FireDragon JUDDD Journey

Great news! 1.5 lb. drop! It is so worth a down day. (well, I say that now, I am sure that thinking will change a bit on hungry days lol)

It took a bit but I feel like I am getting into the swing of JUDDD. I guess time does make any plan more comfortable. I am understanding my down days must be low and light and filling----I am realizing my UP days MUST be controlled and very moderate carb to not bounce back to high.

One thing I like is even if my down day is not wonderful (like going into the 600-700 cal. range) I am still having a deficit of calories. Sure the lbs come off slower, but I am still working toward that goal of dropping a few. So I don't feel as bad if I do go up--but I will not get comfortable with doing that--want to stay in the 350-450 range if I can. I will start to shoot for a bit lower cals. on my down day. right now that 500 cal. is what I can handle, but will slowly work it lower if I can. I realize tho if I can't, and need that 500 to make it thru a down day, I am still doing well and winning this game.

I was so looking forward to my UP day and late last night I was saying---first thing BAB!!!! (Big Azz Breakfast) I wake up and not even thinking of making that BAB. Not starved at all. Maybe the plan is starting to work well for me. getting me in the zone.

Realizing now that I do NOT have to eat a huge UP day. because even if I don't eat a big up day today, I diet for one day, and then the next I can have whatever I want anyway. I am not feeling deprived on this plan. one day dieting I can easily do. So mentally I am getting very into JUDDD now.

eh, just rambling along and chatting out my new plan to get it all straight in my mind. So far so good :)

I hope everyone does well today!!! stay strong!
 
ut oh
up day and out of calories. ate 2000, just a tad over my allowed limit for the day

making hubby a dinner tonight I don't like so no temptation there.
drinking ALOT of water and will jump on diet soda tonight if needed
I am shooting for not eating anything else and jsut going into my down day tomorrow as is without eating more

it will be ok.
I will survive. if I don't eat for a while I found out something amazing--I will live. YUP LOL I won't die without food for 5-6-7 hrs. never knew that HAHA

off to survive the night :)
 
Hope you survived!!


I'm not always as hungry as I'd expect after a 36 hour fast, but I do normally have some sort of cooked breakfast - nothing heavy, but it sure tastes good
Yesterday was smoked salmon, poached eggs and asparagus - yum
 
good morning D

I survived. I did jump on an atkins bar later that night but controlled myself to just that.


yum on that breakfast. Asparagus is a top fav of mine. no one else likes it in the house, but that doesn't stop me from eating alot of it :)
 
I am lucky I am only .8 up on the scale. I will take that and be happy since I did go over calories by a bit. luckily the day was not a slob fest and I did eat reasonably good foods so I guess that helped alot.


DOWN DAY today. late lunch of soup (160 cals) and late dinner of 4 oz sautee chicken, brocc/cauli, 1/4 cup alfredo sauce, 4 Tblsp parm cheese (200), 1/2 cup of fresh raspberry/blueberry mix (70) and that leaves a few calories left for something else.


One thing I am wondering about. On atkins, I got alot of whooshes down the scale. a few days of good eating, following plan, very very low carb and then BOOM--a big drop on the scale.

Will it work like that at all on JUDDD? It seems it will be up a bit on the scale for the bounce of eating on an up day, then down day corrects it and you lose a bit, then it will repeat like that. JUD seems like a more smaller loss at a time but of course that all adds up after down days. On JUD should I just expect smaller losses all the time or do people get big whooshes from time to time?

It took a bit of time but the rotation is getting easier to control now. I am happy about that. More time is needed obviously to see if this is the plan for me.

I am interested to see what my one month loss will be on May 29. I am sure hoping it turns out to be a decent amt. of weight.



off to get some work done and then relaxing for a while. I love the weekend!
 
I lost a massive amount in the beginning of doing JUDDD having come from SW ( 18 lbs in the first month which is pretty much unheard of from what I've seen on the forum) and then it slowed to 1 lb a week for a month or so and then I sts for ages due to being ill with a 5 lb lose recently. I've only got 14 lb to lose now and it's slow going but it would be on any plan towards the end. However cos I'm going on holiday at the end of June I'm doing 5 weeks of S & S to shift it then coming back to JUDDD to ( hopefully) maintain. xx
 
HOLY Ladybird---that is super impressive. 18 lbs for the first month on JUDDD. I haven't seen anywhere people quoting that amt. YOU DID GREAT!
1lb a week is kinda the basic I have been seeing. It might not be rapid speed, but one thing the UP day means is no total restrictive eating and I get alot of food. so this plan is worth the effort to me so far :)
14 lbs to go, you are so close and you have a great plan worked out to finish this off. ahhh, maintenance will nice!
 
after down day I lost .8
I went over in cals to about 750. I have got to get lower. but almost a lb. is still worthy of being happy.

Todays UP Day will be controlled to lower carb. a few treats in there but cleaner eating to lock in that .8 I don't want a big bounce and maybe I can do better on my down day and get some bigger weights dropping.

still like the plan. just gotta work that down day better.

yesterday was boredom eating. rainy. kiddo sick and throwing up so kinda stuck taking care of her and just nibbling thru the day. not a good thing on a down day. but kiddo is better today, sun is shining so I can get out, move and not be in the house where all the food is :)


everyone--best of luck on this journey. we can do this!
 
my UP day became an OOPS! day

ended up eating chinese. the sodium bloat is thru the roof of course. Up 3 lbs. YEE-gads

it is ok. with a day or 2 that will be gone and I can get working on losing some lbs. I despise sodium but I did eat alot of food also. Day got away from me.

not harping on it. just going to move forward as usual.

DOWN DAY today. going to hold off eating as long as possible. probably 4 pm area. will drink tea, lemon water etc. to fill me up. liquids by the gallons today :)

stay strong! we can get'er done.
 
I have the same issue with Chinese - even if I just have a soup - recon its the MSG!

following primal blueprint and experimenting with the 5:2 fasting diet
 
I hear you on the chinese. no matter what I eat it nails me. MSG ehhh. can do without that stuff definitely
 
on boy I am on the fence.

I am noticing my eating is getting more out of control. I am letting foods back in that are triggering and craving.

On atkins, as much as I became more tired of the restrictive foods, I did stick to plan better than I am doing with JUDD.

JUDD in my brain is 'you can eat whatever you want on up days' within reason. Well my problem is the reasoning is going out the door! :) Add some carbs back in and boom, I want more and more.

I am struggling with the 500 cal. down day also. I am not throwing good willpower at it.

I know I can combine atkins with JUDD. But if I was losing on atkins, why restrict to down days when I can do it with more cals. ya know?

ugh

just thinking out loud. I am just trying to find that thing that fits my eating. JUDD is making me feel like I can 'have it all' one day and then 'don't touch anything' the next. It seemed like the answer but it might not be??

It gets hard sometimes just trying to find out what works best and then learning to live with it as an entire way of eating for life.

Down day yesterday. I did well---until night time snacking. I ate a bunch of junk. So when on JUDD I don't know if I should gear toward atkins type foods with higher cals. cause of the good fats or to stick to diet foods which are not filling me up??

I know JUDD works if you work the plan. I know atkins works if you work it and stick with the very low carb foods.

I gotta find which way I want to swing and how to get a plan in motion again to lose. I am up again after my down day. yikes
 
I know

following primal blueprint and experimenting with the 5:2 fasting diet
 
Mis-behave said:
I know

following primal blueprint and experimenting with the 5:2 fasting diet
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Silly phone !

I think the same .. I've been eating way too much on my up days.. Eating what my head wants, giving into rubbish.. I think planning an upday including some nice goodies might work better .. I'm finding I'm grazing all day.. and then feel I want a down day as I'm so full !!

following primal blueprint and experimenting with the 5:2 fasting diet
 
haha the phone got you.


I sure agree. I am grazing also. But what is worse is I DO PLAN the UP day. BUT in no way am I sticking to it :)

I tell myself 'you have to control' the food on an UP day. You have too. I plan a great day of eating with a few treats, then BOOM, out the window it goes.

So I am kinda thinking maybe really try hard and eat super clean before dinner. give myself a nice dinner, then give alot of cals. for night time snacking. Only because I snack at night. But if I fall back onto that, the next morining I want WAY more than I can have on a down day.

holy moly

I don't know how to play this game and win.

Sheer willpower isn't going to get me thru a down day. I know me.


hmm
right now I am jumping back toward atkins. No heavier carbs at all. going to break that cycle of allowing that rubbish back into my plan and I am going to mess with the JUDDD numbers a bit. about 1800 on UP day, 800 on down day. I know that won't probably give me the SIRT1 situation I want to happen, but maybe if I allow myself a bit more on down day, follow more of an atkins approach, maybe I can start to get a handle on this????

does that sound good or is it just trying smoething that probaby won't work?--I don't know lol


I gotta chat this out with myself on how to proceed. I have to find that good balance that gets some lbs off the scale.
 
I have a rule no snacking after dinner/ 7pm exception to that is if I've been to an evening exercise class..

I'm trying (trying) to only allow myself 6 small squares of green and black 70% chocolate daily.. No snack between breakfast and lunch .. But I'm finding I want an afternoon snack or snacks - plan is to have things like pear and slice nice cheese or 1/3 packet of dried mango slices infused with lime - has no added sugar or sweeteners is a taste the difference from sainsbury. I'm finding if I don't eat good meals at Normal times I snack more ! So after a fast day I might not be hungry .. If I don't eat breakfast the day turns into a grazing day and way too much food !!

This week as I'm not sleeping well because of sick kids, I'm tired - so not fasting just concentrating on having good foods and keeping the carbs down below 150g

I started out doing 5:2 fasting but am tending to do 4:3

following primal blueprint and experimenting with the 5:2 fasting diet
 
Mis-behave said:
If I don't eat breakfast the day turns into a grazing day and way too much food !!
this is me also! if I eat a good full meal in the morning I am ok thru the day mostly. But I always hated eating early AM. I am a 2-11pm type eater. so hard to change but I know I must.

This week as I'm not sleeping well because of sick kids, I'm tired - so not fasting just concentrating on having good foods and keeping the carbs down below 150g YOU HAVE sick kids also? lol My daughter was sick a few days and I think she gave it to us cause hubby and me are not full speed. She is better. I hope yours are doing better also? I always feel so bad when a kid is sick. poor little guys just seem so sad and miserable and 'require' alot of work from the moms lol

I started out doing 5:2 fasting but am tending to do 4:3

following primal blueprint and experimenting with the 5:2 fasting diet
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I really think I might head straight back into atkins.

I think I am fooling myself and it isn't working. I think I really AM one of those carb addicts. where the need for carbs is high and the body is bloating and hating those carbs.

I so desperately want some foods back into my day. like a bagel. some bread. a potatoe and more.

JUDDD would make a great maintenance plan for sure. I have no doubt about that, but losing the weight to get to maintenance is hard. if atkins was easier in a way if I can combat the UGH against the restrictive foods, then maybe I should back track and think it all thru again.

I tell ya Mis, this dieting stuff is a hoot and a bother to the max. at the same time. drive a person insane.
 
It's official.

back on atkins.

induction for 2 weeks to get clean, off carbs and back into the atkins swing.


I KNOW JUDDD will be a great way to maintain. I tried for 17 days. I have to cut my losses. I am gaining weight. I am jumping on carbs like white on rice :) I didn't realize what a hold on me carbs have, and how the bloat from eating them is just too much. I want those foods back, but I realize now I will be severly limited in what can come back into my diet. old foods will have to go by the wayside.

I am going to start an atkins journal but keep this one active also. I want to keep a finger on JUDDD and keep it in my mind. to combine it later wtih maintenance. AND THERE are some super nice people in this juddd forum that have helped me alot and I appreciate all that help!! losing lbs. it is nice not to be alone in this venture! thank you all.
 
Hope induction goes well!

I also try to stay away from pasta, rice, bread etc but have a week a mth before totm that I have some gluten free stuff :)

But I've noticed that the potatoes/ chips etc creeping back in and I've developed an ice cream habit lol

Perhaps you could do one day fasting while doing Atkins so you still get the Heath benefits :)

following primal blueprint and 5:2 /4:3 fasting plan
 
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