My Plan

HERE IS MY PLAN:
After doing much research over the years, some of it more recent, here is what I have finally settled on:

~Avoid processed foods whenever possible
~Avoid all oils except olive oil and coconut oil
~Allow real butter, whole milk, and whole milk dairy products (in moderation)
~Allow whole eggs
~Avoid all white sugar and high fructose corn syrup
~Allow all fruit
~Allow bread and pasta, but only the sprouted grain/spelt kind
~Allow brown rice (no white rice)
~Avoid white potatoes, allow sweet potatoes
~Allow all vegetables (starchy ones in moderation)
~No artificial sweeteners, use 100% all natural stevia instead

Goal weight: 145
Size I'd like to see myself in: Size 6

Friday, April 8, 2011

Beware of meatballs...

This morning the scale showed a one pound gain, so I'm thinking I may have overdone it with the meatballs at dinnertime last night. That's why I'm weighing every day after all, is to see how my body reacts to certain foods until I get used to the new low-carb lifestyle. Funny how I "feel" thinner today, though. The other possibility is that I had fluid retention in the muscles from the workout I did last night, which was the Jillian Micheal's 30-Day Shred. I read somewhere recently that when you workout, especially with weights, that the muscles retain fluid to help with the repair after the muscles "tear" and subsequent increase in muscle mass. I still feel like I should have shown "some" loss, or at the very least stayed the same weight, so I will keep that in mind next time I want meatballs. They do have breading added to them, after all (I used the frozen, pre-made kind).

I am feeling even more energetic today! Is this what it's like to have energy? I knew I was missing something, but you don't really know until you get it back. I was actually able to get out of bed with no problem after only 6.5 hours of sleep and that's a rare thing for me.

The Jillian workout last night was pretty tough, I was one whipped puppy by the time it was over and could barely finish the bicycle crunches at the end. My muscles were still sore from doing the workout two days prior to that, which was the first time I had done it in a couple of months. Add to that starting the Couch to 5K program the day before, which included some running intervals along with brisk walking, in a hilly area, pushing my 52-lb. daughter in the Graco stroller, and it's no wonder I was sore. Part way through the workout I couldn't help but think, "Ugh, do I really want to do this?" But then I reminded myself that once I break through that wall of getting back in shape, it will get easier, and I'll be so proud of myself, and all that hard work will pay off big time.

Today I plan to do Day 2 of the Couch to 5K program, adding additional walking to make it a total of 30-minutes.
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