New day, new plan….

Posted by mirihawk on November 18th, 2008 |Filed Under Green Smoothies, Raw Foods | Leave a Comment

I’ve been adding raw foods to my intake for about a month and I feel better than I have in a long time.

I stopped doing Medifast several months ago - the price was prohibitive, and also I was tired of not following the program.  I want a plan that I can follow with joy, and be successful at.

I got into green smoothies about a month ago, and I have had one every day.  I am now adding another smoothie to my daily intake, plus more raw foods.  I have been losing weight (I had gained some back after I stopped doing Medifast, so I’m not down to my lowest MF weight), I feel great, and I’m not going hungry at all…

Spamming

Posted by mirihawk on August 6th, 2008 |Filed Under General Stuff | Leave a Comment

Every time I log on here, there are obscene posts to delete, posing as blog comments.  I wish someone would do something about blocking them.  Good thing my comment default status is moderated.

Tired of not doing it

Posted by mirihawk on August 5th, 2008 |Filed Under Medifast | Leave a Comment

I’m really tired of being the poster child for how not to do diets. Not following them seems to mean that I gain weight. For now. I need to get into Onederland. I’m tired of saying I’m going to diet, and then eating something not on my plan. And I’m tired of not feeling well.

I’m ready to feel good, to be healthy, and to do it with this plan.

I’m doing great

Posted by mirihawk on June 26th, 2008 |Filed Under Medifast | Leave a Comment

Thanks for asking. You’ll have to pardon me for not keeping up with this blog, the my medifast website is so very helpful and I generally blog over there. It’s just easier, for some reason this site runs slow and kicks me out, sometimes halfway through my blog posts.

I had a rough week or two - Medifast was working too well, and I got scared. There’s a big part of me that doesn’t thing I deserve this, you know. This good life, this weight loss, all of it.

Something really helpful - whoever you are, reading this post, and whatever diet you are on - the Beck Diet solution by Judith Beck is really, really good and works with all diets.

Angie, thanks so much for commenting, and I’m SO glad you are doing well.  I hope you read this post.  I think of you, and I miss you, but it doesn’t feel appropriate for me to be on the MRC thread when I’m so happy with Medifast and I’m so done with MRC…we are all different.  The diet that will work for you is… the one you can stick to!!  hugs and best wishes to you and all those guys on the MRC thread.

-miri

Medifast, beginning of Week 3

Posted by mirihawk on June 7th, 2008 |Filed Under General Stuff | 1 Comment

I start week 3 of Medifast today and… I’m down 13.4 pounds since the 24th of May. I’m sooo happy.

It’s been a really good week - we danced twice instead of only one night - and I can do more, with less pain, and I don’t need to sit nearly as often.

I’m doing well at work, and I’m conscious of really being able to focus and having more energy while I’m there. I was able to get used to not eating the snacks at work - there was only one day that the free snack dispenser was really calling me, and I drank some extra water.

My clothes are loose, but I’m not going to make the mistake of trying on the smaller set like I did last week. I really know better. When I lost this same weight in my 20s (aargh, sigh) I used to try on clothes every month, and that’s really what I need to be shooting for. Unless the current clothes are falling off me.

Although, my pants yesterday for work - a pair of dockers because its casual day - were really quite, quite loose and may be ready for the sale pile. A number of my clothes have gone that way - I have weeded out anything really way too big, and also I am starting to remove all the unflattering things as well. Life’s too short.

It’s funny though - I have been only pin-hemming my pants because I know I will sell them and I am shorter than average! Usually I hem my pants by hand while watching TV.

I must admit, I was surprised by the extra pound this morning - I’m a daily weigher and my weight has been the same for 4 or 5 days now. And I’ve been having bathroom issues this week. So I was afraid there’d be no motion or even an upward. I told myself it didn’t matter, I’m right where I need to be… and then, I stepped on the scale and saw 237. Amazing!!!

It’s been great to read this thread, and sorry I don’t have any individual replies ready. I’m glad you all are here.

Saturday is the day for new MF recipes, right? OK - well here is what I came up with, this week:

Vanilla Shake (or you could use vanilla pudding too) with lots of ice in the blender and a half inch piece of raw ginger. My BF tasted it and was amazed how like ginger ice cream it tasted!

The other new thing I did - and it was so good I was afraid I’d cheated - is that I split my lean yesterday because the salad place I went for lunch only gave me 2-3 oz of beef on my salad. So when I came home, I was going to have a scrambled egg for my MF meal, so I added eggbeaters to it to make my lean for the day. To this mixture, I added - flax seed (about a tablespoon, ground) and 1 ounce of FF cream cheese, cinnamon, and some Splenda. I buzzed it all in the blender - and added some water, too. Then I let it sit while I got the nonstick pan going.

I cooked it up in 3 “pancakes”, which was a HUGE plate of food. It was so good, in the middle of it I gave a little jump, and though, oh no, what am I eating? - and then I realized it was my correct meal. I felt so joyous! And in fact, my meal smelled so good that my daughter cooked pancakes for herself! LOL!

Broke a decade

Posted by mirihawk on June 1st, 2008 |Filed Under Medifast | Leave a Comment

I was hoping for 239 this morning… but I guess I’m not going to see THAT one ever, LOL!  238.8

YEAH!!

TOTALLY awesome recipe!

Posted by mirihawk on May 31st, 2008 |Filed Under General, Medifast | Leave a Comment

Ok, this is my favorite one so far… Zucchini “Noodles”!!!  There is a thread in the recipe section on the my medifast site, and it captured my imagination…

V brought over ground buffalo, which we cooked separately in a pan with garlic and spices.  We took potato peelers and made thick “noodles” out of the zucchini, and then microwaved them in the microwave ziplocs.  Then we mixed with tomato (canned) and nuked again.  Then I weighed out my buffalo (5 OZ) and added 2 wedges of Laughing Cow to it.  And then I took my 1.5 cups of zucchini-tomato mixture and tossed it with the buffalo.  Oh my gosh!  It didn’t take much imagination to see the zucc as noodles!  We both devoured our plates of it, and I don’t think V needed any insulin with it either.  (He is type 1, so its fun to come up with low carb dinners that we can both share…)

I wish I had taken a picture of it, it was a humongous plate of food!!

Oh and I bought a few things today to make my days easier… I bought egg beaters and ground flax seed (refrigerator case in Whole Foods for that) , and the Laughing Cow cheese… and V had already brought me some FF cream cheese the other day so I could try that “ice cream” recipe.   Oh yes, and I bought some SF creamer to try.  If I don’t like it I can always bring it to work and donate it.

And I bought some spice to bring to work - some chili powder that I’m really fond of, and some garam masala that I think will be really good in the chicken and rice soup (that one I’m going to taste test before I bring it along).  I’ve been having curry with the chicken soup too, that makes it taste amazing.

I’m loving my Medifast so far, the food is good and I feel VERY STRONG.  Healthy and younger - people have commented on the spring in my step and the glow to my skin, from Day 4 on … very interesting.   I can see that I’m going to be needing to have some MF even when I’m thin, for the health benefits alone!

Beginning of my second week of MF

Posted by mirihawk on May 31st, 2008 |Filed Under Medifast | Leave a Comment

I lost 8.6 pounds, officially, as of this morning, for my first week of Medifast. I find that promising. For a moment the scale flirted with me, showing me an additional 2 pounds lower, but then settled on the 241.8 again. It’s OK, it will show me that and more in June, I believe.

I’m very happy with the diet, and the food, and the taste of most of the MF food. I have a few things to work on, like the fact that I bought a lot of the eggs, thinking I would want them for breakfast, when lately all I have wanted is to drink a shake and go out the door. But that’s a personal thing, not a problem with Medifast itself.

I’m also reading the Beck Diet solution. I don’t agree with everything Judith Beck says, so I am going to take what I want and leave the rest. But some of her tools are right on. I have begun to believe that I can, actually, do this program and then do maintenance. I’ve started planning for the maintenance wardrobe - what would I wear to work and to play, when I am at a steady size? It’s a GREAT question.

Anyhow, I am off to the chiropractor this morning, thank goodness. My should has been paining me since coming back from Miami.

Day Three Medifast

Posted by mirihawk on May 26th, 2008 |Filed Under Medifast | 1 Comment

I’m in love with this program.  I’m sitting here eating what tastes like a slushee - ice plus the Diabetic Vanilla Medifast Powder, a teaspoon of decaf instant, and some DaVinci’s SF Choc syrup.  Plus a ton of ice in the Magic Bullet cup, and about 4 oz water.  Blended until the ice is all slushee and oh my!  A guilt-free frostee a la Wendy’s, my gosh!

Also - I have lost 9 pounds in 2 days.   I’m 241.  I haven’t seen the 230s since my Kimkins days 2 years ago, when I was always obsessing about my food, was it healthy, was Kimkins a real person, all that stuff.  With Medifast there is no problem like that.

The my Medifast site is great - I have a blog and a page over there, and there are some incredible recipes for the MF packets.  I am actually going to try some of them - legal pizza, chips, and muffins are just too good to pass up.

Also I have been shown a link to a Cauliflower pizza crust recipe that sounds marvelous…http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Blogs/Life/My-Life/Mixed-Bag/Blog~435499.aspx - I will try it and report back.

I’m scheduled to try the MF chili for lunch today - I might see if I have any frozen cauliflower to make “mashed” out of, that would be yummo!

I’m planning to take the express bus to work tomorrow so I can make it to MRC to weigh in.  I want to see what their scale says.  This should be… fascinating.

I’m off to Walmart soon, to buy a shoe holder to put on the pantry door to hold all my Medifast packets in an organized way… talk to you all later!!!!

Day Two Medifast

Posted by mirihawk on May 25th, 2008 |Filed Under General, Medifast | Leave a Comment

Today is day 2, and I’m totally in love with my Medifast program. I know its only water weight, but I lost 5 pounds since yesterday - which is all the weight I put on during my business trip last week.

The packets are healthier and taste better than MRCs, and there is a website (my medifast) where there is not just community involvement, but also forums where you ask your question and a registered dietitian will answer it.

I drank a ton of water yesterday and I must have gotten up 5 times last night to pee, but I slept much more deeply. I was expecting that, but not for a few days. The universe is smiling on me and telling me its all good.

I’m still planning to go to MRC and weigh in - my program is paid for until October, and I promised my BF that I would let them check my blood pressure, in particular, since that’s what brought me to being serious about weight loss in the first place. I’m just not going to take a food log, but if I’m losing weight, they won’t care.


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