Successfully completed a full week following the Slow Carb plan out lined in The Four Hour Body. Today was "dieters gone wild day", which I thoroughly enjoyed! The basic plan is protein + legume + vegetable for four meals daily and one cheat day per week where you are encouraged to have high calorie intake. I'll post my weight loss and inches lost for the week on Thursday, when I'm back from a work trip.
Overall, it was pretty easy to follow the plan and the cravings dropped after first day, except for major cravings on Thurday, when I exceeded the Diet Coke limit (16 oz daily). I think the Diet Coke may add to my desire for sugar. I'm considering going cold turkey (big deal for me) next week.
For the coming week, I'm still going to treat this diet as something needing a reward to follow since I'm traveling and may have a tougher time sticking to the plan.
1/30-2/02
Sunday--follow diet plan
reward--new Susan Elizabeth Philips novel
Monday--follow diet plan
reward--browse and request ebooks from the library
Tuesday--follow diet plan
reward--new lipstick
Wednesday--follow diet plan
Four day reward--perfume
Next week, I'm going to actually start blogging my way through the book (Four Day Win) as promised!
I vote for deleting the DC! I don't crave sweets, but I think it leads to overeating in general for me. A carbonator makes it SO much easier to quit! (Use a splash of fruit juice instead of the soda mix...very few calories, lots of water intake!)
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