Saturday, January 7, 2012

Day 1: morning weigh-in

This is before eating breakfast (which I normally skip anyway) or having a cup of tea:
164.2 lbs
Which means I've already lost 2 lbs just by sleeping, before even doing anything!

Charlie, my husband, is joining in the experiment and weighs 205.6lbs.

I'm such a bread and pasta addict that I'm a bit skeptical about how I'm going to do on this non-carb diet, but I will say one thing in its favour so far: shopping at the supermarket yesterday for the family was a lot quicker and easier, when I could ignore an entire food group. No bakery goods, no chips, no cereals, no cookies, no pasta: just meat, fish and vegetable. It was quite liberating.
The cost was about the same as usual though, $288 for the week, which I suppose reflects the fact that meat is more expensive, and vegetables can be quite overpriced too.

3 comments:

  1. This approach to eating has completely changed my life. I look forward to seeing how it changes yours. And your husband's.

    I lost 90 pounds 12 years ago and have effortlessly kept it off.

    Good luck.

    dwc

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  2. Thank you Darrell and that sounds amazing!

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  3. You'll find that as you go along (takes about a month) you will no longer find pasta and bread to be near as addictive. I can now go to Panera (my husband still eats some bread, although less than before) and buy just his bread, while I used to purchase at least 2-3 things that I needed for the drive home. I haven't had Pizza in a while - the few times I tried it because it smelled good, the taste didn't match. So good luck with it, but there really does seem to be an addictive component to pasta and bread.

    Kerstin:-)

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