Category: Weight loss
Its been 2 days on the diet and at first I was optimistic, however, now I’m second guessing whether or not I’m going to be able to complete it. Me an my fiance are doing the diet, and I think that she is having a harder time doing it that I am because I don’t think she has ever put herself through a diet like this before.
I have done other diets in the past, Atkins being one of them, and I will have to say that this one is the hardest for me to follow thus far.
One thing that I would like to point out to anyone that is interested in this diet is that there are a few different versions out there for those of you who don’t eat meat, both of which I have included here.
General Motors Diet Regular – Includes a course of meat.
General Motors Diet Vegetarian – Meat substituted with rice.
I love meat and didn’t realize that at the beginning of this thing, I was doing the vegetarian version! This was very disappointing when I learned that the original GM diet included things like butter on your potato on day 2!
From day 3 on, I will be following the rules of the original General Motors diet. Its not much of a difference, but I am disappointed that I missed out on the butter on the potato.
One main disappointment is that I didn’t weigh myself before starting. I only weighed myself at the end of the first day, which isn’t a good measure but it will have to do.
I would also like to see how the rest of you have been doing, and maybe some pointers from those who have already done thing thing all the way through. I would like to get an idea of different ways you prepared food, making it not so boring!
My second day was a bit more of a success with the consumption of food, however, my mental state is a bit run down. I believe this is due to the effects of sugar/carb withdrawl. I woke up groggy and stressed and throughout the day I had this strange feeling of being overwhelmed, stressed out and depressed. This is a perfectly normal sensation that one might feel if they decide to quit something like this. Much like quitting cigarettes or drugs, you go through a similar withdrawl when you decide to go cold turkey and remove your carb intake.
Aside from the withdrawal side effects everything seems to be going as planned. I went the whole day only eating a few carbs from a small cup of lettuce. Breakfast consisted of steak, poached eggs, and sugar free pudding. For lunch I had about 2 cups of chilie with a full cup of creme and half cup of lettuce, and for dinner I finished off the rest of the steak from the morning along with some spare ribs and a huge block of Monterey jack cheese. In my opinion it was a very successful day.
I also went to the gym for a light exercise routine as well. It consisted of a brisk walk and quick leg workout and back home, all and all it was about 30 minutes.
I know I promised pictures yesterday but this is being posted from work and the pictures are at home. Dont worry though i have been taking them every day at the same time of the day. With the pictures I will also post up my stats and goals for this experiment.
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gym equipment, originally uploaded by jessamyn.
As promised, today I started on a low-carb diet to show everyone out there that it is possible to loose a significant amount of fat over a short period of time on a diet high in fat low in carbs with a moderate amount of exercise.
Instead of writing down everything I eat on a daily basis here on my blog, I decided to use FitDay.com to keep track of my food intake as I go along. You can view exactly what I eat including calories, fat, and carb content for each day. Its fairly hard to put in exactly what I eat, but I will try to be as precise as possible. You can check out my food log here.
Day 1
This morning started off great, I felt a bit groggy but otherwise normal. Ate 2 poached eggs with some salt, a couple slices of cheese and a glass of black coffee. I would have made more but I was feeling a bit to lazy to cook. Tomorrow I will let you in on a little secret, How to cook the perfect poached egg with very little effort.
Work was a test of my mental strength, and most of you know just how hard it is to stay on a diet in todays corporate America. My office, being a startup, is full of snacks, candy and refrigerators full of soda and tea. Luckily for me they have plenty of diet coke, which contains only caffeine and no sugar and is perfect to drink besides water.
My other battle was to resist eating the lunch food provided by our office. Today we had pasta from the wonderful maggianos restaurant, delicious but I had to resist and get food from a local kabob place. Just as delicious in my opinion, I had a combination of chicken and beef, leaving the rice to the side.
The second half of my day was a down hill battle, I gave in to the request of a coworker making me a mocha frappachino and I even felt guilty for drinking it! I guess thats a good thing, maybe tomorrow I will learn my lesson and just say NO. To end the day I had a slice of cheese pizza, calling it a day. Tomorrow is a new day, thats it im packing my lunch!
Also as promised I will post up some pictures tomorrow of my current sad state along with my initial weight and body type stats. Don’t forget to subscribe to my blog so that you can make sure to follow along with my progress!
After reading a post about calories by Tim Ferriss, I have decided to go on a 2 week low-carb diet and against my better judgment, post up pictures and results along the way.
Here are the rules and guidelines that I will follow.
- Week 1, go from my current unknown carb intake to 0 carbs per day.
- Week 2, incorporate a minimum number of carbs into my diet, determined at the start of week 2.
- Post daily pictures of my stomach from the front and side, since thats the main area of fat collection.
- Write my post at night with food eaten, how I feel, and mental status.
- At the end of week 2 determine the final outcome of the experiment. Either successful or not and give my thoughts.
I work on a busy schedule and don’t always have time for the gym but will also try to incorporate a mild amount of exercise as well. Everything I do in regards to the diet will be documented in the daily post.
Tomorrow I will post my first picture and the foods I ate for that day. Im looking forward to this…… Wish me luck and let me know what you think. If you have any questions, comments or would like me to try something along the way please let me know.