It is now July 22 and since I started my transition twice! I have been doing fine with it. I have been working on a huge gardening project and I have embraced it as a good exercise program. We have had quite a bit of hot weather and I don't do well with that, but I get up early in the morning and haul tan bark or gravel or moving bricks and all is good!
I have modified my transition and so I am behind my class, which actually is pretty good. I have more time to prepare for what stage they are going through. 4th of July was a holiday so no class meeting. That was kind of hard not checking in a weighing in. We were 2 weeks on our own and in transition. All was fine though. I have lost at least a pound a week. I was so worried about gaining when starting real food again.
So now I am on "week 19" for the second week. I am doing each transition week 2 weeks instead of one. And am starting "week 20" on Monday. This is going to be quite an adventure in more than one way....I really am going on an adventure. My eldest daughter, a sister and a friend and I are going to Glacier National Park for a total 10 day trip. We are flying to Seattle, then on to Kalispell, Montana. From there we will be renting a car, staying in St. Marys Lake, on the east side of the park, for 4 days then leave the park, working our way west to the coast of Oregon and down to home.
That will all be part one of the adventure. Part 2 will be that I will be on "Week 20" and it may be difficult to follow the perameters that are laid out. We will be eating out every meal. The restaurants are few in St. Marys, namely 2 that are owned by the same outfit and are basically the same. I pulled up the menus and crossed out all the items I couldn't have...didn't leave much! But I will try to deal with it, one way or another. They have a little grocery store, who knows what it may carry. It would be great if they had non-fat yogurt, I'm not holding my breath. Yogurt and blueberries have been my wonderful dessert these past 2 weeks!
I have printed out several pages of our weight management handbook that may be of help. I think that I, personnally, am ready to take on this challenge. If I have items I can eat the challenge will be easy.
So, the list of daily intake for these 2 weeks will be:
units of:
2 meal replacements = 320 calories
6 proteins = 330
3 vegetables = 75
2 fruits = 120
2 dairy = 180
2 fats = 90
1 starch/bread = 80
1195 total
It is really beginning to feel like this is a LOT of food. It does feel sort of good to chew again but honestly it is hard to give up those meal replacements and going on faith that I will still be loosing.
I have modified my transition and so I am behind my class, which actually is pretty good. I have more time to prepare for what stage they are going through. 4th of July was a holiday so no class meeting. That was kind of hard not checking in a weighing in. We were 2 weeks on our own and in transition. All was fine though. I have lost at least a pound a week. I was so worried about gaining when starting real food again.
So now I am on "week 19" for the second week. I am doing each transition week 2 weeks instead of one. And am starting "week 20" on Monday. This is going to be quite an adventure in more than one way....I really am going on an adventure. My eldest daughter, a sister and a friend and I are going to Glacier National Park for a total 10 day trip. We are flying to Seattle, then on to Kalispell, Montana. From there we will be renting a car, staying in St. Marys Lake, on the east side of the park, for 4 days then leave the park, working our way west to the coast of Oregon and down to home.
That will all be part one of the adventure. Part 2 will be that I will be on "Week 20" and it may be difficult to follow the perameters that are laid out. We will be eating out every meal. The restaurants are few in St. Marys, namely 2 that are owned by the same outfit and are basically the same. I pulled up the menus and crossed out all the items I couldn't have...didn't leave much! But I will try to deal with it, one way or another. They have a little grocery store, who knows what it may carry. It would be great if they had non-fat yogurt, I'm not holding my breath. Yogurt and blueberries have been my wonderful dessert these past 2 weeks!
I have printed out several pages of our weight management handbook that may be of help. I think that I, personnally, am ready to take on this challenge. If I have items I can eat the challenge will be easy.
So, the list of daily intake for these 2 weeks will be:
units of:
2 meal replacements = 320 calories
6 proteins = 330
3 vegetables = 75
2 fruits = 120
2 dairy = 180
2 fats = 90
1 starch/bread = 80
1195 total
It is really beginning to feel like this is a LOT of food. It does feel sort of good to chew again but honestly it is hard to give up those meal replacements and going on faith that I will still be loosing.
