Day One of the cleansing phase of losing weight will begin Monday, January 25, 2010, if I can ever make it to bed from Sunday so I can start my Monday with rest!
Since so many people today expressed an interest in how I plan to do it, I am posting a summary. It is a modified South Beach plan.
The first 2 weeks is designed to break the addiction to a diet filled with sugar and carbs. Eat nothing from a box, bag, or can. (If it wasn't a food a hundred year ago, it's not a food today!) Fresh, or fresh frozen veggies and lean meats are the key.
You will probably actually eat MORE than usual and stay full all day, but lose weight. You will eat breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, mid-afternoon snack, and dinner.
1. Eat breakfast within 30 minutes of rising to kickstart your metabolism. Do not skip breakfast!
2. Eat lean meats, fresh or fresh frozen vegetables, and salads.
3. For this first 2 weeks, it’s pretty much NO WHITE FOOD. No flour (bread, pasta, pancakes, etc.), no sugar (no soda, no FRUITS, no carrots, corn or milk products), no rice, no potatoes.
4. Double your daily water intake.
Do weights, or any kind of resistance exercise along with cardio.
For breakfast, eat eggs and lean breakfast meat. Water/coffee/tea (no cream and sugar!)/V-8 juice are okay, but no sweet fruit juices!
Snacks: Handful of unsalted almonds, peanut butter on celery, piece of ham or turkey rolled with some low-fat cheese are typical.
Lunch: Fresh salad can include lean meat (like a chicken or tuna salad). NO croutons! Or lean meat (like a boneless, skinless chicken breast on the George Forman grill) and fresh veggies.
Afternoon snack – same options as mid-morning.
Dinner: similar to lunch.
Portion control, points and calorie counting are not the issue with this… the idea is to eat every two hours or so, before you get hungry, and keep your metabolism high. Your body will adjust to never being hungry by starting to burn instead of store fat.
Don’t eat after dinner! Night snacking is a diet-killer.
I will weigh in Monday morning to get a baseline weight, and will not get back on the scales for 14 days, at which time I will report honestly whether I have, in fact, lost weight, and, if so, how much.
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