Sore Throat And New Plan
February 24th, 2008 by Rian | Filed under Miscellaneous.I still have a sore throat! Oh well.
I have a new eating plan that I have sort-of been sticking to for a few days now anyway. It’s what I like to call “natural and clean as possible” and involves something like this:
Breakfast - egg white omelet, glass of soy milk (low sugar version), piece of fruit, coffee
Lunch - 1 cup of some type of vegetable soup, plus steamed veggies, piece of fruit, maybe brown organic rice in place of the soup on some days
Dinner - some type of lean protein (either chicken or fish, occasional steak), another vegetable, carton of sugar free/fat free yogurt
Dessert - piece of fruit and occasional piece of low-fat cheese
When working out - 1/2 bottle of water mixed with 1/2 bottle of gatorade
Vitamins and EmergenC daily
Plus at least 8 glasses of water daily
I don’t plan to add calories up, but this to me seems like an extremely healthy way of eating. It has almost no processed food in it and very little sugar other than natural fruit sugars.
As for working out, I will still do it about 5 times a week, nothing extremely strenuous though.
Feel free to give your comments on the plan… at this point, I don’t care what the calorie count is, if it’s too low or high. For one thing, I’m already sick. For another, I feel as though I need to rid my body of chemicals, alcohol and processed foods. I’ve been easing myself into this plan already… I am on it fully as of today!
sounds pretty good to me, other than maybe a protein source at lunch? i feel like i’d be pretty full at least initially from what you’re planning to eat, just based on volume, but like i’d be hungry a couple of hours later.
Are you going to try to cut down on the alcohol? I don’t mean to say this in a condescending way–I just think drinking with more moderation would correlate better with your new healthy eating plan. Plus I find alcohol always gives me the drunken munchies!!
Hey Rian, it seems like you are changing plans almost every week (getting rid of chemicals and not so much focus on exercise, before that it was lots of small meals and tons of exercise, before that it was cutting out dairy, before that it was low calorie, before that it was low carb…those are just the ones I remember). Each one has its good points, the one that works for me is lots of exercise and sort of grazing throughout the day without too many big meals - but maybe the reason you are having trouble seeing payoff is because your body doesn’t have time to adjust? If you are on super low-calorie, your body gets tricked into thinking you’re starving, so when you start eating regularly again, it stores everything up and you gain. A week’s worth of exercising a lot isn’t enough to build much, so you don’t QUITE make it to the part where you really see the payoff. Maybe I’m completely wrong, and you are just posting all sorts of ideas, but it seems like every time I check you’ve got a different plan. Maybe you’d have more success if you stuck to one plan for a couple of months? Just a thought.
I think this is a good plan. Just stick with it and you will be sexy for summer!!!
I agree with Susan and SawSaw’s comments.
For example, let’s say you went out and had 3 cocktails (they range from 200-300 calories each; a shot of alcohol has about 100 calories) - 600-900 calories + drunken munchies that could add another 1000. When I used to drink I know I ate at least 500 calories of junk food despite my clean diet during the week. If you do that once per week, it would add up to about 5000-6000 calories (2 pounds of weight) per month!
You really do need to stick to one plan for at least a few months to see results.
I also wondered if you were still going to take the protein shake after your weight training.
I would not recommend the gatorade mix during exercise unless you get light-headed or hungry during the work-out. Otherwise the sugar could inhibit fat metabolism (your body can more easily - and preferably - use the sugar for energy). Also, I would drink it if you are doing cardio for more than 90 minutes.