Today I start the 17 day diet that was devloped by Dr. Mike Moreno. The diet itself has been featured on Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz. Both of them are stongly promoting it, and the success stories have sounded positive, so it is worth a try.
After losing 140lbs over a course of 5 years, I have come along way from my 310 lb body. Sadely this past year has been a year from hell for me. Having gone through a very sad divorce, and many many other set backs in my life, food just kind of crept its way back into my life. It really got to the point where I was binging terribly and then purging to get back to my target weight.
I am currently 30lbs heavier than I was a year ago, and I want to get back to my 170lb body. Why is it so important? I have $10,000 dollars invested into this body. Remember my whole body lift surgery etc. The doctor warmed that I could eat my way back to where I was, and now I am starting to see that the weight is comming on and streching my plastic surgeon's work. I have fixed myself up mentallly following my divorce, so now it is time to fix myself physically. :)
So today at 205lbs, I start a new. Goal weight 170-175
1st 17 day cycle consists of mostly lean protein- no red meat, vegtables, yogart, low sugar fruits and green tea. Absolutely no starchy foods like potatoes, legumes, rice, corn, or oatmeal are allowed. It doesn't say no bread, but I am guessing that must be a given because there is no bread whatsoever in the meal planning section. Eggs are really pushed in this cycle.
Cycle one: Meal planning made easy-
Eat as much of specific protiens and cleansing vegatbles as you would like.
You may suppliment any of these foods with 2 low sugar fruits daily, 2 servings of probiotic foods such as yogart or acidophilis milk.
The book states, you do not have to count anything escept your 2 fruit servings and 2 probiotic servings, and your fat servings.
Dr. Mike says this is kind of a cleansing cycle, so water water water is pushed. 8 full glasses. I don't think I have peeed this much in one day in my whole entire life. lol
So one of the things that Dr. Mike really pushes is Green Tea. If you want to get his book it will be list the reasons etc, but I can tell you right now that I hate tea. It is the absolule only food in the whole entire world that I dislike the taste of completely. I went to my RX and purchased some Greent Tea pills and wow do I have energy. I wish I had know about green tea 15 years ago. I am pretty sure the kids at preschool today thought I was on speed. lol
Anyhow, so I got my Green Tea suppliment and also a fish oil, flax seed oil suppliment as well. He really insists we get our needed good oils. One other suppliment that I bought was a probiotic pill. Probiotics are said to help the efficiency of digestion so instead of eating a bunch of activia yogart which can get expensive, simply go by the suppliment and sprinkle it into regular yogart and away you go. Cheap too. :)
Ok so day 1
Milk and cereal etc. are forbidden on this diet, cycle one anyhow, but for day 1 I was scared setting out to preschool to teach 24 very active children, not knowing if yogart would be enough to keep me fueled while teaching. So I had a bowl of corn chex, a banana, and milk of course. BABY STEPS RIGHT? That is my thought anyhow. NOTE TO SELF. Bananas are not considered good fruits, so I am in the bad even more.
So lunch I had mixed greens and some turkey with a couple of tsp of FAT FREE Italian dressing. The hard boiled egg added extra protein. I crumbled a few pieces of brocholli and cauliflower on as well. NO CHEESE!!! I really missed that.
OH YA, I drank a ton of water as well.
So here is the deal. it is 5:00 and I am starving, but that is simply because I didn't eat my 2 servings of fruit, nor did I bring meat or protein along to snack on while at preschool. Cycle one says you can eat unlimited meats, within reason of course, and unlimited vegtables. Now I know what my hunger scale is going to be like, so now I can plan on snacks, and fuel to keep me going.
For supper I grilled a large chicken breast on my stove top grill and then threw it in the oven to finish cooking. I purchased a Healthy Colors Green Giant Market Blend with sliced carrots, zuchini, roma tomotoes, and yellow peppers tossed in an extra virgin olive oil sauce. One of those Valley Fresh steamers in a bag. SO GOOD!!!!! I highly recommend this.. Man I am stuffed.
Now in the book it says that I can have a half of a cup of acodophilius milk, but to be honest, I have no idea what that even is. I am going to have to google it. I had a half of a glass of regular 1% milk, so I hope that was ok. lol
Milk will be my hardest thing to give up. I drink milk really as a "drug" of choice. It is my comfort and giving it up is going to take some time. I can not promise that you will see me milk free, but 1-2 glasses is like 1/10th of what I drink so right there I feel that i am doing good.
It says that any of the fruit choices need to be eaten before 2:00 as they are carbs and it is important to never eat carbs late in the evening because we are less lickely to be active in the evening, so it just turns to fat. Wow, I think that was a run on. lol So NOTE- No fruit past 2:00....
I have been eating (1) Dove Chocolate every day for years, so that will have to be my "treat" although there really are no treats allowed.. lol
Dove Promise Message: Believe in the unblievable and it may come true..
See you tomorrow on DAY 2 of cycle 1
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