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I developed a diet based on my personal needs. I knew nutrition but not portion control. I developed a diet that helps me portion my intake, and still have interesting meals.
There was no way I could make such tiny portions of all the ingredients in a frozen meal. Then I decided to indulge my self in a prepared food regime rather than go through the bother, the expense and the temptation to eat it all.
By not cooking, and feeding others I spent a lot less time thinking about food, and enjoyed the late afternoon free time I gained. In the end the prepared meal choice was for me the least expensive way to go. I prepared a green vegetable for him, and myself and told him he was now on his own about meat and potatoes.
Writing down and looking up the true value of my meals, being forced to be honest with myself, helped me achieve goal weight. Also the realization that this wasn’t a diet, but this was how I had to eat the rest of my life in order to maintain whatever weight I was at that moment. That was a revelation. I mourned my cookies and ice cream and sugary pals. Then I realized that I could still have those things very very rarely as a treat. I realized that I wasn’t losing any thing just changing the frequency.
So I’d call this diet the
PORTION CALORIE CONTROL DIET
I based this diet on research I did about the medfast diet and nutrisystem.
I read the calories and properties of portions of protein, vegetables and carbs, and fat. I went to eBay so that I could invest in just a few of the nutrisystem entrees to see how I would feel. Some were pretty good. The portions seemed deceptively small, but with a veg and salad turned out to be quite enough until my snack.
Well Nutrisystem wasn’t fresh food ” and it seemed quite expensive. Also, I was annoyed at having to commit to spending so much money without knowing what I’d get.
So instead I bought
1. Diet Frozen Entrees at the supermarket, especially the ones on sale. My only criteria was that they be 300 calories or less. I added
2. Breakfast plus
3. Three Snacks. I mixed that with an
4. Altered Medifast plan of my own. I tried to do
5. Enough Exercise to be at least 200 calories more than exercise count.
So the day looks like this:
PORTION/CALORIE CONTROL DIET
BREAKFAST: <250 calories
SNACK: < 150 calories
LUNCH: Diet Frozen Entree < 300 calories + Low Cal Fruit
SNACK: < 150 calories
DINNER: Diet Frozen Entree = about 300 calories + Salad
SNACK: calories vary.
Here is a sample of what I might eat in a day:
Breakfast For me is Crystallite orange sunrise. (VITAMAN c)
Eggbeaters
Light bread, English muffin, or half bagel.
Sometimes I make French toast from lite bread and eggbeaters, then sprinkle Splenda or diet syrup on top.
Snack#1 Is usually, about 150 calories.
Could be an English muffin,
or toast, or Quaker rice cakes with fake butter and Splenda.
Or soup at hand and half eng muff
Or soup with 1 rice cake and fat free cheese.
And no-cal juice. Or soda.
Yoplait thick and creamy, or Jell-O /Hunts diet jello or pudding.
A cup of Fruit (cantaloupe is very cheap calorie wise).
Lunch I tried to keep this one under 220 calories
Hardcore dieting is 150 calories of lite soup + half an English or other carb.
Easier is low calorie frozen or packaged dinner.
Or a really giant salad with everything but meat in it.
Snack #2 Whatever I am craving at that time.
Dinner A larger frozen entrée + salad with crazy salt and tiny bit of diet mayo or dressing + green veggie with fake butter.
Snack #3 Depending on my sum total of calories for the day, I accordingly to reach a daily total under 1200 calories.
Amazingly, I don’t feel deprived. And believe me, I am a brat; I always feel deprived!
I have no idea whether I can stick to this diet, I only know I lost the weight. Keeping it off is my new goal. But I have hope that my new understanding of what I need to live and my new self-indulgent eating style will support me when I again stop smoking.
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1178 kcal
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Grasa: 23,69g | Prot: 67,00g | Carbh: 183,70g.
Desayuno: fat-free margarine, sugar-free jam, english muffin lite, egg beaters. Almuerzo: fat-free salad dressing, Organic Mixed Baby Greens Salad, Mandarin Chicken. Cena: cauliflower, Cafe Steamers Chicken Tuscany, mixed salad. Pasa Bocas / Otros: Tootsie Roll (Small), yoplait thick and creamy, quaker rice cake, jello sugar free pudding. más...
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