Day 28: Texas Last Diet
Very good day today. I started off with a mango shake for breakfast, and then headed off to Texas Last Diet for my weigh-in. The good news is that I lost another 3 pounds this week, including inches off my tummy, and my hips. I guess it's really working... The less good news is that my body is still eating muscle. That means my ratio of fat versus muscle actually increased this week. Vikki LeBeau, my coach, suspects that it's because I may be waiting too long in between meals. She said that within an hour of waking up in the morning, my body starts eating muscle mass if I don't eat breakfast. I do eat breakfast, but I will often wait until 3 or 4 to actually get most of my lunch in, and then sometimes wait until 8 or 9pm for dinner. She wants me to continue to eat the extra protein that I added this last week, and make sure that I'm eating something every 4 hours. So yes, I'm still losing weight and inches, but I'm not doing so to maximum health. I want to lose fat, not just weight.
I also talked with Vikki about how I'm starting to get a little bored with the food, and discouraged that I have so far to go to reach my weight-loss goals. She pointed out that I'm not eating a variety of vegetables, and that alone can make meal time rather monotonous. She challenged me to spice up the menu, and start to experiment with the recipes in Janeva's Ideal Recipes, by Janeva Caroline Eickhoff. Vikki sells the books right there in the shop, and I had planned to start working through the book last week, but the days just melted away. I'll do that this week. I think that might give meal time a little more gravitas. I really enjoy cooking too, so it will be particularly good for me to learn how to cook healthy, while still enjoying the actual cooking. I hope it works.
Lunch was another restaurant. The place is called Ruggles Green. It's a chain, but this one was in The Woodlands. I had a ginormous Caesar salad with the dressing on the side and no cheese. The greens were romaine lettuce and chard, and I had a grilled chicken filet as my extra protein. It was really, really good, and the restaurant was lovely. The service was particularly good. I accidentally forgot to order the grilled chicken when I placed my order, and they gave me the chicken with no charge. What a great customer experience! Anyway, the chard was my good veggie, but really only one cup. I had a packet of soy nuts in the car afterwards, which completed my meal.
I was particularly hungry around 3:30, so I had a rice crispy treat. I know that's likely to be my fourth Ideal Protein, but the video I watched this morning suggested that we could have a fourth if needed. It had been four hours since lunch, so I gobbled it down.
Dinner was very nice too. I had some little steaks that I browned up, I added mushrooms and a mix of collard and mustard greens and a little green onion. I poured on the last bit of tomato sauce I had in the fridge, and let the whole thing simmer until the greens were cooked, and the mushrooms were tender. Then I steamed some baby bok-choi, which made my extra three cups of veggies. It was surprisingly good. The greens added a peppery taste that was very nice.
Snack was the Dill Zippers, good, but not my favorite.
I also talked with Vikki about how I'm starting to get a little bored with the food, and discouraged that I have so far to go to reach my weight-loss goals. She pointed out that I'm not eating a variety of vegetables, and that alone can make meal time rather monotonous. She challenged me to spice up the menu, and start to experiment with the recipes in Janeva's Ideal Recipes, by Janeva Caroline Eickhoff. Vikki sells the books right there in the shop, and I had planned to start working through the book last week, but the days just melted away. I'll do that this week. I think that might give meal time a little more gravitas. I really enjoy cooking too, so it will be particularly good for me to learn how to cook healthy, while still enjoying the actual cooking. I hope it works.
Lunch was another restaurant. The place is called Ruggles Green. It's a chain, but this one was in The Woodlands. I had a ginormous Caesar salad with the dressing on the side and no cheese. The greens were romaine lettuce and chard, and I had a grilled chicken filet as my extra protein. It was really, really good, and the restaurant was lovely. The service was particularly good. I accidentally forgot to order the grilled chicken when I placed my order, and they gave me the chicken with no charge. What a great customer experience! Anyway, the chard was my good veggie, but really only one cup. I had a packet of soy nuts in the car afterwards, which completed my meal.
I was particularly hungry around 3:30, so I had a rice crispy treat. I know that's likely to be my fourth Ideal Protein, but the video I watched this morning suggested that we could have a fourth if needed. It had been four hours since lunch, so I gobbled it down.
Snack was the Dill Zippers, good, but not my favorite.
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