An entire week has gone by me now.....
NO SODA....
NO SUGAR....
NO CHIPS.....
NO FRENCH FRIES.....
NO MCDONALDS OR CHIC FIL A (NO FAST FOOD PERIOD)....
NO ICE CREAM....
NO CANDY BARS & THIS INCLUDES ANYTHING WITH CHOCOLATE....
NO JUICY MEDIUM RARE STEAK.....
NO MILK, YOGURT, SOUR CREAM, COTTAGE CHEESE, CHEESE (NO ENTIRE DAIRY SECTION).....
NO FLAVORFUL DRINKS....
NO ROAST...
NO TACOS OR MEXICAN....
NO POTATO SALAD....
NO SUGAR CEREAL....
NO WHITE FLOUR, OR WHEAT FLOUR FOR THAT MATTER...
NO PASTA (YUM)....
Alright do you get my drift? No NOTHING, NADA, ZILCH, ZIPPO!!!!
I have not had any of these food in the past week. I have been strong holding onto following this plan for my body. It isn't so bad as it may seem, here is a small list of things I do get to eat....
MUNG BEANS....
CHICK PEAS....
ADUZKI BEANS....
BROWN RICE...
BROWN RICE CEREAL....
SOY MILK.....
PINEAPPLE JUICE....
TOFU....
CORN CAKES OR RYE CRISP.... (RYE TASTE LIKE CARDBOARD & LOOKS IT)....
SHRIMP.....
ORGANIC CHICKEN....
GREENS....
CELERY & RADISH JUICE (NIGHTLY).....(NASTY, UGH, TOO HOT)
SPICED TEA.....
FISH....
MOST FRUITS....
HOMEMADE HUMMUS....(GROSS, GROSS, GROSS)...DID I MAKE MY POINT?
Now doesn't that all sound so delightful? I mean who eats this stuff? Oh, wait there are a few or a few thousands called vegetarians or vegans minus the fish & chicken. I haven't found that I am craving any of the things I am missing in my diet, sometimes I long for a piece of cheese all nice and gooey and yummy, but as far as other cravings they have COME & GONE!!!
I find myself doing my daily trend of following this meal plan and changing up the menu a little bit. I still can't believe that my body is not craving the one thing I have been addicted to for so many years and that is the love of THE DR....PEPPER or Mr. PIBB that is! Oh, how these quench my thirst and the sugar on my tongue as it's going down....WOWZERS no wonder they are implied men, women will swoon over them. However, I do believe when this meal plan comes to an end that this woman won't be doing too much swooning for the mere fact that so much time has passed on by (I HOPE)!!
Overall I find myself feeling better and both Guy and myself have noticed that my left leg isn't so swollen and puffy or red and it doesn't hurt all the time like it use to!!
I did however get a charlie horse the other night, and then a few days later I got one in my other calf....I wonder if that has something to do with the pills I am taking??
The bad bad monster that lives in our bathroom named THE SCALE says that I have lost 8lbs but I know or so I say most of it is water and that's what I wanted, while Guy says I have lost actual fat too. Hopefully I will keep dropping and the water will just pee out of me.....
This week I am introducing myself back to the gym now that I have one full week of the new eating. I had been reading a lot trying to figure out which was the best way to lose weight either high intensity or low intensity and I have found that everywhere says to do low intensity workout's for at least 30 min within your heart rate for a good work out. So, instead of doing a high which they say are for those that are maintaining themselves and NOT actually looking to lose weight, this shall be what I will incorporate and hopefully more weight will come off.
I am just glad that I have DONE ONE WHOLE WEEK and STUCK WITH IT!!!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Not A Failure!
So as the week has been progressing, I too have been progressing in my desire to figure out how to heal my body. On Tuesday it was so hard for me to feel like I could follow this program as well as have the will power to keep going. For feeling so bleak on Tuesday and such despair Wednesday and Thursday have prevailed allowing me to KNOW that I can do this and I DO HAVE THE WILL POWER!!
Yesterday's dinner was awesome if I do say so myself. It consisted of lightly toasted tofu dipped in brown rice flour, mushrooms, broccoli, garlic and soy sauce. Basically a vegetarian's stir fry. Anthony and Alexander wanted some because it's aroma's filled the whole house, they too found it pretty good except Alexander and mushrooms. Guy also ate some and of course said "it's edible" but he had two bowls, so I assume it was more than just something that was "edible"!!
I tried soy yogurt as well yesterday. It was alright, creamier than regular yogurt but not quite as flavorful. At least it wasn't something that was totally gross. Now, something that I do find gross and not so great is coconut milk. It has NO FLAVOR!!! It isn't the sweetened kind of coconut milk but just pure white silk almost. I will take the soy flavored milk any day in comparison to the coconut.
I am enjoying trying new things everyday. Some things are better left on the shelf and others are not so bad, corn cakes taste just like corn which to me makes them better than rice cakes.
Broccoli, potato and onion soup isn't so bad after the flavors have mixed well a few days later.
Asian spice tea tickles my nose with the great aroma's that come from the seeping tea. For one who does not drink tea and will not keep drinking it after this is done, it's not half bad.
I am not a fan of brown rice cereal such as crispy (which are just like rice krispys) there isn't much of a taste but I will still eat them since it's my breakfast every day for the next four weeks.
I find that I am not craving anything. But when I see and smell food that I know I can not have I get jealous of others who are enjoying such tasty, good looking food. But I keep reminding myself that I am only in the first week and for this to work I have to be strict and strict with my diet I am not. This will be the 1st thing that I will have accomplished when it comes to doing something and following through instead of the usual "I'll start next week" or "it's no big deal."
My friend gave me this cookie fortune today and it suits me to a "T" in my life right now it says:
"YOU'RE NOT A FAILURE BECAUSE YOU DON'T MAKE IT, YOU'RE A SUCCESS BECAUSE YOU TRIED!"
How inspiring this is. I am not expecting major weight loss results, but a curb in this aliment that plagues my leg with swelling and pain. I am wanting this to work so desperately that if it doesn't I will be very upset but as it says I am a success because I tried this to better myself.
Yesterday's dinner was awesome if I do say so myself. It consisted of lightly toasted tofu dipped in brown rice flour, mushrooms, broccoli, garlic and soy sauce. Basically a vegetarian's stir fry. Anthony and Alexander wanted some because it's aroma's filled the whole house, they too found it pretty good except Alexander and mushrooms. Guy also ate some and of course said "it's edible" but he had two bowls, so I assume it was more than just something that was "edible"!!
I tried soy yogurt as well yesterday. It was alright, creamier than regular yogurt but not quite as flavorful. At least it wasn't something that was totally gross. Now, something that I do find gross and not so great is coconut milk. It has NO FLAVOR!!! It isn't the sweetened kind of coconut milk but just pure white silk almost. I will take the soy flavored milk any day in comparison to the coconut.
I am enjoying trying new things everyday. Some things are better left on the shelf and others are not so bad, corn cakes taste just like corn which to me makes them better than rice cakes.
Broccoli, potato and onion soup isn't so bad after the flavors have mixed well a few days later.
Asian spice tea tickles my nose with the great aroma's that come from the seeping tea. For one who does not drink tea and will not keep drinking it after this is done, it's not half bad.
I am not a fan of brown rice cereal such as crispy (which are just like rice krispys) there isn't much of a taste but I will still eat them since it's my breakfast every day for the next four weeks.
I find that I am not craving anything. But when I see and smell food that I know I can not have I get jealous of others who are enjoying such tasty, good looking food. But I keep reminding myself that I am only in the first week and for this to work I have to be strict and strict with my diet I am not. This will be the 1st thing that I will have accomplished when it comes to doing something and following through instead of the usual "I'll start next week" or "it's no big deal."
My friend gave me this cookie fortune today and it suits me to a "T" in my life right now it says:
"YOU'RE NOT A FAILURE BECAUSE YOU DON'T MAKE IT, YOU'RE A SUCCESS BECAUSE YOU TRIED!"
How inspiring this is. I am not expecting major weight loss results, but a curb in this aliment that plagues my leg with swelling and pain. I am wanting this to work so desperately that if it doesn't I will be very upset but as it says I am a success because I tried this to better myself.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Day Two
Wow what a very very long day. I am so worn and wiped out today and I am not quite sure why, I feel as if everything is just gone from me and I have nothing to give to anyone. Here it is 6:30 in the evening time and I am ready to crawl into bed and call it a day.
Today has been so hard to get through. All the cravings of things that I could normally just eat and enjoy. The early Mountain Dew that gives me an energy rush to chocolate or something ever so sweet to curve that sweet tooth. Normally I would of just consumed them and thought nothing of it but on this plan I know it will do harm and I will not get the full results that I need from this.
They say that the 1st week of anything new is always the hardest and I am finding that more true as today has been such a struggle BUT I did not cave into those temptations that kept coming towards me today.
I did find out though that I do not like soy milk in cereal. I don't mind it in smoothies but soy is not the greatest.
Breakfast was the same as yesterday, didn't change expect I added the soy milk.
Lunch was somewhat a bust because I didn't have enough time to eat it which consisted of soup, banana, rye crackers.
Dinner was DELICIOUS!!!! I had chicken, brown rice and vegetables with pineapple juice, now that's a normal meal.
I told Guy today that I couldn't do this that I give up. But I know that I need to follow through, not so much about losing the weight but more of figuring out the water retention problem that is plaguing my body.
SO DAY TWO IS DONE WITH AND I STUCK TO IT!!
Today has been so hard to get through. All the cravings of things that I could normally just eat and enjoy. The early Mountain Dew that gives me an energy rush to chocolate or something ever so sweet to curve that sweet tooth. Normally I would of just consumed them and thought nothing of it but on this plan I know it will do harm and I will not get the full results that I need from this.
They say that the 1st week of anything new is always the hardest and I am finding that more true as today has been such a struggle BUT I did not cave into those temptations that kept coming towards me today.
I did find out though that I do not like soy milk in cereal. I don't mind it in smoothies but soy is not the greatest.
Breakfast was the same as yesterday, didn't change expect I added the soy milk.
Lunch was somewhat a bust because I didn't have enough time to eat it which consisted of soup, banana, rye crackers.
Dinner was DELICIOUS!!!! I had chicken, brown rice and vegetables with pineapple juice, now that's a normal meal.
I told Guy today that I couldn't do this that I give up. But I know that I need to follow through, not so much about losing the weight but more of figuring out the water retention problem that is plaguing my body.
SO DAY TWO IS DONE WITH AND I STUCK TO IT!!
Monday, May 23, 2011
Once Again......
I keep writing and deleting the things that my fingers type as my brain thinks them, how annoying is that for me to think that my own thoughts are not good enough for my own page? Really?
I have been suffering with severe water retention ever since the birth of Alexander some 10 years ago. It doesn't ever fully go away and these past few months it seems to have gotten worse, I don't know if it is because my age is going over the hill or if I am doing more things to exert myself or what. But the pain and uncomfortableness I feel in my left leg is starting to wear on me, as I start to doubt that I will ever be healed. My veins are leaking water into my body just right underneath the skin which causes the water retention, my veins are damaged just like their owner I am damaged to some degree, mentally and physically.
So in my efforts to try and fix this without turning to the Dr's for a diuretic which in turn I have to take a potassium pill to counteract the diuretic taking all my nutrients out of my liver and kidneys I have been looking for something that will teach me how to fix the problem without relaying on the doctor's pills.
I found a book called "The Water Retention Diet" which states I could lose UP to 14 lbs. in 7 days OH MY GOODNESS really? Haha I doubt that and that is NOT why I started this diet. I was more intrigued into the water retention part and how it will help me figure out this ugly, self-hatred part of me. So here goes nothing.
After reading the book and understanding that I can not lose any kind of weight until I have the water retention under control, and I understand my body and the things it is doing to me to make me go insane. This takes everything yummy, salty, sweet, sugary, chocolaty, gooey, fattening, OK basically anything that has a flavor to it out of my diet. And after 4 weeks of doing this I can start to add things in slowly.
I am now eating things officially such as tofu, aduzki beans, fava beans, mung beans, soy milk, hummus, brown rice pasta, brown rice flour, celery and beet juice.
Today was the 1st day. I didn't do too bad.
Breakfast: Rice cereal with soy milk
Hot Spice tea
Lunch: Aduzki bean salad
Broccoli, potato soup
Rye Crackers with olive oil spread
And an orange
Dinner: Baked Taliapia
Mixed vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower and carrots
Baked Potato with nothing on it
And a glass of pineapple juice ( I must say this was my favorite part )
My nightly drink is a celery/radish juice. Spicy and not all that bad just a different taste which my taste buds will come to acquire within the next four weeks.
I didn't do too bad today. I must be honest I did cheat when I saw some coconut cookies laying in the baggie, I had to have me some. So, I ate one, two and maybe three or four. But I didn't cheat on anything else today which means:
NO SODA
NO SALT
NO DONUTS
NO CANDY BARS
NO NOTHING GOOD TO EAT
I don't know if this is going to kill me if I do accomplish it or if it's going to make me a better person. I am not looking at this for losing weight but merely to help my body recover from the weak veins and holding onto water that should go out of my system.
I have four long weeks of this, 27 more days to go at least on the hard part.
This too shall pass, Correct?
I have been suffering with severe water retention ever since the birth of Alexander some 10 years ago. It doesn't ever fully go away and these past few months it seems to have gotten worse, I don't know if it is because my age is going over the hill or if I am doing more things to exert myself or what. But the pain and uncomfortableness I feel in my left leg is starting to wear on me, as I start to doubt that I will ever be healed. My veins are leaking water into my body just right underneath the skin which causes the water retention, my veins are damaged just like their owner I am damaged to some degree, mentally and physically.
So in my efforts to try and fix this without turning to the Dr's for a diuretic which in turn I have to take a potassium pill to counteract the diuretic taking all my nutrients out of my liver and kidneys I have been looking for something that will teach me how to fix the problem without relaying on the doctor's pills.
I found a book called "The Water Retention Diet" which states I could lose UP to 14 lbs. in 7 days OH MY GOODNESS really? Haha I doubt that and that is NOT why I started this diet. I was more intrigued into the water retention part and how it will help me figure out this ugly, self-hatred part of me. So here goes nothing.
After reading the book and understanding that I can not lose any kind of weight until I have the water retention under control, and I understand my body and the things it is doing to me to make me go insane. This takes everything yummy, salty, sweet, sugary, chocolaty, gooey, fattening, OK basically anything that has a flavor to it out of my diet. And after 4 weeks of doing this I can start to add things in slowly.
I am now eating things officially such as tofu, aduzki beans, fava beans, mung beans, soy milk, hummus, brown rice pasta, brown rice flour, celery and beet juice.
Today was the 1st day. I didn't do too bad.
Breakfast: Rice cereal with soy milk
Hot Spice tea
Lunch: Aduzki bean salad
Broccoli, potato soup
Rye Crackers with olive oil spread
And an orange
Dinner: Baked Taliapia
Mixed vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower and carrots
Baked Potato with nothing on it
And a glass of pineapple juice ( I must say this was my favorite part )
My nightly drink is a celery/radish juice. Spicy and not all that bad just a different taste which my taste buds will come to acquire within the next four weeks.
I didn't do too bad today. I must be honest I did cheat when I saw some coconut cookies laying in the baggie, I had to have me some. So, I ate one, two and maybe three or four. But I didn't cheat on anything else today which means:
NO SODA
NO SALT
NO DONUTS
NO CANDY BARS
NO NOTHING GOOD TO EAT
I don't know if this is going to kill me if I do accomplish it or if it's going to make me a better person. I am not looking at this for losing weight but merely to help my body recover from the weak veins and holding onto water that should go out of my system.
I have four long weeks of this, 27 more days to go at least on the hard part.
This too shall pass, Correct?
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