Had a rough day yesterday, even with the great weigh in. My schedule was a little crazy because of kids going in 50 different directions so I was off on my plan all day. Now that's not to say I cheated, I didn't. But I had a shake for breakfast, breakfast for my snack, a shake for lunch and dinner for my afternoon snack. I ended the night with a shake but I was very hungry when I hit the hay. Essentially I had 2 meals and 3 snacks which is the opposite of what I normally do. I won't be doing that again anytime soon. Especially until I've shrunk my stomach down quite a bit. I haven't suffered from hunger pangs barely at all this first week, but boy they returned with a vengeance yesterday.
On day 9 I will be giving myself an extra egg and piece of bacon to get the day started right. I think that is a good principal for those in induction. Eat a good breakfast or the rest of the day will be a trial. Even if your body can handle no breakfast you aren't kick-starting your metabolism until you eat, so starving yourself until mid day doesn't really benefit your weight loss anyway. The way I have seen it described best is this. If you have a giant log to burn, which type of fire would you rather have? Glowing coals or a furnace-like flaming fire? Which will consume your log the fastest? If you don't stoke up your fire first thing in the morning and keep it stoked, when you throw that log on at lunch your glowing embers will take a long time to consume it and will end up storing what it can't consume as fat. That's why a good breakfast and regular mid meal snacks are so important. Now, after dinner is over I won't be throwing any more logs on the fire so I don't mind if it dies down a bit before I go to bed. I am trying to eat no food after 7 pm. I have succeeded all but 1 night so far, so I think that is another factor helping me.
So here is my screwed up meal plan for day 8 (not recommended):
AM Meal - 2 Eggs scrambled, 2 pieces of bacon
PM Meal - 11 oz Ribeye with asparagus
Snacks - AM - Atkins chocolate Shake, Midday Atkins Strawberry shake, 2 pickles PM - Atkins vanilla Shake
Total counts for day 8, 13g Carbs, 1408 Calories, 98g fat, 107g protein
I'm okay with a little lower calorie count, but I when I am that low on the carbs I am worried my body will think I am starving. I'll probably go on the high end for carbs for a couple of days to avoid that.
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