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Breakfast: Tuna salad w/2tbsp mayo, onions, chili pepper sauce, one diced cucumber, chopped romaine lettuce

Snack: 1 Atkins Advantage bar

Lunch: I protein shake w. 125ml unswt soy milk @ 27g protein (fresh vanilla beans for added flavour)

Dinner: Sauteed asian beef strip salad with soy sauce, evoo, lots of hot pepper, cauliflower and broccoli and lots of garlic and onion.

Exercise: 90 min walk

Water: 2L

Supplements:

L-Carnitine

Green Tea

Hoodia

Vitamins

Omega 3

Bowel: OK (not fanfrickingtastic but I went)

Today:

Breakfast: Leftover dinner Sauteed asian beef strip salad with soy sauce, evoo, lots of hot pepper, cauliflower and broccoli with two eggs added since hubby picked out so many pieces of the beef last night!

Snack: 1 tomato w/ salt, pepper, evoo drizzled as well as 1.75oz cheddar cheese

Lunch: 1 protein shake with 54g whey protein isolate, 250ml unswt soy milk and 2 tbsp coconut milk

Dinner: Baked chicken & Veggies

Exercise: P90 3-4 Sweat or a 45min  bike ride. (the latter will be very ambitious!)

Water: 2L

Supplements:

L-Carnitine

Green Tea

Hoodia

Vitamins

Omega 3

Bowel : FANFRICKINTASTIC... I went THREE times and felt like I lost weight!!!!

Yes. I really cannot get this right without being meticulous about everything I put in my mouth. How else am I going to see patterns and trends long term and see how my body reacts to certain foods?  I just have to make up my mind to keep track of this on paper.

Yesterday:

Breakfast: 1 Protein shake with 54g protein, 125ml unsweetened soy milk, 2tbsp flaxseed, 3tbsp cream

Lunch: A HUGE stir fried chicken salad with string beans and snap peas (maybe 2 servings)

Snack: A half of an Atkins Advantage bar

Dinner: 1 Protein shake with 27g protein, 125mil unswt. soy milk

Exercise: 90min walk 

Day before yesterday:

Pre-Breakfast: Unsweetened homemade jello (with stevia, lemon, colouring) with 2-3 tsp cream sprinkled with a packet of stevia

Breakfast:  Stir fried beef salad with string beans, broccoli sweet peppers, mushroom

Lunch: A tuna and 2 boiled egg salad with romaine lettuce

Snack: A half of an Atkins Advantage bar

Dinner: A protein shake with 27g protein, 125mil unswt. soy milk, tbsp flaxseed, 3tbsp cream

Exercise: 22 min yoga

I am going to set weekly goals in order to keep myself accountable and to motivate myself to conquer one small hurdle at a time.  It seems like saying we want to lose an overall goal of 50lbs or even a smaller accumative goals of 1-3 lbs a week is NOT ENOUGH.  Here's why.  Things change week to week. We dont consume the exact same food and workout with the exact intensity. The variables are different.  So results may vary. Furthermore, metabolisms wane and mini plateaus happen. So I am finding that it may be best for me to create a WEEKLY goal, based on where I am at the beginning of each week and not from the longhaul perspective.

So what is my weekly goal this week?

This week I will lose 5lbs.  Yes. You heard me right. This gal in intent on shedding 5lbs of FAT over the next couple days. Its already Wednesday. I dont care. I am goign to do it. Why?  Because I am still begrudging those 3lbs that I should ahve lost last week when I changed my diet plus to 2lbs I am goign to lose this week. So that is 5lbs and I am back on track. Furthermore, I am DYING to see my numbers drop below the 180s and at 184lbs currently, those 5lbs will take me to 179.  

I realize that I was not eating exactly 20g or less of carbs last week and neither was I eating the right whole foods.  A day with 3 protein shakes, plus not enough overall water and veg consumption makes the body hold on to fat and wast and stop shedding.  I have to reverse that this week. I have been eating better and being a better steward with how I make my shakes.  I realise I was adding too many things to them. 

I am also craving salads. Can you believe I just wrote that?  I cannot believe I just wrote that much less. But I think my body is now getting used to the crunch, water, minerals and fibre of having at least 2 servings of veggies a day.  My favourite salad is now a tuna salad piled on greens.  Quick and yummy.  Talking about quick, I conditioned my mind to view salads as lazy and easy food... which makes it even quicker than ordering delivery or cooking.  Why didnt I thin of that AGES ago??!?!

I am also going to try and stay in induction for another week at least (20g or less of carbs) and I plan to walk for 1 hour every evening in the hot desert summer.  It takes me 15 mins each way to and frmo the field so its a total walk of 90 mins daily.  I find that I feel more fatigue from burning than the p90 3-4 sweat plus I needed some change so I wanted to mix it up.

I am going to aim for p90, Si6 and walking ffrom next week with different weekly targets.

Right now, I am just goign to go fix myself a tuna salad for breakfast!

D... we are in the same boat. I made the same confession to hubby about this obsession. Here's what I noticed:

1.I can hardly see the changes though I know that they are there. Sometimes I see how different my body looks in certain clothes and think.. OH YEAH! Then... I still go on the scale and obsess. Why? Because part of us just wants to be done with "getting there." We are the kids in the back of the car yelling "Are we there yet !" every 5 mins in a 5 hour road trip. 

2. When I look in the mirror, I see how much further I have to go instead of how far I have come. Yes we may have months and maybe even years to get to our goals but while it is important to "Keep your eye on the goal" you also have to recognize and celebrate how far you have come.

3. The day to day journey is inconsistent. Sometimes the tummy or face is a little puffy, sometimes you haven't had the most efficient time in the elimination department, sometimes your energy ebbs and flows. It is less effective to compare today with yesterday as opposed to this month/week to last mont/week much less even trying to compare with a few hours!

4.Just do your part and your body will do the rest- in it's own time, at it's own pace. Furthermore if we REALLY considered this a LIFETIME change and not a means to a quick goal, then what is our rush? We get there when our bodies are ready as long as we do the work on kick and swallow at a time.

1. In the last 18 days, I have lost 3 inches off my waist