The diet is counter-intuitive. We eat so much we can’t possibly lose. We eat at 8 am, 10 am, 12-1 am, 3 pm, 4 -6 pm and 9 pm [time is uncertain on some] and yet drop weight. This started with the Nutrisystem box from Walmart, but we’ve continued once we ran out of Nutrisystem food.<\/p>\n
Here’s what we’re doing. And pretty well, with substitutions, we’ve had meatballs, 3 apiece, red sauce, about 10 strands of spaghetti each; or pork chop, with small dollop barbecue sauce; or rice dish, 4 oz, including topping.<\/p>\n In other words, you eat what you want in little tiny amounts, about a small teacup’s worth including a protein 2x a day, and for the rest, it’s all fruits and steamed and raw veggies.<\/p>\n Plus drinking large amounts of water. I flavor mine with lime juice and others, so I can get it down.<\/p>\n But the deal is—you’re absolutely hitting all the food groups and hitting the good ones hard. What you’re cutting down on is the typical ‘main dish’ with all its trimmings, which is reduced to what you could put in a dainty teacup.<\/p>\n If you want to lose fast, you go real light on the fat and carbs. Most of your carbs are coming from the veggies. <\/p>\n But it can accommodate many sensitivities and special problems with food, because you’re eating what you ordinarily eat, just way, way, way less of it.<\/p>\n If you have to have a taste of that chocolate cake, fine: just ONE tablespoon, flat measure. \ud83d\ude09 and don’t do it two days running.<\/p>\n Eating out? Pick the chef salad and have the dressing (Ranch) on the side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The diet is counter-intuitive. We eat so much we can’t possibly lose. We eat at 8 am, 10 am, 12-1 am, 3 pm, 4 -6 pm and 9 pm [time is uncertain on some] and yet drop weight. This started with the Nutrisystem box from Walmart, but we’ve continued once we ran out of Nutrisystem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6771,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions\/6771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBreakfast: a tiny seedcake, or 1 oz cereal like Special K with 1 oz no-fat milk, or a shake or a diet bar.
\n10 AM: an apple with peanut butter; or 8 oz yoghurt with 3 oz blueberries; or a small bunch of grapes with string cheese.
\nLunch: one prepackaged tuna meal (lunch-size) shared for 2, plus a bowl of salad and tomato\/cucumber\/carrot\/radish\/snap peas with one oz Ranch. Or some other lunch divided in half.
\n3 PM another snack like the 10 AM.
\nSupper: one helping of any food according to helping sizes ON THE CAN or PKG, ie unreasonably small by what people regularly eat—divided in half<\/strong>. Plus one full cup of steamed vegetable. Eg, last night, 3 regular chicken raviolis, not large size, apiece, finished in olive oil and basil. And full head of broccoli apiece. Salt and pepper ok.
\n9 pm. pkg of popped popcorn, lunchbox packet.
\n1\/2 glass wine.<\/p>\n