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So I'm pretty pleased with how things are going so far. Of course, I don't actually know for sure if I've lost any weight, but it feels like I have. I know -- that's silly -- but my clothes feel better, and I don't feel so much like my skin is too tight for my body. But the best part, the thing I've noticed the most: My blood sugar is clearly better modulated than it was. I no longer feel all weird and sweaty in the morning, and I'm not getting light headed any time during the day. Sticking to a low-glycemic diet and spreading calories across the day keeps my blood sugar stable throughout the day, and that's how I feel my best. I'll be really interested to see what my fasting blood sugar and A1-C are when I go in next month, but I would be very surprised if my numbers aren't much improved. Over all, even though I'm still struggling with this stupid intestinal problem, I feel much much better after three full weeks back on this diet. Also, I'm pleased to find that all the knowledge I accumulated in 2010-11 is still stored in my head, and it's been fairly easy to implement the diet again. I forgot a few things the first couple weeks -- for example, I forgot to stock up on sliced turkey and sliced low-fat ham, and to get those cool parmesan crisps that are just cheese no flour. But I got those things at the grocery this week, so now I have my high protein, low-fat, low calorie snacks. So, I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing... I remember that when I did this in 2010, I waited a month before I did a weigh-in, so that I was over that hump of losing water weight and getting all excited and then slowing to a halt and getting discouraged. So that's what I'm going to do again -- no weigh-in until August 7, and whatever I weigh will be my "start" weight for this phase of my diet. I've got my fingers and toes crossed it won't be a number that's so discouraging I feel overwhelmed.
Diet Calendar Entry for 18 July 2014:
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1196 kcal
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Fat: 46.80g | Prot: 75.63g | Carb: 121.62g.
Breakfast: Sausages By Amylu amy smoked breakfast club chicken sausage, Zucchini Pancakes. Lunch: Salmon Salad, Farmed Here Sweet Basil Vinaigrette, Angelic Bakehouse Sprouted Seven-Grain Hamburger Buns, Trader Joe's Sugar Snap Peas. Dinner: Great Value Kosher Whole Dill Pickles, Trader Joe's Organic Turbinado Raw Cane Sugar, Blueberries, Strawberries, Bland Farms Vidalia Sweet Onion, Great Value Sweet Pickle Relish, LocalFolks Foods Loca Folks Ketchup, Sun Luck Toasted Sesame Seeds, Almond Accents Oven Roasted No Salt Toasted Sliced Almonds, Trader Joe's Shredded Green Cabbage, Angelic Bakehouse Sprouted Seven-Grain Hamburger Buns, Applegate Farms The Great Organic Uncured Beef Hot Dog. Snacks/Other: Honeycup Uniquely Sharp Mustard, Doctor Kracker Klassic 3 Seed Crispbread, Sara Lee Thin-Sliced Honey Ham, POM Wonderful, LLC Kali Original Parmesan Crisps, Sweet 2 Eat Peaches. more...
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