First Post - Things that have worked for me
Hello everyone, first post on here.
I've been at this for 47 days and have lost about 17 lbs. I was unable to work out at all up until a week ago due to an ankle injury, so all the weight lost was 100% from the diet. I was 222.8 lbs when I started and I'm down to 205.5. I have been having really good success with this diet so I thought I would post some things that have worked for me. Full disclosure, I haven't read any of the books, and I've cheated on the diet twice, both times after the initial 30 days, once on my birthday and once on my wife's birthday. Each time I cheated it cost me about a week of progress, would gain water weight but then it would fall off and I would level out again after about 5-6 days. My cheats were pretty dramatic, like two full bowls of pasta and wine.
Anyway thought I would post some things that have worked for me on here for anyone just starting out.
1.) Go super strict for the first 30 days. Zero carbs, no booze.
2.) The first 12 days for me were awful (I remember day 6 being particularly awful), I was tired, crabby, very low energy then something just flipped on day 13 and I had a ton of energy and felt great. But it's a grind to get through the initial days, you just have to tough it out, it's worth it.
3.) Buy a smart scale that links to your cell phone and track your progress. I bought this scale on Amazon called Yunmai. It's awesome, it has a tracking app of it's own and it also links to your health app on iPhone to tracks your daily progress. To me it's very motivating to see your weight going down every day and it keeps you on track. I weigh myself every morning.
4.) Every day for breakfast I have 2 hard boiled eggs, no yolk. They are low cal zero carb and it fills me up until lunch.
5.) I'm lucky that the building I work in has two buffet options for lunch where there is a rotating menu options of fish and meat.
6.) Dinner varies but it's 100% meat. I switch up between, fish, pork, steak, shellfish, sausages (check the label, sneaky carbs in some), chicken.
7.) Snacks - I've love lox so I keep that around and if I'm getting hungry I'll just eat a slice of lox. Also I eat cottage cheese, only after the first 30 days, because I haven't found any that don't have at least 2g sugar per serving. Also sausages and meat sticks from some of the butcher type shops.
8.) Cheating - not worth it, both times the satisfaction I got wasn't worth the wasted week.
9.) Drinking - I love wine, really miss wine still. As I mentioned the first 30 days I didn't drink anything at all. Now I'll have bourbon on the rocks after a long day, don't like it as much as wine but it's growing on me.
10.) Missing Pizza - Like wine, I also miss Pizza. What I have found is that Chicken Parm (no breading) will tie me over. Also I've taken Italian sausages out of the casing, spread it out, put sauce and cheese over it and baked it and that also satisfies my cravings for pizza.
I hope that this is helpful to some people starting out. Hang in there, it's worth it. People will see a difference and make comments around 10-15 lbs. Your clothes will fit better and you'll feel better all around.
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Welcome justJ,
I like to whip up a quick pizza casserole - combine meats, sauteed veggies and sauce in a casserole dish, top with cheese and bake or microwave. I like baking/broiling for brown cheese.
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