Making Discoveries on MOD…
I have allowed myself just about everything over the last two weeks, and I have enjoyed wine with my meals and the occasional chocolate brownie and peanut butter cookie (all home made with good ingredients). I have lost three kilos and probably put on a bit of muscle in the Water Babes classes. (We even did a class in the soft rain this morning which was gorgeous. The rains have kissed the African bush at last. It is cooler and quite heavenly:)
Although I seriously overdid the foods one day and went over my limit a couple of times, I averaged out the calories to just below 2000 a day over seven days.
My natural way of cooking is at times fairly rich, but I console myself that the oils I use are healthy and the cream and butter is real. I eat fresh fruit and vegetables daily and the protein is mostly lean. No food groups are prohibited and therefore my intake is varied and interesting. There is no way I am having a boring time losing weight!
Having and following my own rules, I found I do not have the rebellious reaction to the DIET that I have had in the past when I was trying to follow someone else’s programme, falling down again and again and ending up feeling like a failure. Right now I feel like a conqueror! Whether it is because I am a control freak or just a plain ol’ rebel, this MOD is really working for me.
Making it up as I go also gives me leave to try out things, to experiment. For instance, trying out intermittent fasting or using carb cycling as a tool, having a protein or high fat day to shift a plateau, having a meatless detox day – those sort of things.
Today is Meatless Monday and an Intermittent Fasting day in order to give my digestive system a bit of a break after the weekend. It is also the discipline I find important on such a day.
One hour to go and then at noon I will be having a simple vegetable soup and Low GI seed bread. Snacks today will be some soaked almonds and celery and a green drink made of baby spinach, watercress, apple and ginger. Tonight, a salad wrap or two.
And water! Don’t forget the water…
