| oh I don't starve and my body does not think it is. I eat massive and I mean massive plates of food. its just ultra low calorie stuff.
Since I am doing well on the 800-1000cals I plan to stick with that. I usually have a 200-300 calorie breakfast then 2-3 100cal "mini meals" throughout the day and then a 300-400cal dinner.
if I do feel even a tiny bit hungry I eat some pickles or a tomato (virtually zero calorie in the bigger picture)
I try to drink at least a gallon of fluid a day but always manage at least 3/4 gallon.
I don't want to slow the weight loss down so I don't want to up the calories unless thats going to speed up the loss for me??
I take 2 vitamins daily one when I wake up and one when I goto bed. Although I am eating high nutrition stuff I am concerned about that so I started on the vitamins immediately when I started the diet.
I think the weight loss was a bit faster when I was doing more fish and less chicken so I may try going back to that for a while and see what happens.
I also noticed that if I indulges every now and then say once every other week that although it would stall me for a day or two the weight loss would be rapid afterwards. So I plan to incorporate that more often as well. No need too this time of year we have all decided that thanksgiving the day after and christmas eve are free days :-)
I just need the weight gone. Health matters be damned. I figure slightly under eating but compensating with vitamins and good nutrition is better than being over 400 pounds :-)
what I need is motivation and the only motivation that works for me is that number being lower every time I see it.
an example of what I eat. This morning at the local food place (bensalem meats GREAT place) I found these turkey sausage patties. 3 for 80 calories. so I decided to make something with them.
I cooked up some Rice Spinach Mushrooms Onions and a habanero (man those things got some goooood heat!) with garlic salt pepper and basil with the sausages as a side.
Total calories about 260-275 so I count it as 275. You know how you typically have 2 sizes of dinner plates. Regular and Large? well take a large one and I FILLED THE PLATE and thickly. I am stuffed right now and that takes a lot cause I can REALLY eat :-) though I imagine my stomach has shrunk a bit over the last 2 months at least I hope it has.
Tonight I am going to make Tilapia with lemon lime basil salt pepper 100cals with an entire bag of veggies (steamer bag of cauliflower broccoli carrots) 100cals and half a cup of rice and spinach about 90cals and a tomato sliced up (addicted to tomato's) 30cals.
total 320cals.
I eat something every few hours even if I am not really hungry. ie to prevent me from EVER feeling hungry and keeping my body from thinking its starving.
early this morning I had a banana 100cals and later today I will have a granola bar 100cals. (I try to get things right at 100cals makes the math easy)
Either later tonight or before going to bed (depending on when I have dinner) I will probably have another tomato.
so my total calorie intake for today should be just shy of 825cals.
I got these thin sandwich buns (no HFC and 100cals) that are just amazing but I had to stop eating them they seemed to stall me pretty solidly no matter how low I made my calories. So I avoid them now.
Having a higher cal day once a week seems like a good idea.
should I do it the day before a predicted stall (too late by then??) or 1 or 2 days BEFORE the predicted stall? |