Weight change +/- in lbs: -1
1. Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit.
most2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches. Choose fruit for dessert.
yes3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts, too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them.
4. Eliminate all animal foods (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood).
yes5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).
yes6. Eliminate any added oil.
yes7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e., bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit.
8. Don't drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages).
mostly9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself.
yes10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).
yesVictories, comments, concerns, questions: The best thing about this past week is how large some of my tops are...though sadly one of those is a favorite that I bought on my honeymoon two years ago. It is a mint green pullover hoody that we bought after our Cirque du Soleil night. It hangs like a tunic on me, which is cool looking over my rear, but baggy around the shoulders which isn't so cool looking.
Also loving my morning walks. I am up to 5,000 steps and get in at least 3,500 before 6:30 a.m. Love. It.
The weirdest thing about the week is the behavior of the scale. It went up after my week vacation in April, and went down again right away, and then up four lbs where it stuck for ABSOLUTE DAYS. Then it went down two...and the next morning up three! And today it's down one lb compared to last Friday's weigh in.
As for my
elements. On two different days I ate rice crackers for a snack. The sugars...I'm still having too many starlite mints in a day. Gotta work on that.
And my "Mostly" elements. For part of the week, we had run out of ingredients so I didn't front load with soup for two days I guess. And the juice. I had grape nuts for breakfast one morning with juice instead of oatmilk. Oh. Grapenuts are also a flour based food.
Overall it's been a good week. I've kept my food simple and humble, have eaten only until satiated, have been more active overall, and am loving the new "problem" of much of my clothing being too big.