Well, here's the data for the week I spent in North Carolina.  Rather
more food and less exercise than usual.  There were some good reasons
for both, though, and I don't feel any fatter :-).  The calories
weren't way over budget but the food choices weren't always too great.

Food:
9:00 (home): 2 poached eggs on 1 slice whole wheat toast w/ 3 slices
melted f/f cheese
12:00 (home): 30g More & Less cereal, 30g All Bran, 22g whey protein,

Food {back to my more normal way of eating :-) }:
8:30 (home): 2 poached eggs on 1 slice whole wheat toast w/ 3 slices
melted f/f cheese
10:30 (home): 3 mint meringue cookies

First ever accountability post and I must say I did pretty good!! :)
B.F -    1/2 cup honey nut cherrios w/ 1/2 cup 1% milk
           1/2 banana
Lunch - 1/2 bagel w/ cream cheese

I'm quite salt sensitive.  After two days of a typical "American" diet
with 6 grams of salt a day my bp went from 115/75 to 140/90.  No more
salt for me!  It's taken 3 days of low salt to get back to 115/75.
Low salt has another "benefit" - low salt doesn't taste as good so you

I was just watching the food networks show "low carb and loving it" and the
guy made a dessert that called for a brown sugar substitute.   I have yet to
see anything like this in the stores and was wondering if anyone has seen
this, used it, and where they have been able to find it.

breakfast       
1 cup dry oats
1 cup non fat cottage cheese
6 oz strawberry fat free yogurt  all together in a bowl..

I went to a convention last week.
Yes, it was nice that friends and colleagues I had not seen for two
years were astounded at my weight loss.
But my WOL is all about health and quality of life.

Barbara, have you read Paul Campos's book?  The central premise appears
to be that being fat in itself is not a problem, that the illness
associated with weight/BMI is from eating poorly and not exercising.
Is he right?  I guess what I really want to know is, as someone with a

Small Change, Big Weight-Loss Payoff
By Karen Berney
We are a fat nation obsessed with losing weight.
According to a 1999 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study, 35 percent of

Food:
Breakfast: / (went straight to the beach and stayed until lunch)
Lunch: Doner kebab w/lettuce, tomato, onion; dressed w/Tzatziki, salt and
pepper

(AF, day 7)
Food:
Breakfast: "diet chocolate pudding" with corn flakes
(125 g pudding, 2 Tbs corn flakes)

i have been wearing braces for my teeth for nearly 10 days...and i've lost
5kg...at the first week, i did not eat any solid food, but only food like
porridge, fruit juice, yoghurt or soft food such as tofu, steam fish etc.
this was because i could not bite into hard food as it ...

Is on a 1000 calorie diet and says he feels no hunger.  I try to cut
back by just 300 calories and wake up hungry in the middle of the
night.  What gives?

per day? per week? I have been trying a new diet and have lost 8 pounds in 5
days. I have never lost so quick before. Is this even possible?? I am freaking
out a little bit. I only have about 15 pounds to lose and have been having an
impossible time losing it after trying EVERY diet ...