4 days in and so far so good.
The diet, surprisingly, is the part I am enjoying the best. Probably because it is a puzzle of sorts. No Atkins or South Beach or any other diet that focuses on eliminating certain food groups. This is just about balanced meals, portion control and getting your metabolism up.
My typical diet would consist of a latte around 8:30am, maybe lunch out (Mexican, Thai, pizza, etc...) or maybe I would miss lunch if I got distracted at work, and then dinner out or in. If we eat in I had been cutting back portions and trying to do more meat/veggies and less carbs but if we eat out all bets are off. The worst of days were the ones where I ate no breakfast or lunch and showed up at 6pm with dangerously low blood sugar and an attitude to match.
Now I am eating 5 meals a day, all balanced between carbs and proteins. Ok, that's doable but add in a target to reach 100g of protein a day and do it in under 1050 total calories then it becomes tricky. That is where the puzzle comes in.
I did go grocery shopping last Friday and bought what I thought I would need for the week and once I started putting the puzzle together real-time found that I went through ALL the protein by Wednesday morning.
I suspect as soon as I have the puzzle solved they will modify the diet and I'll be back at square one but for now one week at a time and this one is going well.
The diet, surprisingly, is the part I am enjoying the best. Probably because it is a puzzle of sorts. No Atkins or South Beach or any other diet that focuses on eliminating certain food groups. This is just about balanced meals, portion control and getting your metabolism up.
My typical diet would consist of a latte around 8:30am, maybe lunch out (Mexican, Thai, pizza, etc...) or maybe I would miss lunch if I got distracted at work, and then dinner out or in. If we eat in I had been cutting back portions and trying to do more meat/veggies and less carbs but if we eat out all bets are off. The worst of days were the ones where I ate no breakfast or lunch and showed up at 6pm with dangerously low blood sugar and an attitude to match.
Now I am eating 5 meals a day, all balanced between carbs and proteins. Ok, that's doable but add in a target to reach 100g of protein a day and do it in under 1050 total calories then it becomes tricky. That is where the puzzle comes in.
I did go grocery shopping last Friday and bought what I thought I would need for the week and once I started putting the puzzle together real-time found that I went through ALL the protein by Wednesday morning.
I suspect as soon as I have the puzzle solved they will modify the diet and I'll be back at square one but for now one week at a time and this one is going well.
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