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.
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