diet. It's getting a good workout. I have really overestimated the calories in veggies and underestimated calories in meat.

[hummingbird11]

have y'all tried any of the Newman's Own LIGHT dressings? they are dee-lish!
my favorites are Light Italian & Light Balsamic --'cause ya can't tell they're "light"!

also dee-lish & healthy is:

1 Tbsp Olive Oil + 1 Tbsp ACV
or
1 Tbsp Olive Oil + 1 Tbsp Lemon Juice

[jgw]

HB I must try both the Olive oil and ACV. Thanks!

[JunkInMyTrunk]

Originally Posted by Redeemed

1/2 cup of fat free cottage cheese
1/2 cup of low fat butermilk
Hidden Valley Salad Seasoning (amount to taste)

Put all in a blender and blend about 30 seconds.

.......

Also Miracle Whip is only 35 calories a serving vs. 90 calories for real mayo.

I noticed that my Hellmans Lite only has 35 calories per tbsp. I'm thinking of mixing that with some Hidden Valley Salad dressing in the packet and water to see how that would taste.

I do have the low fat cottage cheese, but no buttermilk. I picked some of the low fat buttermilk up in the grocery store the other day to look at the calorie count and then put it down.

I can barely fit another thing in my refrigerator with all of the low carb plus low calorie food in there.

[Redeemed]

I hope you had a nice day.



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[hummingbird11]

Originally Posted by jgw

HB I must try both the Olive oil and ACV. Thanks!

welks! it's good AND good for you!
LOTS of health benefits in ACV and OO.
and all that taste for only about 100 cals.
ENJOY!

[JunkInMyTrunk]

Originally Posted by pushing 40

Try the spray kind, very minimal calories. Good Luck.

I don't know if someone already answered your other questions but Dr. Johnson says the DD calories are much more important than the UD calories and the lower the better. That being said eat enough - up to 500 calories the first week so that the diet is doable for you. I believe that if you eat no more than 500 cal on DD for the first 2 weeks the SIRT1 gene will be activated regardless of the calculator number. And don't cheat yourself on the UD's, it is important that your body get enough calories on UD to balance out the DD's, so that it does not think it is starving and hoard everything you eat. Eat until your satisfied. Me - I overeat every UD, I try not to but I do

Thanks for the information. I think I'll do 500 calories on DDs for the first week. I won't try and push it lower this week- maybe next week after I feel like I have the hang of it better.

[JunkInMyTrunk]

Originally Posted by Ilpirata

I buy a garlic parmesan at trader joe's its low fat and like 35 cals for 2 TBS. I mix it with alot of balsamic to make it go further.

You can also google for recipes. Look for home made salad dressing low cal homemade salad dressing or something like that. You can do water, balsamic, mustard and herbs and come up with something edible I'm sure.

I was just at Trader Joe's this weekend hunting up those fat free hot dogs, Almond Breeze and sprouted bread. Maybe next time...........

35 calories for 2 tbsp is a steal and adding the balsamic would really lower it. You guys are just a welth of information

[Cherry Blossom]

Originally Posted by Redeemed

I hope you had a nice day.



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Oh, that's sweet. She did have a great day and was so fun to watch and take pitures of. Thank you.

[Redeemed]

Originally Posted by nwcrafty

Well I made it through my first DD yesterday with 496 calories. I would have never believed I could eat so little and feel okay. I saved most of my calories for dinner and that seemed to work out ok.

I did struggled just a little bit when I ended up getting home 2 hrs later than usual for dinner. I was so hungry and my first thought after getting into my car was "hey, let's drive by DQ and get an ice cream cone." That voice was really loud! But I was good and drove straight home and immediately fixed my spinach salad with a small amount of chicken and strawberries. I did save 100 calories for evening and had a choc protein shake which took care of my sweet craving.

I'm down 4 lbs this morning like Trishagrrl. I know it's water weight as I was running to the bathroom all day & night but I'll take it.

Congratultions on passing up that ice cream cone! Wow, 4 pounds~way to go!

[Cherry Blossom]

Hopefully no one takes this wrong, but I would go crazy trying to have low carb foods and low fat foods in my fridge. It seems like that would mess with my mind too much.

I need to stay on one track so I do not get frustrated. Because I have been LCing and counting calories for quite awhile, I pretty much have the numbers down for LC meals. If on down days I started throwing low fat options in to get the calories down, I'd go crazy (and be too hungry).

I prefer to eat a little higher fat and less food. I don't like being hungry and the fat really holds me through the day and night.

I had my first meal at 12:00 noon. It was 2 Cups of Cabbage with 2 strips of bacon and 1T oil. For dinner I had 2 Cups of blackberries and cherries with 2T of cream. I feel full and happy. I'm just always tired by 8pm on my DDs and want to go to bed.

Maybe I'm just simple minded, but I enjoy eating very simple, full fat meals. Every time I try to cut out the fat, butter, cream, etc...I miss it too much.

[pushing 40]

Originally Posted by hummingbird11

Kisha! I came a lookin' for you, girl!
I wanted to see how U R doin' and I see SUCCESS!!!!!!
I am SUPER PROUD of you and SUPER HAPPY for you!!!

Hiya everyone else!!

XO,
HB

Hello HB, Welcome back. What a beautiful picture of you and your boys are handsome.

[Jen415]

All y'all are so great! Thanks for your concern....

Redeemed (great name!), I will research that diet...

[snaggle]

Cherry Blossom, I am with you. I always make homemade dressings and have gotten so used to full fat that it is really hard for me to try and make stuff low cal for my down days. I have resorted to using Hellmans lite mayo in making some of my dressings and it is okay. Tonight I made another one of my chopped salads that came in at 430 calories including this dressing:
1 tb lite mayo, 1 tb evoo (yowza 120 cals right there), lemon juice, dijon, red wine vinegar, a dab of anchovy paste and some buttermilk. I really like adding buttermilk to my dressings, it makes them tangy and creamy and is pretty low cal. I even added a little water to it. A friend told me to buy a bernstein chardonnay vinaigrette the other day. Said she liked it?, but when I looked at the ingredients at the store, I could not justify spending $4.59 for the bottle when the first ingredient was WATER!

[onexone]

Hi everyone

I was at 583 calories for my first down day yesterday. Today's up day was good. And i didn't go crazy either. I actually just ate normally, maybe a little more but pretty good and tomorrow is DD#2. I am a little concerned about it but we'll just see how it goes. I did find that when I got up I wasn't hunting for piles of food. I found myself standing in the kitchen wondering what to eat too. I've read that on here recently from others and it happened to me too. Interesting.

I also weighed in at 261 this morning. I started the Crack the Fat Loss Code foodplan last Monday and stayed with that until I found you guys on the weekend when I switched over to JUDDD. CTFLC doesn't let me have any fruit for 5 or 6 weeks (can't remember) and I just can't do that. So I've had a good weightloss start back and hoping this turns out to be good for me.

Thanks for reading.

[PivaZena]

Hi ladies,

I posted a week ago or so. Today was my first day and it mostly worked. I think I had about 700 calories. It's hard to divide up into "breakfast, lunch and dinner" because I tried to eat throughout the day so I wouldn't get too hungry. Here goes:

Coffee with splenda
Salad (just salad no toppings) with 2 tbsp dressing, 85 cals
Spinach dip, 1 tbsp, 70 cals
Acai fruit juice super-concentrate, 120 cals
2 spelt crackers with 2 tbsp salsa, 70 + 10 = 80 cals
Salad (dinner) with 2 tbsp dressing, 85 cals
Fish filet w/ pepper and lemon juice ~200 cals

Total: 730. Maybe next time I'll cut out the super-concentrated acai juice?

[hummingbird11]

I think this is a very wise perspective.

Originally Posted by Cherry Blossom

I prefer to eat a little higher fat and less food. I don't like being hungry and the fat really holds me through the day and night.

[hummingbird11]

Originally Posted by pushing 40

Hello HB, Welcome back. What a beautiful picture of you and your boys are handsome.

thanks Push! WOW! look at YOU! YOU are Gorgeous! LOVE your new Avi!

[Leo41]

Snaggle

On those high calorie days, I really didn't have a "carb fest," but probably more carbs than usual. On the first one, I just had more of the usual food that I eat--double veggies, more protein, etc. On the second one, I was on vacation, and ate more carbs--e.g., Eggs Benedict--and I ate the English muffin; a couple of teaspoons of dessert, etc. But I really never went overboard on carbs. It was mainly more food in general.

By the way, before JUDDD, when I was just doing low carb, about once every 4-6 weeks I would deliberately have a high carb meal (just one) because I read that it helps keep your body from getting too used to the same foods. When I did that, it was mainly beans, brown rice, or whole wheat pasta as the basis for the meal. I still avoided sugar. I don't remember getting any significant loss from that compared to what I've experienced with the high calorie day on JUDDD. But I also want to limit these high calorie days to every 4-6 weeks because they could too easily become the norm for me:-)