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Today the assignment for (not so crazy) diet plan is to have vegan day. This isn't terribly difficult although I do keep having to stop and ask myself "is this from an animal?" the meat's no problem, but I do eat a lot of dairy. Veggie stirfry with tofu and quinoa for lunch, yummy.
I freaked out a bunch in February, stopped seeing the trainer, cut down on my gym time, and was a little more flexible in my food preferences. Shockingly I stopped losing weight (although I maintained, go me!). Now I've been back with the trainer for a couple weeks and I'm losing (but more slowly) again. (This may also be due to Edy's samoa icecream, icecream with girl scout cookies, so freakin good.) This should be obvious, but every once in a while I forget and stop going to the trainer to save money and get frustrated when I don't progress. So a note to myself. (And really the trainer is one 30 min. session a week, but I think when I have the time and energy to go I am better with the habits for the rest of the day and week so the effect lasts beyond the 30 minutes--and usually he gives me 45 if there's no one after me).
I don't think I ever posted about my day of fasting. It wasn't as bad as I thought. I even went to dance class in the evening. I didn't have hunger pangs (then at least, I did earlier, water helped) and was fine with the stuff we usually do. However, I had difficulty learning new steps and got really frustrated and emotional about not picking them up. Earlier that day I didn't go to the gym because I was irritable and didn't want to deal with people. Conclusions...
Fasting:
-better with added god (or at least with added cultural/social norms)
-not as bad as you think if you do it out of necessity (as in you don't have enough food)
-interesting as an occasional experiment on yourself to sensitize you to physical hunger vs. emotional hunger, and external hunger cues (food advertising, etc)
-not for me as a regular weight-loss/diet aid, best in this way if you don't have to do any thinking, physical activity, or social interaction during your day (and doesn't that sound like fun!)
I freaked out a bunch in February, stopped seeing the trainer, cut down on my gym time, and was a little more flexible in my food preferences. Shockingly I stopped losing weight (although I maintained, go me!). Now I've been back with the trainer for a couple weeks and I'm losing (but more slowly) again. (This may also be due to Edy's samoa icecream, icecream with girl scout cookies, so freakin good.) This should be obvious, but every once in a while I forget and stop going to the trainer to save money and get frustrated when I don't progress. So a note to myself. (And really the trainer is one 30 min. session a week, but I think when I have the time and energy to go I am better with the habits for the rest of the day and week so the effect lasts beyond the 30 minutes--and usually he gives me 45 if there's no one after me).
I don't think I ever posted about my day of fasting. It wasn't as bad as I thought. I even went to dance class in the evening. I didn't have hunger pangs (then at least, I did earlier, water helped) and was fine with the stuff we usually do. However, I had difficulty learning new steps and got really frustrated and emotional about not picking them up. Earlier that day I didn't go to the gym because I was irritable and didn't want to deal with people. Conclusions...
Fasting:
-better with added god (or at least with added cultural/social norms)
-not as bad as you think if you do it out of necessity (as in you don't have enough food)
-interesting as an occasional experiment on yourself to sensitize you to physical hunger vs. emotional hunger, and external hunger cues (food advertising, etc)
-not for me as a regular weight-loss/diet aid, best in this way if you don't have to do any thinking, physical activity, or social interaction during your day (and doesn't that sound like fun!)
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