I WAS DOWN SEVENTEEN POUNDS THIS MORNING..... 17 pounds in six weeks!!!
I am so happy for that. And, if you look at my calories on a daily basis, you'd have to admit that whether it was intentional or not, I've NOT kept them on an even level. Perhaps that is one reason I've had the success I've had-- to hear these who believe in spiking your intake one day and then dropping it another as the Wendie plan promotes.
Anyway today is the last day of Week Number Six and I've lost 17 pounds.
Coffee
Breakfast (I overslept): Oat 'n' Honey bars
The picture is blurry because the bars were still in the wrapper when I scanned them and I suppose the bulk caused it to blur.
Snack: Yogurt
Another snack: about a Tbsp on peanuts
I couldn't understand why I was getting hungry AGAIN after the first snack. I was sure the yogurt would hold me until lunch time. FINALLY, when lunch time came and I went to clock out I realized MY WATCH HAD STOPPED. It was way past my lunch time.
Lunch: Sandwich and veggies and 1/4 of a cantaloupe (left from my Women's World low-carb day)
Snack: Two string cheese sticks
Home: Coffee-- while I add up my calories so I can see how much I can eat for supper.
At this point I'm up to 928 calories.
Supper: Broiled Tilapia cooked with Cajun Seasoning and a Concoction of my own.
I wanted a potato. So I cleaned and cut one into small pieces (chunky slices) and started cooking it in about a teaspoon and half of Fleishmann's olive oil spread (or whatever they call it). I added pieces of veggies I had left in my crisper drawer: green pepper, onion, three baby carrots,celery and some jalapeño peppers. I let them all cook together until the fish was done.
It was really quite good.
I think almost anything is improved by adding a jalapeño pepper.
I liked the fish with the cajun seasoning too.
C-C Food Log:
Mon, Aug 27 2007
Melons, Cantaloupe 69
coffee 40
coffee 40
Oats&Honey Breakfast bars 180
Activia Yogurt 110
Peanuts, All Types, Oil-roasted - With Salt 108
Sandwich, with one slice 120 calorie bread 240
Radishes - Raw 1
Celery - Raw 6
Carrots, Baby - Raw 14
1 string cheese 60
1 string cheese 60
Total Calories Consumed before supper 928
tilapia 98
Potatoes, Flesh And Skin - With Salt 128
Fleishmans olive oil margarine 35
Other veggies 40
Total Calories Consumed 1,229
2 comments:
Hi there! I came across your blog after doing a search for the Carb Cycling diet that is in the latest Women's World magazine - I love it!!! You have the pages scanned in beautifully! Thank you!
I love that you are really analyzing your diet and posting it here for us to see - you look great, keep up the good work!!!
I am almost 47 and have done a good job of keeping off the 25 pounds that I lost on WW about 6 years ago, but I would still like to lose an additional 10 pounds. What a struggle! Right now, I am 5'11" tall and weigh 168. It's a healthy weight, but for the amount of work I put into diet and exercise, I really would like to be down to right about 155.
I have started swimming 3 or 4 nights a week and will plan to add an additional 2 nights to that. I have been taking lessons, which I like because I swim harder when I have a "boss" - lol!
My problem is that I also like to cook and eat and have a little wine with dinner a couple of nights a week. This weekend a friend of mine with a fabulous peach tree gave me about 10 pounds of peaches, so I made a peach cobbler last night and used about half of them up. So hard to resist fresh peach cobbler right out of the oven! There has got to be a happy medium in here somewhere!
Anyway, here I am blabbing along to you - hope you don't mind! I just think you're doing a great job and I just love the way that you are attaching the diet dilemma that we all face!
Have a great week!
Linda
My wife and I have been doing a form a carb cycling since April. We've had good results. But, we found that the shorter cycles don't work well without exercise. A 2 week cycle (11 days below 45 ecc and 3 days unlimitted) has resulted in an average of 5 pounds lost per month. This is the same as we were losing on low-carb everyday (excluding the first 3 months). I think it's an excellent strategy. Most people get scared from the water weight gained during the carb-up days. This usually falls off within a few days of returning to low-carb. I wish you luck. Keep us posted on your long-term results.
Big Daddy D
of Lowcarbohydrate.blogspot.com
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