beauanderos
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I got tired at work of hearing how big my ass was, and so I embarked on the Nagging Beatch Diet. One of them hounded me for months to give up diet sodas... so I finally went cold turkey and quit ALL sodas (as soon as I had drank up my supply). Two others were constantlylaughing about my jiggling buttcheeks, so finally I told myself "enough is enough!" I decided at that point (277lbs on 5'9" frame) that I was going to take off 117lbs to get down to my "ideal" weight of 160. I've lost about 30 so far, and it seems like the weight loss has slowed down to around two pounds a week. But that's okay, I know I'll eventually shed the weight as I'm eating healthily and exercising, and sleeping seven hours most nights.
So, since this is supposed to be a diary, here goes.
I get up early, and while it's cool (I live in Fresno!) I go out for a ninety minute walk using one pound handweights. Then I come home and eat breakfast and take a ton of supplements.
My typical breakfast now is sixteen ounces of ice water and about a cup of mixed blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, and cherries, along with a low fat plain greek yogurt. I might have one walnut or an almond as well.
I'll have a "snack" about two hours later consisting of four stalks of celery, a few broccoli florets, a carrot, half an apple, a tangerine, a kiwi, a couple of radishes, and maybe four garlic-stuffed green olives. While I'm chomping on this stuff (for some added flavor) I'll throw down some flaxseed and sesame seeds, combined with raw unsalted sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and roasted watermelon seeds. Sometimes I combine this with a bit of mueslix. I measure this out in an empty tylenol bottle to limit my intake. I find I can usually only finish half of it (unless I force myself) because by this time, I'm no longer hungry.
Lunch might be either a salmon on whole grains bread or sardines on same, alternating occassionally with tuna. No dressings.
I also measure out about a quarter cup of nuts, consisting of three walnuts, two almonds, four or five pistachio, one pecan, one cashew, one filbert, and a Brazil nut (good source of selenium). Sometimes I'll toss in a macadamia nut or a few pine nuts.
Dinner is eight ounces of pomegranate juice and a salad. I throw in turnip greens, dandelion leaves, arugala, kale, spinach, spring mix, watercress, jicama, mung bean sprouts, broccoli sprouts, green bell pepper, red onion, red cabbage, almond flakes, raisins, dried cranberries, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, shitake mushrooms and white buttons, a tomatoe, avocado, and usually top it with half of a salmon packet. Sometimes I'll dice some cheese onto the top, but I'm trying to wean myself away from that. This makes a huge salad,but I only eat half of it a day.
I also drink as much ice water as I can tolerate throughout the day. I was getting bored of water, so I started making my own orange, lemon, lime, pink grapefruit drinks. Squeeze the juice of a couple of sweet citrus (sours only require one to provide sufficient flavor) and zest the rind for a megadose of bioflavanoids (much more potent than the pulp).
That's about it. Eating all the good stuff doesn't leave any room for low density, high caloric foods... and I don't really miss them. If I need a sugar fix (rarely) I have dark chocolate covered pomegranate seeds, raisins, acai berries, goji berries, and nuts. I think I'm gonna have to go thru the pantry and throw away all the refined foods (crackers, cookies, candies) that I had from before I got serious... so that I'm not tempted.
So, since this is supposed to be a diary, here goes.
I get up early, and while it's cool (I live in Fresno!) I go out for a ninety minute walk using one pound handweights. Then I come home and eat breakfast and take a ton of supplements.
My typical breakfast now is sixteen ounces of ice water and about a cup of mixed blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, and cherries, along with a low fat plain greek yogurt. I might have one walnut or an almond as well.
I'll have a "snack" about two hours later consisting of four stalks of celery, a few broccoli florets, a carrot, half an apple, a tangerine, a kiwi, a couple of radishes, and maybe four garlic-stuffed green olives. While I'm chomping on this stuff (for some added flavor) I'll throw down some flaxseed and sesame seeds, combined with raw unsalted sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and roasted watermelon seeds. Sometimes I combine this with a bit of mueslix. I measure this out in an empty tylenol bottle to limit my intake. I find I can usually only finish half of it (unless I force myself) because by this time, I'm no longer hungry.
Lunch might be either a salmon on whole grains bread or sardines on same, alternating occassionally with tuna. No dressings.
I also measure out about a quarter cup of nuts, consisting of three walnuts, two almonds, four or five pistachio, one pecan, one cashew, one filbert, and a Brazil nut (good source of selenium). Sometimes I'll toss in a macadamia nut or a few pine nuts.
Dinner is eight ounces of pomegranate juice and a salad. I throw in turnip greens, dandelion leaves, arugala, kale, spinach, spring mix, watercress, jicama, mung bean sprouts, broccoli sprouts, green bell pepper, red onion, red cabbage, almond flakes, raisins, dried cranberries, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, shitake mushrooms and white buttons, a tomatoe, avocado, and usually top it with half of a salmon packet. Sometimes I'll dice some cheese onto the top, but I'm trying to wean myself away from that. This makes a huge salad,but I only eat half of it a day.
I also drink as much ice water as I can tolerate throughout the day. I was getting bored of water, so I started making my own orange, lemon, lime, pink grapefruit drinks. Squeeze the juice of a couple of sweet citrus (sours only require one to provide sufficient flavor) and zest the rind for a megadose of bioflavanoids (much more potent than the pulp).
That's about it. Eating all the good stuff doesn't leave any room for low density, high caloric foods... and I don't really miss them. If I need a sugar fix (rarely) I have dark chocolate covered pomegranate seeds, raisins, acai berries, goji berries, and nuts. I think I'm gonna have to go thru the pantry and throw away all the refined foods (crackers, cookies, candies) that I had from before I got serious... so that I'm not tempted.