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Apr 2010 | By Mibs | Comments (4)

Melt the Pounds Away Before Memorial Day

TAGS: diet, weight loss challenge, Sugarbusters, raw diet, Weight Watchers, Lose It, Seattle Sutton, exercise

Can we lose weight? Can you?

We’re giving five diet programs a try so either follow along, or jump in and give one a go with us!

Our diets will start Monday, May 2 and we’ll give regular updates on how they’re going and report our final tally of pounds lost. Results will be announced May 26—just in time for Memorial Day!

Lose It!
Dieters: Susan and Michelle
Diet Philosophy: An app for your iPhone that lets you establish a daily goal and track calories.
More Info: Go to iTunes and search for “Lose It.” Similar apps are available for other smart phones.

Raw
Dieters: Megan and Jessica
Diet Philosophy: Well, you won’t be needing your stove or oven, but you will need to get chopping and blending.
Books: Living Raw Food by Sarma Melnagailis and Raw Food/Real World: 100 Recipes to Get the Glow by Matthew Kenny and Sarma Melngailis

Seattle Sutton’s Healthy Eating
Dieters: Bev and Sandra
Diet Philosophy: This family-owned, Illinois-based healthy meal replacement company offers a no-gimmick approach to convenient, healthy eating. The meal program is scientifically designed and taste-tested.
More info at seattlesutton.com

Sugar Busters
Dieters: Julie and Mindy
Diet Philosophy: You don’t have to count calories, or weigh ingredients. You just need to be mindful of what you put in your mouth. The key is to keep sugar below 3 g per serving.
Book: The New Sugar Busters! Cut Sugar to Trim Fat by H. Leighton Steward, Morrison Bethea, Sam Andrews, and Luis A. Balart

Weight Watchers
Dieters: Heather and Ann Marie
Diet Philosophy: Eat smarter, move more, develop healthy habits and get support. Weight Watchers is less a diet and more a healthy lifestyle program.
More info at weightwatchers.com.

Is exercise your ticket? Check out all the great North Shore area runs this spring and summer.

We need you! Click on “Comment” below and send us your best diet tips and success stories. Let’s help each other melt the pounds away by Memorial Day.

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User Comments

I am not on a special diet. I have been working with Sue Marcus Hypnotherapy to help me lose the extra pounds through relaxation techniques and Hypnosis . For some reason after my sessions veggies sound a lot better then they use too. I will be losing more weight with you ladies. This will be fun.

Posted by gabby Eiss at 01:25 pm on Apr 28, 2010

I am familiar with all of these diets and am curious to see which readers are the most successful. I think most of your readers know what they need to do, it is doing it that is so hard. Most of your readers are smart, well-educated women and are aware of the need to do 60+ minutes of moderate exercise a day 4-6 days/week and to eat moderately sized portions, choosing a healthy combo of fruits, vegetables, lean meats and high protein foods, high fiber, low sugar, low carb, and a calorie count per day that is appropriate for their body/BMI. I also know to drink plenty of water, not to eat processed food, or eat in between meals or later at night. But even with all the knowledge I have, it is execution where I always fall down. So I will try along with the group starting May 2. I think you should encourage your readers to do it along with the selected group and we can report back via the comments tab. I just heard about and ordered the Full Plate diet. I will try this most likely, but it is not rocket science. I am sure it is another version of the list I gave above.

Posted by Denise Kenny at 04:49 pm on Apr 28, 2010

Go MiBs! Hope you all are fabulously successful on your respective diets! Wanted to share another great website, www.myfitnesspal.com that can be downloaded onto your phone. I just use it from my laptop. Tracks calories and the nutritional value of everything you eat, and has about every food known to mankind in its database. The best part? At the end of tallying your calories each day, it tells you "if every day were like today, you would weigh xxx.x in five weeks." Very motivating!

Posted by Laura Tiebert at 02:24 pm on Apr 29, 2010

Good luck MIBS! I've used Lose It! before to track calories (not really to lose weight), and recently started to use it again. It's really helpful, but can be a pain when you go out to eat and have to figure out ingredients/guess. I do like that it lets you track your exercise as well, though, and then gives a net of burned calories plus consumed calories.

Posted by Alissa Melczer at 12:59 am on May 10, 2010

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