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Monday I started the Eat to Live plan. It is a vegan diet that can be modified to include small amounts of fish and eggs. I have decided to go completely vegan for the next 6 weeks as he suggests. Monday for breakfast I had about 2 cups of mixed berries and 1/2 and ounce of walnuts. Lunch was  hummus in a whole wheat tortilla with a big salad full of different veggies. Dinner was a mushroom/black bean recipe he has with another big salad. I ate a little more fruit before bed.

He suggests fruit, half cooked veggies and half raw, beans, a cup of grain or starchy veggie and an ounce of nuts a day.

I liked that most of the recipes are pretty easy to make. I have had good energy and my stomach has felt great.  I always get stomach problems when I eat junk.

I took my measurements and weight on the first day and will measure again in 6 weeks.

Is anyone vegetarian or vegan? I’d love some recipes or ideas!

I have been doing badly for many months now. My foot pain caused me to stop working out and then I had lost all motivation to eat well also. I have gained almost all the weight I lost. I need nutrition instead of eating crap. I feel tired and stressed all the time.

 I considered doing the low carb thing for a day but I have always felt it’s just not the right diet for me. I found Dr. Fuhrman’s Eat to Live plan. It sounds like better nutrition and makes more sense to me. I wonder if anyone else on here has tried it. I know it will be hard as it is a pretty strict diet. I know I can do it though. I’m even going to go to the gym this weekend and do some exercises that won’t be too hard on my foot. Weight lifting, cycling, or water aerobics. I see the doctor in the morning to see if I’m going to need foot surgery.

Anyone try the Eat to live plan?

I’m 5 days in and am really proud of myself for eating well so far. My foot is the main issue that is keeping me down.

I posted in the past that it was hurt, it seems that I have bursitis in the bursa under my Achilles tendon.  I got an injection in it three weeks ago and it felt some improvement for about a week and a half but it is back to hurting like an SOB now. I can barely walk sometimes. Walking is my job. I walk all over the hospital for my job. I’ve worn a pedometer and easily walk 6 to 8 miles a night. This wears my foot and my body out because I have a really bad limp now. I’m getting so frustrated and worried that I will never be able to fix this. I’ve already had this pain for a year and am on my third doctor.

My favorite work outs are kickboxing and step class. I can’t do those because I can’t take the pain and I’m afraid I’m damaging what ever is wrong in there.  I was going to start working out this weekend but my last night of work the other foot started feeling sore and I was so worried it would start hurting too that I took the weekend to let it rest.

It’s feeling ok now so I think on my next days off I’m going to get on the elliptical and maybe do a swim aerobics class. When I get a little more in shape I can probably do spinning too. I’m going to have to find ways that are easy to exercise on my foot.
I see a few of you have mentioned joint issues. If anyone has any advice I’d love to hear it.

It has been 7 months exactly since I have weighed in. I have gained 15 pounds since then. I actually thought it was more. Not that I’m happy about it but I will lose it plus more. It started when I took a week off to let my foot rest that had been hurting me for months. It still hurts but I can’t keep letting it rest. I have to get back to a healthy life style. I have had so much stress over the past few months.

My husband lost his job in October, just two days after we closed on our new house. Then a month later he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He has had to have two surgeries and will have to begin chemo next month. I eat and watch tv to deal with the stress. Every day I feel like crap and have no energy.

Yesterday was my first day back on a healthy eating plan. Exercise will have to start slowly with my sore foot but I’m going to do all that I can.

I have had foot pain in my heel for about 5 or six months. A few months ago I went to my doc and he said I had a little bone spur and referred me to a podiatrist. I finally was able to get into him today and he said I have a little bone spur and plantar fascitis  ( I know that is spelled wrong). He gave me an injection of steroid into the heel (hurt like a mofo) and told me to get some special foot inserts and gave me a brace to wear at night to keep it stretched. He also told me no weight bearing exercise this week ><   That really pissed me off. So tonight I went to the gym and I SOOO wanted to do combat class but instead I did the elliptical machine and the stationary bike and made an attempt at swimming. Not too bad of a work out really.

As for the weight.  I have only been losing about half a pound a week for the past month. Three weeks ago I upped my calories from 1300 a day to 1500 because I work out kind of a lot. Last week I weight 150.5 with my goal weight being 150. This week I was just hoping I would lost at least another half pound. So I got on the scale and it said 148!!!!! I was soooo happy. I’m sure this won’t happen again anytime soon but I’ll take it when I can get it.

Hope everyone is doing great!

I haven’t posted a blog in a while but I am still going strong. I am down to 150.5 pounds. Another half a pound and I’ll be at 30 pounds lost since February. This week I’ve decided to add a few things to my exercise regime. I’m going to go to cycling class at 930 this morning. Haven’t taken a cycling class in over 3 years and I know they are super hard. Did an ab class on Wednesday after my kickboxing class. Also, I’m going to start doing yoga once a week. I hate yoga. I know most people love it and its supposed to be calming and I hope that someday I will feel that way about it, but currently I hate it. I’d rather be kicking and punching and jumping around. I feel that it will help my body with other exercising though so I’m going to give it a try for a few weeks.

I’ve gotten myself on a pretty good schedule for working out too. I go to work at 630 mon-thurs so I go to a 430 class at the gym every work day. I guess that’s like working out in the morning for me. Its been helping me sleep better during the day too. I take one day on the weekend as my rest day but I’m thinking of using my rest day to do yoga. I still enjoy my cheat meal once a week. Last weekend my guy and I went to a wine restaurant and had wine and shared a fruit/cheese/salami plate with this really great pita bread that was warm. It also had olives and walnuts. Mostly healthy things but high in calories.

Yesterday I had 800 calories left before dinner so I decided to try Chipolte. I got a burrito with chicken, black beans, guacamole, and mild salsa. The whole burrito had 800 calories. I don’t think it was worth it though. I ate about three-fourths of it and had a light cookie with half a cup of milk before bed. I don’t think I’ll be doing chipotle again. I could have enjoyed 800 calories much more on something else.

Hope everyone is doing well! I enjoy reading your blogs. I dont get to comment often because I read them at work and it won’t load the the verification number thing.

Starting Friday I will be off of work for 10 days! Yipeee! I’m so excited. I was surprised that one of the things I’m most excited about is all the exercising I can do without work getting in the way lol. I went online and printed all of my different gyms class schedules and planned out the whole 10 days. We are going to see my dad for fathers day this weekend and I even found that gyms schedule and planned to work out there as well. I went to the gym before work today and did Body pump. When I went to the locker room to get cleaned up I found out there was no hot water. That was the fastest shower I’ve ever taken lol.  Tomorrow is kickboxing before work.

A coworker of mine brought in a ton of beef jerky he made. I bought a half pound bag and I’m going to seperate it into one ounce baggies and take a few on our road trip with some cut up fruits and veggies. I told my dad to buy me some healthy stuff and that I’d like it if my step mom doesn’t cook big dinners for me like she used to. One night we are going to a pool party/bbq so that will be my cheat night but I’ll still try to stick to the best choices I can and avoid alcohol.

I hope you are all doing great, keep up the good work!

I wish I had friends who are trying to live a healthy life style like I am. I have a few friends but they just want to go out to eat or go out for drinks and appetizers or go to the club and get drunk. My dad came here this weekend and he LOVES happy hour. Anywhere. I took him to one at a restaurant. I just had ice tea and since I hadn’t eaten I got the only thing that was healthy which was a tuna tartar with avocado. It was just raw fish and avocado. It was ok but not really the meal I had in mind. After that we went to a british pub where I just had ice tea again, my bf and my dad shared fries with a bacon cheese dip. UGH….  My dad did let me pick where we ate the rest of the weekend though. Instead of going to happy hour last night we went to the movies and snuck in diet soda’s, 100 calorie popcorn, and apples.

My boyfriend is pretty good about eating healthy with me, he really doesn’t mind. I’d still like to have friends who would go to the gym with me or even just do something non-f00d/drink related. I’d like to go to the movies, get pedicures, go shopping…there is so much to do that doesn’t have to do with food.

I went to the outlet malls today and decided I needed a pair of shorts that fit. I got a size 12! In January my I was wearing my 18’s. 5 years ago I was wearing 26’s. This is the smallest I have been since junior high

We went to pf changs, it was delicious. I got orange peel shrimp, two steamed shrimp dumplings, a bowl of egg drop soup, three pieces of my guy’s beef a la sichuan, and a mini apple pie dessert shot glass thing. I didn’t finish the shrimp but I counted all the calories cause I ate most of it. I got all of this for 900 calories and for the day ate 1450 calories. Add kickboxing to that and I think I still had a decifit of about 900 calories. Not too shabby!

What do you guys eat if you have cheat meals?