MONDAY - GAINED 1 POUND

This picture is what I had for supper
3 oz chicken, 1 C beans, 1 C carrotts, med apple.


OK.....This has gone on long enough. I am up a total of 1 pound since last Monday and I had more of an excuse last Monday because it was the day after Easter. Today I have no excuse. I have been on the internet exploring different weight loss diets and there are hundreds of them. But they all come down to the same thing in losing weight. Take in less calories than the amount of exercise that you put out. This has always been the way it is. If you only take in 1200 calories a day and sit in a chair and read all day there is no way you are going to lose any weight. I have got to move the head knowledge to the heart. I did find a diet called the three day diet that gives you a jump start on dieting and I am going to try that for three days. The foods were simple and I have most of them already. They stress that it is not recommended for more than three days. It is low in calories but what I like about it is that it is spelled out for you and you don't have to worry about what to eat. So here goes. Listed at the end are the allowed substitutions.

Breakfast: Black coffee, tea or water with sweet & low or equal (I am going to have hot English Breakfast tea with splenda in it.) 1/2 grapefruit or juice (I am going to have the grapefruit) 1 slice toast with 1 Tbsp Peanut butter.

Lunch: 1/2 cup of Tuna, 1 slice toast,(I will probably do crackers instead of the toast) Black coffee or tea with sweet & low or equal

Dinner: 3 oz any lean meat, 1 cup green beans, 1 cup carrotts, 1 cup vanilla ice cream,(If I go to the store I will probably do the yogurt instead of the ice cream) 1 medium apple, Black coffee, tea or water with sweet & low or equal.

You can use lemon, salt and pepper, mustard and cooking spray.

You can also substitute orange instead of grapefruit, tuna instead of cottage cheese or vice versa, frozen yogurt instead of ice cream, cauliflower instead of broccoli and vice versa, green beans instead of broccoli or cauliflower, beets instead of carrots, toast instead of 5 crackers or vice versa.

Anyway I think I can do this for three days. The menu is different each day but nothing that is real expensive or hard to get. I'll let you know tomorrow if I stuck with it today.

Well I did stick with it today. Besides the plate at the top of the picture, I also had the cup of vanilla ice cream. So far it has not been bad. The worst thing was the tuna I had for lunch. I couldn't eat but about 2 oz of it but I got some white albacore when I went to the store so it should be much better.