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Well, planning my meals worked out very well for me in a way. I was able to get some balance and variety into my diet that I wouldn't normally have. Instead of just filling up on the same old convenient foods (the ones I was testing for allergies), I found that I can eat other things if I just plan better. And if I know I need a certain vegetable or spice for my meal, I know ahead of time and can stop by the store on the way back from exercising. Which I did, and while I was there, I bought other healthy snacks that I wouldn't normally eat, like carrots and celery, and I chopped them up and got them ready for snacktime. (so that they won't just wait in the fridge until they rot like they often have)
I was a little disappointed that I ended up eating as much as I did. Technically, for the Diet Cure, it doesn't matter, but I have fears about it. Plus I just like to have this image of myself eating a certain rather "dainty" amount of food, which I'm afraid I surpassed yesterday. :) In the Diet Cure, the author recommends eating no less than 2200 calories per day, her rationalization being that the World Health Organization uses that number as the line below which a country is starving and needs food aid. She says that her clients lose weight by (switching from lower calorie diets to) eating 2500 calories per day, and that she herself eats 3000! I think this is freaking insane, and yet logically, I'm very interested in it since calorie restriction has made me gain weight so many times. I'm a little scared, though. So much food! Low calorie diets are so much cheaper and more convenient. If only I could maintain one without starving! I guess I shouldn't be too worried, because even with all I'm eating, I'm maintaining a calorie deficit that ought to be enough to lose 1-2 lbs per week.
Anyway, I ultimately believe that if I listen to my body, it will tell me what to do to lose weight. I guess we just have trust issues, me and my body. :)
I'm spending a lot of time on this site and thinking about weight loss in general. I'm kind of bored with myself actually. I was spending a lot of time in a relationship that ended suddenly, and now weight loss has taken up the void. That is not going to be good for the long term. I believe that for my weight loss (and my life) to work I need to focus more on the outside world. Anyway, you know what they say: "A watched pot never boils!" With that in mind I think I'll go find something non-internet and non-weight-loss-related to entertain myself with.
View Diet Calendar, 16 January 2008:
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2485 kcal
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Fat: 107.58g | Prot: 140.65g | Carbs: 249.98g.
Breakfast: vegetable juice w/one apple, margarine, rice hot cereal, spinach, pepper, eggs. Lunch: pine nuts, tomato sauce, cottage cheese, polenta, eggplant. Dinner: flaxseed oil, carrots, tangerine, pesto, salmon, broccoli. Snacks/Other: cottage cheese, edenblend, walnuts, banana, Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert - Chocolate Velvet, organic peanut butter, celery, almonds. more...
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3339 kcal
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Exercise:
Sitting - 5 hours, Driving - 30 minutes, Housework - 1 hour, Desk Work - 6 hours, Stretching (yoga) - 10 minutes, Sleeping - 7 hours and 30 minutes, Resting - 1 hour and 21 minutes, Walking (slow) - 3/kph - 2 hours, Calisthenics (light, e.g. home exercise) - 10 minutes, Dance (fast step, aerobic) - 19 minutes. more...
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