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I lost about 30 pounds in a year or so, and it was easy. I didn't need to, but I went from 190 to 160 just because I changed my attitude about eating, and started thinking portion control. A year goes by fast. Give yourself a year to lose your target weight. Here is a typical day:
BREAKFAST
2/3 cup adult cereal flakes, half a banana, and milk.
--or
Scratch biscuits of 1/4 cup flour, and gravy made from 1 ounce pork sausage and milk.
LUNCH
Sandwich made from 1 slice bread, with 1 slice cheese or lunch meat, mayo, lettuce, and a roma tomato on the side.
--or
Quick polenta from 1/3 cup corn meal, with butter and a big dollop of sour cream, and the tomato.
--or
A salad, leafy lettuce and tomato, as big as I want, with a tablespoon of salad dressing and a dash of olive juice to mix dressing through.
--or
Two scrambled eggs, 1/4 can refried beans, four corn tortillas.
--or
One slice of pizza. A pizza lasts me eight days.
DINNER
About three ounces of meat, usually chicken livers or hearts or beef liver or slice of pork or ham, or one mackerel out of a can. A 4-inch-long potato, boiled skin-on and mashed with butter and milk. Vegetable, buttered.
--or
A quarter of the following recipe, doled out over four days of leftovers:
A one pound chicken leg quarter, simmered in the frying pan with two big onions, a green pepper. Seasoned and enhanced in some ethnic fashion (curry, paprika, etc.) , and served over appropriate starch, like 1/3 cup uncooked of rice or drop noodles made from 1/3 cup flour. Consult a cookbook and simplify any recipe.
--or
Red or black beans, pressure-cooked, with two onions, a green pepper, a few stalks of celery. two ounces polish sausage (also over 4 days). served on rice.
SNACKS
Daytime, celery stalk dipped in peanut butter, or a home-made low sugar cookie. Or a fruit that's in season.
Nighttime, a handful of tortilla chips dipped in 1/4 can of refried beans, or about ten saltines with an ounce of cheese. Two or three times a week, a canned beverage with the snack (cola or beer), otherwise I never drink anything but water, flavored with a tinge of lemon juice. Sometimes a half a 1-ounce square of semi-sweet baking chocolate.
Bedtime, one slice of toast, with a little PBJ or lightly cinnamon-sugared with butter.
None of the above ingredients are "diet". Everything is full strength: whole milk, full sour cream, real butter, skin on the chicken, regular salad dressing. Bread is heavy scratch-made. Added bonus---all the ingredients I've described are super cheap, and I maintain this diet for about $80 a month. Everything I've described can be made easily in single servings, or set by as leftovers for another day.
I have become so accustomed to small portions, when I go out for a burger, I just eat half of it, feel full, and take half home for lunch the next day. As an added incentive, I walk to the supermarket. Before I eat something, I reflect on the fact that I will have to replace it, and carry it 3/4 of a mile home.
I lost about 30 pounds in a year or so, and it was easy. I didn't need to, but I went from 190 to 160 just because I changed my attitude about eating, and started thinking portion control. A year goes by fast. Give yourself a year to lose your target weight. Here is a typical day:
BREAKFAST
2/3 cup adult cereal flakes, half a banana, and milk.
--or
Scratch biscuits of 1/4 cup flour, and gravy made from 1 ounce pork sausage and milk.
LUNCH
Sandwich made from 1 slice bread, with 1 slice cheese or lunch meat, mayo, lettuce, and a roma tomato on the side.
--or
Quick polenta from 1/3 cup corn meal, with butter and a big dollop of sour cream, and the tomato.
--or
A salad, leafy lettuce and tomato, as big as I want, with a tablespoon of salad dressing and a dash of olive juice to mix dressing through.
--or
Two scrambled eggs, 1/4 can refried beans, four corn tortillas.
--or
One slice of pizza. A pizza lasts me eight days.
DINNER
About three ounces of meat, usually chicken livers or hearts or beef liver or slice of pork or ham, or one mackerel out of a can. A 4-inch-long potato, boiled skin-on and mashed with butter and milk. Vegetable, buttered.
--or
A quarter of the following recipe, doled out over four days of leftovers:
A one pound chicken leg quarter, simmered in the frying pan with two big onions, a green pepper. Seasoned and enhanced in some ethnic fashion (curry, paprika, etc.) , and served over appropriate starch, like 1/3 cup uncooked of rice or drop noodles made from 1/3 cup flour. Consult a cookbook and simplify any recipe.
--or
Red or black beans, pressure-cooked, with two onions, a green pepper, a few stalks of celery. two ounces polish sausage (also over 4 days). served on rice.
SNACKS
Daytime, celery stalk dipped in peanut butter, or a home-made low sugar cookie. Or a fruit that's in season.
Nighttime, a handful of tortilla chips dipped in 1/4 can of refried beans, or about ten saltines with an ounce of cheese. Two or three times a week, a canned beverage with the snack (cola or beer), otherwise I never drink anything but water, flavored with a tinge of lemon juice. Sometimes a half a 1-ounce square of semi-sweet baking chocolate.
Bedtime, one slice of toast, with a little PBJ or lightly cinnamon-sugared with butter.
None of the above ingredients are "diet". Everything is full strength: whole milk, full sour cream, real butter, skin on the chicken, regular salad dressing. Bread is heavy scratch-made. Added bonus---all the ingredients I've described are super cheap, and I maintain this diet for about $80 a month. Everything I've described can be made easily in single servings, or set by as leftovers for another day.
I have become so accustomed to small portions, when I go out for a burger, I just eat half of it, feel full, and take half home for lunch the next day. As an added incentive, I walk to the supermarket. Before I eat something, I reflect on the fact that I will have to replace it, and carry it 3/4 of a mile home.
That is an AWFUL diet. You could do SO much better by picking the proper foods, which would be almost everything NOT on that list. You could seriously increase the portion sizes too, so at least a normal person wouldn't feel like they're starving to death. Hell, you could eat an entire carton of egg beaters for one lump of mayo or full fat sour cream.
Hopefully the OP has had their blood work done by a doctor. I wouldn't be surprised to see some serious artery cloggage and high cholesterol levels too.
The strength of this diet appears to me to be your self control and working through the benefits of caloric restriction. These diets are effective if you can stay focused but rarely do they succeed long term. Are you exercising at all?
There's plenty of better ways to exercise self control, like looking for a bad habit to break. Mine were drinking coffee and biting my nails. I beat both of them and still managed to eat a billion times better than this diet. Exercise is another way. I sometimes don't want to, but I make myself do it and always feel a lot better when I'm done. Then I eat a reasonable portion of something that's actually nutritious.
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