I did the SBD last summer, was VERY successful on it and adored how it made me feel. Lost a lot of weight, looked great, FELT great, everything great!
Then moved back to college, didn't have a kitchen to use at all, went back on birth control, and gained everything back PLUS 12 lbs. Not looking OR feeling great these days! Eating dorm cafeteria food, and can definitely notice all of the sluggish side effects!
So I'm getting ready to re-start and I am SO stoked about it!! I have a summer job starting May 4th where I'll have full access to a kitchen in our housing complex - and after the summer the boyfriend and I are getting an apartment (so stoked about NOT living on campus anymore!) so I'm even MORE excited about being able to really adapt all of this to a true lifestyle - and I'm so ready!!
So here are a few of my questions and concerns!!
1.) I'd like to cook some stuff up in bulk before we drive down for our summer jobs that way for the first week or so - I can just worry about job training and the transition without having to worry SO much about cooking as soon as we get there. I bought a really cool set of tuppaware to store all of the food in and I think it's a good step toward making the transition easier. I'd really love some suggestions about things I can cook the night before and bring down with me (I'll have a full refrigerator to store it all once we get there and it's just a few hours long drive). I'm really excited about trying the cheesecake breakfast cups, the taco bake, the chick peas and cauliflower popcorn! Any other suggestions are super super appreciated.
2.) The little town we'll be living in is huge for tourists, but not so huge for grocery stores! The nearest bulk-food store is back in Anchorage, a good three hours drive away. We're going to do a good-sized Costco run before we go down to buy tons of eggs, v8 juice, cheese sticks, maybe some beans etc. If there's a major staple anyone can shout-out (especially ones they buy from Costco/Samsclub/Etc) to make sure I don't forget - that would be really really helpful too.
and lastly! - My boyfriend and I are going to be doing all of our cooking together - and he's really excited about all of the healthy possibilities (he's WAY more of a health nut than me, and a much better cook!). We'll be cooking primarily for the SBD for me of course, but he'll be trying to GAIN weight to turn into muscle this summer (he's 5'9 and around 150 lbs so he feels a little shrimpy - but really he's just lean ) is there anything you can recommend that could be an easy add-in for just him, so we can both eat my SBD meals, but so he could use his to beef up a little more? I know protein is a huge factor in that, and the SBD is very good about protein - is it just going to be a case of upping his protein intake even more than my own?
Sorry this is such a long post! Any general guidance would be perfect! Thanks Chickies!