I'm right behind you and catching up!
Started my 'healthy eating plan' proper on Weds. Dh won't allow me to call it a diet, given all the research I've done on how diets are BAAAAAD news. So healthy eating it is then.
I'm basing it on the Marilyn Glenville book 'Fat around the middle' and it's about so much more than just losing weight, although that is a nice side effect. If, like me, your body doesn't handle stress well, ie piles every ounce it can as close to your liver as possible round your middle, then the plan could work for you too. (Now who's sounding evangelical, Sally!) It's about supporting your body and your mind and helping you to deal with stress a lot better.
The plan goes something like this:
First month:
No alcohol
No wheat
No sugar except naturally occurring eg fruit
No potatoes
As little dairy as possible
Eat at least every 3 hours
No carbohydrate with evening meal
Don't eat fruit after evening meal
No caffeine, no fruit tea, no decaff coffee (I'm on rooibos and herbal tea)
After the first month you can let go a little and have a little alcohol now and then, a bit more dairy and generally relax a bit about carbs and fruit.
In the first month you're allowed one cheat day, then two in the second month then I think it's one a week after that. The rule of thumb is stick to the plan for 80% of the time.
I've been going 3 days now (wow!) and don't have any cravings at all. I do get a bit peckish but I can usually find something to satisfy it or at least calm it down.
Will post more later
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this is interesting stuff Liz. I do think wheat and sugar is a big part of it for me. I suddenly start to loose weight in pregnancy when a few things happen simultaneously ... I get wheat allergic and can no longer breastfeed because of contractions. Put the two together and I cannot keep weight on or gain it without eating a ton of chocolate or similar! I've been trying to limit wheat and added sugar in my diet (and must remember to keep it up!) Alcohol isn't something I do a lot of due to having been breastfeeding or pregnant for the last 8 years! I'm intrigued by this book you are reading and may just have to get a closer look (good evangelist job you did there then! LOL!)
ReplyDeleteI meant to reply to one of your earlier posts (and can't remember whther I did, so scuse me if I'm repeating myself) that I started reading Byron Katie's book. Looks interesting.
ReplyDeleteSame here about the pregnancy and breastfeeding, the last 9 years. I decided not to be too abstemious and allowed my self the odd glass or two of red wine, but found it was creeping up to too many nights a week as a kind of reward which was not good.
ok so i've had time to slow down and read your post again. What you say about stress is a big thing for me , and my bugliest bits are near my liver , upper stomach type thing . . . . .
ReplyDeleteI've noticed i feel so better not on wheat too . . . . . . looks like i need to read this book too.
lol bugliest - should read bulgiest - that doesn't look right either - bulge iest lol
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