Weight Loss: 2010-01-05
Okay, this morning, I weighed in at 182.5 pounds. This is the first drop below what I weighed on 2010-01-01 (which was 183.0 pounds).
Hopefully, now that most of the holiday food has been either eaten or thrown out, I can avoid those spoilers that make the scale read higher numbers. However, dealing with Mom constantly bringing bad stuff into the house has foiled past diets. But I’ve found that as I gain positive momentum in a diet (once I’ve lost several pounds), it get easier to say no to her near-constant campaigning to get me to eat more than I should.
Behaviors I used yesterday to get the scale going in the right direction were:
- Drank four cups of green tea and one cup of black tea.
- Avoided eating until later in the afternoon (4:00 PM or so).
- Avoided all white flours and added sugars.
- Ate 60 grams of high quality protein (chicken with wing sauce, and organic skim milk).
- Had two or three servings of fruit (bananas, blueberries, raisins).
- Took a complete multi-vitamin.
- Held total fat consumption below 20 grams.
I basically follow Dr. Mirkin’s 20 / 30 diet plan, where you eat no more than 20 grams of fat per day, and eat at least 30 grams of fiber.
I’ll supply more tips about the diet I use in future posts.