Carblovers Diet--Food { Day 4}

So the food on this diet is really pretty good. The only thing I haven't LOVED is the chopped salad with garbanzo beans. Maybe they are good in other things. They just weren't my favorite thing. What I have been loving are those things above.
1) Is fish and potatoes with a simple salad. The book says Salmon but I found cat fish on sale and bought instead. I don't know if it makes much of a difference?
2) Is Chicken Pasta Primavera, which was AMAZING. It was pretty simple to make also. It makes 2 servings so I ate the other half 2 days later and it was just as good as the first night. When making it though, it calls for very LITTLE amount of pasta and I was very unsure, but with everything else it for sure filled me up.
3) Is the Banana Shake with a few added berries to add flavor.
This has been my breakfast EVERYDAY for the last 2 weeks and I am still not tired of it. Its so yummy.I started last week with just working on drinking this for breakfast to slowly get back into things. The book calls for honey to add sweetness. But instead of honey I add 1/4th cup of orange juice which helps give a bit more flavor.

For lunch I have been mostly having the Express lunch.
Which is just Rye Crisp, Cheese, Hard Boiled Egg, Suppose to be apple but I have head a peach instead. Pretty Boring but easy to pack for lunch for work and I like easy.

I am excited for next week to jump into more recipe options from the book though. I haven't even really looked other then a quick glance because I just want to concentrate on this week of what I can eat.

I am really excited to share the weight loss with you. (I weigh myself everyday, I know I shouldn't but it really keeps me going and on top of things. I really enjoy it too!) But I wont share with you what I have lost this week till after my whole 7 days are done.
So for sure check in Monday and see how I did!

Carblovers Diet {day 3}

So things are mostly going good. The diet is well planned out. The foods are actually good, for what I have made. To be honest though I can't say I am doing perfect. But I know I am doing better about snacking. But not perfect. But I am trying to be okay with that. And to know I am never going to to 100% perfect at it. And if I had a brownie its okay.
Because I am doing better with each step I make.

I do have to say the 7day kick start for me isn't enough to eat. And I have tried to just have one snack a day. But seriously I am REALLY hungry. So I have been having another snack. But healthy. The book recommends just one and to try and hold it off till after lunch. But with my new work schedule and how the girls are up. I drink my morning shake around 8am and then don't have my lunch until 1:30 or 2. And around 11 I am really hungry so I have been having a yogurt or fruit. Which helps ALOT. And then I also have a snack between lunch and dinner.

I think I will be fine the next day and half. But come fri night and the weekend that's where I will have to really pull it together and think about the choices I am making.

I am feeling good about this though!

Something new---

I am again starting something new.I like changing things up and keeping things different, as I get bored pretty easily.So about a month ago I was reading Health magazine and they had this article about this new diet book coming out the first of Aug. Called the Carb Lovers Diet. I love carbs so I was intrigued to know more about it. I did a bit of research on it and I had a gift card to a book store so I thought it looked pretty good so I ended up buying it.
After I bought it I also did some research online about it. And I found this great blog of a girl that was one of the testers for the book. And she was in the middle of the diet and was loosing a good amount of weight on it and was really like it. So I felt even better about it. One of the recipes in the book is a banana smoothie for breakfast. And this past week I have cut out a lot of junk in my diet and started drinking one of the smoothies in the morning.And this week alone I dropped 2lbs. Which is very exciting.

So the first 7days of the diet is a lot more strict. Which is okay. After doing the VERY strict phase 1 south beach diet for 2 weeks I feel like I can do ANYTHING for 7days.And even with the "strict" part you can still eat a lot of yummy things. So I am not worried.They say you can can loose anywhere from 3-6lbs in the first week. So I am hoping to loose 5lbs and get in the 150s. I am currently 164.

Here I am again a few weeks later in the same size 10 jeans. Its amazing even what 2lbs can do. Because even thought these jeans still don't fit nor look good on me, I can now at least button them up :)
I still feel embarrassed to show what I look like in these. But I KNOW I don't want to look like this anymore and me opening up about how I really feel and how I look, I know is going to help me loose these next 34lbs. I know I am loved by my friends and family. But I don't want to be the fat girl or chubby girl anymore. I am NOT doing this for everyone else. I am doing this for ME. Because I know I deserve to feel good about myself for once in my life.


My stomach is probably my worse area. And the thing I HATE the most about my body. So I am hoping as these next 34lbs leave this area will get A LOT smaller :)

I am gonna try to blog everyday this next week through the 7days of the first part of the diet to keep me on track even more.

Stay turned tomorrow to hear about my goals....