To get some things out of the way first... I am an extremely homeopathic person. Therefore, my chiropractor/nutritionist (Dr. Craig) is my "doctor" for all intensive purposes unless I'm internally bleeding. Anyway, almost 2 years ago, he did a hair analysis on me. All he does is cut a tiny bit of hair from the back bottom part of your scalp and then sends it to a lab. The results that return reveal your mineral content and ratios, basically anything inside you that you can't see or discover with the human eye. Well at that time, my ratios were off, and the way they were off showed Dr. Craig that I was close to having diabetes. SO, for exactly ONE MONTH, I could eat nothing but vegetables and meat/fish/eggs. That's it. No dairy, sugar, bread or anything else you can think of. Well, after the month was over, I had already lost 20 lbs. (I began at 210 lbs.). Not once did I cheat or defer from my food plan, it was hard at first, but I was NOT going to have diabetes at 19. It turns out, that month literally switched my metabolism around. After the first 20 lbs. (which was mostly water retention), I was able to eat whatever I wanted again. To my surprise however, I was still losing weight! 4 months after I completed my month long journey, I had reached 140 lbs... that's a 70 LB. LOSS! I couldn't believe it and never in my life had I been so happy with how I felt and looked; my BMI was perfection as well, being that I'm nearly 5'11". Okay, so I enjoyed my new amazing body for almost a year, but then the weight started coming back. Part of the problem was that I had begun a new relationship (which I'm still in) and I became comfortable. I started eating like him and not really caring too much what I put into my mouth. So now here I sit, 2 years later... and I'm back to my one month food plan. I've gained about 30 lbs. back... NOT happy, and definitely not secure anymore. That's not a very positive way of living is it? No. Today I began my food regimen again, except this time, I have to include fruit because I developed hypoglycemia sometime between then and now. Sorry for the enormous story before the actual point, but one of my uses for my new blog is to help keep myself on track and see my successes. So here it is...
DAY 1 (02/10/11):
Breakfast: one orange, one banana, a handful of almonds and hot goji berry and raspberry tea.
Snack: I was working and didn't have time, except for coffee (which is fine as long as it's black).
Lunch: one grilled chicken breast, a cup of grapes and a few cucumbers.
Snack: some carrots and celery.
Dinner: oddly, not hungry.
Snack: still not hungry, but drank a huge mug of chamomile tea.
I definitely didn't eat NEARLY as much as I was supposed to, but I'm getting back into the swing of things, writing everything out that I eat or don't eat is going to help me so much! BRING ON DAY 2=) And ps. I would be posting daily pictures up to see my progress, but I opted out lol.
CIAOxo.
