SW: 241.9 lbs.
GW: 150.0 lbs.
Last Weigh in: 214.0 lbs.
This Week: 213.4
Lost: 0.6
Weight change +/- in lbs:
Lost: 0.6 (not really sure about this my scale has become erratic and is being replaced).
1. Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit.
2. 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.
3. 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).
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).
6. Eliminate any added oil.
7. 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).
9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself.
10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).
Victories, comments, concerns, questions:
Well, Christmas week good grief the temptations tossed my way were overwhelming, but for the most part - I've done OK. I hope
wildgoose drops in today and reads this as while Mark was away - she read my post about my neighbor (thin as a rail and exercise addict) who KNOWS I am dieting yet regularly brings my cookies and muffins. This time her daughter added her homemade Christmas cookies to the assortment of vegan muffins. I did as wildgoose suggested tossed them - with only one bite of each. However - note this
The card that came with the delightful morsels began thusly ..... "I know you are dieting but....."..
But let's not stop there - this week my Instacart delivery came with a bag that was not my order. Due to Covid they can't take back and assure the bag gets to the right home after all. You're stuck with someone else's groceries. Just
some of what was in this errant bag - 2 bags of semi-sweet chocolate chips, one big bag of walnuts, a pound of butter, a bottle of olive oil, garlic croutons and 2 boxes of Pomi tomatoes. I kept the tomatoes and put the rest in my car. The idea was to take the eventually to the Food Closet, however just now the Food Closet is taking no donations except "rubber bands and zip lock bags. They are stuffed to the gills with food from the Second Harvest. I know because I write up their request list every week for various church bulletins.
However, as luck would have it - my Cousin Steve came by to do a present drop. I asked him if he'd be interested in those items. He said indeed and I grabbed up the butter from the fridge before he left.
However...... among my gifts was a box of See's chocolates from my dear Auntie Evelyn - at this point I succumbed from being virtuous (as the Gods, I presumed were going to continue to toss me food grenades until I caved) and I ate three - just three - and tossed the rest.
I know this is nothing -compared to the restraint of folks who live with SAD eaters and these types of foods are in their cupboards and pantries all the time. But I am not a Saint when it comes to avoiding sweets - but I could have been so much worse than I was this week.
Hope all is well with everyone and that we all had safe and Happy Holidays - Michelle