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Originally Posted by CannieD
What can I expect from this way of eating. It said that due to my wanting to eat nothing but junk food is why this one should work for me.....I'm guessing this gets rid of cravings. What can I expect during this first stage? Am I going to feel like h*** the first few days? Will it affect my bathroom habits? How much do you lose during first phase and then how much each week during second phase......1 - 2 pounds a week. I am really needing something that works for me. I need to feel full during the day or I will be tempted. Does this keep you form getting hungry right after you eat? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you
I just recently did Phase 1 a few months ago, so I'll give you a brief bio and how it went for me.
I've been overweight since after high school, and I finally hit my highest at around 338. My main problem, which I can recognize, is that I'm a boredom eater. For some reason if I get bored, I look for a snack or something to munch on. Usually something extremely bad like junk food. The other problem I had was a mother who would not eat ANYTHING green at all. I kind of picked up on that but could eat a few vegetables. After my doctor mentioned gastric bypass surgery twice, I decided to get serious about losing weight.
- Make sure you read the book. I read the book, and then got the audiobook to listen too in my car, to make sure I understood the program. It's essential to know WHY you're eating the way you do so you can make educated choices in odd situations.
- Clean out the fridge and pantries of all the bad stuff, and things you're not allowed to eat. If you're actually willing to lose weight, you won't cheat yourself, but it helps to not even have the temptation. Also, you're going to need room for the new stuff you're stocking up on.
- Go ahead and plan out your meals for the week. Nothing ruins a diet like rushing around in the morning and not having anything healthy to eat. Thankfully eggs are easy to fix, and I used a lot of them in phase I.
- Stick to the six meals concept. Breakfast, snack, Lunch, snack, Dinner, dessert. That helped me most of all. Most times that little snack held me until the next meal and I wasn't ready to gorge out when it finally arrived. Cheese-sticks were my friend, and I would often eat one before going out so that I didn't go nuts on a bread basket etc.
- I ended up picking up all the recipe books and they came in handy, but I didn't use them that often. This site had plenty, and they're free of charge. The ricotta dessert doesn't sound good but man was it awesome. I liked the lemon zest one so much, I ate nothing but that the first week for my dessert.
As for my results? I lost about 20 to 25 lbs in that first two weeks of the diet, during phase 1. I don't know exactly how much it was because my home scale wouldn't even weigh me, so I had to go by what my last doctor visit showed.
After that I lost about 2 lbs per week, but I had joined a gym and was doing 30 minutes of cardio 5 days a week plus muscle training 3 days a week. Due to financial difficulties, I've had to put the membership on hold. As a result, my weight loss has stopped, but at least it hasn't gone up.
I think the key to any diet, is your willingness to follow it. You have to really want it or you're just going to slide back into your old ways.