What would you eliminate?

[lexy-lou]

Hi, everyone. I'm on phase II of the SBD. Here is a list of the foods I have been adding back into my diet in small amounts. The trouble is that my weight loss is at a stand-still. What would you eliminate (or radically reduce) first in order to get the scale moving again? Thanks for any help you can provide.

1. wine (one or two glasses three times per week)
2. fatty meat (e.g., bacon, rotisserie chicken, rib eye in fairly small amounts two or three times per week)
3. NF yogurt (one per day)
4. nuts (handful of almonds or walnuts + 1 T of peanut butter per day).
5. salt (e.g., in canned lentil soup)
6. apples (1 per day)
7. beans (1 cup every couple of days)
8. SF jello (one small container per day)
9. cheese (string & parmesan)
10. reduced fat butter (1 or 2 T per day)

[Charran]

Hi lexy-lou!

There are a number of things that you could try. You could eliminate the wine for starters if you can. Eliminate the fatty meats as they aren't even allowed on SB. The NF yogurt will often have sugar in it to make up for the lack of fat, so please read the label on that. You say a handful of nuts, but that could be overkill on that depending on how big the handful is. Try measuring them so that you're not eating too many as they are high in calories. You don't say how much cheese you eat, but make sure to also measure that as we can tend to eat too much of it.

[donnaliz67]

I agree with Char on the wine. I love a glass or two with dinner myself, but if I see the scale go up, that's one of the first things to go for a few days.

Next I'd look at the salt. You could just be retaining water from too much of that, and the rest of your diet could be fine.

Good luck figuring it out!!

[Judynyc]

Char gave you very good ideas!! :agree: :thup:

1. wine (one or two glasses three times per week)
2. fatty meat (e.g., bacon, rotisserie chicken, rib eye in fairly small amounts two or three times per week)
3. NF yogurt (one per day)
4. nuts (handful of almonds or walnuts + 1 T of peanut butter per day).
5. salt (e.g., in canned lentil soup)
6. apples (1 per day)
7. beans (1 cup every couple of days)
8. SF jello (one small container per day)
9. cheese (string & parmesan)
10. reduced fat butter (1 or 2 T per day
1- yes, I'd drop the wine for at least 2 weeks or until you start to lose again. When you do drink it, drink it with your meal and do try to stay at one glass, not 2.
2- try to get fish into your menus....too much fatty meat protein is really not the SB way. We eat turkey bacon, not real. Chicken breast not rotisserie, lean red meat not ribeye. Please see the food lists in page one of my journal.
5- lose the canned soup as it way too high in sodium and that could easily have you retain extra water.
9- how much cheese? cheese is high in fat and sodium....and calories if you use full fat...knock it out for 2 weeks and when you do eat it, keep it to a max of 2 ozs per day.
10- many reduced fat products use HFCS....I like Smart Balance as its made with good oils. :idea:

Hope this helps! :wave:

[BMarieB]

All great advice!

Please do keep in mind that since you are so close to goal that everything plays a big part in your weight loss, calories, fat, sodium... anything you can think of.

Its hard times, these last 13-10lbs.... you'll make it! Gotta stay strict... its hard, I know.
I do wish you luck! :)

[lexy-lou]

Thank you for the stellar advice! I just checked and my yogurt does include sugar and "modified corn starch"! My reduced fat butter is tainted with MCS as well. That's what I get for not checking. You all offer wonderful advice. I will try cutting my list of problem foods two at a time and see what happens. This week: the butter and yogurt. I do think I may need to count calories as BMarie suggests as well. Thanks again.

[zeynep]

I would eliminate these for a while :

1. wine (one or two glasses three times per week)
2. fatty meat (e.g., bacon, rotisserie chicken, rib eye in fairly small amounts two or three times per week)
5. salt (e.g., in canned lentil soup)
10. reduced fat butter (1 or 2 T per day)