It is only two pounds but thankfully I finally dropped a couple. Last week was all stews and chili with mostly potatoes or rice and lots of canned vegs and little or no meat. I am surprised it didn't work too much havoc on my insides.
Fri I had the blahs worse than usual and I have mostly been eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for breakfast and lunch and fried egg sandwiches for dinner. I am sore and tired and just don't seem to have the energy to do much else.
I had planned on potato salad and either one chicken breast sauteed in olive oil or one country rib in a tiny bit of BBQ sauce for my Memorial Day "picnic". I never got up the energy to make it.
A possible diet tip: I was reading several books last week and stumbled across a tip that I may try. It said to alternate your calories between feast and famine. Say you want to eat 1500 calories per day. Instead eat 1000 calories today and 2000 tomorrow. By alternating the number of calories you fool your system into thinking it is starving and feasting so it is less likely to slow down. I cannot say this works but I am figuring I might as well try it. Because of my physical problems I cannot do the usual fitness things to step up my metabolism. Normally I would increase exercise to push past a stall. Maybe this will work instead.
From the beginning I have been trying for 2000 to 2500 per day. At the beginning of the diet I stayed at around 2000 or lower and then would have a spike to 2500 every 3rd or 4th day as I allowed myself light splurges. I was having no trouble losing. At some point I started having a harder time sticking with the diet, hating the food and always craving something different so I started staying at around 2500 or sometimes even going up to 2800 as I desperately tried to satisfy my cravings with "one more 100 calorie snack" for the day.
Happy Dieting
Linda B in TN @ 348 :)
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