On Friday 5/27/11 I went to my doctor for a check up. I had some things on my mind, and am so glad that I went in there with a list of questions to get answers to. Since starting my low calorie diet of 1500 calories per day I was having some issues that were hard to deal with.
The one that was causing me the most problems was I would be able to snack, and eat light foods all day, sticking to my diet, and then come 10-11pm at night, I felt like I was FAMISHED! I was so hungry it actually hurt. So we started analyzing my diet. Apparently I was eating too much processed foods. Even though I was counting my calories, and having my shakeology in the morning, it wasn't enough. All except for the Shakeology, the calories that I was putting into my body didn't do much for me, so my body was getting very hungry saying it needed more energy. So here I am on a 1500 calorie diet, at 11pm at night binge eating. It was horrible! You can imagine it didn't do anything favors for my weight loss.
Her solution: Throw out the processed foods!! Good bye boxed dinners, tv dinners, bagged foods, instant oatmeal (yes even that is packed with too much sugar). Don't have time to make real oatmeal everyday for breakfast? Make it on the weekend in a large batch, store it in the fridge, zap a scoop in the microwave every morning. Toss in a few nuts (I can't eat nuts, but I'll imagine I can), rasins, cranberries, and brown sugar, and INSTANT HEALTHY breakfast of champions!!
So I have thrown out everything, and am only shopping in what I "Edge Shopping" When you go to the grocery store, do your best to stay out of the aisles. I'm sticking strickly to fresh meats, produce, dairy, eggs, and bread. The only time you should go into the aisles is for things that you absolutely must have. Like coffee, flour, and sugar. Stay away from going down the aisles looking for things that are on sale, I know it looks like you are going to save money this way, and you might, but its going to come back to bite you in the butt. I save money by clipping coupons for the things that I will buy. Discounts on produce, whole wheat bread, milk, eggs, meat etc.
I've been on this diet now for not even a week, I've dropped 3 pounds. How crazy is that?!? And in addition, I'm not hungry because I'm feeding myself better nutritional items. I no longer can go to the kitchen and grab a bag of potato chips to snack on while I watch the biggest loser (yes I did that!)
Oh one of the other things that I wanted to mention, is that processed foods are made to stimulate your appetite. They WANT to sell you a product, and keep you buying more, so its suppose to leave you NOT satisfied wanting more to eat so that you will buy more. Guess what this leads to? You've guessed it, obesity!
I'm making a life long commitment to honor our farmers and support the food source that can keep us healthy. Go for natural stay away from the box. (Unless its a box of fresh strawberries. haha)
Hope this helps, let me know if you want help cleaning out your cupboards :)
By the way, I did NOT throw out all of the food, it was donated to our local food pantry.
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