So I started the detox this am and I already miss food!!! Oh well. I'll give it a day or two and see if my resistance not to eat fortifies me onward.
With the detox you have to drink EVEN more than usual, which for me is now 12 - 8 oz things a day! So you can guess where I'm spending half my day. That's right.
In nursing school, back a 150 years ago, I remember learning the reasons for different urine colors. Bright orange if you ate asparagus ( and smelly!); reddish orange for hematuria; bright yellow if you were taking Pyridium. Normal urine should be slightly strawcolored, mostly yellow.
My is crystal clear!
There is absolutely no urea in my urine at all. It looks like I poured a bottle of Perrier down the toilet.
TMI?? Probably. But you get the drift.
I keep thinking I can feel my stomach shrinking - actually shrinking -throughout the day. Hopefully that's true and tomorrow I'll wake up able to fit into fitted trousers once again.
Hope springs eternal.
Off to detox.
(SOunds like I'm going to Betty Fords'!)
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Fasting and Detoxing
Part of Robert Ferguson's weightloss program has an optional 6 day detox. The detox is planned so that the colon and liver are cleansed and rehabed. Many of you may remember that after Erin was born I did a six month fast that had a detox inlcuded it in and I lost 60 pounds.
I am going to try the detox for a few days and see what happens. I have been stuck in neutral the past few weeks, exercising and eating as prescribed and I have yet to see the scale go down to were it really should be by now. If the detox works it will jumpstart my body again towards losing the rest of the weight.
I read this interesting article today and wanted to share it. Read it and see if you think this is true, a myth, or something that the future of weightloss will hold.
I'll keep you updated on the detox/fast. Wish me luck.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100305/hl_time/08599196980700
I am going to try the detox for a few days and see what happens. I have been stuck in neutral the past few weeks, exercising and eating as prescribed and I have yet to see the scale go down to were it really should be by now. If the detox works it will jumpstart my body again towards losing the rest of the weight.
I read this interesting article today and wanted to share it. Read it and see if you think this is true, a myth, or something that the future of weightloss will hold.
I'll keep you updated on the detox/fast. Wish me luck.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100305/hl_time/08599196980700
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
NUmbers Part II
Things to ponder:
a chocolate chip cookie at Starbucks has 540 calories. McDonald's Quarter pounder with cheese has 530
The number of teaspoons of sugar in a 20 ounce reggie soda: 13.5
The number of teaspoons of sugar in 50 jellybeans: 13.5
250 calories is the total in a 20 oz reggie soda
A serving size for one breakfast bowl of Special K is 3/4 cup and 150 calories. Most people double the serving size without realizing what an actual 3/4 of a cup looks like, volume-wise, so in truth their cereal is costing them 300 calories, not 150. And that's without the milk added.
Most weight loss programs suggest a serving size of meat or chicken to be between 3 and 5 ozs.
Most steaks in restaurants average 12-18, 4-6 times the serving size.
Grilled fish is preferable over baked because most restaurants baked their fish in oodles of melted butter. Real butter, not "I cant' beleive it's not!"
A baked potatoe with sour cream on the side averages 120-160 calories. The same potatoe with butter melted over it averages 300.
One slice of bacon has 70 calories. When was the last time you ate 1 SLICE of bacon?
Does anybody wonder why this country is fat?
Be a Lable Detective. Know what the calorie cost is to what you are eating.
a chocolate chip cookie at Starbucks has 540 calories. McDonald's Quarter pounder with cheese has 530
The number of teaspoons of sugar in a 20 ounce reggie soda: 13.5
The number of teaspoons of sugar in 50 jellybeans: 13.5
250 calories is the total in a 20 oz reggie soda
A serving size for one breakfast bowl of Special K is 3/4 cup and 150 calories. Most people double the serving size without realizing what an actual 3/4 of a cup looks like, volume-wise, so in truth their cereal is costing them 300 calories, not 150. And that's without the milk added.
Most weight loss programs suggest a serving size of meat or chicken to be between 3 and 5 ozs.
Most steaks in restaurants average 12-18, 4-6 times the serving size.
Grilled fish is preferable over baked because most restaurants baked their fish in oodles of melted butter. Real butter, not "I cant' beleive it's not!"
A baked potatoe with sour cream on the side averages 120-160 calories. The same potatoe with butter melted over it averages 300.
One slice of bacon has 70 calories. When was the last time you ate 1 SLICE of bacon?
Does anybody wonder why this country is fat?
Be a Lable Detective. Know what the calorie cost is to what you are eating.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
My New Job: Label Detective
It's no seceret my favorite tv shows are crime shows. Criminal Intent, CSI Miami, Bones. Love them!! My secret desire in life has been to have a job as either a Police Detective or a Private Eye. And guess what? I got my wish - kind of.
Since starting this weight loss program I have become a bonefide Label Detective. Before January 1 I didn't care about the nutritional labels or the ingredients listed on food wrappers. Not so any more. I read eveyrthing now. It used to take me about 30 minutes to grocery shop from the time I went into the store until Iwas back and loaded in my car.
Now it takes anywhere between 45 and 60 minutes, depending on how much I need to read. And I read everything.
For instance, I used to buy bread ( which will remain nameless just in case the manufacturer is reading this (( in my dreams!)) ) that said right on the label "100 % whole wheat." And like most people, I believed the adveristing. The first time I went to purchase that bread after starting the program and learning the tool of reading everything, I found a HUGE discrepency in what the outside label claimed and what the ingredient list said. You would think that the claim of "100% whole wheat" would be repeated in the ingredient list by listing "whole wheat" as a first ingredient, or at least somewhere near the top. Na-ha.
THe first 4 ingredients of this bread were: Unbleached white flour, sugar, maltose and high fructose corn syrup.
Where was the whole wheat? It was down at around ingredient 15 and said "processed with refined wheat flour."
I'm not kidding.
I stopped buying that brand of bread and now buy one that has truth in advertising. It says "100% percent whole wheat," and the first ingredients are "Enriched whole wheat flour, flax seed, water and yeast."
If the first ingredients listed in any product are sugar, maltose, high fructose corn syrup, or unbleached white flour, buy something else. You will be sabatoging any weight loss by eating stuff loaded with these items. Be a Label Detective and you'll eat better.
I love my new job.
Since starting this weight loss program I have become a bonefide Label Detective. Before January 1 I didn't care about the nutritional labels or the ingredients listed on food wrappers. Not so any more. I read eveyrthing now. It used to take me about 30 minutes to grocery shop from the time I went into the store until Iwas back and loaded in my car.
Now it takes anywhere between 45 and 60 minutes, depending on how much I need to read. And I read everything.
For instance, I used to buy bread ( which will remain nameless just in case the manufacturer is reading this (( in my dreams!)) ) that said right on the label "100 % whole wheat." And like most people, I believed the adveristing. The first time I went to purchase that bread after starting the program and learning the tool of reading everything, I found a HUGE discrepency in what the outside label claimed and what the ingredient list said. You would think that the claim of "100% whole wheat" would be repeated in the ingredient list by listing "whole wheat" as a first ingredient, or at least somewhere near the top. Na-ha.
THe first 4 ingredients of this bread were: Unbleached white flour, sugar, maltose and high fructose corn syrup.
Where was the whole wheat? It was down at around ingredient 15 and said "processed with refined wheat flour."
I'm not kidding.
I stopped buying that brand of bread and now buy one that has truth in advertising. It says "100% percent whole wheat," and the first ingredients are "Enriched whole wheat flour, flax seed, water and yeast."
If the first ingredients listed in any product are sugar, maltose, high fructose corn syrup, or unbleached white flour, buy something else. You will be sabatoging any weight loss by eating stuff loaded with these items. Be a Label Detective and you'll eat better.
I love my new job.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Breakfast
For years, when I was a new nurse, I didn't eat breakfast. I just didn't feel hungry in the morning when I go tup, plus I thought my uniform looked better with an empty, flat stomach.
I know. I have issues.
Anyway.
Any weight loss plan or diet guru ALWAYS tells you to eat a good solid breakfast when you wake up and the science behind that advice is sound.
When you're asleep, your metabolic rate lowers and decreases, basically starving you. When you starve yourself for more than 8-10 hrs ( the normal time from dinner until you wake up) your metabolic rate actually lowers by 40%, throwing your body into protection and storage mode. YOur brain doesn't know the next time you are going to get a meal, so it protects you by slowing down the rate at which you burn your energy stores, kind of like when a bear goes into hiberation for the winter. YOur body panics, thinking it won't be fed, and hangs on to every ounce within you. Or pounds, in my case!
By eating breakfast when you arise, you're effectively telling your body "hey, it's okay. Momma's got food in the pantry! Go ahead and burn some calories for good measure."
It's been proven by study after diet study that people who eat breakfast tend to be thinner, and that Chronic DIeters who started eating breakfast tend to keep their weight off with more ease.
Now this doesn't give you a license to go get a cheese and buscuit egg mcmuffin with hash browns and potatoes. But a good, solid, nutritional breakfast is a sound idea.
I had Irish Oatmeal with walnumts and protien powder this morning.\
What'id you have??
I know. I have issues.
Anyway.
Any weight loss plan or diet guru ALWAYS tells you to eat a good solid breakfast when you wake up and the science behind that advice is sound.
When you're asleep, your metabolic rate lowers and decreases, basically starving you. When you starve yourself for more than 8-10 hrs ( the normal time from dinner until you wake up) your metabolic rate actually lowers by 40%, throwing your body into protection and storage mode. YOur brain doesn't know the next time you are going to get a meal, so it protects you by slowing down the rate at which you burn your energy stores, kind of like when a bear goes into hiberation for the winter. YOur body panics, thinking it won't be fed, and hangs on to every ounce within you. Or pounds, in my case!
By eating breakfast when you arise, you're effectively telling your body "hey, it's okay. Momma's got food in the pantry! Go ahead and burn some calories for good measure."
It's been proven by study after diet study that people who eat breakfast tend to be thinner, and that Chronic DIeters who started eating breakfast tend to keep their weight off with more ease.
Now this doesn't give you a license to go get a cheese and buscuit egg mcmuffin with hash browns and potatoes. But a good, solid, nutritional breakfast is a sound idea.
I had Irish Oatmeal with walnumts and protien powder this morning.\
What'id you have??
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Supersize me??!!
I went out to dinner last night for the first time in a VERY long time. I had all my plans in place for good eating and they pretty much worked. For a slow carb I had an undressed salad, my fast carb was a roasted potatoe. My protein was a meat. The problem came when the waitress asked if I wanted the 12 oz or the 16 oz cut.
I really wanted a 4 oz cut because that's all I'm supposed to have. Now, conventional dieting wisdom says when faced with an overabundance of ounces and calories, cut the sucker in half and take it home for the next days' lunch or dinner.
My problem has always been that I don't listen enough to conventional wisdom and advice.
So, yes, I ate the whole thing and will pay for it today by exercising more. Still a plan.
Most people, I've observed, when asked if they want a size on food they're ordering ( "Do you want the supersized?") say yes immediately and choose the larger cut. I can't quite figure out the why to this.
Is it that they feel they are some how putting one over on the restaurant by getting more food than originally advertised? Do they feel entitled to the larger portion? Does the promise of more food make them silly with gustranomic glee?
When McDonalds first came out with their Supersize menu, I remember hearing a woman I know say that she was glad she could finally get a portion she really wanted. Apparently, in the past, she had ordered 2 large fries with her meals. Now she could supersize it, get just the one order, and she felt great about that.
I think I would just feel sick. I have never supersized anything with food because I always think I have more than enough.
Our society, tho, always seems to want bigger, better, faster, and more. And because of that we are turning into a nation of unhealthy obese people.
When the calorie and nutritional counts came out on fast food I really thought we'd see a decline in eating at these places.
No such luck. McDonalds, Burger king, and the like are all still doing boffo business despite the public knowing how much crap they are eating with their meals.
Go figure.
Americs the beautiful.
And Obese.
I really wanted a 4 oz cut because that's all I'm supposed to have. Now, conventional dieting wisdom says when faced with an overabundance of ounces and calories, cut the sucker in half and take it home for the next days' lunch or dinner.
My problem has always been that I don't listen enough to conventional wisdom and advice.
So, yes, I ate the whole thing and will pay for it today by exercising more. Still a plan.
Most people, I've observed, when asked if they want a size on food they're ordering ( "Do you want the supersized?") say yes immediately and choose the larger cut. I can't quite figure out the why to this.
Is it that they feel they are some how putting one over on the restaurant by getting more food than originally advertised? Do they feel entitled to the larger portion? Does the promise of more food make them silly with gustranomic glee?
When McDonalds first came out with their Supersize menu, I remember hearing a woman I know say that she was glad she could finally get a portion she really wanted. Apparently, in the past, she had ordered 2 large fries with her meals. Now she could supersize it, get just the one order, and she felt great about that.
I think I would just feel sick. I have never supersized anything with food because I always think I have more than enough.
Our society, tho, always seems to want bigger, better, faster, and more. And because of that we are turning into a nation of unhealthy obese people.
When the calorie and nutritional counts came out on fast food I really thought we'd see a decline in eating at these places.
No such luck. McDonalds, Burger king, and the like are all still doing boffo business despite the public knowing how much crap they are eating with their meals.
Go figure.
Americs the beautiful.
And Obese.
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