Oh boy... fighting big cravings and so tired today. Stressed. This is when it gets hard.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Not so sure about this anymore.....
This has been an epic pain in the ass week. I've wanted to write for days but no time with a crabby, whiny, clingy 10 month old and other randomness. I'm thinking the baby may be pissed about the change in her milk since my diet is very different now. I'm not hungry so I'm assuming my milk isn't low. I guess it's probably a teething issue since she isn't eating her solids well either.
SOOOO, the diet. I guess I am at the stage in which I usually move on to something else, or cut back, or consider quitting because I'm not getting results. It's only the second week, but in the book it says you gain after the binge day and return to normal after a couple days, only to be even lower by the next week. Well, I gained all the weight as promised (water weight) but it hasn't all come back off yet. By Sunday I should be at 146 or less if Timmy baby is right here. I'm also resuming more weight training this week so that could contribute. Oh, and of course Tim states on his 4HB blog that Mom's of 2 or more kids need an extra 4-6 weeks before they really start seeing results.
The food is good and I've learned something about myself already. The diets that I find the most success with are those in which I am limited to particular food types. Counting calories DOES NOT work for me. Not ever. Planning meals, same deal. The Weight Watcher's Core program worked really well for me and this is working pretty well so far, as far as hunger, not feeling deprived, etc. goes.
Problemos that I am having so far: The beans. I love beans, all kinds of beans, particularly the lentils, black beans, pinto beans and refried beans I am eating. You can probably guess what my issue is with all of these beans in addition to eggs and cruciferous veggies. Gonna grab some Beano today and hope that helps, or my body adjusts, because I will end up sexy and thin, but no one will want to be around me! :)
Other problemo: This may be by design, but only the second week on the slow carb diet and 3rd week without any sugar and when I have it, I have a splitting headache within minutes. Binge day I had a horrid headache all day from the caffeine and sugar in the chocolate and then yesterday morning, I had a drink of my daughter A's tea after she put a ton of sugar in it (without my knowledge, sneaky lil tea party girl!) and I had a headache 5 minutes later. SUPER sensitive to caffeine as well. I guess it's a good thing because I obviously don't want a headache, so I'm not as prone to cheat.
SOOOO, the diet. I guess I am at the stage in which I usually move on to something else, or cut back, or consider quitting because I'm not getting results. It's only the second week, but in the book it says you gain after the binge day and return to normal after a couple days, only to be even lower by the next week. Well, I gained all the weight as promised (water weight) but it hasn't all come back off yet. By Sunday I should be at 146 or less if Timmy baby is right here. I'm also resuming more weight training this week so that could contribute. Oh, and of course Tim states on his 4HB blog that Mom's of 2 or more kids need an extra 4-6 weeks before they really start seeing results.
The food is good and I've learned something about myself already. The diets that I find the most success with are those in which I am limited to particular food types. Counting calories DOES NOT work for me. Not ever. Planning meals, same deal. The Weight Watcher's Core program worked really well for me and this is working pretty well so far, as far as hunger, not feeling deprived, etc. goes.
Problemos that I am having so far: The beans. I love beans, all kinds of beans, particularly the lentils, black beans, pinto beans and refried beans I am eating. You can probably guess what my issue is with all of these beans in addition to eggs and cruciferous veggies. Gonna grab some Beano today and hope that helps, or my body adjusts, because I will end up sexy and thin, but no one will want to be around me! :)
Other problemo: This may be by design, but only the second week on the slow carb diet and 3rd week without any sugar and when I have it, I have a splitting headache within minutes. Binge day I had a horrid headache all day from the caffeine and sugar in the chocolate and then yesterday morning, I had a drink of my daughter A's tea after she put a ton of sugar in it (without my knowledge, sneaky lil tea party girl!) and I had a headache 5 minutes later. SUPER sensitive to caffeine as well. I guess it's a good thing because I obviously don't want a headache, so I'm not as prone to cheat.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Binge Day! Woohoo! I think.....
It's my first binge day on 4HB and I reach it with mixed emotions. I feel fantastic; not hungry or deprived at all and weighed in at my lowest since the end of my first trimester with baby E., so the last thing I want to do is eat like a gluttonous pig today. I do realize that if I don't take this opportunity, it's 7 more days until it comes up again, though.
SO, I'm 1 meal into my binge day and haven't been too crazy. Added sugar to my coffee and had an organic dark chocolate bar. Result? Elation? Nope. Headache. Had a little turkey sandwich action. Will make some fresh squeezed OJ and order our favorite veggie pizza from The Good Pizza for tonight. I think that will do me good. Definitely not all of the food I envisioned for the past few days. I just don't want it so why consume it? I am on the fence about a cookies n cream shake, though.
Also starting P90X again today. Day 1 of 90 days. I'm just starting over because I've been really inconsistent and doing other things, too. I always tend to get the exercise OR the diet down, not both together, which leads to subpar results. 20 lbs. left to go. Giddy UP!
SO, I'm 1 meal into my binge day and haven't been too crazy. Added sugar to my coffee and had an organic dark chocolate bar. Result? Elation? Nope. Headache. Had a little turkey sandwich action. Will make some fresh squeezed OJ and order our favorite veggie pizza from The Good Pizza for tonight. I think that will do me good. Definitely not all of the food I envisioned for the past few days. I just don't want it so why consume it? I am on the fence about a cookies n cream shake, though.
Also starting P90X again today. Day 1 of 90 days. I'm just starting over because I've been really inconsistent and doing other things, too. I always tend to get the exercise OR the diet down, not both together, which leads to subpar results. 20 lbs. left to go. Giddy UP!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Day 5- 4HB
Going strong, my friends, going strong. I can't believe this is actually a diet. I feel good, I'm losing (slowly but surely as usual) but most importantly, I'm not hungry and I don't feel deprived. The wine helps that feeling and then remembering that Monday is my pig out day makes it easy. I'm making a mental list of what I will eat on Monday. Apparently I will be doing some 90 second stints of hard core exercises (think jump squats) on binge day, but I think that is a good sacrifice for being able to eat all the Ben n Jerry's I want and a stack of pancakes.
My husband is a very clean eater and we've decided it's best for him not to be around on my binge day. It will probably gross him out! I think he is excited about "The Good Pizza" for dinner on Monday's, though! And desert!
I've been slacking on the exercise. So hard to get it in with the kiddo's, the nanny being sick this week, the silent auction I am chairing, etc. I always find it difficult to get both the exercise and diet perfectly together.
Oh! Had the Chipotle burrito bowl that Tim recommends in his book. So good! Must learn to make this at home. I can definitely eat this every day.
Off to the grocery store for more eggs and beans!! Toot Toot!
My husband is a very clean eater and we've decided it's best for him not to be around on my binge day. It will probably gross him out! I think he is excited about "The Good Pizza" for dinner on Monday's, though! And desert!
I've been slacking on the exercise. So hard to get it in with the kiddo's, the nanny being sick this week, the silent auction I am chairing, etc. I always find it difficult to get both the exercise and diet perfectly together.
Oh! Had the Chipotle burrito bowl that Tim recommends in his book. So good! Must learn to make this at home. I can definitely eat this every day.
Off to the grocery store for more eggs and beans!! Toot Toot!
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Holy Bi-atch
Yes, this morning was wonderful. And then I became a raving bitch this afternoon. Could be the sugar withdrawal and the headache. I'm eating a ton of beans, so getting plenty of carbs. Must be the sugar and white carbs I've cut out that are causing the headache. Anyway, the afternoon wasn't as easy as the morning. Ate 1/2 a piece of fish and 1/2 a prime rib at Houston's for dinner tonight and still not totally full and satisfied. LOVED that glass of red wine though. It made me feel like I wasn't depriving myself.
Onward 'till tomorrow my friends......
Friday is only 2 days away!
Onward 'till tomorrow my friends......
Friday is only 2 days away!
Produce stickers & 4HB
One of the things that has always driven me NUTS about healthy eating is peeling those stupid stickers off of fruits and vegetables. SO annoying!!! A good reason to stick with my CSA and farmers markets..... Am I alone here? What I don't like about Farmer's Markets...... all cash and carrying everything with kids in tow.
I'm on the second day of The 4 hour Body Slow-Carb Diet (4HB) and WOW, I'm loving it. Seems too good to be true. I follow 5 rules of what to avoid (no fruit is the toughest one) eat the same foods for 6 days a week and then binge on day 7. Looks like I will be eating basically (all organic) eggs, beans, avocado, tomato, salad, asparagus, peas, carrots, celery, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, chicken, beef, fish and hummus for a while. Totally fine with me. On my 7th day I will eat a whole freakin wedge of triple cream brie by myself, burrata, 5 different kinds of chocolate cakes, and all the pasta my body can handle.
I hate being hungry. I love to eat and feel full, so the fact that I can eat until I'm full and not a pre-portioned plate is extremely appealing to me. This combo is really good for me and so far, I'm not feeling hungry between meals which are every 4 hours. Also feeling a little more energy despite my lack of sleep last night thanks to the booby bandit. I feel lighter and taller too, which is always a good thing.
Did I also mention that up to 2 glasses of red wine per night are not only allowed but encouraged!!?? We shall see if this is all too good to be true soon enough..... now I just have to pick the day of the week to go buck wild.... thinking maybe Friday since that night is our weekly family dinner and my mother in law can cook like nobody's business! Pass the babaganoush right on over!
I'm on the second day of The 4 hour Body Slow-Carb Diet (4HB) and WOW, I'm loving it. Seems too good to be true. I follow 5 rules of what to avoid (no fruit is the toughest one) eat the same foods for 6 days a week and then binge on day 7. Looks like I will be eating basically (all organic) eggs, beans, avocado, tomato, salad, asparagus, peas, carrots, celery, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, chicken, beef, fish and hummus for a while. Totally fine with me. On my 7th day I will eat a whole freakin wedge of triple cream brie by myself, burrata, 5 different kinds of chocolate cakes, and all the pasta my body can handle.
I hate being hungry. I love to eat and feel full, so the fact that I can eat until I'm full and not a pre-portioned plate is extremely appealing to me. This combo is really good for me and so far, I'm not feeling hungry between meals which are every 4 hours. Also feeling a little more energy despite my lack of sleep last night thanks to the booby bandit. I feel lighter and taller too, which is always a good thing.
Did I also mention that up to 2 glasses of red wine per night are not only allowed but encouraged!!?? We shall see if this is all too good to be true soon enough..... now I just have to pick the day of the week to go buck wild.... thinking maybe Friday since that night is our weekly family dinner and my mother in law can cook like nobody's business! Pass the babaganoush right on over!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Timothy Ferris: 1 crazy dude
I'm not saying how much I weighed this morning because I have a feeling it will SUCK. I'm not going near that scale.
My best body in my adult life was in 2005. I had a personal trainer, took hip hop and spinning classes and followed the trainer's eating plan. I had 3 meals and 2 snacks a day with 3-4 options per meal at a grand total of 1250 calories. This book says to basically eat the same things every day and on the 7th day, binge and eat whatever crap you want. I have so much fat that is crazy stubborn and won't melt. I am praying that this plan will work. The big caveat: I'm still breastfeeding. Until now, when I eat less than 1500 calories a day, lil miss is biting my nipples. She has 5 teeth now. I don't want to piss her off.
Today, I am pulling out the trainers old plan and also taking into consideration the foods I like and making a plan of the same foods I am going to eat every day based on Ferriss's plan. I promise you, there will not be more than 1 salad. I'd rather be 10 lbs overweight than eat salads every day, let alone more than once a day, which I've seen time and time again on different diets.
Please comment, let me know how you're doing. What you're struggling with, what progress you've made, what works for you. We are all on this journey together!!!
Monday, January 17, 2011
I'm baaa-ack
MY STATS
I always weigh myself in the morning. My goal is 127. I am 5'5".
I weighed 135 when I got prego with baby 2 and was 188 at delivery.
Today, 10 months postpartum I am sadly at:
Weight: 148.6
An awful lot has changed since my first- and last- post back in 2009 and at least 5 different "eating plans"!
For starters, the day after my first blog post, I discovered that I was prego again! My pregnancy was much like the first one. Very sick, constant puking, eating like crap, too sick to exercise and too ill to care how fat I was getting. I gained 53 lbs. from conception to delivery and as a breastfeeding Mom, the loss of the weight has been GLACIAL. I get so pissed off some times and other times, accept it and know that it will come off immediately (HA LOOK AT THAT SLIP!) I meant eventually.
Okay, so since E. was born, I've run a half marathon with my BFF in NY (I'm in LA.) I completed 3 weeks of P90X followed by slacking on and off. Just did the Insanity fit test yesterday, Circuit Works, which is an insane bootcamp here in LA created by Badass Rafael Vergara. You feel like you will f-ing die.
The Standard Process cleanse that I did 10 months PP with my first daughter A. helped me lose the baby weight to get to 135. The South Beach diet was the start on that road after A. Weight Watchers didn't do a hell of a lot for me, but who the heck knows since I started it when she was 6 weeks old so I was going to lose no matter what, right?
After E., I joined WW briefly but it just wasn't working. For me anyway; saw another Mom friend yesterday who has practically disappeared. She's lost 33 lbs. since starting WW in December and is soooo skinny.
I ordered that stupid Diet Solutions thing we all saw the ads for around New Years and actually gained 2 lbs that week. Nuts do not work for me and I'm sorry, but an apple and a handful of nuts just leaves me FAMISHED. Through it all, using MyFitnessPal.com is a great tool when I'm motivated enough to keep up with it.
Right now, I am looking at Timothy Ferris's 4-hour Body next to my bed and procrastinating reading that baby by writing this blog.
Did I also mention that I was a veggie once, recently bought "The Kind Diet" and love Skinny Bitch? But I also love animal protein. A lot. Organic always, kosher as much as possible. Hey, I'm doing my best.
Okay, baby waking up. Still cosleeping. Night nursing. Fun times.
Till tomorrow.....
I always weigh myself in the morning. My goal is 127. I am 5'5".
I weighed 135 when I got prego with baby 2 and was 188 at delivery.
Today, 10 months postpartum I am sadly at:
Weight: 148.6
An awful lot has changed since my first- and last- post back in 2009 and at least 5 different "eating plans"!
For starters, the day after my first blog post, I discovered that I was prego again! My pregnancy was much like the first one. Very sick, constant puking, eating like crap, too sick to exercise and too ill to care how fat I was getting. I gained 53 lbs. from conception to delivery and as a breastfeeding Mom, the loss of the weight has been GLACIAL. I get so pissed off some times and other times, accept it and know that it will come off immediately (HA LOOK AT THAT SLIP!) I meant eventually.
Okay, so since E. was born, I've run a half marathon with my BFF in NY (I'm in LA.) I completed 3 weeks of P90X followed by slacking on and off. Just did the Insanity fit test yesterday, Circuit Works, which is an insane bootcamp here in LA created by Badass Rafael Vergara. You feel like you will f-ing die.
The Standard Process cleanse that I did 10 months PP with my first daughter A. helped me lose the baby weight to get to 135. The South Beach diet was the start on that road after A. Weight Watchers didn't do a hell of a lot for me, but who the heck knows since I started it when she was 6 weeks old so I was going to lose no matter what, right?
After E., I joined WW briefly but it just wasn't working. For me anyway; saw another Mom friend yesterday who has practically disappeared. She's lost 33 lbs. since starting WW in December and is soooo skinny.
I ordered that stupid Diet Solutions thing we all saw the ads for around New Years and actually gained 2 lbs that week. Nuts do not work for me and I'm sorry, but an apple and a handful of nuts just leaves me FAMISHED. Through it all, using MyFitnessPal.com is a great tool when I'm motivated enough to keep up with it.
Right now, I am looking at Timothy Ferris's 4-hour Body next to my bed and procrastinating reading that baby by writing this blog.
Did I also mention that I was a veggie once, recently bought "The Kind Diet" and love Skinny Bitch? But I also love animal protein. A lot. Organic always, kosher as much as possible. Hey, I'm doing my best.
Okay, baby waking up. Still cosleeping. Night nursing. Fun times.
Till tomorrow.....
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