A Very Successful Week
Well I haven't posted anything on here in quite awhile!
I must admit that for most of the summer I had fallen off the bandwagon
and I ultimately gained about 10 pounds back of the 36 pounds I had lost from January to March of this year.
This made me really realize that it shouldn't be too torturous to lose weight - if we can do it
little by litte. For example, eating 100% vegan/flour and sugar free just makes the pounds melt off, and at the end of 3 weeks, I could lose 15 pounds. Since I've been able to keep off 26 pounds over the past 4 months, it really made me realize that eating vegetarian is helping me keep the weight off, and it will only take several short bursts each year to bring the weight down even more.
So what I've been doing for the past week and a half, is to have a plate of steamed vegetables with olive oil, hemp seed nut and 1 tablespoon of beans for breakfast. Surprisingly enough, I've found that starting my day out this way really helps to ward off cravings throughout the rest of the day. I think it is a combination of getting the nutrition the body needs, as well as cutting out flour and sugar, which I find really cause sugar/craving response in me for the whole day after I've eaten them.
For lunch, I eat my usual bowl of chili (homemade vegetarian chili which I keep in my freezer).
For supper I've been making my usual suppers, but one trick I've done a couple of times is to leave some of my supper on my plate and have it later instead of a snack. I do think I've lost some weight this past week - I feel a little lighter - but the scale will tell ultimately.
Wish me luck!
I must admit that for most of the summer I had fallen off the bandwagon
and I ultimately gained about 10 pounds back of the 36 pounds I had lost from January to March of this year.
This made me really realize that it shouldn't be too torturous to lose weight - if we can do it
little by litte. For example, eating 100% vegan/flour and sugar free just makes the pounds melt off, and at the end of 3 weeks, I could lose 15 pounds. Since I've been able to keep off 26 pounds over the past 4 months, it really made me realize that eating vegetarian is helping me keep the weight off, and it will only take several short bursts each year to bring the weight down even more.
So what I've been doing for the past week and a half, is to have a plate of steamed vegetables with olive oil, hemp seed nut and 1 tablespoon of beans for breakfast. Surprisingly enough, I've found that starting my day out this way really helps to ward off cravings throughout the rest of the day. I think it is a combination of getting the nutrition the body needs, as well as cutting out flour and sugar, which I find really cause sugar/craving response in me for the whole day after I've eaten them.
For lunch, I eat my usual bowl of chili (homemade vegetarian chili which I keep in my freezer).
For supper I've been making my usual suppers, but one trick I've done a couple of times is to leave some of my supper on my plate and have it later instead of a snack. I do think I've lost some weight this past week - I feel a little lighter - but the scale will tell ultimately.
Wish me luck!
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12:35 a.m.
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