Breakfast: Scrambled eggs (2 white, 2 whole), pinto beans, small tomato, spinach, avocado. The tomato looks larger than it really is--it's a littler smaller than a typical Roma.
This morning at my daily weigh-in I found that I now weigh 5 pounds less than I did 4 days ago. (3 days really, because today is just beginning.) That is a pretty remarkable amount of weight to have lost in such a short period of time, and I can honestly say I have not been hungry, and have only had moderate cravings for sweets and "white carbs". I hope I am not making a mistake by having my first cheat day be tomorrow, (Ferriss says wait 5 full days) but I plan for my cheat day to not be totally overboard anyway. I'm missing fruit so much that I plan to eat a grapefruit, a pint of raspberries and a banana at some point during the day. (Or maybe a smoothie with tons of fruit, fruit juice, and YOGURT--another thing I have been craving.) I'm also probably going to have my lunch be a sandwich on french bread, and after dinner I want some chocolate cake or some other baked sweet. If I have other cravings I will also indulge them, since the whole point of the cheat day is to spike calories and help reduce cravings during the rest of the 6 days of the week. I will follow the protocol of grapefruit juice and air squats to try to help my body's muscle fibers take on the extra fat and sugar, and my breakfast will be protein and legume heavy.
Lunch, Day 4: Bison burger, green beans and broccoli w/mushrooms, sauerkraut, arugula w/dressing. (Dressing: 1:1 ratio of olive oil to apple cider vinegar, teaspoon dijon mustard, cracked pepper, salt, garlic powder-mixed 'till emulsified)
2nd Lunch, Day 4: Pinto beans, grilled free-range chicken breast, arugula, apple cider vinegar dressing.
Dinner, Day 4: Thai basil chicken with extra veggies. (No rice or noodles) This was amazingly delicious. I hope to make it a major part of my eating out routine.
I lunch on psuedo-tuna tacos; a hand full of mixed salad green, 1/2 can of albacore tuna, 2-3 Tsp of salad dressing, 2-3 Tsp of salsa, and 1 1/2 low fat tortilla. I dilute the salad dress to ~30 (kilo)calories per Tsp with wine vinegar.
ReplyDeleteI find this both enjoyable and satisfying. Without the salad dressing the tuna would be too dry.
glad you are following, Jack! i'm not having any "white carbs" on this plan, (except on cheat day) so the tortilla is out, but i love the idea of some salad dressing with tuna. i think it would be awesome with some shallots minced in there too.
ReplyDeletea thought on the psuedo-tacos, my husband LOVES tacos so we make up the meat n beans etc but use the big outer leaves of iceberg lettuce to make them into wraps...
ReplyDeleteI love it! Being from Texas there is a major abundance of tacos, so my plan was to order them (with extra beans and or/veggies instead of rice) and then just remove the shells. That's a good plan to make them a wrap--or Asian style wraps would be good too!
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