So after a nice 5 pound loss I stepped on the scale today and saw the same numbers. Time to cut through it!
I was feeling very tired last night before bed and I think I had too much beef jerky over the course of the day because in the morning I was all dry mouthy, yuck! Dehydration is still possible when drinking loads of water I guess. It is the coffee that was working against me!
I went for a rather vigorous walk while holding 25 pound Willow in a front baby carrier yesterday morning and I wasn't hungry at all then it hit me like a wave of sleepiness at 3pm.
After the drops before 3pm I had a rush of energy and I had been very productive: clearing out my closet, organizing drawers, etc. Not eating gives you a lot of free time and I was on my feet all day doing things when usually I would have tried to relax and find something to watch on the Roku. Something to slow down.
Those B vitamins certainly do their thing! I was on the go but after I had lunch I realized I needed to eat more. I wasn't hungry, but I was feeling the effects of fatigue: blurred vision, slurred and disorganized speech (I was trying to talk to my mom and found myself using the wrong words over and over like a drunk person).
So when it was time for bed I knew I couldn't wait another 12 hours before food and I had a remaining 300 cals to eat after my walk to keep in line with my 700 cal diet (I earned around 200cals from walking), so I had ... a "bad" thing (non ASAP approved that is,). haha... split pea soup with bacon. I had 3/4 of the can and it helped me sleep and this morning I wasn't hungry until now, almost 1pm!
I know that the soup probably is what made me plateau since it was undoubtedly in my stomach still after I awoke, but I still feel like I wanted to make sure I maintain my 1lb/day average so today I am doing a modified plateau breaker day.
Right now I am eating an apple (I only have 3 left so I will have to modify the 6 apple/steak breaker). I guess it will be 4 clementines, 3 apples! (the clementines are reallly small so I will have 4). I hope to come back tomorrow with a successful loss!
Showing posts with label eating less. Show all posts
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Friday, August 16, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Vanity Weigh Loss vs. Lifestyle Change
So I've been very susceptible lately to dieting ads since I am in the middle of a very strict diet. Last night Tony Horton was on Dr. Oz stating that vanity dieting, or dieting for an event or specific time will not provide lasting results because the behaviour that caused the weight to go up will inevitably return without a lifestyle change. This is really resonating with me.
I guess you could call some of my goals vain because I do want to look good for a specific event, Hoopcamp. And I will be making a promo video which will, ideally, be on the internet forever and I will be unable to ask him/her to delete it because I feel bad about the way I look.
But I also want a smaller body to do things I never could before, like pull ups or climb a tree. I don't just want to be smaller, I want to be a powerhouse, a source of strong inner light. I can already feel myself getting out of my shell as the pounds melt away. On Day 5 and down 5 pounds!
I was only concerned with getting rid of my baby weight before, not with having lasting results. I didn't regain all my weight from last time. I fell 5 lb. shy of a total regain, so I guess there was some lasting effects. But I did not weigh myself everyday looking to see if I gained a pound. I did not want to do that! I didn't want my girls to see me standing on the scale everyday because I don't want it to be a big deal for them. They are at a very impressionable age!
I am just going to tell them from now on that Mommy can't eat that because I only eat really healthy food. Zora opted out of the peach cobbler I made for daddy and the girls to have my steamed apple with cinnamon. She claimed it tasted better but I know she really just wants to eat what I eat.
So now today when I go shopping I will only be buying the whole foods. I am craving steak so tonight I'll have myself a nice 3 oz. serving with a spinach salad. I like making foods that we all can eat rather than making food for them that I won't eat because then Zora won't eat it either. I want to make a meal plan too, like a plan for the following week before it gets here!
I'm looking forward to another 5 lost by Tuesday, let's see if I can do it!
I guess you could call some of my goals vain because I do want to look good for a specific event, Hoopcamp. And I will be making a promo video which will, ideally, be on the internet forever and I will be unable to ask him/her to delete it because I feel bad about the way I look.
But I also want a smaller body to do things I never could before, like pull ups or climb a tree. I don't just want to be smaller, I want to be a powerhouse, a source of strong inner light. I can already feel myself getting out of my shell as the pounds melt away. On Day 5 and down 5 pounds!
I was only concerned with getting rid of my baby weight before, not with having lasting results. I didn't regain all my weight from last time. I fell 5 lb. shy of a total regain, so I guess there was some lasting effects. But I did not weigh myself everyday looking to see if I gained a pound. I did not want to do that! I didn't want my girls to see me standing on the scale everyday because I don't want it to be a big deal for them. They are at a very impressionable age!
I am just going to tell them from now on that Mommy can't eat that because I only eat really healthy food. Zora opted out of the peach cobbler I made for daddy and the girls to have my steamed apple with cinnamon. She claimed it tasted better but I know she really just wants to eat what I eat.
So now today when I go shopping I will only be buying the whole foods. I am craving steak so tonight I'll have myself a nice 3 oz. serving with a spinach salad. I like making foods that we all can eat rather than making food for them that I won't eat because then Zora won't eat it either. I want to make a meal plan too, like a plan for the following week before it gets here!
I'm looking forward to another 5 lost by Tuesday, let's see if I can do it!
Monday, August 12, 2013
Day 2, round 2! Eating less FOREVER
So I have been in the kitchen canning some asparagus for later-date snacks and found myself getting quite hungry. I recognize this feeling from before, it is my tummy pulling, crunching, AND SHRINKING! HIP HIP HOOOORAY!
The hardest part of starting any low calorie diet is turning off that switch that says eat eat eat. I seriously turn off that switch in my body and find that meal time is a chore, not a relished part of my day that I overindulge.
My remedy to stop the pangs? BTT of course! I put a scoop in 3 cups of water with some plant derived minerals and I'm 1 cup down and feeling fine.
I was typing it up on an ASAP review and stated something that is reverberating with me now. I was saying that ASAP is only a 3 week program with 3 weeks maintenance or 6 weeks with 3 weeks maintenance, but it really is much longer than that. You have to be committed to surviving off less calories. My body will be maintaining its weight on around 1600 cals, so I cannot "eat whatever I want, whenever I want" after the diet is over. It is a life change. I will have to exercise about an hour everyday to eat how I was eating before.
Currently my body is supposedly consuming 1900 calories a day plus the breast feeding is another 500 cals so 2400. That's about how much I was eating and I was gaining, so I know that the breastfeeding (1-2 a day for 10 minutes) is not going to be draining me of 500 cals. Probably around 100, 200 during teething periods (more nursing).
So if I do the math hrmmm, eating 800 cals a day would leave me around -1000, or over a 7 day period, 7k cals and that's about 2 lb. in a week. Now this is far less than the results I get on this product! I will look into the process of ketosis more because I am super-intrigued by it!
The hardest part of starting any low calorie diet is turning off that switch that says eat eat eat. I seriously turn off that switch in my body and find that meal time is a chore, not a relished part of my day that I overindulge.
My remedy to stop the pangs? BTT of course! I put a scoop in 3 cups of water with some plant derived minerals and I'm 1 cup down and feeling fine.
I was typing it up on an ASAP review and stated something that is reverberating with me now. I was saying that ASAP is only a 3 week program with 3 weeks maintenance or 6 weeks with 3 weeks maintenance, but it really is much longer than that. You have to be committed to surviving off less calories. My body will be maintaining its weight on around 1600 cals, so I cannot "eat whatever I want, whenever I want" after the diet is over. It is a life change. I will have to exercise about an hour everyday to eat how I was eating before.
Currently my body is supposedly consuming 1900 calories a day plus the breast feeding is another 500 cals so 2400. That's about how much I was eating and I was gaining, so I know that the breastfeeding (1-2 a day for 10 minutes) is not going to be draining me of 500 cals. Probably around 100, 200 during teething periods (more nursing).
So if I do the math hrmmm, eating 800 cals a day would leave me around -1000, or over a 7 day period, 7k cals and that's about 2 lb. in a week. Now this is far less than the results I get on this product! I will look into the process of ketosis more because I am super-intrigued by it!
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