INDUCTION COMPLETED!! I did honor my contract with God well, (can't say exactly to the T, given the slight increase in carbs at the second party), but I feel mostly good about how I did it. More importantly, I finally saw through an entire cycle of induction--for the first time!! Even though I have made many attempts to do so each time, this time around for 3 weeks continuously (except for that one day of cheating at the first party, when I had to start over again), I have been following the induction plan all throughout!!
Certainly something to celebrate.
What's the net result you ask? Well, I'd say
8.2 pounds lost from
March 1 to 20.
What's the next plan? I could move on to OWL, and add 5 additional carbs, but that does not sound like a balanced meal. So, instead, I'm going to do calorie-counting.
1200 calories or less each day from Mar 21-Mar 31st. Hope to lose atleast 5 pounds or so on this. If does not work, then I'll switch to the wendie plan, with ww point, and jumping points up and down.
I am nervous, however! Even though I plan to keep carbs low in my choices, I wonder if addition of nuts, grains, flour, lentils, fruits, and other complex carbs is suddenly going to cause my body to go in some kind of
crazy confusion! I hope for god's sake this doesn't undo the hard work of the last 3 weeks!
What do you think??. I have to be VERY vigilant and track almost every day to ensure the weight doesn't start climbing (w/o getting too OCD, ofcourse!)
Meals so far today:soy chorizo, mini sausage, tofu, cheese, with scallions, mushroom, tomato (200 calories)
coffee with cream (35 cal)
12 almonds (80 calories)+ 50 more calories
tea with soy milk (20 cals)
cheese (50 cals)
100-cal popcorn (100 cal)
veggie stir fry with mock duck, 3-4 almonds, and sesame oil (200 calories)
Running count so far: 735Mock duck Stir Fry (made of seitan, garlic, thai chillies, fresh basil, frozen mix veggies, veggie oyster sauce, soy sauce, sriracha): 200 caloriesTofu, Chorizo, Veg Sausage Scramble (With cheese, scallions, tomato, and mushrooms)