People don't operate well when they are suffering from deprivation. Take away a night's sleep and you can get an extreme example of this rather quickly. Your body feels exhausted, your mind is foggy, you generally just can't get much done. Food deprivation is perhaps not as extreme, but it sure doesn't work well for most of us.
If you're perpetually hungry, you're diet is likely to be short and not very successful. If you perpetually craving foods you really love, you're going to fall off the "being good" wagon. So what to do then?
Well, first of all, eat. Often. No diet plan that doesn't involve frequent eating is going to get you anywhere. And since you have to eat less overall than you were eating before, you're going to have to find ways to eat less, but probably more often. There are all sorts of things that go on hormonally and with regard to your blood sugar from not eating.
To that end, I had a delicious sandwich for lunch, turkey on wheat, and a ground turkey pasta dinner, also really good. A couple of healthy fruit snacks mixed in over the day as well. Today is pretty much the 8th day of this diet / lifestyle change. I'll have to tally it up more formally as we go, but I'm conservatively down 500 calories per day -- probably more. If I keep this up, the goal will be achieved.
would you have better luck increasing your expenditure 500 calories?
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I think it's both. Like many of us, I was eating pretty badly... lots of empty calories consumed from boredom. Exercise does play a role, but it's complicated and I've been sick. Still, I'll talk much more about it in the coming posts. Thanks for reading.
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