Hello! I just started 3 days ago and im on phase 1... I never really liked veggies or fruit I would rather have meat. Im really big on bread and chicken. I eat alot of buffalo wings. This is kind of odd but i cook brown rice for a meal and add mushrooms on it and add some buffalo wing sauce haha. Is this okay????

Also, How much should we excersize, i usually walk about a mile and a half 3 days a week and dance a couple days of the week as well for my excersize, is this okay??

What kind of sweets can we have that are really good? I need some chocolate.. Can we have any bread on phase 1 and 2?? I want to eat some graham crackers, are these allowed on phase 1 and 2?

Hi Holly,

I'm new to this diet too, but it sounds like you don't have the book and I do, so I'll try to help answer your questions.

As far as hating vegetables and loving buffalo wings, I'm right there with you! However, buffalo wings are just about the worst food you could possibly eat, so that may be why we both wound up here!

I would not recommend using buffalo sauce with your brown rice. Buffalo sauce, if you read the ingredients, has a ton of butter/fat in it. Since we're fat smashing, thats a no-no. However to get the same hint of flavor, feel free to add as much hot sauce (I love Cholula myself) as you like. Spicey foods seem to be coming up in the news more and more as having healthy benefits - but they aren't going to do you any good when mixed with butter and oils.

No sweets or crackers (anything made with sugar or flour), at least on p1, is allowed. This is a de-tox stage so try to remember its just 9 days and not a lifetime. Eventually you'll bring back some "treats", but you can't expect a detox phase to have treats. The good news is, you can eat any fruit you want except the dried kind. Are there any kinds of fruit you like? Maybe take this time to explore your own recipes without using sugar and flour? That's what I'm doing!

As for exercise - 30 mins a day at least 5 times a week, at your own schedule. Walking and dancing sound like great exercises, just make sure you walk at a good pace for the whole 30 mins and do some stretching for warm up/cool down to avoid getting leg cramps or something like that.

Good luck!

Thank you soo much for your help. I actually only use the hot sauce that has no fat in it, so it shouldnt be bad. Its low in calories with no fat or butter stuff.. So i hope thats okay!. I have been having a problem affording fresh fruits and veggies, so i have been getting them in cans... Is that okay? I got some mandarin oranges but tehy were in syrup so i dont think thats good.

Have to be one of the sweetest things I have ever eaten. (yeah...it's not chocolate but still is pretty sweet)

Also....if you stir fry carrots and spray a little "I can't believe it's not butter" they have a really sweet taste as well.

Think of Phase I, or detox, as eating natural foods to get the junk out of your body. I am a junk food junkie & love candy, so if I could get through detox with no cheats, anyone can!

I would never choose fruit over other kinds of sweets & could care less about veggies. However, I did it & am feeling great. I'm buying different veggies and trying different things.

Although canned veggies are OK, try low sodium if you can since canned foods are usually packed with sodium. How about frozen veggies (even fruit)? They keep the nutritional value & are not that expensive. Plus, you can use what you want & keep the rest frozen.

I used the mandarin oranges because the syrup is light (make sure of that) & I drain them anyway & don't use the syrup (I put them in my salad). Keep in mind, this plan offers different phases. I'm not craving anything now that I'm in Phase II. Not chocolate, not bread, not crackers, etc.

Be careful of any kinds of bottled sauces (use with the knowledge that they could possibly derail you) as it's not just fat, but other junk that we're supposed to be trying to get out of our systems during the detox phase.

However, I took full responsibility for a tweak I just had to make. I cannot stand plain yogurt (not even with fruit & Splenda added - it's just not the same). So I added the fruit flavored light at 40-60 calories a carton. I still lost 4 lbs. during detox and I had already lost 13 lbs. by the time I started FS. So I don't think the light yogurt had a negative effect.

However, if you tweak too much you're starting to alter the plan. Try to stick with it for 9 days and once you're finished you'll be looking forward to Phase II & might have forgotten about sweets & bread.

That rice, mushroom and buffalo sauce idea sounds GREAT! I was just sitting here wondering what on earth I was going to do for supper. I'm on day 3 as well and have lost 5 lbs so far! I use the Louisiana hot sauce for my buffalo chicken so that is what i'd be using for the rice as well. There isn't any fat in it. I need to go cook some rice! lol Thanks again for the idea and it's good to see I"m not alone in being new to all this! I've been a faithful LCer for years and this is SO unlike Atkins that i keep forgetting what I"m doing! lol

your welcome.. and hey i use the same sauce lol

I'm actually surprised that canned veggies are cheaper than fresh ones, I've never really noticed that!

I will have to think up a good rice/hot sauce dish. I got this recipe from a vegan website where you cook brown rice and red lentils and onion and some spices all together in the rice maker, then you make them into patties and fry them in just a couple teaspoons of sesame oil. The first time I had them I loved them - the texture was enough to fool my mouth into thinking I was eating fried meat. I wonder if I could tweak this idea and use hot sauce to make it buffalo style?

Off to the kitchen!

Are we allowed to fry stuff in olive oil or what kind of oils can we use?? I could trick myself into thinkin im eating a burger lol

You aren't supposed to have fried food technically speaking, but I just have to bend the rules a TAD for this. If you pan-fry something, just use a tiny bit of olive oil, as little as you can get away with would be best. Don't go deep-fry on it or this will be a pointless diet!

I think Dr. Ian would prefer no oil at all in this detox phase, so keep that in mind for your total daily intake of it.

WELCOME to all of you newbies!!!!

HI KAREN!!!!




Sherry

That sounds really good - if you add egg white, it should bind it together enough that you can bake it in a bread pan, kind of like a meatloaf - no oil then. I'm going to try it. Will let you know how it works