Daily Gain 1.5
Weight above LIW 2.2
Current Weight 161.6
So I am definitely not getting the hang of this P3 yet :(. Yesterday, I ate what I thought was pretty clean, but when I look back, maybe I did not eat enough calories. Let me figure it out here:
Water: 3L
Tea: One cup senna with chamomile at bedtime
Breakfast: chorizo, bite of mashed cauliflower, approx 300 calories
Lunch: 5 oz. Burger with one piece of cheddar cheese, two small pieces of bacon, piece of cheese with onions off the top of a flatbbread pizza, small mixed green salad, one piece bibb lettuce
Approximately 570 calories
Dinner: 1 piece chocoperfection bar (had to try it-yummy!), 3 spoons of P2 chili with lots of veggies, as noted in yesterday's post, 3 pieces of chicken skin and 1.5 oz of roasted chicken (did the chicken on the rotisserie, and it was delicious!), 1 oz of choco crack (yuck!!!) which is just coconut oil mixed with unsweetened cocoa and a little stevia.
Approximately 340 calories.
Snacks throughout day: Ate a little of the veggies I was cutting up throughout the morning, mainly red and yellow peppers and some celery: approx 50 calories.
Please note that I only ate when I was hungry...i was not hungry late in the day, and thus didnt eat too much. I was trying to go with my gut instinct...
For a grand total of 1260 calories, or about 300 less than I should be getting (but thats not a ton, since my low range starts at about 1200 per SPARKpeople).
It could also be the fact that I ate after 7pm (the chicken and the chocolate was consumed about 8:30pm), or that I didn't get enough fat?
What do you think when you look at that menu? Any tips or advice?
I'm going to do the steak day today (might as well go to the butcher and get a bunch of them), and then eat clean tomorrow...P2 foods with some added fat...maybe some olive oil and Ill start my fish oil supplementation again, and let you know how that goes. Ive read that most people don't stabilize until the end of the 3 weeks, but I hope thats not the case for me...I really want to make this work and not have to re-lose pounds Ive already released.
And I want this stress headache to go away as well...
I'm so sorry I wasn't here over the weekend. I told you about my disaster of a first P3. Here's what I did differently on my wonderful second P3.
ReplyDelete~No calorie counting. I was constantly trying to get in enough calories the first time. The second time I went by hunger every day.
~No dairy. Dairy really had me packing on the pounds, especially cheese. This may be different for you, but it's something to try.
~No fruit. Again, this was what my body needed. I didn't have any fruit until the last few days of P3. Even though I was eating fruit most days on P2.
All I basically did was add eggs and fat in the forms of coconut oil and avocados (okay, that's a fruit, but not in the way it affects blood sugar). I would have given you this advice sooner, but I didn't want to suggest this much restriction based on what MY body needed.
You deserve to keep these pounds off. You don't deserve to have to do a steak day every other day, or even every third day. Phase 2 foods with added fat worked beautifully for me. I most strongly urge you to drop the calorie counting. Listen to your body's hunger signals, they won't steer you wrong.