Stability at Last
I am sorry I haven't bee posting regularly, and I promise I will get back to more or less daily posts after Wednesday of this coming week! Life does tend to get in the way of so many things! I have at least and at last stabilized, my weight has not budged in 4 or 5 days, however it is still 8lbs above my LIW (231lbs). Two steak days didn't bring my weight down more than a pound total and then there was some bad emotion-induced eating and I think I'm just going to have to live with where I'm at until I begin my third round on June 4th. It's ok, it's still 41 pounds below where I was in January, so for that I shall be grateful.
Phase three is tricky, this is true, and I wish I hadn't screwed up so colossally. I am not here to post details about my personal life outside my weight loss journey, but the catalyst was someone from my past making an unwelcome reappearance and triggering old habits. It has made me look at the way I interact with people and how much I let their energy consume me. Coupled with that, I am reading the wonderful book "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert, which has truly inspired a bit of a sea change in my life outlook. I am hoping the insights and revelations I'm gaining over the past couple weeks will help to strengthen me for June and July's 46-day austerity as I embark on Round 3.
An idea of what I've eaten over the past few days that has helped me to stabilize my weight:
Breakfast: 2 eggs, usually scrambled with a bit of the Trader Joe's Salsa Verde, and about 1-2 tsp of coconut oil, either taken in warm water or used to cook the eggs.
Lunch: a huge salad comprised of arugula and mixed greens with 1/2 sliced avocado (small) tomato, cucumber, walnuts and a small crumbling of bleu cheese. Dressed with olive oil and apple cider vinegar. Roast chicken breast.
Dinner: quite small, a bit of roast chicken dipped in hummus.
I did make some sugar-free pavlovas with raspberries and rose-water flavored whipped cream, quite lovely and summery. I use Z-sweet (Xylitol) in place of sugar, or sometimes Stevia. I find I'm still figuring out how to adjust these alternative sweeteners to get a good taste with a clean finish. My sweet tooth has most definitely diminished. Everything tastes too ungodly sweet to me these days. I find fruit is best for satisfying the Sweets Beast.
And I have continued my love affair with coffee, and am rejoicing in being able to order a breve latte now that half and half is on the menu. I don't have coffee like this every day, only on the ones which begin with an early morning that is preceded by a way too late night!
Speaking of which, lest this become one of the latter, I bid you an adieu. Til tomorrow.
Phase three is tricky, this is true, and I wish I hadn't screwed up so colossally. I am not here to post details about my personal life outside my weight loss journey, but the catalyst was someone from my past making an unwelcome reappearance and triggering old habits. It has made me look at the way I interact with people and how much I let their energy consume me. Coupled with that, I am reading the wonderful book "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert, which has truly inspired a bit of a sea change in my life outlook. I am hoping the insights and revelations I'm gaining over the past couple weeks will help to strengthen me for June and July's 46-day austerity as I embark on Round 3.
An idea of what I've eaten over the past few days that has helped me to stabilize my weight:
Breakfast: 2 eggs, usually scrambled with a bit of the Trader Joe's Salsa Verde, and about 1-2 tsp of coconut oil, either taken in warm water or used to cook the eggs.
Lunch: a huge salad comprised of arugula and mixed greens with 1/2 sliced avocado (small) tomato, cucumber, walnuts and a small crumbling of bleu cheese. Dressed with olive oil and apple cider vinegar. Roast chicken breast.
Dinner: quite small, a bit of roast chicken dipped in hummus.
I did make some sugar-free pavlovas with raspberries and rose-water flavored whipped cream, quite lovely and summery. I use Z-sweet (Xylitol) in place of sugar, or sometimes Stevia. I find I'm still figuring out how to adjust these alternative sweeteners to get a good taste with a clean finish. My sweet tooth has most definitely diminished. Everything tastes too ungodly sweet to me these days. I find fruit is best for satisfying the Sweets Beast.
And I have continued my love affair with coffee, and am rejoicing in being able to order a breve latte now that half and half is on the menu. I don't have coffee like this every day, only on the ones which begin with an early morning that is preceded by a way too late night!
Speaking of which, lest this become one of the latter, I bid you an adieu. Til tomorrow.
posted by Helen at
8:27 PM
2 Comments:
thanks for the very detailed update, you have excellent taste in foods. :)
yea you cant have much of a sweet tooth on this diet, ive lost all my ability to even enjoy things with sugar in them anymore and those artifical sweetners just are not the same thing. Oh well i guess you can be thin and eat like a fatty too :D
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