by K-Squared » Sat Aug 01, 2020 9:04 am
Weight Loss: -.2
Starting Weight: 163.7
Current Weight: 158.4
Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit. Consistent at Lunch and Dinner. At Breakfast I have been making my oatmeal a 50/50 bowl with fruit.
Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches. Choose fruit for dessert. Yes, but I am stuffed from eating soo many veggies!
Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts, too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them. I use 1 Tsp of Brown Sugar on my Oatmeal. We marinated portobello mushrooms in Liquid Aminos this week.
Eliminate all animal foods (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood). Nearly 5 years strong on this one!
Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy). 100% on this one!
Eliminate any added oil. 100% Easy
Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e., bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit. 100%
Don't drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages). 100%
Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself. Yes, but my version of comfortably full is likely wrong.
Well, since my chosen primary gauge of success is the scale, I have no idea how I'm doing. This week my scale provided me with weights that toggled between 153 - 163.7 lbs. For non-scale successes my clothes (the ones that aren't stretchy) feel as though they fit better and I am getting in a daily run as I complete C25K. I am planning to continue with the MWL program for another month, though I'm not sure I will participate in the August group as focusing on the scale is off-putting at the moment. Good luck to everyone in making positive lifestyle changes for the upcoming month!