Here is my diet cycle.
Sound familiar anyone? Day 1 – I’m
so motivated. I've got a vacation, events, and cute clothes to wear and I'm going to take advantage of it by being 10 lbs. lighter! This is the day I will
pull myself out of the quagmire of diet failure! I start out with a healthy breakfast. I know that it’s important to start out with
a good breakfast! Gotta keep that energy up! 2 hours later, however, I start
to feel hungry and my stomach starts to feel a little growly. I go in and grab a healthy sized
healthy snack, telling myself I will watch it at lunchtime. It’s definitely not too late, I've got this! Lunchtime comes and I’m feeling hungry
again. I look at what my co-workers or
my husband or the people on the Food Network are eating and I don’t want to be
deprived, so I get myself an extra helping of something plus another food
item. Alright now I’m feeling a little
apprehensive about the future of this first day of the rest of my life. C’mon, let’s not make it like all of the rest
of the days I failed! I swear to myself
that I will definitely have to watch it from now until bedtime. Evening comes around and I’m watching my
favorite t.v. show. I can’t watch t.v.
without feeling a bit hungry, which I am.
It’s been 5 hours already. I feel
deprived but yet at the same time I tell myself I should be careful. I eat a full dinner. In front of the t.v. Day 1 – Epic Fail!!!!
Day 2 – I don’t eat breakfast, in fact, I don’t eat until 2
pm. I hop on the scale again, after this
morning’s initial eye-popping number to
validate that this was a great idea.
Sure enough, I’ve lost a lb. from this morning’s dismal reading. Great!
It’s a good thing, ‘cause I’m hungry.
I look in the freezer and there sits a carton of my favorite ice
cream! Tillamook, you are a bad, bad
company because before I know what’s happening, I dish out 3 large scoops of
Mudslide. Ha! But I’m being smart.
I put in a half cup of Oatmeal to up the fiber count! And hey, that’s all I’ll be eating until
right at 7 pm when I plan to have a healthy green smoothie and call it a
night.
At 3 pm I realize that I
committed to bring food for our women’s group summer get-together. It’s going to be salad with a chicken option
and desserts. I tell myself I will just
have the salad and a tiny bit of chicken for the protein. When I get there, it looks amazing! The food
is delicious and conversations are lively.
I look around and I am not, by any means, the biggest gal in the
room. It makes me feel more at ease and
so, I sample all of the entrees and many of the desserts. I leave realizing that I have just failed
Day 2.
But there is a ray of hope.
After my 4th of July food fest, I found the motivation to do a little
less eating and a little more exercising and so this morning I was right at my
ready-set-go weight. It is 15 lbs. above
what I’d llke to be, but not as bad as it could be. Of course I've already repeated my Day 1 pattern. However, I do know something that breaks my
cycle of epic diet fails.
Appetite Curbing Foods. I
recently wrote about barley being very good at suppressing the appetite because
it makes you feel fuller longer. It
really does work! Another thing that is
a great substitute for the ice cream that somehow I feel like I need in my life,
is an appetite suppressing shake.
It needs to have natural ingredients and it needs to make me feel full,
as well as satisfy that sweet-tooth dairy craving I have. It's the craving that makes me buy ice cream even
though I know I’m kidding myself when I tell myself that it will only be eaten
in small amounts and will last for at least a fortnight. I will eat every last bit of it in less than a
week.
I know appetite
curbing foods work because I was successful at replacing certain trigger foods
that are high in calories--low in staying power. And that is why I’m not any heavier than I am
right now. I just need to have a lot of
it on hand. And that is my commitment.
Trusted Health Products carries some amazing natural facial care products that I love. Now they have
finished developing and have released their newest product. It’s called Shake The Crave, an all-natural meal replacement/snack. The name says it all. I like it because it’s 120 calories of high
protein, great- tasting goodness! You
can mix it with whole milk, 2% milk, almond milk, rice milk, coconut milk, etc.
depending on your preference. I really liked the taste of both the chocolate
and vanilla! They taste great, not like
some kind of yukky diet drink. And it
does keep me very satisfied until it’s time to eat. It’s got 100% organic natural ingredients. Here is the ingredient label for the
vanilla: Organic Non-Fat Dry Milk,
Organic Cane Sugar, Organic Coconut Powder, Organic Ground Vanilla Bean,
Electrolyte Blend (Potassium Citrate, Calcium Chloride, Sodium Bicarbonate,
Sodium Sulfate, Potassium Phosphate, Potassium Chloride).Allergen information: Contains milk and coconut.
At only $40 per canister, allowing for 2 shakes per day for
one week, the cost boils down to $2.67 per day.
Not bad, you could break an energy drink habit, a diet coke habit, or a
candy bar habit for that amount, replacing it with something amazing for your
health! Right now you can get a free 2
sample package for just the cost of shipping, which is $4.95 U.S. It’s a great way to see for yourself whether
or not you can succeed at your goals, especially if you have
unwanted food cravings!
disclaimer: I received sample products for review purposes. All opinions and experiences are my own.
5 comments:
Yo-yoing is so frustrating. I hate it when it happens. Cool that this helps with that!
Barley is so great for you and to supplement with a whole protein supplement is great compared to skipping meals
Stop the yo yo and concentrate on eating healthy instead. Good luck on the weight loss.
What's really bad, is the three scoops of mudslide so good to me about now!! I can def. relate to your post!
Ha Ha @mail4rosey I guess it all boils down to hardcore priorities!
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