April 3, 2009
And the enemy is…CARBS…arrgggg!
If you’ve been reading my posts, you’ll notice that I’ve started a new but old diet again that’s hard to stick to but I’m doing it anyways. :-[
Baked Goods
Today I ate half good, half bad. When I say bad I mean I had one muffin (low calorie) for breakfast with a Yoplait Fat Free Apple Turnover yogurt. The bad part here is the muffin AND the yogurt. Even though it’s low in calorie, it’s still high in carbs. I’m trying to eliminate as much as possible all carbs from my daily diet and possibly only allowing it one day out of the week. Now, you might think that as cheating but it’s not. It all depends on every persons needs. I LOVE bread. Who doesn’t? And so, with eating 1 slice of 45 calorie bread with egg whites and veggies every other day, i’m not removing carbs entirely. However, I should be allowed to eat a nice sandwich from like Subway (Veggie Delight anyone?) once a week.
I haven’t noticed a drastic change in weight but my body is definetly toning up even more and better than before. That’s because I’ve also decided to incorporate 20 minutes of cardio and either 20 to 40 minutes of weight training making my grand total of daily workout to up to an hour as supposed to just a full hour of cardio. Your body really needs to burn fat but getting on the elliptical machine isn’t enough. You MUST incorporate weights too.
Ok, back to those carbs. You see, if you’re like me, you already have a hard time losing weight as it is and if you think about it, you’re probably eating a lot more carbs than you think. That’s because most foods are high in carbs already. Just look at the label. The total carbs in my FAT FREE Yoplait yogurt is a grand total of 19g. You may think “eh, that’s not a lot” but it actually is. From my experience, anything more than 15g is already considered high in carbs. Most foods will say around 35g of carbs or more but I REALLY need to cut down on those. What carbs do to your body is, they break down into sugar and then stores as fat and your body can only take so much sugar being stored!!!
My point is, if you cut down on carbs, you cut down on sugar which escencially you cut down on fat. How do you cut down on fat? Your body uses stored fat as energy which was previously sugar.
Ok, so for lunch I ate really good. I had my awesome yummy salad (home made not McDonalds healthy choice wannabe) which consisted of: almonds, pecans, cranberries, baked chicken breast with italian herbs, baby romaine lettuce and my FAVORITE dressing Low-Fat Asian Sesame Ginger! Oh, and 1 bottle of water.
For dinner I had: 1 baked chicken breast (remember I had chicken for lunch? I had enough made for dinner too), almonds and Low-Fat Cero Calorie Ranch Dressing, 1 Yoplait Apple Turnover yogurt and 1 bottle of water.
I’m STUFFED!!! You may think it wouldn’t fill you up but it does. Try it out for a day but instead of having a muffin, read my blog about starting the diet which includes breakfast, snacks and other interesting info.
Til next time,
Melissa 
