Revisions to my food plan

After emailing my food plan to a personal trainer whose opinion I value and whose knowledge of all such training matters I highly respect, I am making a few revisions. I didn't expect to go into this much of a "training" mode, but I've NEVER done it before so I figured now was as good a time as any. He made a few suggestions which are more strict than I was looking at doing, but I've decided to give it my best shot. Here is what he said:

After 3 pm or after your last snack, for you to not take in any sugar or alcohol (I know, I know, but this will work!)

My suggestion is simply a protein and a vegetable at night for dinner. If you have sugar it will simply be stored exactly where you don't want it too.

Water is your choice for a beverage.

If you could eliminate all simple sugar (fruits, candy, refined breads, etc) no matter what time of day, this would include anything that contains sugar as well(sauces like spaghetti sauce,etc) your results will come much faster!

If this is too hard start with just afternoons /evening and eventually reduce your intake of sugar throughout the day. Some people will go into it too Gung Ho and not like it and give up. Just be patient.

Start with this and you will notice a difference withing 4 weeks if you are very strict. The stricter you are the better results you will have. Let me know if you have any questions.

Yeah, I thought, my question is, what is there left to eat? I'm just joking, God has given us abundant resources! I don't know if I can cut out fruit though. I love fruit! But I will limit it to one piece a day. I am going to take some supplements to support good yeast in my system and really watch refined sugar and bread products to strengthen my good yeast versus bad yeast ratio. I might even do the plain chicken breast and a veggie for dinner as much as I can bear. I've seen so many of our personal trainers eat like that through the years.

I also went to the gym tonight when the kids were getting ready for bed. I missed all of their excuses to prolong the process, and got to have some time to myself watching Mystery Diagnosis while I got more cardio in. I could get into the routine of that!

High Protein, Low Fat Menu Plan

For the next 4 weeks I will be weight training and eating a high protein, low fat meal plan.



Here is my menu for this week:

Monday

Breakfast: Eggs and English Muffin (280 calories, 17 g protein, 13 g fat)

Lunch: Sandwich wraps or leftovers and fruit

Snack: Mixed Berry Couscous (362 calories, 11 g protein, 1 g fat)

Dinner: Chicken Pot Pie, Salad, Rolls, cantaloupe and Honey dew melon, cake - This will be as low fat as I can make it! It is Raeley's birthday and this is what she requested. I will add hard boiled egg to the pot pie and I won't eat the pastry crust.

Tuesday

Breakfast: eggs and sauteed spinach (170 calories, 12 g protein, 11 g fat)

Lunch: Sandwich wraps or leftovers and fruit

Snack: red bean dip with melba toast crackers, pita bread, or baked chips. (Dip is 80 calories, 3 g protein, 2 g fat)

Dinner: Spaghetti, green beans

Wednesday

Breakfast: Muesli (315 calories, 10 g protein, 4 g fat)

Lunch: Sandwich wraps or leftovers and fruit

Snack: deviled eggs (170 calories, 10 g protein, 8 g fat)

Dinner: Cod with dill, green onions, and soy sauce over noodles, carrots, canned pineapple (271 calories, 34 g protein, 1.5 g fat)

Thursday

Breakfast: 2 hard boiled eggs (155 calories, 13 g protein, 11 g fat)

Lunch: Sandwich wraps or leftovers and fruit

Snack: Rice paper rolls with shrimp (322 calories, 24.9 g protein, 1.8 g fat)

Dinner: Grilled chicken, broccoli, sweet potatoes, salad (391 calories, 31 g protein, 3 g fat)



This weekend we have other plans and will not be cooking that much.

I am estimating that the sandwich wraps will be 220 calories, 18 g protein, 5 g fat On the wraps I will have the following toppings handy:

spinach, low fat ricotta, onions, red peppers, mushrooms, salsa, lentil and tomato paste, tomatoes

My goal is to have 60 grams of protein a day and after I work out I will drink a protein shake (310 calories, 33 g protein, 4 g fat)

Trainers and their diets

Funny story - we have a new trainer. He came to the Christmas party yet he had worked for us maybe four hours on Friday, his first day. At dinner he passed up the appetizers before the meal. We cajoled him to partake of the strawberry butter and bread yet he still declined and Mark asked him about his diet. It's the typical trainer diet; a little more extreme and not as much protein as we would have thought. Talking eating habits is a topic of interest to trainers, so no, my husband was not out of place asking this (to those of you not in fitness circles.

You can imagine my surprise when he was at the dessert bar and turned around with SIX brownies on his plate. After I picked my mouth up off the floor, I asked him if he wanted any toppings on all those brownies - oh where were my manners? I really did say ALL. No, plain was fine. He doesn't do dairy! I was once again tickled when I saw him later with TWO thick pieces of pound cake. Once again plain (to alleviate guilt?) Guy, next time just eat the bread! He took it all in stride. I'm still laughing!

Nutritional regimen a la Carrie

After trying to treat my ear naturally with colloidal silver and garlic and goldenseal drops, I caved and I'm on antibiotics. My good friend and neighbor, Carrie, came over yesterday to see how I was feeling. She raided my "medicine cabinet" and pulled out all the supplements she wanted me to take. Here is my regimen:
2 tablespoons raw apple cider vinegar diluted in water twice a day
Chamomile tea by Tazo
Raw garlic pressed between two spoons and swallowed -not as bad as it seems -I promise! done every hour - not that I make it every hour!
Echinachea once a day
Probiotics taken every two hours
Omega 3 fatty acid twice a day
Lots of water

We'll see how it works!