May all of my bad cycles be that I only lose one pound.
.... I suppose he means instead of gaining weight ....
My Sadkhin Weight Loss Experience
Thursday, July 4, 2013
End of Cycles 7 - 8 - 9... down 6 pounds
I haven't written because what I had to say wasn't encouraging so I just stayed away. Sorry.
I only lost one pound at the end of cycle 7 and again at the end of cycle 8. But at the end of cycle 9 I lost 4 pounds. That's a total loss of 31 pounds in 4 months. with cheating.
One day I ate two candy bars because one wouldn't have been enough.
One another day I ate two large cheese danishes.
On many days I ate tuna in addition to my other plan items which is what a maintenance plan allows you to do.
And neither one of those junk items tasted as good as I remembered them tasting.
It really wasn't worth the set back!
Did I already tell you about the mind technique where you close your eyes and just imagine you are eating a candy bar, chese danish, or whatever.
I promise you this: it will taste better in your memory than it will in real life!
Like I said earlier: Had I been more cooperative with the plan requirements I would already weigh 20 pounds less.
But I've been back on track for one week, now two weeks including this one, and I lost 4 pounds last week.
And Steven put the balls back on the stomach and liver which are considered strong points that are good for an 8 pound weight loss.
I'm surviving on 3 to 4 crisp, really cold, golden delicious apples a day. And for variety I eat a little super cold, sweet, seedless watermelon.
All last week I ate less than 500 calories a day except for one day when I ate a slice of baked salmon which is high in fat calories.
But Steven said not to be concerned with calories. I also ate two cans of water packed tuna last week which is 100 calories per can. (80 calories x 3 apples = 240 + 100 = 340)
But really >>>>>> I am never physically hungry. I eat because Steven says that I must.
And I twirl my tiny balls every time my cell phone alarm reminds me to do it.
As for my mental hunger >>>>>> I keep telling that little nagging voice in my head that if I would have been more cooperative during the last month I would already be 20 pounds closer to my goal weight.
I have also been walking around inside the stores. I never buy anything. I just walk around and look. And sometimes I am walking to quickly to even see what I am passing but that's okay.
I don't feel guilty about using their air conditioning to walk around in because I know that I will spend money there on a different day.
Some days I time how long it takes me to walk up and down every aisle and then I try to beat my own time the next time I'm there. What fun!
Also, I have been eating apples every day >>>>> as in No Milk Days >>>>> because I have been takng a strong antibiotic twice a day. But now I'm taking a smaller dose of something else and I think I can drink some milk without feeling sick from these pills.
But remember this: Steven says you lose 1 pound after one milk day and 3 pounds after two milk days. So it is not good to eliminate milk days.
And now my revised goal is to lose as many pounds as I can in as few days as I can.
How about you? Have you tried a Sadkhin Complex yet?
Have a nice day!
I only lost one pound at the end of cycle 7 and again at the end of cycle 8. But at the end of cycle 9 I lost 4 pounds. That's a total loss of 31 pounds in 4 months. with cheating.
One day I ate two candy bars because one wouldn't have been enough.
One another day I ate two large cheese danishes.
On many days I ate tuna in addition to my other plan items which is what a maintenance plan allows you to do.
And neither one of those junk items tasted as good as I remembered them tasting.
It really wasn't worth the set back!
Did I already tell you about the mind technique where you close your eyes and just imagine you are eating a candy bar, chese danish, or whatever.
I promise you this: it will taste better in your memory than it will in real life!
Like I said earlier: Had I been more cooperative with the plan requirements I would already weigh 20 pounds less.
But I've been back on track for one week, now two weeks including this one, and I lost 4 pounds last week.
And Steven put the balls back on the stomach and liver which are considered strong points that are good for an 8 pound weight loss.
I'm surviving on 3 to 4 crisp, really cold, golden delicious apples a day. And for variety I eat a little super cold, sweet, seedless watermelon.
All last week I ate less than 500 calories a day except for one day when I ate a slice of baked salmon which is high in fat calories.
But Steven said not to be concerned with calories. I also ate two cans of water packed tuna last week which is 100 calories per can. (80 calories x 3 apples = 240 + 100 = 340)
But really >>>>>> I am never physically hungry. I eat because Steven says that I must.
And I twirl my tiny balls every time my cell phone alarm reminds me to do it.
As for my mental hunger >>>>>> I keep telling that little nagging voice in my head that if I would have been more cooperative during the last month I would already be 20 pounds closer to my goal weight.
I have also been walking around inside the stores. I never buy anything. I just walk around and look. And sometimes I am walking to quickly to even see what I am passing but that's okay.
I don't feel guilty about using their air conditioning to walk around in because I know that I will spend money there on a different day.
Some days I time how long it takes me to walk up and down every aisle and then I try to beat my own time the next time I'm there. What fun!
Also, I have been eating apples every day >>>>> as in No Milk Days >>>>> because I have been takng a strong antibiotic twice a day. But now I'm taking a smaller dose of something else and I think I can drink some milk without feeling sick from these pills.
But remember this: Steven says you lose 1 pound after one milk day and 3 pounds after two milk days. So it is not good to eliminate milk days.
And now my revised goal is to lose as many pounds as I can in as few days as I can.
How about you? Have you tried a Sadkhin Complex yet?
Have a nice day!
Sunday, June 2, 2013
End of Cycle 6... no weight loss
Unfortunately, I gained one pound. Steven says that one pound isn't really a weight gain coz it is undigested food from the last 24 hours. It just means that I maintained my weight for this cycle. But I KNOW how much I ate and it seems to me like I should have gained weight. But, I'm thankful that I didn't.
I am already one week into cycle 7 and I've already lost 3 pounds. When I want to eat more or things that aren't on my list, I just remember: if I would have been more stringent with myself then I might already be 10 pounds lighter.
I'm going to try to keep up the good work. Wish me luck!
Have a nice week!
I am already one week into cycle 7 and I've already lost 3 pounds. When I want to eat more or things that aren't on my list, I just remember: if I would have been more stringent with myself then I might already be 10 pounds lighter.
I'm going to try to keep up the good work. Wish me luck!
Have a nice week!
Friday, May 10, 2013
End of Cycle 5... down 3 pounds
Congratulations to me.....! for I lost 3 more pounds during the last 12 days...... making a grand total of 21 pounds of embarrassing fat that I am no longer lugging around with me every where I go.
5 cycles, one was a double so that's roughly 60 days. 2 months. and 21 pounds are now gone, hopefully forever. That's one pound every 3 days or 1/3 of a pound every day, and all I had to do was eat fresh fruits and vegetables and drink a little whole milk. That and stay out of the kitchen.
Just imagine how much more I could be losing if only I would exercise (and stop cheating!!!!!!).
Steven suggested I walk 30 minutes a night after seven pm, but to be honest, I don't even do that. My foot is feeling better though and I will begin walking (at least a little if not the whole kitten kabootal) soon. I really do enjoy the cool breeze so I am rapidly running out of excuses.
I once read that a good visual is: buy sticks of butter equivalent to the number of pounds you would like to loose and every time you lose a pound throw away a pound of the butter. I wonder how much space 60 pounds of butter would take up in my refrigerator? I already know how much space it takes up in a bathtub so in there I still seem as fat as I was two months ago.
But seriously folks, physically I do feel much better. It isn't such a chore just to get up off the bed in the morning. I use to have to raise my feet high in the air and sorta bounce myself up but not any more. Now I can just swing my legs off the bed and just stand up. What a difference 20 pounds make!
According to Steven I lost 3 1/2 inches from my waist. Another congratulations to me!!!!!
Now my clothing is looser than it use to be. My skirts use to be skin tight around the waist but now when I gather up all the free space at the top it appears that I lost more than the tape measure indicated. It looks like 8 inches instead of 3 inches. Wonder why that is?
Yesterday I ate: 2 golden delicious apples, 2 grapefruits, 1 head of romaine lettuce and 2 sweet bell peppers (one yellow, one orange). And I wasn't hungry at all.... not before I ate nor after. In fact, I'm still full but so far today I have already eaten one apple because Steven told me: if I don't eat my body will shut down. So, I do as i am told and I eat..... even when I'm not hungry.
Yes, you read that right: I've been cheating. But, in my defense, I was mindful of my cheats and therefore I cheated the best way I know how: I ate more of what I am allowed to eat.
One night, I don't remember which, I just wanted to eat. It had to be my brain that wanted to eat because my body definitely was NOT hungry. And to top that off: nothing would satisfy me.
At first I thought: maybe my body is craving protein. So I ate a can of water-packed tuna. But that didn't make me stop wanting more food. so I ate all the fruits and vegetables I had eaten that day. By then my belly was --- really stuffed --- so I had to quit eating. Was my mind off of eating after that? I guess so.... coz now I was thinking: boy! am I full!
At least I was mindful of what I was doing so I only ate what I was allowed to eat (minus the tuna - that's really NOT allowed!!!!) .
I could have reached for cookies or ice cream like I use to. I could have and probably would have had those things been in my kitchen but they aren't so that's half the battle right there. I wonder how the ladies do it: I am sure that some ladies have to have other foods in their house for other people to eat. I think that would make it even more difficult for me.
But, as my life is today, I live alone so I am in charge of what I choose to have in my kitchen and I choose to NOT have ready-to-eat junk food lying around in my cabinets. Yes, I have a few bags of peanut butter cookie mix tied up in not one but two grocery bags, stuffed waaaay down in the back of my most-difficult-to-reach cabinet.
Why? you may ask. Because the stores are still going to have then no matter what. And it is up to me to not eat them. So, yes, sticking them way out of my reach makes me forget they are there. But later (in a year from now) I might want to make a batch to share with someone (or to eat all by myself) and why should I have to spend more of my hard-earned-money on buying more of what I already have?
To be honest: cookies aren't even a temptation for me now for a few reasons. Mainly because I am starting to realize that fruit is very sweet (and sticky, I always have to wash my hands after I eat an apple). Secondly, mentally I am starting to realize that eating incorrectly makes me feel bogged down and sluggish whereas eating fruit makes my digestion work soooo much better.
And, I have been reading more of that book i bought: 80/10/10. As it turns out, this is a raw vegan book. And, as you know, the 80 is 80% carbohydrates. But not just any carbohydrates mind you. This book features delicious, ripe, fresh fruit as it's main source of carbohydrates. The two 10's are for fat and protein which you should get from adding a small amount of nuts and seeds to your diet.
And, the book says it is better to not cook your food ..... which aside from the fish (baked salmon with skin on one side and nothing else on it baked 15 minutes in a toaster oven) all that I have eaten for the last two months has been ripe, fresh, uncooked fruits and vegetables. And I must admit: I like eating this way. And, to be honest, if it wasn't for others encouraging me to eat otherwise or me choosing to eat otherwise so as not to make other people uncomfortable, I really have no problem with eating like this - the raw vegan way - and I hope that I will continue eating this way for a long time after all my unwanted pounds are gone.
Since I'm not losing much weight Steven suggested I add yellow bell peppers, watermelon and grapefruits to my list of what I am eating. He says they are fat-burning foods. {note to self: look up fat-burning foods} It may be my imagination but the first day I ate two grapefruits I dropped two pounds on my scale overnight. And there I have stayed for the last three days. I wonder what would happen if I ate nothing but grapefruits for a whole day. I'm going to try it next week so I'll let you know what happens and how eating nothing but citrus fruits makes my body feel.
And I finally weighed my apples the other day and guess what.... each apple weighs one half of a pound. And I've been eating four a day plus other things on every one of my fruit and vegetable days. But Steven says that it's okay and that it is acceptable for me to go up to 3 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables every fruit and vegetables day. So, I'm going to continue eating them but now I'm going to add watermelon and grapefruits to my meals everyday.
Which is just what the 80/10/10 book says to do: have meals of nothing but fruit. Did you know that all fruit has protein and fat in it too? I didn't. And avocados are listed in the fats list (along with the nuts and seeds) instead of the fruits list.
Half of this book is nutritional education and the second half is success stories of people who switched to eating the 80/10/10 raw vegan way. I am just about to start reading the second half of the book. I'll tell you about some of the success stories. What I read so far is that many health problems can be remedied by eating this way. And that excess fat is the number one cause of both heart disease and cancer. And that if you increase how much animal protein you eat you automatically increase how much fat you eat. And that the right way to calculate how much carbohydrates, fats and protein you are eating is as a percentage of how much you eat instead of counting calories of the type of food you are eating. And it recommends some internet sights that can help you do this and I will post them here in a few days.
I read in one of the Sadkhin sites that it is possible to lose weight by eating the way they (and this book) recommend but the advantage of going to your local Sadkhin Complex and getting those two teeny tiny stainless steel balls taped on top of corresponding organ sites behind your ears is this: you are never ever physically hungry! and to me, that is what is helping to make it easier for me to choose to eat the proper foods (as opposed to eating just whatever I can get my hands on because I am ravenously hungry!). And I am sure it will work for you too.
Oh! and the book also mentioned some kind of chemical exciters that are added to processed foods that are physically addictive and that these actual physical cravings is what keeps us eating the fast foods and processed "junk" foods. And it says that eating raw fresh fruits and vegetables eliminates these cravings. Which is a good thing..... right?
..... wishing you a great weekend ..... ...gamzulatova... this too is for the best!
5 cycles, one was a double so that's roughly 60 days. 2 months. and 21 pounds are now gone, hopefully forever. That's one pound every 3 days or 1/3 of a pound every day, and all I had to do was eat fresh fruits and vegetables and drink a little whole milk. That and stay out of the kitchen.
Just imagine how much more I could be losing if only I would exercise (and stop cheating!!!!!!).
Steven suggested I walk 30 minutes a night after seven pm, but to be honest, I don't even do that. My foot is feeling better though and I will begin walking (at least a little if not the whole kitten kabootal) soon. I really do enjoy the cool breeze so I am rapidly running out of excuses.
I once read that a good visual is: buy sticks of butter equivalent to the number of pounds you would like to loose and every time you lose a pound throw away a pound of the butter. I wonder how much space 60 pounds of butter would take up in my refrigerator? I already know how much space it takes up in a bathtub so in there I still seem as fat as I was two months ago.
But seriously folks, physically I do feel much better. It isn't such a chore just to get up off the bed in the morning. I use to have to raise my feet high in the air and sorta bounce myself up but not any more. Now I can just swing my legs off the bed and just stand up. What a difference 20 pounds make!
According to Steven I lost 3 1/2 inches from my waist. Another congratulations to me!!!!!
Now my clothing is looser than it use to be. My skirts use to be skin tight around the waist but now when I gather up all the free space at the top it appears that I lost more than the tape measure indicated. It looks like 8 inches instead of 3 inches. Wonder why that is?
Yesterday I ate: 2 golden delicious apples, 2 grapefruits, 1 head of romaine lettuce and 2 sweet bell peppers (one yellow, one orange). And I wasn't hungry at all.... not before I ate nor after. In fact, I'm still full but so far today I have already eaten one apple because Steven told me: if I don't eat my body will shut down. So, I do as i am told and I eat..... even when I'm not hungry.
Yes, you read that right: I've been cheating. But, in my defense, I was mindful of my cheats and therefore I cheated the best way I know how: I ate more of what I am allowed to eat.
One night, I don't remember which, I just wanted to eat. It had to be my brain that wanted to eat because my body definitely was NOT hungry. And to top that off: nothing would satisfy me.
At first I thought: maybe my body is craving protein. So I ate a can of water-packed tuna. But that didn't make me stop wanting more food. so I ate all the fruits and vegetables I had eaten that day. By then my belly was --- really stuffed --- so I had to quit eating. Was my mind off of eating after that? I guess so.... coz now I was thinking: boy! am I full!
At least I was mindful of what I was doing so I only ate what I was allowed to eat (minus the tuna - that's really NOT allowed!!!!) .
I could have reached for cookies or ice cream like I use to. I could have and probably would have had those things been in my kitchen but they aren't so that's half the battle right there. I wonder how the ladies do it: I am sure that some ladies have to have other foods in their house for other people to eat. I think that would make it even more difficult for me.
But, as my life is today, I live alone so I am in charge of what I choose to have in my kitchen and I choose to NOT have ready-to-eat junk food lying around in my cabinets. Yes, I have a few bags of peanut butter cookie mix tied up in not one but two grocery bags, stuffed waaaay down in the back of my most-difficult-to-reach cabinet.
Why? you may ask. Because the stores are still going to have then no matter what. And it is up to me to not eat them. So, yes, sticking them way out of my reach makes me forget they are there. But later (in a year from now) I might want to make a batch to share with someone (or to eat all by myself) and why should I have to spend more of my hard-earned-money on buying more of what I already have?
To be honest: cookies aren't even a temptation for me now for a few reasons. Mainly because I am starting to realize that fruit is very sweet (and sticky, I always have to wash my hands after I eat an apple). Secondly, mentally I am starting to realize that eating incorrectly makes me feel bogged down and sluggish whereas eating fruit makes my digestion work soooo much better.
And, I have been reading more of that book i bought: 80/10/10. As it turns out, this is a raw vegan book. And, as you know, the 80 is 80% carbohydrates. But not just any carbohydrates mind you. This book features delicious, ripe, fresh fruit as it's main source of carbohydrates. The two 10's are for fat and protein which you should get from adding a small amount of nuts and seeds to your diet.
And, the book says it is better to not cook your food ..... which aside from the fish (baked salmon with skin on one side and nothing else on it baked 15 minutes in a toaster oven) all that I have eaten for the last two months has been ripe, fresh, uncooked fruits and vegetables. And I must admit: I like eating this way. And, to be honest, if it wasn't for others encouraging me to eat otherwise or me choosing to eat otherwise so as not to make other people uncomfortable, I really have no problem with eating like this - the raw vegan way - and I hope that I will continue eating this way for a long time after all my unwanted pounds are gone.
Since I'm not losing much weight Steven suggested I add yellow bell peppers, watermelon and grapefruits to my list of what I am eating. He says they are fat-burning foods. {note to self: look up fat-burning foods} It may be my imagination but the first day I ate two grapefruits I dropped two pounds on my scale overnight. And there I have stayed for the last three days. I wonder what would happen if I ate nothing but grapefruits for a whole day. I'm going to try it next week so I'll let you know what happens and how eating nothing but citrus fruits makes my body feel.
And I finally weighed my apples the other day and guess what.... each apple weighs one half of a pound. And I've been eating four a day plus other things on every one of my fruit and vegetable days. But Steven says that it's okay and that it is acceptable for me to go up to 3 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables every fruit and vegetables day. So, I'm going to continue eating them but now I'm going to add watermelon and grapefruits to my meals everyday.
Which is just what the 80/10/10 book says to do: have meals of nothing but fruit. Did you know that all fruit has protein and fat in it too? I didn't. And avocados are listed in the fats list (along with the nuts and seeds) instead of the fruits list.
Half of this book is nutritional education and the second half is success stories of people who switched to eating the 80/10/10 raw vegan way. I am just about to start reading the second half of the book. I'll tell you about some of the success stories. What I read so far is that many health problems can be remedied by eating this way. And that excess fat is the number one cause of both heart disease and cancer. And that if you increase how much animal protein you eat you automatically increase how much fat you eat. And that the right way to calculate how much carbohydrates, fats and protein you are eating is as a percentage of how much you eat instead of counting calories of the type of food you are eating. And it recommends some internet sights that can help you do this and I will post them here in a few days.
I read in one of the Sadkhin sites that it is possible to lose weight by eating the way they (and this book) recommend but the advantage of going to your local Sadkhin Complex and getting those two teeny tiny stainless steel balls taped on top of corresponding organ sites behind your ears is this: you are never ever physically hungry! and to me, that is what is helping to make it easier for me to choose to eat the proper foods (as opposed to eating just whatever I can get my hands on because I am ravenously hungry!). And I am sure it will work for you too.
Oh! and the book also mentioned some kind of chemical exciters that are added to processed foods that are physically addictive and that these actual physical cravings is what keeps us eating the fast foods and processed "junk" foods. And it says that eating raw fresh fruits and vegetables eliminates these cravings. Which is a good thing..... right?
..... wishing you a great weekend ..... ...gamzulatova... this too is for the best!
Friday, May 3, 2013
What I've Been Eating This Week
Hello there my fellow Sadkhiners. This last week has gone very well as far as my being hungry is concerned (I am never ever actually hungry) but so far this week I haven't lost much weight and I believe I am finally doing everything correctly.
My last appointment was last Thursday. Needless to say: I didn't eat any canned fruit this week. And I drank only red whole milk on my two milk days. I always eat apples on my fresh fruit and vegetable days and since last week I've been eating one avocado each day. Then I added carrot chips one day and 3 heads of romaine lettuce hearts on the other.
So far today I have eaten 3 golden delicious apples. And I wasn't hungry I just ate them because Steven told me I should.
Here's what happened with my weight this week.
I weighed less on Steven's scale than I did that morning on my scale. And then when I weighed at home again that night I was still the heavier weight. It has taken me a whole week of watching very strictly to get down to where Steven's scale had already told me I weighed. Augh!!!!! frustration!
I went back into the previous post and corrected the In Honor of Shabbos incorrectly written information. I only get to eat 4 ounces of fish on Friday night and only 4 more ounces of protein (fish/beef/chicken in this order of preference) on Shabbos day.
Needless to say I will start doing this part correctly too.
But Steven told me that it is permissible for me to make tuna patties with one egg with one can of tuna. I am looking forward to this. I plan to make then using the ingredients that lady used in her avocado dressing. I still haven't made that yet but I do have all the ingredients now. Maybe I will do it today.
I've been reading a lot of knitting books this week. I'm trying to learn as much as possible and it helps me to read the actual instructions on how to knit in lots of different books and then it's like magic..... all of a sudden I know exactly how to do everything.
I'm also looking forward to actually knitting something.
It's time to go. The library closes in half an hour and the computers close in 5 minutes.
I wish you all a very happy weekend! bye-bye.
My last appointment was last Thursday. Needless to say: I didn't eat any canned fruit this week. And I drank only red whole milk on my two milk days. I always eat apples on my fresh fruit and vegetable days and since last week I've been eating one avocado each day. Then I added carrot chips one day and 3 heads of romaine lettuce hearts on the other.
So far today I have eaten 3 golden delicious apples. And I wasn't hungry I just ate them because Steven told me I should.
Here's what happened with my weight this week.
I weighed less on Steven's scale than I did that morning on my scale. And then when I weighed at home again that night I was still the heavier weight. It has taken me a whole week of watching very strictly to get down to where Steven's scale had already told me I weighed. Augh!!!!! frustration!
I went back into the previous post and corrected the In Honor of Shabbos incorrectly written information. I only get to eat 4 ounces of fish on Friday night and only 4 more ounces of protein (fish/beef/chicken in this order of preference) on Shabbos day.
Needless to say I will start doing this part correctly too.
But Steven told me that it is permissible for me to make tuna patties with one egg with one can of tuna. I am looking forward to this. I plan to make then using the ingredients that lady used in her avocado dressing. I still haven't made that yet but I do have all the ingredients now. Maybe I will do it today.
I've been reading a lot of knitting books this week. I'm trying to learn as much as possible and it helps me to read the actual instructions on how to knit in lots of different books and then it's like magic..... all of a sudden I know exactly how to do everything.
I'm also looking forward to actually knitting something.
It's time to go. The library closes in half an hour and the computers close in 5 minutes.
I wish you all a very happy weekend! bye-bye.
Monday, April 29, 2013
My 2 Milk Days
Milk days are easy for me. The only difficulty I have is trying to keep my mind off food.
I really enjoy the crispy crunchy-ness of fresh raw vegetables and even though I am NOT hungry my mind still wants my mouth to experience the sensation eating fresh fruits and vegetables provides.
So all day I am telling myself to get a new hobby. I have looked thru a dozen knitting books from my local libraries. I even spent yesterday afternoon watching youtube videos on how to knit the continental way. Now I am trying to practice knitting this way but it is looser than the old regular way so I will have to finish my two half completed checker-board 4-knit 4-purl 4-knit 4-purl scarves the old fashion way in which they were begun.
But I am definitely going to try to knit that beautiful cape I was telling you about yesterday using the continental method. It is so much faster. The cape is a relatively simple pattern so I am hoping to sail right thru it. I am going to need help with the border though. I am going to put an ad on craigslist asking for help. Maybe someone will respond.
Yesterday I drank my 2 1/2 cups of milk and then I ate 5 teaspoons of honey about 1am. I definitely was not hungry. I was just bored and wanted to taste something. The milk I drink is 150 calories per cup and the honey is 60 calories per teaspoon. Steven says: he isn't concerned with how many calories I eat. But when I am finished with this program I am going to want to know how many calories I am eating and how many calories I am burning via exercising so I am keeping track of my caloric intake now just for the fun of it.
Including the pound of salmon I've been eating in honor of Shabbos my caloric intake averages over 700 calories a day. {Yikes!!! I've been doing this wrong too - I'm only allowed to eat a total of 8 ounces of protein on Shabbos and I've been eating 8 at night plus 8 during the day - wonder how much more I might could have lost if only I had been doing this part right ????? }
My caloric intake will be less at the end of this cycle because I'm switching to tuna which is only 100 calories per can per 5 1/2 ounces but I figure an ounce and a half of that weight is water which I drain off. That means I can eat 4 cans of tuna a week and still lose weight. Sounds good to me!
I didn't get a chance to read anything more in the diet book but I will try to read the next chapter soon so I can tell you all about it.
Have a nice day!
I finally drank my 2 1/2 cups of milk around 4 o'clock. I drank it all at once. It was delicious: cold and creamy. And oh! so filling. For about an hour my belly felt overly full, almost to the point of discomfort. And when I drank it, I wasn't even hungry. But Steven told me: if you don't eat your body will shut down. I think he meant that it would go into that starvation mode and hold on to everything instead of burning my stored fat. And I don't want this. I already know what it's like to not eat and not lose any weight.
I found another knitted cape in a different library book that I like a lot. It will be a little more sturdier than the previous one I mentioned. But meanwhile I'm still working on crocheting an afgan with flowers on it for my niece so I'm going to keep reading before I make any definite decisions.
Have a nice night!
I really enjoy the crispy crunchy-ness of fresh raw vegetables and even though I am NOT hungry my mind still wants my mouth to experience the sensation eating fresh fruits and vegetables provides.
So all day I am telling myself to get a new hobby. I have looked thru a dozen knitting books from my local libraries. I even spent yesterday afternoon watching youtube videos on how to knit the continental way. Now I am trying to practice knitting this way but it is looser than the old regular way so I will have to finish my two half completed checker-board 4-knit 4-purl 4-knit 4-purl scarves the old fashion way in which they were begun.
But I am definitely going to try to knit that beautiful cape I was telling you about yesterday using the continental method. It is so much faster. The cape is a relatively simple pattern so I am hoping to sail right thru it. I am going to need help with the border though. I am going to put an ad on craigslist asking for help. Maybe someone will respond.
Yesterday I drank my 2 1/2 cups of milk and then I ate 5 teaspoons of honey about 1am. I definitely was not hungry. I was just bored and wanted to taste something. The milk I drink is 150 calories per cup and the honey is 60 calories per teaspoon. Steven says: he isn't concerned with how many calories I eat. But when I am finished with this program I am going to want to know how many calories I am eating and how many calories I am burning via exercising so I am keeping track of my caloric intake now just for the fun of it.
Including the pound of salmon I've been eating in honor of Shabbos my caloric intake averages over 700 calories a day. {Yikes!!! I've been doing this wrong too - I'm only allowed to eat a total of 8 ounces of protein on Shabbos and I've been eating 8 at night plus 8 during the day - wonder how much more I might could have lost if only I had been doing this part right ????? }
My caloric intake will be less at the end of this cycle because I'm switching to tuna which is only 100 calories per can per 5 1/2 ounces but I figure an ounce and a half of that weight is water which I drain off. That means I can eat 4 cans of tuna a week and still lose weight. Sounds good to me!
I didn't get a chance to read anything more in the diet book but I will try to read the next chapter soon so I can tell you all about it.
Have a nice day!
I finally drank my 2 1/2 cups of milk around 4 o'clock. I drank it all at once. It was delicious: cold and creamy. And oh! so filling. For about an hour my belly felt overly full, almost to the point of discomfort. And when I drank it, I wasn't even hungry. But Steven told me: if you don't eat your body will shut down. I think he meant that it would go into that starvation mode and hold on to everything instead of burning my stored fat. And I don't want this. I already know what it's like to not eat and not lose any weight.
I found another knitted cape in a different library book that I like a lot. It will be a little more sturdier than the previous one I mentioned. But meanwhile I'm still working on crocheting an afgan with flowers on it for my niece so I'm going to keep reading before I make any definite decisions.
Have a nice night!
Friday, April 26, 2013
End of Cycle 4... down 2 pounds
Hello again. It did not pay for me to go against the program. It clearly states: canned food is prohibited. I read this sentence at least a dozen times but eating canned crushed pineapple was soooo easy and soooo deliciously sweet I did it anyway even though in all honesty I knew that I shouldn't. It was sweet because according to Steven: fruit juice is concentrated sugar. So I learned my lesson and suffered the consequence: not much weight loss.
Had I not eaten the pineapple I might have lost 10 pounds during the 4th cycle but I only lost 2 pounds because I feed myself a cup of concentrated sugar pineapples almost every day. But 2 pounds is also an accomplishment. At least I didn't gain any weight!
The brochure says the best things to eat are raw cabbage, carrots and green apples. Well, I do not eat green apples. I eat golden delicious apples. They are so easy to carry with me where ever I go. Okay, so I'm eating a little toxins (pesticides) but I always peel the one I leave my house with so it's only one or two apples on my fruits and vegetable days. I was going to buy organic green apples but they were over $3 a pound. Six apples was over $10 so I put them back. But I ate one coz I bit into one to determine how many I wanted to buy. It was very clean tasting. Actually, it was almost tasteless.
I went to Costco today. I bought a giant bag of already peeled organic baby carrots: $6 for 5 pounds. All I need to do now is slice them thinly and they'll be like crispy crunchy potato chips. Carrots are especially delicious when they are ice cold because they are so crispy. When I was a child we use to soak carrot sticks in cold ice water inside the refrigerator. I know kids who like me to peel their carrots into ribbons with a potato peeler. Kids like cucumbers this way too. You just keep peeling in the same place until it's too flimsy to hold any more and walllah! you're done.
I also bought a giant bag of Dole celery hearts: 4 pieces for under $5. They too look very crisp. I'm going to cut them into thicker chips. I think celery is one of those negative calorie foods. Your body burns more calories digesting it than the number of calories in the celery. I wonder what are the other negative calorie foods. {note to self: look this up}
I also bought romaine lettuce hearts: 5 pieces for $4. What a bargain! I ate one right there on the spot when I got to my car. It was cold and crisp and oh! so delicious. I really enjoy eating raw vegetables. I much prefer it to steaming them. When I eat cooked food it is rarely satisfying because it only takes a few seconds to chew and then down it goes. Not much enjoyment for me. Plus I keep remembering that raw food cookbook that I read where the lady wrote: my husband can stay up with me all night and then he gets up earlier and brings me my breakfast in bed. I'm not married any more at the moment but when I do get married again (G-d willing) I hope to have this in my life. Don't you agree/ :: this sounds like heaven.
I also bought avacados: 5 pieces for $5.50. So they weren't the biggest I've ever seen but that's cheaper than my local grocery. I bought 2 packages. One was soft enough to eat and the other one was still very very hard. That other girl's website that I told you about, she wrote out an avacado dressing that i plan to try later today. I think it is avacado, lemon juice, cumin, tumeric and garlic powder liquified in a blender. I'm only allowed one avacado a day so I thought it might be nice to pout some salad dressing on some lettuce. I enjoy lettuce just as Mother Nature gives it to us but I like avacados too so once I combine them together it will be out-of-this-world delicious! I hope it's a good recipe. I will let you know next time I write to you. Update: I didn't have all the ingredients but I will let you know after I try it.
I bought a bottle of multiple vitamins and multiminerals, Centrum Silver for women over 50: 300 capsules for $22. Steven asked me to start taking a multiple vitamin 3 times a day. He sells them there in his office but they were $50 for a 3 month's supply. This is also a 3 month's supply so I save myself $28 by borrowing my friend's Costco card and going there. He also sells a bottle of herbal supplements. They didn't have such a thing at Costco. One day I will go to a vitamin store and see how much they cost. But for now I am happy just adding a multiple vitamin to my program. I'm not sure I will take the morning one because I don't like to take pills on an empty stomach. So I will probably take 2 at noon and one at 6 pm before I settle down to work on my knitting and crocheting. {more on this later} Update: I took one each morning for the last three days and it seems to be okay so I will try to take them as Steven suggested, one three times a day.
I also bought a large bottle of Omega 3 Fish Oil capsules: 400 capsules for $8. I haven't decided how many of these I will take every day. I once knew this man who had a zillion bottles of vitamins on his kitchen counter. He said: I select one pill to take with every meal. He didn't have any rhyme or reason as to which one he chose. He just closed his eyes and picked a bottle with his fingertips and that's the one he took. I use to take a lot of vitamins once upon a time way back when but I haven't taken any for at least 6 months or so, maybe even longer. I look forward to feeling revived and refresh with all these nutrients running around in my body.
Once I spent a fortune on powdered greens and powdered fruits. I still have some of it left in my freezer. When I get off of this program I plan to start making green smoothies. I bought a book: the Green Smoothie Joy with 83 smoothie and juicing recipes in it.
I even bought one for a lady I know who likes to drink green drinks and I also bought one for my brother. I haven't sent it to him yet because I want to send him an educational book on how to eat healthily at the same time.
I bought a good one from Barnes & Nobles and I read it all and it was good but when I took back the crocheting book I saw another book: the 80/10/10 Diet. Now I'm reading this one to see if it is what I want to send to him. I showed this book to Steven yesterday when I went there for my appointment. He liked the idea behind this book but he said: he prefers a differnt ratio. Steven prefers: 60% fruits and vegetables, 10% fat, 20% protein. This book is going to show me how to gradually wein myself into eating so much fruits and vegetables. Update: then I remembered: I have already been eating all raw fruits and vegetables for the last month so I think it's safe to say I have already weined myself into this way of eating and to be completely honest: I like it.
I've only read a little of it so far (I'm on the 2nd chapter) but the last thing I read was if everyone would be on a total fruit diet then obesity would be non-exixtent. I wonder if I remember this correctly....? I will tell you more about this book next time. Update: this chapter was all about high blood sugar. It was a very long chapter but it said that eating sugar found in fruit is not what spikes blood sugar levels... it's the fat that is already in the bloodstream that reacts inadvertently with the sugar that was just eaten.
Remember what Steven said: you (meaning me) have to have an eating plan in place when you finish this wonderful program of hungerless weight loss because if you don't you most probably will end up putting some, if not all or more of the weight back on. Steven didn't say all this exactly but that's what I remember getting from what he said. I just embellished it a little bit.
Let's see.... what else? It's getting late for a Friday afternoon and since I don't have a computer at home I am in the public library using their computer. So I'm going to end here and reread this later to see if I left anything out.
I hope you have a wonderful day.
If you do go to see Steven please mention my ad to him and you'll save yourself $32 by way of a 20% discount off the first visit. Just tell him gamzulatova told you all about his fantastic business.
tootaloo.
Had I not eaten the pineapple I might have lost 10 pounds during the 4th cycle but I only lost 2 pounds because I feed myself a cup of concentrated sugar pineapples almost every day. But 2 pounds is also an accomplishment. At least I didn't gain any weight!
The brochure says the best things to eat are raw cabbage, carrots and green apples. Well, I do not eat green apples. I eat golden delicious apples. They are so easy to carry with me where ever I go. Okay, so I'm eating a little toxins (pesticides) but I always peel the one I leave my house with so it's only one or two apples on my fruits and vegetable days. I was going to buy organic green apples but they were over $3 a pound. Six apples was over $10 so I put them back. But I ate one coz I bit into one to determine how many I wanted to buy. It was very clean tasting. Actually, it was almost tasteless.
I went to Costco today. I bought a giant bag of already peeled organic baby carrots: $6 for 5 pounds. All I need to do now is slice them thinly and they'll be like crispy crunchy potato chips. Carrots are especially delicious when they are ice cold because they are so crispy. When I was a child we use to soak carrot sticks in cold ice water inside the refrigerator. I know kids who like me to peel their carrots into ribbons with a potato peeler. Kids like cucumbers this way too. You just keep peeling in the same place until it's too flimsy to hold any more and walllah! you're done.
I also bought a giant bag of Dole celery hearts: 4 pieces for under $5. They too look very crisp. I'm going to cut them into thicker chips. I think celery is one of those negative calorie foods. Your body burns more calories digesting it than the number of calories in the celery. I wonder what are the other negative calorie foods. {note to self: look this up}
I also bought romaine lettuce hearts: 5 pieces for $4. What a bargain! I ate one right there on the spot when I got to my car. It was cold and crisp and oh! so delicious. I really enjoy eating raw vegetables. I much prefer it to steaming them. When I eat cooked food it is rarely satisfying because it only takes a few seconds to chew and then down it goes. Not much enjoyment for me. Plus I keep remembering that raw food cookbook that I read where the lady wrote: my husband can stay up with me all night and then he gets up earlier and brings me my breakfast in bed. I'm not married any more at the moment but when I do get married again (G-d willing) I hope to have this in my life. Don't you agree/ :: this sounds like heaven.
I also bought avacados: 5 pieces for $5.50. So they weren't the biggest I've ever seen but that's cheaper than my local grocery. I bought 2 packages. One was soft enough to eat and the other one was still very very hard. That other girl's website that I told you about, she wrote out an avacado dressing that i plan to try later today. I think it is avacado, lemon juice, cumin, tumeric and garlic powder liquified in a blender. I'm only allowed one avacado a day so I thought it might be nice to pout some salad dressing on some lettuce. I enjoy lettuce just as Mother Nature gives it to us but I like avacados too so once I combine them together it will be out-of-this-world delicious! I hope it's a good recipe. I will let you know next time I write to you. Update: I didn't have all the ingredients but I will let you know after I try it.
I bought a bottle of multiple vitamins and multiminerals, Centrum Silver for women over 50: 300 capsules for $22. Steven asked me to start taking a multiple vitamin 3 times a day. He sells them there in his office but they were $50 for a 3 month's supply. This is also a 3 month's supply so I save myself $28 by borrowing my friend's Costco card and going there. He also sells a bottle of herbal supplements. They didn't have such a thing at Costco. One day I will go to a vitamin store and see how much they cost. But for now I am happy just adding a multiple vitamin to my program. I'm not sure I will take the morning one because I don't like to take pills on an empty stomach. So I will probably take 2 at noon and one at 6 pm before I settle down to work on my knitting and crocheting. {more on this later} Update: I took one each morning for the last three days and it seems to be okay so I will try to take them as Steven suggested, one three times a day.
I also bought a large bottle of Omega 3 Fish Oil capsules: 400 capsules for $8. I haven't decided how many of these I will take every day. I once knew this man who had a zillion bottles of vitamins on his kitchen counter. He said: I select one pill to take with every meal. He didn't have any rhyme or reason as to which one he chose. He just closed his eyes and picked a bottle with his fingertips and that's the one he took. I use to take a lot of vitamins once upon a time way back when but I haven't taken any for at least 6 months or so, maybe even longer. I look forward to feeling revived and refresh with all these nutrients running around in my body.
Once I spent a fortune on powdered greens and powdered fruits. I still have some of it left in my freezer. When I get off of this program I plan to start making green smoothies. I bought a book: the Green Smoothie Joy with 83 smoothie and juicing recipes in it.
I even bought one for a lady I know who likes to drink green drinks and I also bought one for my brother. I haven't sent it to him yet because I want to send him an educational book on how to eat healthily at the same time.
I bought a good one from Barnes & Nobles and I read it all and it was good but when I took back the crocheting book I saw another book: the 80/10/10 Diet. Now I'm reading this one to see if it is what I want to send to him. I showed this book to Steven yesterday when I went there for my appointment. He liked the idea behind this book but he said: he prefers a differnt ratio. Steven prefers: 60% fruits and vegetables, 10% fat, 20% protein. This book is going to show me how to gradually wein myself into eating so much fruits and vegetables. Update: then I remembered: I have already been eating all raw fruits and vegetables for the last month so I think it's safe to say I have already weined myself into this way of eating and to be completely honest: I like it.
I've only read a little of it so far (I'm on the 2nd chapter) but the last thing I read was if everyone would be on a total fruit diet then obesity would be non-exixtent. I wonder if I remember this correctly....? I will tell you more about this book next time. Update: this chapter was all about high blood sugar. It was a very long chapter but it said that eating sugar found in fruit is not what spikes blood sugar levels... it's the fat that is already in the bloodstream that reacts inadvertently with the sugar that was just eaten.
Remember what Steven said: you (meaning me) have to have an eating plan in place when you finish this wonderful program of hungerless weight loss because if you don't you most probably will end up putting some, if not all or more of the weight back on. Steven didn't say all this exactly but that's what I remember getting from what he said. I just embellished it a little bit.
Let's see.... what else? It's getting late for a Friday afternoon and since I don't have a computer at home I am in the public library using their computer. So I'm going to end here and reread this later to see if I left anything out.
I hope you have a wonderful day.
If you do go to see Steven please mention my ad to him and you'll save yourself $32 by way of a 20% discount off the first visit. Just tell him gamzulatova told you all about his fantastic business.
tootaloo.
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