A diversion away from the Adoption front for now!!! Well you never actually go away!
Well this AM I spent almost three hrs in the grocery store, thats right, not able to sleep, I got up, and thought it was a great time at 5 in the AM to shop!!!
I am doing a food plan/fat loss system called the The Food Lovers. Saw it on a infomercial. I was attracted to the the fact, you can EAT any thing you want, all your favorite foods, w/the right combination and portion control. I know in the past that has been my down fall, I can follow what ever diet, (expect the Atkins diet), until I reach my goal, then I become very board of the eating choices, and find myself drifting away from it. So, I was really sold on the fact that w/The food Lovers Fat Loss System, you can have ALL your favorite foods.
So fast forward three weeks ahead after getting all the materials in the mail, and after making lots of excuses that I don't have time to get all the ingredients, I woke this AM on a mission.
Grocery Store:
I have learned one thing this AM, is that I don't like spending lots of time in the grocery store looking for ingredients I don't normally cook w/or use. I was in the grocery store for 2/5 hrs. Yup, you read that right, at 5AM! it was not b/c the store was packed w/lots of customers, it was b/c I had to walk that entire store, and look for all the ingredients the recipes called for, and to be honest things I had never heard of.......But at the end I was excited to see all the new things in my shopping cart, hoping in the back of my head that they would taste as good.
I will continue to journal my progress w/pros and cons......starting now.
pros: Lots of support resources and materials in the entire package. you have videos, workout videos, motivating cd's to listen to, you have recipe cards, eating out guide, a snack guide, how to make a fat loss plate, eating out guide, and a journal to track all your progress, a recipe book to show you what fast carbs, slow carbs are and proteins are......So they have covered everything from soup to nuts.
Cons: I have done so much in the line of weight loss that I think it is a good thing and a bad thing.....I have educated myself on the most healthiest and the most dangerous ways to loose weight and I have stayed clear of those that does more harm on your body, for example and this is just my opinion, but I found the Atkins Diet to very dangerous if not monitored correctly and done over an extended period of time. It is also something a/b that word Ketosis that makes my palms start to sweat, and that is all your hear in the Atkins diet, anyway, just my own personal hang up. Ok, back to the food lovers diet.........one draw back, I DON'T Believe when your goal is to drop weight, you can have EVERYTHING you want. Yes, eventually in moderation you can! But for ME, I think within this plan you still have to make better food choices. know your body and how certain foods trigger or react in it, w/my body and what works best for me, I know to drop weight I have to eat 6-7 times per day, very very small meals, and they have to be meals and snacks that will work slow in my system (on this program those meals and snacks would be the slow cards) for example, on the program if you are a fan of white rice you can have it, I think on the plan for women you can have a 1/2 of white rice, for a man it is cup, but I know how white rice reacts in my system and the better choice for me is the brown rice. Another example would be during snack time, on the plan you can have any type of snack, cookies, brownies, nuts, cheese, or a protein shake, now that all sounds good but I know for "ME" what works better, and what would be a better choice for me would be the raw almonds for a snack, or the protein/whey shake.
But after talking to a friend who is doing the diet along w/me, says I am mixing diet plans, and I am mixing all my knowledge and info and over scrutinizing the plan, then I am reminded by this friend of mine that maybe that is reason the other diets plans didn't work for me b/c they were so restricting......hmmmmm, I don't know the jury is still out on this one! Can't say if I am mixing them all up, or doing what works best for me, but then again, if that was the case I could just drop some weight w/o the plan if I knew what worked best for me!!! LOL ANY WAY!!!
I am making today from the recipe cards.....
cooking for two- three days days so don't think i'm a pig!
Over fried chicken, (there are some really funky/interesting ingredients for this one)
Meat loaf (very interesting, never made meat loaf this way)
Swedish Meatballs(not to far off from how I make mine)
Slow Carbs: Steamed Broccoli (no big deal)
Maple Glazed Carrots(no big deal)
Grilled Acorn Squash ( I love this dish and I'm very familiar w/it)
Fast Carbs: Mashed potatoes (a bit different from how mine are done normally)
Chipotle Mashed Sweet Potatoes (love sweet potatoes, recipe very interesting)
Winter Squash Soup (love winter squash, almost like butter nut squah soup)
so wish me luck and I will keep you guys posted!
*************EDIT w/update****************
OK veggies were good that was the slow cards
Fast cards were tasty
Did not get all the stuff needed to make the Swedish meatballs, so never made those
did make the meat loaf along w/oven fried chicken......it was tasty, not bad at all, would I eat it again?, yes, on a scale 1-10 I give the chicken a 7 and the meat loaf I just tasted did not eat, will have tomorrow for lunch so I will report out then.
Now if I could just get my hind parts on this treadmill!
