I completed Day 3 of the fat fast with only a couple of small bumps. I stole a couple of french fries from my kids when I let them have lunch at McDonald's yesterday. We were out for a few hours, and I had to let them eat. Unfortunately that was the closest place, since we were at Wal-Mart waiting to get our Christmas photos taken. And then last night, shortly before bed, those darn mini cupcakes called my name again. And well, I don't want them to go to waste. So I ate one. This morning I weighed myself, and I've lost another pound. I am now at 117.4lbs. The last time I weighed this was before my first child was born, almost 9 years ago. I don't want to go back to the horrible eating I've been doing, but I know I can't stick to this diet forever. So I'm thinking I'm going to modify some things, and/or maybe do the fat fast every second day, just to keep my body in ketosis. I'd also like to start incorporating exercise this week, so today we're going to walk to church, even though it's pretty chilly out.
I want to continue to lose 1-2lbs a week, so I'm going to try not to beat myself up if I don't see a loss every single day. It's great that I got to where I am. I never thought I would lose 8lbs in 3 days, but I did, so I know I have to be prepared to not lose much over the next couple of days, especially with increasing my calorie intake.
I'm going to also try to remember not to overdo it at the gym, or during exercising. I will even limit myself to 30 minutes a day to start, because I don't want to go too crazy and then get frustrated when I don't lose. I don't want to burn myself out. I will figure out a way to lose these excess 65+ lbs.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Saturday, December 3, 2011
The Fat Fast - Not for everybody, but it's working for me!
Today is day 3 on the Atkins Fat Fast. I am thoroughly impressed with the results, and am thinking I may just push myself to four, or even five days. One thing I definitely need to remember though, is to pick up multivitamins while out today. I know I am depriving my body of important nutrients, and I don't want to cause problems on that end. That being said, I weighed myself this morning, and found I was down another 3lbs. I am now at 118.5lbs. I cannot believe that I have managed to lose about 7lbs in 2 days. This just blows my mind. Seeing results helps motivate me to want to stick it out a little longer, even though I am missing food like crazy.
I noticed that a lot of the foods on the fat fast are more on the savory side than the sweet. So I had a little goof up yesterday, because I was craving so bad. A few days ago we bought red velvet mini cupcakes. Like the day before I started the fast. So it makes sense that I can't stop thinking about them. Well, my youngest daughter was given one as a treat last night, but she didn't finish it, and I noticed it sitting on the table after she went to bed. Without even thinking, I snatched it up and ate it. Whoops. What feels good though, is that even with that goof, I managed to lose weight. But, of course it brought along another problem. I just put some sugar back in my diet and I. want. more. So this morning, I made a sweet breakfast. 2 tablespoons of sour cream (= 100cal), 2 tablespoons of whipping cream (= 100cal) and 2 tablespoons of cream cheese (= 90 cal), plus a little vanilla and maybe a half tablespoon of coconut. And a packet of stevia. Whipped it all together and ended up with a sort of a coconut mousse. It's not bad. It is definitely better with the sweetener than it was without. It is hard getting past the aftertaste. But it's the closest I can get it seems. I'm not sure what's on the meal plan for the rest of the day. I have 700 calories ahead of me. I'm thinking of maybe making a tuna and egg salad, and diving that up into multiple servings. I think today's meals will be 300, 200, 300, 200. We will be out for a while this afternoon, so I'm going to bag a serving of macadamia nuts, and snack on those while out. Then I'll make a 500-calorie salad and divide it into two. That will be my dinner and evening snack. Sounds simple enough I think. The other issue I'm having is I know I should be increasing my water intake, like 300%. And I know I've been drinking more water than I was. But I'm still feeling like it's not enough. So I am going to push myself to get more water in today. And I'm not going to commit to 4 or 5 days. I will decide tomorrow whether I am going to continue. For now, I'm just going to look to today, and completing day 3. It's always easier to talk about how we'll follow a diet than it is to actually stick to it. I am hoping for no slip ups today, but will remember that this is a big change for me, and I shouldn't beat myself up if I can't make it past today.
I noticed that a lot of the foods on the fat fast are more on the savory side than the sweet. So I had a little goof up yesterday, because I was craving so bad. A few days ago we bought red velvet mini cupcakes. Like the day before I started the fast. So it makes sense that I can't stop thinking about them. Well, my youngest daughter was given one as a treat last night, but she didn't finish it, and I noticed it sitting on the table after she went to bed. Without even thinking, I snatched it up and ate it. Whoops. What feels good though, is that even with that goof, I managed to lose weight. But, of course it brought along another problem. I just put some sugar back in my diet and I. want. more. So this morning, I made a sweet breakfast. 2 tablespoons of sour cream (= 100cal), 2 tablespoons of whipping cream (= 100cal) and 2 tablespoons of cream cheese (= 90 cal), plus a little vanilla and maybe a half tablespoon of coconut. And a packet of stevia. Whipped it all together and ended up with a sort of a coconut mousse. It's not bad. It is definitely better with the sweetener than it was without. It is hard getting past the aftertaste. But it's the closest I can get it seems. I'm not sure what's on the meal plan for the rest of the day. I have 700 calories ahead of me. I'm thinking of maybe making a tuna and egg salad, and diving that up into multiple servings. I think today's meals will be 300, 200, 300, 200. We will be out for a while this afternoon, so I'm going to bag a serving of macadamia nuts, and snack on those while out. Then I'll make a 500-calorie salad and divide it into two. That will be my dinner and evening snack. Sounds simple enough I think. The other issue I'm having is I know I should be increasing my water intake, like 300%. And I know I've been drinking more water than I was. But I'm still feeling like it's not enough. So I am going to push myself to get more water in today. And I'm not going to commit to 4 or 5 days. I will decide tomorrow whether I am going to continue. For now, I'm just going to look to today, and completing day 3. It's always easier to talk about how we'll follow a diet than it is to actually stick to it. I am hoping for no slip ups today, but will remember that this is a big change for me, and I shouldn't beat myself up if I can't make it past today.
Friday, December 2, 2011
December 1st - New Month, New Plans
I have been steadily adding more and more wheat to my diet, despite reading articles about how addictive it is, and how it stays in your system, clogging your intestines for up to 72 hours (or more, depending on just how slow the body moves waste through). It is really hard to make a full time commitment to remove staples from a household, especially when there's four other people in the home who don't necessarily need to eliminate said staples, but maybe just cut down. It doesn't help that by bringing wheat back into my diet, it just makes the cravings worse, and causes me to want to eat every wheaty thing I can find: cereals, breads, pastas, cakes and cookies. This past week has been a slippery downhill slope.
On the plus side (possibly), a friend pointed me in the direction of the Atkins Fat Fast. I read a blog about a woman who was in the midst of a Fat Fast, and read a few different articles on what it's about and what it does. Essentially, a Fat Fast is exactly that. You fast on nothing but fat. This is supposed to be a way for stubborn bodies to kickstart ketosis and help boost metabolism to get weight loss started, or continued if it has plateaued. I have not lost any weight in all these months of diet and exercise, and so I find myself here, attempting a 3-day fat fast. Yesterday was my first day, and it had it's challenges, but one of the good things about the fat fast is that you are so limited to what you can have, and most of those foods are simple foods. Basically it works like this. You cut your calorie intake to 1000 calories a day. This is close to starvation mode. But those 1000 calories are supposed to be up to 90% fat. What you end up doing is telling your body that you have too much fat, and so it starts to work to burn the fat off. But not just the fat you consume, it will also start burning up your fat stores. It seems that typical results can be about 2-5lbs during the fast, and you can choose to fast for 3-5 days, but shouldn't fast longer than 5 days, because the fast is highly deficient in proteins and vitamins. What Dr. Atkins suggests is dividing your 1000-calorie-a-day allotment into 5 200-calorie mini-meals. Some examples of a single serving are:
One ounce of macadamia nuts (approximately 1/4 cup or about 12 good sized nuts)
One ounce of pecans fried in butter
2 slices of bacon
1/4 medium avocado, mixed with 1 tbsp mayo, a drop of lemon, and some chili powder, served on a couple of pork rinds, in lettuce wrap, or eat with a spoon
2 1/2 oz of heavy whipped cream, artificially sweetened
2 egg yolks mixed with 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
1/2 medium avocado
1 oz chicken, shrimp, egg or other flaked meat, plus 3 times the normal amount of mayonnaise
2 tablespoons of unsalted, unsweetened peanut butter
2 tablespoons of cream cheese
(I've gotten all of these from other blogs and articles, so if any are wrong, please feel free to correct me)
Yesterday I goofed, on my first day. I thought I had read on one site that 4 slices of bacon was one serving. It didn't even occur to me to read the nutritional facts. I thought it was so great eating so much for breakfast. Then I looked when I was finished. Oops. That cut my meals down to four. My second meal was an ounce of macadamia nuts. My third meal was one tablespoon of peanut butter and one tablespoon of cream cheese. And my last meal was one tablespoon of cream cheese and 1/2 an ounce of macadamia nuts. The hunger pangs haven't been as strong as I thought they'd be, but they are definitely there. I woke up late last night because I heard my oldest daughter get out of bed. After that it was a bit of a struggle to go back to sleep, with the ache in my belly. But when I woke up, the pain wasn't any worse than yesterday. So this morning for breakfast I'm having a 1/4 of an avocado and a cup of coffee with a teaspoon of coconut oil. I'm not sure what I'll have the rest of the day, but I will probably make up some tuna salad and figure out how to divide it up. I need to purchase a kitchen scale, because some of these things go by weight alone, and I know nothing of what a single ounce of tuna looks like.
I weighed myself yesterday, a little late in the morning. I can't remember if I'd already had breakfast or not. I was at 225.6lbs. This morning I weighed myself. The scale read 221.5lbs. I'm interested to see what tomorrow's will say.
I cannot see myself doing this past 3 days. This is hard work. And it is especially hard feeding my children and not being able to eat with them. But I am working hard to make sure I make through day 3 (tomorrow), and then I will have to be mindful of what I eat for the next few days after that. Meaning I will need to eat lean, and not pig out on all kinds of junk and carbs, because that will just reverse the effects of the fat fast, and I don't want these days to go to waste.
On the plus side (possibly), a friend pointed me in the direction of the Atkins Fat Fast. I read a blog about a woman who was in the midst of a Fat Fast, and read a few different articles on what it's about and what it does. Essentially, a Fat Fast is exactly that. You fast on nothing but fat. This is supposed to be a way for stubborn bodies to kickstart ketosis and help boost metabolism to get weight loss started, or continued if it has plateaued. I have not lost any weight in all these months of diet and exercise, and so I find myself here, attempting a 3-day fat fast. Yesterday was my first day, and it had it's challenges, but one of the good things about the fat fast is that you are so limited to what you can have, and most of those foods are simple foods. Basically it works like this. You cut your calorie intake to 1000 calories a day. This is close to starvation mode. But those 1000 calories are supposed to be up to 90% fat. What you end up doing is telling your body that you have too much fat, and so it starts to work to burn the fat off. But not just the fat you consume, it will also start burning up your fat stores. It seems that typical results can be about 2-5lbs during the fast, and you can choose to fast for 3-5 days, but shouldn't fast longer than 5 days, because the fast is highly deficient in proteins and vitamins. What Dr. Atkins suggests is dividing your 1000-calorie-a-day allotment into 5 200-calorie mini-meals. Some examples of a single serving are:
One ounce of macadamia nuts (approximately 1/4 cup or about 12 good sized nuts)
One ounce of pecans fried in butter
2 slices of bacon
1/4 medium avocado, mixed with 1 tbsp mayo, a drop of lemon, and some chili powder, served on a couple of pork rinds, in lettuce wrap, or eat with a spoon
2 1/2 oz of heavy whipped cream, artificially sweetened
2 egg yolks mixed with 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
1/2 medium avocado
1 oz chicken, shrimp, egg or other flaked meat, plus 3 times the normal amount of mayonnaise
2 tablespoons of unsalted, unsweetened peanut butter
2 tablespoons of cream cheese
(I've gotten all of these from other blogs and articles, so if any are wrong, please feel free to correct me)
Yesterday I goofed, on my first day. I thought I had read on one site that 4 slices of bacon was one serving. It didn't even occur to me to read the nutritional facts. I thought it was so great eating so much for breakfast. Then I looked when I was finished. Oops. That cut my meals down to four. My second meal was an ounce of macadamia nuts. My third meal was one tablespoon of peanut butter and one tablespoon of cream cheese. And my last meal was one tablespoon of cream cheese and 1/2 an ounce of macadamia nuts. The hunger pangs haven't been as strong as I thought they'd be, but they are definitely there. I woke up late last night because I heard my oldest daughter get out of bed. After that it was a bit of a struggle to go back to sleep, with the ache in my belly. But when I woke up, the pain wasn't any worse than yesterday. So this morning for breakfast I'm having a 1/4 of an avocado and a cup of coffee with a teaspoon of coconut oil. I'm not sure what I'll have the rest of the day, but I will probably make up some tuna salad and figure out how to divide it up. I need to purchase a kitchen scale, because some of these things go by weight alone, and I know nothing of what a single ounce of tuna looks like.
I weighed myself yesterday, a little late in the morning. I can't remember if I'd already had breakfast or not. I was at 225.6lbs. This morning I weighed myself. The scale read 221.5lbs. I'm interested to see what tomorrow's will say.
I cannot see myself doing this past 3 days. This is hard work. And it is especially hard feeding my children and not being able to eat with them. But I am working hard to make sure I make through day 3 (tomorrow), and then I will have to be mindful of what I eat for the next few days after that. Meaning I will need to eat lean, and not pig out on all kinds of junk and carbs, because that will just reverse the effects of the fat fast, and I don't want these days to go to waste.
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