Weeks 3-4: Steady Losses

[bluedrag]

It's been exactly 4 weeks since I started tracking my weight. Even though I had a feeling lately that my weight loss has somewhat slowed, in fact this is not so: for the last 3 weeks, I've been losing exactly 4 pounds per week. Overall, I lost 18 pounds in 4 weeks. The red "trend" (moving average) line goes down pretty steadily. I am quite satisfied by the progress.

For some time already, I am feeling rather comfortable with my diet. I don't feel any of the wonderful things some people report after substantial diet changes (like a boost of energy), but I also don't have any of the negative effects I've expected -- no headaches, no tiredness, no hunger. In short, I feel just about "normal".

This allows me to start trying different experiments. So far I am doing two things:

Drinking at least one cup of fresh vegetable juice per day. I think I'll write a separate post about juicing.

Completely avoiding all dairy products. I've read a certain amount of anti-milk propaganda (you can start from notmilk.com if you are interested), so I decided to try to live without it for two or three months and see what happens.

One other thing I am going to try soon is to completely fast a day per week. I am curious to see how it feels. For the rest of the week I am going to eat more than now -- maybe 1500 or 1600 calories per day -- though it's not clear to me how I am going to fit that much food into myself. I am quite full with my current 1200 calories per day. What a weird problem to have! Well, I'll probably try eating more nuts.

Comments

[little-elijah.livejournal.com]

Андрюха, опубликуй, пожалуйста, меню на день. Очень интересно.

[bluedrag]

Well, it varies (as you can guess), but recently I have something like this on a week day.

Morning: 1 glass of fresh juice          100
At work: 1 soy yogurt                    150
Snack:   1 large fruit (apple or 
            grapefruit) or some carrots <100
Lunch:   A frozen meal or canned soup    300-400
Snack:   1 large fruit                  <100
Dinner:  1 vegetable salad, or
         1 bowl of oatmeal               150
         1 slice of whole wheat bread     80
         3 tbsp of hummus                 90
         1 glass of fresh juice          100
Lots of water and tea                    Free
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Total:                                 ~1200  kcal 

[parf-al.livejournal.com]

То есть нормальную домашнюю еду теперь вообще не ешь? Как повезло Лене :-)!

[bluedrag]

Салат ем :) Правда, сам его и делаю. А вообще, по рабочим дням не до того. По выходным меню несколько другое, более импровизированное.

А повезло ей безотносительно.

[parf-al.livejournal.com]

А повезло ей безотносительно Ну, это да :-). Только теперь еще больше повезло :)

[recoder]

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