Here's an update on my get-slim project. Notice that I don't say, "Lose weight!" As soon as I say, "I want to lose weight," or "I'm on a diet," I can't stop eating. I gain weight. So I decided to call it a get-slim-project. It's working - I have dropped out of the men's 1x shirt size category and into the women's medium size category. It is Sunday, February 12, and I started the day after Christmas, December 26, last year. Not too bad, I'd say, for 7 weeks!
I started at 181, and not sure what I weigh right now. I'll update that next week. All I know is that pants that I couldn't get on a month ago are beginning to be lose on me. Frankly, I don't care what the scales say - it's my nice slim-clothes that I want to fit into again! In a ten-year period, I added 65 pounds to my body - and I want them back off again! I liked being a size 8! Size 20 is not IT!
I think one of the very best things so far is that my legs have stopped rubbing together - my shorts don't end up in my crotch as I walk - you know, the constant reach-down-and-pull-them-back-down-to-your-knees thing, trying to stay unobvious - right! - and my pants don't get worn out between my thighs.
The program I'm using says you can lose 9 pounds in 11 days. I say
that's too fast and unhealthy for me, at 60, and I didn't want to do it that fast. So I added a bit of butter here and there, and a little mayo there and here, and actually had to learn to eat more, because I had been used to eating little bits every couple hours or so. Now I eat 4 times a day. I can go longer than 3 hours - sometimes even 5 - between meals - unheard of before without dizziness, feeling weak in the knees, irritability - and so on. Not now.
And, I'm noticing that I actually have begun to want less food now. Seems I did a re-learn, then a re-adjust. I'm eating about 3/4 of what I did at first.
The program has you go 11 days on, 3 days off. At the first break, I chowed! I had cookies, pasta, sticky rice, all the starches I hadn't eaten on the program. Don't get me wrong - some of those are are included on the program - but I chose not to use them for my 11 days. I still don't - because when I eat breads and pasta and other grains, I become mentally muddled and unclear and can't think straight, I have no energy, and I get low-level depressed.
So now in the 3 day period, I eat about the same as I do on the 11 day - except that I add other protein types, and allow myself to have one carob cookie. It's really all I want! I'm proud of what my body is beginning to look and feel like - why blow it? Besides, the other foods don't appeal tome anymore. Give me some fresh fruit! Yum! Blackberries! Kiwis! Papayas! Mango!
I also have branched out, during the program into other foods than what they recommend - there's only so much ham and pineapple you can eat!
So if I'm tired of ham, I use roast beef, cottage cheese, or eggs, or some other protein.
If it's pineapple, I'll use strawberries or kiwis - some other acidic fruit.
If it's an all-protein meal, and it calls for meat, I'll substitute cottage cheese or eggs.
If it's a part vegie meal, and it says salad, I'll sometimes use a nice home-made tomato soup. I buy big jars of really good spaghetti sauce - no fillers - and thin it out with water, add some lightly sauteed vegies and some salt - makes a really nice soup.
If it calls for an omelette w/ vegies, why not have poached or soft-boiled eggs and a salad? Or even add some diced ham to the eggs?
See how I stay within the requirements, but add variety? It's easy. All you have to do is look to see if it's a protein/vegies, protein/fruit, all protein, all vegies, or all fruit requirement.
On the day they call for 2 vegie meals and one fruit meal I make breakfast with a nice variety of salad stuff with a teensy bit of mayo and olive oil, a grand fruit salad mid-afternoon, and a nice hot bunch of cooked vegies at dinner - sometimes with my tomato soup as a small side dish.
It's become really fun to eat, and really satisfying to know that the extra poundage is falling off me, and that I can eat and enjoy my food without guilt or feeling it's bad for me. I don't really miss the grains - I find having crisp mental clarity and lots of energy is a fabulous tradeoff for how I felt before.
I love being able to eat fruits, too - before if I ate grains, I'd react to eating any kind of fruit - I'd get a blood sugar spike, sleepiness, and belly aches. Now I eat a lot of fruit - of many varieties - and have absolutely no - ZERO - side effects! I can also eat eggs - where before I'd get hives, a super belly ache and literally pass out right after I ate it, taking hours to recuperate.
You can find out more about the unique program here:
Go HERE to check it out!
It's a really neat interactive thing - and only 27 bucks for a three-month plan. Can't lose there. I go in every couple weeks and get new plans to map out my month so I can shop for the food I'll need. They make it almost too easy!
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© Angela Treat Lyon 2006 • Please feel free to use this information or article in its entirety as long as you include all contact information. Thank you!
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