total: -10
- exercised: three times
- kept track of portion sizes: daily
- took vitamin: daily
- water: 3L and 12 glasses
Milestone week. Nice. Around June 9, I got two packages in the mail from Amazon. One was a stick blender that had been heavily discounted. The other was a little pocket-sized handbook called The Abs Diet Eat Right Every Time Guide by David Zinczenko. I had added the book for two reasons: a, to get me up to free shipping; and b, because I had read favorable things about the method in various places.
It's called a diet, but it's really a food plan, with lots of emphasis on good unprocessed natural ingredients. Nothing is absolutely forbidden, and that's the kind of plan that I need, as long as you get lots of your daily foods from the core list (the ABS DIET POWER 12). Turns out that on this food plan, smoothie snacks are highly encouraged, so the purchase of the stick blender was fortuitous -- I find the stick part a lot easier to clean up than the blender pitcher.
I'll admit, I felt a little overwhelmed my first time in the fancy organic food store, trying to find flaxseed powder and extra-protein powder (the only supplement that the plan supports). I'll also admit, I have to learn a new style of shopping entirely, to keep my fresh foods from going bad before I get around to eating them.
I'm sure I have some new good habits. Must stay vigilant and not get lazy.
4 comments:
Keep us posted on how it goes! I sure wouldn't know my way around a health food store either!
Good job this week!
Great job on the 3 lb. loss! Good for you!!
Good luck this week!
You are doing a really wonderful job, bless you.
Woohoo, welcome to the Abs Diet bandwagon! :-D I've been singing its praises ever since I read it. Congrats on your loss.
(And I found my flaxseed and protein powder at Walmart. I blend those up with a slimfast shake and frozen strawberries. Yummy!)
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