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My 1st question is: What kind of exercise can I do on the Medifast Diet (phase 1)? Many thanks for any comment. Second question.. Phew, went to my mother's for Thanksgiving and on Friday we spent the day baking cookies. It has been a family tradition for almost 30 years. My mother pre-mixes all of the doughs, all I have to do is drop and bake. This year she cut back on the amount and the types she made - plus she cooked several batches before Friday. |
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I'm stumped. I'm not so sure what is the answer to that question. I'll do some Googling and get back to you if I bump into an anything. You should email the people at Medifast as they probably could assist you..
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Thank you, Judy, for posting about your success!!!.
It really, really encouraged me!. I don't even know how many pounds I gained last Christmas season because of all the raw cookie dough I ate, not to mention the baked ones! This year, I had decided that to avoid the temptation I simply wouldn't bake any cookies at all. The problem is, our family has a long-standing tradition (for which I'm to blame, because I started it) of "painting" homemade sugar cut-out cookies together in the evenings. My son and his wife (who were married this past July), as well as my daughter, have their hearts set on painting cookies again this year.. Know what? I can do this!! I cooked several off-plan foods at Thanksgiving and stole not even a taste; if I can do that, I can also make a few batches of cookies without tasting.. My kids mean the world to me, and although I know they'd support me if I decided not to do any baking this year, the truth is I also enjoy painting cookies! So I've decided that I'll look at them not as food, but as little pieces of art. And I'll thoroughly enjoy this special time together with my family.. After years of repeated failure, I'm finally starting to learn that much of this battle is fought and won right .... Hear. ! <points at head>. Deb.. |
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Good for you! I wish could be so strong but I know I am not ready yet. My nearly grown kids asked me why I could eat just on Medifast brownie but I couldn't eat just one real brownie? I hope some day I can but my answer to the kids was pretty much the same thing. Brownies are like crack to me. Sugar cookies are like crack to me, now that I think of it all cookies are like crack to me. Something about the combination of white flour, fat and sugar is CRACK to me. Excuse me while I run and throw out the remaining sugar I bought to make the kids their Thanksgiving favorites...
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You all have had great success with your weight loss, I can tell by you tickers. So if the urge to cheat rears it's ugly head just remember how far you've come...
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Nice job Judy! You may have made it through your toughest day of the year! Way to handle it with dignity! That would be very hard..... Dang those fresh baked cookies!.
How nice that you were able to get out and walk with your daughter..... maybe that can be a new tweak to your 30 year old tradition.. Congrats on reaching your goal as well!. Sandy.. |
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Wow! I would have had a REALLY HARD time with that situation. And then to bring some home on top of it all. I'm amazed. Congrats to you!!!..
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Wow! Great job!.
I am working my church's snowflake fair on Saturday. I will be in the kitchen cooking lobster rolls, hot dogs with grilled buns, corn chowder, beef stew, etc. We also have a cookie walk as part of our fair. So to get people wanting to buy cookies, we bake cookies. People buy more cookies when they can smell fresh baked ones. We also have food on each of the set up days. Here is my strategy: chew gum all dayeven if it puts me over on the condiment limit. Better to have an extra piece of gum than to eat corn chowder or a cookie. Pack turkey soup for my lean and green and eat it right after the fair and before we go out.. Drink diet coke at the post fair wrap up.. Keep repeating to myself that the cookies are really rodent droppings. Or made in kitchens with grimy, gross, snotty five year old "helpers"... |
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Thanks Judy for sharing your success! That is quite an accomplishment!.
I too bake every year. I also have a food blog, where I share cookie recipes. I have been giving boxes of assorted cookies out to neighbors, teachers, friends, etc, for about 10 yrs now. Everyone really looks forward to it!. Some years, I have made over 500 cookies! This year, I will do it, as usual. But, I will not be having any. Thankfully, when you're around that much sugar, it starts to turn you off. At least, for me it does... |
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Great job! Congratulations on sticking with it. Good thinking on storing the cookies in the freezer in the basement too! We have a freezer in our garage, so I'm going to do the same thing when forbidden food enters the house. It's so hard for me to walk away when it's in my face...
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