Thread: Wanting to throw in the towel! Wave the white flag!! Kick me in the butt please!!

I could've written your post! I cheated twice- once with sashimi and the other was 1 bite of jambalaya. I'm on day 23 and I'm supposed to do 40 days. I don't know that I'm going to make it. I just want other food! I want eggplant parm, fig and quinoa salad, lentil soup! I'm not hungry either. It just hit me 3 days ago... I had zero cravings and zero hunger till 3 days ago. I can't stand this much longer. I am crossing my finger that my period is coming and causing this. Blah

DON'T give up! I did the protcol about a year ago and gave up with 10 days left on P2. I STILL regret it. 10 days is nothing compared to resetting your metabolism and being DONE with dieting. Just imagine only having to maintain a 2 lb. variance instead od fighting 10 - 20 lbs all the time. Its so worth the sacrfice to go without what your food addiction is telling you that you want. Don't let it take away what you've already done. Stay true to yourself. You can meet you goal but You have to remain dedicated.

Shawn

If you stop now you'll regain those 13 pounds you've lost. So hang in there and kick the cravings to the curb. Focus on how you'll look in your bathing suit when summer gets here. And it's coming quickly! Go buy a pair of jeans in a size too small and focus on getting into them. Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

I could have written your post, too, lorijmx4. It's natural for us to eat a variety of foods so of course we want things not on the protocol - don't beat yourself up for being totally normal. The sameness gets to me big time. I am counting down the days until I can have a mixed salad and some cheese, lemme tell ya.

I don't see why you can't have one egg yolk and three egg whites for one of your proteins. Isn't that on the Simeons protocol?

You made it through 3 weeks, you can do one more! Hang in there! You know it's worth it!

Originally Posted by lorijmx4

I want an egg & some turkey sausage.
I want a cheeseburger. Doesnt even need to have a bun.
I want a homemade taco.
For whatever reason I am miserable about it this time around. I feel like a junkie. I can't stop thinking about

Lori,
I'm right here with you....

My suggestions to make it through....

Get a pound of ground chicken - its about $5.

Divide it into your 100g portions ( I would make 5 portions, at whatever weight that comes out to be.)

Portion 1 - Sausage: Season with sage, poultry seasoning, thyme, salt and pepper, few drops of water. eat with zuchhini sauted in water.
Portion 2 - Burger: Season with salt, pepper, ground mustard, garlic powder, few drops of water. eat on lettuce leaves with sugar free ketchup, pickles, mustard, and sauted onion
Portion 3 - Taco: season with chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper. Add water or broth and cook like taco meat. Eat on shredded lettuce with a dollop of fat free fage and diced tomato
Portion 4 -Meatballs: season with salt, pepper, water, onion powder, garlic powder. bake and eat in chicken broth with spinach.
Portion 5: I'd make another burger, but that's just me!

Hang in there and keep us posted!

Ground chicken is not on protocol, just so you know. It's breast meat only. If you can get some breasts ground up, then you'd be okay.

Originally Posted by trejmami

Portion 1 - Sausage: Season with sage, poultry seasoning, thyme, salt and pepper, few drops of water. eat with zuchhini sauted in water.
Portion 2 - Burger: Season with salt, pepper, ground mustard, garlic powder, few drops of water. eat on lettuce leaves with sugar free ketchup, pickles, mustard, and sauted onion
Portion 3 - Taco: season with chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper. Add water or broth and cook like taco meat. Eat on shredded lettuce with a dollop of fat free fage and diced tomato
Portion 4 -Meatballs: season with salt, pepper, water, onion powder, garlic powder. bake and eat in chicken broth with spinach.
Portion 5: I'd make another burger, but that's just me!

YUMM!!! *stealing these*

Originally Posted by grammy1952

Ground chicken is not on protocol, just so you know. It's breast meat only. If you can get some breasts ground up, then you'd be okay.

Grammy's right. It is ground chicken breast and that's why the chicken is $5/lb. At my Kroger, it's in the case with the ground turkey.

Fat free fage is not on protocol either. Also you should probably eat fish for your other meal on a day that you do this just to make sure you stay under the 500 calories.