I can't believe it's only been 4 days. I have cheated on numerous occasions already and I don't know how Jamie is doing it. I downloaded a calorie counting app just to see how many calories I'm consuming with this no starch/carb business. The app is telling me that if I wanted to lose 4 lbs by June 1, 2011 I'd need to eat 1290 calories a day. Yesterday I ended up eating 2070 calories but I did Bellyfit for an hour so I was only over by 438. Today I only went 325 calories over. Here's a quick breakdown of today.
Breakfast:
178 cal - Leek omelette with 2 eggs
10 cal - coffee with So Nice Unsweetened
Morning Snack:
224 cal - Activia Vanilla yogurt with frozen berries and Go Lean Crunch
20 cal - Small coffee with 1 cream
Lunch:
244 cal - BBQ'd salmon
206 cal - Homemade minestrone soup
Afternoon Snack:
105 cal - Banana
23 cal - Tomato
Evening Snack:
20 cal - Medium coffee with 1 cream (I know! Same as a small!)
60 cal - Lemon dill hummus
8 cal - Cucumber
90 cal - Crispy Minis Sour Cream and Onion
Dinner:
305 cal - BBQ Steak (I caved 2 nights in a row... I hate fish)
150 cal - Homemade baked french fries (Jamie knows me)
So overall it wasn't a bad day but boy I'm feeling really cranky without my yummy starches. Even today for my evening snack as I was munching on the hummus (which is cheating already!) and cucumber, I was so dissatisfied with the cucumber that I almost gagged. And I normally like cucumber!
Yesterday's dinner I tried making cauliflower mash as Penny made it for her first diet dinner. I roasted up 4 heads, yes HEADS of garlic and added it to one steamed cauliflower. Dumped in some soy milk, a touch of salt and Bamixed that sucker. It was NOT TASTY! It plays such a cruel trick on your mind! It looks like mashed potato but tastes like bleh. I told Jamie I'd rather eat just plain steamed cauliflower than this mash of bleh-ness. And Jamie knew I wasn't fairing well with fish so he bought some lean steak which turned out to be leather steak. To recap my dinner, it included mashed bleh, tough leather steak and a cut up tomato. Can you guess what was the best part of the meal? Ding ding! Tomato for the win!
Jamie is doing way better than I am. That's probably also why he lost 6 lbs already and I lost none.
We normally have a lot of veggies in our fridge anyways but boy, this is really pushing it! Jamie and Penny have decided to start on a new diet adventure. It's called the 17 Day Diet. The concept is relatively simple. For 17 days, you're supposed to reset your metabolism by eating:
1. Vegetables
2. 2 servings of fruit (orange, grapefruit, apples, pears) before 2:00 PM.
3. Eating lean meats (chicken breasts, fish, turkey)
4. No grains or grain products.
On top of all that, you must drink 2L of water a day and exercise 17 minutes. I tried to be supportive and join Jamie on this adventure because lets face it folks, if Jamie didn't cook for me, I'd be eating instant noodles all day. I haven't been a very good motivator though. We eat dinner at our parents' house every Monday/Tuesday. We can't control what is cooked for us. Yesterday I had asked my mom to cut extra lettuce because of Jamie's diet. Every time my mom offered Jamie something to eat, I had to reject on behalf of him. My mom could only shake her head.
Today we went to Jamie's parents and his sister had cooked Shanghai noodles... Good thing she made a salad on the side!! I ate the delicious carb-ful noodles and he ate the salad. Gotta take one for the team right?
If you go back to the top fridge photo, you'll see the lovely containers of soup that we'll be eating for the next two days. Minestrone.
To recap dinners:
Day 1: Lemon grass chicken salad Vietnamese style.
Day 2: Grilled shallots and chicken nappa cabbage salad, once again, Vietnamese style.
