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I haven't counted calories, but I have been eating large portions. For breakfast, I had an egg scramble with 1/2 pound of chorizo, 3 eggs, and 1/2 an avocado.
For lunch, a large portion of pork loin I cooked in the slow cooker with onions and green peppers. Portion about a pound, I'd guess? A bit bigger than a baseball.
Did the same yesterday, and had a vodka lime juice drink last night, pork rinds with sour cream and celery with cream cheese.
And when I got up this morning the scale said I lost 2 pounds since yesterday! Scale isn't the greatest, but the weight is really coming off.
The calories are probably the same. I had been eating pretty low calorie for breakfast and lunch, but totally blowing it at night with huge portions of pasta, cocktail, snacks like popcorn (the cheddar cheese kind lol), and some chocolate or a toast with jam for dessert.
But, even if I'm eating less calories, I'm not hungry. I've been skipping lunch because I'm just not hungry. I did eat lunch today, but yesterday I didn't.
If it turns out to just be the calories, then this is working for me because I'm not hungry. And I still get to have my cocktail and munch while watching a movie. It's just easier than changing all of my bad habits at once.
I do crave fruit, which I normally don't do. Eating the cream cheese with celery helped that craving last night. Might need to get some sugar free hard candy, or something, though, that is fruit flavored.
You did not lose 2 pounds of fat in a day. That was water.
I have no idea why diet you are trying to be on but you are not low carb that is for sure.
Really? So 500 calories of broccoli is the same as 500 calories of pasta, pizza or ice cream? Sure whatever. I don't need a study to tell me the answer to that one. Why don't you post a viable website to contradict my point?
Thank you so much for sharing this. I just watched the hour and a half presentation he did at Stanford. So interesting. I'm determined to reduce processed foods. I had already cut way back on sugar, so that will be easier.
As I mentioned, I've been craving fruit a bit. What I did this afternoon was buy some sugar-free jello cups at Walmart. A big tray of them for only around $2.20. No, they aren't completely natural. But, they have ascorbic acid and have no calories or carbs, and because of the ascorbic acid they satisfy my craving for fruit - like oranges, etc.
So, that's working for me. I'm going to save all the little cups and then make my own jello when I've eaten them all. Hopefully, some that are more natural.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I just watched the hour and a half presentation he did at Stanford. So interesting. I'm determined to reduce processed foods. I had already cut way back on sugar, so that will be easier.
Way back in the 70's the diet gurus all believed a calorie was a calorie. I knew better and set out to prove it and I was sick of lettuce, cottage cheese, and carrots.
I found a flavor of Baskin Robbins ice cream I liked that was 1K calories a pint. I ate 1 pint of this per day and that's all. And it was weighed by their employees so I knew what I was getting. So there you go, a strict 1000 calorie per day diet. Almost anyone should lose on that.
Wrong. At the end of a month, the net result was a 2 pound gain.
Way back in the 70's the diet gurus all believed a calorie was a calorie. I knew better and set out to prove it and I was sick of lettuce, cottage cheese, and carrots.
I found a flavor of Baskin Robbins ice cream I liked that was 1K calories a pint. I ate 1 pint of this per day and that's all. And it was weighed by their employees so I knew what I was getting. So there you go, a strict 1000 calorie per day diet. Almost anyone should lose on that.
Wrong. At the end of a month, the net result was a 2 pound gain.
Way back in the 70's the diet gurus all believed a calorie was a calorie. I knew better and set out to prove it and I was sick of lettuce, cottage cheese, and carrots.
I found a flavor of Baskin Robbins ice cream I liked that was 1K calories a pint. I ate 1 pint of this per day and that's all. And it was weighed by their employees so I knew what I was getting. So there you go, a strict 1000 calorie per day diet. Almost anyone should lose on that.
Wrong. At the end of a month, the net result was a 2 pound gain.
Just sayin'.... a guy lost weight eating nothing but twinkies. Hell wasnt there a subway diet? So yeah if you ate only one pint of baskin Robbins ice cream per day then yeah you'll probably lose. But we all know you didn't just eat ice cream, come on.
I don't eat poor quality lettuce and I hate cottage cheese. Carrots are delicious and we could all stand to eat more veggies.
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