Jan 13 2008
I lost 7.4lbs in 8 days
Well, it’s day 8 since I started my diet and I’ve lost 7.4lbs so far. I’m really excited about this. It’s good to see progress when you’re working hard.
Although I’ll go into more detail as to what my diet is later on, I’ll share a few points to the philosophy I’m following.
It is basically based on not allowing foods that are “crap” to pass my lips, and instead focusing on eating foods that nourish my body. As long as a food is good and nutritious, I can eat however much of it I want. I do not count calories or try to portion my food. If I’m hungry I eat. Anytime I want. I just eat nutritious food, that’s all.
For example. Here are some foods that are on my “crap” list that I haven’t eaten for the last 8 days:
Crap Foods:
- No Pop of any kind, I used to be addicted to drinking 2-3 Coca-Cola cans every day
- No Concentrated Fruit Juices (I only drank 2 glasses of Tropicana Orange Juice in the last week)
- No White Sugar
- No White Rice
- No White Flour Products (Pasta, Breads, etc.)
- No Beef, No Chicken, No Pork, Fish Once or Twice a Week is OK
- No Eggs
- No Milk (I used VERY small amount of Ranch Dressing I have left-over two or three times this week)
- No Other Dairy Products (ie. No Sour Cream, No Cheese, etc.)
The basic premise is to eat at least 80-90% water rich, alkalizing vegetables at my meals, either raw or steamed/stir-fried, with 10-20% denser foods such as beans, legumes, nuts, sprouted grain flatbread, etc.
Nutritious Foods:
- All Kinds of Alkaline Veggies (Green Lettuce, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Green and Red Peppers, etc.)
- Some Starchy Veggies in small quantities, such as potatoe’s
- Some Fruits, the less Acidic the fruit the more I can eat of it. For example Cantaloupe, Melon, Grapefruit and Apples are better than Banana’s, Oranges, etc. The lower the Glycemic Index the better.
- All Nuts are OK except for Peanuts. Pumpkin Seeds, Sesame Seeds, Pine Nuts, Almonds etc. are good. Still trying to find real RAW Almonds, not the fake RAW ones form California.
- Drinking 6-8 Glasses of Alkaline Water / day (I put pH drops in my water as well as Lemon)
Supplements:
- I’ve taken a few Kre-Alkalyn Creatine Pill Supplements
- I’ve taken a few Innerlight Supergreen’s Capsules
- Both of which, plus some Innerlight Multivitamin and Minerals I want to start taking every day.
That’s the basics of what I’m doing.
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wow! congratulations, I’m a raw food eater, currently putting wight on aroung my stomach, only change in my lifestyle has been via Doctor orders to take Lipator tablets for high cholestrol !!!!!is this possible
How do you know for sure what is most helpful to loose the weight. Could be the workout or just the food you are eating now. Not that I should talk. I am to lazy to do either at this point.Hahaha Great job Paul Keep it going.