Well, I should be writing a paper about creating a patient complaint committee, I'd rather write freestyle to my few anonymous readers:-)
So, as I mentioned the other day, I have found a new eating plan that I am hoping will help me turn the corner from plateauing/gaining weight and actually help me drop the 15 I'm trying to lose by the end of the year. I can't remember if I mentioned watching Dr. Oz a couple weeks ago and seeing Chris Powell on the show. He is the man that the Extreme Makeover Weight loss Edition follows each week as he helps an extremely obese person drop a considerable amount of weight in a year. I liked his general idea behind the carb cycling-(eating all complex/healthy carbs) having days where you have some form of carb at every meal-eating 5 meals a day and then having days of having just a few carbs in your meals. I won't go into too much detail-don't want to get in trouble for sharing secrets. After seeing Chris again on Dr. Oz, I decided to look him up to see if he had any sort of website and sure enough it's called Reshape the Nation. Comparing it to other programs the general idea is great, but it takes a lot of searching to finally figure out your meal plan and portion sizes. I will say the price is decent for these types of programs. I decided to join for the 3 month plan. That will give me the support I need through the middle of January-so the holidays will be covered.
I unofficially started on Tuesday of this last week. Technically speaking, I followed the program pretty closely, however, my plan only allows for "fats" first thing in the morning. I have read a lot of information over the last couple of years about how important MUFAs are and how fat does not make you fat. So, at least to start with, I am not going to cut out all the fats. I will limit them, but not cut them out like my meal plan requires. This last week I also allowed myself a little reward on most of the days, not completely restricting myself like it was listed. Today is a reward day(you are allowed certain days to have a treat-whatever you are craving), so I plan to go totally strict, minus the healthy fats, tomorrow.
In addition to not being totally mentally ready to go hard core, I also had an oven incident on Monday and have not been able to use the oven, so preparing all the protein last week was out of the question. My oven incident is a comical but scary situation. I got home from work on Monday, hit the bake button to preheat and then went to change clothes. When I walked back into the kitchen to begin chopping my veggies for my dish, I noticed a flickering glow in the oven. I opened the door and saw a small 1 in. flame in the back left on the baking element. I quick turned the oven off and the flame went down, but the metal on the element was white hot. My sister and I had used the oven all day on Saturday, so I initially assumed it was just something that had fallen on the element from Saturday. I let the oven cool down for a couple hours and then went to wipe down the element so it didn't start on fire again. As I'm rubbing the rag over the blackened area I realize it's actually really hard and snagging on my rag. I grabbed a Flathead screwdriver and just lightly but firmly tried to scrape it off instead, but it didn't do anything. At this point I realized it was not something baked onto the element, but the element itself had started on fire and melted. My brother came yesterday and took the element out. I then called Frigidaire and was told the part was only covered under a 1 yr warranty so I would have to buy a new part. Thankfully it was just the part and not the entire oven. I was able to order the part online for $20, so I'm just out a couple hours of babysitting money and without an oven for another week. Once I get the part and install it, I should be good to go with prepping my food and having a little more variety for this Reshape the Nation eating plan.
On a good note, I was at least able to lose a little bit of the weight I gained last weekend and am almost down to where I can start counting on my countdown again! Maybe by next weekend I'll be able to put a new pound lost on my tracker!
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