Dieting 101

Eat less food.

Between cake night and 2 weeks of honeymooning, I gained a few extra pounds after the wedding. Now 4 lbs. is not a lot, however try picking up a 5lb. bag of sugar and imagine carrying that extra weight on your body all day. I also have a propensity to gain 10-20lbs during the winter because I hibernate and I am less active. And while I am stuck in the house, I like to bake cookies, cakes, and trays of brownies. All in all, I am trying to end the trend.

Now there are 2 thoughts on weight loss. There is the Weight Watchers, eat right, count your points, and lose the weight slowly over time, and then there is Slim 4 Life, eat less now, and lose it faster. I myself prefer the fast results so a week and a half ago I went back to my Slim 4 Life diet. Day 1-3 gets your body ready for losing weight fast.

The Diet for days 1-3 consists of:
2 eggs
1 orange
unlimited lean meat (chicken, fish, white meat turkey, red meat)
unlimited raw green vegetables
2 TBL fat free salad dressing
2 C coffee
morton lite salt

Doesn't sound like a lot of food does it? Well it is not, but doing it this time was much easier than doing it the first time, because my stomach has shrunk from a year ago. I think I went through 3 green peppers and an entire stalk of celery. The hardest part is that your body goes through carb withdrawal.

After that, I began the regulatory diet consisting each day of:
2 lean meats
2 vegetables
2 fruits
2 carbs
2 TBL fat free salad dressing
2 Slim 4 Life Supplement (I like their energy bars, pretzels, and hot chocolate)

No dairy, fat, oil, butter, or condiments. There is a list of everything I am allowed to each for each of the above. For example, carbs consist of 1 slice of diet bread, 2 akmak crackers, 1/2 small potato, or a salt free rice cake. Likewise fruit portions are 10 green grapes, 3/4 C pineapple, 1 small apple etc.

Well let's just say that I've lost 5lbs. in 11 days and my pants better. woo hoo, my stomach is flat again.