What I Ate:
- 1 ½ cups coffee with 2 teaspoons sugar and 3 teaspoons of cream
- Breakfast: I medium apple
- Lunch: 3 cups salad with ¼ cup green peppers and cucumbers with 3 tablespoons low fat Italian dressing
- Afternoon Snack: ½ cup frozen red grapes
- Dinner: 2 Cups sautéed spinach, 1 cup brown rice and 2 poached eggs.
- Evening Snack: ½ cup sliced strawberries
- Water intake: 9 cups of water
Exercise: 40 minutes walking on the treadmill
Reaction: Today was a pretty good day. I seemed to have a lot more energy today and felt really good. I noticed that I am slowing down when I eat because I want to enjoy the food I have and make it feel like it lasts longer. Of course I may not be eating the actual foods I want to eat but I do not feel deprived yet.
What I like: I like that I am measuring everything out and getting a better idea of what the proper portions of something really is. Sometimes the proper portion is actually more than what I thought while other times it is way less. It is a very good lesson for me after I finish this diet. I also like drinking a cup of water before each meal because I feel it helps you not eat as fast and get fuller quicker. I will try to continue this even after I am done with this diet.
What I didn’t like: Right now because my body is readjusting my food intake and looking at food differently I am thinking about food – a lot. Though I am not always hungry I am also not stuffed either, which is actually a very very good thing. However, a couple hours after eating I am thinking and eagerly anticipating my next meal. This is just all a mental thing.
Challenges: Snacks. Plain and simple, I want something salty and crunchy in the evening.
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I'm stalking your diet. LOL
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that your breakfast is so tiny. I've read/heard that breakfast is supposed to be your largest meal of the day & dinner your smallest - as to burn the calories throughout the day & have nothing left by the time you go to bed. See what I'm sayin'? What's 4-day man say about this? Or does it not matter as long as you eat what's on the list?
Portion control will be good knowledge to have for the rest of your life! I've been weighing/measuring most everything for the past few months, and it's been SUPER helpful for me. I've also been using MyFitnessPal to enter in my favorite meals/dishes that I made...so now I just know automatically that if I make a casserole a certain way, that 1/4 of it will be 380 calories (or whatever). I have those #s penciled in on my recipe card, and I figure that will help me forever!
ReplyDeleteThe mental side is such a tough boat - good job on drinking water instead of grabbing chips. That's something I'm working really hard on as well!
I agree with the breakfast question Sarah. I always try to eat more calories earlier in the day - there is no way I could have just one apple from 6am to noon.
ReplyDeleteJenn - what is the total calorie count per day right now? It seems pretty darn low.
I am glad you are stalking this diet....I was/am afraid it is going to get boring for people to read, I need to put other stuff on here as well!!
ReplyDeleteWell 4 day diet man (HAHAHAHAHA) suggests making lunch your bigger meal however for these first few days we are choosing to eat more in the evening as I don’t think we could make it otherwise!! Last night K & I both went to bed on the hungry side, so at this point I am totally ok with saving our “bigger” meals to the end of the day. The next phase is going to be similar, a lot of fruits and veggies with 4 oz protein and limited everything else!! But after that I am going to try to eat more during the day and not as much at night.
I have not had time to exactly count the calories based on the specific products we have, just a rough estimate from a calorie book I have. Day 1 we ate 1000 (give or take a few) and yesterday we had about 560. It looks like today will be around 600-700. (plus we are doing 40 minutes of cardio) When I found out I just thought WOW, I wonder what I was eating before. Sigh I will try to keep up on the calorie counting though….it might be a good reality check for me!!
P.S. Thank you for showing an interst, that is very awesome!!
Yeah, I don't think it's an awful thing to "jolt" or "kick start" your system with just a few days of lot calorie counts like that, but if you did it for any extended period of time I would be seriously concerned. When you're below the 1200 calorie range for any extended period of time, your body is in starvation mode and holding on to EVERY SINGLE CALORIE it can, and you will never lose weight that way.
ReplyDeleteI'm just you know this - just saying!
I'd definitely start making lunch your bigger meal. I try to eat 4-5 small meals daily, but the biggest is generally at lunch. If I'm in the 1400 range, I'll do:
250 breakfast
200 midmorning snack
400 lunch
150 afternoon snack
400 dinner
or if I'm doing 4 meals, I'll eat the midmorning snack around 11, lunch around 2:30, and dinner around 6.
just throwing that out there in case it helps you!