My plans for the rest of the week/weekend drastically changed so I thought I will share how my week went and I will post hopefully by Monday my numbers. I'll be able to collect them, but I'm not sure I'll have time to blog them on Thursday.
My best friend gets married on Friday and I'm heading up to spend the rest of the week with her and her sister (another close friend), so being able to truly stick to this diet after tomorrow is going to be difficult. I've decided I'm going to try my best to be "good" and follow what I can, however in order to get the most benefit from this plan, I'm just going to begin week 2 on Monday. This will make it easier for tracking purposes going forward as well. If my weight is drastically different (which I don't think it will be), I'll post the new weight when I post the numbers for Week 1.
Now to the real reason for this post...how did the week go? I am at the end of day 6 and am feeling pretty good. Every day in week one has 4 meals and 3-4 snacks. Since I am following the plan and am definitely satisfied but no where near full after each meal, it is not hard to eat the food. However, the timing of the meals is a little trickier. It is not feasible for me to have more than 2 meals and 2 snacks from the time I get up through my work day. This part of my day is great. I'm satisfied and while not starving at any point in the day am usually ready to eat by the time the next meal is due. My evenings are not as easy. These days I've just been exercising at home, but still I usually like to exercise first thing, but that doesn't work well for the timing of the other meals. So either I wait too long between meals and then have to cram the last meals in so I can exercise or I have to exercise in between meals. In order to get both meals in I need to eat almost instantly when I get home and then I have to eat the next meal as soon as the 3 hour mark is up. If I eat much later I'm pushing into the 1 1/2 hour before bed constraint. I've managed to make it work for the most part, but if there is any cooking I need to do for meal 3. Tonight this was my predicament and I just didn't feel like cooking anything, so I compromised. I ate the food listed for meal 4 which just needed to be chopped, as far as preparation goes. Instead of having another snack then actual meal 4 and then another snack I decided to splurge a little bit and had a little more than a serving of Greek Frozen Yogurt, which in reality is much less food than what I would have eaten. I don't think it will effect me on the scale. My hormones are a little wacky these days, so who knows what the scale will say and between the 2 I'll never know which was the problem.
I really don't have any complaints but it seems like if there are going to be suggestions to do brown rice, there should be a few more days that that is an option. I'm single, so it's just me eating meals. Making half a cup of rice is a just not an option, so my rice sits in the fridge just waiting until the next day on the plan allows for it.
All in all it was a great week. I don't know if I will have lost any inches but I feel as if my clothes are looser than they have been in a few weeks. Technically tomorrow is day 7, so I should wait til the Thursday to measure, but I don't think one day will make a difference in the first week as far as inches go, plus I was practically following the diet unknowingly the whole of last week, so all in all I'm going to count my weight and inches tomorrow morning. The book also mentions that for people that have already been eating fairly healthy or are closer to their ideal weight won't always see big results in the first week. I've been eating healthy for the last couple years and I think this diet is really more rearranging the meals and adding a few new aspects, so I'm not expecting great things for this week. I do think the next couple weeks after than will truly show changes!
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