The 7-Day Low-Carb Rescue and Recovery Plan

This book seems to be aimed at people who have had a degree of success with low carb dieting but have fallen "off the wagon." But it is for anyone who wants to lose weight.

Their FIRST objective is NOT to lose weight. They tell you right up front that if you are wanting a quick fix, this is not the book for you. They are aiming for a change in the way we eat and that is what they work to introduce in their "7-Day" Plan.

The 7 Days actually can grow to more than 7. It would have been more accurately called a 7-Step Plan. Probably they wanted to reel in more readers with the idea that it was something that could be done in a week BECAUSE IT IS POSSIBLE THAT IT COULD BE.

The seven steps are done one at a time with the next being added only after the previous are being done comfortably as the plan dictates.

The point, reiterating, is to change the way we eat. Since that is not so easy to do, they took a workable approach. Before they subtracted, they added.

These are the seven steps:
One
Continue to eat as you have been eating, but add one low carb protein to every meal and snack. (They give a list that you can choose from.) There is no limit to how much you can eat or there is no designated amount of the amount of low carb protein that you add. The idea behind it is that you are going to add into your diet an element that is going to help stabilize your blood sugar for a longer period of time than what you were previously eating did.

Two
Continue to follow the guideline of One. In addition, add on low-carb vegetables and/or salad to lunch, dinner, and snacks. Make sure the vegetables and salads you add TASTE GOOD. The amount you add is not as important as being consistent. ADD these to what you would have eaten BEFORE the plan. You don't add anything at breakfast; just continue with guideline One at breakfast.

Three
Continue with guidelines One and Two. In addition, BALANCE all meals and snacks. That is, include a good portion of low-carb protein, vegetables, and/or salad in relation to high-carb foods that you would normally eat. Use the amount of protein that you eat in a meal to determine the amount of high carb food that you eat. You don't need to weigh or measure; just use your eye to balance the portions. To get a good balance, for breakfast the protions can be divided up to half high-carb foods and half low-carb foods but never more high-carb than low-carb.

At lunch, dinner, and snacks, continue the same balance: eat only as much high-carb food (including starches and sweets in total) as you eat of low-carb protein at that meal. You may choose to eat more low-carb protein than high-carb foods but never the reverse.

Four
Continue guidelines One, Two, and Three. Additionally, at all meals and snacks, eat TOWARD your carbs. Hold on until you've finished your low-carb protein, vegetables, and salad before you begin to eat your high-carb foods.


Five
Continue guidelines One, Two, Three,and Four
Hold on and save all of your high-carb foods for meals only.
At all Snacks, eat only low carb foods.

Six
Continue guidelines One through Five. Additionally, at all snacks AND at one meal eat only low carb foods. Hold on and have all of your high-carb foods at no more than tow meals daily.

Seven
Continue One through Six. Additionally, at two meals AND at all snacks eat only low-carb foods. Hold on and have all of your high-carb foods at only one meal each day (which they call your "reward meal").

Continuing Success
Whenever you experience intense cravings, chances are something you ate is throwing your insulin levels out of balance.

Going back to the beginning, let me say here that Beginning Success is geared to enjoying what you eat. They emphasize making the things that you add to your meals taste good to you or you will not keep on with the changes that you make.

So, I'm supposing that they feel it it more an imbalance of the wrong foods over the right ones that leads to weight gain.

Oh, I will have to check this out. (I haven't finished the book yet.) But I think that they also say in there somewhere that as the foods you are adding cause you to be less hungry, cut back your portions.

The end result of that is smaller portions of food that is balanced. Or, in other words, a healthy eating plan.

Eureka!!

I went by Dollar Tree on my way into Huntsville last evening. I had my grandboys with me and was letting them "shop" for some treasures. I meandered on over to the books. There was one there that caught my attention.

The Seven-Day Low-Carb Rescue and Recovery Plan

I picked it up and started browsing through it.

Pretty good.

Hmmm. For $1 I might get MORE out of this that I do for the $2 I spend on Woman's World ever week. (They always feature some diet.)

When I finally got home I settled in and began reading it.

I must say I'm impressed.

I'm much more impressed by what they had to say in this book that I was when I checked out their other book. They also wrote the Carbohydrate Addict's Diet. I took a quick look at that and dismissed it entirely. I'm not sure which book was written first, but I sure like their approach on this one a lot better.

So much so that I got up this morning and started off doing what they suggested.