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[cdgoldilocks]

Had my weigh in today and am down 1.2 pounds. Yay me! It is TOM too, so I was surprised to even have a loss at all.

I do have a side question though. When I was looking over the menu with my JCC, I wanted to make some substitutions. She encouraged me to substitute as few items as possible, as I was adding extra calories for that day (for example, I wanted to substitute a cheesecake for a snack bar) She said if I did that too much, that I could end up adding enough calories to slow my weight loss.

Have any of you heard anything like this? Apparently my local JC is part of a 3 JC franchise that has the "best results" of all JC Centers. I mean, it could make sense what she is saying, but wasn't the program designed so that you COULD interchange menu items within that MEAL?

I was also a JC member back in the 90's. You could pick anything you wanted for your menu for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.....but different meals were assigned a letter. A, B, or C. I am guessing that the letters coincided with calorie levels. Maybe the higher calorie menu items were an A, with the least calorie items were a C. This was supposed to keep people consistent with calorie levels, as people who combine any way they wanted as long as you pick one meal from each letter every day. So breakfast could be a C, lunch could be an A, and dinner could be B.

I don't mind sticking strictly to JC's menu if I will get to my goal sooner. I will "suffer" through eating a cookie as opposed to the cheesecake and save 50 calories LOL. I just wondered if anyone else was being told this?

[nancy5012]

Congratulations on starting and a great first week weigh in!

I think I can understand where your JCC is getting at. The meals are designed to get you about a specific calorie count per day (including veggies, etc, ) 1200, 1500, etc. So if you start switching out say bruschetta chips (at 100 cal.) for the cheesecake (at 170 calories) and do this 5 days a week, at the end of the month you would add about half a pound worth of calories. Now do this for breakfast, lunch and dinner and the calories will add up.

Now if you are just having your cheesecake say on Monday instead of Wednesday where you switch it with the chips, then I don't think overall there will be a problem.

I do tend to limit my higher calorie snacks tho - I allow myself 1 cheesecake per week and ususally have it when I have a heavier workout scheduled for that day.

I hope this helps!

[Blessed4Life2]

CONGRATS GIRL!!!!!!

Yea, what Nancy said. lol.

Personally, I had cheesecake at least 4-5 times a week. I didnt notice any real slow down in my weight loss when I had a little higher calories, but I am sure it had some kind of effect......but I looked SO forward to my cheesecake. I know Jen (reddyrawks) and a couple of others had it EVERYDAY.

So it really is up to you.....if you want to stick with the plan 100% for better results, I say go for it....the more you stick to the plan, the better you losses will be for sure. I was willing to have slower losses to get my cheescake though. lol

[ocmimi]

Wow, this is really interesting to me. I have been on Jenny for over a year and right from the beginning I was on the personalized plan. When I placed my order my JCC's never questioned what I was ordering or even asked me what I was going to eat each day. So, that could be one of the reasons I was a slower loser. But, I always watched very carefully to keep in the 1200 calorie range per week, keeping my fats, proteins, and carbs in line with the numbers suggested by my consultants and exercise so who knows. IMO, since you are seeing good results, you should continue following your JCC advice.

Congratulations on your loss and keep up the great work !!!!