We are following the Body For Life eating plan. Here's how it works. You eat 6 meal a day. Each meal consists of a portion of protein and carbohydrate. Two of those meals you add a vegetable. Portions are smaller (size of your fist of the palm of your hand) but since you are eating every few hours, it levels your metabolism and you can eat less. You do this 6 days a week, then you have FREE DAY! Free day helps to keep me on track because I know that if I can hold out until Sunday, I can eat whatever I want. A reward, if you will.
Last week's free day went pretty well. We didn't go crazy, but did have dark chocolate M&Ms, pop and pizza. We used to always say "Free day sucks" because when you've eaten well all week, then go nuts for a day, you feel like shit. Which might actually be more the purpose of free day.
But yesterday, Dana and I were both saying "Free day sucks." Again, we didn't go crazy. Pizza and pop again, and this weeks treat was Brownies. Here's the other thing with free day: You have to eat whatever is in the house, or you'll be tempted to eat it the next week. So we were pigging out on Brownies, and we paid for it.
The scales became my friend again last week. They were down 1.5 pounds on Friday. But I have vowed to not get on them again until this weekend. We'll see how I do.
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Bob eats 6 times a day, but they are not nice and regulated snack/meals like you said. He eats whatever he can find....He has the motabalizim of a horse I tell you!
ReplyDeleteI know. I used to eat lunch with him every day. If only we all could eat like that.
ReplyDeleteIf only, if only. . .
(I'm cheating today and having a coke.)