Today was a good day. I was oddly light headed in the morning but it went away.
I'm pride of myself because I ate dinner with my in-laws and I took with me a compliant potatoes salad AND I didn't fall for the cookies or the bread or the french fries.
And I really thought I was going to fall but the planning + the journal helped me a lot !
1. Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit.
2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches.
Choose fruit for desert.
3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them.
4. Eliminate all animal foods (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood).
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).
6. Eliminate any added oil.
7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e. bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit.
8. Don’t drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages).
9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself.
10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).
I had an active day.
Today I had :
Breakfast : oatmeal with frozen raspberries and a "chicorée" (it's like a very light coffee, I didn't find the traduction).
Lunch : soup and a rice bowl with beans, tomatoes and cucumber
Diner : potatoes salad with corn, green beans, tomatoes and white sweet onion
Second diner when I go home and was still hungry : vegetables leftovers, a scoop of rice, few beans