Yol for Life

[Yolande]

This is important for me today. I am starting Lean for Life.

I tried so many times to restart a LC weight loss program after doing Atkins. It never worked because I never followed it through.

Weight 206


How do I feel on this first day? I won’t have any problem remembering to eat during the day not because of hunger but because of feeling weak.

Headachy and afraid of breakfast.


This morning I had my first ever black coffee and it wasn’t bad.

Here we go.

Breakfast:
2 egg whites cooked in no fat
One slice light cheese because I did not have fat free
One black coffee.


Now one hour later, I feel good. I enjoyed the coffee but there won’t be any exercise today because I have been ill with fever and a summer cold. I am still coughing.

[Yolande]

Yesterday’s food was:
Lunch: ground beef patty and decaf diet Pepsi.
Snack: ½ cup Cottage Cheese
Supper: pork
Snack: 2 slices low fat cheese.
I know that I was supposed to have tuna for lunch but I couldn’t.

I drank a lot of water and this morning it is hard for me to figure out if I am feeling different because I have been feeling out of sort for a week now. I just weigh myself, that is after breakfast and I am 205.
I am waiting for the keto metal breath before switching to WL phase. A part of me would love to start it tomorrow.

I am not doing much physically so I am not eating much. I am still coughing so it is easy for me to have small amount of food but when health returns I am afraid that I will get hungry the good part is that in a couple more days I will have the benefits of Ketosis to shrink my appetite.

Last night I let myself imagine a 50 pounds loss and I smiled.

I should not weigh myself until next Tuesday.

[Yolande]

I am rereading parts of the book everyday and it does help me with paragraphs where I was not paying attention the first time around.

I have to get something different for snacks when I go shopping.


Yesterday’s food:

Breakfast: Coffee – egg white, I slice low fat cheese.

Snack: LF cheese

Lunch:Leftover Pork

Snack: Cottage cheese

Supper:Chicken

Snack: LF cheese.

[Yolande]

Breakfast:
Juice of one lemon.
2 egg whites and one slice LF cheese
Coffee
Snack:
½ cup 2% Cottage Cheese
Lunch:
Chicken
Snack:
FF chicken
Supper:
2 cups lettuce and one small tomato
3.5 oz shrimps
Snack:
Shrimps.

Obviously, I am having some trouble pushing up my carbs and lowering my fat.
One of the reasons is that I am just now starting to increase my volume of food; the idea is to keep the food down when I cough. A smaller amount will stay in.



Calories Eaten Today
grams cals %total
Total: 810
Fat: 23 205 26%
Sat: 8 69 9%
Poly: 6 51 6%
Mono: 7 60 8%
Carbs: 25 85 11%
Fiber: 3 0 0%
Protein: 125 500 63%
Alcohol: 0 0 0%

Fat Carbs
Protein Alcohol

[Yolande]

Calories Eaten Today
grams cals %total
Total: 654
Fat: 24 213 33%
Sat: 10 90 14%
Poly: 2 17 3%
Mono: 9 80 12%
Carbs: 40 139 22%
Fiber: 5 0 0%
Protein: 73 291 45%
Alcohol: 0 0 0%

I am so embarrassed I thought that I had a handle on this but I keep forgetting to eat so from now on I am wearing a timer to remind me to snack. I will try to eat more before bedtime and I’ll come back to add it.


Breakfast:
Coffee
2 large egg white
One slices LF cheese.
Snack:
Nothing
Lunch:
2 cups lettuce
One small tomato
3 oz FF sliced chicken
I slice LF Cheese
LC salad dressing
Diet Pepsi
Snack:
I forgot
Supper:
3 oz ground beef patty
1 slice LF cheese.
2 cups lettuce
1 small tomato
Snack:
LF plain Kefir with da Vinci raspberry syrup

[Yolande]

Calories Eaten Today
grams cals %total
Total: 722
Carbs: 50 176 25%
Fiber: 6 0 0%

This is where I stand now, for tonight.

[Yolande]

Today's Foods
Food Name Servings Cals Fat Carb Prot
Cheese, nonfat 62 0 6 9
Egg, white 50 0 1 10
Lemon juice, fresh Juice of 1 lemon (2-1/8" dia) 12 0 4 0
Coffee, 6 0 1 0
Milk, cow's, fluid, 1% fat 204 5 23 16
Cereal Cheerios tablespoon 3 0 1 0
Asparagus, raw 31 0 6 3
Beef steak, 154 6 0 23
Cheese, cottage, 2% 82 1 3 14
Turkey ham,extra lean, 66 2 1 11
Lettuce, 16 0 3 2
tomato38 1 8 2
Totals 724 16 57 91

[Yolande]

Today's Foods
.................... Cals Fat Carb Prot
Egg, white 50 0 1 10
Cheese, processed, fat free 62 0 6 9
Lettuce, 4 cup shredded 31 0 5 4
Tomatoes, 19 0 4 1
Ranch calorie wise 12 1 1 0
Turkey ham, sliced, extra lean, 117 4 1 19
Pork, tenderloin, baked 345 12 0 55
Beans, string, green, 34 0 8 2
Cheese, cottage, lowfat 1/2cup 82 1 3 14
Totals 751 19 30 115

My calories are still too low and I am in light ketosis.

[Yolande]

I weigh myself today and I am down to 204. I cannot remember when I was this low before. My ketostick is on the low range but I think that is because I haven’t exercised this week.

[Yolande]

If I take into account going from 218 to 206 one week before staring LFL and now here I am at 204. I am a happy camper I did not gained back any pounds from being sick the week before, so this is a respectable weight loss.
I am not some weird calorie freak; really, I just have a hard time figuring out my food.

[sheryl0423]

Your're doing great...keep up the good work!!!

[Yolande]

Thank you Sheryl

Egg, white 66 0 1 14
Cheese, fat free 84 0 8 13
Pork, tenderloin, 460 16 0 74
Coffee, 6 0 1 0
Whey Gourmet Artic Capucino 130 4 4 21
Totals 876 24 18 143

[Yolande]

Egg, white 66 0 1 14
Cheese, fat free 84 0 8 13
Pork, tenderloin, 460 16 0 74
Coffee, 6 0 1 0
2 cups lettuce and one small tomato
I also had some sort of a fish stew for supper, mushroom, tomato, celery as spice with garlic in fish broth.
I will have ½ cup 2% cottage cheese for a snack.Maybe.

I have not felt like exercising today. Soon.

[Yolande]

Lost another pound, down to 203.

[Yolande]

Today's Foods
Cals Fat Carb Prot
Ground beef, lean,453 31 0 41
Cheese, 24 0 2 4
Lettuce, 16 0 3 2
Mayonnaise, 3 0 0 0
Egg, white only, 66 0 1 14
Tomatoes, 19 0 4 1
Milk, 1% fat 102 3 12 8
Totals 683 34 22 69

I am sure that there is lots of errant fat hiding waiting to hike up the calories.
OOPs I forgot my coffee.

[Yolande]

I am 201 this morning and I am taking it.
I had a very hard psychological time shopping last night, so many temptations, but like an angel, a woman heavier than I, walked in front of me and I found my resolve again.

[Yolande]

Yesterday’s food:
Egg white omelette with one slice fat free cheese coffee –lamb- tomato diet pepsi.

[Yolande]

I saw 199 on the scale this morning and I am taking it. It has been 4 years since I saw this number. It is strange when I see the numbers going down it keeps me from eating carbs.

When I first read the diet it said to go from 50 to 100 carbs a day but what it does not say is that in a way it is like Atkins in the sense that you have to gradually make your way up the scale of carb numbers.

You don’t just jump from protein day to 50 carbs without losing your ketosis. I am too scared to increase carbs right now.

I know that I will have to do it soon, but since I am losing, I am too high to stop it.
Soon I will plateau, than I will add carbs.

[Yolande]

today's food:
Breakfast:
Coffee
2 large egg white
One slices LF cheese.
Snack:
ham
Lunch:
3 oz FF ham
I slice LF Cheese
Diet Pepsi
Snack:
ham
Supper:
3 oz pork
2 cups lettuce
1/2 small tomato
Snack:
ham and mustard
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[Yolande]

today's food:
Breakfast:
Coffee
2 large egg white
One slices LF cheese.

I had no snack, this was one crasy day I had some chicken wings and I found them too fat, my taste buds are changing.

I walked all afternoon so I am sure this counts as exercise.

For Supper:
I had 1/2 tomatoe and 1/4 cup liver. Thats it. I could not eat anymore because I was so dehydrated from the day in the heat, it just gagged me.

I am now drinking a lot of water and I have a timer on, to eat a snack later, maybe 1/2 cup cottage Cheese.

[sheryl0423]

Wow the pounds are melting off!!!!! Great Job
Doesn't it help to write down your thoughts???

[Yolande]

Breakfast:
2 egg whites and one slice LF cheese
Coffee
Snack:forgot
Lunch:
Tuna 1 tsp FF mayo, one slice FF cheese.
Snack:
1oz cheese.
Supper:
chicken, asparagus, one small nectarine.
Snack:
no idea.

My husband is getting irritated that I refuse popcorn at night.

[Yolande]

198

[sheryl0423]

WOO HOO

[Yolande]

Today's Foods
Food Name Servings Serving Size Cals Fat Carb Prot
Egg, white only, 66 0 1 14
Coffee, 6 0 1 0
Cheese, 24 0 2 4
Chicken, breast, 202 4 0 39
Shrimp, 224 7 2 36
Olive oil 60 7 0 0
Asparagus, raw 31 0 6 3
Totals 613 19 12 95

[Yolande]

Yesterday's Foods
Serving Size Cals Fat Carb Prot
Egg, white 66 0 1 14
Beans, string, green, raw 34 0 8 2
Coffee, 6 0 1 0
Cheese, 28 0 3 4
Chicken, breast, 202 4 0 39
Chicken broth, 17 0 1 2
Shrimp, 130 4 1 21
Olive oil cuptablespoonQuantity not specified 119 14 0 0
Asparagus, raw 31 0 6 3
Nectarine, raw 67 1 16 1
Yogurt, plain, lowfat milk 155 4 17 13

... and with all this food I am still in Ketosis.

[Yolande]

Egg, white 66 0 1 14
Coffee, 6 0 1 0
Cheese, fat free 56 0 5 9
Chicken, breast, 202 4 0 39
Butter, 102 12 0 0
Canadian bacon, 85 4 1 11
Lettuce, 8 0 1 1
Tomatoes, raw 10 0 2 0
Cheese, Swiss 107 8 1 8
Ground beef, lean, cooked 453 31 0 41
Cheese, natural, Cheddar 68 6 0 4
Totals 1163 64 13 128
I was hungry today and had more fat and less carbs. I wonder about my ketostick tomorrow.

[Yolande]

Today's Foods
Serving Size Cals Fat Carb Prot
Canadian bacon, 85 4 1 11
Mayonnaise, 72 8 0 0
Cheese, fat free 56 0 5 9
Ground beef, lean, 227 15 0 21
Lettuce, shredded 8 0 1 1
Egg, white
Coffee, NS as to type fl ozcoffee cup (6 fl oz)mug (8 fl oz)Quantity not specified 6 0 1 0
Onions, 7 0 2 0
Onions, young green, raw 2 0 0 0

[Yolande]

Today's Foods
Serving Size Cals Fat Carb Prot
Cheese, Borden Lite Line slice 28 0 3 4
Lettuce, 16 0 3 2
Egg, 66 0 1 14
Coffee, 6 0 1 0
Onions, 14 0 3 0
Onions, young green, 2 0 0 0
Ranch calorie wise 35 3 3 0
Turkey or chicken breast, 89 1 0 18

Tomatoes, 19 0 4 1
Turkey salami (6 oz) 333 20 1 28
Totals 623 28 22 70

I need to drink more water.