Before I get started, as promised earlier, I checked with the friend of mine I mentioned earlier. Meighan has said it's okay for me to share her blog information with you. You can check her blog out here.
Yesterday was a big learning experience for me. I didn't weigh myself when I normally do, and instead of the numbers going down, the scale said I had actually gained weight. I was kind of disappointed, and started to doubt whether or not this slow carb diet was going to work. (On a side note, though, when I first learned about this diet the recommendation was to ignore your weight and pay attention to your measurements, how your clothes fit, how you look, etc. I just like tracking the weight.) I hopped online and began to research the things that I had been eating on a regular basis. Let me say that it was a learning experience. For instance, I've been eating a lot of stir fried vegetables with soy sauce. I came to find out that soy sauce has wheat listed as an ingredient! Obviously, the soy sauce has to go. Then I found out that I can't eat corn (including baby corn- which is what I was eating). Lastly, I discovered that whey protein is only okay once a day prior to resistance training. I had been using the protein shake as breakfast. So, I learned there was some room for improvement in how I was doing things. Like G.I. Joe said, "Knowing is half the battle".
Today was a big day for me. It was my first "cheat" day. It was the day that was (and will continue to be) a regularly scheduled day of gluttony. However, as excited as I was for Monday to finally get here (yes, Monday) it wasn't the glorious taste bud rapture I had expected. Did all the junk food taste good? Sure it did. But it wasn't nearly as delicious as I had remembered it being. I ate a Thanksgiving style meal for breakfast, complete with cranberry sauce; the highlight was the cranberry sauce. I had various slices of pizza, candies, and beer. It all tasted fine. I'm not saying that it wasn't good. It just wasn't nearly as good as I remembered it being. In short, it wasn't satisfying. I didn't make myself sick by gorging on all this unhealthy food like I joked about doing. In fact, I had sort of hoped that the sudden influx of nearly empty calories would in fact give me a sort of queasy feeling so that the next week on the diet would be that much easier. One feeling I did notice that was different today, is that I felt tired and sluggish the entire day. All I have wanted to do is lie down and go to sleep. While I'm grateful to eat whatever I've thought I wanted, I'm looking forward to the next week so I can get back to my "normal" eating.
When I started this whole "getting back into shape" project of mine, I told myself that I was only going to workout 3 times a week. Not only can I NOT afford a gym membership, but I didn't want to spend all of my time exercising and neglecting my family. Due to learning that I bought the wrong kind of protein for the slow carb diet (whey protein), I will have to add in some sort of resistance training on the other days until it's gone. I'll be making sure to keep track of how the new insight to the diet, as well as the exercising, goes. I might eventually even get around to taking pictures to track this progress too.
Starting weight: 207
Current weight: 194.9
Also, I'm supposed to expect a somewhat dramatic increase in weight after cheat days, so we'll see just how much damage I was able to do in a single 24 hour period.
Yesterday was a big learning experience for me. I didn't weigh myself when I normally do, and instead of the numbers going down, the scale said I had actually gained weight. I was kind of disappointed, and started to doubt whether or not this slow carb diet was going to work. (On a side note, though, when I first learned about this diet the recommendation was to ignore your weight and pay attention to your measurements, how your clothes fit, how you look, etc. I just like tracking the weight.) I hopped online and began to research the things that I had been eating on a regular basis. Let me say that it was a learning experience. For instance, I've been eating a lot of stir fried vegetables with soy sauce. I came to find out that soy sauce has wheat listed as an ingredient! Obviously, the soy sauce has to go. Then I found out that I can't eat corn (including baby corn- which is what I was eating). Lastly, I discovered that whey protein is only okay once a day prior to resistance training. I had been using the protein shake as breakfast. So, I learned there was some room for improvement in how I was doing things. Like G.I. Joe said, "Knowing is half the battle".
Today was a big day for me. It was my first "cheat" day. It was the day that was (and will continue to be) a regularly scheduled day of gluttony. However, as excited as I was for Monday to finally get here (yes, Monday) it wasn't the glorious taste bud rapture I had expected. Did all the junk food taste good? Sure it did. But it wasn't nearly as delicious as I had remembered it being. I ate a Thanksgiving style meal for breakfast, complete with cranberry sauce; the highlight was the cranberry sauce. I had various slices of pizza, candies, and beer. It all tasted fine. I'm not saying that it wasn't good. It just wasn't nearly as good as I remembered it being. In short, it wasn't satisfying. I didn't make myself sick by gorging on all this unhealthy food like I joked about doing. In fact, I had sort of hoped that the sudden influx of nearly empty calories would in fact give me a sort of queasy feeling so that the next week on the diet would be that much easier. One feeling I did notice that was different today, is that I felt tired and sluggish the entire day. All I have wanted to do is lie down and go to sleep. While I'm grateful to eat whatever I've thought I wanted, I'm looking forward to the next week so I can get back to my "normal" eating.
When I started this whole "getting back into shape" project of mine, I told myself that I was only going to workout 3 times a week. Not only can I NOT afford a gym membership, but I didn't want to spend all of my time exercising and neglecting my family. Due to learning that I bought the wrong kind of protein for the slow carb diet (whey protein), I will have to add in some sort of resistance training on the other days until it's gone. I'll be making sure to keep track of how the new insight to the diet, as well as the exercising, goes. I might eventually even get around to taking pictures to track this progress too.
Starting weight: 207
Current weight: 194.9
Also, I'm supposed to expect a somewhat dramatic increase in weight after cheat days, so we'll see just how much damage I was able to do in a single 24 hour period.
I've had the same experience with food. Eating something that my body wasn't used to made me feel so sluggish and sleepy. Which is actually good motivation for not doing it again! I'm loving your blog entries, keep it up! And thanks for sharing my info! :)
ReplyDeleteGlad to share your info. Your writing is more entertaining, and your blog is prettier :) I'm hoping that if anyone come across your blog via mine that your story will impact their lives like it has so many others.
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