I am so excited to say that I have lost 9 pounds in the last 17 days. I am also excited to say I got to eat oatmeal today for the first time in over 17 days. It's the little things in life that really do make us happy.
Well Kevin and I have decided that today we were going to splurge and eat out somewhere before starting on our second set of 17 days. I am not looking to go completely off plan and gain 5 of those pounds back today - we just decided that all along we had said "we can’t have that right now but we will be able to one day." Well today is one of those "one days". We haven't decided yet what we are going to eat. We have decided between pizza and Mexican. We want something flavorful and delicious. I have to keep telling myself that I am not rewarding myself for doing well with food. I am just proving to myself that I am not a complete diet nerd that has lost balance. I refuse to tell myself "you can never have . . .". God tells us in Colossians 2:19-23 “He is the Head and we are the body. We can grow up healthy in God only as he nourishes us. So, then, if with Christ you've put all that pretentious and infantile religion behind you, why do you let yourselves be bullied by it? "Don't touch this! Don't taste that! Don't go near this!" Do you think things that are here today and gone tomorrow are worth that kind of attention? Such things sound impressive if said in a deep enough voice. They even give the illusion of being pious and humble and ascetic. But they're just another way of showing off, making yourselves look important." The Message I refuse to say I cannot have pizza or chips and salsa because I can. I just don't need to eat them every day of the week. I am going to enjoy the foods we choose and test my self-control on stopping when I have eaten enough to be full.
Wish me luck! Guess I might want to add that to my blessing before I eat. "Thank you Father for these foods and help me Lord to not overindulge in them." I pray that for me today and I pray it for you too.
God Bless!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Day 17! 1st part completed!
Well today is day number 17 on the 17 day diet. I have had several people ask me what is the 17 day diet. So I figured that I would give you a few of the details in the book since I have been looking over the next section of the diet which I will begin tomorrow.
The book was written by Dr. Mike Moreno who is a family medical doctor who came up with this plan to help people loose quickly the weight they picked up during the holiday season. The design of the diet is to “accelerate weight loss and launch you on the right path to health . . . and strengthen your body to fight fat." Even though the name of it is the 17 day diet – it isn’t over in 17 days. There are 4 sets of 17 day periods. The first set is the one I am just completing. In it you get to eat 2 fruits (from his list of acceptable fruits), 2 yogurts, 1 – 2 eggs or egg whites, lean chicken, fish, and turkey, and “cleansing” veggies (from the list he provides). Each of the lists of foods is long enough that you should find several things you like to eat on it. This diet does cut out all breads, potatoes, and sugars over the 1st 17 days. However, with that being said over the course of the next 3 sets of 17 day periods you will slowly add these types of food back into your diet. So you are not completely giving up anything. The diet is done in such a way that by the last set of 17 days you should be able to follow the diet during the week and then splurge and eat those sweet, rich foods in moderation on the weekend.
In my opinion it is gradually teaching you to eat a balance diet that we should be eating to remain healthy. I told Kevin that it is sort of like getting me back to the way I remember my grandparents eating when I was a kid. They eat an egg and a piece of bacon and a piece of toast every morning. Then for lunch they would usually eat only veggies and maybe a piece of bread. Then for dinner they would eat those same veggies and a piece of meat. Usually the weekends were the only time they splurge to eat out or make a fancy dessert. Then they would eat on that dessert during the weekend and maybe into the beginning of the next week till it was gone. However, in our generations we don’t have to wait till the weekend to go out to eat. Some weeks we have to wait till the weekend to try to stay at home and cook. We don’t ever have to wait for a sweet treat and we also don’t have many days where we don’t head into town for something. My grandparents went to town every Wed. and that was pretty much it. We are a generation that wants for nothing and even though at time that is a great thing it is a lousy teacher of moderation. We want for nothing!
The thing that I like about this diet is it is back to the basics. I am learning to eat healthy. I am learning that just because I can – doesn’t mean I should. I definitely have to draw on some self-control to do it. But this is where my relationship with God comes into this picture of the 17 Day Diet. God’s Word tells us that the fruit of the Spirit includes self-control. He also tells us in 1 John 5:21 “to keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your heart.” Well food had found a real high place in my heart. It has at times been my comfort instead of God. It has at times been my strength in times of weakness. It has at times been what I pulled out when I felt like I could not pull through. God isn’t pleased when we run to other things instead of Him. He also gives us free will to continue to go to those things. He is a jealous God but He is a gentle God and He is not going to force us to turn to Him. If He was going to force us to then what would we even need self-control for? I am thankful that God is teaching me these things even though I have to be stubborn and learn them the hard way. I just pray that God will let me really learn them and take them to heart so that I can move on to the next battle He has for me and stop fighting this one over and over again.
Meals for today: eggs, orange, bbq chiken, roasted carrots, apples, baked fish, snaps, yogurt
Exercise for today: Lifted weights for 45 minutes.
The book was written by Dr. Mike Moreno who is a family medical doctor who came up with this plan to help people loose quickly the weight they picked up during the holiday season. The design of the diet is to “accelerate weight loss and launch you on the right path to health . . . and strengthen your body to fight fat." Even though the name of it is the 17 day diet – it isn’t over in 17 days. There are 4 sets of 17 day periods. The first set is the one I am just completing. In it you get to eat 2 fruits (from his list of acceptable fruits), 2 yogurts, 1 – 2 eggs or egg whites, lean chicken, fish, and turkey, and “cleansing” veggies (from the list he provides). Each of the lists of foods is long enough that you should find several things you like to eat on it. This diet does cut out all breads, potatoes, and sugars over the 1st 17 days. However, with that being said over the course of the next 3 sets of 17 day periods you will slowly add these types of food back into your diet. So you are not completely giving up anything. The diet is done in such a way that by the last set of 17 days you should be able to follow the diet during the week and then splurge and eat those sweet, rich foods in moderation on the weekend.
In my opinion it is gradually teaching you to eat a balance diet that we should be eating to remain healthy. I told Kevin that it is sort of like getting me back to the way I remember my grandparents eating when I was a kid. They eat an egg and a piece of bacon and a piece of toast every morning. Then for lunch they would usually eat only veggies and maybe a piece of bread. Then for dinner they would eat those same veggies and a piece of meat. Usually the weekends were the only time they splurge to eat out or make a fancy dessert. Then they would eat on that dessert during the weekend and maybe into the beginning of the next week till it was gone. However, in our generations we don’t have to wait till the weekend to go out to eat. Some weeks we have to wait till the weekend to try to stay at home and cook. We don’t ever have to wait for a sweet treat and we also don’t have many days where we don’t head into town for something. My grandparents went to town every Wed. and that was pretty much it. We are a generation that wants for nothing and even though at time that is a great thing it is a lousy teacher of moderation. We want for nothing!
The thing that I like about this diet is it is back to the basics. I am learning to eat healthy. I am learning that just because I can – doesn’t mean I should. I definitely have to draw on some self-control to do it. But this is where my relationship with God comes into this picture of the 17 Day Diet. God’s Word tells us that the fruit of the Spirit includes self-control. He also tells us in 1 John 5:21 “to keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your heart.” Well food had found a real high place in my heart. It has at times been my comfort instead of God. It has at times been my strength in times of weakness. It has at times been what I pulled out when I felt like I could not pull through. God isn’t pleased when we run to other things instead of Him. He also gives us free will to continue to go to those things. He is a jealous God but He is a gentle God and He is not going to force us to turn to Him. If He was going to force us to then what would we even need self-control for? I am thankful that God is teaching me these things even though I have to be stubborn and learn them the hard way. I just pray that God will let me really learn them and take them to heart so that I can move on to the next battle He has for me and stop fighting this one over and over again.
Meals for today: eggs, orange, bbq chiken, roasted carrots, apples, baked fish, snaps, yogurt
Exercise for today: Lifted weights for 45 minutes.
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