Day 2 on the Lunch Box Diet
Just finished day 2 on the Lunch Box Diet. This morning I'd lost .4kg
(.88 lb) from yesterday, and I must say, I was never truly hungry.
Kinda empty sometimes, but not really hungry. Remembering to get the
box out and eat something every hour to hour and a half or so is harder,
especially when you're not hungry, but I've done it. He says to use a
3-5 liter lunch box -- I have a 5 liter container, but it's huge! So I
opted to use two smaller boxes that fit in my insulated lunch tote.
For
breakfast I have a small bowl of cereal with soy milk, and add a sliced
banana and blueberries or raisins. That's about 7:30. For my lunch
box items, I fill a 1.5 ltr container with salad veggies, add a bit of
low-cal, fat free dressing and shake it up to distribute the dressing.
That's a lot of vegetables; it seems like a massive amount when I look
at it in the morning. I could never eat that all in one sitting. But
eating small portions throughout the day, it was easy to get through.
Along with the veggies I take a small container with some protein and
fat. I start eating from the box about 9:30 and have a small amount
every hour or so up until 4 or 4:30. Then I eat a normal dinner about 6
or 6:30. Not huge, not small, just normal.
For the protein/fat
part of the lunchbox, yesterday I had a bit of leftover scrambled tofu
with salsa and a little Toffutti. It's yummy when served hot for
dinner, but when I'm only eating a couple of spoonfuls every hour or so,
it doesn't pay to heat it up again, so I had it cold. Today I brought
some falafels and lite hummus to have with the salad. Again, they'd be
better heated, but it doesn't pay when you're only eating one every
hour.
I must say I feel quite full now even though it's over 2
hours since dinner. He claims grazing throughout the day rather than
eating a large meal at one time will shrink your stomach and lead to
smaller meals in the evening as well. I've not purposely tried to eat
small portions in the evening, just normal meals -- but tonight I do
feel a bit over-full, so I may try having a smaller dinner tomorrow. My
problem is it takes a while for my brain to get the message that I'm
full -- longer than the 20 minutes or so they usually say it takes. So I
often feel like I haven't had enough and then an hour or so later I
feel full.
So other than feeling full now, I've actually felt
great. Thin, even. What I mean is I've felt like a thin person who
just happens to be in a fat body, which is quite different than feeling
like a fat person. I don't know if that makes sense to you, but
sometimes I feel like my fat is part of me, and sometimes I feel like
it's just something I'm wearing right now.
Anyway, I just wanted
to check in -- hopefully we'll see another drop tomorrow. I'm not a big
fan of salads, I prefer cooked veggies, so to add to tomorrow's salad
mix I've roasted some sweet potato chunks with rosemary. That should be
yum! I'll either take a veggie burger or some beans and salsa for the
protein. I'll check in again soon.