Postby Harriet » Thu May 22, 2014 8:38 am
Definitely needed that day. Felt "a bit peckish" by evening. An "I could eat" feeling, lol. But not hungry, so off to bed at 750 calories. Scale was down 2 pounds this morning, more than a usual down-day change, which tells me that I had had too many of the wrong kind of carbs recently and my body was holding some water weight. Not hungry now, so I won't rush into breakfast, and that way my body can take a little more time off from digestive work.
I'm going to try NOT to eat any of the same foods I had yesterday so that any feelings of deprivation are nipped in the bud. But I do want to count calories and stay at 1,800.
Getting enough water makes me feel so much better. The days here are getting hotter, for sure, and ice water is the ticket.
I read another rubber-band trick for water yesterday - especially water drinking when you are in weight-loss mode - from Dr. Elliot Darden. Keep your own personal plastic water container with a straw with you through the day. Figure out how many of this filled container of water you want to drink in a day. Put that number of rubber bands around it and take OFF one rubber band each time you finish one. Try to finish most of the water by 5 o'clock so you don't have to get up much in the night.
The straw is because we naturally drink more water when we sip than we do when we drink from glasses. He recommends ice in the water, because the body then burns some calories to bring it to body temperature, plus many people report they like it better than tepid water. He thinks almost everyone would benefit from upping their water intake, btw, and especially for weight loss. He says to feel ill effects, you would have to drink 5 gallons in a day, so moving up from the half-gallon most conventional wisdom suggests is very safe. He has his weight-loss patients try for one gallon a day and has them take their water along with them on daily walks.