I'm not going to try to pretend that I understand at a low level what goes on. Hormones which somehow diminish in your body as you diet down need some sort of reminder that you're not starving yourself. I've read it in a few places after discovering it somewhere.. but this week I took a serious look at it.
On my quest to sub 230 *220's?* I usually eat pretty healthy. This is typically my healthy day.
Wake up, 2 eggs.
Get off Subway, stop at market, 2 eggs, full bottle of V8 low sodium.
Salad at lunch with a protien *Shrimp mostly, sometimes I add an entire package of tuna or sliced turkey*
Protien Shake other half of bottle of V8.
*Workout*
Salad at dinner with a protien, protien shake.
Lots of protien, low carb, no white carbs.
I rarely if ever deviate from the above course on my rabbit days.
Lets look at the days where
my brain can't handle it anymore I eat off the chart.
Wake up, 2 eggs.
Get off Subway, stop at market, 2 eggs, full bottle of V8 low sodium, avacado, Latte, Chocolate Chip Muffin
Thai food at lunch, heavy pad thai covered in chicken / peanut sauce with extra hot sauce, diet coke
Jugo Juice Pom Star protien shake with ginseng.
3/4ths of a extra pepperoni pizza.
Bottle of diet pepsi.
Lots of protien, heavy carb, low white carbs, holy shit fat intake.
At my lowest point this week I was 262.5. Closing in on my 259 mark. Last night I weighed myself at 270lbs. This morning after just going through the night 266.5. And I'm eating healthy again today starting with Eggs, though I'm currently having a Tim Hortons coffee. Note, no expulsion yet..... drink that thought in haters!
Tomorrow I'll probably cut back to my salad / whatever days, till I do a deferred eating day again... only on Saturdays now. I find it easier to eat healthy at work :)
I used to feel guilty when I'd go all out on a weekend, but never really understood what I was doing was beneficial. I was reading the 4-hour body, and technically everything he did. I'm doing now, minus his supplementations, which I may try. The data is there though, and he proved it works. There are hormones that stop getting produced once you start dieting, that you need, and a good solid splurging eating day is fine. I won't share what they are, because I don't understand them. All I know is that scientifically.. what I'm doing does work.
You have dicks like this on the net though
http://www.dailyspark.com/blog.asp?post=even_one_cheat_day_could_hurt_your_weight_loss_efforts
Or even some of the dickbags who watch Biggest Loser.... you know the people get pissed at the unfortunate dieter who fails at the OOOOH DON'T EAT IT tests, where you see everyone valiantly walking away from pizza and pop, but that one guy that's made out to be a douchebag eats it.... yeah that guy never gets kicked off, for a few reasons. 1. I guess immunity helps, but 2, they end up losing A SHITLOAD of weight after that, because they're encouraged to work harder, and chemically, they're balanced for that week, and 3... inside... he feels better mentally that edge is off, and you can refocus.
"OOOH BUT WHAT IFS ONE CHEAT DAY TURNS INTO ANOTHER AND ANOTHER"
Its called mental fortitude. If you have your cheat day. Do it properly, or don't do it at all. Dieting shouldn't be a torture event. It sucks. It sucks for multiple reasons, one is that feeling hungry all the time is technically mandatory. But if you do that, you will fall off the wagon, and hard. At least I do... If you start packing on the cheat days... you weren't ready to diet and lose weight. Its something very few people can do cold turkey. Most people need some sort of event to happen that triggers this change.
I donno, I'm just ranting here and some of it may make no sense, but I'm actually pretty pissed about trend diets that make you adhere to some sort of strict rule. Dieting and changing yourself shouldn't be more painful then the joys you get from your results.
I am not a doctor. Nor do I pretend to play one on my blog. So take what I say with a grain of salt.... but while you do that, you can wear my old pants as a blanket to keep you warm.
