SavantGo

Its only been two days, one thing I can tell you is that if you are going to diet, and do it right, you are going to be hungry. Another thing I can say for sure is that a Non Fat Vanilla Latte tastes nothing like a whole milk Vanilla Latte, its night and day.

I have been researching diets, and pills and the like that are supposed to help you, that is downright scary in itself. The side effects of the various pills can be as dangerous as the weight itself, then there is the one that everyone I talk to points me to, Alli.  I think I will hold off on that for now as the side effects just dont sound any fun at all to me, I would rather be hungry.

So after all this research and two days of hunger, I am going to follow the following diet for now, we will see how well it works.

Breakfast: Slimfast Shake - 190 calories

Snack Mid Morning: Bagel with Cream cheese and NonFat Latte - 400 calories

Lunch: Slimfast Shake - 190 calories

Afternoon Snack: Apple or Orange - 75 calories on Average

Dinner: varies, but always includes high fiber and vegetables mostly with a smaller serving of chicken or fish, not fried. Salads at least 3 times a week.  500-700 calories.

If I am hungry between these times, I will drink a glass of water, as one of the most interesting things I am learning is that I tend to mistake thirst for hunger.

This will give me a total diet of approximately 13-1500 calories a day, assuming i do not skip some of the breakfast and lunch slimfasts, which I most likely will as I am not normally a breakfast eater, nor do I usually eat this many times in a day. my habit has been two large meals daily, so a lot of this is to break that habit. Basically this will cut my caloric intake by 2/3 compared to what an average day has been in the past.

I am also going to try to walk more than I have in the past, to the corner store (1/3 mile) for example when I have the time versus jumping in the car for every short trip. In looking at the calorie counter for activities (http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/jumpsite/calculat.htm), it really doesn’t take much to burn off the calories. you basically burn off 2000 calories a day just doing normal things, any small amount of strenuous exercise will get you up around 23-2500 calories a day burned. I want to go back to shooting some basketball hoops for an hour or so 3 days a week and if I will walk for 30 minutes the other 3 days to start with and do some light work on my elliptical machine or weights a few times a week that will be easy enough to do, its just actually making the time to do it.

One of the overriding problems with dieting for me has always been feeling like I am missing out, especially because I like to cook. I am going to remedy this somewhat by having 2 cheat dinners a week on Fridays and Sundays where I can cook whatever I like. That is probably going to amount to an additional 500 calories on each of those meals, however it is worth it to me to do that much extra in exercise or whatever to make up for that the rest of the week.

Thats it for today, more tomorrow or the next day as I try to stick to my plan.