The start of this diet is a 9 day detox, when I first read the book I thought 9 days was nothing, I could do anything for 9 days. But on day one, I started to rethink that. Lucky for me I had some great friends who were incredibly supportive and gave me some great tips to get through the detox phase.
By day 3 I was in the groove, and feeling really good about my decision. I made it through the entire 9 days sticking to the only fruits and veggies, eating oatmeal and brown rice as directed in the book.
My daily detox diet was as follows:
Breakfast:
Oatmeal
Mid morning snack:
Banana or other fruit
Lunch:
Left overs from night before, usually brown rice with sauteed squash
low fat yogurt
Snack:
14 almonds and baby carrots
Dinner:
1 cup brown rice with sauteed veggies
or
Large salad with grilled veggies
After dinner snack if needed:
low fat yogurt
It was a bit of a challenge to eat the same things for 9 days, I did create some variation with the different sauteed veggies, adding mushrooms etc, and creating different "sauces" using fresh salsa, or some soy and teriyaki sauce.
I am officially done with the detox, however I'm still adhering to the phase I diet so I can keep up the weight loss...I am adding some lean proteins into the mix but only once per day, and I'm trying to keep the brown rice to a minimum since I think it may have hindered my weight loss.
Overall, still doing really well and feeling great!!!
Goal loss 100 lbs
Total loss 6 lbs
94 lbs to go!
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Dining out
We love to go out to dinner, it's quite possibly one of my favorite hobbies....not exactly a healthy hobby.
While on phase 1 of this diet, it's quite difficult to go out to eat, but I did go out two times, once as a family for dinner and once for a work lunch outing. Both times I was able to stick to the Phase 1 allowed foods, we went to Chili's, there I was able to get a large salad with grilled vegetables. It was delish, the grilled veggies I'm sure had some seasoning or oil that wasn't ideal, but it was better than anything else on the menu. As for the work lunch, I was able to again order a large salad with some beans on it, and use super minimal amounts of dressing.
It is tough, but you can make eating out work for you, you just have to be willing to ask the server if they can modify things. Most of the time the servers are completely fine with modifying the menu items, and you can get a big salad almost anywhere. My dressing trick, which I learned from Weight Watchers is to order the dressing on the side and dip your fork into it and then get the salad on your fork. This helps minimize the amount of dressing used.
Weight loss goal 100lbs
Weight lost to date 5.2 lbs
Total left to lose 94.8 lbs.
While on phase 1 of this diet, it's quite difficult to go out to eat, but I did go out two times, once as a family for dinner and once for a work lunch outing. Both times I was able to stick to the Phase 1 allowed foods, we went to Chili's, there I was able to get a large salad with grilled vegetables. It was delish, the grilled veggies I'm sure had some seasoning or oil that wasn't ideal, but it was better than anything else on the menu. As for the work lunch, I was able to again order a large salad with some beans on it, and use super minimal amounts of dressing.
It is tough, but you can make eating out work for you, you just have to be willing to ask the server if they can modify things. Most of the time the servers are completely fine with modifying the menu items, and you can get a big salad almost anywhere. My dressing trick, which I learned from Weight Watchers is to order the dressing on the side and dip your fork into it and then get the salad on your fork. This helps minimize the amount of dressing used.
Weight loss goal 100lbs
Weight lost to date 5.2 lbs
Total left to lose 94.8 lbs.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
What now...
I'm starting this blog, as an outlet for my weight loss journey. To date it is private but I'm sure I'll let it be public soon enough. I'm hoping that putting this blog out there will help me to be accountable to myself and help me stay on track.
I'm currently overweight....obese to be correct. I have struggled with my weight for years, I've struggled with my weight more years than I haven't struggled. My current status is that I'm about 100 lbs over weight, if you go by the BMI charts at the doctors office probably more than that, but for what I consider healthy for me I'd say about 100 lbs.
So, recently I decided to embark on this journey yet again, to try yet another diet...hoping, wishing, that this would be the one for me. I've done various diets with various amounts of success...but nothing that really worked long term. But with the support of some great friends who blazed the trail before me, I'm starting the Fat Smash Diet.
I decided in August that I'd try this diet, sort of as a last ditch effort prior to talking seriously with my doctor about bariatriac surgery. I'm really only sort of interested in surgery, it seems so permanent, and scary, and not to mention not a sure thing. So I thought that since I've done weight watchers, LA weight loss, Atkins Diet, calorie counting, fasting etc, that I'd give this a shot as well.
I bought the book, read it and put it aside, I needed to let it set in. This (as the author Dr. Ian Smith puts it) is a lifestyle not a diet. There is a 9 day detox portion, in which you are supposed to smash all of your prior bad habits. I was skeptical...really how in 9 days can you completely change YEARS of habits....it can't be can it?
At this point I'm nearing desperate, so I'm giving it a shot. I started the diet on Wednesday, it is now Saturday...I'm about through with day 4, and I'm feeling great...I had headaches for the first couple days, my guess is from the lack of caffeine (although I think I've been cheating a bit with green tea....it says you can have 2 cups of herbal tea a day and I've had 1 cup of green tea a day), but today on day 4 I'm feeling better. No headaches, good energy (day 1&2 I was a little tired) and I'm actually enjoying what I'm eating.
The book recommends not weighing yourself until the end of the 9 days, but I'm not a patient person, so I weighed myself today. As of today I was down 3 lbs. I'm hoping that I can continue, complete the 9 days and continue to lose. I will try to update this blog weekly with my progress and, add foods that are working for me as well....if I have any LOL.
Stats:
Total weight to lose: 100
weight lost: -3
weight left tolose 97
I'm currently overweight....obese to be correct. I have struggled with my weight for years, I've struggled with my weight more years than I haven't struggled. My current status is that I'm about 100 lbs over weight, if you go by the BMI charts at the doctors office probably more than that, but for what I consider healthy for me I'd say about 100 lbs.
So, recently I decided to embark on this journey yet again, to try yet another diet...hoping, wishing, that this would be the one for me. I've done various diets with various amounts of success...but nothing that really worked long term. But with the support of some great friends who blazed the trail before me, I'm starting the Fat Smash Diet.
I decided in August that I'd try this diet, sort of as a last ditch effort prior to talking seriously with my doctor about bariatriac surgery. I'm really only sort of interested in surgery, it seems so permanent, and scary, and not to mention not a sure thing. So I thought that since I've done weight watchers, LA weight loss, Atkins Diet, calorie counting, fasting etc, that I'd give this a shot as well.
I bought the book, read it and put it aside, I needed to let it set in. This (as the author Dr. Ian Smith puts it) is a lifestyle not a diet. There is a 9 day detox portion, in which you are supposed to smash all of your prior bad habits. I was skeptical...really how in 9 days can you completely change YEARS of habits....it can't be can it?
At this point I'm nearing desperate, so I'm giving it a shot. I started the diet on Wednesday, it is now Saturday...I'm about through with day 4, and I'm feeling great...I had headaches for the first couple days, my guess is from the lack of caffeine (although I think I've been cheating a bit with green tea....it says you can have 2 cups of herbal tea a day and I've had 1 cup of green tea a day), but today on day 4 I'm feeling better. No headaches, good energy (day 1&2 I was a little tired) and I'm actually enjoying what I'm eating.
The book recommends not weighing yourself until the end of the 9 days, but I'm not a patient person, so I weighed myself today. As of today I was down 3 lbs. I'm hoping that I can continue, complete the 9 days and continue to lose. I will try to update this blog weekly with my progress and, add foods that are working for me as well....if I have any LOL.
Stats:
Total weight to lose: 100
weight lost: -3
weight left tolose 97
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