Ummmm. I gave myself a gold star yesterday because I DID eat vegetarian, but I also ate more than I needed to. I'm going to look into "clean eating" and maybe add that to the envelope. I actually don't really know what that means. Catherine made some delicious soda bread. No preservatives---but is it clean? She used white flour. What about milk? That's been pasturized and who knows what all else? ditto for cheese. But I was looking at the website for fit2fat2fit--this guy had always been very fit and just didn't understand why everybody couldn't just BE fit too. So he decided to deliberately put on 50 unhealthy pounds by not working out and eating the SAD (Standard American Diet) for six months. He overachieved and gained 75. Then he got back to being fit. He says he understands the problem a little better now. I was very proud of him for not saying that he totally understands. He realized that he doesn't really know what it's like to be overweight for years or what it's like to be super overweight, but he DOES understand a little better. Good for him!!! I really don't want anybody to put on weight in an attempt to understand me, but I appreciate his efforts! I'm going to take a look at his book The frustrating thing about his website, is that I couldn't find much about what he was eating during his fat phase. He only posted two menus that I could find. I want to see more of this!! Those two fat days didn't look all that bad to me!! THAT'S a problem!! If he gained 75 pounds eating in ways that I think are ok, then I might actually be willing to take a look at what I'm eating!!
Instead, he (I admit reasonably), has a bunch of stuff about how he got fit again. Semi-useful---he's big into protein shakes which I'm not ready to embrace yet. I AM willing to understand better WHY big bowls of captain crunch cereal are bad for me (Especially since sugary cereals are not a weakness of mine, so I can feel secure). But I need to see more of his fat days. Here's what a "fat" vegetarian day looked like for me:
Breakfast: Fiberone cranberry almond cereal with milk, a glass of dark chocolate soy milk, string cheese.
Snack: sleeve of nuts
Snack: Banana
Lunch: Hunk of artesian bread with garlic cloves, with I can't believe it's not butter spread, an ounce or two of cheddar cheese, 1 whole can of progresso basil tomato soup, 9 or 10 olives, a reeses egg.
Snack: lite microwave popcorn.
Dinner: A cilantro pesto veggie sandwich on a really good bun (220 cal), pesto (homemade), eggplant, roasted peppers, mozzarella cheese. Crackers--both wheat thins and ritz with cheeseball. More olives.
Dessert: Kid-size german chocolate ice-cream from sub-zero.
Lots of sitting--but did walk to work and back.
A diet like this folks faithfully followed, will give you a beautiful body of about 200 pounds.
Losing weight in spite of myself.
I began this blog in February 2011 as a way to help me not quit trying to lose weight, and to learn a few things. It's been an interesting and powerful experience. It certainly confirms what I've long suspected--that although I am a genuinely happy cheery person in the main, I am NOT a happy cheery dieter. I DETEST losing weight. I resent being overweight in the first place and I am a virtuoso in the art of self-sabotage. And YET--I'm doing it! I'm fighting and kicking and EATING all the way down, but the weight is finally going down. The plan I was following in February was a half-baked one largely based on wishful thinking. I gained a little weight and decided to get real. I knew I couldn't just join weightwatchers or count calories or do any one plan and expect to be successful. I decided if I was going to bother to make the effort to lose weight I was going to throw everything I could think of at the problem. And so I do. My real "Day One" for this blog is April 1, 2011. I joined weight watchers, I joined caloriecount.com (awesome website), I read the blog losingweighteveryday.blogspot.com religiously, I keep this blog faithfully, I joined the health programs sponsored by my insurance, I use the principles from overeater's anonymous, I use my church's 12 step program as well, I subscribe--and use--Healthy Cooking Magazine.
The result of all this? Painfully slow progress (About 20 lbs in 10 months). But it IS progress and like the little engine that could I keep on trying in my rebellious way. I have no intention of quitting. This is by far the longest sustained weight loss effort I've ever made in my life. Successful I think, because for the first in my life I've done this MY way--which I've discovered, involves a lot of pizza and restaraunt food. I'm convinced this is the only way to lose weight. For me it must be MY way. For you it MUST be YOUR way. Not weight watcher's way, not your doctor's way, but YOUR way. Any plan or idea I use is only a tool.
The latest plan to lose weight my way began on Oct 29, 2013. It really is my own crazy plan. As you'll see if you read that post. I've implemented the best ideas of all sorts of eating plans and thrown out the scale. A couple of months in and I'm definitely healthier. I'm actually enjoying myself. I won't weigh until April 1, 2014, so I'll see then if this works the way I hope it will.
There is no magic weight loss bullet. But there IS a great deal of magic in the discovery of what I can happily live with (very different from what weight watchers tells me I can happily live with) and still have the body and health I want.
Good luck to all of us on this journey. It's quite a trip!
The result of all this? Painfully slow progress (About 20 lbs in 10 months). But it IS progress and like the little engine that could I keep on trying in my rebellious way. I have no intention of quitting. This is by far the longest sustained weight loss effort I've ever made in my life. Successful I think, because for the first in my life I've done this MY way--which I've discovered, involves a lot of pizza and restaraunt food. I'm convinced this is the only way to lose weight. For me it must be MY way. For you it MUST be YOUR way. Not weight watcher's way, not your doctor's way, but YOUR way. Any plan or idea I use is only a tool.
The latest plan to lose weight my way began on Oct 29, 2013. It really is my own crazy plan. As you'll see if you read that post. I've implemented the best ideas of all sorts of eating plans and thrown out the scale. A couple of months in and I'm definitely healthier. I'm actually enjoying myself. I won't weigh until April 1, 2014, so I'll see then if this works the way I hope it will.
There is no magic weight loss bullet. But there IS a great deal of magic in the discovery of what I can happily live with (very different from what weight watchers tells me I can happily live with) and still have the body and health I want.
Good luck to all of us on this journey. It's quite a trip!
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